Tuesday, August 06, 2002

How do you follow a 15 run 17 hit game in SanDiego with 3 hits thru 7 innings at Coors Field?  To add insult to injury,  the Cardinals are getting trounced,  leaving the Reds blowing the chance to pull to within 1 game.   This is one of those times that "baseball is a funny game" is not so funny.  But it is a TOTALLY unpredictable game.  The fact that tonight hapened,  only means the Reds could be some completely different team AGAIN tomorrow,  or maybe even in the 8th and 9th inning tonight.  10:17:15 PM

At 46,  stories like these,  and Kile earlier this year are always cause for pause.  I'll always remember Porter hitting a 2-out Homerun to break up Mario Soto's 1-0 shutout and tie the game in St. Louis (the Reds eventually won the game anyway, which made me happy,  but that was a pretty dramatic homerun.  I think that was 1983,   when I was living in Southeast Iowa,  and mywife and I were visting St.Louis, to celebrate the first anniversary of of our first date and first meeting.   This Sept.4,  that will mark 20 years since that first meeting. Just a few years before,   I had gotten glasses for the first time,  batted left handed,  and my friends nicknamed me Darrell Porter.   50 years old is just too damn young to die.   I wonder what it was that did it.  The Sports Network - Major League Baseball: "Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Former major league All-Star catcher Darrell Porter was found dead in a park in suburban Kansas City Monday. He was 50 years old. " 7:06:27 AM

Regarding the impending baseball strike: This is exactly what I think about "they'll eventually come back" Scanlon Column: Baseball Is Fooling No One: "In regard to baseball's self-destructive "labor" problems, we keep reading and hearing the same gibberish, repeated by people who seem to be in some kind of baseball cocoon. Much if it is obviously wrong, but is repeated often enough to be generally accepted as truth. Some examples: The fans will always come back. Some will, others won't. Each strike brings out more "others." " 6:41:58 AM