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Even though the midday sun is high in the sky, my companions and I can hardly see the headstones lying half-hidden in this dense Connecticut forest. Warren Perry is an anthropologist at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. Gerald Sawyer is working on a doctorate in archaeology from the City University of New York (CUNY), where he is also a graduate instructor. For the better part of three years now, they have been studying scores of humble grave sites scattered across my family's ancestral lands here in the rolling countryside near New London. These are the resting places of slaves who died more than two centuries ago.
As we walk from site to site, Sawyer, a tall man wearing jeans and sporting a ponytail, keeps up a running commentary. "Those cairns," he says, pointing toward mounds of rocks piled high in an oval shape, "are more like burial markers found in Guinea, West Africa, than anything in this country." He speculates that the mounds might represent traditional African burials, whereas the rounded headstones we just examined may designate the grave sites of slaves who became Christians. When I ask how people from Africa were able to survive our harsh Connecticut winters, Perry answers, "A lot of them didn't."
As the recent furor over Yale University's close ties with slaveholders in the 1700s and 1800s made clear, many Americans are just beginning to understand that for a long time slavery was as ubiquitous in the North as in the South. The first African captives arrived in Massachusetts in the middle part of the 1600s. A century later, there were more slaves in New York City than anywhere else in the colonies except Charleston, South Carolina. Despite the fact that Quakers condemned slavery in Philadelphia as early as 1693, there were at least 3,000 slaves in Pennsylvania by the mid-1700s, and Connecticut had more than 5,000. Although it's uncertain how many there were overall in New England, slaves at one time may have made up as much as 5 percent of the total population in Connecticut and 10 percent in Rhode Island.
According to Sawyer, Northern slaves worked much as slaves did in the South—farming, and doing industrial labor and household chores. "There were many large plantations in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island," Sawyer says. "Most of them shipped agricultural goods to the West Indies in exchange for molasses, which was used to make rum. Newport, Rhode Island, alone had more than 30 distilleries in the mid-18th century."
Perry, an ebullient scholar whose long dreadlocks are flecked with gray, found out about the burial grounds from a local authority on black history in 1995. Not long after, he assigned Sawyer, then a graduate student at CUNY, to head up a field study. To locate grave sites, Sawyer surveyed the land with an electronic device that detects disturbed soil. "Based on some of the old documents we've looked at," Sawyer tells me as we pause at the edge of the woods, "we think your people brought in as many as 60 captive families to clear the land." To verify that, he not only has to find their graves; he must also discover artifacts that conclusively identify the deceased as of African origin.
From where we stand, we can see one wing of the "great house" where my ancestor John Mumford and his descendants lived. High on a hill across the valley is the graveyard where my father, Mitchell Bingham, and his six brothers and many forebears, including several Lucretias, were laid to rest.
I've always been proud to be a Bingham. My family has lived in Connecticut for the better part of three centuries. We've been farmers, doctors, teachers, preachers. One Bingham was a United States Senator—Hiram, who served from 1925 to 1933. Over the years, everyone in the family has told stories about how we helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railway. Not much has been said, though, about our own slaveholding past.
Even when a relative undertook some research on the subject 30 years ago, I didn't fully grasp what had transpired. By the time Sawyer and Perry began looking at the grave sites on our property, I'd started examining family records and accounts, and reading old books that had been gathering dust on my shelves for years. The Yankee slave trade "created much of the wealth and culture of Boston and Newport," I learned in one text on the subject.
As was the case in the South, Africans in the North were considered property to be passed along like furniture. The will of one Mumford listed 14 slaves in his "inventory." In an autobiography published in 1798, a former slave wrote: "I was bought on board by one Robertson Mumford, a steward of said vessel, for four gallons of rum and a piece of calico, and called VENTURE, on account of his having purchased me with his own private venture."
When landholders no longer needed their slaves, or could not afford to keep them, large numbers were set free, most of them between the late 1600s and early 1700s. In 1690, a "black code" was written into Connecticut state law forbidding the wandering of slaves outside the towns to which they belonged without a pass from the owner. And so, since they had nowhere else to go, most abandoned slaves probably ended up squatting on inferior town lands usually referred to as "common land."


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MATTHEWS, N.C.-Driven by increased sales and higher average tickets, Family Dollar's net income rose 6.5 percent, to $111.1 million, in its fiscal third quarter ending on May 28.
Net sales reached a record $2.2 billion in the quarter, including a 4.7 percent gain in comparable-store sales. Among the stars in terms of the dollar-store retailer's departments was home products, which along with consumables registered the strongest sales increases in the quarter, according to a Family Dollar statement.
Although selling, general and administrative expenses rose 6.3 percent in dollars, they fell 40 basis points as a percentage of sales to 27.7 percent. Gross margin dropped 36 basis points to 36.2 percent, due again to the gain in sales of lower-margin consumables.
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A lockdown has been lifted at Carroll University in Waukesha after a man was led away from a nearby apartment building in handcuffs.
The students were asked to stay inside buildings after two people told university safety officers they spotted a man with a gun on the northwest corner of the campus Tuesday.
The university sent a text alert to students about the incident and Waukesha police were called to the campus. Several public schools were also locked down in the area as a precaution.
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The U.S. release of Pikmin 2 for Nintendo's Wii console is now set for June 10, 2012, a morning press release confirms. The much-loved GameCube classic received a 2009 Wii-make release in Japan, Europe, and Australia as part of the publisher's New Play Control! series, but a U.S. version never materialized. Rumors of the Wii port coming to the...
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Bike ParkingPublished May 31, 2012 bike , Frederick Knob Leave a Comment
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Oakland's Grand Lake Theater Memorial Day MarqueePublished May 26, 2012 Oakland 1 Comment
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Happy Memorial Day from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, Califronia. Photo by jmr1944.
The Great Wave On The Side Of Your CarPublished May 23, 2012 Art , san francisco 4 Comments
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The Great Wave, the famous Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai.
Some dude's car in San Francisco. Per our usual, nautical anything is always cool.
I'll also send a size medium Haight the Marina shirt to the first person who correctly identifies the neighborhood where I saw this car.
Solar Eclipse Timelapse with Bear In HeavenPublished May 20, 2012 Art , Man Skills , Nature , san francisco Leave a Comment
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I leaned a Fipcam against my windowsill during a portion of the solar eclipse today. The clouds are trippy, the sun doesn't change much, but you can get a tiny sense of the eclipse from the crescent shaped shadow that forms in the middle of the frame. You can see it quite well when the tree moves in and out of the center.
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The Tubes Visits New Orleans And Leaves Its Mark At Lafitte's Blacksmith ShopPublished May 16, 2012 Architecture , Food & Drink , new orleans 4 Comments
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If you find yourself walking along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, may we suggest stopping in Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar. The whole Ice Tubes family passed through the bar this past weekend and left a reminder of our visit with a Sharpie.
Once owned by the "famous" pirate, Jean Lafitte, the bar is said to have been built in 1722 and may be the oldest structure used as a bar in the United States. Be that true or not, it's worth a stop inside for an Abita and to also write "rules" or "sucks" below Ice Tubes on the table. Whatever you decide to write, we'd love to see a pic of it.
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Seeing as how today is Bike To Work Day in San Francisco, it seems appropriate to share one of the all time greatest songs ever written about bicycles. Below is "Helter Smelter" by Fifteen, presented with lyrics so you can sing along.
I just drive my car to work every day, didn't mean to hurt nobody
Like 100 million other people just like me
I could tell there wasn't any other way
I just couldn't realize but now I think I'll throw it away
'cause there's 7 billion other people just like me
I was thinking about blowin' up all the automobiles
It seemed like such a good idea
You said hey man wouldn't that be hypocritical
No way man 'cause mines' the first to go
Do it, Now, Stick the rag in, Light the fucker up
I was thinking about melting down all the cars in the whole world
Making brand new mountain bikes for all the boys and girls
You said hey man wouldn't that be helter skelter
No way man all we need is a giant smelter
Send it to Peoples Park, Berkeley CA, 94704
Ride a fucking bike
I just lit my car on fire today I didn't mean to hurt nobody
Just like 100 million other people just like me, I could tell
There wasn't any other way
I finally realized and now it's going up in flames
'cause there's 7 billion other people just like me
Having fun, since I was six, We're only bike terrorists
Five thirty, second Friday, Berkeley BART
Full disclosure, my fiancé and I are in the market to buy a car this summer. We're thinking about a VW Golf.
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The primordial appeal of soccer lies in its accessibility. All it takes to play is a ball, a pair of functioning legs, at least one opponent and a few square yards that are more or less flat. In most all countries, it is the sport of both the rich and the poor, the famous and the anonymous, the strong and the weak, the beautiful and the unsightly. Find a field, wait a while, and you'll probably find some soccer; played globally, interpreted locally.
It is the world's game, the beautiful game.
But in Brazil, the very place that coined the phrase "jogo bonito," threatens to relinquish its accessibility and beauty. And at the World Cup , the sport's showcase event, no less.
For the first time since 1950, soccer's quadrennial big dance will be held in Brazil, the only country to have won it five times, the country that continues to mass-produce and export the finest players around.
This edition, however, does not promise to be beautiful.
Brazil is marred by violence, which inevitably bleeds into its national pastime every now and again. In the most recent and high-profile and gruesome cases, a player and a referee were left dead after an amateur game in June -- the former stabbed to death by the latter, and the latter then lynched and dismembered by spectators. Just a few months later, a former professional player's severed head was delivered to his wife's doorstep by a drug gang.
Video: Protests at World Cup to be expected
If these incidents are mere aberrations, fan violence is nevertheless commonplace in Brazil. Seemingly every week brings new reports of attacks on players, officials and pitch invasions. Yet one can presume with some certainty that FIFA won't let its cash cow be defiled by any such ugliness. The commercial interests are far too great. Outside of the stadiums, however, no such promises can be made.
Starting with this past summer's Confederations Cup, Brazil has been beset by tense demonstrations. They are the residue of considerable social unrest stemming from the misappropriation of World Cup dollars and the corruption it has multiplied and magnified in a time when schools, hospitals and other public services are in sorry shape. Brazil, for all its economic promise, continues to be the cozy home of crime and chaos. And since efforts to rid the cities of gangs are fraught and almost all infrastructure upgrades (not to mention stadiums) are well behind schedule, no improvement in these matters appears imminent.
Even the tournament's entrants are worried about how it will all come off. "There clearly are some concerns," Football Federation Australia's David Gallop told the Australian Associated Press. His team, after all, witnessed the use of tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters ahead of the Socceroos' 6-0 loss in a friendly in Brasilia in September.
Organizing committee CEO Ricardo Trade even felt compelled to ask the public to "treat the people who come here [for the World Cup] well." He added: "Protest for what you believe is fair. The country is growing and needs to do better in terms of social inequality. But let's not forget that we are bringing over an important event for your country."
Still, these ailments are merely the upshot of staging the world's biggest sporting event in a developing country, as FIFA insists on doing. What isn't understandable or excusable, however, is the gouging.
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The price of accommodations and transportation for the duration of the tournament have skyrocketed to the point that the government is investigating cartel-formation among hotel chains. A study earlier this year found that hotel prices would be up some 500 percent during the World Cup. The government seems to blame MATCH, FIFA's own accommodation agency, which has booked out some 800 hotels for the duration of the World Cup. MATCH counters that the hotels set their own prices. Either way, the consumer -- the fan -- suffers.
The American Outlaws, the biggest supporter group of the United States men's national team, has booked 510 of its members onto three World Cup-bound chartered planes, according to its president Korey Donahoo. Those flights and two weeks' worth of hotels to cover the USA's group stage alone will cost about $5,000. They'll then have to secure tickets on their own -- ranging in price from $90 to $175 per group stage game -- and pony up for food and entertainment. Foreign fans not enjoying the American Outlaws' collective bargaining powers are looking at an even steeper price tag to see the World Cup.
In the maddest of soccer-mad countries, the people's game will not be played for the people -- whether Brazil's or anybody else's. The domestic Brazilian soccer league has already priced out many fans with its soaring ticket prices, which are now allegedly the highest in the world. The World Cup will do the same. The common man won't be able to afford it. Nor will most of the merely well-to do.
Christopher Gaffney, an academic geographer and investigative journalist based in Brazil since 2004 and the author of the Hunting White Elephants blog, wherein he chronicles Brazil's World Cup preparations, put it more grimly still. "Brazil [2014] is a 20 billion dollar comedy of errors," he wrote. "The promised urban improvements won't be ready, the militarization of urban space is ever more profound, and once-loved (though decaying) stadiums have been turned into antiseptic nodes of casual entertainment, social exclusion and rapacious accumulation."
Enjoying the simple game, the beautiful game, has grown complicated and ugly.
(Note: Leander Schaerlaeckens' views are his own and do not necessarily represent those of FOX Sports.)


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This letter is in regards to everything I have seen in the papers and on TV about the most recent student travel trip to Italy. I can't help but write this letter in response to letters being written by people who live in a Nanny Society. These are the types that expect everyone to take care of them and for everyone else to accept the blame for what they will or may have done.
There is only one person that is at fault here for what happened on this trip. That is the student who lost her passport. The chaperones did everything within their power from what I have read and kept the trip going as scheduled. Plus they gave the young lady money and told her what she had to do. The word responsibility comes into play here. Any person who blames the school or chaperones for this should be ashamed of themselves. These people did not cause this to happen. So get over it and stop blaming everyone else for this student's mistake. They have all suffered through this and it is time to put it to rest.
If that had been one of my children when they were attending Wachusett. I would have been going crazy until they got home. The only one I would have blamed would have been my own child for their lack of responsibility in this issue. This society we live in needs to wake up and grow up. It is time to stop putting the blame on everyone else and take responsibility for our own actions.
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Gross income rose 1.2 percent in 2006 dollars compared to 2000, the time when the last economic expansion ended, the latest tax data show.August 26, 2008 businessNews
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The men chosen to lead the Treasury and Commerce Departments vow to cut taxes, increase growth and hold the line on deficits, testing the limits of economic math.
November 30, 2016, Wednesday
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The clash of emotions common in Cuban families is reflected in a grandfather's loyalty to Mr. Castro and a granddaughter's glum view of conditions in her country.
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The Vermont senator says the president-elect must be held to promises he made to the middle class.
November 16, 2016, Wednesday
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Republican Falsehoods About Obamacare
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Trump and Congress Both Want Tax Cuts. The Question Is Which Ones.
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November 12, 2016, Saturday
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Earlier this week we wrote about ABC's exciting competition, allowing fans to submit artwork for Rayna Jaymes new album cover (one of the main characters on their hit show Nashville). Lost Remote has been given the exclusive on revealing who the winner is, whose artwork will appear in the actual finale episode. ABC has just announced that the winner is Elyse Myers from Indianapolis, IN. Here's the artwork and more information about the social TV winner.
Here's the winning artwork!
Myers is already getting TV attention for the competition.
Just found out I have an interview with @rtv6 tomorrow morning about the @Nashville_ABC album design competition! I'm gonna be on TV! #himom
— Elyse Myers (@emyersdesign) May 13, 2014
Myers told Lost Remote why she entered. "I decided to enter the competition because I thought it would be a fun project for me as a designer." She added that, "I do not currently use Tumblr, but I have in the past to collect design and art inspiration."
She also spoke about why she loves the show and what the inspiration was behind her design. "Yes, I have been a fan of the show since it premiered," she discussed. "I love the characters and the behind-the-scenes theme of the show. I designed the cover mainly around the title of the album "The Parts I Remember". The collage aspect plays into the name of the album. The character of Rayna James, in the show, is also looking to modernize and reinvent herself so I designed the cover to reflect her modern taste and mature style."
Here's Myers' bio that's on her website:
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Microsoft believes that the tides are turning in the Xbox One's favor
Look out Sony, because the tide has turned in the next-gen console wars! Well, according to one Xbox marketing executive anyway. Harvey Eagle, the UK marketing boss for Xbox, claims the launch of Microsoft-exclusive Titanfall game in March was a momentum changer for the console, after the PS4 jumped out to an early sales lead. "The change started to happen when Titanfall was released in March, it's been a hugely successful title and the start of what I believe to be is the momentum shift," he told CVG. He says the steady improvements over the last 12 months have helped the Xbox One battle back after a disastrous build-up to launch and a hammering from Sony in the battle for hearts and minds.
Xbox One has overcome major challenges in the past 12 tumultuous months, according to one of Microsoft's key UK executives, but the team knows more work needs to be done. Though the next-gen console was mired in controversy during the build-up to its launch, a wholesale transformation of the product (and the people behind it) has led to what Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle is describing as a "momentum shift". "The change started to happen when Titanall was released in March, it's been a hugely successful title and the start of what I believe to be is the momentum shift," Eagle told CVG. Enumerating the improvements to Xbox since last year, Eagle mentioned the new Kinectless SKU, the lower price-point for premium models, theenhanced Games with Gold service and the continual firmware updates that introduce new features such as games in snapped columns and enhanced Achievement support. "It's the cumulative effect of all those things over a period of time that has seen this momentum shift for us," Eagle added. "There's still work to do to increase sales," he continued. "The momentum shift is something to be encouraged by, but certainly there's more work to be done.


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Is it Mr. Maginn or Mr. Magoo? It's a worthwhile question to ask as Robert Maginn generates the sort of headlines that are making him the face of the Massachusetts Republican Party. And in a year when the November ballot is likely to be headed by former governor Mitt Romney and U.S. Senator Scott Brown, that is not good.
Robert Maginn was elected chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party in November 2011 and is an ally of both Romney and Brown, especially valued for his fund-raising ability. He is also the CEO of an educational software company called Jenzabar.
Mr. Magoo was a bumbling cartoon character who managed to get in and out of trouble in amusing fashion. Magoo was wealthy and much of his trouble was caused by his severe nearsightedness. Maginn is starting to look a lot like Magoo: wealthy and politically myopic.
The latest evidence of Maginn's nearsightedness arose yesterday when the Boston Globe reported that he had hired a GOP consultant – not for the state party, but for Jenzabar. While providing services to Jenzabar consultant Rob Willington is also going to work for the party, as the Globe reports on an email from Maginn to committee members, "at zero net cost to our party operations.'' Which raises the rather obvious question, pursued by the drive-by liberal media types at the Globe, of an illegal corporate contribution to the party. Maginn did not return calls from the Globe, leaving it to a party spokesman to apply the fig leaf to his actions.
It isn't as if Maginn couldn't have seen the controversy coming. After he was elected chairman he announced that he had hired former GOP congressmen Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen – again at Jenzabar, not the party. Torkildsen is himself a former chair of the state party and he and Blute are also expected to volunteer for the state GOP.
In between doing what he can for the state's job creation picture at Jenzabar, the news broke that Maginn had made the maximum contribution of $500.00 to Governor Deval Patrick's reelection campaign. He had also contributed $2400.00 to New York Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. As my colleague Professor Duquette has pointed out, a business person of one party contributing to the other party is simply business as usual, although this may be hard for the party's true believers to accept. The conservative Massachusetts Republican Assembly sent out an online petition seeking Maginn's resignation. The petition was signed by former Greater Boston Tea Party leader Christen Varley. Maginn also tried to steer the party into an endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, despite the fact that a state party usually remains neutral since different members will be supporting various candidates. That effort was papered over by the representation that Maginn only intended his personal support for Romney, a former colleague at Bain & Co.
So far Maginn has gotten good marks for his fund-raising prowess. But to make progress against the Democrats the GOP needs to cloak itself in the mantle of reform. And I mean a much broader and encompassing manner of reform than tinkering with pension benefits or the rights of unionized municipal workers to veto changes to management of their health care plans. The Republicans need to develop a comprehensive platform for overhauling the way political business is done in the commonwealth. Stashing operatives on the corporate payroll, funding the opposition to protect one's business position, trying to wire the party endorsement for a political ally – those moves are positively Democratic.
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Angels Started Out Hot But in the End Just Burned. New Series, Move Down.
Do you ever have one of those days where odd things seem to parallel your mood or activities? You think of a song and change the station on the radio only to find that song? Or a coworker randomly starts the same conversation you just had that morning with your mom? Does this ever seem to happen with the baseball team you follow? Saturday, was my husband's birthday "observed" – as opposed to Tuesday, his actual birthday, when we have tickets for the company seats at the Big A, whoo hoo! We hosted a pizza party/game night in his honor, so I knew that, between the prep, the party and the clean-up, I wasn't going be able to pay as much attention to the Angels play as I would like to. Little did I know the Angels themselves wouldn't be paying much attention to their play this weekend. Yikes!
The baseball/life parallel was a beautiful thing on Friday night. We cleaned the house and I baked a dark chocolate cake. Making this cake is as much about technique as it is about the recipe. If you cream the butter and sugar long enough and take a sufficiently light, careful hand with the folding, you have an almost ethereally light, fluffy cake. Fold too quickly or too long, or outright mix the batter, and you develop the glutens to the point where you basically have bread. A nice calm no doubter of a game was just what the doctor ordered.
Melt the chocolate, blend, combine. Vernon Wells hits a homerun. Dry ingredients, buttermilk, whipped egg whites, gently fold. Ervin Santana going strong. Back until the cake is springy to the touch. Double play to finish the game. Howie to Aybar to Tumbo. Light that baby up. And now let's finish mopping the floor. Excellent. Great Friday! And can I just say that between their humorous sign campaign response to the sign stealing accusations and their classy welcome for Vernon Wells, I love Blue Jays fans!
Saturday, however, the whole baseball/life parallel thing started to suck. Big time. Yes, I needed to chop and prep all of the pizza toppings. Yes, I needed to make the double vanilla, cream cheese icing for the cake and that involves whipping thick ingredients. Yes, Seth had to work so I was on my own and frustrations from the game lead me to chop and whip with greater…hmmm…shall we say efficiency. But come on Angels, I didn't need that kind of help! I'm strong lady. I can chop onions, mushrooms, garlic and the like in a good mood, would have preferred to in fact.
I was concerned about this particular Jered Weaver start heading into the game anyway. He doesn't pitch as well when circumstances muck up the rotation. Just like in May, when illness delayed his start, Weaver seemed to come back throwing too hard and with less control after his extra rest. And for a guy who lives by pinpoint precision against a hot hitting Blue Jays team on yet another day where the Angels own bats stood still? My recipes were on the right track. This recipe, however, was one for disaster. And Pineiro's two innings on top of it all? Ouch. Clearly he's not working anything out in the bullpen. Is he injured? Is it psychological? Would Dave Duncan consent to maybe call and whisper to him over the phone? I got nothin'. But then I had the birthday party and a house full of people, wine to pour, pizzas on the grill and a really great time, all perfect distractions from any thoughts of Angels.
So, Sunday this would have to end right? We capped off a thoroughly decadent late night with a thoroughly decadent morning – sleeping in until first pitch and then lounging on the sofa to watch a good match up with a breakfast of leftover prosciutto pizza with blue cheese, apples and caramelized onions. And the beginning was great. Torii Hunter's homerun. Dan Haren was dealing. Peter Bourjos smokin' down the base paths. But it was not to be. After the game I could see one more parallel. I had a really happy Saturday night, and I was feeling it Sunday morning to a certain extent, hence the lounging. But some of the Angels and Mike Scioscia, love him though I do, must have had an even happier Saturday night. How else do you explain Bobby and Trumbo's base running in the 9th? Or Scioscia's decision to go to Fernando Rodney in the 10th?
The parallels, however, have to end now. See, Seth and I are going to be enjoying pizza, cake and other party leftovers easily until Thursday, but the Angels better not be keeping too many leftovers from their weekend. Torii's hitting streak. Bobby's reemerging bat. The fielding perhaps. The fact that Jered Weaver is such a stud, that even after giving up eight runs in less than five innings on Saturday, he still has the lowest E.R.A. and the third lowest WHIP in the majors. These are good leftovers to keep. But the lack of clutch, the inconsistent bats and the scary bullpen moments? Leave them on the road. The Rangers are coming to town for a four game series and with this disastrous road trip the Angels are four games behind them. This isn't the last stand of the season right here, right now but it sure is time to get serious about winning again.
Angels vs. Royals: More Blah, but Then Victory!
Friday's Angels looked much like Monday through Thursday's Angels, only with much better fielding than on several of the previous days. While this was an improvement, it was not enough to yield a different result and they lost four to two. The Angels aren't exactly getting killed on the field this season. Most of the losses have been close. But it does go to show that if you aren't scoring many runs, then your pitching and fielding have to be absolute perfection game in and game out in order to compensate for it, and that just isn't feasible for any team.
So, cut to last night's seven to five victory over the Royals. What changed? Several very important things as it turns out:
The veteran bats came alive. I admit it. I was less than pleased when I saw Vernon Wells batting cleanup last night. But he waled on the ball, going three for four with nice solid base hits that moved runners around the bases and lead to Wells scoring a run each time he made it on base. Howie Kendrick also went three for four, with two RBIs. Bobby Abreu had a key hit and he and Torii Hunter worked counts into walks for needed bodies on base. I cannot tell you how nice it was to see all of them on in one game!
We put runners on base and scored runs in multiple innings. If you look at the typical 2011 Angels box score, the one to three runs scored by our heroes usually occur all in one inning, often early in the game and then they don't score again. This has not been an effective strategy. Last night, the Angels scored four runs in the second – more than their game average already – added a fifth run in the third and then game back to put two runs on the board and regain the lead in the 8th.
Our fielding was stellar. The Angels fielding has been good for most of 2011, but last night it was just on fire and it was equally on fire all around the diamond. Double plays. Two beautiful plays at the plate, including one highlight reel play on a perfect throw from Torii in right. Great catches all over the field and heads up back up.
We stole four bases! Stolen bases is one of many areas where sabermetrics and I have to agree to disagree. A team doesn't have to be loaded with power hitters to win as long as they know how to consistently manufacture runs. The Angels know how to manufacture runs. This is one of Mike Sciocia's specialties as a manager. They just haven't been doing it consistently. Last night, the final two runs were the result of situational hitting, stolen bases and smartly taking advantage of a few Royals mistakes. This is a great sign and hopefully the beginning of a re-emerging trend. Now let's just hope Alberto Callaspo, who pulled a hamstring during a successful double steal, is able to move from being day to day back to an everday player soon. This injuries trend is one that can stop any day now.
Looking at the season strictly from a numbers standpoint, one win by no means offsets six straight losses, even when the rest of the division helpfully loses again. But I never think numbers tell the whole story, especially in early June. They're more like a guideline, actually.😉 This was a good solid win, a pretty win if you will, the end result of several missing pieces coming together for the Angels all at once while other team strengths continued. If the Angels can capitalize on the momentum from this game heading into interleague, I think they can start putting together enough wins for significance from any standpoint!
Friday (and Saturday!) Gourmet, Wine & Angels
This week's Friday Night Ritual (wine, "gourmet" dinner and the Angels game) spread? Well, the chefs – read, Seth and I – were tired after a long week and indulged in a bit of lazy cooking: grilled turkey and cheese sandwiches with bacon and TJ's guacamole (hence the lazy). Quick and dirty, but tasty. And the wine was amazing – Mitchella's 2007 Cabernet which tastes of black currants and dark chocolate. Yum!
We were better rested on Saturday and grilled up a feast for the evening game. Tri-tip, rubbed with olive oil, crushed garlic, cracked black pepper and kosher salt, which my husband grilled to that perfect state where the meat has an amazing crust, but is a gorgeous medium to medium rare throughout when you slice into it. Tri-tip is an absolutely glorious cut of beef that I am sorry to say we Californians have not shared much with the rest of the country. Trust me, you are very sad. You just don't know it.😉 We served it with black beans, fresh tortillas and queso fresco and squash lightly sautéed with garlic and black pepper. Paired with Dead Nuts, Chronic Cellars luscious Zinfandel, Petite Sirah blend, it was a fantastic meal…and the Angels won, so if I were inclined to superstitions on that front I would say they prefer us to make more of an effort for the game, LOL.
Sometimes You Win. Sometimes You Lose to the Yankees. Sometimes it Rains…All in One Weekend
Well, if the Angels had to lose two close games to the Yankees, at least it happened while I was out of town. It's so much easier to stay detached you only check in with one of the games on your phone from time to time. You're a lot less invested and barely notice all of the runners stranded in scoring position when you're merely regaling your husband with your own rendition of the game day play by play ob the way back down the coast.
Seriously, when you can't watch the game on TV, or hear your announcers' commentary on the radio, you really only notice the good stuff – Bobby's hitting streak, Trumbo's homerun, Fleet Pete doing his thing, the fact that Howie's back. All of the bad stuff – the missed scoring opportunities, the botched plays, the Yankees homeruns – barely even registers. …You know, except for the part where I'm totally lying. April or September, squeaker or blow out, glued to the action before you on the field from the first pitch or just catching the score the next morning, losses always sting…especially when they seem to be coming in streaks.
It's a marathon not a sprint. It's only June. It's just two losses. And all of the other clichés which, of course, are clichés for a reason. Yes, we're only four games out of first and it's just the beginning of June. Anything is still possible and I believe that this team can turn things around but it's disheartening to be back under .500 on June 5th…and to have the AL West standings finally spread out by more than two games and be in third place and four games out. Absolutely fixable, but completely frustrating even so.
Anyway. Me? Out of town again? So soon? Well, that at least that's more fun to write about than griping about the Angels. This weekend is the reason I was not going to go up to the wine festival last weekend until the Am Gen Tour was coming through and I decided that practicality and responsibility are really terribly overrated concepts. So this weekend, we were back up in Paso Robles for the Seafood and Sangria Summer Kickoff Party at Rio Seco, the baseball winery.
It was pouring rain for much of the weekend so the summer kickoff took place indoors, but the evening was a lot of fun. The Hinkle family were gracious hosts as always. This was a mostly locals crowd but they made sure we felt right at home – the older daughter who we usually chat with in the tasting room even asked how the Angels were doing. They remember their baseball and baseball fans here. The food was excellent. I now have several great ideas for sangria later in the summer, including one with the MVP reserve, apples and berries. More please! And the party favors were half cases of wine – the Grand Slam Cab/Syrah blend no less, ensuring that the party will continue at several Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels evenings at our house later this summer. We had a nice time hearing some of the local gossip and all about the Giants – central coast California is absolutely not Angels country. They're disappointed about Buster Posey but not exactly calling for Scott Cousins' head or any rule changes in Paso Robles. Bruce Bochy take note…and a lesson or four.
Angels take 2 out of 3 in Minnesota + Memorial Weekend Highlights
A spectacular, improbable come from behind win. A heartbreaking extra innings loss following a brilliant pitching performance by Jered Weaver. Dan Haren's luck finally changed as the offense rallied to his support early and often. What a weekend! And that's just the baseball part. So, what was the best part of my weekend?
Peter Bourjos' amazing catches? Whether we're talking about the catch on Friday or any of the others this weekend, Bourjos was a human highlight reel. And he wasn't too shabby at the plate either. (I'm ignoring the hot potato incident with Torii Hunter in right field as a one-time only thing, unless proven wrong.)
The fact that the offense came out to play in two out of three games? Erick Aybar, Torii Hunter, Alberto Callaspo, Bobby Abreu and Mark Trumbo, I applaud you! Now, how about the offense coming out to play for three out of three games in Kansas City? The Angels need to redeem themselves in KC this week.
The exciting come from behind win on Friday night? By the way, arent the Twins supposed to be a last place team? Because they sure weren't playing like it this weekend. They were a very good team this weekend. The Angels seem to bring that out in other teams. Um…thanks??
Jered Weaver's nine lights out, two-hit, shutout innings? All that and no W? Very sad and very frustrating for Weaver, I'm sure. But that doesn't make the feat any less fantastic.
The game night (of the board and card variety) we hosted on Saturday? That's right, we decided to be social at the expense of some of the ballgame. Me, a few of my favorite smart asses in the whole wide world, a moderately epic quantity of wine, good food and games, games and more games until the wee hours of the morning. It was just what the doctor ordered for some much need stress relief.
Kicking some strategy game ass on Saturday? Yes gentlemen, I may have consumed more wine than you but don't think that means I will wale on you any less. *evil laugh*
Turning the TV off on Saturday, because we had non-baseball friends over, when Jered Weaver was mid-gem, before the traumatically disappointing end? In hindsight at least, this is a good thing.
Dan Haren finally getting a much deserved 5th win? It's funny. Haren has joked in interviews that after losing a few games where he pitched lights out, his next win would probably be a less than stellar performance with full run support…and that is exactly what happened. I don't care, Haren's a little off is better than a lot of pitchers on and the man was due.
Mark Trumbo's homerun into the upper deck? And this was on an inside pitch where he couldn't extend his arms!
The Bullpen? Well, on Friday and Sunday at least. Yes, Walden let things get a little more exciting than necessary Sunday but he pulled it off. They all did. They came to the mound for their inning or part of an inning and got it done.
Hitting the bike trail with my husband after the ballgame on Sunday? It was only a 6 and a half mile ride in and around Santa Fe Dam. I might even have said pathetic once. But it's been two years since I was last able to ride my bike and bike riding was pretty high up on the list of things my knee might never quite be up to again, so I'm going to go with Bravo! …and thank you reformer Pilates.
The weekend's not over yet because we both have Monday off, the game starts at 1:30 and there is still the possibility of many of these things happening all over again?
Yeah, these are all great things, but I'm going to go with that last one!
Baseball Musings From a Weekend Away
After working way too many hours the last few weeks and finding out that the Amgen Tour of California was due to race right down our street, my husband and I fled both crowds and responsibility for the weekend up the coast to the Paso Robles Wine Festival. Originally I was going to be a good girl and skip this one, but who am I to argue with what was clearly fate…or at least the whim of Amgen tour schedulers? Regardless, I spent the weekend roaming wine country and Saturday evening under the stars on the patio of one of my favorite wineries, drinking great wine, enjoying street style tacos and chatting it up with the locals…and joining the band and several other guests in a silly mood in a rousing rendition of Stairway to Heaven in "honor" of the Rapture that wasn't, but that's another story.
We always enjoy great conversations at these events. Wine people, not unlike baseball people, really run the gamut in terms of professions, life experiences, ages, backgrounds and outside interests. When you get a lot of us in a relaxed environment, enjoying that libation for which we all share an affinity, the conversation begins to flow as freely as the wine from the bottles and combines the diverse characteristics of all present, much like the rich Rhone blends for which this region is becoming famous.
So, while I missed watching Saturday's blown lead and all of Sundays heroics, I did observe and enjoy the following:
No matter how subtle you think you being when you check the score on your phone a few times over the course of the evening – even if you keep your expression neutral through a Herculean effort when your starter starts blowing his lead – someone is going to notice. Furthermore, that someone will then more than likely ask the score of his or her own game, thus providing the beginnings of a nice conversation. So, really, checking the score is not anti-social behavior…really, really.
When baseball fans get to talking about our favorite thing, our faces light up in a beautiful smile. We just can't help it. Like the Professor from Cal Poly SLO who grew up in L.A. as he reminisced about Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale and times when L.A. baseball was a brand new idea. Or his wife, telling us about her nephew is a hot stuff potential draft pick out if UCSB. Or the Coast Union baseball players apparently freshly returned from kicking some serious butt down in Los Angeles…and many more. All fantastic stories to hear.
An Angels fan in Giants country gets less hisses these days, go figure.😉 2002 is apparently no longer Too soon! Too soon!
It is a small, small world after all. I was chatting with the Winemaker at Bodega De Edgar, the gentleman who makes the Spanish varietals I've waxed poetic on this blog about before, and a couple of other guests and the subject of baseball came up – and I didn't bring it up, ha! They asked if Seth and I were Dodger fans. No, we're Angel fans and then the vintner narrowly avoided a cartoon character worthy spit take. Do you by any chance have a blog? Why yes I do. Okay, because I have been trying to figure out who this lady could be that blogs about the Angels and my wine for a few weeks now. How funny and random is that? I could not stop laughing. And, ha, I mentioned the name of the winery again so, Edgar, now I'll come up on your next Google search too.😉
If you are a younger sibling, you will never escape being called by your older brother or sister's name, especially if your parents follow the tradition of giving everyone a name with the same first initial, like my parents did. Not even if you grow up to make millions of dollars. Not even if you are a Major League Baseball player. As we head into this evening's match-up with the A's, the number of national media folks I have heard call Jered Weaver Jeff makes me crack up. Seriously, on MLB tonight, on ESPN, it's crazy. It does make me wonder though, does Mom Weaver ever do the "Jeff?! Jered?! Oh you know who I'm talking to!" thing?
Friday Gourmet, Wine & Angels: Let the Wild Interleague Rumpus Begin
Now that was the way to come back from a bad couple of weeks. Nine runs on ten hits to beat the Braves 9 to 0. Ervin Santana pitched a complete game, four-hit shutout and was just plain nasty, striking out seven and walking no one, throwing both his slider and breaking ball for strikes. Not a single Brave made it to second base. It was beautiful.
Our bats were back and the rookies in particular were in fine form. Mark Trumbo had a fantastic game with a couple of stellar plays at first, a three-run homerun and two additional hits, finishing a triple shy of the cycle. Alexi Amarista went hitless but continues to impress in the field with several great plays and one leaping catch that did not look possible…until he did it. Hank Conger had a great night behind the plate and Peter Bourjos (okay, technically no longer a rookie, but only just barely) was able to put those quick feet to use yet again in center and on the base paths, with one hit, one hit by pitch and two runs scored.
The veterans were not left out of the fun either. Torii Hunter, Alberto Callaspo, Erick Aybar and Bobby Abreu all had hits. Torii had a great night in right field and even managed to make fun of his own blunder against the Mariners. He pretended, quite convincingly, to lose the ball in the twilight on a routine pop-up before catching it effortlessly, but not before frightening Santana, Bourjos and Mike Scioscia. Well played Torii! We were cracking up over here.
Oh, and I have decided that Ervin Santana is Hobbes. Outside of the game, he is charming, funny and downright sweet seeming in interviews. The term affable comes to mind. Much like the warm fuzzy side of Calvin's imaginary companion. On the mound with his game face on, however, Santana's face settles into an intense predatory smile and, though his eyes are completely hidden in the shadow of his cap, I always expect them to glow from underneath, like Hobbes in pouncing mode with the opposing team's batters in the role of the unsuspecting Calvin just home from school. I love it!
So, this week's Friday Night Ritual (wine, "gourmet" dinner and the Angels game) spread: grilled turkey and brie sandwiches topped with apples, pickled red onions and baby greens tossed with homemade balsamic vinaigrette and accompanied by Rio Seco's (the baseball winery) MVP reserve, a flavorful Cabernet, Cab Franc and Merlot blend perfectly themed for the evening. It was delicious but, even better, it was a great game! Keep it up gentlemen, this could be the beginning of a wonderful trend!
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I realize that I am in the minority on MLBlogs, but I actually like Interleague play…and not just because the Angels usually rock it. I understand it's not traditional. I understand that many of the rivalries are manufactured. I understand it can lead to uneven match-ups across a given division, but I don't care. It's just plain fun to watch the kind of crazy scenarios we played out as kids – the Angels catching balls against the backdrop of Wrigley's ivy, the Dodgers dealing with the green monster – come to life.
Part of my attitude may come from the fact that Interleague play developed during the period of my baseball discontent and self-imposed exile from the sport. I didn't watch it develop like the rest of you. I just checked back into the game in 2004 and *poof* we have Interleague play now. I am enough of a purist that, when I came back to baseball, I hated the new three division league structure, I hated the addition of wild card teams to the playoffs and I hated the whole stupid pitch count thing, but I enjoyed Interleague play. Go figure. Incidentally, I have come to accept three divisions and wild card teams, though it happened slowly and grudgingly, but I still do not like pitch counts and overspecialization among pitchers at all.
Angels Tame Hot Streaking Tribe Winning 2 Out of 3
The Angels took two out of three against the first-place Cleveland Indians and gave Mike Scioscia his 1,000th win as a manager, while all of Major League Baseball donned the now traditional pink accessories for Mothers' Day in support of Breast Cancer. Not a bad weekend, eh? Outside of baseball, it's actually been a weird weekend for me. I brought a lot of work home, we had my in-laws over for Mothers' Day and we got to go to the game last night (Yay!), so there wasn't a whole lot of time for extras including, sadly, blogging. We didn't even do our usual Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels. We watched the game, but it was more of a Friday leftover (but still delicious) taco salad, Kristen building PDF forms for work and Angels kind of affair…though we did enjoy Pasoport's lovely Ruby port for an extra innings dessert.
I remembered to bring an actual camera to Saturday's game instead of just my Droid, so I figured in lieu of a more detailed write-up of the games, I'd just share some of the photos I took. It was mostly a good game with lots of scuffling back and forth, and right up until Maicer Izturis' uncharacteristically terrible decision to run to third in the 8th, I thought the guys might pull this one off. Unfortunately no, so I was greeted with this very sad, very unlit Halo when we left the stadium. I mention the Halo a lot but it occurs to me that you might not all know what I'm talking about. The Giant A you see before you is the Big A's namesake and was the stadium's original scoreboard. It was moved to the parking lot and transformed into an electronic marquee when the stadium was renovated in the late 1970's to accommodate the Rams. When the Angels win, the Halo around the top lights up, which is why so many Angels fans great a win with loud variations on Light that baby up!
We had the exact same seats we had for the last game against the Indians, oddly enough. First row of the top level, two sections behind third base. What a difference a few megapixels and a real zoom makes! This is Maicer Izturis and Erick Aybar stretching and goofing around with, I believe, Orlando Cabrera before the game. I know old school rules outlaw fraternization between opposing players, but I actually like seeing the players hang out together before the game, then put their game faces on try to outdo their buddies:
I was pleased to capture this shot because you can the first long stride of Jered Weavers delivery (the right foot then lands right at the base of the mound or slightly off of it and angling towards first during his release, pretty cool stuff) and Mark Trumbo and Izturis moving into position at first and third. Weaver looked a little off all night, like he had to work for each pitch. I think he is still recovering from the weakening effects of his stomach ailment last weekend. I have no doubt he'll be back on top again soon:
Angels players hang out on the bar of the dugout in the bottom of the first. I believe that is Tyler Chatwood to the left of Bobby Wilson (#46). Chatwood pitched a great game Friday night, but was unable to earn the win – he needs to work on his walk to strike ratio. Fernando Rodney was lights out on Friday and definitely earned the win…and then he almost blew it for the Angels on Sunday. I wish he could figure things out.
Mark Trumbo (in the on deck circle) and Howie Kendrick (the RBI) congratulate Vernon Wells on his two-run homerun. He's coming around. It's taking a little while, but he's coming around:
Bobby Abreu takes a swing. It seems like such an obvious thing to say but, looking at the last several games' stats, when we hit the ball with runners in scoring position we win. When we don't we don't. The Angels had 8 hits in Saturday's losing effort compared to 6 in Sunday's winning one. Its not the hits, it's the hitting when it counts:
Mark Trumbo shown in one of what would be the many attempts to pick off Grady Sizemore at fist. Our fielding this game, and indeed in the rest of the series, was very good with the Angels committing 0 errors:
The photo I wish I had? The Kiss Cam focusing on the Indians Bullpen! Basically, in the middle of the 6th inning, the cameramen focus on couples throughout the stadium, showing them on the Jumbotron in a heart- shaped frame and any couple who finds themselves in said predicament is supposed to kiss. 90% of the time, I think it's annoying. I generally do not like any of the gimmacks geared towards the fan with no attention span. Watch the game, okay. But every now and then something funny happens with the Kiss Cam. At the Angels vs. Indians game I attended in April, the Kiss Cam panned into the Indians bullpen for the final shot, focusing tightly on two relievers (and I wish I could tell you who) who were in a deep discussion that took on overtones of "A Talk" with the Kiss Cam added context. The fans laughed uproariously and the relievers didn't even seem to notice until the last second when they just looked surprised before the Kiss Cam faded to black. This game, the Kiss Cam again panned to the Indians Bullpen (I have no idea what the story is, they don't do this with any other team). But this time the relievers (I assume the same ones) were ready for this treatment and one of them pretended to slap the other one, who jumped back and pretended to cry while the first reliever pretended to look huffy. Well played gentlemen! You are excellent sports!
So, all in all, a few things to work on in coming games, but still another great series! Congratulations to Scioscia on his 1,000th win as a manager! I wish I had been there to see it. I am looking forward to the coming series against the White Sox. They're coming into Anaheim on a few wins, so we should see some good baseball…and I have tickets to Tuesday's game. Can't wait!
Friday Gourmet, Wine & Angels: Yay! A Win for Ervin Santana
I was a little worried going into this series. Yes, the Rays started the season badly, but I knew that wasn't going to continue. They have been hot, hot, hot lately – just ask the Twins – and David Prince was on the mound. But, even amid the concern, I just couldn't imagine Ervin Santana going any longer without a win. Fortunately, that turned out to be the better instinct. Congratulations on your first win of the season, Ervin, and here's to many more. You earned it and man were you due – see, the guys can show you love with run support too, especially when you don't botch it with a bunch of walks. Whooo hoo!
This week's Friday Night Ritual (wine, "gourmet" dinner and the Angels game) spread: Tapas, Tempranillo y beisbol. I was in a really good mood today and felt like playing in the kitchen, so we had quite the array of tapas to nibble on during the game – garlic sherry mushrooms; orange, rosemary and pimento marinated olives; bacon wrapped dates; costini with ricota, Spanish chorizo, arugula and a balsamic reduction; and oranges. Hey, it's dinner for the rest of the weekend too and it succeeded in relaxing my husband who's had a rough couple of weeks continuing to find a cubicle seat every time the music stops at work. The Tempranillo is from Paso Robles' Bodega de Edgar, who specializes in Spanish varietals, thus securing the continuing affections of my wallet. And let me just say that it's a good thing we have Pilates so early on Saturday, because I have Edgar's Garancha and Albarino in the closet too and the way the game looked like it was going after those errors in the third inning, opening a few more bottles was starting to sound like a mighty fine idea.
Before and after the third inning bobbles though – two hands please Erick, two hands -things settled down into a great tight game with the Angels ultimately emerging victorious – my favorite kind. Santana pitched a good game – less walks, more Ks and quick outs. There was no keeping Ben Zobrist off of the base paths, but at least Santana held him to one hit and one walk with no RBIs. The Angels' bats recovered nicely from their one day longer than necessary vacation. Almost everyone had multiple hits – Bobby Abreau, Torri Hunter, Mark Trumbo, Howie Kendrick, Alberto Callaspo. Trumbo's homerun was a monster, absolutely beautiful to see. Everyone else had a hit except Jeff Mathis – come on Jeff, we know you can hit. Pretend they're all postseason games against the Yankees, please.
Howie and Trumbo, each playing their more natural position again, and Bourjos all had great defensive games. Wells made a great play at the end. Fernando Rodney, gave us all a heart attack when his first pitch turned into a BJ Upton homerun, but mostly settled down and got the three outs we needed with only one additional hit so, yay. Jordan Walden has recovered nicely from his last appearance in which he recieved his first blown save and loss. He earned his fourth save of the season this evening, allowing only one hit. Double yay!
Our pitchers are finally starting to come back from the DL! Scott Downs pitched one inning tonight almost up to his usual level after a nasty, persistent stomach virus – one K, one walk, no hits, not runs. Joel Pinero takes the mound for the first time this season tomorrow and I loved his interview this evening. He sounds excited by the feats of Jered Weaver and Dan Haren and eager to get out there and see what he can contribute. Heck, I can't wait for him to be fully up to his usual level. Best of luck to you tomorrow Joel! …and kindly wrap yourself in protective bubble wrap after the game. Thanks ever so.😉
Friday Gourmet, Wine & Angels: Coulda. Woulda. Shoulda. Yuck.
Thursday's game was an exercise in frustration. Josh Beckett was dealing but the Angels had a very few opportunities early on and couldn't capitalize on them. Tyler Chatwood's start was okay and would even be considered good if he hadn't walked five batters, the last of which proved costly. The Angels could have scored more runs after Torii's 7th inning homer tied the game up. Erick Aybar could have been content with a double. The bullpen could have kept us in the game. And the extra innings heroics could have worked out. The umpires also could have made better calls – not all of the close ones were bad. Dustin Pedroia was safe at home *resigned sigh*, but at third? Only if running five to six feet outside the base path to avoid the tag is suddenly Kosher. Oh well, that was the fourth run and didn't matter. They would have won with three. Fans also could have been classy and not thrown money at Carl Crawford. Or, to sum it up another way, after the game, I decided that helping my husband snake the drain pipe for the washing machine was more enjoyable than watching the postgame show. But I still had high hopes for Friday when we would send Dan Haren to the mound…oh boy.
This week's Friday Night Ritual (wine, gourmet for varying definitions of gourmet dinner and the Angels game) spread: triple mushroom risotto with pancetta accompanied by a bottle of Cypher Winery's Peasant, a lovely take on a French field blend of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Tannat and Counise that tastes like plums and black cherries with hints of nutmeg, vanilla and anise. Making risotto was a therapeutic decision. After the tense extra innings drama and unsatisfactory result of Thursday's game, I was anxious in the hours leading up to this evening's game and, trust me, spending half an hour stirring, stirring, ladling, stirring, carefully judging texture and stirring some more is oddly calming. And it turned out well, if I do say so myself. Which was good because, the way this evening's game went, starting it anxious might have proved fatal for the throw pillows.
Dan Haren wasn't dealing tonight, which is bound to happen from time to time, and the rest of the team wasn't backing him up consistently. Not with run support and not with defense either: a Wells bobble, Peter Bourjos with one highlight reel play and one blooper reel play, a Mathis passed ball and not a bloody one of them capable of hitting with runners in scoring position until the 8th inning. Not exactly a recipe for success. Okay, the safe call on Saltalamacchia at third blew goats, as did several others, and then he scored the first Red Sox run on the next hit. Demoralizing? Yes. But that was not a reason to fall apart for two innings. Bad calls happen. That's baseball. So get productively angry and get the next guys out.
And yet, we still almost pulled it off. Timely hits in the 7th and 8th innings, and an equally timely Saltalamacchia passed ball – darned nice of him, really, after that call at 3rd😉 – finally put the Angels on the board and brought us within one run of catching the Red Sox. Then, it was the ninth inning with you know who on the mound. Ugh. Hank Conger got a hit though. In a déjà vu moment, we had hopes that Howie Kendrick could stick it out through another battle and get a hit this time. Who knows what might have been if Paplebon hadn't benefitted from such a generous strike call on the second pitch. Howie may well still have struck out…but he might not have. Oh well. Who knows what might have happened if the guys had settled down immediately after the botched call in the third, or if Bourjos made the catch instead of blowing it, or if Wells had made the other catch for that matter.
So, am I panicking or even particularly worried? No. It's only two games. It's April. They can't win all 162 no matter how much I would like them to and even quality players will have bad days, sometimes all at once. Am I annoyed and kind of deflated feeling? Yes. I am tired of getting beaten by the Red Sox, especially when they are playing good baseball but hardly unbeatable baseball. We should have won this one. Oh well. At least the wine and risotto were good.
So, guys, can we go get 'em the next two games? Yes, their pitching is tough but this is hardly an impossible request.
Angels Weekend: Of Brooms, a Youth Uprising & the AL Central
It was quite the busy weekend at my house. In addition to the usual Pilates class and errands, we made pickled red onions, scoured the house, rearranged the furniture upstairs and did a lot of sweeping…oh, yeah, wait. That last part? That wasn't Seth and I. That was the Angels!!😉
Sorry for the brief bragging indulgence but, did you see us play last season? I think we can all agree, I'm due. So, suffice to say, it was a good weekend. Tyler Chatwood? I was a little apprehensive about his second major league start, especially when he's definitely pitching to contact and the While Sox can hit. But, wow, can the kid pitch! And what confidence and poise on the mound. If he starts getting hit, he regroups, recovers and moves on. Can we keep him Sosh? Pleeeeeease. Can we? Can we?!
Another weekend revelation? Hel-lo Hank Conger. After Spring Training, Conger stayed on the 25-man roster primarily because of the large number of Angels on the DL. Everyone has been referring to him as the Angels third catcher, the assumption being that when a few of the regular players come off the DL, Hank will go back to the Bees, leaving Jeff Mathis and Bobby Wilson to duke it out for the primary catcher's spot. Hank, however, has seized this brief opportunity with both hands in a death grip and sprinted with it. Seriously, each appearance has been better than the last. The pitchers seem to love him. He calls a good game. He catches guys stealing. He caught Juan Pierre stealing. That's not easy. And he's hitting and seems a little stronger with each plate appearance. I think it's time to stop calling the kid the third catcher. I think it's time to just call the kid the catcher. Let Mathis and Wilson duke it out over who gets to stay up when everyone comes back off the DL…except this is Mike Scioscia's Angels, so all three may very well wind up staying up. I'm rolling my eyes right now, but it's with affection.
Other high points? Dan Haren is now 4 and 0. Like Jered Weaver, he didn't have his best start and now has an E.R.A. over 1 but, also like Weaver, not his best start is still pretty darned good and was good enough for the W. Maicer Izturis had a very hot bat. Mark Trumbo is a beast at the plate and is getting darned good at pulling off a tag out of nowhere at first, which is good because the rain wet ball wasn't exactly helping with those throws to first. I. Love. Our. Outfield. Have I mentioned that before? Vernon Wells is continuing to gain momentum at the plate and in left field. The bullpen did really well. Jordan Walden almost blew his first save in spectacular fashion but this kid has a closer's ice water in his veins. He loaded up the bases, then settled down and got the outs he needed without flinching. I wish I could say the same. I flinched, twitched, paced around the room, swore a blue streak and generally was not a pretty sight until he calmed down and got that last out. But as long as he doesn't make a habit of getting himself into a jam in the first place, it's nice to know that Walden can get himself out of a jam.
The Angels had a great weekend and Texas got beaten up by the Yankees so now we're tied for first. Tied. For. First! Yes, it's April 17th. I realize that standings at this point mean absolutely nothing. First place and a couple of bucks still won't buy you a grande latte at Starbucks – those suckers cost $3.50. But after every major sports publication picked the Angels to finish in third place, well out of second, being tied for first with the red hot Texas Rangers feels pretty darned sweet right now. *toasts the Angels with a glass of Malbec* Oooookaaaay. I was going to drink that anyway. It went with dinner, gorgeously in fact. But it tastes just that much better after being raised in honor of the Angels.
Starting Monday, the Angels face the aforementioned red hot Texas Rangers. The red hot AL Champion Texas Rangers. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little excited. Well see how it goes. They're tough. Really tough. But here's the thing. We beat them a few times last year when the Angels were far, far from their best and the Rangers were still red hot. So…can we beat them? Yes. It sure won't be easy, but I believe we can. Will we beat them? I sure hope so, but it's far from a given, and we're heading into the bottom of our starting rotation, though Ervin Santana has certainly had some success against Texas. You have to play the games to find these things out, fortunately, because I already know where we stand on paper. I don't think this series is truly make it or break it time for the Angels. Again, its only April. But this series is an important test even so. Go Halos!!


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Player cards: Per ISA Registration rules, please ask USA of Indiana registrar to sign player cards ONLY when you have, for each player, a copy of the player's birth certificate, the player card signed by the player, and a picture affixed to the player card.
Field Days Each team is to be represented at each field day.
Back ground checks Each Manager, Assistant Coach, and Coach must have a back ground check performed every two calendar year.
Parent Pledge form is now completed on line during tryout registration. If ISL or Coach wishes, manager may collect "Parent Pledge and Code of Conduct" form from a parent as a reminder.
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