TCR Friday Notes

...just a few notes promoted from the comments and other site fun.

- Rich Hill will get his next start skipped with the day off Monday. 10 or so days off should really help him with his control problems.

- Another gem from ex-Cub, now blossoming writer Doug Glanville; that includes this gem:
And I recall seeing an electric young pitcher, Kerry Wood,
when he was the ripe old age of 19. He had yet to set foot in a major
league stadium when we watched him pitch in an instructional league
game in Arizona. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop me and everyone else
from realizing that he was a man among boys. Years later, he would set
the record for most strikeouts in a game. He just had something that
made his blank sheet of experience rise to the top of a pile of
bullet-point-riddled résumés.
- So what do you think Joba Chamberlain said to Erin Andrews before the interview to solicit the look of disgust at the end of this video? (Hat tip to Deadspin for the link)

- Another Deadspin find, Joe Smith heckling with the fans at Wrigley earlier this week. Note to all cameraman though, let the pictures and sound tell the story. You do not need to do the play-by-play that Smith is heckling with the fans, while he's, you know, heckling the fans.The part where him and the fans are going back and forth, is enough of a tell that heckling is indeed going on, and you jabbering that this is Joe Smith heckling with the fans at Wrigley, doesn't let us hear what is actually being heckled.

- Rotoauthority has a nice piece using Pitch F/x that examines Kosuke Fukudome's at-bats. .

- We broke out a mobile version of the site last week for you hardcore readers. Unfortunately the automatic redirect was messing things up for some people, so just bookmark the mobile site at: http://thecubreporter.mofuse.mobi. I hope to be adding an RSS feed of the comments soon.

- Let's all welcome the Just One Bad Century girl to the website (on the right sidebar). That should class up the joint a little. They do have a neat site over there and some fun apparel and other goodies at their store. Buy some stuff and she stays!

- And finally, an update on our TCR Donation Drive. Drumroll please! (Numbers flip on the big board...band starts playing) We're up to 35 donations and $820. Woo! Thanks for all your support and we'll make one last push on Wednesday before announcing the final total. Remember, there's gifts for the top 3 pledges.

Enjoy the weekend!

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Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 7:01pm
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Comments

Submitted by navigator
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 8:49pm

It's pretty clear you don't read the comments from us plebes.

Submitted by crunch
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 9:06pm

you're not that special, dude.

no offense, but you're pretty competitive.

fwiw...we got a phrase around here called "3/44" that's a bit more tactful than your centrist post above.

hell, it don't matter how you say it, but i doubt even you read every word of every post. i know i don't.

Submitted by Ryno
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 11:43pm

crunch:
you're not that special, dude.

lol... comedy gold.

Submitted by Rob G.
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 9:59pm

it's also pretty clear that I wrote

 "just a few notes promoted from the comments"

wtf did you think that meant?

a lot, (I would say most) of our readers don't even read the comments and definitely not all of them, so if I think it's noteworthy I'll mention it. 

Submitted by 10man
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 10:31pm

hey folks, we have navigator over here in a heckling battle with RobG... i said navigator is heckling RobG...ok we got navigator heckling with RobG

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 9:51am

well-played sir...well-played

Submitted by The Joe
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 1:36am

Watch out Rob or he might call you racist...

Submitted by Bleeding Blue
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 9:00am

A lot, maybe even most, readers don't read the comments? You mean some people look here to read the articles?

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 10:59am

and then there's some that don't read the articles and just read the comments.  :)

nice signature btw

Submitted by Chad
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 12:53pm

They got articles here?

Submitted by Ryno
on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 11:41pm

A mobile site? Sweet! iPhone rendering it beautifully.

Submitted by Timmer
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 7:02am

I like Glanville's writing a lot, but his memory is a little faulty in this case:

I recall seeing an electric young pitcher, Kerry Wood, when he was the ripe old age of 19.... Years later, he would set the record for most strikeouts in a game.

Years later? Wood was 20 when he faced the Astros that day, and he didn't set the record he tied it.

Submitted by 10man
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 7:26am

Maybe he meant that other guy Kerry Woods.

Submitted by Chifan
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 9:46am

for a start and call up Tiggy to give us a second loogy and then when Hill's turn comes up whatever member of the pen is pitching worse have a "shoulder injury" that needs some DL time. I agree with Rob the time off isnt a good thing for him.

Submitted by Dmac
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 10:26am

I would've loved to have had some vid of the times when Lenny Dykstra was playing for the Mets and regularly got into it during warm - ups at Wrigley. I witnessed a few back then, and it was mostly just funning around, no nasty stuff.

Submitted by BobbyD
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 12:35pm

I remember being in the left field bleachers one day long ago and during pre-game warmups we were on the Reds outfielders pretty good. One of them (can't remember that well, was busy killing teen brain cells that day) turned around eventually and just said "yell anything you want, I make a hundred bucks for every dollar you get."

Submitted by Rob G.
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 11:00am

I think the shirt on the Just One Bad Century girl is a photoshop job...disappointing.

Submitted by Chad
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 12:54pm

Good, cause I hate the shirt. For real. It's a losers shirt and I wouldn't be caught dead wearing it. There for I say we post a picture of that girl NOT wearing a shirt instead. Who's with me?

Submitted by BobbyD
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 1:53pm

I second Chad's shirtless version motion. Besides, the Cubs have really only had a bad half-century plus. Up until the 40's they were pretty damn good. Even though he grew up on the north side, my dad became a Sox fan (that's HIS problem) just because he was sick of all the obnoxious Cubs bandwagoners back then who knew nothing about the game. Kind of like how every other person you see suddenly owns a Red Sox hat.

Submitted by Ryno
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 3:23pm

lol... The Joe Smith video is pretty sweet.

Submitted by Dmac
on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 3:39pm

Never thought I'd say this, but Red Sox Nation really sucks - almost as bad as Patriot Nation. Not that they're any worse than some Cubs fans, though.

"...just said "yell anything you want, I make a hundred bucks for every dollar you get."

Roger Maris was always getting into it with the fans, and his typical retort was "oh yeah? How much money do you make?" After awhile his teammates starting yelling at Maris to "hit 'em with your wallet, Rog!"

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