Miscellaneous Thoughts

Various thoughts and observations while I have my first cup of coffee...

Derek Lowe was awful last night. Seven runs in two and a third innings to the Devil Rays? Yikes! Just sayin' but didn't Byung-Hyun Kim get sent down to Pawtucket for having a 6.17 ERA? Lowe's ERA after last night's game is 6.02.... Gary Sinise will star in CSI New York this fall. That sounds like a pretty good match. I just hope that in the show he is a detective lieutenant and his first name is Daniel... Right now I would put the odds on the Red Sox resigning Derek Lowe at 0%... Let me get this straight: Friends had a huge send off, Fraiser had a little fan fare for its last show and now The Drew Carey Show will end its run in the dead of summer? At its peak The Drew Carey Show was the funniest of the three (with Fraiser a close second). Friends always seemed the kind of show that Frank Zappa would write a song about (satirizing it)... Last night Derek Lowe was just dripping sweat. I mean it was Albert Brooks in Broadcast News type sweat. This leads me to believe that Lowe either needs a good sports psychologist or a new anti-perspirant.... Troy in Fifteen Minutes (found via Boing Boing)... I know that Derek Lowe has been bad this season but it hasn't been Derek Jeter bad and there is a chance that he can turn it around and still have a 15+ win season. You do have to wonder at all the excuses though. In his horrid start earlier in the year it was because he had "too much time off". Last year he had the skin cancer scare early in the year and then inexplicably was awful in almost every road start. What was the excuse for last night?... If there is one thing to take comfort in regarding Derek Lowe - it is the fact that he is third among all MLB pitchers in his groundball to flyball ratio (3.08 - only Jake Westbrook of Cleveland and Brandon Webb of Arizona are better). That's the key stat for a sinkerball pitcher.... My how things have changed - from Today in Baseball History: 1923 - Formal transfer of T.L. Huston's interest in the Yankees to Jake Ruppert is completed for $1.5 million. Ten days later Ruppert buys two more sets of uniforms so his players can wear a clean outfit every day, an unprecedented move...