If You Sing Alt-Rock Ballads, They Will Come

In the midst of this summer of discontent that the 2009 D’backs’ season, there is a glimmer of hope for the D’backs, a silver lining to Chris Young’s .174 batting average: If you sing semi-popular and outdated rock songs, they will come. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been the annual baseball [...]

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Lettuce wraps and epic fail.

So, I enjoyed a tasty meal of Americanized Chinese food at the PF Chang’s in Chandler last night.  I was joined there, though at a separate table, by failing (failed?) DBacks reliever Jon Rauch.  He of the 7.23 ERA, .313 opponents BA, and giver-upper of back-to-back RBI singles as part of the DBacks blowing a [...]

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Mustachioed Hero Arrives to Save D-Backs Season

If I had a personal secretary I’d tell her to mark the date – May 12, 2009- as the day the D-Backs season was saved. For this was the day the Diamondbacks promoted lefty pitcher Clay Zavada to the big leagues. Now I know very little about Zavada as a player, but a quick google [...]

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It’s not you, it’s me.

Bob Melvin has been fired. The firing should not be seen as an indictment of Melvin, but instead of GM Josh Byrnes. Baseball managers can’t do much to help, or hurt, their team. Firing one is the easy way for a baseball front office to deflect blame away from the GM, scouts, and minor league [...]

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