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SnakeBytes, 9/4: Vintage Edition

Today is our first day of practice for our Vintage League squad. Good luck to them. [Note from snakecharmer: With folks at vintage baseball practice on Saturdays, Jim at work and me starting my soccer practice next Saturday, we may need someone to take over Saturday's Bytes regularly...]

Recaps:

[AZCentral] Ojeda brings winning run home against Astros Ojeda's sac fly scores Roberts, Dbacks win. Wow, I made it seem like we walked off.

[Yahoo/AP] Ojeda's sac fly lifts Dbacks over Astros "It's the hardest thing in baseball when you sit around waiting for your name to be called upon," Ojeda said. “You've got to be ready to pinch hit, pinch bunt, defense, whatever. Whenever you sit on the bench for two to three hours then go into the game, it's real difficult. It looks easy, but it's not."

[CrawfishBoxes] The Crawfish Boxes recap

[TucsonToros] Toros win their GBL Best 14th straight game 12-4. To bad I can't afford to go to any games. 

http://tucsontoros.com/news/index.html?article_id=257

Star-divide

Other Diamondbacks News

[D-blog] Dbacks look at Allen in left He is going to have to throw much more often now, though he said the different length of the throw is negligible. "The main goal is to hit the cutoff man," he said. "It's a little different mechanically, but you still have a target hit which is not that far away. So you just get it to him. If you get a good angle on it, it will go all the way. If not, he can cut it and make the play."

[USAToday] Hudson happy to be wanted man "It was like I was back home seeing Justin (Upton) and Mark (Reynolds). Who would ever imagine that we would grow up together, and the three of us would end up on the same major league team?" Turns out he's also a golfer, like Enright.

[AZCentral] Webb's latest session not as good as the first "I was as wild as I've ever been. I had no clue where it was going... A lot of it was a timing issue, I think. I think I was quick. My arm was dragging around. Most of the balls were inside to righties, away to lefties. I couldn’t get it over there... Strikes is the main thing. I'm going to have to have a couple more miles an hour. I think I was around 82 last time. I think 84-85 would get the job done." 

Minor Leaguers

[VisaliaTimes] Rawhide closer to clinching wild-card berth "The Visalia Rawhide defeated the San Jose Giants 5-2 on Friday night in San Jose to move one step closer to clinching a playoff berth. The Rawhide lead Modesto, which defeated Inland Empire 4-0 on Friday, by two games in the California League North Division wild-card standings with three games left."

[SouthBendTribune] Scintillating Skaggs helps Hawks split "Skaggs has pitched in four games, boasting a 1.69 earned-run average (three runs in 16 innings), 13 hits, 20 strikeouts and four walks." That Haren trade is looking better by the day, I'd say...

Previews:

[BaseballReference] Norris VS Colonel

http://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2010/ARI201009040.shtml

[AZCentral] Hampton back in the Bigs, GM search updates from Nick. He has also written an article about The Injury, but I am sure that has already been posted.

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/NickPiecoro/97591

Around Base Ball:

[SignOnSanDiego] Sinking feeling has Padres fans unnerved "Disappointment kicked in early Friday night. By the fourth inning, with the Padres down 4-0, a smattering of boos broke out. And in the first game of a critical 10-game homestand, the attendance was a disappointing 21,877." A first-team place, on a Friday night, and they pull over 2,500 less than the last-place D-backs against another team out of contention? WTF, Padres fans? 

[HardballTimes] Is Ichiro a HOF? BattleMoses posed the question last night. I am inclined to say yes, he is. 

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/is-ichiro-heading-for-the-hall-of-fame-which-one/

[UmpBump] The girl who struck out Babe Ruth

http://umpbump.com/press/2008/05/20/the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth/

[MLB] Mandy is apologetic about the end of his Boston tenure. Says he is happy on his new team.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100903&content_id=14235532&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[MLB] Nygler Morgan "shocked" at 8 game suspension, the rest of the world? Not so much.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100903&content_id=14236028&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[CrawfishBoxes] Just something I  thought was interesting. The Last of the 1997 Astros (their first division champion team). We currently have one of them, Mike Hampton. Makes me wonder, are there any original Dbacks around? (other than Suppan) What about in the GBL?

http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2010/9/4/1669354/the-last-of-the-1997-astros

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we may need someone to take over Saturday's Bytes regularly...

I could throw my hat in the ring. I will make more of an effort to find Dbacks relevant stuff. This was pretty much a, “Hey, cool my connection is back * finds random links for 15 minutes *”

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 1:30 PM EDT reply actions  

You do know how to use

the clipping feature, right?

Things ’Skins has in common with foulpole for 400, please. -- soco

by snakecharmer on Sep 4, 2010 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah.

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

Other 1998 D-backs still active

Russ Springer appeared in a couple of games for the Reds early this season.

"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." -- Brian Stimpson

by Jim McLennan on Sep 4, 2010 1:38 PM EDT reply actions  

If necessary

I could probably do Saturdays. Haven’t had an issue with the internet lately…really the only issue would be whether or not I work on Saturday mornings (which is hardly ever)

I should have a mfin theme song.

by emilylovesthedbacks on Sep 4, 2010 1:44 PM EDT reply actions  

USAToday

Get to know: Diamondbacks’ Daniel Hudson happy to be wanted man

He [Hudson] also joined right fielder Justin Upton and third baseman Mark Reynolds, who, like himself, are from the Virginia Beach area. In fact, he and Upton were on the same Little League teams when they were ages 8 and 9.

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 3:09 PM EDT reply actions  

For the love of everything, what the heck?

David Wright, Ryan Zimmerman, B.J. Upton, Justin Upton, Michael Cuddyer, and Huddy are all from the same area. Guess there’s something in the water there.

My value over a replacement poster is approximately 10.5 runs.

by Wailord on Sep 4, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

link to the QA

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ok, someone explain this?

I was using that link thing for the first two tries. (the one in between the tree and quotation marks). That obviously did not work, and yet when I just threw the link into the body randomly, it posts it?

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

I see your issue

when you click the Hyperlink button, it generates the HTML for your link, but you have to type the text for what it’ll say. Por ejemplo:

<a href ="link_here">TEXT THE LINK WILL SAY</a>

would translate to

TEXT THE LINK WILL SAY (don’t click, link is broken)

When you leave the text it should say blank, it just won’t show up.

My value over a replacement poster is approximately 10.5 runs.

by Wailord on Sep 4, 2010 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

In other words

1) Type the text you want to appear as the link e.g. This is the link/
2) Highlight the text with your mouse.
3) Click the hyperlink button.
4) In the pop-up, paste the target for the link, and choose whether you want it to go into a new window.
5) Click Submit
It should wrap your text in the HTML mentioned bu Wailord.

"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." -- Brian Stimpson

by Jim McLennan on Sep 4, 2010 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Injury

Its only the third outing, but he should be beginning to get stronger, and it doesn’t sound like that’s happening yet. Wishing to reach ‘85’ isn’t exactly the stuff that Big League dreams are made of…

The Great and Mighty....

by NASCARbernet on Sep 4, 2010 7:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Unless

you are a knuckleballer, which Webb is not.

All Cubs fans are drunken assholes, but not all drunken assholes are Cubs fans.

-Dbacksskins

by justin1985 on Sep 4, 2010 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have no idea what's going to happen to The Injury

but it sounds like his agent is feeding nonsense into his head. Webb is going to have to prove that he can still pitch at the Big League level at this point. But there are so many pinheads in various major league front offices, I wouldn’t put it past somebody to give him an outrageous contract.

The Great and Mighty....

by NASCARbernet on Sep 4, 2010 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

richie sexson is The Injury

brandon webb gave the diamondbacks many wins, a cy young, an amazing scoreless inning streak, and a bit of post season.

who knows about webb’s next deal? seems to me a real risk to mark prior-and-out with his shoulder. maybe that’s the example he’s trying to avoid, where prior kept trying to pitch with it (too soon)?

The name of the team is ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS - "I tried to convince them that what they were doing was an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name"

by marionette on Sep 7, 2010 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Injury

is Webb. It was partially a typo on my part and also think about it? His injury pretty much meant we went from contenders to pretenders. I know there were a host of other factors, as well (in 2009)

Per Mare, Per Terras

by justin1985 on Sep 7, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

Game blacked out on MLB-TV

Well, I guess I’ll do some shopping or something else this evening. Ten bucks that the F.O. doesn’t want from us, apparently.

The Great and Mighty....

by NASCARbernet on Sep 4, 2010 7:50 PM EDT reply actions  

Thanks for the awesome Bytes Justin :),

I especially enjoyed the Augie articles. I talked to him last night after the game and I congratulated him on the sac fly from the other night. He was so ecstatic talking about that. He then said, “That was just what I needed. It’s been a rough season”. I couldn’t agree with him more.

"Be more concerned w/ character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are." ~ John Wooden

by Rockkstarr12 on Sep 5, 2010 1:36 PM EDT reply actions  

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