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Lids’ Twisted Collection

I got the word from Lance ear­lier this week about Lids Twisted col­lec­tion of hats. It’s mostly for MLB teams which have “twisted” color-schemes. For exam­ple, a NY Yan­kees’ cap but with Boster Red Sox col­ors. But yeah, pretty cool col­lec­tion. I was think­ing of get­ting one from them. It might be the only way to show some Dodger-blue pride if I do decide to watch another Giants game. So which one do you think will do from the following?

LA Dodgers logo on SF Giants orange and black

or

SF Giants logo on white and blue

Pitcher Gets Hit by a Foul Ball?

So I just got home from a flight from SWA—I’m in LA now. As I’m try­ing to setup my Fan­tasy Base­ball lineup for Sat­ur­day, I came across one of my pitch­ers’ news tid­bit. It was for Ger­mano; a Padres pitcher. Keep in mind, I haven’t seen ESPN or any sports news yet…

Jun 8 San Diego Padres SP Justin Ger­mano (knee) was hit near his left knee by a foul ball off the bat of OF Hiram Bocachica in the third inning, Fri­day, June 8, against the Seat­tle Mariners, accord­ing to the Asso­ci­ated Press. After sac­ri­fic­ing Bocachica along, Ger­mano went into the club­house, although he ended up stay­ing in the game through five innings.

After read­ing this, the first thing that came across my mind was that the ball mag­i­cally turned into a heat-seeking sidewinder. Yeah—exactly. How the heck did this hap­pen, or even how the heck could it happen?

I mean, your on the mound, and you get hit by a “foul ball”?!?!

Damn. I just need to watch Sports Center.

Update: 5 min­utes later. While try­ing to win some dough on Blingo, I searched for “Hiram Bocachica”. http://www.hirambocachica.com/ … Oh. HA! =) Maybe the writer of that snip­pet should’ve spec­i­fied it was his own damn team­mate. Just maybe. I mean come on, not every­one knows every teams’ players.

April Comes with the Shows to Watch

April is here. Jackie Robinson’s 60th Anniver­sary Trib­ute is being cel­e­brated through­out the MLB, and a bunch of shows have just (re)released:

Drive might be great watch as the cre­ator of this show is the same one that did SciFi channel’s Fire­fly. That, and it stars lead actor Nathan Fil­lion—Capt. Mal Reynolds from the Fire­fly series. Should be some great well spent TV time to get a break, and some Design ideas from.

R.I.P. Cory Lidle

This was just shock­ing to see. I was out at lunch vis­it­ing Wells Fargo when CNN came on regard­ing it. At first, I thought it was just a nor­mal plane crash; after, of course, CNN stat­ing that it wasn’t a ter­ror­ist attack of any kind. Then, they updated with the head­line that the plane was reg­is­tered to Cory Lidle, the NY Yan­kees pitcher.

It’s just sad to hear that he was the pilot.

R.I.P. Cory.

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