Grotewold wrote:SI/Fangraphs ranks Royals #7 team

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/b ... =hp_t13_a0

ReadingPhilly wrote:Jason bay went on the dl and my former classmate at alvernia, Zach lutz, got called up.

Soren wrote:That reminds me that I need to keep up with Darin Gorski

ReadingPhilly wrote:

Soren wrote:That reminds me that I need to keep up with Darin Gorski

Off to a good start in aa. One of my relatives is dating his cousin too.

Race & Sports Lecture with Bill White

FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC

THURSDAY, 4/26, 5:30pm, Huntsman Hall, G60 [Penn]

The Center for Africana Studies presents the

"Race & Sports Lecture"

Bill White, athlete, first baseman, National League President

Soren wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:

Soren wrote:That reminds me that I need to keep up with Darin Gorski

Off to a good start in aa. One of my relatives is dating his cousin too.

I wanna know if he's one of those college career AAAA types. I'd be pretty psyched if someone from KU made it to the show though

It's tough to express exactly how desperate Cam Bonifay was for arms that year [2001]. I'm going to give it a shot, though.

The Pirates had a pitcher in camp that spring named Balvino Galvez. He'd pitched 20 2/3 ML innings for the Dodgers as a 22-year-old in 1986, and had been out of affiliated ball since 1993. God only knows where they found him. It was reported that at least one scout saw Galvez's name on the roster that spring, remembered Galvez from the '80s (!), and assumed that he must've had a son who was also named Balvino Galvez who had signed with the Pirates, since original recipe Galvez had been out of circulation for so long that it was ludicrous to imagine that he was still playing. Anyway, he showed up in camp, a 38-year-old Dominican mystery man, and with the complete and utter lack of competition, he's actually in line to win a rotation spot.

So on the last day of camp, Galvez is doing a pickoff drill, and one of the coaches complains about his form, and they get into an argument, and there's much shouting and waving of arms, and Galvez throws down his glove, and walks off the mound, and walks out of the stadium, and catches a taxi to the airport, and is on a plane back to San Pedro de Macoris before the manager even realizes what the #### happened. And just like that, Galvez is gone, poof, like Keyser Sose, never to be seen again in organized baseball.

So, anyway, that's the story of how Joe Beimel made the Pirates' rotation at the start of 2001.

phdave wrote:Not the Ryan Howard fiasco.

bleh wrote:This is a couple weeks old but found a new ibanez.gif