This is cool, the good old days (1986 spring training preview):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHESxqwxec

Yep, he was out. But good hustle by David. Can't believe Pronk couldn't advance!

Lyle! And just when Tex is about to come back.

Green Light! And Lyle proves that...

Girardi is a genius.

Jayson! And just when Derek was about to come back. [3] :-)

Yeah, walk Brett!

Okay, Rob, put the game away for us.

Ummmmmmm.

Huh?

Make 'em pay Vernon!

Joe M. IBBs the bases loaded... in the second inning!

You know Girardi is going to dig deeeeeeep into his binder tonight. Not to be outdone.

Rats.

It worked. Maddon is a genius.

Don't need no stinking Centaur.

Brettski!

So who the hell are you gonna bench?
Sorry, Ichiro.

Gritner! Get into the lousy Tampa bullpen early.

Gritty!

[15] Yo.
Did you see Hughesies 'Sanderson' joke, by the way? Thought of you, natch.

I did not! What was it? I am the son of a Sanders! : )

I know Ichi calls Derek 'Sanderson'!

I'm just taking a quick dinner break at the studio. Braves on the radio, checking on the Yanks...

Here's the joke.

Damn, Miguel Cabrera now has 57 rbi in 46 games. Watch out, Hack.

Nice, Lyle.
That's four innings.

I, uh.
I'm not superstitious, at all. But in case anyone else is, I'll just shut up.

Acha. It's a good thing I don't have a middle name!

Ouch.

[20] Yeah, that is good. Keeps you much safer.
I'm not enamored of mine.

Hey RI - word association... If I said "spectral clusters" to you, how would describe or define in simple layman terms. (Think: I need to dummy this down enough to where a drummer might possibly have the slightest outside sliver of a chance to comprehend.)

Thanks!

[18] I hope he keeps it up. Nice to have sports talk be about season long historic runs rather than off the field nonsense.

Actually, I've gotten in 'trouble' not having a middle name. I got clumped in with someone with my name and has a middle initial and it fucked up credit and shit. Went beyond that and was nightmarish. Total bollocks.

People I had to deal with couldn't fathom I didn't have a middle name. Yeah, parents don't like their middle names...or their first names. So my brother and I have short first names and no middle names.

Now, I do have a middle name in Hebrew. I was the first grandchild born, on either side, after the 2 remaining great grandparents died. My Hebrew first name is after my maternal great grandma and my middle name is after my paternal great grandpa.

[23] Oh, man. In the sense of machine learning? I know the math, but is it a music thing?

The basic idea is that you can 'cluster' data points, according to similarity in some respect. That's the gist of it. More?

rbi bb for J-Nix.

I'm loving it.

Walk him! IBB for Rob, please.

Another BB for Robbie?

Oooooh.
Not that way, man. Damn.

Boooooooo!

Uh.
I don't think so. It missed him, right?

Might have hit the bat, yeah.

Maybe we can get double-digits for thelarmis.

Oh, that would have been double-digits right there! Good stroke, Vern.

I can't see comment #'s on my iPhone...but, thanks RI. Maybe more some other time, really appreciate you. Not a music thing, but I am thinking about using that as a title for a new composition on my 4th cd! It's got time clusters in there and different colors, hence my title.

After I came up with it, I looked it up and thought: holy crap. Been meaning to ask you, but I haven't been around much. One of my private students is a math professor at GA Tech, but I keep forgetting to ask him, too...

Thanks again!

Ohhhhhhhh.

Well, David Phelps, it was an impressive start!

I want double digits!

And no injuries...

[37] Oh, interesting.

Okay, some other time I will say a little about the use in Artificial Intelligence, rather than the math, that should be more interesting and will give you a feel for what it's about.

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!

I'm surprised he wasn't the beat if the day today...

Very cool, RI! If you want, just email me directly. That's much easier! : )

Ok, back to work...

Later!

Yo gang. I've missed a blow out and Phelps. Go Irish! Did Granderson get plunked again or did he hurt his wrist some other way?

It's about time they imploded the tropicana dome. What a joke. And apparently Phelps doesn't like me watching him pitch.

[43] Plunked.

This ha-ha is just a he-he now.
[44] I have never been there, but I imagine a moldy smelling ugly concrete pile. I have been to the Kingdome before it was imploded, and that what it was.

[45] Cheers. I hope it's nothing. It makes me think of all the times Jeter was hit in the hands over the years. He always seemed to get lucky that nothing was ever broken.

When watching the game earlier, Flaherty was describing Maddon's unorthodox moves (during the IBB to Cano to load the bases) and made a comment about his "crazy shifts". With Flash's slight lisp, I swear it sounded like he said "his crazy shit".

I thought it was funny, thank you.

[47] Hm, you watching YES? It doesn't look like nothing. Dang, poor Curtis.

[49] It's a worry; and in the words of that other inimitable Curtis, I hope that "It's All Right" for him.

[46] Was in Seattle in 93-94 Kingdome was a shithole, warehouse baseball. But they did have Randy and Junior, plus an up and coming shortstop nicknamed A-Rod. Don't know what happened to him. Meanwhile, switch to the top of the ninth of the Tigers game.

[49] I tuned in late and havent's seen the replay. The booth seems to think the coaches are reacting negatively. For fuck's sake! Has Curtis even been back 6 games? Bollocks.

[52] Couldn't really tell from the replay, but yeah, I was talking about what Kenny and Flash were saying about how they read the coaches' expressions.

[51] The Detroit game is now on MLB for the top of the ninth.

Oh well, Mauer breaks up Sanchez' no hit bid with one out in the top of the ninth.

Mauer.

What's the word with Curtis?

Broken pinky finger.

From LoHud:

So much for the Yankees getting everyone healthy. Curtis Granderson had X-rays here at Tropicana Field and has fractured knuckle in his left pinky finger. He was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning.

Now Phelps?

This team is cursed.

Shit, broken pinky for Granderson. I guess that will allow Ichiro to work on his hitting.

I wonder how long a broken pinky will keep him out. And now; Phelps smashed by a liner to his arm.

Thanks cult.

Are you KIDDING me???

We need to wrap this team in bubble wrap, double thick.

[61] Cursed by first place.

[65] Cursed Granderson.

Anyone ever broken a pinkie finger? I sure haven't.

Farnsy! The Yankee batters better be extra careful.

Got to be six weeks for Grandy at least. Man, what a tough turn of events for him. That's really awful. And then Phelps gets pelted and has to leave the game.

What the hell is going on, man?

[67] Have had an incredibly uncoordinated guy fall on my right pinky toe in Aikido. Not much you can do about that but soldier on. It was broken, but I didn't even bother going to the doctor.

Hey, Krazy Karl!

[67] One of my kids did, the knuckle, like Curtis. (He punched our stairs in a fit of temper. We used to have a kind of Frequent Shopper program with the local orthopedist, because I have three sons.)

Nothing much to do about it, no cast or anything, obviously. A finger splint for maybe six weeks? Maybe less. I have no idea whether a hitter could hit before it was fully healed. Just guessing, the left pinky might be more important for a lefty hitter?

This is one night that I do not want to see Mo stir at all. Kelley needs to get through the ninth expeditiously. It's too dangerous there...

Shit. I have never broken anything as far as I know. Although I'm pretty sure I broke my pinkie toe when I jammed it on the bed post in the middle of the night. I saw stars and limped around for at least a month.

I wonder how many broken fingers Lou Gehrig played with during his consecutive game streak?

And that'll do it.

[74] 13.

Night all.