[2Trievers]

Look what I found! Our own BluesDuke ... doing what he does best! Writing about baseball. &;-)

[Charles Henrickson]

So our own BluesDuke has had his secret identity revealed? He's really named, Jeff "You Make the" Kallman?

I am sworn to secrecy.

[Charles Henrickson]

Kim pitched in nine games for 9 2/3 innings of work and a 0.93 earned run average

My first thought: Not enough innings to make a true evaluation.

Remember, the Cardinals' Eli Marrero started the season 11 for 15. Lately, though, he's been 0 for 26.

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . build the Twins a new ballpark with his own financing and not a nickel's worth of taxpayer money.

I lived in the Twin Cities for a few years in the mid-'80s. The Twins can make a healthy go of it if two things happen:

1. A retractable roof stadium. If ever there was a franchise that needs one, it's the Twins. It's too cold in April and September-October to have an open-air stadium, but the fully-enclosed Metrodome is a depressing mausoleum. (BTW, Miller Park in Milwaukee looks like it's a poorly done retracter: The roof creaks and leaks!)

2. Enough payroll to field a decent team consistently.

[NYCVirago]

You might want to see this thread...

[Dan from Michigan]

BTTT

[BluesDuke]

Flattery will get you everywhere... ;)

Report from Dodger Stadium: The ballpark is everything it's cracked up to be for comfort and convenience. Unfortunately, the Dodgers weren't, not tonight - they got shut out, 3-0, by the Cubs (Mark Bellhorn went yard, the Cubs otherwise played little ball), Kevin Brown seeming to lose a little after he plunked Cub starter Matt Clement on the right bicep in the top of the fifth - while Clement had a no-hitter in the works. (Three more Cub pitchers - Ron Mahay, Joe Borowski, and Antonio Alfonseca - combined to make it a four-hitter.) Clement did stay to run the bases and eventually scored one of two runs on a Bellhorn single (Delino DeShields scored behind him). On the other hand, that was one hell of a postgame fireworks show...