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March 29, 2005

BASEBALL!!!!

Okay all you new SCO readers, baseball season is right around the corner and if I don't get www.rickbrady.net up and running soon, I will take over this blog with posts about the Texas Rangers.

My cousin, Rod Barajas, is their catcher. Here's a great little story announcing that Rod will get the starting honors April 5 against the Angels. Rod walked-on to the Arizona Diamondbacks and played his first pro season in 1999. He had a so-so career until last year when his bat got hot and he earned the respect of the Texas pitching staff. Rod's hitting .385 in pre-season, so let's hope he can carry some of that flare into April!

Oh. I have another cousin that plays with the Giants - Noah Lowry. But, I don't recall ever meeting him. I'm told that I have, when I was younger, but I'm an old guy (28) and that was a long time ago. Besides, I don't really like the Giants. :-)

Posted by Rick at March 29, 2005 02:34 AM

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I'd like to get excited, but as baseball games now last sixteen hours or so I don't plan to watch any.

Posted by: John at March 29, 2005 08:55 AM

Is Texas a major league team? I can never remember.

Posted by: Mark Sides at March 29, 2005 09:03 AM

I'm counting the days until opening day....

Posted by: Daddypundit at March 29, 2005 09:58 AM

I'm counting the days until the third division title in a row and a hopefully longer post-season. (If I can't goad Rick into reacting perhaps I can get Tom to do so.) Go TWINS!

Posted by: Mark Sides at March 29, 2005 12:49 PM

Okay, Mark. How about this: Rangers will win 95+ games this year if Rod stays healthy and is not traded (unless of course he is traded for Mike Witt - then 95+ games is a shoe-in). The Twins will win 90+ wins if they get Kirby Puckett back in the lineup.

When is the first Rangers-Twins match? Perhaps we could live-blog the play-by-play!

Posted by: Rick Brady at March 29, 2005 03:46 PM

The Twins, who may have the best pitching rotation in baseball, will win 90+ games, no doubt about it. I suspect the Rangers will not. I will be happy to live blog the first game with you. I'll understand if you want to drop out after the 7th inning or so.

Posted by: Mark Sides at March 29, 2005 04:34 PM