Santa Monica Cars
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Satiating your hunger for art cars: a collection from Santa Monica
Satiating your hunger for art cars: a collection from Santa Monica
Jere’s quiz of the day: Who said “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is,” in 1999?
You know about Brad Lidge and Aaron Heilman in the majors right now. Jeff Samardzija earned the headlines with his decision to play baseball instead of football. But keep an eye on Jeff Manship (Class of 2006), currently at Beloit (low-A) in the Minnesota organization. Twins pro-blogger Aaron Gleeman says:
Perhaps even more so than Slowey’s fantastic start at Triple-A, No. 12 prospect Jeff Manship’s first month at low Single-A sticks out as the organization’s best April performance. Manship posted a 0.84 ERA, 36-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio, and .147 opponent’s batting average in 32 innings spread over five starts. Equally as impressive, he had a 4.6-to-1 ground ball-to-fly ball ratio, which sticks out like a sore thumb in the Twins’ fly-ball heavy system and is a tremendous indicator for future success. [link]
Manship’s ND bio from 2006 and pro stats from MiLB.com
70% of Americans don’t know what plastic is made of. Do you?
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A few thoughts in retrospect of the Decemberists show a couple weeks ago: