You guys can talk about RBIs if you want, I just … we ignore them in the front office … and I think we’ve built some pretty good offensive clubs.
---- Theo Epstein

...those same players also doused Adenhart’s jersey with beer on the field and in the clubhouse, a debatable choice given that the driver of the car that it the vehicle in which Adenhart and three friends were riding allegedly was drunk at the time of the accident.

Workout day. I run back in from the field to get sunglasses. Locker room completely empty except Ichiro stretching on the floor and his translator sitting on the chair beside him. Sow we make small talk, and I ask him where he lives in Seattle because I lived in the suburbs.

Well, I had barely got the last word out when Ichiro says something in Japanse. Then his translator turns to me, deadpanned and straight-faced and says, "I’m going to mess with your house." The way he said it was malicious, and Ichiro is on the floor dying laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. I was just like, "OK, I’ll see you guys out there." I didn’t know what to say. It was weird.

--Jason Bay, "Two Days I'll Never Forget"

CTR: Basically, you're having fun.

KG: Yeah, I always have fun. Our third baseman is out after getting hit in the nuts. When he comes back next week, his first at-bat, his theme music is going to be the Nutcracker Suite.

One of my colleagues pointed out the other day that actor Eli Roth, who plays a Nazi hunter that kills his targets by swinging at their heads with baseball bats in the Brad Pitt movie, Inglorious Basterds, got his inspiration from watching Edgar Martinez hit.

How lovely.

The NL East-leading Phillies are sending 46-year-old left-hander Jamie Moyer to the bullpen. Moyer leads the staff in wins with a 10-9 record, but his 5.47 ERA is third-worst in the majors.

It's your chance to get tickets to the USSM/LL get-together from 710. Call 206-726-7052 and leave a voice mail explaining why you are the biggest SABRNerd, and thus deserving.

Phone lines open until 8pmThursday.

Screw the Angels

"I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size."

"The defensive statistics - I still really don't understand how some of those statistics are evaluated, I really don't. When you watch baseball games every single day, its very apparent who can play defensively and who can't."