Good morning!
Here are several go-to links that will make your Monday a bit more bearable:
- The A’s are off to a 1-3 start, but Yoenis Cespedes (a.k.a. “the Human Cespedes”) already has clocked three impressive home runs in his oh-so-brief MLB career. His second blast caught the attention of Jeff Sullivan at Lookout Landing, a Mariners blog.
I know that the Mariners looked good, and I know that there are encouraging Mariners things to talk about, but it’s Cespedes’ homer that I’m going to take away from this evening. The image of where that ball hit has been seared into whichever part of my brain would be the right place to sear an image. Probably the part that controls memory, which would explain why I can’t remember the name of that part of my brain. . . .
All home runs are impressive. The walls are far away. This home run was unusually impressive. The ball wasn’t still rising as it reached solid matter like one of the announcers suggested, but it came closer than most other home runs that I’ve seen. I saw a tweet from ESPN stats or something that calculated the distance as 462 feet. Maybe that’s right, and 462 feet is a whole lot of feet. I still don’t find it satisfying, though, so I choose to ignore it. As far as I’m concerned, this home run didn’t have a numerical distance. This home run is to be measured by how often you see it in your eyelids when you blink.
- Here’s another home-run related storyline: Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder rocked Josh Beckett on Saturday afternoon, as each Tiger slugger hit two dingers in normally pitcher-friendly Comerica Park.
- Big League Stew’s Kevin Kaduk examines the Bay Area coverage of Tim Lincecum’s unimpressive debut against the Diamondbacks.
- Ted Berg of Tedquarters takes a brief look at how Tommy Hanson’s curve ball gives Ike Davis fits.
- The Hardball Times’ Bruce Markusen uses the injury to Michael Pineda to recall Britt Burns’ career-ending hip injury.
- The Miami Herald’s Clark Spencer reports that Lance Berkman is no fan of the outfield dimensions of the Marlins’ new ballpark. The Cardinals first baseman believes that the fences will be brought in soon, perhaps as early as next year.
- The sale of the Dodgers from Frank McCourt to the Guggenheim group for some $2 billion is not without controversy. Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated has details.
Stephen Strasburg made his first-ever visit to Chicago a productive one.
That’s it, folks. Have a walk-off week!
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