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Random Thoughts While Being Annoyed and Delighted by... I have three Twitter accounts -- one personal, one for this blog and one for work. I use each to follow different people with very few overlaps between accounts. For instance, the account for this blog...
Random Thoughts While Pondering Jose Reyes As A Marlin Cubs fans are tortured, having in almost every case never seen their team win a World Series. It's been 103 years since the Cubbies won a title in 1908, so their fans deserve some good fortune. Same for...
The View From My Perch: Wisconsin-UNC Disclaimer: I'm a tried and true UNC fan, so realize that I'm writing this with blue heaven running through my veins.
9:30 p.m. ET start times are ridiculous for a game played on the East Coast. This...
Random Thoughts While Pondering The Meaning of Meatloaf
If Vince Young was a pitcher, he'd be Oliver Perez.
Why do deli clerks never zip up the Zip-Loc bags they put your lunch meat in? I don't remember asking for a half-pound of E. coli.
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Trapping Monkeys That title kinda sounds like a band name, but it's what someone appeared to be doing on campus recently. Check it out.
Random Thoughts While Being Annoyed and Delighted by Twitter
By Randy | Posted on 21-12-2011
I have three Twitter accounts — one personal, one for this blog and one for work. I use each to follow different people with very few overlaps between accounts. For instance, the account for this blog — @60feetsixinches — is used exclusively to follow MLB beat writers and other baseball news outlets. My personal account — @RS17TIMES — follows friends, various sports entities (especially UNC) and a very few celebrities. And my work account follows work-related tweeters. What's...
Random Thoughts While Pondering Jose Reyes As A Marlin
By Randy | Posted on 06-12-2011
Cubs fans are tortured, having in almost every case never seen their team win a World Series. It’s been 103 years since the Cubbies won a title in 1908, so their fans deserve some good fortune. Same for fans of other — albeit younger — franchises that have never won. But Mets fans share a rare pain that few baseball fans have experienced. In the past 34 years, they’ve seen three unquestioned homegrown superstars leave their big-market team for greener (re: more $$) pastures,...
The View From My Perch: Wisconsin-UNC
By Randy | Posted on 01-12-2011
Disclaimer: I’m a tried and true UNC fan, so realize that I’m writing this with blue heaven running through my veins. 9:30 p.m. ET start times are ridiculous for a game played on the East Coast. This was a quick game, the first half particularly, and ended at 11:30 p.m. Any number of circumstances could’ve pushed it to midnight or beyond. This isn’t the World Series; it’s a November college hoops game. Start at 9 at the latest, please. Roy Williams can't be happy...
Random Thoughts While Pondering The Meaning of Meatloaf
By Randy | Posted on 28-11-2011
If Vince Young was a pitcher, he’d be Oliver Perez. Why do deli clerks never zip up the Zip-Loc bags they put your lunch meat in? I don’t remember asking for a half-pound of E. coli. Michelle Lissel of the Fox Soccer Report Michelle Lissel of the Fox Soccer Report is smokin’ hot! Does the NBA really think that families who have had to cut back their Christmas spending over the past 4-5 years will be excited to watch the return of overpaid athletes who fought over money on television...
Trapping Monkeys
By Randy | Posted on 27-11-2011
That title kinda sounds like a band name, but it’s what someone appeared to be doing on campus recently. Check it out.
Welcome to the new 60feet-6inches.com!
By Randy | Posted on 27-11-2011
After months of inactivity on this blog, I’ve finally gotten around to a redesign (still in the process!) and refocusing what the site is. After struggling to write multiple daily baseball-related posts with info and analysis, I just couldn’t keep up. With a new job (assistant sports information director at The University of Scranton), I just don’t have time to write each morning and evening. Plus, now that I’m not working at an entertainment publication, I’ve been craving...
July 30 in pitching history: J.R. Richard suffers career-ending stroke
By Randy | Posted on 30-07-2011
A look at notable pitching moments that happened on this day in baseball history … 1933 — Cardinals righty Dizzy Dean sets a then-modern day record by striking out 17 in a victory over the Cubs. Astros righty J.R. Richard suffered a stroke and had a life-threatening blood clot removed from his neck on July 30, 1980. It would end his once promising career. 1955 — The Yankees trade 37-year-old Ed Lopat, who won 113 games in eight seasons for the Bombers, to Baltimore for pitcher...
Daily preview: Lester leads Red Sox into Chicago
By Randy | Posted on 30-07-2011
What to watch Saturday, July 30 Best matchup: Red Sox LHP Jon Lester (10-4, 3.23) vs. White Sox RHP Philip Humber (8-6, 3.27), 7:10 p.m. ET Lester has made just one start since July 5 after spending time on the DL. In that start on Monday, he held the Royals to a run on seven hits while striking out six in 5.1 innings. Since posting a 5.50 ERA in May, Lester has allowed just 10 earned runs in his last 44.1 innings for a 2.03 ERA over that span. He lost to the White Sox on May 30, allowing seven...
July 29 in pitching history: Phils make big deadline deals in recent years
By Randy | Posted on 29-07-2011
A look at notable pitching moments that happened on this day in baseball history … The Phillies acquired Cliff Lee on July 29, 2009, from the Indians. They traded him away the following offseason, but signed him as a free agent after the 2010 season. 1908 — Browns ace Rube Waddell fans 16 in a 5-4 win over the A’s. 1911 — Boston Red Sox pitcher “Smokey” Joe Wood tosses a no-hitter in a 5-0 win over the St. Louis Browns. 1988 — The Orioles trade pitcher...
Daily preview: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
By Randy | Posted on 29-07-2011
What to watch Friday, July 29 Best matchup: Pirates RHP Charlie Morton (8-5, 3.69) vs. Phillies RHP Roy Halladay (12-4, 2.55), 7:05 p.m. ET This matchup will look like identical pitchers in different uniforms on the mound. Morton revamped his mechanics over the winter and — intentionally or not — his motion looks an awful lot like Halladay’s now, so much so that the MLB Network showed side-by-side video earlier this year that looked almost like a perfect match. Morton has been...
