Saturday, March 21, 2009

Awesome with a capital A

Pour some out for the late Vince Lascheid. PPG obit here.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Gorzelaaanny

Roster cuts send Gorzo to Indy to work on a more consistent delivery, Chuck Finder reports. Neil Walker also sent down due to the "ugly business side." As opposed to the even uglier baseball side?

The Branch Rickey Pirates

Steve Treder for THT strums the lyre about Branch Rickey's 1950-1951 Bucs.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Taking root

When I first settled in to read this John Perrotto story on the state of the minor-league system, I mis-read the title and thought the system was "talking rot."