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Two months in a day
Things we learned in April:
After the first homestand at new Yankee Stadium, it looked like that Ruth guy really would have liked the way the place was built, perfect for his trademark waddle around the bases.
Emilio Bonifacio: Always fun to say, and can be fun to watch, too. (Can’t? Cantu. That did NOT just happen.)
Life’s not fair, and sometimes it just sucks. R.I.P., Nick Adenhart and his friends.
Zack Greinke didn’t get a lot of work in this Spring Training on the whole “giving up earned runs” thing. Just doesn’t have it down yet.
Who needs the Big Apple? A-Rod can make plenty of news while recovering in Vail and taking grounders in Tampa.
Things we’ll learn in May:
Are the Royals for real? The Jays? The Marlins? The Grind’s obsession with Emilio Bonifacio?
Whether Big Papi, kept in the “yahd” all of April, will ever hit another homer again.
If Mannywood, CA 90090 is the address of the early favorite in the National League.
What Albert Pujols will do for an encore to a typically amazing April.
Just how close this comes to the joy Alex Rodriguez felt when someone perhaps once said to him: “Someday, my boy, someone will write a book about you.”
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Calendar pages,
Flip to May, and toss April –
Aim for October
Two weeks in a day
What we learned last week:
Baseball connects us all to many great things, and it connects us all to the horribly tragic sometimes as well.
Junior, it’s like you never left, there you go trotting around the bases for the Mariners.
One of the first teams to five wins — the . . . Padres? No offense, but what in the name of Nate Colbert is going on here?
Albert Pujols is a good hitter. He hits baseballs very hard. Oh, we knew that.
Even if you’re not a fan of the Marlins or of a certain leadoff hitter named Emilio, there’s not too many things as fun to say as . . . Bonifacio!
What we will learn this week:
Just how different Citi Field is from Shea Stadium as a home ballpark, starting with “oh, a whole lot” and going from there. And then, how games will look being played in a Yankee Stadium that’s across the street from the truly hallowed ground.
How Ichiro and Junior look in the same outfield.
Once again just how much Jackie Robinson means not only to baseball but really to the world, some 62 years later.
Exactly how many swings and exactly how many ground balls and exactly how many fill-in-the-blanks Alex Rodriguez does in each workout in Tampa.
Which teams are really on to something, and which ones were toying with us early.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Calling time, step out,
Watch out, here’s an April buzz –
Angels-Sox: rivals
T time
Tony Gwynn said it every year. Paraphrasing:
Don’t talk to me about who shows up on Opening Day. Talk to me about who shows up the next day.
And the third. And so on. And he was right.
Opening Day winds up being populated by a lot of people you won’t see more than once or twice the rest of the year. They’re there for the event.
The folks who come back the next day and the day after that realize the event isn’t just Opening Day but everything that follows Opening Day, too. The marathon is the event. The miraculous comeback in May is the event. The blowout in August is the event. The whole thing is the event.
Opening Day is just like the birthday party.
So who showed up after Opening Day?
Brandon Inge did. Nick Markakis did. And Bonifacio! — Emilio did, two multi-hit games after his four-hit opener. Brad Lidge did, keeping his streak alive with another save to start off another season.
Miguel Cabrera and Josh Beckett did, although that’s sort of cheating saying Beckett since his was really an Opening Day start, delayed by a day. Cabrera didn’t get cheated at all with his two-homer game Wednesday.
Lots of guys showed up after Opening Day. Actually, they all showed up, and that was the point. Even if they didn’t do anything in any of these games, they show up trying to do something tomorrow. And keep on keeping on till there’s nothing left in October.
That’s what the Grind’s all about.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Troy Tulowitzki,
Could this be a springtime sign?
Back to potential
OD A to Z
Opening Day, by the letters:
And away we go . . .
Bonifacio! Simply Bonifacio!
CC? Not even so-so.
Don’t Mess with Texas.
Eight homers with the roof closed. That’s enough, Chase.
Felix Hernandez, keep pitching like this and you’ll earn the King nickname.
Griffey. Mariners. Homer. Woo-hoo.
Hiroki Kuroda: A stealth ace, and the best Japanese starter this side of Dice-K.
Inside-the-park homers are fun. Just ask . . . Bonifacio!
Johan Santana looks like he’s got it going on, as usual, with the win.
K-Rod made sure of it.
Lee’s numbers fell off the Cliff pretty quick, eh?
Manny didn’t do much, didn’t have to.
New York, Eww York.
Orioles have some talent.
Pirates undefeated, Phillies winless.
Quentin and the rest of the White Sox will be back in action Tuesday.
Rays-Red Sox still on tap for Tuesday, too.
Steals are back in vogue — at least if Bonifacio! has anything to do with it.
Teixeira didn’t have much of a homecoming in Baltimore.
Unbelievable: Tony Clark and Felipe Lopez (?!??!!!) both homer from both sides of the plate.
Verlander. Seriously. What happened?
Webb didn’t feel too good after his first start, not good news for the snakes.
X Nady got himself an RBI ground-rule double, plus his name starts with X so he always gets in the A to Z things.
Yawkey Way will be hopping Tuesday, won’t it?
Z, Big. He was.
Yakyu Haiku
That’s the American tradition of baseball in Japanese, and here’s an Americanized version of a Japanese tradition:
Think back, oh Junior,
Back to the springtime of youth –
Once a star, always
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