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Friday, March 28, 2008
Braves’ AAA team should honor history
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: (Value to be determined by you, one item at a time.)
• Don’t say I’m not persistent, or even annoying. But it was suggested here awhile ago that, to do honor to the old denizens of Ponce de Leon Park, it might be a good marketing ploy to call our new Braves AAA team the Gwinnett Crackers. How now?
• Now here is one you rarely ever hear of, if ever: When LSU loses its projected QB-to-be, Ryan Perrilloux, he might be succeeded by a transfer from Harvard. A transfer from Harvard! Now that really reshuffles the academics world.
• All right, Dogwood Farm’s two Kentucky Derby candidates go back to work shortly. Atoned, second by a neck in the Tampa Bay Derby, takes his race to the Illinois Derby, and Blackberry Road goes to the gate in the Arkansas Derby. Both could use a bump in earnings to be assured of a place in the gate in Louisville, but Atoned would appear to be safely in.
• And speaking of the “Kentucky Derby, presented by Yum Brands,” that’s the preferred name, as ridiculous as it sounds. Offhand, I’d say the Kentucky Derby is able to travel on without any boost from “Yum.”
• Joe West, the umpire who sings and strums, may have hit it big in his country-music career. He’s out with a new CD, “Diamond Dreams,” and they say that “Cowboy Joe” may have turned up the sound of his second career with this one. He’s always got balls and strikes to fall back on.
• How do they get off calling these imported Japanese players “rookies”? They all have several seasons’ experience in their major league. The Red Sox rage, Daisuke Matsuzaka, for instance, is 27 years old, was a 17-game winner with a 2.13 earned-run average with Seibu the season before landing here, hardly the numbers of a “rookie.”
• Just a wild guess or three about some Braves: Scott Thorman is being put on display for marketing; Jordan Schafer, “center fielder of the future,” was sent down early to get his cockiness in hand; and you might not go too far wrong guessing that Gregor Blanco, the Venezuelan, would get as much playing time as Mark Kotsay down the road.
• When Jake Peavy got the start in the baseball All-Star Game last July, half the population of his hometown, Semmes, Ala., flew out for the show. They got to see one inning of him.
• One editor I’ve just read says that there will be no more “Tiger Lurking” headlines in his paper, unless it’s a real tiger. “I can’t take another 20 years of ‘Tiger Lurking’ headlines in my paper.”
• Let’s see, “Dim-uh-troff,” “DIM-uh-troff,” or “Duh-ME-troff,” which would you prefer for the Falcons’ new GM? I’d say “Duh-ME-troff,” sounds truer Slavic. … Selah.
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