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Geoff Young posted 4/1/2008 from ducksnorts.com [flag]

Recap of the Padres home opener against the Houston Astros. [link]

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So, Was It Good For You?
Published 4/1/2008 by Geoff Young at Knuckle Curve - Baseball News
... Ah, Opening Day. I hope you had as much fun as we did (full report at Ducksnorts). Beyond the thrill of a packed house at Petco Park watching Jake Peavy spin a shutout, here are a few items from Monday that caught my eye: ...

Links around the interwebs
Published 4/2/2008 by Gilbert at Obscure Sports Quarterly
... Texas fans are great: (hat-tip to Bruins Nation) A visit to Padres’ Opening Day and an economics lesson too. (Ducksnorts) The history of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” along with a video of Harry Caray. (Babes Love Baseball) Countdown celebrates its fifth anniversary this week, here’s remembering some of the show’s greatest moments. (Either Relevant or True) The new Dan Patrick Show is now six-months old. ( ...

Houston Astros: A Blueprint for Ruining a Franchise

BrianDaubach7 posted 4/1/2008 from www.dugoutcentral.com

Great article on the dumb moves the Astros made in order to go from the champions of Nation League in 2005 to the basement of that league today.

IGD: Padres vs Astros (31 Mar 08)

Peter@BaseballReflections posted 4/1/2008 from ducksnorts.com

Padres (0-0) vs Astros (0-0) Jake Peavy vs Roy Oswalt 7:05 p.m. PT Channel 4SD AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 184 MLB , B-R It’s beginning to look a lot like Opening Day. What better time to bust out an esoteric table: Jake Peavy: 2007 Starts by Percentage of Pitches for Strikes Str/Pit GS IP/GS H/9 HR/9 BB/9 K/9 ERA W-L RS/G RA/G Statistics are

Friday Links (28 Mar 08)

Peter@BaseballReflections posted 4/1/2008 from ducksnorts.com

Is it my imagination, or are these weekly link roundups becoming a tad unwieldy? Would it be better to do a link post every day or two (not as a substitute for my normal daily thing, but in addition to it)? Let me know what you think… Mike Bauman at Padres.com notes that Jake Peavy is working on his changeup (h/t LynchMob ), which could make him an even better pitcher. Better? Well,

Everybody Loves Tadahito

Peter@BaseballReflections posted 4/1/2008 from ducksnorts.com

Says here we’ve been “dot-com” for 6 years now. Cool. Anyway, I’m working on an interview with Tom Krasovic of the San Diego Union-Tribune (it’ll run on Monday), and one topic we discussed was potential surprises among Padres for 2008. The name that came up was new second baseman Tadahito Iguchi : Iguchi had some problems with a finger injury early last

Peavy and Oswalt arrested for brawling

Big League Stew found this 4/1/2008 on www.gaslampball.com

Seriously, Jake Peavy needs to pick his friends (and fights) a little better. According to TMZ.com, Roy Oswalt insulted Jake by referring to his Cy Young Award as a "fake", at which point they got into a fist fight after last night's game. Both ...

Peavy outpitches Oswalt as Padres win (AP)
Jake Peavy beat his buddy Roy Oswalt with his bat as well as his arm. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner hit an RBI single and a sacrifice fly, and pitched seven innings of three-hit ball to lead the San Diego Padres to a 4-0 win over the ...

Peavy, Padres defeat Astros 4-0
Jake Peavy beat his buddy Roy Oswalt with his bat as well as his arm.

Padres 4, Astros 0
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Jake Peavy beat his buddy Roy Oswalt with his bat as well as his arm.

Hu's on first? Fun facts from Opening Day
The day after Opening Day is a great time to look at the box scores. As Mighty Quinn pointed out last night in the Daily News office, “Hu’s hitting 1.000.” That’s Chin-Lung Hu of the Dodgers, who was 1-for-1 yesterday. I knew ...

A Start to MLB 2008: Take Me out to the Ball Game!
Opening day has finally arrived, and what a day it turned out to be. Three games could not be decided in nine innings and had to go into extras. Two games were not played because of weather, so the Yankees, Blue Jays, Rockies, and Cardinals will ...