I have to admit, I got chills when I saw the replay of Fukudome’s rocket off the arm of Gagne. Gagne may not last the seven week demarcation line I set a few weeks ago.

I slept 4 1/2 hours, waking up at 5:30 am to catch the tail end of the Reds 4-2 loss. Lovely. I subscribed to MLB.com last night, and much to my non-surprise, even the cheapest, crappiest version they offer still uses a ton of memory on my computer. Broadband is everywhere in Korea and still MLB.com ravages my system. I cannot fathom subscribing to MLB.com in the United States. Furthermore, they dropped the condensed game option. I feel a little bit like a hostage.

When I saw the Giants/Dodgers score I imagined myself in the Bay Area listening to KNBR, hearing Jon Miller rationalizing during the post-game show that “Giants fans just might just have to get used to this…”

Last year I tried to change my MLB.com service from Premium to Regular because my computer could barely handle the 800KB screen. I emailed them twice and never heard back. Then my VISA card expired and they had to terminate my contract in July. I resigned up at the cheaper rate. Karma, bitches.

Today my last fantasy draft ended. It was a slow draft for the Kingman league with people from Yahoo!, ESPN.com, the Deadspin owner, and Jackson. It turned into a reality showesque fracas with people getting angry, sounding off in the chat, and at one point, arguing about my attempt to draft Koji Uehara as a keeper for next year. As it turned out I was wrong. Yes, I was one of the angry ones and regretted it.  

I tuned into the Padres/Astros game and saw that Roy Oswalt had given up 11 hits in less than five innings. He really fell in every fantasy draft I did this year. He may be in severe decline.

The Reds all wore Joe Nuxhall uniforms prior to the start of today’s game. Sorry, but it struck me as a bit over the top. A kind of greedy mourning. Not greedy in the fiscal sense, but in the grandma-fake-jewelry sense. Or in the all-you-can-eat-ballpark-food-section sense. What? Twenty-five Joe Nuxhalls? What a fitting tribute.

Tonight a player my boss had been scouting (and thus, me too) signed a bad offer with another team. I’m still pretty new at this, but I was still disappointed and a little indignant. I suppose that’s good on some level.

Back to me waking up at 5:30 am to watch the Reds lose — I remember reading some complaints of some writers in the US, whining that they had to do the same to watch the Boston/Oakland opener last week. Welcome to my world. Do people even remember those games last week? Didn’t think so Mr. Sayonara Tradition.

Corey Patterson was 0-for-4 with three Ks. Reds fans must be resisting the inclination to overreact. It’ll come. There have been too many sabermetric penned proposed lineups with Joey Votto leading off and Jay Bruce batting cleanup for it not to happen. Those guys are laying in wait for Baker.

Tonight Lotte won it’s third straight, beating SK 8-4. I’m in the process of getting an interview with Jerry Royster. It’s waaaay to early, but there’s already an inkling of potential for something very special to happen.

As I mentioned a couple posts before; with three Koreans playing in Japan there will occasionally be nights with six baseball games on every night. Tonight there were five. MLB.com would never allow that happen.

Part of me wonders if Barry Zito has lost interest in baseball. I don’t mean that in a terrible, “he’s a fink!”, take-the-money-and-run kind of way. He just strikes me as the kind of person who might undergo a radical change in perspective in his late 20s. Totally normal. It just happens to be under a big microscope.

I’m looking forward to Wang’s start tomorrow. What does it say about the pitching staffs of the Marlins, Rockies and Rangers that they’re throwing Rick VandenHurk, Kip Wells and Vicente Padilla, respectively? Is it because those three happen to have three of the best sounding names in baseball? If it is, then I competley understand.