May 2012
4 posts
Blah blah blah and yada yada yada ...
I just realized that not only have I been remiss in writing and catching everyone up on everything — something I do plan to do very soon … but in doing so, anyone who happens to surf by my page sees a photo/gif (I think that’s the right techie term) of someone pouring sparkles on a very buff butt that is not my butt.
Maybe I need to add something new here … oh, and the...
Bryce Who? Debuts through April 29! →
The weekly debut column on display at http://www.MLBDepthCharts.com … and my usual irreverence.
Next week’s debuts will be a little late since Steph and I will be walking in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer THIS WEEKEND … you can still make a donation at http://tinyurl.com/winstoncups until Thursday night!
If you want to follow along with the fun from Thursday arrival (look...
April 2012
7 posts
The Door Is Open, April 23 Edition With Contest! →
For a week with only five Major League Debuts, I still managed to have some fun with the lede … AND this week we introduce a crazy little contest I came up with and MLBDepthCharts.com editor Jason Martinez was generous enough to not only be enthusiastic about but to ALSO offer a free six-month subscription to the site as a prize! Intrigued? And think you know enough about the guys in the...
So where are those gosh-darn MLB debuts? HERE!!! →
For those of you who don’t really care about my upcoming Avon Walk for Breast Cancer with my super-sister Stephanie, cute pictures of my dog Moxy and my grand-dog Rilo, amazing music by my daughter Dana (acoustic pop songwriter-singer extraordinaire) or husband Wayne (Brazilian jazz, and also his reviews of old movies) or anything else in my life like my love of all things pop culture but...
March 2012
6 posts
C.J. NITKOWSKI: Great Pitcher, Great Writer,... →
I first “met” veteran left-hander C.J. Nitkowski back in the days when there was a Baseball Weekly, as I wrote a feature about his involvement with this weird thing called “the internet” and how he would, when he wasn’t pitching, write stories (they’d probably now be called “blogs”) about baseball life.
If C.J. didn’t invent the Internet...
February 2012
8 posts
Getting back to my weekend plans ...
Yeah, I got kind of side-tracked there …
So people who know me KNOW I am a lazy lox who barely gets off my butt. But these last few weeks have inspired me to actually DO my training every week — 4 days of walking, 3 days of cross-training (in my case, Pilates which help my back and “core muscles” as they say).
I’ve found a wonderful team, Flower Power Empowered,...
Who Inspires Me?
If you are a newshound, right about now you are probably sick of reading about … well, without going into major detail or starting up any kind of political or philosophical kerfuffles, a certain foundation that is associated with breast cancer research, pink ribbons and annual Walks for the Cure.
So what I WILL say here is that that is NOT the group with which my upcoming AVON Walk for...
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
4 posts
Unlimited Texting
MOM: WHO GAVE GRANDMA A PHONE AND WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY GIVE HER UNLIMITED TEXTING?! oh god, how many have you gotten? i’m up to 18 in 8 minutes…
ME: i’m up to 25, dont complain…
November 2011
8 posts
25 TWEETS IN 25 DAYS: Day 12 BACKSTORY
A crazy-busy last few days filled with cooking, baking, eating, whining like a baby about indigestion, working crazy hours at my awesome part-time seasonal retail job (including the 5 a.m. Black Friday shift) and soaking my feet in equally awesome bubble baths – not to mention preparing for the upcoming Winter Meetings – has made this girl a little backed-up when it comes to going into more detail...
25 TWEETS IN 25 DAYS: Day 11
“I don’t know everything. I don’t pretend to either. But I do generally know where to find the answers. Better late than wrong.”
This is pretty self-explanatory, no?
But I’m often surprised by how many people, when asked a question people expect them to know the answer to (and they don’t), kind of blather on and on aimlessly, or simply state firmly and...
25 Tweets in 25 Days: Day 10
As a Rule 5 Draft geek (never Rule V, please note), today is one of my favorite days of the year: 40-man roster deadline.
I’ve mellowed a bit as the years have past. I used to kill a million trees (or so Jonathan Mayo told me) printing out rosters and constantly updating them and then re-printing them.
This time I’m doing it all online and will not print out the 40s until they...
25 TWEETS IN 25 DAYS: Day 9
In slightly expanded form here … (as in, more than 140 characters)
IMHO, the Winter Meetings “experience” can often be determined by two words: Hotel Lobby.
This is one reason I am so looking forward to this year’s event in Dallas which, along with the Sheraton in Anaheim, is one of the most “participant-friendly” set-ups in the expanded rotation. ...
THE QUEEN IS BACK!
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaack. Huzzah.
So, during the period that I could not seem to make my Tumblr work, I did launch a little project on Twitter which I am calling “25 Tweets in 25 Days.”
It’s, well, 25 tweets in 25 days (sure, I’m tweeting more often than that, but these Tweets are all specifically baseball-related).
I welcome comments and thoughts, either here or on my Twitter feed (see link to...
This Monday - Bar Lubitsch!
danawells:
Come on out to Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood on this Monday, November 7th, for some music, fun, and, of course, potato vodka! Or, you know, beer. Or soda. Whatever you want to drink, really, it’s up to you because the cover charge is only $5! Yes, you read that correctly! Five bucks for a whole night’s worth of music! I will be playing at 8pm for half an hour, and I hope to see you...
Tumblr is hard, said Teen Barbie
Due to a combination of factors … Tumblr apparently changing some of its technological stuff (yes, that is a big techie word — stuff) and my complete inability to figure out how to make corresponding edits, as evidenced by the unintentional new format of my blog here … as well as another big change in life/career/etc …
Queen of Diamonds is going on a brief hiatus.
Not...
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
8 posts
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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: THE LAST 2011 CALL
Well, that was certainly a dull and uneventful end to the first MLB season to end on a Wednesday. Yawn.
Okay, okay, this comes to you a little later than usual because of my waiting for the last day of the season (and I’d thought for awhile it might be even another day later as catcher Luis Exposito in Boston and shortstop Tyler Pastornicky in Atlanta waited to see if their services would be...
D A N A • W E L L S: SHOW TOMORROW NIGHT IN... →
danawells:
Come out to the POP Champagne and Dessert Bar (come on, isn’t the name enough to make you want to go?) in Old Town Pasadena to see me play alongside three other singer/songwriters in a round! For those who don’t know, a “songwriter round” is when three or more singer/songwriters take turns playing…
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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: SEPT. CALL-UPS THRU SEPT....
DISCLAIMER: The blog you are about to read is pretty much true. Some exaggeration has been inserted for alleged humor. The DEBUTS are factual, however. I may occasionally insert my own commentary but they are not exaggerated.
So, the other day my husband asked me “Why do you waste so much time on these debuts?” He was confused and perplexed. Or perplexed and confused. And I could sort of...
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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: SEPT. CALL-UPS THRU SEPT....
Aaaaaaand … here we are with M-Z! JORDAN PACHECO C, Colorado Rockies B/T: R/R H/W: 6-1/190 BORN: Jan. 30, 1986 ACQUIRED: Selected in the ninth round of 2007 out of the University of New Mexico PROMOTED: Recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs Sept. 6 when rosters expanded DEBUT: Sept. 6 in an 8-3 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks: The starting third baseman, he batted eighth and...
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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: SEPT. CALL-UPS THRU SEPT....
I have never been so glad that the Interwebz doesn’t have a space limit.
On Monday morning, I filed Diamonds in the Rough to cover the first weekend of September call-ups, a column which covered the debuts of 20 players.
By Wednesday morning, the new list of players who had been called up since then — what I call my “follow list” — was already at 28 players. 29, if you count...
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DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH: SEPTEMBER CALLUP EDITION,...
The first week of September: It is a time that tries the soul of those who write up Major League debuts. Fortunately, there aren’t a whole lot of us. So apologies in advance to any players (or their families/loved ones) who feel they may have gotten short shrift in this column since, due to sheer volume, I’ve had to trim down some of my usual loquaciousness.
So without further ado, let’s take...
Dana in La La Land
danawells:
I took this picture earlier tonight when I went grocery shopping. This is easily the most ominous weather I’ve seen since moving to L.A., and on the way back from Whole Foods, I saw a flash of lightning. Still, no rain. After living in Boston for three years, the consistency of this biome is staggering.