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Thursday - January 25, 2007

Welcome to the 2007 season

My first "real" post of 2007. Sorry I haven't been more active 'round these parts but I just haven't had time to think about baseball. I've tried keeping up with the renovations and that's about all I've managed so far. I hope that doesn't speak to how the rest of the season will go. I will say, though, that with the closing of Rooster Andrews I don't know what I'm going to do about a scorebook. I really really like my Bibb-Falk scorebooks. And, I always got 'em at Rooster Andrews. Anyone out there know if someone else in town (or on the Internet) sells the same style? I think I'm on my last one. It's not a good omen. I'm just sayin'...

Anyway, I finally got my act together and whipped up my version of the 2007 schedule. I'll update that as the season goes along. You may notice that four more games have been moved to Round Rock (the UT-PanAm game and the Stanford series). Season ticket holders will not be charged admission to the 4 new games but it sounds like you'll have to pay for parking ($2) if you don't have a Longhorn Foundation parking permit. We will supposedly be back at Disch-Falk Field on February 20th. I would not count on that if I were you. There is more bad weather expected between now and then.

A couple of comments on teams we'll be seeing this year. San Diego will already have played 4 games by the time we see them to start our season. On the other hand, UT-Arlington won't have played any. Not surprisingly, Washington State will only have 3 games under their belt when they get here. Two new opponents this year: Miami (Ohio) and Winthrop. Hmmm...

Oh. And, about that San Diego series. The weather folks are predicting the coldest weather snap we've seen in over 10 years by the end of next week. They think the temperatures may get down into the teens. That San Diego series may not happen. At least, not all of it.

One last comment about the schedule: notice anything weird about May 12th? TBA? What??? I don't remember seeing any TBAs when I first saw the schedule in November. But, I did not make a copy of it at the time. So...who knows? Did someone cancel? Or did I just not notice? And, how can we be in the final week of January and not have a team on the schedule? It just seems odd.

In other news, there's a rather interesting media day transcript on the TexasSports.com site. Go read it. Then, come back.

'Back so soon? Interesting read, eh? Poor Jeff Ontiveros. You gotta feel for him. We don't have him to kick around anymore. So, what do we do? We kick him around! 'Gotta love it. Ah well. The news about the team being in such good physical shape is certainly nice to read. And, it's nice that the team seems to have a wealth of talent at the infield positions. I'm a bit perplexed at the fact that only three outfielders were mentioned. Nobody's pushing those guys for time in the outfield? Hmmm... And, finally: the pitching. No starting rotation. No surprise there. Texas never has a starting rotation this early in the year. Ever. We'll be lucky if they have a starting rotation down by April. Otherwise, it sounds like good news all around, right? Not so fast. What about Kenn Kasparek? He's not even mentioned by Augie? What's up with that? When I got through reading the article, I went back looking for his name. It's not there. So, then I checked the roster to make sure he's still listed. Yep. Maybe it was just an oversight. Maybe. It's got me a bit uneasy, though.

[UPDATE: My dad said he remembered reading something about Kenn not playing this year so I went looking and found a brief note saying he had Tommy John surgery so won't be playing this year. So, that explains that.]

And, so. There you have it. I probably won't make it to most of the games in Round Rock...certainly, none of the weekday games. And, I'll be out of town for the last game of the Oral Roberts Series and the first couple of Miami (Ohio) games. I hope to make it to most of the rest of the home games. Assuming my tickets ever get here. Another perplexing thing. Where are the tickets? Ah well...

Hook 'em!

Posted by Joanna at 10:03 PM