the baseball diaries

Get up, stand up! Stand up for your rights!

OK, so maybe Lorii Hunter doesn't like Reggae, but he sure stood up today, helping the Angels take 3 out 4 from the Twinks. He homered in the 7th and Nipples homered right behind him to give the Angels the 5-4 win. Magic somehow only gave up 2 runs on 4 hits in 6 innings. Good, solid pitching, but I'll be convinced when I see this sort of stuff well into, say, 12 starts. Meanwhile, Vladdy went hitless, which sucks, while Mice Hair and GM Juicer added rbi's.

The Angels come back to Anacrime for a 6 game home stand versus Texas and Cleveland.

So what's with this rule that says base coaches can only stand in the "coaches box"? Everyone know that those are there only for show right? I understand that 1st base coach, Mike Coolbaugh, was killed last year, and maybe some things needed to be changed, but I would more likely say, that was a freak incident and confining the base coaches to the box is even MORE dangerous, because that limits their ability to avoid foul balls coming their way. What do you blokes think?

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