Best King Felix Post Yet 
Twins blogger Bat Girl on Twins pitcher Kyle Lohse's feelings during and after his start against Felix.
The new show is posted. We talk a lot about King Felix. As an experiment I'm also going to enclose the MP3 on this blog as well. Let me know what you think about this show.
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In-Depth Analysis of Felix's Start
The Twins blog Seth Speaks offered a fantastic analysis of Felix Hernandez's complete domination of his team last night.
| Hernandez was so dominant last night. He only had two 3 ball counts. Here is a quick look at the pitches he threw on each count: |
| FB CB CU |
| 0-0 22 5 2 |
| 0-1 6 3 5 |
| 0-2 2 3 1 |
| 1-0 6 2 0 |
| 1-1 5 3 2 |
| 1-2 4 3 1 |
| 2-1 6 0 0 |
| 2-2 4 3 1 |
| 3-2 2 0 0 |
| ... |
| I think that it is fair to say that Felix Hernandez met the hype last night. He appears to be the real deal. Sure, it was one game. Sure, it was against the Twins lineup. But not only did he put up strong numbers, but everything about the performance points to a potentially incredible future for the 19 year old. He has the low cap with his glove up to his face, a la Scott Erickson circa 1991. His motion is powerful and his arm is whip-like, however, his delivery and follow through are smooth. He throws a hard fastball that moves and appears heavy coming off hitters bats. His curveball is sharp and breaks a foot! His changeup is delivered with the same veracity of his fastball, yet flies to the plate 12-15 mph slower. Seattle fans don't have a lot to get excited about. However, the future of Felix Hernandez should make every Mariners' fan very happy! |
Great post with a lot of data.
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Two CasdraBlogs?
Now that the server move is done I turn my attention to my current blog situation. I have completely bought into the OPML Editor blogging tool. It's just instant blogging gratification. Currently OPML blogs have to be run off of the blogs.opml.org server. This is not a great situation since I have a lot of readers at my casdra.com/blog address. There is some good to it though as an interesting blogging community is developing on the OPML server which you can track at changes.opml.org.
I've decided to keep the two CasdraBlogs, WordPress CasdraBlog and OPML CasdraBlog, going in parallel. I'll keep blogging with the OPML tool and then move the posts to WordPress. But, there is not way I am doing that by hand. It did that for a week and it sucked! I've already got around 30 posts on the OPML CasdraBlog that are not on the WordPress version and I'm just can't face the prospect of moving them manually. So, I'm going to write an OPML blog -> WordPress script. Once that is done the two blogs should be in sync. In the mean time all new posts will be on the OPML CasdraBlog.
A couple of other notes. I am turning off comments on the WordPress CasdraBlog. I've lost the fight with comment spam there. I've got Haloscan comments set up on OPML CasdraBlog so we will see how that goes. Also, I've got two competing templates going on the two blogs. I really like the new one but that could be just because it's new. I'm not sure if I will make the two blogs look the same eventually or not. So, that's where it's at. I'll be on vacation next week so I don't think I'll get the script done for a bit but stay tuned.
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Long Live King Felix
Wow! Wow! Wow! I'm glad we waited until today to record our Mariners podcast. Now we can talk about The King! Felix Hernandez, the Mariners 19-year-old rockie pitcher, made his first home start last night and he did OK. All he did was throw eight innings of shutout ball to get his first win. Six of the eight innings were 1-2-3!!! Bringing a 98 MPH fastball matched with a devistating, knee-buckling curve and a, frankly, unfair change-up he made most of the Twins look silly. Felix is truly the bright spot to this terrible season - please don't get hurt!
casdra.com Mark V
Last night both both a sad and happy moment. In the Summer of 1999 I was getting ready to roll out the first of my games for the Palm OS, Cribbage Partner. I was really into web programming and I had decided that I could not stay with Active Server Pages because I did not want to be locked into Microsoft's platform. This lead me to research Linux and I had set up an old 386 machine in my house the Caldera OpenLinux. Also about this time we finally got DSL where I lived on Bainbridge Island. I went through speakeasy.net and got a static IP to run a server. Everything was in place for me to establish a domain and Shari and I came up with casdra.com a play on our daughter Casandra's name.
Four different machines in my rec room have been the casdra.com server up to now with the big change being when I switched everything over to Mac OS X. I had a lot of fun with it and developed a bunch of fun web apps including the baseball draft site. But it finally time for a change.
When I started podcasting I knew that my DSL up speed was not fast enough to host large sound files on my machine, so I bought the domain casdracast.com and purchased web hosting services from WestHost. I put the audio files and all images files on that server and linked to them. In the back of my mind I thought that eventually I would move casdra.com up to that server as well.
The time has come. We are going on vacation next week and we have to level the house in great condition since it's still on the market. That means the long ethernet cable going from the DSL modem upstairs, hanging down our stairs, to the wireless router downstairs has to come down. That combined with the hassle I predict for when we move just made it make sense to do the switch now.
And it looks like it worked! casdra.com and casdracast.com are now pointed at the same place. I don't have to worry about the power going out at home causing the server to go down. Or my two year old renaming folders :-). All of the web applications still work so really not that much is different. But it's still a little sad. casdra.com Mark V is a partition of some Linux box in some data center somewhere. Not quite a cool as my Mac mini but we do what we have to.
