1. A good example of what continues with
Jordany Valdespin happened after the Mets
Wednesday night win. “Team” mates decided to rip up one of Spins t-shirts,
which didn’t make him very happy. In fact, it made him very mad, but some of
his Latin buddies pulled him aside and told him this is the kind of things
“team” mates do after a win. A couple probably added ‘crecer’ to their
comments. Valdespin eventually came off his mountain and actually wore the
tattered t-shirt home. Showed up Thursday with plain t-shirt on. What a
head-case.
2. Look, let’s face it. The Mets minor
league teams sort of suck the big one right now. Buffalo is a long shot for a
playoff spot, the B-Mets are out, St. Lucie is not the team it was the first
half of the season, Savannah continues to try and hold on, and Kingsport is
from hunger. There are great players, but no great teams. The announced
attendance for Wednesday’s Savannah doubleheader was 1,426. The night before
was 563. Buffalo averages less than 4000. The hot summer hasn’t helped either.
It’s just a bad year for Mets minor league baseball.
3. Kingsport one ray of sunshine, LHSP
Steven Matz (photo by Allan Greene) , was removed from his start Wednesday night and will sit it out for
“awhile”. For now, they are calling it “soreness in the shoulder” and,
hopefully, that’s all it is. He’s been close to lights out this season for a
team that, simply put, doesn’t support their pitchers. Even so, you can’t shake
a stick at 23-Ks in his last 18-IP.
4. Origin of “shaking a stick at” - Its
recorded history began — at least, so far as the Oxford English Dictionary
knows — in the issue of the Lancaster Journal of Pennsylvania dated 5 August
1818: “We have in Lancaster as many Taverns as you can shake a stick at”.
Another early example is from Davy Crockett’s Tour to the North and Down East
of 1835: “This was a temperance house, and there was nothing to treat a friend
that was worth shaking a stick at”. A little later, in A Book of Vagaries by
James K Paulding of 1868, this appears: “The roistering barbecue fellow swore
he was equal to any man you could shake a stick at”… Jeez, I have too much time
on my hands…
5. Origin – “Too Much Time On My Hands” –
“Time Idioms” - To have too much time on your hands means that you have too
much free time and not enough things to do
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