A Classic Blog Entry

(Note: I wrote this yesterday, but Blogger went down for repairs and I could not post until today.)

This entry is sort of blog-like.

Most blogs are a compendium of links to various web sites that interest the blogger, who will create a link and make some kind of comment on the item of interest. What makes the medium so current is that the software allows you to open your blog, link to what you want, make a comment and post it on the web instantly and easily. So if you look at most blogs out there, they tend to be lots of short bursts of information, generally provided by someone else.

This has never interested me. I want to be an original content provider. This blog tends to be a series of longer items, more like newspaper columns than blog entries. But once in a while I’m going to see something out there that speaks mostly for itself. Here is one of those items.

I got this information from Larry.Net. You can’t find Larry.Net on the web anywhere. Some of us are lucky to be connected to Larry.Net. Larry.Net is the boss of the Falkuhns updating us on the state of our and his world via telephone. It’s damned entertaining, because Larry’s one of the funniest guys in the universe. It’s a little less entertaining for Mark and me during the first couple of weeks of April, but for the most part we enjoy our lifetime subscriptions to Larry.Net.

Today I logged on to Larry.Net. We shared a couple of phone calls and I got a couple of messages from him. The focus was the way Felipe Alou overpitched Jason Schmidt. He had a problem arm in the off-season, but he started off the season well while being restricted to about 100 pitches per outing. Until a couple of weeks ago, when Felipe let him throw 131 pitches. He hasn’t been the same since.

And today, according to Larry.Net and apparently now the rest of the web, Jason Schmidt was put on the DL.

Maybe we need to look a little deeper into how tight those baseballs are being wound this year. This is the current conspiracy theory being advanced on Larry.Net as you read this.