All Things Bubba

Not only was yesterday's Old Timers' game rained out, so was the regular game. There was a delay of over an hour, then they started...only to stop after half an inning was played.

Very annoying. I liked the lineup for the game: Phillips at 1B, Bubba in RF, Giambi DHing, Bernie riding pine. With Obi-Shawn Chacon on the mound, you need the good gloves in.

There was a last minute change in the lineup: Stinnett was put in for Posada, presumably because it was a day game after a night game. (Though by the time it started, it was really a night game.) That meant Bubba was batting 8th, before Stinnett, not 9th.


Bubba got one fly ball to field. It was actually foul, as the replay showed. It bounced off the wall in the right corner, just outside the white line...but the umpire called it fair. Bubba played it off the wall and got it in fast enough to hold Miguel Cabrera to an RBI single. (Probably would have been a triple with Bernie in RF.)

And check out this thread at YES. It's got a link to a Bubba Crosby tribute someone posted at YouTube, and some nice comments about Bubba. (Ignore the Red Sox troll who just had to weigh in.)

And in other sports news...

Tennis great Andre Agassi announced yesterday that he will retire this year, after the U.S. Open. He made the announcement at Wimbledon, where he first "broke through" and won his first Grand Slam tournament.

Hard to believe that it's been 20 years since people wondered if 16-year-old Andre was ever going to have any substance to go with his sizzle. I feel old.