Basil’s Blog

The Columbus Catfish held the West Virginia Power (Brewers) to three hits en route to a 4-0 win tonight. Heath Rollins pitched 7 innings, striking out 5, as he picked up his 12th win.
The Catfish touched up West Virginia starter Chris Toneguzzi for 4 runs in the 1st inning. Desmond Jennings led off with a [...]

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After a slow start, the Columbus Catfish caught fire and powered their way past the West Virginia Power (Brewers) 6-2 tonight.
Down 2-0 after 2-1/2 innings, the Catfish began their comeback. With 1 out, C Craig Albernaz was hit by a pitch, and moved to third when SS Jairo De La Rosa singled, and West Virginia [...]

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While we were vacationing in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something that didn’t make sense.
Now, I realize that saying something in Las Vegas didn’t make sense isn’t saying a whole lot. But still, something caught my eye.
We were staying at Harrah’s, and they had signs up all over advertising the shows [...]

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The Columbus Catfish dropped the final game of their series with the Augusta Greenjackets (Giants), 10-7 Saturday night.
Cesar Suarez and Ryan Royster each had two RBIs and Desmond Jennings went 3-for-4 with three runs scored for the Catfish (20-15).
Columbus starter Ryan Morse (3-5) gave up seven runs on 12 hits with one strikeout over five [...]

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The Columbus Catfish have won three straight from the Augusta Greenjackets (Giants). Thursday night, the beat Augusta 5-2 behind the pitching of Heath Rollins.
Rollins (11-4) allowed two runs on seven hits without walking a batter en route to his third win in four starts. He fanned nine on two previous occasions this season, the last [...]

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Normally, I’m the one to go for the little gadgets and such. Like the PDA. I bought a PDA a little while back. The Wife was not impressed. True, she uses it more than I do, but only to play Bubble Breaker or Sudoku or some such.
The TiVo was my idea, too. It records her [...]

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After dropping three games to Kannapolis, the Columbus Catfish rebounded by beating the division-leading Augusta Greenjackets (Giants) Wednesday night, 3-1.
Jeremy Hellickson won his 4th straight decision, going 6 innings to earn the victory.
Hellickson (8-2) yielded one run on three hits and two walks while striking out four. The 20-year-old right hander is 4-0 with 2.01 [...]

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Got an email recently. You’ve got them before, too. The old Nigerian scam. Someone has a lot of money to move from one country to another and they want your help in making it happen.
If you haven’t figured it out, it’s a scam.
Well, it seems the latest version is where the scammer says he’s a [...]

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One of the things about Las Vegas … where we vacationed last week … is that everyone knows that they are going to lose money if they gamble.
Okay, not everybody. There are the occasional winners. But, considering how few they are and how many people go to Vegas, odds are that if you gamble, you’ll [...]

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When we saw the Carrot Top comedy show in Las Vegas Thursday night, I laughed harder than I’d laughed in … well, maybe ever.
I nearly choked on my chewing gum. I don’t know where it ended up. I’m sure someone at a later show found it.
Anyway, I ended up being a little hoarse from the [...]

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