[USML Announce] Billy Butler

[mbblocker at aol.com]

Gents (and Mark Kerber):
 
  It was indeed a Monster night for the K-Nine.  Andy, you should be playing minor league roto!  Three HRs...two opposite field shots for Markakis (who looks great) and a laser beam to right field for Fiorentino (who looks more like Tim Hudson build-wise).  The Orioles affiliated pitched highly-touted Adam Loewen(note to Kerber:  he is, as I understand it, highly touted by others, so I am just reporting what I have heard and in no way intend to demean any of your players), who showed flashes (7Ks in 5 IP) but lost his concentration in the 5th and ended up getting roughed up a bit.  He ended up with the kind of pitching line I have grown to expect out of pitchers just traded to the Bombers.  Anyway, not sure if anyone has Loewen, but whoever does, I'd hold on to him.
 
  Three oddities I observed.  First, the O's affiliate's first baseman is Robin Yount's son.  Second, the Hogs, for some reason, have just three outfielders on their roster (what happens if someone gets hurt?).  Third, the 'Hogs, which is a White Sox affiliate, actually has a guy named Carlos Lee on their team who wears number 45 and looks like a stockier version of El Caballo.  Even I couldn't make that up!  (Mark K:  for clarity, this does not mean I have made up things in the past -- at least not about your players).
 
  Rick:  your memory of the stadium is excellent.  Its actually 325 down both lines, but if you hit one out at that distance, you're my hero anyway.  I doubt I could get it out of the infield.
 
   Go Bombers!  
 
  -- Mark B.
   
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew R. Klein <anrklein at yahoo.com>
To: 'USML Announcements' <announce at usml.net>
Sent: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:29:32 -0500
Subject: RE: [USML Announce] Billy Butler


And in Frederick, Mark will be watching Monster Talent Nick Markakis!!
 
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Andrew R. Klein
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
(317) 274-2099
 



From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On Behalf Of mbblocker at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:31 PM
To: announce at usml.net
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Billy Butler
 
Jeff:
 
  I'm travelling, so out of the loop (and Sidley e-mail is not working, so I don't get any e-mail on my blackberry!).  I am in Frederick, Md, and off to do some prospect watching of my own by seeing the Frederick v. Winston-Salem Warthogs game (high class A).  I'll read all of the good natured ribbing (and Kerber's e-mails too) later.
 
  -- Mark B.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: JHWinick at aol.com
To: announce at usml.net
Sent: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:08:07 EDT
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Billy Butler
In a message dated 6/21/2005 4:57:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mbblocker at aol.com writes:
Mark:
 
  You missed my point.  I never proclaimed Butler a super-prospect.  I just wondered how he had slipped out of prospect status so quickly.  I believe my exact e-mail said that Butler's status as a prospect seemed awfully short-lived.  Never let the facts get in the way of a good swipe.
 
   -- Mark B. 
HE LIVES!!!!!
 
I was beginning to get concerned.
 
Jeff
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