Social Butterfly

@BaseballJunto

A baseball Twitter. March to June 2009. [Note: First three (3) tweets by Tim Riley.]

March

  • 03/10 — Just set up Twitter. Should be useful come Opening Day 2009. Stay tuned.
  • 03/11 — Working on BaseballJunto.com. It’s getting there.
  • 03/11 — Also testing the Twitter sidebar feature to see what it looks like.
  • 03/30 — The ESPN Problem: http://tinyurl.com/dfrqdx

April

  • 04/01 — More Whitecaps burger coverage… http://tinyurl.com/c9we9z
  • 04/01 — The Omissive Hall of Fame: http://www.baseballjunto.com/archives/2009/the-omissive-hall-of-fame/
  • 04/02 — Uni Watch season preview… http://bit.ly/dqI78
  • 04/03 — 49-1 blowout in college baseball… http://bit.ly/4yAf3y
  • 04/03 — Yankee vs. Citi, an architectural review… http://bit.ly/LGC7Y
  • 04/03 — Reclaiming the Pennant: http://bit.ly/A0qGt
  • 04/04 — Randy Johnson is pitching for the Giants, but not batting (so far)… http://bit.ly/e7BOF
  • 04/04 — Carlos Zambrano pleads with Cubs to replace Wrigley Field… http://bit.ly/KVdU5
  • 04/06 — Zambrano backtracks on Wrigley… http://bit.ly/3UzS6K
  • 04/06 — Giambi, Chavez talking baseball… http://bit.ly/7939r
  • 04/06 — The science of simulated baseball… http://bit.ly/3gv8tO
  • 04/07 — $341 million buys the Yankees an 0-1 start… http://bit.ly/WAAio
  • 04/07 — MLB on the web, Blackberry and iPhone… http://bit.ly/Qltc
  • 04/07 — Giambi, Tejada, Chavez, Damon, Hudson, Zito, Mulder, 102 wins. The 2001 Oakland A’s… http://bit.ly/13bvJ8
  • 04/07 — Sports Illustrated now offers Game Flash, includes detailed play-by-play… http://bit.ly/11VVcN
  • 04/07 — First Radio Show podcast… A Die-Hard Cubs Outlook: http://bit.ly/2j5aKQ
  • 04/08 — Rocco Baldelli returns home… http://bit.ly/nUUFW
  • 04/08 — Payroll down 1.7 percent league-wide… http://bit.ly/1KtVwQ
  • 04/09 — Angels rookie killed in hit-and-run… http://bit.ly/EvDZ
  • 04/09 — Bugs & Cranks interview Harmon Kellebrew… http://bit.ly/565Ju
  • 04/10 — A Third Team In New York… http://bit.ly/E9hZd
  • 04/13 — Manny would return to Cleveland before retiring… http://bit.ly/jqfh
  • 04/13 — Some think the league needs more “characters”… http://bit.ly/HqODq
  • 04/13 — Measuring a stadium’s toilet ratio… http://bit.ly/UyKsj
  • 04/13 — Pro athletes pay taxes where they play (including road games)… http://bit.ly/19Dq6B
  • 04/14 — The voice of the Phillies passes… http://bit.ly/fvB3A
  • 04/15 — The Cost of Winning: http://bit.ly/u9sJw
  • 04/15 — Olbermann’s baseball blog… http://bit.ly/FvVTw
  • 04/16 — Presidents’ Trophy: http://bit.ly/10IIwW
  • 04/16 — Recording a podcast right now. Should be up tomorrow..
  • 04/17 — Second podcast… Dodgers/A’s: http://bit.ly/7TpyR
  • 04/17 — Ron Darling on the Jon Stewart Show (aka Daily Show)… http://bit.ly/2QQHU
  • 04/18 — Sheffield hits 500… http://bit.ly/RpsYj
  • 04/18 — Yankee Stadium now a hitter’s park… http://bit.ly/39WdmY
  • 04/19 — Yankees the first benefactor of instant replay… http://bit.ly/19ZC8a
  • 04/19 — Jackie Robinson stole home 19 times (and was caught 11 times)… http://bit.ly/hlOhu
  • 04/20 — Baseball’s authenticators… http://bit.ly/13xxo2
  • 04/20 — World Baseball: http://bit.ly/CugQf
  • 04/20 — The Washington Nationals (2-11) have struck out 108 times so far this season, one more than the Florida Marlins (11-2).
  • 04/21 — Right field in new Yankee Stadium is simply more shallow… http://bit.ly/JRni
  • 04/21 — David Justice to play himself in Moneyball film… http://bit.ly/NS1kU
  • 04/22 — Minor League Baseball to take over Dodgertown in Florida… http://bit.ly/2Wwd6
  • 04/23 — New Yankee Stadium dwarfs old one… http://bit.ly/bt6In
  • 04/23 — Not enough Mets history at Citi Field? http://bit.ly/L7REU
  • 04/24 — Milton Bradley’s “troubles” continue with Cubs… http://bit.ly/14wcxO
  • 04/24 — Starting pitcher, age 90… http://bit.ly/19nZbY
  • 04/24 — Pujols, most perfect player? http://bit.ly/hOk6y
  • 04/25 — The Blue Jays’ alternate cap (black with blue/silver T) is one of the worst in baseball. Live now against the Chicago White Sox.
  • 04/28 — After an 11-1 start, the Florida Marlins have lost 7 straight games.
  • 04/28 — Yankees cut premium ticket prices… http://bit.ly/SrkeB
  • 04/28 — High school pitcher will take mound with sights on fifth consecutive no-hitter… http://bit.ly/MS2oW
  • 04/30 — MLB’s iPhone App has proven to be popular and profitable… http://bit.ly/19lnJb

May

  • 05/04 — A Guide to Scoring Baseball… http://bit.ly/aNgfp
  • 05/05 — The Blue Jays have scored 166 runs; the Giants 84. That is y=2x-2 for the mathematically-inclined.
  • 05/10 — Visualizing MLB pitchers’ velocity, pitch type, and pitch location in a single graphic… http://labs.dataspora.com/gameday/

June

  • 06/16 — First Come, First Served: http://bit.ly/so433