…intentionally for you at 1st base.
After reading about AA Tulsa Drillers Mike Coolbaugh coach, who was killed after being hit on the head with a line drive while standing as 1st base coach on Sunday and watching Mo’s video yesterday, I can understand why some are calling for the base coaches to wear helmets.
Dodger’s third base coach says that helmets won’t help and he’s been hit three times.
It is amazing with all the foul balls that are hit in all the games that go on in a year through all the leagues that this isn’t a more regular occurrence, especially when you have the bullpen up the first and third base lines, yeah they have people out there to try and block balls, don’t know if I’d like to try and block a Gary Sheffiled line drive.
Personally, even though I can see the arguement for compulsary safety gear, if a coach wants to wear a helmet let them if they don’t, don’t force them.
And it certainly brought to mind the great confrontation between “Whispering Death” Michael Holding and the great Yorkshireman Brian Close at Old Trafford in the 1976 England v West Indies “Grovel Series”.
45 years old without a helmet, only his gloves, leg pads and a flimsy box to protect him, never gave into it, though bet he felt like a soft southerner when he slighlty showed one had hurt him.
How would today’s players manage against such a hostile and great bowler as Holding without all their padding and face grilled helmet and limited amount of bouncers an over, can’t see Pietersen playing him off the front foot.
On the baseball front again. What about A-Rod?
Fourth ever player with eleven 35 home runs seasons
Second only player after Babe Ruth to eleven seasons with 35 homers and 100 RBIs
And the first player to do it 10 consecutive seasons.
…love it.
My site hosts decided they were going to change their system so PHP runs under PHPSuEXEC instead of the usual Mod_php.
Now was done because the PHPSuEXEC is meant to be more secure but it also means that certain things that can be done under the old setup cause problems, mainly file permissions - no 777 or 666 as they cause Internal Server Errors (Error 500) - and .htaccess files.
Well after a little checking the file permissions needed for various scripts I have on the sites worked OK, even after Text Link Ads said they wouldn’t. The compression command I had in the .htaccess file had to be removed, no PHP allowed in there, so a mass editing of every page header required - a major pain.
But it all seemed to work but…there’s always a but…I hadn’t sent out a newsletter since the change over, until yesterday. Now it was an old script and it obviously didn’t like this new fangled setup.
So off to find new mailing list software, found one that looked OK and seemed easy to setup. After installing I went through the options, looked at the instruction Wiki, gave it a once over not knowing that using the section that treats bounced mail shots would treat everything in my inbox as a bounce and delete them all after “checking them”. I’m sure there was a reason I was keeping the mails in there but now I’ll never know…and I think I miss set the throttling to send the mails out and I could be here for hours 
Basil Brush explains his views on gypsies
