If you have the time, inclination and internet connection you can listen to all three Astros minor league games today. MiLB.com provides free audio of many minor league games.
The schedule:
Lexington plays at 9:05 am Central Time. Brad Dydalewicz takes his 0.00 ERA in 17 innings pitch to the mound. (Video of this game is also available for a FEE). EDIT: The Legends gave Henry Villar a spot start instead of Dydalewicz
Lancaster plays at 1:00 pm Central Time. Shane Wolf is scheduled to start. (NOTE: have had difficulty listening to Lancaster through FIREFOX, but their play-by-play announcer assures me that the stream works fine through Internet Explorer)
Corpus Christi gets started at 6:30 pm Central Time. Brian Moehler makes a rehab start for the Hooks.
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Figured I'd tune in to listen to part of the Lancaster Broadcast
and was struck by the name of the Lancaster catcher, Jordan Comadena. That’s got even better coming-to-bat-music potential than Phillip Barzilla (almost shat myself when he came out tof the bullpen to “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult at Minute Maid). I can just hear the opening bars to “Funky Cold Medina” by Ton Loc when our young catching prospect comes to bat. Please Jordan, make it to the bigs. Simple pleasure guys like myself absolutely live for those moments.
littlevisigoth - April 29, 2009
I can't look at Comadena's name...
without thinking of that song
farm_stros - April 29, 2009
Wow
minor league radio broadcasters really make you appreciate the guys and Houston. Say what you will about Brett Dolan and Dave Raymond, but I’d never heard anybody actually say “jumping jelly beans” when they weren’t reading from a script on the Andy Griffith show.
littlevisigoth - April 29, 2009
ha! Barney Fife in the booth?
clack - April 29, 2009
imagine
if lines of Barney Fife script was read as bad Karaoke by a mid-20s bar patron on Tuesday night at the Tavern on Gray. the rediculous verbage was there, but any sense of ironic or remotely amusing delivery that you might be able to attribute to a Don Knotts-type character is completely stripped away.
i’m being harsh, but the color guy on this broadcast has a long ways to go before making it to the big time.
littlevisigoth - April 29, 2009
Dave Raymond is actually pretty good
I dislijked these two from the word go. Over time I’ve come to appreciate Dave Raymond. Brett Dolan should go eslewhere, partly because the listeners still cannot figure out who is who in the booth (maybe because Who is on first – okay – bad joke); partly because Dave Raymond needs someone who complements him. Also Brett Dolan seems so negative and will never cut it in Houston. I can’t envision anyone saying ’ “When I think Astros, I think Brett Dolan.”
I imagine minor league announcers can be weak. They work alone or with one other person -pay cannot be that good. Birmignham is a AA team, We’ve been fortunate to have good announcers , but there are times late in the season when the poor guys go goofy.
Some local college and high school games have terrible broadcasters for football games.
Joe in Birmingham - April 29, 2009
Well, I enjoyed listening in
although work got in the way of the last inning and a half, which is unfortunate, cause there was a walkoff RBI single from Marcos Cabral to score Jack Shuck in the bottom of the 9th to win it for the hometown Jet Hawks.
Lancaster got the scoring started early with a two-out, two run double from Chris Minaker in the bottom of the first. San Jose notched a run in the 3rd on a home run from their CF Ford (the jumping jelly beans call), but Cabral answered in the bottom of the frame with the first of his two RBI on the day, scoring Shuck here as well. Shane Wolf had a nice outing, going 6 1/3, allowing two runs on five hits, no walks, and two K’s. He left with a man on 3rd and one out in the 7th, but Bryan Halberg was able to get out of the jam with a pop fly to shallow right that wasn’t deep enough to score the run and another fly ball to deep center. Unfortunately Halberg coughed up the lead in the next frame after a throwing error on a pickoff play advanced the San Jose SS Frias, who had walked, from 1st all the way to 3rd base. Frias scored on a broken bat single by hot prospect Buster Posey to tie it up. Halberg loaded the bases before getting out of the inning without any more runs. I wish I had more to say about the rest of the game, but I missed the last inning and a half.
Sounds like Shuck is having a nice season in his second year. Cabral and Minaker are also having nice starts to the season, but don’t appear to be prospects with very high trajectories, just based on their age in High A ball. Castro obviously didn’t start. Sounds like he got dinged up in yesterday’s game (which is why my new favorite named minor leaguer was behind the plate). That’s a shame, cause prior to yesterday, Castro was on a four-game tear hitting 9-18 with two dingers, five RBI, a double, a walk, and a stolen base. Didn’t sound too serious, and he actually pinch hit for Comadena (who was 0-3 on the day) in the 8th, grounding out (part of the game I missed), so hopefully he’ll get back on fire soon .
Anyway, thanks for the links, farm_stros. It was a (relatively… until the bottom of the 8th) slow day in the cube, so it was nice to keep half an ear on a ballgame.
littlevisigoth - April 29, 2009
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