Fake Teams (Free subscription) | yesterday
Be sure to head over to SB Nation's www.minorleagueball.com site run by John Sickels. Last night he posted his top 20 Angels prospects, and is working on the San Francisco Giants next. Here is what he said about the top rated prospects in the Angels system: The Angels have more interesting prospects than I expected when I first began this. I really like Trout, who has the highest upside of the three...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
More photos » by Darren Calabrese - AP 3 months ago: Los Angeles Angels pitcher Trevor Bell throws against the Toronto Blue Jays during second-inning AL baseball game action in Toronto on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Darren Calabrese) Browse more photos » Los Angeles Angels Top 20 Prospects for 2010 All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change. Don't...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Now working on the Los Angeles Angels . Preliminary player list after the jump. Who am I missing? Los Angeles Angels 39 players Alexia Amarista 2B Jon Bachanov RHP Dillon Baird 1B Trevor Bell RHP Josh Blanco LHP Buddy Boshiers LHP Peter Bourjos OF Ryan Chaffee RHP Tyler Chatwood RHP Hank Conger C Pat Corbin LHP Terry Evans OF Rolando Gomez SS Randal Grichuk OF Casey Haerther 3B Tyler Kehrer LHP Michael...
GAFCON (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Well it took little George Conger less than 24 hours to crumble before the tide of liberal pressure brought on by his courageous move to illustrate the truth concerning lesbianism as every creepy old man, every sweaty-palmed post-adolescent fundamentalist, and every GAFCON-believing homophobe knows it to be. Or at least likes to imagine it to be in those special moments they pray very hard to be delivered...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence Homosexuals should not be accorded protected status akin to race, religious belief or gender, an Australian appellate court has held. The Nov 1 court ruling, which permits church-affiliated agencies the right to provide social services in a manner that does not violate their religious principles, has drawn praise from Anglican and Roman [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
By George Conger, CEN Questions on the Church of England’s non-stipendiary ministers were raised last week in the House of Commons, with the member for Stroud, Mr David Drew (Lab) submitting a written question to the member for Middlesbrough, the Second Church Estates Commissioner Sir Stuart Bell (Lab.) asking “how many full-time and part-time non-stipendiary ministers [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict XVI are scheduled to meet on Nov 21 at the Vatican, Lambeth Palace has confirmed. The agenda and itinerary of Dr Williams’ trip to Rome have not yet been released by the Lambeth Palace press office. However, Fr Federico Lombardi, SJ of the Vatican [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Thursday, 12th November 2009. By: George Conger. Reports the Churches of England and Ireland boycotted the consecration of a partnered lesbian priest as Bishop of Stockholm are not true, spokesmen for the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of Armagh tell Religious Intelligence.com. However, no episcopal representatives from the Churches of England or Ireland, the Church in Wales [...]
Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
2) Carlos Ramirez, 21 - C, Advanced Rookie Pioneer League .389/.514/.695 with 10 HR and 0 SB's. +36 bat, +8 glove Sammy Swenson. Matt Pali. Josh Gray . Sergio Contreras. Grodon Gronkowski. Those are some other guys who pounded the ball in the Pioneer League over the past decade, but never encored against advanced competition. I mention them only to provide the perspective one has to have when looking...
Camden Chat (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Bell, Synder and a whole bunch of other really good prospects from across the land playing in Arizona. You can watch the telecast online here at MLB.com Tonight’s game features 18 first-round draft picks including five from 2009. Mark Rogers – 5th – 2004 – Milwaukee / Brandon Snyder – 13th – 2005 – Baltimore Hank Conger – 25th – 2006 – LA...
Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
View full size photo » The 2009 baseball season has just ended, and in a way, you could say that tonight, the 2010 season begins. While we are not going to see the most-hyped prospect, Stephen Strasburg -- he was scratched due to a strained neck muscle -- or Cubs prospect Josh Vitters, also scratched with a minor injury, there will be plenty of players in tonight's game who you'll see in the...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Let's see how some of MLB's top prospects performed the day before the Rising Stars game after the jump: Chase D'arnaud-2B, PIT-1-3, RS, RBI, SB (.261) Jose Tabata , OF, PIT-1-4, RBI (.366) Cole Gillespie , OF, ARI-1-4, RBI (.327) Domonic Brown , OF, PHI-0-4, RBI, BB, 2 K (.256) Willin Rosario, C, COL-2-4, 2 RS, HR, RBI (.303) Thomas Neal, 1B, SFG-2-5, RS, 2B, SB, RBI (.313) Donald Veal , SP, PIT-4...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The 2009 AFL Rising Stars game rosters are listed below for those of you who get the chance to see some of the best prospects in MLB in one game tonight at 8:15 on the MLB Network. Unfortunately, the Nationals pitching prospect Stephen Strasburg will not be making the start in this one with a "sore neck". What timing. But you will get the chance to see Buster Posey, Starlin Castro, Josh Vitters,...
PRELUDIUM (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
George Conger writes, in an article on the Bishop of the Bahamas denunciation of the government's plan to restore capital punishment that Bishop Boyd said, “The disregard for human life and a perverted value system which allows a person to maim or to kill another in a dispute, are realities that capital punishment cannot ever address, even though a hanging may satisfy the desire for retribution."...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence The Dioceses of Western Louisiana and South Carolina have endorsed the Ridley-Cambridge draft of the Anglican Covenant, joining Central Florida as the third American diocese to formally back the Archbishop of Canterbury’s plan for creating a structure to manage the divisions over doctrine and discipline dividing the Anglican Communion. On Oct [...]
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