It's Trevor Time!!!!!

WOW - any Brewer fans out there are walking around with blank stares wondering what has happened.

Well - so is Trevor and the Brewers.

It seems some home sabermetricians (Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence) have been working overtime and have found some interesting data. In a nutshell Hoffman has always been a pitching robot. His mechanics year in year out are the same, velocity vs. spin angle of his pitched ball are constant throughout his career.  The problem this year is that he has no control over his change-up and you will notice that he is pitching MANY MANY more "fast" balls!

His release point and all other parts of his delivery are the same yet the spin angle on his change-up is all over the place and as we all know - the change up is why he is in the Majors.

Add one more tiny problem, his 4-seam fastball seems to be missing the corners and going towards the middle of the strike zone.  His velocity has not changed but he is not hitting the corners.

I know he feels horrible about this. How can he not.  The only hope is that once the problem is found it will not be too late.
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Caydence update.

All is going well with Josh and Jenny and Caydence.  Jenny and Caydence participated in a sturdy yesterday which involved Caydence sitting on Jenny's lap in a dark room.  A camera is trained on Caydence. Then a small light is turned on to the right and Caydence looks to see what it is and as she looks a voice in Italian speaks to her. 

Same thing on the left, light, Italian voice and it's over. Here is a Tee Shirt and a pen, thank you for playing and be sure to get a copy of our home game.

I think I saw this in LOST episode 37 didn't I?  

Oddly just before bedtime Caydence said  "I' m. sonnolenta ora genero, posso avere certo latte?"     

She is such a happy little girl (unless she is cranky but that is seldom). She has this total 100% joy on her face when she is laughing.  She has so many expression's. I wonder if children with Down Syndrome have more expressions because they have a greater problem with words? So they use their faces more to express themselves?

All I know is this is one happy kid!

Here she is getting ready to go home after a fun time at Gram Grams and Mr. Melottes house!

And here she is in her bouncy chair. It was sort of hard to get a focused photo. DJ and Jenny were singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider song (DJ finally has an excuse to sing it) and she kicks her feet with joy and starts to bounce up and down in rhythm!

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I have a slow drip of Ibuprofen going today (and the last day or so) from digging and my back hurts a little.  I have to remember to stop the pain killers 6 hours before I want to work in the garden so I remember I'm in pain.

We had farmers market yesterday and I purchased two more Purple Cone Flowers and four Jolly Bee Geraniums.  You will not see Jolly Bee's after July 1 2010 as a court has deemed that Rosanne and Jolly Bees are DNA alike so you will not find them in a few months.

So was on the Garden Web and posted a few photos and all of a sudden people are asking to see more flower photos -  I started a new photo blog.  This one will have mostly photos of flowers and landscaping and so forth.  The goal is to document what is going on with the gardens in our yard and the Boulder wall and so forth.

Melotte Photo Imagery - Flora     I have a lot to add and it's not really a story blog but a photo blog with information about each plant!

Yesterday I was at the Farmers Market and took a few photos of some annuals (I think). Here is one close-up.  As always - click on it to enlarge.

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The City Wide Garage Sale will be held May 7th and 8th.

I want to congratulate Dan Jensen for becoming Weed Commissioner of Columbus. I'm sure he will do a fine job. 

There MIGHT not be a blog tomorrow as I will have a Furlough day and waking up late and as we all know - the best time to write is early early morning before my brain actually kicks in.

HOW BOUT THOSE MILWAUKEE BUCKS!!


FEAR THE DEER!!!

Hang on to your hats as it's going to get REALLY windy today - sustained 25mph - watch this graph today as it whites out!  it's already kicking up to 25.

Cheers
Rod