The Same Routine is Always New...
We've departed the opening series in Tokyo and now we're back home.
While every day is different at the ballpark, there's a certain sameness to some of it...
Here we have Huston Street and Andrew Brown. This chess game has been going on ever since the first day of Spring Training. It's a daily thing. Who knows who's ahead or what the score is, but we've definitely got a real Bobby Fisher/Boris Spassky duel going on here. This game really defines clubhouse life: that while every day is different, some things remain the same.
Emil Brown, testing Rich Harden's new Samurai sword, which he purchased on their recent trip to Japan.... Finding out that it fits him to a T.
Every night before the starting pitcher takes the mound, there is a regular meeting. And tonight it's Curt Young, our pitching coach, with Kurt Suzuki, our catcher, and our starting pitcher, Rich Harden...except, there's usually three people in this meeting, and tonight there are four: Zebulon is an alter-ego, and he counsels Rich on the bench in between innings...so he's silent, but he's taking everything in.
Zebulon has been pictured mainly with Rich Harden up until this point, but he's also made inroads to many other members of the team...
Here, Kurt Suzuki is getting ready to go down to the bullpen. He's waiting for Rich Harden. The three of them are going to prepare to face the Boston Red Sox. You can tell Kurt is focused. You can tell Zebulon is focused. Rich Harden was feeling very good knowing that the three of them were going to the pen.
Rich Harden, in between innings, asking Zebulon if his mechanics are okay. And actually, his mechanics were okay, he threw a few less pitches that he threw in the opening game, but when he left the game he had not given up a run. So it was a successful outing at this point in time.
As far as Zebulon goes, some people think he could be an ongoing theme. Honestly, I don't know. Zebulon is a person that came to me on our last day in Japan. And just as the way things shook down, he immediately integrated himself into the clubhouse, much like Bemular did into the locker room of the 49ers in 1984. I know, that like any player, Zebulon could be with us all season, or he could disappear at anytime...
Each homestand has it's own feel, it's own texture, and that's really what we hope to bring out in this blog. We hope to chronicle the feel and the changes as well as the sameness in the clubhouse and on the team as the season progresses from game to game, series to series and week to week.
Z & S
While every day is different at the ballpark, there's a certain sameness to some of it...
Here we have Huston Street and Andrew Brown. This chess game has been going on ever since the first day of Spring Training. It's a daily thing. Who knows who's ahead or what the score is, but we've definitely got a real Bobby Fisher/Boris Spassky duel going on here. This game really defines clubhouse life: that while every day is different, some things remain the same.
Emil Brown, testing Rich Harden's new Samurai sword, which he purchased on their recent trip to Japan.... Finding out that it fits him to a T.
Every night before the starting pitcher takes the mound, there is a regular meeting. And tonight it's Curt Young, our pitching coach, with Kurt Suzuki, our catcher, and our starting pitcher, Rich Harden...except, there's usually three people in this meeting, and tonight there are four: Zebulon is an alter-ego, and he counsels Rich on the bench in between innings...so he's silent, but he's taking everything in.Zebulon has been pictured mainly with Rich Harden up until this point, but he's also made inroads to many other members of the team...
Here, Kurt Suzuki is getting ready to go down to the bullpen. He's waiting for Rich Harden. The three of them are going to prepare to face the Boston Red Sox. You can tell Kurt is focused. You can tell Zebulon is focused. Rich Harden was feeling very good knowing that the three of them were going to the pen.
Rich Harden, in between innings, asking Zebulon if his mechanics are okay. And actually, his mechanics were okay, he threw a few less pitches that he threw in the opening game, but when he left the game he had not given up a run. So it was a successful outing at this point in time.As far as Zebulon goes, some people think he could be an ongoing theme. Honestly, I don't know. Zebulon is a person that came to me on our last day in Japan. And just as the way things shook down, he immediately integrated himself into the clubhouse, much like Bemular did into the locker room of the 49ers in 1984. I know, that like any player, Zebulon could be with us all season, or he could disappear at anytime...
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Each homestand has it's own feel, it's own texture, and that's really what we hope to bring out in this blog. We hope to chronicle the feel and the changes as well as the sameness in the clubhouse and on the team as the season progresses from game to game, series to series and week to week.
Z & S
Glad to see Zebulon made the trip from Japan to Oakland. Hope he's happy here and can bring us some luck! I'm going to start recruiting for the Zebulon Fan Club. ; )
Where's Bemular now? The 49ers could use him.
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**laughs** I can't be the only one terribly concerned about the fact that there's a samurai sword loose in that clubhouse. Like some of these guys haven't had enough trouble staying healthy?
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