Mowing the Lawn – Syracuse Preview

Well after all that rain it’s going to have to wait a little bit longer to mow. Hopefully the wind predicted for today will help to dry it out.

Speaking of lawns, I wanted to mention this before but hadn’t thought about it until I looked outside and realized it was that time of the year again, if you get to the clubhouse store at CCP you can find a new calendar offered by Bill Butler the groundskeeper. It includes beautiful pictures of CCP field art designs and one that appears to be a NY Yankee affiliated stadium. I’m planning on slicing up this calendar and buying some dollar store frames to decorate my office. Good stuff, go check it out and at $8 you can either pick this up or 2 packs of 2010 Topps baseball cards…

This afternoon, the Noise Nation will hold its first Tailgate party in the lower LSI lot. All are welcome. We basically do a BYO everything and then share. We have a small grill and time on it is a valued commodity so if you have a propane grill you’d like to bring to grill on with us.. you are more than welcome. If you’re wondering where the LSI lot is, head away from CCP, walk towards the PPL building in the distance, down the big staircase and hang a left. You should see us. TG starts at 3:00 and I’d recommend you bring a lawnchair. Tailgating rules are posted on the Ironpig’s website. Alcohol is not recommended.

Tonight, we welcome the Syracuse Chief’s into town. If this series goes like the opening series of the season, we will have some exciting run scoring games. Keep in mind that the weather was incredible that week and I feel most of the pitching will be kept on a leash to avoid injuries. Cross your fingers for a good game!

The International League standings as of this morning:
Syracuse 6W – 2L
Buffalo 5W – 3L
Scranton WB 4W – 4L
Lehigh Valley 3W – 5L
Pawtucket 3W – 5L
Rochester 3W – 5L

Announced starters for the game tonight has Drew Carpenter of the Pigs facing off against Chief’s Sharon Martis. Martis is 0-0 with a 6.75 ERA and Carpenter is 0-1 with a 13.50 ERA. Those early numbers can be deceiving and I have the feeling Carpenter is going to mow them down tonight (no pun intended). His last start came after a week of down time with the Phillies and he struggled. It’s a shame that Joe Savery didn’t get much work last night and it may impact his next start. No word if JC Romero is still in town but thinking he might show up somewhere along tonight’s game also.

See you at the park!