Somewhere around the 13th or 14th inning, while they were blowing bunt plays, this game sort of turned into the rake scene from Cape Feare**. You know, started cute (first seven innings), got annoying (8-13), then got progressively funnier the longer it went on (14-17).
Seriously, how do you squeeze in a 5-6-2 double play, a 5-6-3 forceout, a 2-6 double play on a bunt, a 1-5-6 (or 1-5-4? They’re running together) out on a bunt, a double steal to end th…
Wait, this is a hockey blog, isn’t it?***
Thoughts from Rochester on Randy Cunneyworth’s hiring as coach of Hamilton.
| TEAM | Old | New |
| SYR* | Ross Yates (4/12) | Mark Holick (5/21) |
| HOU | Kevin Constantine (4/15) | Mike Yeo (6/16) |
| PEO | Rick Wamsley (5/6) | Jared Bednar (6/15) |
| ROC | Benoit Groulx (5/31) | — |
| MTB | Scott Arniel (6/8, CLB head coach) | Claude Noel (6/21) |
| HAM | Guy Boucher (6/10, TB head coach) | Randy Cunneyworth (7/20) |
| LOW/ALB | John MacLean (6/17, NJ head coach) | — |
| BIN | Don Nachbaur (6/22) | — |
| OKC | — | Todd Nelson (7/15) |
*-Syracuse’s new coach was hired by Anaheim. Springfield’s new coach will be hired by Columbus and will be added to the list if it isn’t Rob Daum. Jeff Daniels moves with the franchise from Albany to Charlotte.
The Kovalchuk Rejection even got me a little editorialish on Twitter. Crazy. (Bit over the top.)
Mike Keane won’t be back in Manitoba. End of the line, perhaps.
A lovely Joe Posnanski piece on Dean Smith.
And I am very disappointed that Alice hasn’t seen a fish-slapping bear yet this summer.
All right, gotta be up in like an hour. Good night.
**-9F22, he says out of force of habit though the link’s above.
***-I know, you’d never know it…