Kong v Godzilla. Ali v Frazier. Winans v Lodolo. (As in Nick.)
That's tonight's matchup against the Cincy Reds. Thanks to a right oblique strain to Ryan Yarbrough - (et tu, juju gods?) - the Yankee pitching grinder today will promote RH starter Allan Winans from The Electric City (aka Scranton), where he has been unstoppable.
This could answer - definitively, in the year of 2025 - whether excelling at Triple A matters one stinking whit. Because Winans deserves the call.
Winans, pushing 30, has been spectacular in the Anthracite Capital. Over 9 starts, he has posted an 0.90 ERA. - giving up only 5 earned runs.
Is he our fifth man? Can he succeed in the majors? Who is the real Allan Winans?
Some fans will tell you there's nothing exciting about a guy like Winans. They come, they fill a roster for a week, and they disappear. Parts Unknown. Well, I disagree.
Here are Ten Fun and Interesting Factoids about our newest Yankee!
1. In two years of MLB time, over 40 innings with Atlanta, Allan has a 7.20 ERA.
2. In his major league career, he has one win.
3. He hails from Bakersfield, California.
4. If he makes it big, he'll join Sigrid Valdis as one of the most famous natives of Bakersfield.
6. Her real name was Patricia Annette Olson, which sounds a lot more like Bakersfield.
7. In 1970, she married series star Bob Crane on the set of the TV show. Co-star and future game show host Richard Dawson served as best man.
8. In 1978, Crane was bludgeoned to death in Scottsdale, Arizona; his murder remains unsolved.
9. Patricia/Sigrid moved to LA and died in 2007 due to lung cancer.
10. In 50 innings at Scranton, Winans had 59 Ks!
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E. D. - I greatly enjoyed your post today. Not that I don’t enjoy them every day - because I do. But numbers 3 - 10 were thought provoking and delightfully prescient.
After reading #3 I was wondering if you were going to mention Crane’s driveway murder and sure enough - you did !
I SEE NOTHING !
Crane had an early video set up that he used to tape his sexual escapades, supposedly with trios or more, women, men, maybe goats. The story I remember was that he was with a guy one night who bludgeoned Crane to death while he was sleeping. Live by the kink, die by the kink, I guess. But I don't know if his lovely wife participated in his hobbies.
Speaking of Triple A, Buck and the guys were talking about that on the game last night. I think it was Buck who said people have no idea what a big leap it is from AAA to the majors. He pointed out a two-strike pitch that was fouled off, and said in the minors, it would've been a strikeout. Everything in the majors is at a higher level, which explains those AAAA guys who never quite make the jump.
Is Scranton the Electric City? Schenectady used to be the Electric City for decades, with the gigantic main plant of GE. At the other end of the filled in Erie Canal across town, you had the massive American Locomotive Works.
The old hometown was the "City that Lights and Hauls the World." I was just old enough to see it all go to shit. Whoo hoo!
I’m a double A guy…
I have never walked the streets of Bakersfield.
With both Buck Owens and Merle Haggard hailing from Bakersfield, one might think that the city is located in the Appalachian Mountains or the South.
JM, I heard those same rumors. Supposedly, he videoed participants without their knowledge. And one of the members forgot the safe word, so the kink got way out of hand, making for drastic retaliation upon Crane.
The safe word was "Disss-Missed!"
Add Frank Gifford to the list of notable Bakersfieldians.
https://youtu.be/Nx5IlJ_TLrE?si=yni3I8uc9zf2aowr
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Bakersfield
Having been to Bakersfield, and only as the result of visiting Sequoia and Kings Canyon, I can verify that getting bludgeoned to death is far more appealing than spending any time there.
Scranton was the first US city with electric streetcars, hence "Electric City".
The mayor of Scranton is from Oregon, MBA from Harvard, doesn't look like you would think the mayor of Coal Cracker City would look.
Scranton's not a terrible place - diverse, couple decent universities. Most of you would kill yourselves if you woke up one morning living there but for northeast Pennsylvania it's not bad.
“I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the Lord by your side
And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor”
See the movie Auto Focus
Anthracite Capital, Electric City, and Steamtown (federal locomotive park located there). Scranton is very versatile, in a 19th century kind of way.
Scranton mayor's a trailblazer, but given her resume it looks like her "move" didn't work out quite as planned. Been there a long time. Poor gal. Like many before, her talent's being wasted in Scranton.
"Thank you, Jesus
Thank you, Lord..."
If he were pitching against the Yankees, they would be utterly flummoxed by whatever he throws, and he'd likely pitch a two-hit shutout.
Seeing as how he is pitching against the Reds, they will probably study the scouting reports and pummel him.
Right. Greg Kinnear. Saw that a long time ago.
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