The Official Blog of Rob Smith

It is a very busy news day here at www.therobsmith.com. First, I would like to wish a very happy 69th anniversary to my grandparents. I don’t know of anyone else who has been married for close to that long, so it’s pretty amazing.
Chicken Attack
I’d like everyone to read my mother’s account of yesterday’s chicken attack. [...]

We still haven’t reached comment number 2,000 yet, even with the quasi-spam tactics of Canz. But, we are very close and it will certainly be reached today. I also received spam comment number 1,000 very recently – there has been a surge in spam lately with sometimes up to 30 spam comments daily, which I [...]

We’re approaching reader comment number 2,000, which is a major milestone for www.therobsmith.com (not including spam comments). Since I never gave cousin Jen the autographed picture I promised to whoever made comment 1,000, I won’t even offer a prize for comment 2,000 – but we all know that the lucky writer of comment 2,000 will [...]

I’m very happy, and surprised, that Perrotti used his waiver position on Markakis. Now I have number 1 priority for when this guy Mike Stanton gets called up, or if anyone drops an amazing player (which Markakis is not) before then. Did anyone else put a waiver claim on Markakis? I didn’t claim him – [...]

What is wrong with the Red Sox? I can’t watch the games, and all I see is game recaps and box scores – so I’d like the knowledgable baseball fans of www.therobsmith.com to tell me what is going on. Are they really going to be a .500 baseball team at the end of September or [...]

Here are my personal meaningless self-ratings for this year’s potential Derby events, with Malone, Perrotti, and Carigs’ self-ratings included for reference. Their full ratings can be found in the comments from yesterday’s post. Kohanski, Roger, and any other Derby hopefuls please post your self-ratings. All ratings are on the nebulous MLB standard prospect evaluation scale [...]

Perrotti, what progress have you made with recruiting the rest of your Derby team, The Ponies? Remember, if you want to change your team name, you need to submit an application which then requires a majority vote of the Executive Committee to be ratified. As for recruiting, you should consider offering Carigs a one-year contract [...]

It’s been a busy couple days, with lots of developments – substantive discussion on the 2010 Derby, fantasy baseball trades, and the return of Roger’s blog. Let’s get down to business.
The Derby expansion/format must be worked out soon. Last year the entire Derby committee held a series of executive dinner meetings several months in advance [...]

Loyal readers of www.therobsmith.com surely remember our recap of the 2009 Great American Athletic Derby of Bristol, Brought to you by TicketNetwork, and how me and Malone crushed Kohanski and Perrotti by a great margin in that marathon-like competition of athletics. While some details of the 2010 Derby have yet to be worked out (number [...]

I’m pretty well settled into my new base. It’s really gotten hot around here. It’s been easily over 100 degrees the last 2 days, but also windy – and when it’s windy here that means there’s dust. So, it’s weird to have it be 100+ degrees with blowing wind but also unable to see the [...]