Former Bison, Jeremy Guthrie is quickly becoming one of the best pitchers in baseball. After being given up on by the Indians and passed on waivers until Baltimore took the $20,000 mistakeHere’s a great Baltimore Sun feature on him.

I got him confused with Kyle Denney and therefore, my previous story now makes no sense. Hah.

For a change of pace I went to the Central Library today and came accross this book written right after Buffalo missed out on their chance for major league baseball expansion in 1990. It was a good book about how Pilot Field changed Downtown Buffalo and boosted the City. What I found that was INSANE was these quotes from Cuomo from around 92…
I paraphrase..
“Buffalo is going to see a lot of good change. This new NAFTA deal is gonna bring a lot of trade to Buffalo and a lot more people are going to be coming across this city.”

and the craziest one..
“Buffalo has the strongest economy in the state, the lowest unemployment in the state. Buffalo is changing for the better all the time and is only getting better.”

Ummmmmmmmmm…what. happened?

Well since we’re in a baseball state of mind…here’s a picture I found from a website devoted to the employees of WBEN over the years…

Well I went to the Bisons home opener (didn’t stop by at the bloggercon area but I really want to go to the next one). My favorite part about Bisons games are the fans. Here is where you find the heavy set, middle aged, unionized, manual laborers of Buffalo shooting the breeze with their fellow beer-bellied buddies. And with that intro here is my convo of the week

[Pitcher named “Slocum” warming up in the bullpen]
Man #1: “Hey buddy, that guys name is Slocum! You must be named after him! Hahaha!”
Man #2: “Haha nonono his name would be FASTcum”
*The rest of the men laugh at his expense
**if you don’t see the pun then forget about it

We also spotted two men together rocking some awesome mullets. It made me want to bust out some Zubaz pants and talk about wether or not Jimmy Griffin should run for mayor again

But anyways, seeing dozens of older men and in some cases-their wives…decked out in Bisons official warmup jackets and jerseys and caps reminded me of when i was really young and Pilot Field was new…It hit me, a lot of those blue collar Buffalonians who used to fill up the ballpark and the bars around town are gone and it kind of made me sad. I love teasing them, but god I love them to death.

Last week (as previously mentioned on AllThingsBuffalo) Kazuhito Tadano was dealt and now the Indians announced Bison fan favorite Brandon Phillips is a gonner too. I usually don’t mind the fact that we have a minor league team but it gets annoying every once in a while when you get a player that you really enjoy watching but then he becomes too good to be in AAA or runs out of options and has to leave. Richie Sexson, Mosies Alou and Jeromy Burnitz come to mind. Bye Bye Brandon. Come back soon.

OPENING DAY/ BUFFALO BLOGGERCON4 FRIDAY @ DunnTire Park!

The Bisons’ Kazuhito Tadano was traded to Oakland earlier this week. He was a pretty decent pitcher who did fine for the Bisons. But he will always be known for his decision to be in a Japanese gay porn film because he “really needed the money”. Somehow, the Bisons and their fans will pull through this. Somehow.

So the bisons have a new website…good times

…why yes it is a slow news day, in fact.

nice change of pace from this…

…don’t worry, this will not be a Bisons blog-just wanted to express my jersey preference