Collection Update

Just picked these 2 up for stupidly cheap. Hopefully Ollie will continue his 0 earned run trends for a few more outings. If he can do that it might be time to try and flip some of his cards to recoup some of my investment. If I can do that and get to even or close to it with just a few cards - I could have the rest free and clear and root by being a fan instead of just with my wallet!

2002 Upper Deck SPX, Card# 235 Auto

#690/825 (bringing my total of this card to 16 out of the 825)

2002 Bowman Chrome Draft, Card #BDP113, Refractor

#163/300 (bringing my total to 9 of the 300)

Sorry for the bad image. Something is wrong with the camera in my phone when used with the office lighting.

Game Day Log - Start #2 - Against the Phillies in NY - The Final Home Opener at Shea

Well this one is only a few days late. Hopefully I will be more timely in the future and add some of the other pieces I wanted to add. The is the second straight start I missed being able to watch. This one because it was a day game, and I was on a plane going from Ohio back to Albany after some business meetings.

4/12/08

In the final home opener at Shea - the Mets bullpen ruined the day for both Ollie and the Mets. The Mets lost 5-3 after another solid outing by Ollie.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=280408121

Ollie goes 5.2, again allowing 0 runs, and no extra base hits. From what I could tell, and what I have read - Ollie was not quite as sharp today as he was in FL last week - but he still shut the Phillies down. He did walk a few more, but from the pitch by pitch recap from the game log - some of the balls could have been called strikes based on their location on the system. Ollie left the game with 2 outs in the 5th. He got 2 quick outs, but then a walk, then a balk, then another walk. He did a great job maintaining his composure under presseure all-day but with a pitch count of 95, Willie decided to take hom out before a blow up. Out of the inning without any damage. The bullpen ruined the rest. On the bright side - Ollie did hit chase Utley 2 times, and the Pen hit him again. Teach that fu(&er to move off the plate a little!

Ollies Line: 5.2IP, 3 H, 3 BB, 2 K, 0 R, 0 ER

Fantasy Stats YTD: 1 Win, 0.00 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 10 K, Sandbox: 20.5ppg

Game Day Log - Start #1 - Against the Marlins in FL - a Week late!

Here I am, being one of the worst bloggers AGAIN. I have all these great plans on what I am going to post about - yet I am either too busy, or too lazy to actually post what I plan!

Hopefully these posts will get more in-depth as the season rolls along, but for now this will have to do.

4/2/2008

Oliver dominated the Marlins, striking out 8 in 6 IP, allowing no runs, no extra base hits, and walking one. This line looked like this:

6IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

Fantasy Stats to date: 1 Win, 1.00 WHIP, 8 K, 0.00 ERA - Sandbox - 30.0 PPG

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=280402128

I didn't get to watch the game in person, as it was one of my last bowling nights of the year, but I did watch most of it on the gamecase on my Sprint HTC touch phone. That feature is actually pretty cool as it allows me to see where all of the pitches were, the type of pitch, and the speed.

Ollie was in the low 90's, he hit 94/95 a few times - but seemed to be relying on his fastball low and away on almost every pitch. He rarely mixed in his slider and curve - but when he did I can imagine how hard it must have been for the hitters to react. If the mets weren't up by 11 he probably would have went deeper into the game, but the 93 pitches he threw probably had something to do with it as well.