Odd Ends

Oh happy day - Vinnie Chulk is gone:

The Giants purchased the contract of right-hander Sergio Romo from AA Connecticut and designated right-hander Vinnie Chulk for assignment.

W00t!

Next, I'm surprised that this didn't happen to the Giants. Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners hit a grand slam against the Mets, the first grand slam by an AL pitcher in 37 years (the DH rule was instituted in 1973). I suppose we should be glad the Giants just walk opposing pitchers.

And, today the Giants play an interleague game in Cleveland for the first time. This marks the return of Omar Vizquel and Giants' broadcaster Duane Kuiper. I enjoyed Andrew Baggarly's article on the return in today's SJ Merc.

Baggarly's quotes in the article from Joe Posnanski's blog post about why he loves Duane Kuiper got me interested enough to seek out the original post. I recommend that you read it here. Just one more reason to love Kuip. He's one fantastic sonuvabitch.

And finally, as we all know, Bengie Molina is the slowest player in the history of baseball. We're not the only ones to notice. See this description of one of Bengie's at bats in KC (from the same guy who loves Kuip):

. . . Bengie Molina hit a hard ground ball into the hole between short and third, Kansas City’s Mike Aviles dove, smothered the ball, got to one knee, recited the Gettysburg Address, solved two Sodokus, took three ballroom dancing classes, grew a full beard, became fluent in French, got his Masters in finance, recorded an album of Tom Waits covers (oh no, wait, that was Scarlett), invented a practical electric car and then threw to first where he just barely threw out Molina by eight steps.

That's good stuff.