Quick reminder: The Ducksnorts 2009 Baseball Annual is now shipping. Go buy a copy or five… In case you missed it, we’re doing community projections again this year. Read the introduction to learn more about the comatosely accurate IVIEs, available only here at Ducksnorts. Padres IVIE Pr...

Triple-A — Portland 8, Tacoma 5 Matt Antonelli: 0-for-3, BB, SF Chip Ambres: 1-for-5, HR Brian Myrow: 0-for-4, BB Will Venable: 1-for-3, BB, SB Nick Hundley: 1-for-3, 2B, BB Justin Huber (DH): 1-for-4, 2B Luis Rodriguez: 3-for-4, 2B Josh Geer: 6 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 3 HR, 1 BB, 2 SO, WP Dirk Hayhurst...

The Padres have signed supplemental first-round pick Jaff Decker [h/t Jonathan S.]. Triple-A — Portland 4, Tacoma 2 Matt Antonelli: 1-for-4, 2B, SB Chip Ambres (RF): 1-for-4, 2B Brian Myrow: 2-for-4 Will Venable (CF): 4-for-4, 2B Nick Hundley: 0-for-4 Justin Huber: 1-for-3, BB Luis Rodriguez (...

Before we get to Sunday’s games, here’s a brief chat I had with John Conniff, of MadFriars.com, about his impressions from a recent trip to Portland: Ducksnorts: The big names at Portland, of course, are Chase Headley and Matt Antonelli. How do they look so far this year? Conniff: Obviou...

Just bullet points this morning: Bud Black, Wally Joyner, and Rick Renteria all threw during the big-league session we watched. Darrel Akerfelds pitched to minor leaguers over at the next field. Tadahito Iguchi had a nice batting practice session on Sunday. He showed more power than I’d expect...

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. See full photo set at Flickr. How cool was Friday’s game? I’m talking about all the Ducksnorters, of course. I hung out with Lance all day, and met up with LynchMob, Bruce (and dad), and Aaron at various points. I’d say that was pretty coo...

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made his third appearance on the cover of the Spanish gay magazine Zero this month in advance of national elections on March 9, using the occasion to warn the conservative Partido Popular against rolling back LGBT rights: "'We will continue to make...