John Lackey Has A Blog

We can add another pitcher to the growing list of baseball players with blogs. John Lackey of the Angels has started his own blog on Yardbarker.

It doesn't seem to be as personal as Curt Shilling's blog, but it does add some valuable insight into the way things work inside a baseball team.

We have Detroit in town for a two game set starting tonight. To prepare, our entire pitching staff meets together before the start of every series to go through the lineup we're about to face. We just finished our meeting about the Tigers. They have a tough lineup from top to bottom. Guillen, Polanco, Ordonez and Sheffield are always tough outs. We have a meeting room, it's like a board room with a big table in the middle. Our pitching coach, Mike Butcher, sits at the head of the table and leads the discussion. We go through every player on the roster, watch video of them and talk about their tendencies and strengths. While the video is playing, Mike reads the scouting report. These meetings usually last around 30 minutes.

Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting none the less. Of course, my personal favorite of the three entries Lackey has written so far have to do with playing in cold weather and against the Indians in Milwaukee.

I'm fired up to be back on the west coast. It's been a brutal trip. The weather was crappy back east and we've been getting our butts kicked. It's just been a crappy trip. We had to go to Milwaukee last week to play Cleveland. I've never heard of anything like that. It was snowing in Milwaukee too, a lot. I'm a Texas guy. I've never seen it come down like that.

Somebody buy John a thesaurus. There are so many other words for crappy. Poopy. Sucktastic. Execrable. These are just a few, there's a whole world of fun and exciting new words for you, John!

(A sexually harassing pat on the butt to Babes Love Baseball)