baseball basics

11 Things: Baseball basics

Thursday, March 29, 2007

1. AT&T Park: The home of the San Francisco Giants and site of Major League Baseball's 2007 All-Star game on July 10. Not to be confused with? A great name for a baseball park.

2. McAfee Coliseum: The home of the Oakland Athletics until at least 2010. Not to be confused with? A great baseball park.

3. 21st Amendment: A popular SoMa bar and restaurant at Second Street and De Boom. Not to be confused with? The Second, Fifth or 18th Amendments.

4. Zeke's: An old-school SoMa baseball bar and restaurant at Third Street and Brannan. Not to be confused with? Thomas Keller's French Laundry.

5. Connecticut Yankee: A Potrero Hill baseball bar and restaurant at 17th Street and Connecticut. Not to be confused with? A lovely environment for Yankee fans.

6. Flaxseed oil: A nutritional health supplement or drying oil used in painting or varnishing. Not to be confused with? Flaxseed oil.

7. Rich Aurilia: The same guy who used to put up great numbers for the Giants. Not to be confused with? The same guy who used to put up great numbers for the Giants.

8. Bengie Molina: The Giants' new catcher. Not to be confused with? Felix Molina, Gustavo Molina, Jose Molina or Yadier Molina.

9. Milton Bradley: Solid Oakland A's hitter who put up great numbers in last year's playoffs. Not to be confused with? The makers of Battleship, Candyland, Connect Four, Don't Break the Ice, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Jenga, KerPlunk, Operation, Perfection, Simon, Stratego, Trouble, Twister and Yahtzee.

10. RISP: An acronym for Runners in Scoring Position. Not to be confused with? Boston's Coco Crisp, a 2006 acronym for "choking with runners in scoring position."

11. Fantasy baseball: A popular ESPN, CBS Sportsline and Yahoo statistical game that you, your mom and everyone else will be neurotically checking every few seconds for the next six months.
Not to be confused with? A productive day at the office.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/NSG8UOQD691.DTL