Biscuits set game times, finalize promotions

The Biscuits have set their game times for the 2010 season -- your morning tilts, complete with thousands of school children, are April 27, May 5 and May 11 -- and announced their promotions schedule.

You can find a link to the full schedule at the right (though no gametimes), but here are the promotional highlights. All other Monday-Saturday game times are 7:05 p.m. Sunday games are at 2:05, except for a July 4 6:05 and a July 25 5:05. Here are the promotions:

APRIL
8: fireworks, magnet schedule
9: Myron Noodleman, magnet schedule
10: fireworks, magnet schedule
24: Evan Longoria bobblehead
25: Bark in the Ballpark
27: morning start

MAY
5: morning start
7: giveaway TBA
8: Autograph Day, fireworks, Boy Scouts Camporee
11: morning start
13: 80s Night, The Spicolis postgame concert
14: morning start, appearance by former Braves great Dale Murphy (sorry, I say no Hall of Fame for Murph)
28: fireworks
29: fireworks
30: mascot Big Mo's birthday party

JUNE
5: circus night, Girl Scout Camporee
10: Jimmy Buffett Night, postgame concert
11: fireworks
12: Military Appreciation Night, fireworks
25: (oh, goodness) Michael Jackson Tribute Night, with Christopher and his King of Pop puppets (can't find a link for that one)
26: Family Faith Night, fireworks

JULY
4: fireworks
9: Family Faith Night, postgame concert
10: Autograph Day, fireworks
23: Tampa Bay Rays Night
24: fireworks

AUGUST
6: Country Night, fireworks
20: fireworks
21: Auburn/Alabama Night -- team shows bias again
27: fireworks
28: charities night, jersey auction, fireworks

SEPTEMBER
2. Fan Appreciation Night, fireworks

Biscuits boosters to have first offseason meeting

The Biscuits Booster Club will gather Monday at Riverwalk Stadium for its first meeting of the offseason. It starts at 7 p.m. in the home clubhouse. The boosters will elect officers for the 2010 season.

Book it: Rays will sweep Boston in April 2010

I'm watching FlashForward's series debut on ABC right now. (You may have caught a commercial or two dozen lately.) In it, everyone in the world blacks out and has a vision of what they'll be doing on April 29, 2010.

One of the main characters saw himself, umm, on the throne as he read a newspaper (fine choice). He remembers reading where the Rays rallied from a three-run deficit to finish a sweep of Boston. Also, Kobe Bryant had blown out his knee.

The Rays do play at Fenway in April 2010, but it's April 16-19, so maybe it was an old paper -- or this show is a work of fiction.
=)


April 19, 2010, 1:45 p.m. update: Rays finish sweep of Red Sox

St. James grad top pitcher for Rookie team

St. James graduate Brandon Kloess has been named the pitcher of the year for the Great Falls Voyagers, the Rookie-level Pioneer League affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.

Kloess was 2-0 with four saves and a 2.43 ERA for the Voyagers this year, his first in professional baseball. He totaled 72 strikeouts in 58 2/3 innings.

The 24-year-old right-hander was also named to the Pioneer League's end-of-season All-Star team. Kloess, who played in college at Florida Atlantic, signed this year as a non-drafted free agent.

Stokes takes break from Mets for child's birth

Former Biscuits pitcher Brian Stokes took a few days off from the New York Mets to be with wife Sarianna for the birth of a baby boy. Brody Alexander made his debut Wednesday afternoon, according to the New York Daily News.