Notes: Stadium changes during road trip

Improvements for fan enjoyment
By Beth Sass / hereforthesass.blogspot.com

CLEVELAND -- The Here for the Sass team announced before the team left town on Thursday night that there would be changes made to Sass Stadium in the form of a new concession stand.

“We’re happy to announce that upon the return to Sass Stadium late next week, Mrs. Guillen’s Cookies concession stand should be open. Mrs. Guillen herself will not be actually baking every cookie sold, but she will be directly supervising the hired bakers for at least the first week, or until she’s confident in the ability to make cookies up to her high standards,” Dawn said.

Mrs. Guillen is the wife of Sass shortstop Carlos Guillen. Her cookies became famous when Carlos brought some into the clubhouse early in the season to share. Since that time, she has sent cookies regularly to the Sass clubhouse, and even the Sass Rehab Facility in Nice has been the recipient of her cookies.

Presently, there are no plans to add her famous cheesecake to the menu.

“Cookies are enough, I think,” Beth said, “It’s hard to bake or eat cheesecake at the stadium, so I’m not sure if the quality of the cheesecake could be achieved for a price that’s reasonable for fans to pay.”

Sass Stadium said even with this new concession stand, they remain committed to ensuring the cost of edible items at Sass Stadiums remained the lowest in the league, without sacrificing quality.

Minor News: First round pick for the Sass in this year's draft, Jimmy Grudzielanek-Mientkiewicz-Pierzynski is apparently working hard, although he has not yet been assigned to a Sass minor league team. Beth and Dawn said that he must be walking on his own, and potty-trained, before they consider sending him to a rookie team. His fathers (Sass second baseman Mark Grudzielanek, Sass first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, and Sass catcher A.J. Pierzynski) have signed the contract on behalf of the six-month-old child. They feel that in fifteen years, he will be ready to play rookie ball, and assume at least one of them will be retired from professional baseball by then and be able to accompany him.

Former Sass pitcher Kyle Lohse, who is now pitching with the Sarcastics (AAA) in Vancouver, has been pitching well, earning rave reviews from the coaching staff there. Kyle still comes up every week to Sass Stadium to mow grass, but has not been recalled. When asked about a possible re-calling of Kyle, Beth looked on in abject terror, "Not a chance. I am not calling him up. If Dawn wants him--and I’m sure she doesn’t--she's welcome to call him up, but that's a risk I'm not willing to take."

Apology Letter:Chan Ho Park, after going 6 innings and giving up 5 runs, becomes the latest starting pitcher to write apology letters to the fans.

“I’m not sure how much longer the fans are going to tolerate this, actually,” Beth said. “Sass fans are great, but I’m not sure how long they’re accept letters of apology when they don’t behave like they’re sorry for their behavior.”

The starting pitchers looked a little sheepish when Beth posted the weekly stats on the wall. Beth has vowed that she will not bring up the issue in the team meetings any longer.

Coming up: Beth is sending Carlos Silva and Aaron Cook out to the mound.

"If they don't pitch well, I'm not sure I'll ever let any of them pitch in tandem again," Beth said..

Tomo Ohka will pitch on Sunday, which will complete the Sass pitching for the week. Saturday will likely see Sass minor league pitchers, who will be visiting the team, filling in.