Friday Happy Hour at the Elysian Fields Bar & Grill

Welcome to the Elysian Fields Bar & Grill, where a cold one always awaits our wingman.

* Linedrives and Lipstick has opened at the Legends of the Game Museum. The exhibition shows the contributions of women in baseball from the early years of the game back in the 1880's. You get to see how Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition in 1931 and how Sophie Kurys stole 201 bases for the South Bend Blue Sox in 1946.

* Josh Hamilton on playing center field at the Ballpark "It's weird. The ball goes up and it looks like it's in right or left but it blows back you way even though you can't feel the wind out there. You look like an idiot standing there and the ball is coming toward you. You learn quickly not to give up on balls that are hit the other way."

* Hamilton played last year at the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati and said, "It was basic, the wind wasn't a factor. I don't know about here yet but at Great American you thought you had a chance to catch a ball and it would go out of the ballpark. Hopefully I'll have more room here."

* Kevin Millwood on former Braves teammate John Smoltz getting close to his 3,000th career strikeout: "It's a huge accomplishment, especially for a guy like him. To have as many physical problems, change the way he has pitched and changed his role, it's a testament to how hard a worker he is and how good he is."

* The New York Giants forfeited a game to the Phillies on April 11, 1907. The crowd didn't like the way the Giants were playing and threw snowballs on the field. One hit umpire Bill Klem and he called the game.

* By the way, you knew that Thursday was the big anniversary date for the franchise. April 10, 1961. That's when the Washington Senators hosted the Chicago White Sox in the first game ever for this franchise. White Sox 4, Senators 3. That despite a two-run triple by Gene Woodling in the first inning to give the Senators a 2-0 lead.

* The Senators were in Washington for 11 years. They used 86 pitchers. Only five pitched in at least 100 games and had an overall winning record.

* Mike Mussina on tying Bob Hall of Famer Bob Gibson with 251 career victories on Monday: "I suppose it's kind of neat. I guess if you play long enough, you get lucky and come up on some names everyone knows."

* Just for the heck of it: Edwin Correa.

* White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen: "I'm the biggest [Roberto] Clemente fan ever -- I named my son after him. But Pudge Rodriguez is the best player ever out of Puerto Rico."

* Buck Showalter makes his first appearance on Baseball Tonight on Monday.

* The Yankees have yet to steal a base in ten games. Longest they've gone without one to start a season since 1948 when they went 17 games without a steal.

* Jason Botts said one of his important roles is Josh Hamilton: "Keeping him locked in is one of my unofficial duties. I give him a lot of forearm shivers to the chest so he doesn't lose that edge."

* Relievers C.J. Wilson, Eddie Guardado and have yet to give up a run. In 1991, relievers Jeff Russell (10 innings), Rich Gossage (8 innings) and Gerald Alexander (42/3 innings) did not give up a run in April.

* Most innings pitched in a month by a Rangers pitcher without giving up a run? Joaquin Benoit. He pitched 16 innings last August without giving up a run. He allowed seven hits, five walks and struck out 22.

* Honorable mention to Jeff Zimmerman. He didn't allow a run in June or July, 1999 over a total of 252/3 innings.

* Coot Veal?