A few non-baseball notes as I recover from my 4-hour drive:

• The A-Team is a wonderfully fun movie. It shows admirable restraint — for an action movie — throughout most of the film with the exception of 2 scenes. If you’re willing to forgive a flying tank and a rocket launcher into a cargo ship, this movie is loads of fun.
• I say this as an apolitical statement: The Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka The Stimulus Bill) is terribly inconvenient to my summer road trips as well as my daily commute.
• Google Maps tells me that the STL to Quad Cities trip time should be about 4 hours and 45 minutes. Based on my empirical data, it is approximately a 4 hour drive.
• There are a lot of cops that monitor Interstate 55 in Illinois.
• Children that sit behind me at baseball stadiums inevitably paw at my back after getting food on their hands.
• One of my favorite parts of a baseball road trip is running in an unfamiliar town. It’s incredibly freeing to just go outside with no idea where you’re headed and just run.
• Quad Cities has humidity similar to St. Louis. It is stifling.

Now that I’m back at home base, there’s still a lot of material to cover for Future Redbirds this week. I’ll be recounting what I saw at Quad Cities and taking a look at the third day of the draft in detail.  But for the moment, I owe you a Daily Farm Report.

Memphis 0, Iowa 4

• An uninspiring night at the plate for Memphis as they tally just 4 hits and 1 walk.
• PJ Walters struggled through 6 innings allowing 7 hits and 4 walks for 4 runs (3 earned).  He struck out 4.
• Matt Scherer pitched two scoreless innings allowing 1 hit.

Springfield 5, Arkansas 4

• Adron Chambers was 2-for-3 with a HR.
• Antonio, DeJesus who, despite ‘The Catch’, is having a miserable year at the plate, went 1-for-3 with a longball.
• Nick Additon had a masterful outing over 7 innings striking out 8. He allowed 3 hits and walked 2 batters.
• Casey Mulligan allowed 2 hits and 2 unearned runs in an inning of work.
• Adam Reifer was stuck with the blown save allowing 3 hits and 1 walk for 2 runs in his inning of work.  He struck out 1 and picked up the win as Springfield would score in the 9th to finish off Arkansas.

Quad Cities 2, West Michigan 1

• Jason Stidham and Edgar Lara, both of whom you’ll hear about later this week, went deep with solo shots in the game.
• Matt Adams was 1-for-2 with a walk.
• Michael Blazek threw 5 innings striking out 6 and walking just 1 while allowing 4 hits.
• Jorge Rondon went 3.2 IP striking out 4 and walking 2.  He was tagged for 4 hits and 1 unearned run.

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