Odds & Ends (7/18)

Meet the newest members of the Appleton Baseball Hall of Fame.

Chicago White Sox executives Jerry Reinsdorf and Kenny Williams will be inducted into the Appleton Baseball Hall of Fame during an on-field ceremony on Aug. 5 at 6:45 p.m. at Fox Cities Stadium.

Reinsdorf, who is scheduled to appear at the ceremony, is in his 26th season as chairman of the White Sox after heading a limited partnership that purchased the club in 1981. The Appleton Foxes served as a White Sox affiliate from 1966-86, winning three consecutive Midwest League titles from 1982-84.

A former major league outfielder, Williams is in his sixth season as senior vice president and general manager of the White Sox. He spent the 1983 season with the Foxes, hitting .231 with 12 homers and 53 RBI as Appleton finished 87-50 and went on to beat Springfield (Ill.) in the Midwest League Championship Series.

Mariner Farm Report is up at the Seattle Times. It's about Everett pitcher Doug Fister and the choice he made to go back to school after the 2005 draft.

Doug Fister knew the risks when he turned down the New York Yankees after being drafted by them in the sixth round in 2005.

Coming back to pitch as a senior at Fresno State, the 6-foot-8 right-hander knew he would have less leverage when it came to working out a deal the next year. It is called the senior discount.

For Fister, not signing last year likely cost him about $75,000. He was drafted by the Mariners in the seventh round in June, and signed for a reported $50,000. The average bonus for a sixth-round pick last year was about $125,000.

Go to Dragon Insider for your "No, duh!" moment of the day...This may come as a shock, but Reds' top prospects given every chance to succeed:

DAYTON — Nobody had to tell Dayton Dragons manager Billy Gardner Jr. to play outfielders Jay Bruce and B.J. Szymanski every day.

That's the way it is in the minor leagues. High draft choices and top prospects play. The rest work their way into the lineup.

Lastly, a thank you to GBfan over at The Wisconsin Sportsbar. He put a link to Rattler Radio on their sidebar and put up a post shortly after about a topic that -- strangley -- came up yesterday as I was talking to a kid just out of high school about becoming an announcer. (I'll have to put my stock answer to that question on here one of these days.)

"Do you think its ok for the Team announcers and fans to use the word WE when talking about the team"?