SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Brad Ausmus was a catcher for the San Diego Padres from 1993 to 1996, and after a full career on other teams served from 2010 to 2013 as a Padres special assistant for baeball operations. He is now managing the Detroit Tigers with slugger Ian Kinsler one of his star teammates. U-T sportswriter Chris Jenkins reports that as a rookie manager Ausmus had been emphasizing base-stealing. The Tigers had only 35 stolen bases in the 2013 season, but just two months into the 2014 season, the Detroit base runners have stolen 39. Ausmus is pleased, but ready to change if necessary. “if you’re getting caught more than your stealing, you should probably change your tactics,” he said.
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While on the subject of baseball, we noted that U-T sportswriter Bill Pinella recalled in his “From Pages Past” column that 20 years ago, KFMB thought it might be fun to have Ted Leitner and Jerry Coleman broadcast Padre games from the right field bleachers. But from that vantage point they had trouble reading the score board tally of balls and strikes, so back to the broadcaster’s booth they went.
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Israeli-born jewelry designer Michal Mor, who sells via the website 75stitches.com, was profiled in the U-T’s ‘Night and Day’ section by Rebekah Sager. Concerning her jump into entrepreneurship, Mor offered this reflection: “Ife is like the monkey bars. You might feel safe hanging on, but you’ll never move forward if you don’t let go of the bar and trust. Nothing in life is secure, so you might as well try and do what you love.”
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David Ellenstein, artistic director of the North Coast Rep, currently is producing Faded Glory, a story about former Civil War General Daniel Sickles, who was awarded the Medal of Honor and elected to the U.S. Congress, and then gunned down his wife’s lover across the street from the White House.
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In the U-T’s letters-to-the-editor, Jerry Hermes points out that the UCSB murder stabbed to death half his six victims, and shot the others. “Despite this, no one is calling for a ban on knives, or even a ban on knives for the mentally disturbed,” he writes. “Their only focus is on gun control for all.”
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Preceding compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff