Baseball

I'm totally not surprised if nobody wants to read that.  I'm kinda a baseball nerd. 

On the lighter side, the Dave Kingman Award, given annually to the player who "does the least with the most" and insists on negating high home run totals by countering them with a complete distaste for anything else productive. 

It seems to me, though, that there isn't any good that can come out of that five-slot.  I guess Sidney Ponson could surprise us, but odds are a slot filled by Kei Igawa, Dan Guise, and Sidney Ponson isn't going to do a hell of a lot of good for the team.  Just have Moose, Pettite, Joba, and Rasner rotate and keep Guise and/or Ponson in the pen for long relief or doubleheaders or days where Moose and Pettite can't quite get loose on only four days rest. 

He's got some....issues, though.  He must have at least 3 or 4 DWI's under his belt, and he assaulted a judge in Aruba.  There's a reason he started out with two strikes in Texas.  

They have plenty of time to get better in their careers. Just a matter of when.

Well, with all these close games thank God Mariano is still a beast.
I mean, you saw the end today....the guy has been around how long and is still a shutdown closer

I'm sorry to report back that Todd Jones had a blown save, giving up 4 runs in 2/3rds of an inning in the 9th inning.  Fortunately, the Tigers scored 2 in the bottom of the 9th to win 7 to 6. 

That was quite a pitching duel in LA.  Between the two starters, 13 innings, 13 K's, 3 hits, and 0 earned runs.

Both on my fantasy team! 
  

Edited by rileydog22 - June 29 2008 at 00:20

rileydog22 wrote: I saw that.  That's impressively bad.  Jered Weaver threw 6 innings of no-hit ball and the Angels pulled him.  He hadn't even thrown 100 pitches yet.  Jerks.

And then they didn't even get the no-no because of it only being 8 innings.

So the Rangers hit more runs than any team, but they give up more than any team...and they ARE playing the Yankees  so I Was looking foward to the scoring fest.
Instead, I sit through a 2-1 loss.........

Yea its a double edged sword I mean......yea it's cool Mussina held the rangers to 2, but the Yanks only managed 1?? And on 4 hits I believe, awful......

And that sucks man, personally  I never could get into any of the fantasy things, but I never tried baseball.
I think I get too blinded by my favorites, like I KNOW my fantasy team would be pretty much all Yankees with maybe Albert Pujols  and like Ichiro Suzuki