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Tuesday's six-pack
-- Gregory Havret, who finished 2nd at US Open, was ranked 391st in the world coming into the weekend. Lot of good golfers out there.
-- 47 golfers have already earned $1M+ on PGA Tour this season.
-- Panthers' WR Steve Smith broke his arm playing flag football at his camp; he'll miss start of training camp, but won't miss any real games.
-- Nationals sent Opening Day starter John Lannan down to AA; in his last four starts, Lannan was 0-3, 10.24.
-- Astros brought up catching prospect Jason Castro from AAA-- after a tough April (.229) he is hitting .278 since May 1st.
-- The strength coach at Oklahoma makes $244,000 a year; the thing is that strength coaches are the most important coaches on the staff, other than the two coordinators. They spend the most time with players.
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Tuesday's List of 13 (+1); Our weekly look at American League
14) Orioles-- O's are 19-50, worst record in AL; there is racehorse named Zenyatta that has won all 17 of its races, with 15 being graded stakes. At what point does the owner (who will make money hand over fist this year because he owns Nationals' (Strasburg) TV rights), just say the hell with it and go hire someone who can build a team that can win at least as many games as a damn horse wins races? I'm just askin'.......
13) Indians-- Catching prospect Santana is hitting .393 in his first nine big league games, with five doubles, two HRs in 35 PA. Lets hope the Tribe doesn't trade him before the July 31 trading deadline.
12) Mariners-- OK, I'm adding this to my list of things to do right now; go out to Phoenix and watch a Diamondbacks game from the pool in RF. I'm already heading there for spring training the first March I am retired from my day job, might as well stick around for a real ballgame.
11) Royals-- DirecTV is charging $315 this year for NFL Sunday Ticket; it was $289 LY, $179 as recently as 2003. Its still worth it, but the greed of NFL owners (and their business partners) will eventually come back to bite them. Or maybe it won't, and they'll just get a lot wealthier.......
10) A's-- Woke up in middle of night Sunday after a nightmare; dreamt in 8th inning with 1-run lead, A's pitched to Albert Pujols with two out and men on 1st/3rd. Then I realized, they actually did it.........and got him out. Even stupid ideas turn out OK now and then.
9) White Sox-- Pale Hose got back into the race by pummeling Nationals and Pirates last week; Peavy has sore shoulder, Ozzie wanted to DL him, so Jake goes out and throws 3-hit CG shutout Saturday. Go figure.
8) Blue Jays-- Did you know in the history of baseball, no 2B has won a Gold Glove and a batting title???? Not just in the same year-- EVER!!!! This is a very surprising fact. Robinson Cano has a chance to be first.
7) Tigers-- I watch Brandon Phillips play, he has just horrendous body language; after lining out to LF leading off 8th inning in 1-1 game Monday night, Phillips walked back to dugout, slammed his helmet into the rack, and generally acted like a 10-year old. Its not the first time he's done it. Too bad-- he's a good player, very productive.
6) Angels-- I'm doing a list later this week of the best 13 active coaches in any sport; one of my tougher decisions is how to place baseball skippers. Leyland-Larussa-Francona-Torre-Cox and Scioscia, the best of them all.
5) Twins-- Joe Mauer is going through same thing David Wright had last year, his power numbers shrinking because of new home ballpark that is not so hitter friendly. Advantage of playing in smaller market-- we don't hear about it every 10 minutes, and he is playing thru it, batting .304 with an on-base percentage of .382, with line drives on 27.3% of batted balls.
4) Rays-- So far this month, their pitchers have an OPS of .802, 27th out of 30 big league teams (8-9, 4.93). This franchise has stadium issues, free agent issues-- they better enjoy this season as much as they can. They've lost their last six Friday games, for what its worth.
3) Rangers-- After slow start, young 1B Smoak is hitting .318 so far this month, with 20 RBI, as he starts to establish himself in the Ranger lineup. Good for Ron Washington-- his team has now won 8 in a row on the road. Nolan Ryan could be winning Executive of the Year this season.
2) Red Sox-- Kevin Youkilis' on-base percentage after count on him goes to 1-0: .516....after 2-0 count, .673.....3-0 count, .773. He's only put first ball in play 12 times this year (4-12) in 237 ABs. Very excellent hitter.
1) Bronx Bombers-- Over his last four starts, AJ Burnett is 0-4, 9.85, so this #1 ranking is hardly set in stone. Nucleus of this team is getting old; where will they buy their next set of stars????
-- Gregory Havret, who finished 2nd at US Open, was ranked 391st in the world coming into the weekend. Lot of good golfers out there.
-- 47 golfers have already earned $1M+ on PGA Tour this season.
-- Panthers' WR Steve Smith broke his arm playing flag football at his camp; he'll miss start of training camp, but won't miss any real games.
-- Nationals sent Opening Day starter John Lannan down to AA; in his last four starts, Lannan was 0-3, 10.24.
-- Astros brought up catching prospect Jason Castro from AAA-- after a tough April (.229) he is hitting .278 since May 1st.
-- The strength coach at Oklahoma makes $244,000 a year; the thing is that strength coaches are the most important coaches on the staff, other than the two coordinators. They spend the most time with players.
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Tuesday's List of 13 (+1); Our weekly look at American League
14) Orioles-- O's are 19-50, worst record in AL; there is racehorse named Zenyatta that has won all 17 of its races, with 15 being graded stakes. At what point does the owner (who will make money hand over fist this year because he owns Nationals' (Strasburg) TV rights), just say the hell with it and go hire someone who can build a team that can win at least as many games as a damn horse wins races? I'm just askin'.......
13) Indians-- Catching prospect Santana is hitting .393 in his first nine big league games, with five doubles, two HRs in 35 PA. Lets hope the Tribe doesn't trade him before the July 31 trading deadline.
12) Mariners-- OK, I'm adding this to my list of things to do right now; go out to Phoenix and watch a Diamondbacks game from the pool in RF. I'm already heading there for spring training the first March I am retired from my day job, might as well stick around for a real ballgame.
11) Royals-- DirecTV is charging $315 this year for NFL Sunday Ticket; it was $289 LY, $179 as recently as 2003. Its still worth it, but the greed of NFL owners (and their business partners) will eventually come back to bite them. Or maybe it won't, and they'll just get a lot wealthier.......
10) A's-- Woke up in middle of night Sunday after a nightmare; dreamt in 8th inning with 1-run lead, A's pitched to Albert Pujols with two out and men on 1st/3rd. Then I realized, they actually did it.........and got him out. Even stupid ideas turn out OK now and then.
9) White Sox-- Pale Hose got back into the race by pummeling Nationals and Pirates last week; Peavy has sore shoulder, Ozzie wanted to DL him, so Jake goes out and throws 3-hit CG shutout Saturday. Go figure.
8) Blue Jays-- Did you know in the history of baseball, no 2B has won a Gold Glove and a batting title???? Not just in the same year-- EVER!!!! This is a very surprising fact. Robinson Cano has a chance to be first.
7) Tigers-- I watch Brandon Phillips play, he has just horrendous body language; after lining out to LF leading off 8th inning in 1-1 game Monday night, Phillips walked back to dugout, slammed his helmet into the rack, and generally acted like a 10-year old. Its not the first time he's done it. Too bad-- he's a good player, very productive.
6) Angels-- I'm doing a list later this week of the best 13 active coaches in any sport; one of my tougher decisions is how to place baseball skippers. Leyland-Larussa-Francona-Torre-Cox and Scioscia, the best of them all.
5) Twins-- Joe Mauer is going through same thing David Wright had last year, his power numbers shrinking because of new home ballpark that is not so hitter friendly. Advantage of playing in smaller market-- we don't hear about it every 10 minutes, and he is playing thru it, batting .304 with an on-base percentage of .382, with line drives on 27.3% of batted balls.
4) Rays-- So far this month, their pitchers have an OPS of .802, 27th out of 30 big league teams (8-9, 4.93). This franchise has stadium issues, free agent issues-- they better enjoy this season as much as they can. They've lost their last six Friday games, for what its worth.
3) Rangers-- After slow start, young 1B Smoak is hitting .318 so far this month, with 20 RBI, as he starts to establish himself in the Ranger lineup. Good for Ron Washington-- his team has now won 8 in a row on the road. Nolan Ryan could be winning Executive of the Year this season.
2) Red Sox-- Kevin Youkilis' on-base percentage after count on him goes to 1-0: .516....after 2-0 count, .673.....3-0 count, .773. He's only put first ball in play 12 times this year (4-12) in 237 ABs. Very excellent hitter.
1) Bronx Bombers-- Over his last four starts, AJ Burnett is 0-4, 9.85, so this #1 ranking is hardly set in stone. Nucleus of this team is getting old; where will they buy their next set of stars????
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