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Armadillo: Tuesday's six-pack
-- Really bad news for the Marlins; Jose Fernandez needs Tommy John surgery, is done for the year and probably part of next year.
-- Dodgers 6, Marlins 5-- Miami pitchers walked 10, threw 89 balls, 114 strikes.
-- Heat 102, Nets 96-- There was some good news in Miami last night. Lebron James scored 49 points; he's pretty good.
-- Ben Howland/Oregon State broke off talks; looks like former NBA guard Damon Stoudamire is the Beavers' new #1 choice- he is from Portland.
-- Mark Buehrle beat the Angels, is first MLB pitcher with seven wins.
-- Tim Lincecum induced 26 misses on 54 Atlanta swings last nite, exceptional as the Giants beat the Braves 4-2.
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Armadillo: Tuesday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.......
13) Kids who don’t get drafted by the NFL should be allowed to go back to college; what would it hurt? The way it is now, there are lot of sad stories, kids who get bad advice seeing their careers end. Have to listen to the right people.
12) Joey Votto takes grief for not driving in enough runs; this season, he has come to bat with 70 men on base, and knocked in only six of them, including just 1 of 21 from second base. Not good for a #3 hitter, but Votto does have a .404 on-base percentage. Why not just bat him leadoff? Seems like he would be ideal at setting the table for hitters who are better at driving men in.
11) My godson Tom loved the Bills trading for Sammy Watkins; I’m against giving up extra #1 picks, I consider them to be like gold, especially if a perennial losing team like Buffalo is trading them. We’ll see how it works out, but in a draft loaded with good WR’s, I think they paid too steep a price.
10) 18 of the 53 guys on Rams’ roster last year weren’t drafted; football players come from all over, which is part of what makes the NFL Draft more interesting than the others.
9) LSU had the most players taken in this year’s draft (9). I’m guessing our guy Les Miles will use that in his recruiting spiels for the next year or two.
8) My favorite sportswriter is Joe Posnanski who is from Kansas City; think he works for Sports Illustrated now. He wrote a great thing this weekend about his dislike for intentional walks and how the Rangers walked David Ortiz intentionally in the first inning Sunday, after a sacrifice bunt he also hated. Posnanski is a smart writer who is fair and a pleasure to read.
7) From this point on, any interviews regarding the Sterling family should be kept to Court TV or CNN-- its not a sports story anymore. Lawyers are going to rack up lot of billable hours as this distasteful saga plays out.
6) Shake Shack is a big deal at Citi Field; they have one at Saratoga racetrack and now also at New York-New York casino in Las Vegas. I’ve had them; they’re good shakes and all, but smaller than most milkshakes and like everything else at overly-commercial Saratoga, ridiculously expensive ($5.75 the day I was there).
The milkshake I had at In ‘n Out Burger in Las Vegas remains the best milkshake I’ve ever had, ever. Half the price of Shake Shack and much bigger.
5) Browns didn’t draft a WR, despite their best WR Josh Gordon being suspended, likely for the whole 2014 season. Gordon was the first WR ever to have consecutive 200-yard receiving games, and for the Browns, at that.
4) Kentucky paid Tennessee-Martin $410,000 to play its season opener this coming season; originally it was $375,000, but Kentucky switched the date and kicked in an extra $35,000. To a school like UT-Martin, that’s a lot of money.
3) It snowed in Denver over the weekend, enough to cover the ground, maybe an inch or two. Oy.
2) Looking at baseball teams on first game of a road trip, we see that unders are 47-41 in those games, 25-18 for AL teams, 22-23 for NL teams. Just in case you care about stuff like that.
1) I’m way tired of media types who make six-figure salaries whining about the NFL Draft being in May. While I agree with them that an April draft would better serve rookie players, who would then get an extra two weeks to prepare with their new team, writers whining about having to work an extra two weeks is nauseating. Anytime you want to switch jobs, give me a shout.
-- Really bad news for the Marlins; Jose Fernandez needs Tommy John surgery, is done for the year and probably part of next year.
-- Dodgers 6, Marlins 5-- Miami pitchers walked 10, threw 89 balls, 114 strikes.
-- Heat 102, Nets 96-- There was some good news in Miami last night. Lebron James scored 49 points; he's pretty good.
-- Ben Howland/Oregon State broke off talks; looks like former NBA guard Damon Stoudamire is the Beavers' new #1 choice- he is from Portland.
-- Mark Buehrle beat the Angels, is first MLB pitcher with seven wins.
-- Tim Lincecum induced 26 misses on 54 Atlanta swings last nite, exceptional as the Giants beat the Braves 4-2.
*****
Armadillo: Tuesday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.......
13) Kids who don’t get drafted by the NFL should be allowed to go back to college; what would it hurt? The way it is now, there are lot of sad stories, kids who get bad advice seeing their careers end. Have to listen to the right people.
12) Joey Votto takes grief for not driving in enough runs; this season, he has come to bat with 70 men on base, and knocked in only six of them, including just 1 of 21 from second base. Not good for a #3 hitter, but Votto does have a .404 on-base percentage. Why not just bat him leadoff? Seems like he would be ideal at setting the table for hitters who are better at driving men in.
11) My godson Tom loved the Bills trading for Sammy Watkins; I’m against giving up extra #1 picks, I consider them to be like gold, especially if a perennial losing team like Buffalo is trading them. We’ll see how it works out, but in a draft loaded with good WR’s, I think they paid too steep a price.
10) 18 of the 53 guys on Rams’ roster last year weren’t drafted; football players come from all over, which is part of what makes the NFL Draft more interesting than the others.
9) LSU had the most players taken in this year’s draft (9). I’m guessing our guy Les Miles will use that in his recruiting spiels for the next year or two.
8) My favorite sportswriter is Joe Posnanski who is from Kansas City; think he works for Sports Illustrated now. He wrote a great thing this weekend about his dislike for intentional walks and how the Rangers walked David Ortiz intentionally in the first inning Sunday, after a sacrifice bunt he also hated. Posnanski is a smart writer who is fair and a pleasure to read.
7) From this point on, any interviews regarding the Sterling family should be kept to Court TV or CNN-- its not a sports story anymore. Lawyers are going to rack up lot of billable hours as this distasteful saga plays out.
6) Shake Shack is a big deal at Citi Field; they have one at Saratoga racetrack and now also at New York-New York casino in Las Vegas. I’ve had them; they’re good shakes and all, but smaller than most milkshakes and like everything else at overly-commercial Saratoga, ridiculously expensive ($5.75 the day I was there).
The milkshake I had at In ‘n Out Burger in Las Vegas remains the best milkshake I’ve ever had, ever. Half the price of Shake Shack and much bigger.
5) Browns didn’t draft a WR, despite their best WR Josh Gordon being suspended, likely for the whole 2014 season. Gordon was the first WR ever to have consecutive 200-yard receiving games, and for the Browns, at that.
4) Kentucky paid Tennessee-Martin $410,000 to play its season opener this coming season; originally it was $375,000, but Kentucky switched the date and kicked in an extra $35,000. To a school like UT-Martin, that’s a lot of money.
3) It snowed in Denver over the weekend, enough to cover the ground, maybe an inch or two. Oy.
2) Looking at baseball teams on first game of a road trip, we see that unders are 47-41 in those games, 25-18 for AL teams, 22-23 for NL teams. Just in case you care about stuff like that.
1) I’m way tired of media types who make six-figure salaries whining about the NFL Draft being in May. While I agree with them that an April draft would better serve rookie players, who would then get an extra two weeks to prepare with their new team, writers whining about having to work an extra two weeks is nauseating. Anytime you want to switch jobs, give me a shout.
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