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Sorry guys, havent been around.
Been taking a bit of a break with the dog days of summer and
taking it easy again this week with the holiday.
Plus my son is coming home from grad school for the long weekend, but here is something to get the week started.

Hope everyone is doing well.




Monday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend.........

13) Interleague play is over and I really am glad it is, and once again the American League drilled its NL rivals, winning by 137-114 margin. Closer than last year, but not very close at all.

12) Actually, there is one interleague game left, a Cub-White Sox game that has to be made up after a rainout last week.

11) To me, this should guarantee the American League champ home field in the World Series, but no, jackasses that run MLB use the winner of an exhibition game, the All-Star Game, to determine home field for the most important event of the baseball season. Just a terrible idea.

10) A total of nine runs scored in this weekend's Boston-Atlanta series. Thats nine runs total in three games.

9) Braves' Tommy Hanson hasn't allowed a run in his last three starts, for a total of 19.1 consecutive scoreless innings. Those were starts #3-5 in his major league career, so he is quite a hot prospect for the Braves.

8) When the Mets got only four hits total Friday/Saturday, it was first time since April, 1967 they had got that few hits in consecutive games.

7) Andre Ethier hit three homers Friday night against Don Wakamatsu's Seattle Mariners; when Ethier was a kid, he attended a baseball camp run by Wakamatsu. Interesting to see if Ethier stays in the Dodger lineup on Friday, when Mr Ramirez returns from his 50-game suspension.

6) Nationals-Orioles series this weekend brought together announcing teams of the two teams-- both clubs share MASN network; interesting to hear Rob Dibble/Jim Palmer share the airwaves-- it made for pretty good television, since both guys are opinionated and smart.

5) Then there is Bert Blyleven, who minces no words on Minnesota's broadcasts; when Francisco Liriano couldn't bunt a runner over Sunday, the play-by-play guy was coming up with excuses, but Blyleven was quick to chime in, "Why can't he learn to bunt? Its not that hard."

4) Only 17 of 60 starting pitchers Saturday/Sunday finished 7th inning, with just four finishing the 8th inning. JA Happ's 100-pitch shutout in Toronto Saturday was the only complete game of the weekend.

3) There is no truth that Chien Ming Wang is Korean for "Ed Whitson." :rofl:

2) Apparently, the NHL wanted to have two outdoor games next year, Flyers-Bruins in Boston, and Canadiens-Flames in Calgary, but hideous NBC, which shows some NHL games but doesn't pay rights fees, put pressure on the league to only have the game in Boston, so the NHL did the wrong thing and cancelled the game in Alberta. Too bad.

1) If the playoffs started Monday morning, these would be the teams:
NL-- Phillies-Mil/StL-Dodgers-Giants
AL-- Red Sox-Tigers-Angels-Bronx