Baseball In The Daytime: 7-5-07
Leading off are the new kings of day baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers. I don't have scientific research to back this up (actually, I do) but I'm pretty sure I've written more about Milwaukee in this feature than any other major league club. Thank goodness they're in first place, or I'd be really sick of it. The Brew Crew is still ensconced in Pittsburgh, where the Pirates have already taken two of three, including a 5-3 win yesterday. The Bucs go for the series win today behind Tom Gorzelanny, who's vying for the final All-Star nod in the NL, while the Brewers counter with Ben Sheets, who's already on the roster. Should be a good game, too bad it doesn't appear to be on television (XM 184 for the audio, at 10:35 Mountain).
Both Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia and Justin Verlander of Detroit made the AL All-Stars, and they'll face off today at 11 on XM 181 and DTV 734. Commander Cheeseburger's masterful pitching (12-2, 3.20 ERA) is a huge reason that the Indians lead the Central (by two games after last night's Tiger win). Verlander, of course, has hurled a no-hitter in addition to going 9-3 with a 3.18. I always hate it when pricks like Joe Morgan say "I'd pay to see this game," because it rubs the noses of guys like you and me (who actually have to pay to see every game) in their pompous assholes. But if I were Joe Morgan I would pay to see this game. It's a potential gem.
From the Bronx at 11 we get the Twins and Yankees on XM 176 and DTV 735. Both teams will start a rookie pitcher, with Minnesota giving the nod to Kevin Slowey and the Yanks handing the ball to Kei Igawa. If Mike Mussina hadn't run that airplane into that building last year it never would have come to this.
The cleanup game today is Florida at San Diego at 1:35. The Marlins are sort of hanging around in the NL East race at eight games back, while the Padres cling to a one-game lead in the West. You may not see a pitching mismatch this drastic until, I don't know, the end of time, as Jake Peavy takes the mound for the home team opposite Byung-Hyun Kim. I predict a final score of 23-1, and you can tune in to XM 189 and DTV 736 to watch the carnage.
2 comments:
Hey there Mr. Baseball in the Daytime, is Freddy Adu really the answer?
You didn't ask me, but that's never stopped me before: no. Not hardly. Unless the question is, "can Nike mount a vast hype-spiracy against the relatively soccer-free American sporting public?"
Freddy, poor kid, could never live up to the advance noise unless he turned out to have the ability to shoot green lasers from his dick. He'd have to be better than Ronaldinho. He'd have to be better than Kaka. He'd have to be better, which he isn't, than Ronaldinho's caca.
Look, America can produce good soccer players. DeMarcus Beasley--pretty damn good player. Ditto for Landon Donovan. But we just don't have the training setups they do in other countries. We have the Yankees, not Man U. We have the Steelers, not Juventus. We have the Cubs...never mind.
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