- Cliff Lee is like the next Sandy Koufax, dude. I wasn't sure why they were going with Lee over Hamels, but he just struck out the side and looked awesome doing it. Good call charlie Manuel.
- Wow, I'm so used to Gardy here that I'm actually stunned that Robinson Cano isn't bunting here with a runner on first and nobody out. Of course, Cano isn't exactly Punto, and he hit around .300 with 20+ homers, so I guess this isn't quite the same situation.
- Wow, what a great freaking play by Rollins. I have no idea if he meant to catch it or drop it, but he turned two either way and it was, simply put, brilliant.
- UTLEYYYYyyyyyyyyy x2
- By the way, I checked out some of the Wolves' game tonight, and first of all, that team is god awful (currently losing 74-61), and secondly, holy crap is Damien Wilkins a terrible defender. He's ok on offense, in a boring sort of way (10 pts/9 rebs) but just a terrible, terrible, horrible, ugly defender. In the fifteen minutes or so I watched, he gave up a bunch of layups, both by getting beat off the dribble and by losing guys away from the ball on cuts or screens. It was, without question, the worst thing I've ever watched - other than Jumper.
- McCarver keeps talking about how Jayson Werth is the best player nobody is talking about, and it turns out in a rare turn of events he's right. .268/.373/..506 with 36 homers this year? That's nearly identical to the year Jason Bay had, and Bay is talked about as a top five MVP kind of guy, while Werth is rarely mentioned in any conversation of the game's best. You know why? People love RBIs, and Bay had 119 while Werth had 99. Werth is kind of like the Jason Kubel of the National League, and he's rapidly moving up my list of favorite players.
- Now that I think about it, I think the debate was actually Hamels or Pedro for game 2, not Hamels vs. Lee for game 1. In any case, Cliff Lee is god damned awesome.
- Jeter knocks a hit with one out in the bottom of the sixth. Man, he is such a true Yankee hero. He's like the Brett Favre of baseball (which kind of makes him the Pete Rose of baseball, which actually makes a lot of sense).
- Lee gets Damon to pop up, and not only does he catch it himself (going against a very silly unwritten rule of baseball) but kind of pulls a hybrid Rickey Henderson 1-handed catch/Hap Felsch basket catch). Very pimp. Lee is rapidly moving up the chart of my favorite players, also partially because of that wicked ass curveball that I somehow didn't realize he had.
- It's now clear that I'm rooting heavily for the Phillies, which makes sense since I kind of adopted them as my NL team after I went to a game at Citizen's Bank Park for a work thing. I wasn't expected Yankee hatred to bubble to the surface, but here it is. It wasn't until I started picturing the articles and reactions if they won that my blood started to boil. Please don't let the Yankees win, it's going to be disgusting.
- CC walks Francisco to lead off the inning, but gets a double play and another easy out. He's at 113 pitches, so is probably done for the night. That was a big chance to get a couple more, hopefully it doesn't kill them, because that Philly bullpen is questionable at best. Luckily kick ass Cliff Lee is only at about 86, two more innings and then hand it over to Lidge (and close your eyes and pray).
- One other thing I forget to mention from the Wolves game (currently losing 87-79), is that Terrence Williams, formerly of Louisville and now on the Nets, is going to be an absolute stud. The announcer called him a point guard trapped in a linebacker's body, and that's a pretty apt description. He currently has 15 points and 10 boards, and was unstoppable when I was watching (Brook Lopez has 27 and 14, but he's a weirdo and the Wolves don't have anything resembling a center, so I'm not impressed).
- Holy crap Natalie Portman is on Top Chef (which we are watching, I'm watching the game on an internet feed) and oh my goodness is she hot. This isn't quite like seeing her live, but she's not in a movie role and she is just amazing looking. I always had her near the top of my list, but I have kind of forgotten about her lately. No more. She is rapidly moving up my list of hottest chicks. Look:
- Posada check swings a little nubber down the line which Lee picks up, and instead of just tagging Posada out, he tags him by slapping him on the ass with his glove. Man crush picking up major steam. Right now if I have to choose Portman or Lee, I'm going Portman, but it's closer than you'd like to think or I'd like to admit.
- Yankees close Sabathia's day out: 7ip, 4 hits, 3 walks, 2 runs, and 6 Ks. Pretty good day of work outside of the two Utley ding-dongs. Of course, he's also lucky none of those walks came around to score. The Yanks are going Hughes here, and I'm guessing Rivera in the 9th, so the Phils better hope they don't somehow lose this lead.
- NOTE: Natalie Portman's favorite color is purple. This will come in handy when I commence with the stalking. And she just made a "prick in your mouth" joke. Be still my heart.
- Sorry. During all that Rollins walked and stole second, followed by another walk to Victorino, and we're going to Damaso Marte. Nice job Hughes, I'm glad you're not a Twin. That would be pretty sweet if Utley knocks out a third one here. I'm also legitimately surprised Girardi isn't giving the ball to Mariano here - I thought that was always the M.O.
- Utley whiffs on three called strikes that all might have been outside, but the important thing here is that somehow the Wolves won 95-93. I have no idea what happened, but now I'm going to have to watch the damn news. You win this round, Don Shelby.
- God, watching this show she has such a wonderful personality, too, and she's smart and a Harvard grad. Two real issues here: 1) she's a flaming liberal and 2) she's a vegetarian. I don't think it would work for us to get married, but Natalie, if you want to have a little fling shoot me an email, girl.
- Robertson comes in and walks Werth after Howard flew out. Bases loaded, two outs for Ibanez. Still surprised we aren't getting Rivera.
- Ibanez comes through and knocks in two, looks like Rivera would have been a better move than leaving in Dave frreaking Robertson. I think Girardi should be fired.
- Cliffy back out for the 8th, just under 100 pitches. If he can handle this one quick we might be looking at a complete game shut out.
- Two pitches, and a ground ball up the middle he fields behind his back. I don't think I even need to say it.
- Lee whiffs Swisher for the second out. I wonder if he's still making the team laugh and doing fancy handshakes while they continue walking out there and looking like clowns against Superman Lee.
- Third out is an easy fly out. Lee at something like 107 pitches. Hopefully they give him the chance to finish it.
- Phillies pick up two more on a bunch of hits, and it would have been three put apparently the "Flyin' Hawaiian" is slow as shit. 6-0 going into the bottom of the ninth.
- Two bloop hits and a Jimmy Rollins error and the shutout is gone, but Lee finishes it out and the Phils lead 1-0, and this was just a stud performance by Cliff Lee. I think he's rocketing up my list of favorite baseball players.
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The wolves were down 16 with just under 5 minutes to play and came storming back. Flynn had 13 in the 4th quarter of his first NBA game which is pretty unbelieveable. Flynn was beating his man off the dribble and getting to the rack at will, Dwayne Wade style.
This was suprisingly, a very entertaining game. The Wolves have won me over for at least one more game.
I ended up watching the news and they showed an early basket by Jefferson, an early basket by Lopez, and then the final game-winner by stone legs Wilkins. Thanks Mike Max!
In other NBA news my guy Steph Curry started for the Warriors in his first NBA game. Steph was 7-12 from the field for 14 pts. He only had 1 3 pt attempt. He also had 7 assists to go along with 2 TO's and 4 steals.
I beleive the Steph Haters (WWW and Snacks) accused Steph of being unable to make shots at a high percentage (currently 58%), taking too many 3's (1 attempt),unable to play the point (3.5 A:TO ratio, and unable to defend (4 steals). I know its a long season and he will probably hit a couple rough patches along the way but he is off to a pretty solid start. Folks, stay tuned for some classic Snacks waffling.
I saw this article and immediately thought of DWG, maybe since it just deals with college hotties. College Football Hottest Fanbases Do you do nothing else other than troll for pictures of hot chicks, or are you just a power user of Google Images?
Usually google, but every so often one of these articles pops up which helps.
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