The Good News: The Texas Rangers are leading the AL West, and look poised to remain in contention through the long hot months of the summer. The Bad News: the pitching it seems does not hold up. Some veteran presence could shape and change that.
The Rangers are winning despite leading the league in men LOB and trailing in the category of base on balls. That is a bad combination but both are irrelevant as they are products of offense. Despite my concerns of small ball, this is how the Rangers play, and is now obvious on how they win. But this is not a formula for post season success. What the Rangers need to do is get a veteran pitcher. Who they need to pursue is Roy Oswalt.
The NBA Draft is tonight at 6:00 and promises to be interesting in the way teams manuver to position themselves and allow certain players to be picked.
This applies to your Dallas Mavericks, who currently have the 50th pick in the draft after giving up their first-round pick at 27 to the New Jersey Nets (now, ironically, coached by former Mavs coach Avery Johnson) as part of the Jason Kidd trade. The Mavs, along with several other teams, will be looking to wheel and deal in order to move up in what looks like a deep pool of talent to choose from.
I hadn’t thought about it until recently after seeing various articles across these here Internets, but the parallels between the careers of Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James are downright creepy at the moment. Granted, Dirk has nowhere near the talent and starpower LeBron has, but consider:
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As everyone has heard by now, on June 2nd MLB umpire Jim Joyce prevented Detroit’s Armando Galarraga from garnering a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning against Cleveland by ruling that the Indians’ Jason Donald was safe on a bang-bang play at first. Instant replay of all angles has shown he made the wrong call. Anyone can easily see there was no tie where the defensive player and runner reach the base at the same time (that per the rule book would favor the runner). After the commotion on the field ended and play resumed, center fielder Trevor Crowe made the second 27th out of the game (future trivia question you can bet on it).
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Overturn Arrogant Call, Address Maverick Umpires
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