- According to the Elias Sports Bureau, last week Dan Haren became the first pitcher in American League history and just the second overall to win a game after allowing eight runs in the opening two frames.
- Manny Ramirez reached on 22 of 23 plate appearances in the New York Yankee series last week: eight hits, nine walks (five intentional) and twice on errors. He reached in his last 19 in a row.
- The Seattle Mariners are mired in a 20-game losing streak to division opponents.
- Scott Kazmir is already the Devil Rays’ all-time strikeout leader. Coincidentally, his 378 Ks moves him past the man he was dealt for, Victor Zambrano, who had 372 as a Ray.
- During Willy Taveras’ 28-game hit streak, he has an 0-for-11 stretch.
- Dusty Baker should probably not be managing a major league baseball team at this point: “On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage,” Baker said. “Clogging up the bases isn’t that great to me.”
- So that’s what Albert don’t call me “Joey” Bell has been up to.
- This guy is the man.
- Is there such a thing as being in too many fantasy football leagues? I’ll find out soon enough, as last week I competed in an industry “experts” draft, and tonight I am participating in a league I have been in for 10 years, which brings my total to six leagues this year. It’s getting to the point of even if I win a league, I’ll just break even with all my other leagues’ dues. Oh well, I say fantasy football is like money, the term too much simply doesn’t apply. Anyway, here’s a link to the aforementioned experts league, and feel free to comment on how you think I did (I’m RotoWire). It was a 1-point per reception league (the only reason I drafted Westbrook in the second round, which I am already regretting) and you start 2RB and 3WR. Most of the bigger names in the industry competed in this draft, so I’d really like to win it.
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