Monday, July 07, 2003
Wouldn't you know it - I take a few days off from blogging and this happens:
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The Braves get beat 4-5 by the Montreal Expos Thursday night and then come back with wins on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (8-6, 3-2, 7-5). Who'd have thought it? Gary Sheffield got himself into the All Star Team NL Starting line up and the Braves have (probably) seven players including starters and reserves.
But toigt is the Mets in New York. It should be a stroll, but then the Devil Rays in Tampa Bay should've been, too...
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The Ronaldinho saga drags on in uch the same way the David Beckham transfer did and there's still no word about whether he's going to play in Manchester, Madrid or Paris next season. At this poit I don't care much because...
...Liverpool sign Harry Kewell. The twenty four year old Aussie is reportedly signing for the Pool for 7m quid. My thought is that he'd have been cheap at twice the price. With the signing of Kewell and Fulham's Steve Finnan, Liverpool are looking like they'll be pretty well equipped to stay the course in the top three to the end of the season - and that is a little annoying since Jen is a Red.
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The Braves get beat 4-5 by the Montreal Expos Thursday night and then come back with wins on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (8-6, 3-2, 7-5). Who'd have thought it? Gary Sheffield got himself into the All Star Team NL Starting line up and the Braves have (probably) seven players including starters and reserves.
But toigt is the Mets in New York. It should be a stroll, but then the Devil Rays in Tampa Bay should've been, too...
footy
The Ronaldinho saga drags on in uch the same way the David Beckham transfer did and there's still no word about whether he's going to play in Manchester, Madrid or Paris next season. At this poit I don't care much because...
...Liverpool sign Harry Kewell. The twenty four year old Aussie is reportedly signing for the Pool for 7m quid. My thought is that he'd have been cheap at twice the price. With the signing of Kewell and Fulham's Steve Finnan, Liverpool are looking like they'll be pretty well equipped to stay the course in the top three to the end of the season - and that is a little annoying since Jen is a Red.
Thursday, July 03, 2003
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I take it back. Alright, I admit it.
I thought Jimbo Jimbo was just toloting his own horn and making all that stuff up about him moving to Man United.
And now it seems he actually is a United player.
I won't say I'm not happy to see more people coming in, but I'm still worried that the number of non-EU players is going to cause problems for the team when it comes to getting some stability since the "foreigners" have to play in a certain number of games in the season which more or less forces Ferguson's hand in terms of which players he picks.
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Tonight the Braves host the Expos.
It's enough to make a guy take up praying.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
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Huzzars!
Well, it only took thirteen innings for the Braves to avoid a sweep in the series with the Marlins. John Smoltz got the save as the Braves garnered a magnificent 2-1 win over the Florida team.
Go Braves!
But seriously...it's time for a new pitching order - I'm talking about bringing Smoltz out as a starter instead of a closer and making Grybowski wrap the game up. That should ease up the pressure on the batters to perform like they did through April and apply a little more pressure on some of the pitchers to step up.
Anyhow, thirteen innings. Some might say that I'm being a little hard on the guys, but dammit thirteen innings to beat a team that only got it's W-L record up to .500 by beating the Braves twice this week. It sucks.
Okay, I'm going to bed and there'd better be some definite word to the yay or nay about Ronaldinho waiting for me when I wake up or there'll be a number of names taken and an appropriate number of asses kicked.
Huzzars!
Well, it only took thirteen innings for the Braves to avoid a sweep in the series with the Marlins. John Smoltz got the save as the Braves garnered a magnificent 2-1 win over the Florida team.
Go Braves!
But seriously...it's time for a new pitching order - I'm talking about bringing Smoltz out as a starter instead of a closer and making Grybowski wrap the game up. That should ease up the pressure on the batters to perform like they did through April and apply a little more pressure on some of the pitchers to step up.
Anyhow, thirteen innings. Some might say that I'm being a little hard on the guys, but dammit thirteen innings to beat a team that only got it's W-L record up to .500 by beating the Braves twice this week. It sucks.
Okay, I'm going to bed and there'd better be some definite word to the yay or nay about Ronaldinho waiting for me when I wake up or there'll be a number of names taken and an appropriate number of asses kicked.
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So United signed David Bellion and are going to give Sunderland cash from the tribunal they've asked for, which is fair enough, can't argue with that.
What is incredible, though is the 31million PSG are asking for Ronaldinho. Yes, I'd like him to come, but if Beckham's only worth 25m then Ronnie's not going for that kind of wedge.
And Jimbo Jimbo turns out to not be a rumour after all, but I still think that the Old Trafford quota of non-EU players is creeping up to the way-too-many mark.
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Sad. So sad. Too sad to blog last night that the lacklustre Braves were pounded 1-20 by the Marlins last night. Sure, I can point the finger at the batters not having a great time, but the truth of it is if you stop the other team scoring then they can't beat you, and our pitchers aren't doing that.
Bobby Cox defended the performance by saying it was one of those nights where every Marlins hit found a hole in his fielding. No, Bobby, it was one of those nights where your $9m a year and more players just didn't show up.
I'm all for players getting paid for the entertainment value they provide us with, but on last night's, and a few others this last fortnight, performance, the opposition should be paying the team.
On a lighter note, Darren Bragg's bat snapped in the 7th with a piece of it hitting a photographer causing substantial bleeding and a delay of play. Nice to know that someone knows how to hit.
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Since it's raining here, and I mean really hard, I didn't get to the Falcons' training camp, but I'll try to see them when I get back from Chicago.
I had hoped to see either Detroit or Chicago playing while I'm away, but the only game is the White Sox in Detroit on Tuesday, and they're both terrible teams so I'll have to settle for going to a Braves game when I come home.
