Quote of the day
"National League games are a blast. They really challenge you mentally. It's a totally different game than the American (League). There's no comparison mentally to the thoughts that you go through on a nightly basis in a National League game compared to an American League game. Not even close." -- Tampa Bay manager Joe MaddenDaily Blurb
Tough weekend for the Tribe. They gave up only 4 earned runs in three games – and lost all three. The problem was that they only scored a total of 2 runs in three games, while also contributing to four unearned Giants runs with timely errors and balks. Tim Lincecum is probably chafing that his pitching turn didn’t come up this weekend
This is pretty cool. In yesterday’s Colorado at Yankees game, Troy Tulowitzki hit the ball twice on a single swing of the bat. You can clearly see it in slow motion (courtesy of MLB.com):
In GuruGolf, my Double Entendre team took the best ball honors (-55) for the Travelers Championship, while sharing the top worst ball score (+35) with Present Glory. A week ago, gutties (-45_ took the best ball honors by three strokes in the U.S. Open, and Knights (+54) took the top spot by the same margin in the worst ball competition.