Random Thoughts: Sox Can't Get Fat Off Sabathia
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Joe Davenport:
- The good news is the White Sox finally won a game where C.C. Sabathia was the starting pitcher for the Indians. The bad news is, due to their own ineptitude, they should have tagged C.C. with a loss, not an ND. In any case, Juan Uribe goes from goat to hero. The rubber game is tonight at U.S. Commiskey Park.
- I think the Sox pitchers must lead the league in hits and runs surrendered after two outs. First Danks Tuesday and then Garland last night. Don Cooper needs to get these guys to focus for an entire inning.
- I got to hear Steve Stone and Hawk work together last night. My professional opinion is that Stone brings Hawk's game up about ten notches. When Harrelson works with a partner who actually has some skills, it elevates his game to another level. Nice guess on Uribe, Stoney. Now, if you could just learn to talk out of your mouth instead of your nose.
- The Sox would rather be safe than sorry with John Danks. Translation: Since we're not going anywhere this year, the last thing we want is this kid to blow his arm out.
- Welcome back, Jose Contreras. Of course, you always did okay over two innings. Let's see you try five or six sometime to see if Don Cooper has wedged your head out of your backside.
- The Sox next opponent is no push over. In fact, they've been doing the pushing over lately.
- How not to win a division, co-authored by the Milwaukee Brewers and the Brewers can't even beat a one legged pitcher. The Cubs meantime have gone to the Pie system while the Brewers felt that Elmer was not the glue to hold the bullpen together.
- Cedric Benson likes the spotlight. Let's see how he likes it once he puts the ball on the ground a few times.
- Baroid talks to the Decider and then launches a bomb. I guess that makes him an honorary field commander.
- Not since Ribbie and Rhubarb has there been such an unnecessary and goofy mascot. And the funny thing is, it looks like Bill Cowher.
- The Tampa bay Bucs are more than just a football team: They're a collection agency.
- Jeremy Mayfield is leaving BDR at the end of the seasonafter a miserable year with the new, highly ineffective Toyotas. Look for Mayfield to maybe wind up in Michael Waltrip's car since both are natives of Owensboro, KY.
- SI's Stewart Mandel has developed a caste system for college football.
- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- One of the new analysts hired to do football on the Big Ten Network is former Ohio State and Bears QB Mike Tomczak. This ought to be a hoot. Tomczak is such a dull knife, he couldn't cut dryer lint. Thanks to our friends at AA for the hook-up.
- Here's a blog entry by a journalist from Milwaukee who works in China talking about Yi Jianlian and why he has no interest in playing in Brew City, USA. As I pointed out last month, it has to do with the Benjamins involved in endorsements and the lack of places to get good kung pao chicken.
- The Padres trim some fat from their pitching staff.
- Our friends at Bugs and Cranks have come up with an hilarious new movie starring Baroid Bonds.
- If you are a purest, then you understand why having David lee Roth front Van Halen is so much better than the Sammy Hagar version. I like Sammy, but Dave is the man in that band.
- Frivolous law suit division: Once again, the evil forces of lawyers have reared their ugly heads. Johnson and Johnson sues the Red Cross over the Red Cross logo. Only took them 110 years to object. Chuck Norris goes medieval on a small t-shirt site while the family of a womam who took herself out blames it on Nancy Grace. What we need so badly in this country are judges who throw this crap out. All this stuff does is create a blackmail situation by forcing a settlement to avoid bad publicity.
- Today's list, the hot women of the Food Network. Number one was a lead pipe cinch.
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