IT'S JUST A BAD WEEK

***NEVER SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE BED***
...and that's since Monday morning. Nothing was very pleasant this week"
1) The Yanks lost 3 of 4 in Detroit.
2) Vod is dealing with flat tires and mismatched carpeting.
3) Annie-O has spent the week dealing with 3 different doctors...and that's just for areas above the waist.

***AND IN BASEBALL NEWS...***
# The Royals fired Trey Hillman. A nice guy, saddled with a small-market budget and border-line major league talent.
# Seattle lost when the potential tying run was thrown out at the plate with two out in the 9th inning. All this after blowing a 5-1 lead in the 8th inning...to the Orioles, no less. This is probably the only reason manager Dave Trembly's name wasn't in the first sentence of this paragraph.
# Giants lost 1-0 to the Padres, making more errors (3) than getting baserunners (2)
# The Nationals beat the Rockies and are one game out in the NL East.

***...BUT WE DIDN'T CHEAT***
Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy is still fuming over the Phillies using binoculars in the bullpen. Phillies manager, Charlie Manuel, taking a page out of Casey Stengel's book said, "Would we try to steal somebody's signs? Yeah, if we can. But we don't do that." Huh? When Tracy wouldn't let it go, Charlie was very sympathetic: "Keep crying."
Tracy's got a point. The Phillies answer wasn't the most believeable - "We were checking defensive alignments." For what? The Beer Stand behind home plate?

***DALLAS BRADEN ON LETTERMAN***
He did one of those "Top Ten..." skits. I read them and there should have been one more:
#1A - With 10 chances, you'd think they could have come up with something funny. Don't quit your day/night job, Braden: Baseball's Unwritten Rule Sheriff.

***SPEAKING OF LISTS***
ESPN magazine came out with an article titled, 20 Questions for 100 Major Leaguers. Some interesting results:
MOST OVERATED STASTISTIC: Batting average. On-base Pct is a better gauge.
BEST OVERALL PLAYER: Albert Pujols (what a surprise)
BEST MANAGER: Atlanta's Bobby Cox (2400+ wins, 154 ejections). Actually, the question was what manager would you most like to play for.
As a side note, the manager you'd LEAST like to play for was Ozzie Guillen with Lou Piniella right behind. I guess that's why they call Chicago "The second City."
TOUGHEST (SCARIEST) PLAYER: Kyle Farnsworth. Extremely well-conditioned, very mean temperment and a black belt in some asian Discipline. Nobody know what it is 'cause they're afraid to ask him.
MOST OVER-RATED PLAYER: Joba Chamberlain ("What's he done that makes him so great?")

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