Sunday, June 19, 2005
Deep Sea Fishing
Are Devil Rays fish? Anyway, they aren't a very good baseball team. Oh, they try hard and made it a close game today (helped by the Cards leaving 10 on base), but the body design that helps so much in a liquid environment does not translate to success on the diamond.
I didn't get to see Saturday's game, so I missed the throwback uniforms. And some hilarious photoshopping by the Rays. I loved seeing Scotty back in the lineup; gotta get Edmonds better. Morris has trimmed his beard, getting dangerously close to shaving-which he Must. Not. Do. Seabol got a look in the outfield today and performed admirably. There's just not a whole lot to say about this series. I mean, sweeping Tampa is what good teams do.
The Reds are next. Remember what happened after the last time Red Hot Mama and I went at it? We lost three of four to the Padres. However, being 20 games over .500 and 9.5 games up on the division soothes my superstitious-ness a bit. A nugget of info from the game wrap:
I didn't get to see Saturday's game, so I missed the throwback uniforms. And some hilarious photoshopping by the Rays. I loved seeing Scotty back in the lineup; gotta get Edmonds better. Morris has trimmed his beard, getting dangerously close to shaving-which he Must. Not. Do. Seabol got a look in the outfield today and performed admirably. There's just not a whole lot to say about this series. I mean, sweeping Tampa is what good teams do.
The Reds are next. Remember what happened after the last time Red Hot Mama and I went at it? We lost three of four to the Padres. However, being 20 games over .500 and 9.5 games up on the division soothes my superstitious-ness a bit. A nugget of info from the game wrap:
In their runaway race to the division title last year, the Cards didn't go 20 games above .500 until July 7 and didn't lead by 9 1/2 until July 20.And we all remember July 20, 2004.
