And he calls himself a Texan… (LINK) MMPUS cracks the top 10 in PeTA’s Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Ballparks for 2009 (coming in at #5). Shame on you, Drayton. SHAME!
Roy likes the Big Unit (Yahoo! Sports):
“As a guy who’s been around for a while now, 300 wins is a lot,” Oswalt said. “You got to have a lot of things go your way. He’s the type of pitcher that if you put him in a situation to where he can win, he’s going to win. He doesn’t beat himself. I think that’s the biggest thing about 300-win guys. They don’t beat themselves out on the mound. They seem to be aggressive the whole game and get deep into games.”
Does it or doesn’t it? (A Professor Throws Curveballs a Curve):
“There’s something physical about it and something illusory about it,” the Bucknell University professor Arthur Shapiro said. *** “They look like they jump or break or do all these funky things, but they don’t,” he said. “The idea that the bottom falls out isn’t so.” He added: “I’m not saying curveballs don’t curve. I emphasize that, yes, they curve. They just do so at a more gradual rate. Instead of making a sudden hook, they would form a really big circle.”
This Just In: The Mole has no class (LINK).
A day after being accused of “zero class” and “zero professionalism” by one of the Roach bros. for saying the Mets should be “embarrassed” for getting swept by the Pirates, The Mole responded: “If he said that, I don’t agree with him. I got class.”
The twenty-two million dollar man (ESPN):
Pirates’ Ohlendorf ain’t no Ausmus, but apparently is a pretty sharp cookie in his own right. For his Princeton senior thesis, the Operations Research and Financial Engineering major wrote a 126-pager on the June amateur draft. Specifically, he attempted to determine the value of draft picks. “So what” you ask? Coming in at #4 on the list was Phil Nevin, providing a net return on investment of $22,916,550.
Too bad the Astros only ROI in the deal was Mike Henneman…