Tony Campana walked once and stole two bases. That is all.
Spellcheck Jr was 2-5 and stole his 2nd base in AA since his promotion. Logan Watkins drew three walks and now has an OBP of .373. Junior Lake hit his 8th HR of the year. The Smokies faced top pitching prospect Taijuan Walker who allowed 1 ER in his 4 innings of work.
Daytona
No Game
Peoria is a lot like Iowa right in terms of not a lot of talent left. Chadd Krist scored twice off a pair of walks and has shown a pretty good plate eye between Boise/Peoria. Always nice to have a C who can provide something on offense as well.
Gioskar Amaya continues his excellent 2012 season, last night he went 3-5 with his 6th HR to dead CF. Rock Shoulders was 3-5 and Dan Vogelbach had the rare off day.
Jorge Soler was 1-4 with a BB. He now has 5 BB to 10 K's t hrough 46 AB's. Pierce Johnson was back on the mound and worked two scoreless innings while collecting a pair of strikeouts.
Nice to see Soler walking at that rate, at that level.
This post showed up 10 times on my rss feed. It must be really important. (dying laughing)
@ mb21:
But are the Dodgers upset about it?
You also have to love the Canadian women’s soccer team blaming the ref when they had about 20% of the possession in the second half. They should have lost that match 7-3, is Wambach could put a header on target. Morgan was relentless in the second half, and Canada couldn’t get the ball out of their own half. Their keeper was rightly booked for time-wasting, and the PK, while a bit harsh was justifiable. The result favored them, and they need to STFU.
/off footy soapbox. for now.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Yeah, I didn’t understand that. I’m not a big follower of “soccer” but I like to watch from time to time but was that not a blatant handball?
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Would you ask Tom Petty that question?
@ Mucker:
She had her back turned, so she didn’t know anything about it, but that arm is away from the body and it clearly altered the path of the ball. No matter what the ref did, one side was going to hate her, but strictly by the rules, it’s a clear handball. It sucks for her, because it clearly wasn’t intentional, but it’s a handball. In those situations, i.e. unintentional handballs, the ref has discretion to wave on play, but with the arm out like that, right in front of goal, that’s going to get called far more often than not.
Let’s get a pool started: On What Date Does Garza Go See Dr. Andrews? Winner, of course, gets a bottle of Cookies and some microwave fish sticks on which to put it.
I’ve got August 14.
So…can MO explain this one?
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I’ll take September 4 (day after Labor Day)
@ Rice Cube:
Answered my own question…
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/07/behold-the-worst-play-of-the-season-sorry-astros-fans/
Good lord
@ Rice Cube:
That happened in the Astros game last night. Here’s the full play: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=23685139&topic_id&c_id=mlb&v=3&tcid=fb_video_23685139
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/07/barry-bonds-thinks-he-belongs-in-the-hall-doesnt-care-if-hes-kept-out-loves-roger-clemens/
@ mb21:
Nice. Gotta like what Bonds had to say.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I wasn’t sure of the rules. Was the call before that with GK a bullshit call? Or did she take too much time.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Yeah, did you read the interview on mlb.com? I liked it a lot. He’s not playing a victim, which is nice. He’s no victim though he will get screwed over by the high and mighty BBWAA.
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/transactions/revisiting-cubs-offseasons-transactions.html