Thursday, March 13, 2008

20 Somethings

Usually associated with very attractive females, the term "20 Somethings" has a few new meanings for me today.

24.55 - The Grapefruit League earned run average of Todd Barton Jones. Are you kidding me? He has pitched 3.2 innings of relief work. If that does not worry everyone in the Tiger organization as much as it worries me, then we may have major problems. I sort of expect GM Dombrowski to use Brandon Inge in a trade to acquire a reliever (especially if Zumaya and Rodney do not heal quickly).

June 21, 1985 - Will "The Thrill" Clark smacks a homerun off no-hit king Nolan Ryan in his first major league at-bat, not to mention his first major league swing. Why do I bring this up, today (03/13) is The Thrill's birthday.

20 - The Houston Rockets just won their 20th consecutive game last night. They have now joined the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks as the only teams in NBA history to win 20 in a row. The Lakers and Bucks each won championships. The Rockets have a long road ahead of them. No more Ming, will spell dome in the playoffs. By the way, with the Spurs losing last night, the Rockets and Spurs are now tied for first place in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference.

$14,500,000 - Yes, I know this has nothing to do with 20 Something, but for this discussion it is close enough. Who can really tell the difference between 14 mill and 20 mill except for the math. Seriously, how does Major League Baseball get away with paying Bud Selig (interesting fact origanally my last name before the trip over to America by my ancesters was spelled Selig, thank goodness no relation) this kind of money. He has done nothing but embarrass the league. Yes he added the wild card. That was nothing more than jumping on the bandwagon. He has had the fortune of residing as commish in a very prosperous time. The game primarily came back from the brink of diaster after 1994 because he closed his eyes to the use of performance enhaning drugs.

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