Micah Owings is one of those home-grown talent contributing to the DBacks this year. Today, at Atlanta, he had a 4/5 stint at the plate with 2 long home runs. He drove in 6 and scored 4 times himself. This was in front of a friendly crowd for Micah as he grew up in Georgia and had a whole bunch of his peeps at the yard. But here's the story. He is a starting pitcher who also won the game giving up just 3 runs in 7 strong innings. Thats Ruthian stuff and he said it was his greatest game ever. That could be the under-statement of the year. Dude already had hit a homer this season and now has 3. Not bad at all. He is not having a great year pitching with an ERA around 4.70 and a 6-6 record, but you know what? If you can drive in 6 runs, you have every right to give up 4 or 5. I can't complain. Micah helped extend the DBacks lead in the NL west to 5 games.
Yanks are 5 behind the Sox as they have beat the Tigers to lead the series 2-1 with a game to go tomorrow. Today, Clemens lucked his way to a win and showed once again why he is a punk. 20 year old rookie Cameron Maybin hit his first career home run off Clemens and Clemens couldn't let the kid go. He came inside and hit him later in the game. Real tough guy! The Yankees are good though. They are just half a game behind the Mariners. Thank god the Sox had a strong first half of the season. If not, the Yanks will be running away with that division. Looks like the Yanks are going to make the post-season after-all. I want to enjoy a couple of years when both the Sox and the Yanks don't make it to the playoffs. ESPN and some other outlets might stop covering baseball if that ever happens!
NFL is still dealing with Michael Vick. He is supposedly going to take a plea deal on Monday. All his co-defendants have struck a deal and Vick is in a real bad spot. The feds now have 4 solid witnesses and all 3 of his co-defendants have plead guilty. So it's Vick -V- 7 plus the Feds! Reminds me of that great "walk-off" run and TD he had against the Vikings in OT. If he goes to trial and gets convicted, he could be in jail for 5 years and come out after doing maybe 85% of that time. Thats long. If he takes the deal, he is potentially looking at 12-18 months and might get out in 9-12 months. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes the deal even with his millions and access to top lawyers. Thats how bad a soup he is in.
One question thats hard to answer is, how is dog-fighting so bad, but hunting is so normal? Everybody from the vice-president on down goes hunting in this country and kill deers and other sweet animals, but you can't kill a dog without being treated like the second-coming of the devil. I am not condoning what Vick did and he is a sick dude, but it's amazing how hypocritical our culture is. We shoot a deer dead and jail Vick for fighting dogs.
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