Brandon Webb won his 14-Th game today (3-2 against the Brewers) but his scoreless innings streak ended at 42. It was recently voted on the Arizona Republic website as the most impressive streak ever in the history of AZ sports ahead of other streaks like the Suns winning 17 straight and 15 straight in the same season and Lute Olson taking his Arizona wildcats to 8 million straight NCAA tournaments or something. I guess the Republic jinxed it because the streak ended today, but I am thinking Webb is on track to win back to back Cy Young anyways. Peavy's 14-5 with a 2.21 ERA is still better than Webb's 14-8 and 2.63, but not by much. If the DBacks win the division crown and Webb continues his strong second half, he should have a good shot at the Cy. Damn Prince Fielder for driving in that run in the first.
The game of the day was in Baltimore as Texas beat Baltimore 30-3. Yes, you read that right. A Big league team allowed 30 runs to another. I bet the Baltimore Ravens will play many games this NFL season where they don't allow anywhere close to 30 points and thats in football. The Orioles have embarrassed themselves like no other team in 110 years of modern Baseball. They gave up 5 runs in the 4-Th, 9 in the 6-Th, 10 in the 8-Th and 6 in the 9-Th. Thats more runs in each of those innings than a big league team should be giving up in entire games. If you look at the 4 pitchers they sent to the mound, they gave up 6, 8, 7 and 9 runs respectively. Again, more runs than what these scrubs should be giving up in entire games. Where was the mercy rule when you needed it? I am amazed Texas managed to score all these runs. After a while, aren't you supposed to just swing wildly and try to hit just home runs every pitch? Hit out or get out. I guess not. I am glad they didn't bunt and move runners over in the ninth with the score at 28-3! Paul Shuey gave up 9 runs in the 2 innings he pitched at the end. This is not what he was hoping in his ripe old age! MLB's best name, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, hit 2 homers and had 7 RBIs. I guess he almost equalled all the good work Mark Teixeira has done for Atlanta since the trade in just one game!
Speaking of Mark Teixeira, he has been a great pickup for the ATL. Dude has 9 homers and 26 RBIs in 19 games for the Braves. This guy might single-handedly get the Braves to the playoffs. Of course Atlanta is still reeling from the Michael Vick story. Vick plead guilty and now will definitely go to the hole. The only questions is, for how long and when? Experts say the deal might put him in jail for 12 to 22 months. Rough stuff. He will probably be suspended from the game and that needs to be served when he gets out. So he'll most definitely be out for 2 or 3 years and will be 30 years old by the time he is back in the reckoning. Sad, sad story. Sick story too as more and more details of this dog fighting deal comes out. Bryan Gumbel and Real Sports on HBO had a shocking piece on dog fighting and you just wonder who the hell these people are and how did they ever get this sick? Really scary, screwed up humans doing stupid and disgusting things to train these dogs. I am shocked and upset and I don't even like dogs. I am scared to run into some of these dumb, disgusting people.
NFL is king in our country right now, but with all these problems, NFL better be careful. I am sure Roger Goodell understands this and thats why he is really tough with his personal conduct policy, but he has no other choice. Fair or not, White America views NBA as being too black, too ghetto, too hip-hop and too thuggish and thats why they stay away from it. I feel NFL is on the same track with Vick, Pacman, the Bengals, etc. etc. etc. They have had one problem after the other the last year or 2 and this might catchup even to the mighty NFL. These things don't happen overnight and NFL better be careful with it's image. The Vick deal is a big one because America loves dogs more than they love their family.
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