Phillies come through

The Phillies won game 1 of the NLCS against the Dodgers 3-2. It was another one of those typical, well-pitched, NL playoff game. Cole Hamels was awesome. He is fast becoming a superstar ace. America should keep an eye on this kid. Derek Lowe was not too bad either. He was shutting fools down for 5 innings, but then the train came off the tracks a little bit. Chase Utley and Pat Burrell went back-to-back jack to put the Phillies up for good. Man-Ram had another solid game and went 2-4. He almost hit one out off Hamels. It was weird to see Greg Maddux pitch in relief. It might be time for the professor to retire.

This game followed a unique day in the Sports calendar. There was absolutely nothing going on yesterday (Wednesday) because of the day off during the MLB playoffs. NBA pre-season was the only major sport going on and of course pre-season doesn't count. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some college football game somewhere because it does look like they have made College football a 7-day a week sport, but nothing that mattered happened yesterday. I think they had a college game Tues and Thurs, but nothing Wed. This kind of a "dead day" is usually confined only to the day after the MLB all-star game in the summer, but it was noticeable yesterday.

Sports Radio of course needs something to yap about on such days and Adam Pacman Jones readily obliged. He fought with his own "body-guard" in the bathroom and broke some glass. I find it odd that Jerry Jones had employed people to accompany Pacman and keep him straight. Unfortunately Pacman apparently didn't like one of the guys and might have found trouble through the very same guys hired to keep him out of trouble. Excellent ! May be Jerry Jones should accompany and shadow Pacman himself. Might be worth his time. Now it's up to Roger Goodell to make another call on Pacman. Seems like Jerry Jones has bought people off and kept the cops off of Pacman, but I am not sure how he's gonna massage the Commish. For the Cowboys, at least Pacman is keeping TO off the news. I am sure TO will bounce back strong with his own act of stupidity.