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Bitching About the ESPN Power Rankings Oh, hey, ESPN. I was hoping we wouldn’t have to do this again, but you’ve left me no respite.  I guess it was silly of me to assume that the team that won all of its games this week, while owning the best record in baseball, as well as the largest run differential (by far) would EVER trump the Phillies or Yanks. So, its partially my fault. I shouldn’t expect you to change, hell, I know you won’t. But I really can’t go on like this. I’m leaving you, and I’m taking our son. No, it’s too late. My bags are packed an the taxi is waiting. I’ll be staying at my mother’s, call if you’ve decided to change. Zoom

Bitching About the ESPN Power Rankings

Oh, hey, ESPN.

I was hoping we wouldn’t have to do this again, but you’ve left me no respite. 

I guess it was silly of me to assume that the team that won all of its games this week, while owning the best record in baseball, as well as the largest run differential (by far) would EVER trump the Phillies or Yanks.

So, its partially my fault. I shouldn’t expect you to change, hell, I know you won’t. But I really can’t go on like this. I’m leaving you, and I’m taking our son.

No, it’s too late. My bags are packed an the taxi is waiting. I’ll be staying at my mother’s, call if you’ve decided to change.

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I’m sure you all heard the news and saw the reaction at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia last night on ESPN. I just thought I might as well acknowledge it here. It’s a good day.

I’m sure you all heard the news and saw the reaction at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia last night on ESPN. I just thought I might as well acknowledge it here.

It’s a good day.

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Philadelphia starting pitcher Roy Oswalt unexpectedly left the Phillies on Wednesday to make sure his family was safe after severe storms and tornadoes struck near his home in Mississippi. In other news, Roy Oswalt doesn’t know how phones work. Zoom

Philadelphia starting pitcher Roy Oswalt unexpectedly left the Phillies on Wednesday to make sure his family was safe after severe storms and tornadoes struck near his home in Mississippi.

In other news, Roy Oswalt doesn’t know how phones work.

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Vinny “My Cousin Vinny” Pestano had an great inning tonight for the Indians, inheriting loaded bases from Tony “Sippin’ On Some Sizzurp” Sipp with no outs in the 8th, with the Indians holding on to a four run lead against the Royals. My Cousin Vinny retired three in a row with one K to hold the game at 7-3. Cleveland would go on to win 9-4, separating themselves from KC (and Detroit) by 2.5 games at the top of the AL Central Oh, and Justin “Bat” Masterson got his fifth win, putting him at 5-0 on the year, behind the golden-haired god Jered Weaver at 6 W’s. NICKNAMES!

Vinny “My Cousin Vinny” Pestano had an great inning tonight for the Indians, inheriting loaded bases from Tony “Sippin’ On Some Sizzurp” Sipp with no outs in the 8th, with the Indians holding on to a four run lead against the Royals.

My Cousin Vinny retired three in a row with one K to hold the game at 7-3. Cleveland would go on to win 9-4, separating themselves from KC (and Detroit) by 2.5 games at the top of the AL Central

Oh, and Justin “Bat” Masterson got his fifth win, putting him at 5-0 on the year, behind the golden-haired god Jered Weaver at 6 W’s.

NICKNAMES!

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Jered Weaver (6-0, 0.99 ERA) shutout the Oakland A’s last night for his sixth straight win. Could he be the first player since Denny McLain to win 30+ in a season? Does the pope shit in the woods? Yes. The answer is yes. Zoom

Jered Weaver (6-0, 0.99 ERA) shutout the Oakland A’s last night for his sixth straight win. Could he be the first player since Denny McLain to win 30+ in a season? Does the pope shit in the woods?

Yes. The answer is yes.

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Bitching About the ESPN Power Rankings Listen, ESPN: I know that Power Rankings are just a fun, arbitrary system for you to expose your raging hard on for the New York Yankees. I know that, I really do. But I don’t see how a division leader can be ranked at 9 behind a team they just took two of three from. AND I KNOW YOU WATCHED IT, IT WAS ON YOUR CHANNEL LAST NIGHT! Now I hope we don’t have to have this talk again. Note: I’m not a St. Louis fan or Reds detractor, I just hate power rankings. Zoom

Bitching About the ESPN Power Rankings

Listen, ESPN:

I know that Power Rankings are just a fun, arbitrary system for you to expose your raging hard on for the New York Yankees. I know that, I really do. But I don’t see how a division leader can be ranked at 9 behind a team they just took two of three from. AND I KNOW YOU WATCHED IT, IT WAS ON YOUR CHANNEL LAST NIGHT!

Now I hope we don’t have to have this talk again.

Note: I’m not a St. Louis fan or Reds detractor, I just hate power rankings.

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Methinks Sergio Romo is trying to one-up Brian Wilson. Zoom

Methinks Sergio Romo is trying to one-up Brian Wilson.

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Frank McCourt Is A Bad Owner

Frank McCourt sucks.

Not the Frank McCourt who wrote Angela’s Ashes, he’s dead, the one who just had his baseball team taken away from him by Major League Baseball.

How do you let that happen? Granted, the guy has been going through a divorce, and he and his [estranged] wife controlled the team together, which made for a complicated situation. What it comes down to is that he couldn’t afford to keep the Dodgers running. He had taken out loans in his name to pay off his payroll while avoiding MLB sanctions on loans.

Where but in professional sports would this ever happen? If a business owner anywhere else couldn’t pay employee salaries, he’d be arrested, declare bankruptcy or sell the company. Why wouldn’t Frank McCourt sell the Dodgers? If his situation was as bad as it is made out to be, maintaining ownership of the team seems out of the question. 

By the way, the balls on Bud Selig, right? To take a team from a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wait, wrong McCourt, again.

I have no clue how Dodgers fans feel about this, but if they’re angry about it, I wouldn’t recommend that the Commisioner hang out in Dodger Stadium parking lots anytime soon.

This is just an overall embarrassing situation for both the League and the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. At least Los Angeles still has the Angels.