newbie - love ya dude, but that JT Snow HR was definitely foul - on the replay you can see the ball in front of the foul pole . . . however, snow did impress me by performing a solid bat-toss after being gated - nice touch JT
anyway - sox lost today to the f-ing yankees - shut down by andy pettite. Manny had 2 RBI though - he's up to 55, well on his way to hack wilson's record of 190, and the sox are still a half-game ahead with pedro throwin tomorrow. Overall, they're having a decent year - although manny's knocked in 25% of the team's runs, that's not good - the other guys need to step up. Nomar's cast is off soon i think (before I came home, a bunch of my friends ran into him - apparently he's rehabbing at BU, so any of you ladies mad in love with him, he's doing rehab 3 blocks from the kappa sig house at boston university), after that it's probably 1 to 2 months, hopefully he doesn't rush back and hurt himself again.
Bonds is a stud, yeah - but look at his RBI: he has like 40 right now, and 24 are HIM from HRs! That's the big reason they're not doing better - if all of those were 3-run home runs, they'd be 33-10 right now like the mariners. Marvin Bernard's ass needs to get on base, actually everyone but aurelia needs to get on base.
(Can you tell I don't have a job for the summer yet? some labs need to call back . . . )
Anyway - the best teams in baseball right now, in my opinion? All are AL: Mariners, Twins, Indians. After that, the cards, yanks, sox, and phillies are all pretty close, and if the NL west ever stops beating up on each other than any of those teams could get hot (esp the dodgers, b/c of pitching, and the giants, b/c of hitting).
One last note: bonds has more HRs at this point in the year than Mark McGuire did at this time during the season he hit 70 homers . . . food for thought (and newbie i guess)
peace,
Rob
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