Mixed Bag
Posted by BMT on June 17th, 2009
- Great article from yesterday’s Inky by Bob Ford about what a bad signing Ray Emery is. It also correctly mentions the exculpatory and myopic issue of blaming Martin Biron for the Flyers’ late season collapse.
- The Phillies look to win one at home tonight for a change, assuming the weather holds up. In case you were wondering, their non-Nationals home record has fallen to 8-16 and they are now 3-4 against the American League this season.
- Raul Ibanez leads the team in batting average, home runs, RBI, OPS, runs scored, slugging percentage, hits and is tied with Shane Victorino and Pedro Feliz for most doubles.
- Harry Kalas has been posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame. This after his 2002 induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame as the Ford C. Frick winner.
- On the Dan Patrick show, Bud Selig looked to deflect some of the effects of the steroids era away from baseball and onto football. Choose from any of the fish above and your choice will appear as the picture in the dictionary next to Bud Selig’s name. With that said, it’s always fascinated me that steroids is a much bigger deal in baseball than any other of the big three sports. Wouldn’t it stand to reason that PEDs would have bigger effect on the performance of those athletes versus hitters and pitchers?