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Monday, May 24, 2004
Angels sweep into Canada
The Angels completed their sweep of the Orioles with an 8-3 win tonight. It was their fifth sweep of the season and brings their record to a league-best 29-15. That ties the club's mark for the best 44-game start ever.
- Aaron Sele continues to put up unimpressive peripherals (19/14 K/BB, 1.36 WHIP), yet his ERA is still a very impressive 3.05 and, most importantly, he continues to win (3-0 in 5 starts). He's constantly worked himself into- and out of- jams. There's only one word you can use to describe all of Sele's starts this year: gutsy. This guy has got balls of steel.
- Vlad Guerrero = wow. That homerun was just... wow. He didn't even have his feet set! He followed through with just one hand! He was leaning backwards! That is not right. Wow.
- David Eckstein had been doing his best to make me look like a fool. I went out on a limb during spring training and prognosticated a comeback season for Eck. Unfortunately Eck stumbled out of the blocks (actually, it's more like he was shot with the starter's pistol), and after 34 games he was posting an anemic line of .220/.281/.246.
Well, here it is, just nine days later, and Eck is riding a nine-game hitting streak (during which his average is a scorching .452) and his numbers have improved to .268/.333/.307. Those are still horrible, but you've got to be impressed with the turnaround. Welcome back to the land of the living, David!
- Can we please shut the hell up about Casey Kotchman's little strikeout-less streak!? It's not interesting in the least. In fact, it's just about the most inane record I've ever heard of. Besides, it's pretty hard to strikeout when you always hit the first pitch.
- Jeff Shaw thinks a Scott Speizio for Casey Kotchman deal sound interesting. Yeah, maybe too a Mariners fan it does...
- There's been a bit of a flap over the lack of racial diversity on FOX's "The OC." Apparently there are zero black characters of note on the teen-drama. I've only seen bits-and-pieces of the show, but it actually strikes me as a fairly accurate depiction of the area.
This is a true story: I grew up in roughly the same area of Orange County in which the show takes place. My high school was a rather large one, with about 2,000 students, of which only 5 or 6 were African American. And this wasn't the 40's or 50's- this was just a couple of years ago. Parts of Orange County are that homogeneous.
So maybe the answer is adding a bit of racial diversity to the county itself, not just shoehorning a few token black characters into the show.
And yes, the girls really do look like that...
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