Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Interesting question asked in today’s Wizards/NBA WaPo chat:
Washington, D.C.: Strange question, but how do they decide which basket the teams will shoot at in the first half? Is it visitor’s choice?
Michael Lee: Typically, it’s the visiting team’s choice, but they usually respect the home team and let them start on whatever side they usually begin the game.
You learn something new everyday kids.
Its about time. Miguel Tejada has been rumored to be gone all off season and now he finally is: sent to the Astros for a package of 5 players (Luke Scott, Matt Albers, Troy Patton, Dennis Sarfate, and Mike Costanzo). I’ve only ever heard of Scott and he’s a 29 year old outfielder, which doesnt excite me.
That’s a fine haul for Baltimore. The Astros pretty much cleaned out their farm system for two years of an average-hitting third baseman. The average NL 3B had an .804 OPS in ‘07; Tejada was at .799 in the AL. I know some readers think I’m an Astro-hater but that’s not the case. I just think they gave up way too much here. Patton was ranked their third best prospect by Baseball America, Costanzo sixth. Scott is a cheap quality regular, and Albers was third on the team’s 2007 top prospect list.
That’s comforting but I feel similar to Roch:
My first reaction is one of disappointment, but I also know it’s unfair. I like Scott and probably will like him more in the coming months. But this isn’t exactly a sexy trade. It’s nowhere near being a blockbuster.
Obviously I don’t know how serious discussions got with the Angels but Brandon Wood or Nick Adenhart would have seemed like a better haul then the above Astros. Oh well.
Camden Chat passes along this link to John Sickel’s review of the Astro’s farm system for 2008, looks like we got their #1 and #5 prospects. Thats good.
The man Jason La Canfora links to this guy’s site breaking down the Skins’s chances of making the playoffs. To wit:
If the Skins go 3-0 they have a 92% of making it.
If they go 2-0-1 they have a 50.6% chance
If they go 2-1 15.1% chance
If they go 1-1-1 its 0.6% chance.
And so on. Basically they win out, there’s a good chance they make it. Unfortunately we close out the season @Giants, @Vikings and at home with the Cowboys. I don’t want to be a downer but 1-2, maybe 2-1 at the best, sounds more likely then 3-0. Stranger things have happened though.
Having been at the game myself I can attest to the fact that DeShawn’s dunk over Richard Jefferson was even more nasty then this video depicts. So nasty that I forgive him for getting a tech for taunting.
I would say I totally and completely agree with Dominic McGuire, as quoted by Agent Steinz:
“It was appropriate,” Dominic McGuire said. “You’ve got to stare somebody down after you dunk on them like that. You’ve got to stare at them like that.”
Amen.
(video via Bullets Forever)
QB Todd Collins is Peter King’s Co-Offensive POY. Going to need more performances like Thursday out of him if we have any hope of making the playoffs.