2007-04-13 - 4:57 p.m.
Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been thinking the same way since the 1960's. Jason Whitlock wanted to point out to them that it is now 2007. Jason spent time saying who was representing black America and they are two extremes, from Reverends Jackson and Sharpton to rap stars. It seems a great voice for the middle of those two extremes would be Jason Whitlock.
He reports for the Kansas City Star and when he saw there was a ceiling on what he could report, he secured a column with AOL and he personifies truth with his written, and spoken, words.
Well, I might as well write about something else.
There were two fun games in baseball yesterday. The first one had the two oldest left-handed pitchers to ever start against each other. Tom Glavine, 41, notched his 292nd victory and Moyer, 44, struck out his 2000th batter. Jim Rome said it best about Moyer's amazing, improbable, accomplishment:
"Moyer struck out 2000 big league batters without being able to pitch over 65 miles an hour."
Tampa Bay has personified ineptitude since they entered the league. It hit an all time low last night when they truly reverted to fast pitch little league. With Ben Zobrist on first base, the fleet footed Carl Crawford lined a double into the outfield. Crawford tried to turn it into a triple.
Well, his third base coach was not waving him in. In fact, the slow footed Zobrist had returned to third base.
THE NEXT STATEMENT MIGHT BE BLINVERTED IN NATURE
So there they were, two Devil Rays on 3rd base.
SORRY, IT WASN'T AS BLINVERTED AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
In the case of two runners on the same base, one will be tagged out. It would have been a bummer but they would have had a man on third with only one out. But these are the Devil Rays so both Zobrist and Crawford started running. Zobrist charged home to get tagged out as Crawford was thrown out trying to go back to second.
The first Twins batter, Justin Morneau, of the ninth inning won the game with a home run.
Rome said it was poetic justice for the way the D-Rays pissed off the baseball gods with their horrible base running.
Great, so the baseball gods are vengeful too.
