It's a done deal........Tonight, the Atlanta Braves traded home grown right fielder, Jeff Francoeur to the New York Mets for another right fielder, Ryan Church.
After taking the city by storm when called up in 2005........Francoeurs' career....has steadily descended.
Once a two sport star....... at Parkview High....with a football scholarship to attend Clemson, Francoeur never matched that 2005 and 2006 season.
Instead of adjusting to pitchers.......The pitchers....adjusted to him.
Baseball is a mental game........the trade could be good for Jeff.
But .....in New York?
We.......will see.
It's over.......after 162 games.....6 months.....the Major League Baseball regular season is finally, mercifully over.
And, after 162 games........there was only one team to win 100.....(California Angels, 100-62). Two teams managed to lose over 100 games....(Washington Nationals, 59-102 and Seattle Mariners, 61-101). Only one team lost as many as they won, the Cleveland Indians, 81-81.
The six division winners were, in the NL, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles.....in the AL, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Los Angeles.......with the wild cards going to Boston and Milwaukee.
The New York Mets did their annual choke job.......Minnesota was oh so close.......
The New York Yankees missed the post-season.......for the first time....in a long time.
Chipper Jones of the Braves won the batting title...........John Smoltz is a hit on TBS ........Barry Bonds still is without a team...........Manny is still Manny....and MLB lives on .....
Bring on the play-offs.
Go west......young men!
It has been nearly 50 years since the University of Georgia has traveled to the western part of this nation to play a regular season football game. Their last trip to the left coast was in 1960....(a 10-3 loss at Southern Cal)....
This Saturday, the Bulldogs will make a trip to Tempe, Arizona to take on Arizona State in a match up of the SEC and the PAC 10. The 3rd ranked dogs are 3-0.....while the Sun Devils are 2-1.....coming off of an upset loss to UNLV.
It is nice to see Georgia scheduling real teams .......instead of the usual Division II victims in their non-conference games.
Something is wrong here....
The Milwaukee Brewers fired manager Ned Yost earlier this week. That is their right.....their prerogative .......Last year, the Brewers were in position to get in the play-offs via the "wild card".....but faded down the stretch. The decision for Yost's firing is justified. The Brewers had just lost 11 of 14 games and are in danger of missing the play-offs , yet again.
But .......with the season two weeks from being over.....and only 12 games remaining....Why now?
Seems like a move made out of desperation ..........
Can you say "deja vu" again? ....
Oh.......those amazing Mets!.......Those Mets.....who last year........lost a 7 game lead with only 17 to play.
Those Mets......who fired manager Willie Randolph in the wee hours of the morning this past summer.
Well........they're up for an encore! Last nights 1-0 lost to the Washington Nationals (the last placed Nats' ) knocked the Mets out of first place...........again......
I kind of feel sorry for the fans......but wait...........It's New York.....
Never mind........let 'em suffer.
5......in 10.......
We may never see this again.......It is definite we won't see it again this year.
For the first time ever, the AP college football poll, has 5 teams from the same conference ranked in the top 10. The SEC has Georgia (3rd), Florida (4th), LSU (6th), Alabama (9th), and Auburn (10th).
From Yahoo Sports:
AP Top 25
Sun Sep 14, 2008
- USC
- Oklahoma
- Georgia
- Florida
- Missouri
- LSU
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
- Auburn
Finally........
In this southern college town, the temperatures will be in the 50's tonight. After a long hot summer, relief is finally here.......in the form of fall. Could the leaves be turning next?
Let's hope.
Have a great Hump Day.......
