6/25/2006

Additional Sunday Reading

I know that I shouldn't laugh at this because to a baseball announcer it is blasphemous....BUT I found this piece at Lookout Landing hilarious the other day. A quick taste of A Standard Vin Scully Introduction:

So here comes Richie Sexson to the plate. Richmond Lockwood "Richie" Sexson resides in Vancouver, Washington with his wife, Kerry. He graduated from Prairie High School in Brush Prairie, WA, in 1993, earning All-State honors in football, basketball and baseball, and also set the school record for RBI during his scholastic career at Prairie High. Sexson enjoys golfing, fishing and attending NBA games regularly in the off-season, while his wife Kerry is an avid photographer.

The pitch on the way...no, Lowe steps off.

In 1993 Sexson broke into professional baseball by appearing in 97 games for Class-A Burlington. He only hit one home run, but he came back a year later to hit 14 Columbus of the Sally League. In 1995 he won Cleveland's Lou Boudreau Award as the top minor league position player, spending the entire season at Kinston, and he was the MVP of the Carolina League and named to the Post-Season All-Star team...



Go to the link and scoll to the shaded area.

With the Chiefs coming to town, you may feel like taking a look at some Cub blogs out there.

Try The Cub Reporter and the post there The End of an Era?.

Bleed Cubbie Blue visited a Rockford Riverhawk game and saw Bo Flowers playing for the Hawks. Flowers used to be a top prospect in the Tigers organization and the traded Kyle Farnsworth to get him. Flowers played 2005 in Peoria and now...He's in Rockford.

The Northside Lounge has to be checked out for the name. And take a look at this post and guess who is blamed for the US loss to Ghana at the World Cup.

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