“Walk Off Grand Slam! You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me!”

• Leading off:
  
  

  I would not be a real Rockies fan unless I started off with this...
  HOLY CRAP SPILLY!!! WALK OFF GRAND SLAM TO WIN IT IN THE 14TH!!!!!!!!!
  What a way to win the game! Jim Tracy with some amazing coaching telling pitcher Adam Eaton not to swing because he wanted Ryan Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded, and did he ever come through! On a 0-1 count, Spilly drives a 96mph fastball to deep right center field for the first walk off grand slam in Rockies history. To read the MLB.com article and see the video, follow this link:

  
  

  http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090824&content_id=6602960&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

  
  

  
  

• You Know What Grinds My Gears?:
  
  

  Now with the amazing win comes a bit bad. The umpire crew was horrible. Now I normally don’t call out the umps, or any official, unless they deserved it. Home plate ump Angel Campos was incredibly inconsistent with his strike zone. At first, neither pitcher could get a strike call on the low outside corner, nor then a pitch later, in the same location, a strike, and then a ball. Late into the game we see this when Adam Eaton is batting. On a 3-0 count, Miller throws the ball on to the outside, clearly off the plate, and Ump Angel Campos called it a strike…a delayed strike. This means he had to think about it! Come on! Then the very next pitch, same location, same pitch, it is called a ball. Now I understand people make mistakes, but his mistakes calling balls and strikes could have been made by a tee-baller. With that said, Angel Campos, the Rockies are 3-0 with you at Coors Field, but please, PLEASE, learn how to stay constant. If you are not going to call the outside corner a strike, DON’T CALL IT A STRIKE THEN! But then again, Mr. Campos, you have stayed constant…constantly bad.

  
  

  
  

• Homer News:
  
  

  With the walk off grand slam, the Rockies are now 4 games up the NL Wild Card Race. The Rockies are also only 3 games back from 1st in the NL West with a critical 3 game series with the current NL West leaders LA Dodgers at Coors Field. Rockies are 2-10 against Los Dodgers going into the mid-week series.

  The Broncos acquired OL Russ Hochstein from the NE Patriots for an undisclosed 2010 draft pick. Josh Mc-I will turn your team into Patriots West-Daniels is continuing to make a laughing stock out of the Denver Broncos by signing and trading for Patriot rejects. This will be a loooooong season.

  Potomac Nationals lost to the birds of Myrtle Beach and are now sitting 2.5 games out of the final playoff spot. Tonight, the Potomac Nationals take on the Pelicans (Single-A Affiliate of the ATL Braves) to try to make up ground on the Wilmington Blue Rocks.

  #29 George Mason Men’s Soccer kicked off another season with a win over #24 UVA, 1-0. The Men’s team is projected to win the CAA again this year.

  
  

  
  

• Weird News:
  
  

  CAIRNS, Australia -A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall was taken to a hospital to have the toilet seat removed from his backside after someone smeared it with glue in what an official condemned Monday as a sick joke. Police urged possible witnesses to come forward after the 58-year-old man was humiliated in the northeastern city of Cairns by the prank. (AOL News)

  
  

  
  

• Words of Wisdom:
  
  

  Check Thy Toilet Seat Before Thee Squats

  
  

  -JB