Daily Brew 9/14

OK, let me get this straight, Kevin Mathis just so happened to tear his ACL and MCL in practice yesterday and is lost for the season? Did this injury occur during part of practice that was closed to the media?

The evidence is piling in my favor that this was indeed a work. Seriously, now you're gonna tell me that the "sacraficial lamb" Kevin Mathis injures his knee two days after he was suspended from the game for "fighting" with Jeremiah Trotter. C'mon, everyone reading this has to admit I was right.

Jeremiah Trotter could kill a bear in a fight if he wanted to, and this 180 pound nickle back is going to intice him into a fight?

Moving on, the crew dropped a heartbreaker last night, but like Fabos pointed out to me in an email this morning, I'm not all that disappointed because they didn't deserve to win. Clutch hitting was again no where to be seen, and they scored their only run on a balk. Nice job offense. Houston Rockets circa 1995 this team is not, especially when it comes to batting with runners in scoring position. (Thats "Clutch City" for those who aren't familiar)

.500 is going to be tough, they're one below right now at 72-73, and have to face the Cardinals, Cubs and Astros yet. They really needed to sweep the Diamondbacks and Pirates to give themselves a real good chance.

One of the strangest plays you will ever see in baseball occured last night when Tony Graffanino hit a home run and had to stop running the bases because Gabe Kapler, who was on first base, didn't know if the ball was going to clear the fence or not. Kapler was running so hard that when he rounded the bases he ruptured his achilles. A pinch runner had to be inserted during Graffanino's home run trot.

Just to tell you how much of a joke the WNBA is, their Finals Series is best of5. Win three games and you're champs. The real joke of it is it used to be best of 3. BEST OF 3! Get lucky twice and you're champs. Oh well, not like I really care. Seriously, do women even watch this? If my daughter played for one of the teams, and they played their games in Madison, here's how the conversation would go...

Daughter: "Coming to the game tonight dad?"

Me: "Ahh, you know what I gotta shovel some snow, you know how much your mom can nag."

Daughter: "But it's August Dad."

Me: "Look honey, there's no real easy way to say this, you're league is a joke. At first I thought it was kinda cute that you wanted to play basketball, and I encouraged it, but the truth is your mother and I get embarassed when people ask what you're doing now. It's gotten to the point where we tell everybody you went back to school in Australia."

Daughter: "But dad..."

Me: "Yeah I know, look I'd love to continue this, but real sports are on TV right now. Good luck with your thing tonight."

God I hope I don't have a daughter.