June 12, 2006
DOES ANYONE PROGRAM ESPN?:
Arms race takes place in Motown (Sports Network, 6/12/06)
Two of baseball's most exciting young pitchers will be on display tonight in Detroit's Comerica Park when the Tigers start a four- game series with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.The Tigers will send out hard-throwing rookie Justin Verlander in Monday's opener, while the Devil Rays counter with 22-year-old sensation Scott Kazmir. Both hurlers enter the matchup with identical 7-4 season records and each ranks among the American League's top 10 in earned run average.
They could be two of the dominant arms for the next fifteen years and Monday Night Baseball is showing the Rangers/White Sox? Thank goodness for MLB radio... Posted by Orrin Judd at June 12, 2006 5:50 PM
You won't see him tonight because of his 3 shutout innings last night, but the Tigers' Joel Zumaya consistently throws at 100 mph or higher, and he's only 21 years old.
Posted by: JimBobElrod at June 12, 2006 7:11 PMESPN is too busy sending reporters out into the field (pun intended) to report on the hard road to fame of this, that, or the other "athlete of the week." I haven't watched Sportscenter for 15 minutes in the past year w/o wasting half of that time enduring some soap-opera about some athlete's life...
And don't even get me started on "Bonds on Bonds!"
Posted by: Bartman at June 12, 2006 7:14 PMBartman, I hear ya. The boyaahs and the smarmy sportscenter pinheads are too much. Don't even get me started with the female anchorettes at ESPN.
Posted by: pchuck at June 13, 2006 10:51 AM