What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today?

We read an interesting story today on ESPN.com about how the A's are somehow winning despite being everything Moneyball is supposed to be against. You know, things like pitching and defense and situational hitting. Which basically means that somewhere out there, some Stat Head in Stat Head Land is desperately crunching numbers and running spreadsheets to try and proof that God is Not Dead.

Well, if He isn't dead, then He wasn't doing much for the A's as they were unable to complete the sweep against the Rangers, losing 3-0. Danny Harren struck out 12 but it was all for naught as the A's couldn't score a run. They did have bases loaded in the fourth but Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla struck out Nick the Swish to get out of the jam. But whatever, the A's are still up 5 1/2 on the Angels.

What are we to make of the Giants these days? They beat up on the Reds today, winning handily 8-0 as Matt Cain struck out nine. He became the ninth rookie to win at least 10 games for the Giants-- not bad for a 20 year old. The Giants got runs from Omar "Dreamy" Vizquel, Ray Durham, and Shea Hillenbrand and the Barry went three for three. This means the Giants have now won eleven out of fourteen and have pulled within two of the Wild Card lead. They are still 3 1/2 games behind LA.

Yeah, this sounds great and wonderful but we'd like to point out the team is still a game under .500.

And finally, we turned on the TV today to see a Niners game on. "Wait, that's weird,” we said to ourselves, "didn't they play yesterday?" Turns out they did. And turns out it was the same game-- KBHK is showing a repeat of yesterday's completely unstirring game. Whether this proves that KBHK doesn't have anything else to put on or that football fans really do need to get out more, we don't know. We would like to say this, however, IT'S AN EXHIBITION GAME. Go outside. Say hi to friends. Meet someone new. Get a life.

Now, if you'll excuse us, we'll go watch the season finale of "Battlestar Galactica" for the tenth time.