Friday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but..........
This is a great idea that the San Francisco Giants did.
Bleacher seats for Giant baseball games are $18; for the game next Tuesday vs Colorado, when Tim Lincecum will pitch vs Rockies, the ticket costs $18, minus $1 for every strikeout Lincecum got in Petco Thursday night. Well, he struck out nine Padres, so the bleacher seats Tuesday will be $9 each.
13) Cubs won their 10,000th game Wednesday, then lost their 9,466th game yesterday. Giants are only other franchise that has won 10,000+ games.
12) Detroit Tigers didn't score run in Kenny Rogers' first three starts this season; they scored 27 runs in his last two.
11) Roy Halladay has pitched three complete games in a row, but lost two of the three; Blue Jays scored total of eight runs in his last three outings.
10) You think about how the Texas Rangers always have need for pitching, then you realize they traded Edison Volquez this winter, for Josh Hamilton, an outfielder; Volquez is doing great for the Reds, and while Hamilton is a fine player, Texas stinks because they don't have enough pitching. This happens when you hire an Ivy League whiz kid to run your team: apparently, they don't teach "Baseball is 90% pitching" in hallowed halls.
9) Arby's is buying Wendy's for $2.34B, much of which came from my wallet. Just keep drive-thru windows open late, fellas. Arby's and Wendy's are my favorite fast food places.
8) 24 of the Big East's top 30 basketball scorers are back next season; there could be as many as nine of the 16 teams in the preseason top 25. Tough to win in that league.
7) Drake hired an Arizona State assistant to replace departed Keno Davis, who took Providence's millions; wonder if Drake will run the Princeton offense, like the Sun Devils do?
6) NHL ratings on NBC are up 11% this season, so network is signing back up for next season. Hockey is making comeback, which is a good thing- they have very passionate fans.
5) #125 on the PGA Tour money list is Doug LaBelle, who has made $207,008 on the links this season. So far, 27 golfers have earned at least $1M on Tour this season.
4) Name of the Day: Callix Crabbe, San Diego Padres.
3) Groups in St Petersburg, Washington DC, Salt Lake City are applying to host bowl games next season; if all get approved, there will be 35 freakin' bowl games next season, Last season, only seven bowl eligible teams didn't go bowling- do the math- there are going to be years where there aren't enough teams.
2) In their first 13 games next season, Pittsburgh Steelers play only two 1pm Sunday games. In weeks 8-14, Steelers play all of their games either at 4:15 or at night.
1) The #1 NFL story this summer might be the Bengals' refusal to trade Chad Johnson; I can see why they don't want the guy on their team anymore, but aren't they hurting their team if they won't take prime draft picks to get rid of him? Seems like they are cutting off their nose to spite their face. Stay tuned.