I’m finally home from my vacation and it feels great.  I lost 3 hours last night but I’m fighting through that today.  Last night ended on a good note.  I got on the plane, paid my $6 for DirectTV and flipped the Red Sox/Blue Jays game on.  As a commercial came on, I flipped the channel to see what else was on.  I was lucky enough to have the Hawkeyes stunner over Penn State being broadcast on ESPNU.  The baseball game was put on the back burner.  As the plane pulled into the gate, I saw Daniel Murray hit the game winning field goal.  It was a beautiful sight to get me pumped for this season of College Football.  Go Hawks.

As for baseball, there was a full slate of games yesterday, as always is on a Wednesday.  I saw some of the ESPN Game of the Week, the Red Sox visiting the Blue Jays.  The Sox beat the Jays 6-1 on the back of their former stud prospect Clay Buchholz.  The Blue Jays trotted Roy Halladay to the mound and he got touched up.  He gave up long balls to Jason Bay and David Ortiz.  Ortiz has now homered in 3 straight games.  Halladay lasted only 5 innings and gave up 5 R (4ER) on 8 hits and 2 walks.  He fanned 7 batters.  His unearned run came on a Youkilis hit to Aaron Hill where Youk was out by a mile and Hill was given an error.  It made me hate those Chowderheads even more than I already do.

Brewers 1, Pirates 3: I saw the Rockies beat the Pirates ass last Thursday 10-1 in person, and was thinking the Brewers could sweep that team of rejects.  As I sit today, the Crew was slept by the Bucs and look like a team that has given up.  As a Brewers fan, getting Fielder signed has passed winning a ball game as the thing I most look forward to regarding the team.  We’ll try again in ‘10.  That rhymes.  Some team should pay me to use that.

Angels 3, Indians 0: Jeff Weaver was a star last night.  He threw a CG shutout while scattering 7 hits and walking one.  He struck out 3 batters.  The Angels had only 4 hits but it was enough to get the win.  Howie Kendrick and Bobby Abreu added the offense for the Halos.

Diamondbacks 1, Phillies 8: Cliff Lee continues to dominate for the Phightins.  That has to piss Indians fans off.  First CC stepped up last year, not Clifford does it this year.  He gave up 1 run on 2 hits and struck out 11 over the 9 innings he pitched.  The heart of the Phillies lineup did the damage last night, getting home runs from Utley, Howard and Werth.

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