Public Knowledge

There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.  -William Shakespeare

Public Knowledge:

1.  How ’bout them Rockies?  The Fightin’ Phills better be careful.  Very very careful.  The Rockies just beat Philadelphia’s young stud.  They just beat Philadelphia’s young stud and have a couple of young studs of their own coming up.  Morales and Jimminez.  The Phillies bats better come alive or they’ll be out of the picture as quickly as they got into to it.  LaTroy Hawkins, Brian Fuentes and Manny Corpas.  The best bullpen nobody’s heard of.

2.  I love my Babyback, Babyback, Babyback…I love Brandon Webb.  Ace against ace.  Mano y mano.  Webb vs. Zambrano.  Webb stymied the Cubs for seven strong innings in his postseason debut.  Zambrano did what Zambrano does best.  Put runners on and try to work out of jams.  Webb allowed only four hits and sat down nine.  Sinker.  Groundout.  Sinker.  Groundout.  Another sinker.  Another groundout.  Zambrano got the early hook.  Six innings and 85 pitches.   The Cubs have their backs to the walls.  Let’s see what they’re made of.  Not for nothing, Alfonso Soriano, Jacque Jones, Aramis Ramirez and Cliff Floyd combined to go 0-for-16 with five strikeouts.  Not what you’re looking for from the meat of your order.

3.  Oh Captain my Captain.  Did I read that right?  Stephen Jackson is the Captain of the Golden State Warriors?  What will they think of next?  Isn’t he still suspended?  Seven-game suspension stemming from a felony count of criminal recklessness where he shot off his glock outside an Indianapolis strip club?   Ejected from two playoff games last season.  Part of the infamous brawl at the Palace.  That’s your Captain?  C’mon Nellie.  You know better.

4.  Yankees still suck.  Mr. Wang, no offense, up against CC Sabathia.  I said C.   CC Rider.  Oh see, what you have done.  You’ll see what he’s gonna do.  Sabathia possesses a tremendous fastball.  A stupendous fastball.  But that’s not it.  What makes him a better pitcher today is his slurve.  His slurve and his change.  The Bombers have not seen CC since 2004.  Things have changed since then.  Things have changed a lot.  Know this:  The Yankees’ OPS is 55 points lower against lefties than righties this year.  The best lefties the Bombers faced were Erik Bedard and Scott Kazmir.  Bedard and Kazmir went 3-0 against New York with a 2.01 ERA in seven starts.  CC and the Indians are better.  The Yankees are in trouble. 

5.  Zeke.  Know that I hate this cat.  Larry Bird comments and all.  I loved it when the Legend stole the ball from Isiah.  Only fitting.  I loved it when Bird fired Isiah.  Justice.  I reveled when Zeke destroyed the CBA.  Rejoiced as he destroyed the Raptors.  When I moved to NYC, I figured, hey, I can like the Knicks.  Go to some games.  It’ll be fun.  Then along came Zeke.  Plan kyboshed.  The latest from Isiah just proves everything I have always felt.

6.  Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics.  I’ve never had it so good.  Titletown baby.  Titletown.

7.  So the Rocket is starting Sunday, huh?  I can’t wait for him to get shelled.

8  Here’s an interesting tidbit.  Home runs this year dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade.  An average of 2.04 homers per game were hit this season.  That’s a drop of 8.1 percent from last year’s 2.22 average.  That’s also the lowest figure in the majors since the 1995 average of 2.02.  Geez what could ever account for this?  Whatever could it be?  There is not one name that could come up in all this steroid mess that would surprise me.  Not one.

9. Adrian Peterson.  All Day.  I could watch this kid run all day.  Rookie of the Month.  Rookie of the Year. 

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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