The Ongoing Motivational Device that is No Owens Sports

I think that I should change the name of the blog to "The Bulletin Board." It seems that athletes use this blog as such material.

I talked about Soriano and my displeasure with his presence as a human being in the early stages of the blog. He got hot. He cooled off again and I bashed him some more. Eleven homers in June later, he's going to the All-Star Game.

In light of the post after this being the first musically inclined post with the release of Velvet Revolver's new album today (no I don't have it yet...someone is coming by the office anytime so I couldn't pick it up before coming in...I will after this visitor leaves) something about how amazing Slash is will probably be provoked for the next post.

All this being said...I watched the Yankees play last night. It was...not as painful as usual, but less painful than the latest episode of Super Nanny or Serena Williams in a full body suit. Serena isn't what you'd call a slender woman. White isn't really the best color for her frame. Anyway, you ask why the Yankee game wasn't that bad?

Well, A-Rod had to leave with an injury. That makes anyone feel good. I laughed when Derek Jeter was awarded a 2 RBI Single on a ball that if it had been hit by anyone else would have been an error on Jeff Cirillo. So I was entertained by my two least favorite players in baseball...but most by the #3 guy.

Roger Clemens looked outstanding last night. Remember earlier when I wrote about pitchers learning how to take themselves late into games? Taking the page out of the Pedro Martinez playbook and rely more on groundball outs than K's? Clemens did that last night. He pitched eight solid innings, heavily relying on the groundball out. He threw more splitters than I could count and it's still a nasty pitch, but he sets it up differently at this stage in his career and with his lesser velocity, you can touch it. You just can't touch enough of it to get it out of the infield.

Clemens looked like a pitcher last night. Not an overpowering machine that he has been famous for throughout the rest of his career. If I recall correctly, Sut said he was under 100 pitches last night as well. So too was Felix Hernandez after throwing eight innings for the Mariners. This fad is going around to power pitchers, and they are reaping the benefits.

Oh, and buy Libertad today. If not, Slash will kill you.