08 May 2008

Late Night Baseball Wrap

The Twins just routed the White Sox 13-1, which included a Carlos Gomez cycle. That's only the 8th cycle in the history of the Minnesota Twins. Nice job Carlos, and great job Twins.

As for the Yankees--is there any reason why Cliff Lee has a 0.81 ERA after that game? Lee has a career ERA of 4.42, and as a starter has only finished below 4.00 in 2005. Why couldn't the Yanks touch him? Certainly, the inconsistent offense didn't help.

And, for some reading material, check out this pretty good article by George Will:

"After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's ZIP code."