Weekend Roundup

-A couple of ole-timers threw pretty well last night as Pedro Martinez beat his former employers, the Mets, and John Smoltz struck out 9 Padres in 5 innings of scoreless baseball..including a stretch where he k'd 7 straight hitters. Smoltz even looked good scoring on a base-hit, hook sliding into home plate. Looks like Smoltz can put that professional golf career on hold, for now at least.

-Giants got rocked by the Chicago Bears Saturday night. Cutler really looked improved. Shhh...quietly no one seems to realize how good the Bears are. That is criminal really. A team with a consistently great defense, that suffered some injuries last year is healthy again. They bring in Orlando Pace, who might only start 8 games but has to be considered an upgrade. Jay Cutler is about 10000 times better than Kyle Orton, and since he's a loud-mouthed jerk no one seems to want to realize this. They need Alex Brown, Mark Anderson, Adawale Ogunleye and Tommy Harris to stay healthy and be productive. I think they will...and given their division I'd say they should be considered the favorite to win the NFC this year.

-In a very boring series, by taking 2/3 the Yanks have now pretty much officially buried the Red Sox in the AL East and Boston now has the Rays breathing down its neck. Disappointing for the Yanks was Burnett again getting crushed..but CC came up with a nice performance last night.

-Would the Broncos just got ahead and trade the Giants Brandon Marshall already?

-Pewch Revolution dedicated reader Curtis, failed in his attempt to repeat as New York State Frolf Champion this weekend in Syracuse. A grueling four rounds in two days had him disappointed in fourth place. For those unaware frolf is frisbee golf.
A hybrid golf and frisbee, the person throws a "disc" (don't call it a frisbee) and attempts to get it in a basket in as few shots as possible. Curtis said he was very disappointed to have missed the podium but looks to rebound in the next big tournament, Labor Day Luau.

-Jamarcus Russell will start at quarterback for the Oakland Raiders. As much as I've liked Jeff Garcia's game over the years, is it a good thing that the face of the franchise took this long to essentially beat out a 39-year old version of the Millman for the starting job?

-Headed up to the Spa yesterday after the weather forecast for Saturday looked brutal. Did nail the Alabama Stakes winner Saturday, Careless Jewel, at the OTB. Only 3:1 but she won by 11 lengths in perhaps the most impressive non-Rachel Alexandra run of the year. And there is an argument to be had that Careless Jewel could run with Rachel Alexandra in what would be a clash of the best 3-year old phillies in the world. Ended up having a successful day capping yesterday, great week of betting the ponies for me and today's card looks pretty appealing...

I am Useless

So after waking up at 7:30 AM I have just completed a 5-post analysis of my fantasy baseball league for all to see, with final projections and in-depth analysis of every scoring category. Clearly, more important than searching for a job. And clearly I have turned to The Pewch Revolution to stall that further.

Pedro Martinez is good. I read reports that he was pitching out of the wind up with runners on base though. Apparently Pedro has been watching too many of those ESPN Little League World Series commercials ESPN is bombarding us all with.

Seriously though, even as a hated Red Sock for all those years, I always secretly enjoyed Pedro. He is such an artist to watch...just so fluid in his motion and all of his pitches just have a zip about them.

He probably will need to throw more than 5 innings at some point to be of much use to the Phils...but if he can still juice it up to 93 at times there is little reason to believe he can't still be effective.

I don't care about Rick Pitino.

Soccer involves a lot of running.