Wednesday, May 21, 2008

It feels good, yeah, it feels good

I had some old school Tony Toni Tone in my head after the great results for my teams yesterday.

The Braves won both games of a double header against the Mets. In the first game, Tom Glavine gave up 1 run in 6 innings to beat the Mets 6-1. Mark Teixeira had 3 hits and Brian McCann hit his 8th homer and had 3 RBI. In game 2, Jorge Campillo shut out the Mets for 6 innings in his second career start to help beat New York 6-2. Campillo had 7 strikeouts on the day. Mark Kotsay hit a pinch-hit homer, his 4th HR of the season, to give the Braves some insurance runs in the 8th inning. The two teams play again today at 710p. Jair Jurrjens pitches for the Braves, while Mike Pelfrey pitches for the Mets. The Braves are in second place in the East 1.5 games behind the Marlins and 1.5 games behind the Cardinals for the wild card.

#5 seed Ball State plays #4 seed Northern Illinois in the MAC tourney today at 4pm. If the Cards can get by NIU, it looks like they may have a shot at winning the tourney and getting a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Cardinals lost both games to Northern in the regular season, but were 7-2 against the top three seeds in the MAC tourney. But they were pretty inconsistent all season as evidenced by their 2-6 record against the 4 to 8 seeds. GO CARDS!!!

Brownsburg beat Terre Haute South last night 10-2. Matt Duncan threw 4 2/3 innings for the win. Mitch Jankowski threw the remainder of the game for the save. Zach Harrison had 3 hits for the Dogs. Joel Stucker and Curtis Drake each had two hits to help the cause. Tucker Barnhart had a homer and 3 RBI. The Bulldogs play Fishers at home tonight for Senior Night. BBurg is 20-4 for the season and 12-4 in the conference.

Since it is a Wednesday after a primary, I will continue my rant on how Hillary Clinton should concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. After the results of yesterday, Clinton would need to get 81% of all remaining delegates and super delegates to have more delegates than Obama at the convention. The three remaining primaries are Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota. Montana and South Dakota should be solid Obama victories. Let's say he wins those states 55-45. We'll give Puerto Rico to Clinton 65-35. With those projected results, 90 percent of the uncommitted super delegates would have to give their support to Clinton for her to be in the lead going into the convention. If that happens, there will be a split within the party like we have never seen or could ever imagine. For the sake of the party and to save some face and show a little grace, I believe that Hillary should drop out as soon as possible.

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