Video - Ryan Church Gets Knocked out by Escobars Leg

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Escobar KO's Church, Finishes Doubleheader Sweep
Published 5/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Russell) at East Coast Bias
Check out this game-ending double-play. The highlight at about 55 seconds is the best shot of it. Who says baseball's not a contact sport? In related news, the Braves continue to be awesome at home, getting 12 IP with only 1 ER allowed from their two starters in the doubleheader. Jorge Campillo looked awesome in his first start, and Chipper continues to be the best hitter in the NL. ...

Braves 6, Mets 1; Braves 6, Mets 2; Rinse and Repeat
Published 5/21/2008 by Alex Remington at Chop-n-Change
Braves 6, Mets 1 Braves 6, Mets 2 These games were about as similar as the scores would indicate: we eked out an early lead against the Mets, our junkballer kept their bats off balance with six innings of slop, then we cemented the lead with a late homer by one of our lefty bats and used Boyer and Acosta to mop up. (I’m happy with everything that we did in both games other than Bobby’s serial, inexplicable overuse of Boyer and Acosta.) After a characteristically shaky first, with a homer to Luis Castillo of all people, followed by two singles and a walk, Glavine stranded those three men and then ...

Links: Jay-Z On The Mic?
Published 5/21/2008 by Lang Whitaker at SLAM Online
by Lang Whitaker Fun to watch the NBA Draft Lotto last night when my team, the Hawks, finally had nothing riding on it. Doris Burke seemed completely nervous last night on the telecast of the Lotto. It made for tremendous watching, though, like when she bumbled through the introductions of the various team executives (calling the Bulls’ rep Stan instead of Steve and saying he was the Executive VP of Basketball when he was actually from the business side of things). I also loved when she asked David Stern if in the wake of the OJ Mayo stuff the NBA would do better at enforcing their “regulations.” Stern quickly ...