Screw the Brew, Go Bobby

I was getting pretty worked up about Bobby Cox and Jonny Venters getting suspended for failing to not hit Princess Fielder's big fat ass this past weekend. Ken Macha whines to Bob Watson and Bobby and Venters get suspended for hitting a player after a warning was given on Saturday, meanwhile Ken and David Riske skate for doing the exact same thing to Heyward and Glaus on Sunday. Venters I couldn't care less about, he's a rookie reliever who honestly could use a little rest to keep that inning count down. Suspending Cox for that garbage in his final season is crap and I was pissed. I want Bobby to finish his career with 2500 wins and a BS suspension is one less game he has to hit that milestone.

So I checked his Baseball-Reference page and felt better when I saw he only needs 33 more wins for 2500. I'm pretty sure the the Braves have a decent chance of going at least 33-47 the rest of the way. I also saw something very interesting. Check out the number of Braves wins Cox has after whooping up on the Brew Crew on Sunday.

Kickass! Rush!

Now I am happy again knowing that Bobby will likely still hit that 2500 milestone and has a good shot to make the playoffs while Princess and Macha watch at home. I shall celebrate with bee-yoo-tee-fool music:





Bobby will be skulking in the tunnel managing the game on the sly tomorrow anyway...

They're at it again

Topps is suing Upper Deck again. Something about UD having players Topps owns in Legendary Cuts. So now all the stuff has to be recalled even though half of it has already shipped and "prices are skyrocketing" blah blah blah.

I saw it first on Cardboard Mania, you can also get more details in The Daily, The Propaganda, and The Fantastic.

Topps and Upper Deck: A pox on both your houses. Quit fighting like you're Tweedledum and Tweedledee and put out better cards instead of shortprinting and pulling from production and recalling and all this crap designed to inflate prices. Somebody please give Donruss their license back already. *sigh*

To bring us back up from this bummer, here's some happy news from the world of memorabilia. Geddy Lee just donated over 200 autographed baseballs to the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City. MLB.com hilariously calls him "A Canadian punk rocker" in the article. I heard Geddy did it of his own Free Will too. Ha! I kill me. Good Job Geddy!