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<\/a><\/p>\n– \u00a0I am finally sold on Ian Kennedy<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Dude has won more games this year than he has in his entire big league career.\u00a0 And after watching him strike out six in a row in the 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> innings last night, I just can\u2019t ignore the impression it left upon me.\u00a0 He is no Cy Young winner this year, in my opinion, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t make a strong argument for him.<\/p>\n – \u00a0With the Brew Crew signing Ryan Braun<\/a><\/strong> to the deal they did, the writing is basically on the wall for Prince Fielder<\/a><\/strong> to read.\u00a0 And he has.\u00a0 The thing of it is, I\u2019m not sure the market for a $100 million first baseman is what people believe it to be.\u00a0 Look at all the usual big spenders, and see that they all have their own pricey 1B\u2019s already.\u00a0 I\u2019m just saying that the market for Fielder is much smaller than people might realize.<\/p>\n – \u00a0Is Brad Pitt not the most Ironic actor to portray Billy Beane in the upcoming movie Moneyball?\u00a0 Seriously, you can\u2019t help but chuckle at that.<\/p>\n – \u00a0Here is some neat trivia for you- Do you know who holds the highest era for a single season?\u00a0 That\u2019s right, it is Roy Halladay<\/a><\/strong>, who posted an atrocious 10.64 era for the 2000 season.\u00a0 Now pick your chin up off the ground and continue reading. (Author’s note: Now Brian Matusz is the owner of this prestigious award; he is sporting an era of 10.68-congrats to you sir.<\/em>)<\/p>\n – \u00a0What kind of baseball blogger would I be if I didn\u2019t have a mention of Mariano Rivera<\/a><\/strong> and his record 602 saves in here?\u00a0 I am still mesmerized by the fact that he has gotten every last one of those in pinstripes.<\/p>\n – \u00a0How about those St. Louis Cardinals?\u00a0 They might actually pull off their own comeback and rip the wild card spot right out of the Braves hands.\u00a0 After writing about the lack of tight races, the game of baseball is making me eat my words.<\/p>\n – \u00a0If you had to take one of these starting pitchers and run them out on the bump, whom would you rather have: John Lackey<\/a><\/strong> or A.J. Burnett<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Me, I\u2019d rather let the mascot go out there and see what he can do\u2026in his costume, too. – \u00a0I am finally sold on Ian Kennedy.\u00a0 Dude has won more games this year than he has in his entire big league career.\u00a0 And after watching him strike out six in a row in the 7th and 8th innings last night, I just can\u2019t ignore the impression it left upon me.\u00a0 He is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,14],"tags":[2759,2625,2758,2757,515,2624,74,254,1288,773,52,57,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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