In Honor of the name of this blog, a few samples of baseball blindness...in a moment. First a hearty congrats to the Detroit Red Wings winning the Stanley Cup, the 4th title in the last 11 years, making them a dynasty in the way pro sports are these days. The Wings have done it with several of the same components from the late 90's team and the 2002 squad. But they've also done it with suave drafting like Pavel Datsyuk in the 7th round, Henrik Zetterberg in the 8th round. There's no reason to think that they couldn't come back and do it again next year.
Now on to the point of today's rambling...great cover story article in last week's Sports Illustrated on Josh Hamilton, if you haven't read it here's the link:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/albert_chen/05/27/hamilton0602/
Great article on the 1999 top pick who's currently hitting .321 with 17 homers and 68 RBI's...I remember hearing that he was traded last year to Texas from Cincinnati for two no-name pitchers, one has become a name Edinson Volquez, who's teamed with Johnny Cueto to become a pretty good one-two punch for the Reds. Anyway, that doesn't qualify as bonehead, each team got pretty good value, much like a hockey trade of a few years back: Dany Heatley for Marian Hossa. Both the Senators and Thrashers liked that deal a lot, and the Thrashers liked the new deal they got for Hossa, fleecing a No.1 pick and Angelo Esposito from the Penguins for Hossa. But the real reason for the rambling tonight..
I heard Scott Kazmir's name about five times over the past few days, more than likely because of yesterday's baseball draft. Kazmir was a rising star in the Mets organization in 2004, he was pitching lights out for Binghamton when the Mets brass decided to make a move at the trade deadline and send Kazmir to the Devil Rays for Victor Zambrano. The Mets collapsed down the stretch in '04, while Kazmir has went on to great success in Tampa. Now the counterargument to my rambling, "but Dom if the Mets had Scott Kazmir, they wouldn't have had to trade for Johan Santana!" Possibly, who knows the Mets collapse last September could have been avoided...we'll never know. Just another bonehead move...that's all for now, Mets at Padres tonight, Santana on the mound! Belmont Stakes tomorrow, let's see if Big Brown can finish it off!
