The commissioner’s office has suspended Milwaukee Brewers reliever Seth McClung for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing inside at St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols on Wednesday.
Additionally, Brewers manager Ned Yost has been suspended for one game and fined an undisclosed amount for the intentional actions of McClung after warnings had been issued to both teams earlier in the game.
Managers can’t appeal suspensions and will have to sit out tonight’s key match-up against the San Diego Padres.
Our friends at The Big Lead — via PFT.com — report that “The Worldwide Teaser” has sacked onetime MNF analyst Joe Theismann, buying him out of his deal.
“We have reached a settlement with Joe Theismann to end his association with ESPN. We thank Joe for his many years of work for us and wish him well.”
Maybe “Joey Sunshine” can latch on the revamp of American Gladiators for NBC.
The Demetrius Jones saga has led to Cincinnati, where on Thursday the former Notre Dame quarterback told football coach Brian Kelly he wants to enroll at the university and play for the Bearcats, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
When asked about Notre Dame, Jones commented like a guy who didn’t want to burn bridges.
“It’s a great school,” Jones said of Notre Dame, “a tremendous atmosphere. It’s just unfortunate the way it worked out.”
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“My whole point of going to Notre Dame was the same reason I committed here,” Jones said, “the atmosphere on campus, they’ve got top-notch facilities. They’ve got a head coach who’s been coaching for 16 years, and the offense. I can put some of my best qualities on display. I just think it was a perfect fit.”
A good move all the way around as Jones gets to go to a school of his choosing and Notre Dame gets its wish of the quarterback going to a school that doesn’t directly compete with the Irish.
News and notes while wishing Dane Cook would just go away…
FSU reports academic misconduct to NCAA (Tampa Bay Online) Florida State has finalized its initial report of “academic dishonesty” by 23 student-athletes, sending the details of a six-month internal investigation to the NCAA.
Heyman: NL MVP race going down to the wire (SI.com) From the no shit department, Jon Heyman of SI.com states the obvious. There’s also more news and notes, including: silence isn’t so golden for Toronto’s Troy Glaus; the Barry Bonds post-game ceremony in San Fran was touching; and Brian Giles’ swat of a Brian Wilson pitch into the AT&T Park right field bleachers might be the hit of the year.
Jay-Z bids for naming rights (YardBarker) Is there anything that rapper/producer Jay-Z doesn’t have his hands in?
First, we must apologize for not having the EXACT quote since it just ran across our monitors here at the beautiful Buried Lead office complex.
After the team got whooped by Brazil 4-0 in the WWC semis, U.S. goalie Hope Solo, who was benched in favor of veteran Briana Scurry in their match-up against Brazil, ripped women’s coach Greg Ryan over the decision to swap goalies. In the process, she took a shot at Scurry, stating that “this isn’t 2004 anymore” when referring to one of the reasons why Ryan made the change.
Solo also told a broadcast reporter that she “would’ve made those saves” and that the decision made by Ryan was the wrong decision to make.
The U.S. has a third-place match set for Sunday and it’ll be interesting to see how this team competes are these comments.
Once we get the exact quotes on this, we’ll update this post.
***UPDATED at 12:13 PM ET***
Thanks to the folks at The FanHouse, a quote is now available.
“It was the wrong decision and anyone who knows anything about the game knows that,” Solo said in a TV interview after the game. “There’s no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves.”
CBS2.com is piggy-backing on a FOXSports.com mention that the Minnesota Twins and the Los Angeles Dodgers are exploring a deal that would send ace Johan Santana to the Left Coast in exchange for a deal that would include outfielder Matt Kemp.
The Dodgers would also “throw-in” highly-touted pitching prospect Clayton Kershaw.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz takes Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost to task over his school-yard reaction to the St. Louis Cardinals’ retaliatory strike upon his first baseman, Prince Fielder.
In Tuesday’s game, Brewers starter Jeff Suppan — the former Redbird – pitched Albert Pujols way inside, causing some chirping between the two dugouts over the pitch selection near Pujols’ jaw.
On Wednesday, things escalated a bit thanks to a Brad Thompson pitch that nailed Fielder. It would’ve been find had Yost retaliated the next half-inning or the inning after the incident, but Yost waited till the eighth inning with Cardinals having a perilous 3-2 lead.
It all started ominously before the match when U.S. Women’s coach Greg Ryan swapped starting goalies, naming Briana Scurry the starting keeper over Hope Solo. Solo, as you may recall, hadn’t yielded a goal in 300 minutes but Ryan went with Scurry, who had career success against the mighty Brazillian women.
The decision seemingly backfired as the U.S. Women lost in the Women’s World Cup semi-final 4-0.
An own goal tally on a header by Leslie Osborne started off the scoring for Brazil and the second goal came on a screamer by Marta in the 27th minute inside-post on Scurry to make it 2-0. Just before halftime, a questionable call on the United States’ Shannon Boxx forced them to play a woman down for the remainder of the game.
Brazil tacked on two more goals, including a highlight reel goal by Marta, to make the score 4-0 and gave them a trip to the finals.
They will face Germany on Sunday for all the marbles.
The morning after the Yanks clinch a playoff appearance for the 13th consecutive season…
Michael Young collected his 200th hit, joining only Wade Boggs and Ichiro Suzuki to do so in five consecutive seasons; Philadelphia moved within one game of NL East-leading New York, which lost 9-6 to Washington; the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland indians take part in an unusual double-header and Albert Pujols notches his seventh consecutive season with 100 RBIs.
Angels 2, Rangers 16 — The story of this game: the Angels lost two key players to potential long-term injuries — Gary Matthews Jr. had to leave the game with an injured left knee after making a running catch and Vlad Guerrero got plunked on the forearm by pitch in the 16-2 mashing by the Rangers.
A’s 6, Red Sox 11 — Mike Lowell led a 17-hit attack with three singles and five RBIs and kept the ball that gave him the team record for RBIs by a third baseman on a two-run single in the third inning.
M’s 4, Indians 12 (Game 1) — Playing a “home” game in their third stadium this season, the Indians — wearing their road uniforms no less – used a big third inning to back Fausto Carmona in Cleveland’s 12-4 win over the Seattle Mariners.
Indians 2, M’s 3 (Game 2/10 innings) — …and now for something completely different: an hour later, they’re the visitors! Joe Borowski blew a save for the second consecutive night as the Mariners tied up the ballgame with two outs in the ninth. In the tenth, Mike Morse singled home pinch-runner Rob Johnson with two outs to give the Mariners a 3-2 victory.
Yanks 12, Rays 4 — A George Steinbrenner appearance. A weeping Joe Torre. No, Torre wasn’t canned but was weeping with joy as his Yankees downed the Rays 12-4, clinching the club’s 13th consecutive appearance during his tenure.
Suspension not enough for Winters (FOX Sports) Ken Rosenthal is pleased that MLB took some action against umpire Mike Winters for his behavior against Milton Bradley. But he writes that the league’s hierarchy didn’t do more addressing it.
Vick faces restrictions after positive test (USA Today) Not only does the moron have to be relegated to house arrest for his failure of a drug test on Sept. 13, the suspended quarterback faces additional time off from the NFL once his legal obligations are cleared up.
Dan Patrick Radio Show due to launch Oct. 1 (SPORTSbyBROOKS) Not only that, but it looks as if his radio program will have the same representation as Jim Rome: Premiere Networks via The Content Factory.
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