Yesterday in the Phillies game 1 victory against the New York Yankees, Cliff Lee made a catch that required no skill and didn’t mean anything to him. At least that is what his body language showed. The funny thing is that he was close to dropping the ball in his nonchalant display. As you watch the video in slow motion, you see the ball land in the palm of his glove and not in the web. Anyone that knows baseball knows that only infielders making a quick play use the palm of their mitt. Everyone else, the web.
Be careful Cliff. Next time people might be laughing at you and not with you.
“A chance of rain before 9 p.m., then a chance for drizzle before ending,” according to the National Weather Service. “Cloudy, with a low around 47. North wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.”
There are some afternoon showers that are currently hitting the Big Apple and Yankee Stadium. However, the weather should cooperate enough to allow game 1 of the World Series to commence as expected at 7:57 PM. There could possibly be some light rain throughout the game, but nothing that should delay or postpone the highly anticipated match-up between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Light fog should also be expected for those that will be attending.
Mark McGwire will be back in the game of baseball. He has accepted a position as the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.
McGwire played 4 1/2 seasons with the Cardinals, in which he hit 220 home runs and for a short time set the single-season MLB record with his 70 homers in 1998. Obviously, since then he’s been surrounded by steroid and HGH rumors and has more or less dropped completely off of the baseball radar after his Congressional testimony in 2005.
From the way that things are sounding, Tony LaRussa will be back in the clubhouse managing the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010. That should make for a comfortable environment for McGwire, who played for LaRussa in both Oakland and St. Louis.
It should be interesting to see how McGwire handles all of the press conferences and interviews he will be participating in for the next couple of weeks. It would be wise for him to follow the road that has been so nicely paved by Andy Pettitte and Alex Rodriguex. That is, admitting you were wrong and then ask for forgiveness and go on like nothing ever took place. Seems to be working a lot better for those than for Roger Clemens, who is still denying his steroid usage.
Either way, it is a good thing that he took this job. The Cards need some help with their bats and he could be the one to give some good hitting advice.
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