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April 12, 2011
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Rory McIlroy is handling his Normanesque collapse too well.
posted by rcade at 10:16 AM on April 12, 2011
He's handling it better than some of the people at his old club. I was back home (in Holywood) over the weekend. The atmosphere was a little sombre on Monday morning.
posted by JJ at 10:36 AM on April 12, 2011
Could someone from the Texas area shed some light on why Mike Napoli has been playing in only about every other game?
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 11:54 AM on April 12, 2011
Since Yorvit Torrealba is their catcher, they got Napoli for backup duty and platooning against left handers at catcher, first base or DH.
posted by rcade at 12:17 PM on April 12, 2011
Thanks. I have him on a fantasy team and he has been doing excellent...when he plays.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 12:33 PM on April 12, 2011
Another problem with Napoli playing is that Texas traded away its backup catcher (Matt Treanor) to Royals. This makes it difficult to DH Napoli because if Torrealba gets hurt or has to come out for some reason, then Texas would lose DH option for remainder of game. They can play Napoli and Torrealba together with Napoli at first, but they also have to figure in Michael Young some at first base as super utility. They need Treanor back, or if not another veteran catcher.
posted by graymatters at 02:09 PM on April 12, 2011
Ref disqualifies Russian boxer. Boxer meanders around ring innocently towards the ref and then ... sneak attack!
posted by rcade at 02:37 PM on April 12, 2011
You think that's bad, re: Napoli? Mike Scosia was notorious among fantasy players for benching Napoli when he was on the Angels. I was all set to reach for him this year when he was with the Blue Jays.
posted by ursus_comiter at 05:55 PM on April 12, 2011
Reports indicating that Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers MVP, has broken his shoulder sliding into home during game today. Probably out six to eight weeks.
posted by graymatters at 06:54 PM on April 12, 2011
*Quickly replaces Ryan Ludwick with David Murphy on my SpoFi fantasy roster*
posted by dfleming at 08:01 PM on April 12, 2011
Good choice, dfleming. Rangers are also calling up Crush (Chris) Davis. He had a great Spring Training, but has yet perform much at the highest level. May be worth keeping an eye on, though, especially if you don't get penalized for batters striking out.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:36 PM on April 12, 2011
IAAF finally decides when a woman is a woman - at least for sports purposes.