Boy, April was a tough month. The A's are so banged up that they had to bring up not one, not two, but three guys from double A to start games. They had to play Marco Scutaro, a poor man's Luis Sojo in Right Field. They had to make a trade for Ryan Langerhans, who I got confused for about 5 minutes with Jeff Francouer, which got me excited, but then realized it was Atlanta's 4th outfielder who isn't that good. Now they enter May with a long road trip that will take them through a schedule where they should be making up ground. Two at Boston, Three at Tampa, and Three at KC. But now I'm just hoping that they can escape with a .500 mark. Typically the A's start off extremely cold for the first month, and then turn it on in May and June, but I'm worried that we are just too thin to do that now.
And to top it off, Jon and my fantasy team is off to its worse start in years and I can't see where we are going to make up ground. Is it too early to pull the plug on the team and start building for next year? Probably not. Massive trades will probably start in a couple of weeks for us to jettison some of our larger contracts for next years' keepers.
But what has gotten me through this past month has been the NBA. I second Bill Simmons on the Golden State- Dallas games. They have been absolutely amazing. And the Spurs-Nugs matchup has been just as good. It's always nice to see Robert Horry continue his dominance in the playoffs (18 minutes/6 points with huge 3 pointers). Its funny to see Steve Blake getting minutes on the Nugs and watching him not being able to guard the 3-point shot. Three times during last night's game he was out of position, in no mans land and the Spurs buried a wide open 3. Maybe its not just Gary who can't guard the three? Lakers-Suns. Not too bad, but it is amazing to watch Nash and the Suns.
Now I haven't watched a single game in the East. Are the Cavs this good or are the Wizards just this bad? And what about the Bulls?
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Wiz aren't good, but a lot of the sweep has to do with the fact that Arenas and Butler have been out due to injury. Not to say that the Wiz would have won the series with them, but I think that it would have been competitive at least.
As Roberto Clemente would say,
"April has been berry berry good to me".
Cavs: first sweep in franchise history (next game they play will be in June, at this rate)
Tribe: 14-9 for the month (and now 2-0 in May)
One good sports month in about, oh, 160 or so. I think a few more are owed us.
Browns: a great draft and no new injuries that we know of!
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