There are three things that happened today in the world of sports that really grasped my attention. Rookie pitcher Stephan Strasburg was sent to the DL, former Astro's pitcher Roy Oswalt finally dealt and Terrel Owens gets his way.. again.
The balance of the Washington National's future rests heavily on one player, and that is Pitcher Stephan Strasburg, the rookie phenom who throws 98 mph heat. Quite frankly they are not letting anything get to him, including himself. Their intentions of protecting him were quite clear Thursday when they placed him on the 15 day Disabled List, after complaints of an inflammed right (throwing) shoulder. This is not the first time a vacancy has been made to accomadate the prodigy. On July 22, 2010 before making his 10th MLB start, he was scratched after feeling soreness in the same shoulder. Keep mind that this would have been his last start before the DL move. I am behind these cautious moves that will hopefully prolong this amazings pitchers career, I just hope that Washington raises this rookie right, preventing any spoiledness. He can't be 100% baseball's Lebron James
The second topic slightly more interesting than the potential souring of Stephan is the trade that send highly debated pitcher Roy Oswalt to the Phillies in exchange for pitcher J.A Hap, two minor league prospects and ELEVEN million dollars. I have to disagree that the acquisition of Oswalt was a good movie, although it helps buff the rotation and takes some pressure of amazing (ex-Jay) ace, Roy Halladay. Yes I do realise that this is Major League Baseball and the salary's have no cap (which doesn't control things anyways) but in a sense the Phillies depleted 25 million dollars, towards Oswalt, who's numbers are not worth that kind of money. ( 15 Million salary + 11 Million in evening the trade + the contract of the prospects - J.A Happ's salary) I completely understand that with the sub .500 Astro's hitting around .240 run support is hard to come across and his record should flourish in Philly but the 1.11 WHIP and mainly the 3.42 ERA are stats that aren't guranteed to dip as much as the Win Loss record, and before I can agree and support this trade those will have to change. Seeing is believeing.
Finally really quick I just want to complain how much I despise Terrell Owens as a person. He was, and may still be a great football player and talented reciever, but his attitude, work ethic and immaturity have continued to sink since 2008. The latest news on the once glamorous WR was that Antonio Bryant gave up his already possessed number eighty-one to Terrell as an older brother would give the younger sibling an attractive toy. Bryant's idea was that he was not going to be childish over two digits, all he asked in return that Owens made a donation to a Miami based little league. This whole event doesn't show that Bryant respects T.O as much as he is mature. For those of you who state that Terrell never asked for the number the two HAD talked, and the responsible things for Owens to do were to let Bryant keep the number, first come first served, no matter how whiney you are and to not miss his Ohio bound flight the night before. But we as fans should know by now what to expect...
Thanks for taking a look today! The post was long, hopefully that's what you like, if not the rest have been awfully short! Basically those are the three storys that have grabbed not only mine, but the rest of the sporting nations attention today! Check back tomorrow for another post!
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5419721 - Story on DL
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=30373 - SS's Stats
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=4575 Roy's Stats
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp10/news/story?id=5419405 TO story
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