“PADRES-DODGERS FANS-YOU FEEL STRANGE?”
The calendar turns to May and if you look at the Baseball Standings, you see what you expected. 1st place-Dodgers..(20-11) 2nd place-Padres...(19-11) But you have to dig deeper to feel like I feel, that neither of these teams looks right, feels right. And it is no longer a 'Small Sample Size' of baseball. DODGERS...Great starting pitching staff but a bullpen fraught with problems. A team that hit a bunch of home runs to start the season, 42-bombs in 22-games, but has suddenly stopped...
NBA REWORKS DRAFT LOTTERY-IT’S WORSE NOW !
I did not like Algebra. I did not understand Calculus I would not do well with a Rubik's Cube. I know you need some kind of new math to figure out this NBA Lottery proposal. It's called the "3-2-1" Lottery, a plan to stop tanking, which has become...
“BASEBALL-RANDOM THOUGHTS ON TEAMS”
PADRES..AJ Preller bought a bunch of lottery tickets right before the season started, Walker Buehler and German Marquez. They have had good starts and bad starts. It is what it is. Then he bought some short-term insurance with...
PADRES FACE JAPANESE SLUGGER..METS IN CRISIS..LAKERS PLAY IN HOUSTON…DENVER DONE IN NBA..DUCKS-OILERS THRILLER..LIV LEADER QUITS
...(Baseball)... Padres-White Sox...Friday game...Friars (19-11)..Chisox (14-17) ..German Marquez-vs-Nick Schultz ..White Sox feature Japanese rookie Munetaka Murakami (.236-12HR-46K-110AB) Padres..off day-Thursday Padres...Batting struggles continue...Fernando Tatis (0HR-30 Games)..Jake Cronenworth (.146)..Nick Castellanos (.164)..Freddy Fermin (.170)...Jackson Merrill (.200)...Manny Machado (.222)...Gavin Sheets (.233) ----- Dodgers-at-St Louis..Friday game..LA (20-11)..Cardinals (17-13)...Emmett Sheehan-vs-Matt Liberatore. Dodgers...off day-Thursday Dodgers..Shohei Ohtani slump (1HR-15G)...Freddie Freeman (4-29) slump..Kyle Tucker (.243-3HR)...Teoscar Hernandez (.231). --------...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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