“BASEBALL’S BEST TEAMS RIGHT NOW-SUPRISE SEASON”
The New York Times hit a home run with their headline about the Padres: "Best Bad Team in Baseball...or the Worst Good Team in Baseball?" That pretty much sums up the current state of Padres Baseball. But now that he have crossed the one-third mark of the MLB season, how many good teams are there? A quick road map tour of what I see. BRAVES...Started the week (37-18). Started spring training without top pitchers Spence Strider and Rey Lopez, then lost Chris Sale. They are...
BASEBALL STANDINGS..NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR EYES
Nothing wrong with your eyesight, but this is an indeed a strange start to the baseball season. There are 16-of-30 teams at .500 or less in the standings, including some teams with hopeless rosters. Here we are, one-third of the way,...
PADRES-NO HITS-NO ANSWERS EITHER
Hard to believe this Padres team has this type of record (31-22). They seem to be taking on water and still trying to keep their heads above water. They have pathed the pitching staff as much as they can with all these rentals, from Walker Buehler...
PADRES SHUTOUT AGAIN..DODGERS HOT..BRAVES STAR PASSES..WANDER FRANCO-NO PRISON TIME..UNION MAKES 1ST PROPOSAL TO OWNERS..SPURS MUST WIN GAME COMING..CAROLINA BLANKS MONTREAL..SOCCER UPDATES
...(Baseball)... Padres-L-Phillies (3-0)...Phillies sweep Friars..Wednesday...Friars (33-24)...(2-6) skid...(16-16) Petco Park. ..Christopher Sanchez (7-shutout innings)..Has thrown (44.2inn-0R) ..Sanchez breaks Grover Cleveland Alexander-Phillies record set in 1911 ..Sanchez breaks Carl Hubbell-lefthanded pitcher record-set in 1933 ..Trea Turner HR..Kyle Schwarber RBI single ..Walker Buehler (5-inn-0R)..Adrian Morejon let 2-runners score in 6th ..Padres score 3-runs in 27-innings vs Phillies...Scored 14-runs in 7-games ..Padres shutout 6X in last 12-games Padres..Travel day-Thursday...Open weekend series in Washington-Friday Padres...'NY Times-The Athletic' writes critical story of...
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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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