Up and Down Start to the Week

The Cards' start the week 1-1, winning convincingly on Monday then getting stomped on Tuesday. But at least they didn't have a break down like this Braves double A manager.





Monday 6/4- Monday’s Cardinals 11-5 victory was all about Mark Hamilton, the streaking first baseman was dialed in for the Cards’ match-up with the Thrashers. Hamilton pounded three home runs and drove in six runs in what was probably the most impressive performance of any Cardinal this season. Hamilton had a consistent swing evident by the fact that he hit all three of his home runs to right field. Adam Daniels (W. 3-5) set a career high for strike outs with eight, while pitching six strong innings and giving up four runs.

Tuesday 6/5- Palm Beach batters were unable to take advantage of another strong performance by starter Adam Ottavino. Nathan Southard and Rapoport registered four of the Cards’ six total hits off Clearwater pitchers. Ottavino gave up three runs in five innings while striking out six. With the game still in reach heading into the ninth, reliever Matt Trent had a disastrous inning giving up five runs on five hits allowing the Thrashers to put the game out of reach.

- Hot- First Baseman Mark Hamilton has five home runs, eleven runs batted in and nine hits in the past week. Hamilton’s big game on Monday set career highs for home runs and runs batted in. He is currently third in FSL with ten home runs.

- Not- Matt Trent gave up five runs on five hits in the Cards’ 8-0 loss on Tuesday; it was his first poor outing of the season. This performance really stands out because of Trent’s stellar performance in his previous outings.


News and Notes

- 5/29- Placed Outfielder Shane Robinson on the 7 day DL

- 5/31- Catcher Danilo Sanchez promoted to Springfield

- 5/31- Catcher Henry Guerrero sent to Palm Beach

I'm back

FAU News

First things first; I read a blog by fellow UP writer Dori Zinn and found yet another thing that annoys me at FAU: Fowl Owls. Give me a break! This is where FAU has sunk too low. For those who don't know, the Fowl Owls will take your picture and put it on their website if you're wearing clothing from another school. The fact that a group of self righteous students are trying to publicly humiliate a bunch of people into wearing what they want them to wear is an embarrassment of epic proportions. Why don't you just sew a scarlet FAU logo onto their shirts and get it over with. Here, this is just for the Fowl Owls:



A little recap of FAU sports this summer.

-FAU pitcher Chris Saldberg became the 81st Owl baseball player to sign a professional baseball contract. Saldberg was the 22nd pick of the Baltimore Orioles.

-Robbie Wildlansky received All-America honors from Louisville Slugger.

-FAU women's basketball rounded out their 2007-08 recruiting class.

-Nello Faulk is practicing with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Rest of the Sports World

I'm clinically depressed now that Lebron James has finally had his onions drop and stopped choking in the fourth quarter.




I want to say this one more time: the Fowl Owls are an embarrassment to FAU and I hope that no one supports this idiotic idea that, if successful, will lower FAU to bush league status.

Week in Review

The Florida Marlins had an up and down week starting with a loss to the Mets, followed by a sweep of the Cubs and finished with losing three of four to Chicago. The Marlins ended the week 4-4, fourth place in the NL East and seven games out of the Wild Card.






After a 4-2 record this week the Jupiter Hammerheads are fifth in Florida State League Eastern Division.




The Cards won four and lost three to stay in second place in the FSL Eastern Division.




Players of the week

Florida Marlins- The past week Miguel Cabrera had 12 hits, four doubles, six RBI's and two home runs.

Miguel Cabrera



Jupiter Hammerheads- Catcher Andrew Jenkins had four hits, five runs and four RBI's in the past week.

Palm Beach Cardinals- First baseman Mark Hamilton was on a tear last week; registering nine hits, five runs, two home runs and nine RBI's.

Mark Hamilton

Fish Treading Water

After sweeping my beloved Cubs, the Florida Marlins headed north on I-95 to take on the first place Brew Crew and order was restored to my baseball world. The Fish dropped three of four games to the slumping Brewers and theirs two ways to look at that. Either the Brewers are very good and have finally have broken out of their slump or the Marlins are a bad team, I'm OK with both.

The best thing about the Marlins Trip to Milwaukee was their front row seats to the greatest show on field turf.



Even though this past week my Cubbies reached their low point of the season this,losing to the Marlins (yes I know about Pinella going crazy Zambrano going UFC on Barrett, I still stand by my statement of the low point was losing to Florida). Anyways I feel that this is needed to boost my spirits.




I know this blog has been a mixed bag of Cubs and Fish, but here's whats up for the Fish. They start the week with a four games in three days against the Atlanta Braves. They do get a break at the end of the week, returning home for an inter league weekend series with the lowly Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

My prediction 3-4, the Fish will lose three to Atlanta and one to Tampa.

Probables

Monday- Wes Obermuller

Tuesday- Day- Sergio Mitre Night- Rick Vanden Hurk

Wednesday- Scott Olsen

Fantasy Tip

-Pick up Ryan Braun he singled, doubled, and homered scoring three times against the Marlins on Friday. Braun's second homer of his big league career was a two-run shot off starter Scott Olsen that traveled 427 feet. He's batting .278 with three doubles, two homers, and two steals in nine games since being promoted.