Time Traveling

I continue to watch my beloved Mariners day after day because I love my team. I remember a series at the end of the 2008 season with the Oakland A's. I told myself, all they have to do is get swept and we will wrangle the #1 pick away from the Nationals in 2009. The #1 pick will net us Steven Strasburg. Instead, the Mariners went on to sweep the A's and ended up at 61-101 getting the #2 pick. Who can we get at #2, everybody has said it is Strasburg and a bunch of other guys.

On that June day in 2009, Jack Z decides to draft a outfielder from the University of North Carolina. Dustin Ackley was the Mariners pick at #2. I had never heard of him, and didn't know a thing about him. The M's decided to move Dustin out of his comfortable outfield position and convert him to a second baseman. While he is still working on the fine details of playing the position, he is impressive. The kid is .311 right now, can hit for power, has great speed, and his glove work is improving.

Question of the day: in hindsight, which would rather, Strasburg at #1, or Dustin Ackley with the #2?

Northwest Beauties

I know the title is deceiving, and you wonder where I'm going with this one. Things looked beautiful in the Northwest yesterday. The biggest news of the day came from New York when UW's own Jake Locker was drafted 8th by the Tennessee Titans.

You can probably start making new #10 jerseys in Nashville. Congrats Titans fans, this kid is going to be something special for you. It was an honor and a pleasure to watch Jake bring the Huskies back to Being good and going to bowl games. How did your team do in the first round? Are you happy with your team's pick or are you waiting to see what happens in the later rounds?

Where has this baseball team come from?? Are we actually a decent team, or are the Tigers that bad of a team? Either way I will take a sweep any day. This Pineda kid is really getting excited about his future. He's getting better and better each start. It gets rougher now with a series starting in Fenway tonight.

Sharks start the second round tonight against the hated Red Wings. They have had success against them in the past, so we will see how tonight starts the series.

Nice trade post coming tomorrow, hoping for some sun today to get a baseball game in tonight.