Sean’s Blog

Today is the start of the the spring training games. The Nationals are playing at 1:05 and so are the Yankees. The Red sox are playing at 7:05. For the rest of the times click here MLB times.

Today it is 4 days till Christmas.  Today it is the first day of winter. Here  is some baseball news. C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett are going to the Yankees. The Mets picked up to new closers - J.J. Putz and K-Rod are the new closers. Also today is 30 days away from the Inauguration in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2009.

Today the Red sox said they would give Junichi Tazawa a 3 year deal thourh 2011. Junichi Tazawa is a right handed pitcher. Junichi Tazawa is from Japan, so he might have faced Dice - K in a game. Here is a link to learn more about Junichi Tazawa.

Another thing you all know is Barack Obama won the election. I really liked Barack Obama. That means about 50 days till Bush gets out of the White House (49 days exact). If you want to learn more about Barack Obama you can go to this link.

I am really sorry I have not posted in a long time. As you all probably know the Phillies won the world series vs. the Rays. The Red sox got beat by the Rays is the final game not to go the world series. The Dodgers and Manny also lost there privileges too not to go to the world series.

Here are some major league transactions

Yesterday the regular season just ended. The Red sox are the Wild card. The Rays are the winner of the American League East. The Angels are the American League West. The Twins and White sox are tied for American League Central. The Phillies are the National League East. The Brewers are the Wild card. The Cubs are the National League Central. And the Dodgers are National League West. Again the Mets got eliminated. And the Yankees ended there streak of 12 years being in the playoffs.

I just got my letter for who my teacher will be. And my school starts on 9/2/08. 9 days away from school starting. It’s crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I have barly anything ready. Sorry I had not posted in a long time.

Last night the Red sox beat the A’s 5 - 2. The Red sox won all of the games in the series. In other news the Yankees beat the Angels 14 - 9. Also the Nationals beat the Reds 2 - 4 and the Mets lost 4 - 0 to the Astros. Here are the MLB standing.

American League

East

Tampa 66 - 44

Boston 64 - 48

New York 61 - 50

Toronto 55 - 56

Baltimore 53 - 57

Central

Minnesota 62 - 49

Chicago 61 - 49

Detroit 55 - 56

Kansas City 52 - 60

Cleveland 48 - 62

West

Los Angeles 69 - 42

Texas 58 - 54

Oakland 53 - 57

Seattle 42 - 69

National League

East

Philadelphia 61 - 50

Florida 59 - 53

Mets 58 - 53

Atlanta 51 - 60

Washington 41 - 70

Central

Chicago 67 - 45

Milwaukee 62 - 50

St. Louis 62 - 52

Houston 53 - 57

Pittsburgh 51 - 60

Cincinnati 51 - 61

West

Arizona 57 - 54

Los Angeles 56 - 55

Colorado 51 - 62

San Francisco 46 - 64

San Diego 43 - 69

So those are the standing from todays paper.

Here are how many home runs the players got for the 1st round.

Chase Utley - 5

Grady Sizemore - 6

Ryan Braun - 7

Justin Morneau - 8

Lance Berkman - 8

Evan Longoria - 3

Dan Uggla - 6

Josh Hamilton - 28

Josh Hamilton got 28 home runs in the 1st round! He hit one 518 feet!

My mom told me about a guy who will draw anything for $2. He probably draws comics for comic company. If he does not he should. He draws really good. Here is his website yirmumah.com. You should check his website out.