Sports Report for 8/24/08

8/24/08 – Sports Report
My Sports Piccz
Baseball – 10-4 (60-32-65%)
Football – 1-0 (6-7-46%)
Parlay – WIN

Major League Baseball
In the American League…
Boston (75-55) def. Toronto (67-63) 6-5 in 11 innings.
The Yankees (70-60) def. Baltimore (61-68) 8-7. Mariano Rivera (NYY) got his 31st save. Aubrey Huff (Bal) hit his 28th homer of the year.
MY WHITE SOX (74-55) def. Tampa Bay (79-50) 6-5. Jim Thome (CWS) hit his 27th homer of the year and Carlos Quentin (CWS) hit his 36th homer of the season.
Kansas City (56-74) def. Detroit (64-66) 7-3.
The Angels (79-50) def. Minnesota (74-56) 5-3. Francisco Rodriguez (LAA) got his 50th save of the year! Mark Teixeira (LAA) hit his 27th homer of the year.
Seattle (48-82) def. Oakland (59-71) 8-4. Jack Hannahan (Oak) hit two homers (6,7).
Cleveland (62-67) def. Texas (63-68) 4-3.

In the National League…
Houston (66-64) def. The Mets (72-59) 6-4. Jose Valverde (Hou) got his 33rd save of the year. Carlos Beltran (NYM) hit two homers (18,19).
Milwaukee (76-55) def. Pittsburgh (57-73) 4-3. Mike Cameron (Mil) hit his 23rd homer of the year.
St. Louis (73-59) def. Atlanta (57-74) 6-3. Albert Pujols (STL) hit his 28th homer of the season.
The Cubs (80-50) def. Washington (46-85) 6-1. Rich Harden (CHC) got his 9th win (9-2).
Colorado (61-71) def. Cincinnati (57-74) 4-3.
San Francisco (58-72) def. San Diego (48-82) 7-4. Brian Wilson (SF) got his 35th save!
Florida (67-64) def. Arizona (68-62) 5-2. Ricky Nolasco (Fla) got his 13th win of the year (13-7).
Philadelphia (71-59) def. The Dodgers (65-65) 5-2.

In the Playoff Race…
The AL East is led by Tampa Bay by 4 ½ games over Boston.
The AL Central is led by MY WHITE SOX by ½ game over Minnesota.
The AL West is led by The Angels by 17 games over Texas.
The AL Wildcard is led by Boston.
The NL East is led by The Mets by ½ game over Philadelphia.
The NL Central is led by The Cubs by 4 ½ games over Milwaukee.
The NL West is led by Arizona by 3 games over The Dodgers.
The NL Wildcard is led by Milwaukee.

National Football League
MY GIANTS have lost DL Osi Umenyiora for the SEASON with a knee injury! DAMNIT!
In a Preseason Game, Buffalo (2-1) def. Indianapolis (1-3) 20-7.

National Basketball Association
No news…

Pro Wrestling
I got a TNA House Show to report.
TNA House Show Results
- 8/23/08Location: Topeka, Kansas
- Rhino & Eric Young defeated The Rock 'N Rave Infection.
- Sonjay Dutt defeated "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal.
- Matt Morgan defeated Kip James.
- AJ Styles defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir.
- TNA Knockouts Champion Taylor Wilde defeated Awesome Kong.
- TNA World Tag Team Champions Beer Money Inc. defeated LAX.
- TNA World Champion Samoa Joe defeated Abyss.

Now a WWE Smackdown House Show
WWE Smackdown & ECW House Show Results
- 8/23/08Location: Erie, Pennsylvania
- Evan Bourne beat Chavo Guerrero w/ Bam Neely
- John Morrison beat Tommy Dreamer
- R Truth beat Carlito
- Divas Champion Michelle McCool beat Maryse
- United States Champion Shelton Benjamin beat Jeff Hardy
- WWE Tag Team Champions Curt Hawkins & Zach Ryder beat Jesse & Festus in a Lumberjack Match
- Matt Hardy beat ECW Champion Mark Henry w/ Tony Atlas by DQ
- WWE Champion Triple H & Undertaker beat The Great Khali & MVP

Now a WWE Raw House Show
WWE Raw House Show Results
- 8/23/08Location: New York City, New York (Madison Square Garden)
- Tony Chimel did the announcing instead of Lilian Garcia and welcomed everybody to "the world's most famous arena".
- National anthem was played.
- First match was William Regal vs Primo Colon. Nice little match. Decent heat towards Regal. No reaction to Colon since nobody knew who he was since he hasn't debuted on TV yet. Colon wins with a back slide.
- Next, Kelly Kelly was featured doing a trivia segment in the crowd. She asked a random fan where Wrestlemania was held this year. Naturally the fan got the question right, and was given two front row tickets.
- The next match was Lance Cade vs D-Lo Brown. Nice pop for D-Lo, minor heat for Cade. Cade wins with his new sit-out spinebuster finisher.
- Next, Kelly Kelly picked a random fan to be a guest manager for a match later that night.
- The next match was Mickie James vs Beth Phoenix for the Women's championship. Huge pop for Mickie. Beth wins with her double arm chicken wing facebuster finisher.
- The fan turned out to be the manager for Jamie Noble in the next match who faced Snitsky. Noble wins surprisingly making Snitsky submit to a guillotine choke/body scissors combo.
- Next match was for the World Tag Team Championship pitting Rhodes and DiBiase vs Cryme Tyme. Team Priceless made a speech before the match to get some heat. Rhodes and DiBiase win to retain the titles.
- Very brief intermission with a couple of video packages being shown (just off the top of my head, the two I can remember were a Wrestlemania highlights video, and Shawn Michaels/Chris Jericho storyline video).
- The next match was Santino Marella vs Kofi Kingston for the Intercontinental Championship. Santino did a very funny bit with Beth Phoenix (who was his valet) before the match started. Santino wins via Beth Phoenix interference combined with a roll up.
- Chris Jericho and Kane vs John Cena and Batista. Jericho came out first and made a speech about Shawn Michaels and how his career was over. Next Kane came out to a mixed reaction of boo's and cheers. Still don't think the fans understand that Kane is a heel now. Next, when I'm telling you the micro-second Cena's music came on, the loudest pop I have ever heard filled the garden. Man, is Cena over in New York. When Batista came out, I couldn't tell if he also got a loud pop, or if it was left over from Cena's. The entire match was Jericho and Kane beating the crap out of Batista. Then the last minute of the match Batista gets the tag to Cena, Cena goes buckwild, and ultimately Cena and Batista win with a Cena FU on Kane.
- The second and final main event was CM Punk vs JBL for the World Heavyweight Championship inside of a steel cage. JBL comes out to massive amounts of heat and Punk to a huge pop. CM Punk wins to retain the title.
= Another interesting note is that normally WWE does not use pyro at all at house shows, but the lone exception is when they do house shows at MSG. They brought what could best be called "portable pyro" which was placed in ring during entrances then immediately removed before the match started. The intro to the show, Chris Jericho, Kofi Kingston, Kane, and Cena/Batista together had pyro in their entrances. Overall, a decent show. Some boring moments (even got a few "boring" chants), but good none-the-less.

· Another TNA House Show…
TNA House Show Results
- 8/24/08Location: Wichita, Kansas
Jay Lethal d. Sonjay Dutt
Matt Morgan d. Kip James
Eric Young vs. Jimmy Rave (No Contest)
Eric Young & Abyss d. Rock 'n Rave Infection
Rhyno d. Sheik Abdul Bashir
Taylor Wilde d. Awesome Kong
Beer Money Inc. d. LAX
Samoa Joe d. AJ Styles

Personal Notes
· Today has been a pretty normal day…I smoked a lot today.

My Picc’s for TONIGHTS games
(P = Parlay)
Baseball
CWS (game 1)
Baltimore (Game 2)
Detroit
Kansas City
The Angels (P)
Minnesota
The Dodgers
The Cubs (P)
The Mets
Arizona
San Francisco

Football
Seattle +6 ½