http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/baseball/recap?gameId=2816800611 OMAHA, Neb. -- Georgia has taken control of its bracket at the College World Series. What a relief for the Bulldogs. Actually, what a group of relief pitchers. Georgia's bullpen turned in a second straight dominating performance at the CWS, this time allowing Stanford one single and four other baserunners in six shutout innings in Monday night's 4-3 victory over the Cardinal. Matt Cerione produced the winning run with his two-out, bases-loaded single in the seventh inning. After Stanford scored all its runs in the third inning against starter Nick Montgomery, Stephen Dodson and Alex McRee held things together on the mound while Georgia tried to solve Stanford's Jeffrey Inman and Austin Yount. Once the Bulldogs got the lead, they turned the game over to dependable closer Joshua Fields. "When you stop a team like that and you give us a chance to get our offense going, we have enough weapons in our lineup that we're eventually going to break through and score," Georgia coach David Perno said. "If they [Stanford] only score in one frame, we're going to have a lot of success." McRee (7-1) got the win after striking out two in 1 1/3 innings, and Fields earned his 17th save for working the ninth. Now the Bulldogs (43-23-1) will wait until Friday to play the winner of Wednesday's Miami-Stanford game. A win in that game would send Georgia out of Bracket 1 and into the best-of-three championship round that begins next Monday. The Bulldogs, who fought off elimination five times in the NCAA tournament, have come from behind in the late innings for its CWS wins over Miami and Stanford. ESPN.com 6/17/08

http://www.smokingtreesinbelize.com/2008/06/worst-team-in-baseball-history.html Since 1899 the Cleveland Spiders have held the dubious mantle of worst record ever, 20-134. In the modern era the ’62 Mets are considered the worst, hindered by their expansion status, they managed a measly 40 wins. Despite its obvious significance, won-loss record should not be the only consideration in determining the worst team ever. From an owner’s standpoint, an underachieving team of malcontents can have a worse effect on ticket sales than a lovable lot of losers. Using the NBA for example, the Portland JailBlazers era likely resulted in more fan distaste than had they just been losers with character. Getting back on track, the point is that several factors must considered before anointing the title of worst MLB team of all-time. Won-Loss is important, but a locker room full of absolute cheats tarnishes the institution from GM’s to trainers. With this in mind, the 2005 Orioles, 4th place in the AL East with 74 wins are the worst team in MLB history. Why you ask? With 6 named on the Mitchell Report one would think that would be enough to brand this team the worst. Add the busted and snitching Rafael Palmeiro, and the notoriously sketchy Sammy Sosa, along with boozing’ and brawlin’ Sydney Ponson, and the 2005 O’s can field a starting 9 with each of the 7 deadly sins covered. With the Rays showing that anyone can contend in the AL East with carefully scouted talent, one has to wonder what’s in the water in Baltimore. Abandoning their once envied farm system, the Orioles have bought discounted and unproductive stars at prodigious rates for a decade now. Back in the Ripken era, “the Oriole Way” defined success through developing fundamentally sound players and selfless teammates. SmokingTreesinBelize.com 6/16/08

http://www.realgmfootball.com/src_feature/275/20080616/eli_promised_a_seat_at_adult_table_on_thanksgiving/ Little Eli Manning, fresh off a Superbowl victory against the New England Patriots has been promised a seat at the adult table this upcoming Thanksgiving in what promises to be the most heartwarming, gratifying and uplifting story of 2008. There will be an extra chair at the adult table this Thanksgiving at the Manning household. Formerly relegated to the fold-up card table in the living room with the rest of the Manning rejects and riff-raff, young Eli Manning has been tentatively promised room at the dining room table. Sources close to the family say that this has nothing to do with his recent Superbowl victory and subsequent pedantic trip to Disney-whatever. Rather, one of the older family members died of a SARS/Ebola hybrid recently and a slot has opened up. “All I had to do was promise to keep the spork out of my nose and refrain from doing anything else inappropriate,” Eli remarked. “Yes, in my family we use sporks.” RealGMFootball.com 6/16/08