I came across this last night and I found it highly entertaining. Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are doing a duel blog. Here is the description from the blog.

Throughout the 2007 WNBA season, these two longtime friends, teammates, roommates, competitors and fellow fun-loving troublemakers will exchange correspondence in this “Buddy Blog.” They will talk about anything and everything that comes to mind, all the while keeping each other up on how the other is doing in their travels and the march towards the Playoffs. And thanks to either kindness or dumbness, they have decided to share their letters with the world…

So if you’re a UCONN fan, Taurasi or Bird fan or just a WNBA fan in general, check it out. I have included it in my blogroll on the side, look for “The Buddy Blog”.

Former Red Sox pitchers Lenny DiNardo and Alan Embree played a big part helping the Oakland A’s defeat the Boston Red Sox 2-0 on Tuesday night. Eric Chavez homered for the second night in a row and Nick Swisher added an RBI double for the only runs of the night. The loss was the third in a row for the Red Sox and the first time they have lost 3 games in a row all season. It was also their 5th loss in six games.

I’ll be honest. I passed out during the game. I was exhausted from staying up late watching Monday night’s game. I woke up around 2 am and just caught what I missed on MLB.tv.

I thought Daisuke Matuszaka pitched really well. He went 7 innings, allowed 7 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks and he struckout 8. A much better outing for him compared to his last start against the Indians.

Unfortunately for him, the Sox hitters couldn’t take advantage of 6 walks from DiNardo. They only managed 3 hits, 2 off DiNardo. The Red Sox also hit into 4 double plays and had another when Coco Crisp was doubled off first.

Dustin Pedroia lost his 14 game hitting streak and J.D. Drew sat out the game with a lefty on the mound.

I have to ask this. Did we really spend $70 million dollars so that Drew can only play against righties? For about a 1/4 of the cost, we could have kept Trot Nixon out there.

Anyways, here is a link to the game story. These West coast games are tough but I will do my best to provide a story for you to read.

Only in independent baseball would you ever see this.

That’s right. The Long Beach Armada, who play in the Golden Baseball League, have decided to change their name to Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska. Otherwise known as LBALACUSNAIBA.

“In order to better reach the larger Armada Nation, we felt compelled to lengthen the name to incorporate all our fans stretching from the warm beaches of Los Angeles to the frigid beaches of the Artic Circle,” Golden Baseball League CEO Dave Kaval stated. “Our inspiration was Arte Moreno’s brilliant marketing gambit of positioning the Anaheim Angeles as an LA team. Being a real Los Angeles county team, we too wanted to extend our reach as far north as possible.”

The team was in the news last year when Jose Canseco played for them.

I’d hate to be a radio announcer or public address announcer in that league.

Terry Francona barely squeaked by with 31% of the votes in the heated Before They Were Managers Round of the Rookie Card Playoffs. Tony La Russa, whose card was chiseled out of stone in 1904, came in second with 23% of the tallies while Joe Torre’s 1962 Topps All-Star got him only 17%. Willie Randolph was on his tail with 16% and everyone’s favorite Venezuelan hothead, Ozzie Guillen rounded out last place with 13% of the votes.

This brings us to the inevitable Slugger Round. We have some oldies and some goodies for you, including a pre-ganja Manny Ramirez, Mags before his hair was so long and luxurious, the Big Hurt copping a feel applying the tag, Cool Hand Konerko and my very first poster as a baseball-loving child, Junior himself. Who doesn’t have and cherish this card?!

Vote for your favorite current player’s rookie card.

You can vote here or head over to Babes Love Baseball to vote.