Monday, February 23, 2009

Monday Thoughts by Tannen

Quick reminder that we'll have Chris Miller as our special guest at 4:20 today to talk about his landing the gig with the Arizona Cardinals as their quarterbacks coach. Quite the story with no college or pro experience. Look forward to that.
Also have to chat about the letter to the sports editor in today's sports section making the false claim that lot's of teams start 3 and 4 freshman, win and will make the tournament. I have 3 words in response. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Explanation coming on SportsTalk. Huge win for the Ducks to get that big, ugly ZERO out of the win column in conference. Simply know they won't have to live with that forever.
How bout them Trailblazers? Now move to within 1 1/2 games of the Nuggets for the division lead and a possible #3 seed in the playoffs, and only 2 1/2 behind San Antonio for the 2nd best record in the West.
Obviously didn't get to see it first hand, but did lot's of listening and followed the play by play and box scores and really liked what I can gauge of Oregon Baseball. Coach George Horton talked alot about small ball, moving runners along and stuff like that, but he avoided being predictable which is key because they do have some power. The bottom line is if the pitchers can keep them in games, the season will go much, much smoother.