Wednesday Wrap-up

TEATER TIME

Bluegrass Big Stick Josh Teater takes to the tee tomorrow morning at 8:15 a.m. in the first round of the Touchstone Energy Open in Greenville, NC. Josh currently is in 83rd place on the money list for 2005, and it is my bold prediction that he will finish in the top 30 by year's end.

Note: The Hooters' Tour obviously downsized their IT department as their website is much less informative than it was in 2004.

AU REVOIR RANDY

Few were surprised by Randy Morris' brilliant decision to remain eligible for the NBA Draft next Tuesday. Sadly, some team will likely waste a late 1st-round pick on him, and while his pocketbook will be fattened, his basketball abilities will plateau. We'll see if we can get Randy to do an interview with the Blog about 6 weeks into the season when he's riding the bench versus the Hawks, in the 4th game of a 7-game road swing and DNP'ing for the 20th consecutive night, this time in front of about 2500 people. It's not fair to relentlessly bash young kids for chasing the millions, but I think it's fair to fault them when they make a decision that is so blatantly flawed as this one.

SHAV-LESS IN DURHAM

Stunningly, there was a Randolph who made an even worse career decision that our own beloved Randy. Shavlik Randolph chose to remain eligible for the NBA Draft, fresh off of an impressive season in which he averaged about 4 points per game. I'm still waiting anxiously to hear Dookie V's take on this one. And I don't want to hear how he was unhappy at Duke. He STUNK at Duke, and if he was unhappy and wanted to improve his NBA chances, he should have transferred to another school. Maybe he's just been dying for a reason to move to Istanbul...

NARRON'S UNDEFEATED

Slotted brilliantly in the 7th spot in the batting order, Adam Dunn hit 2 (shocker) solo HRs this afternoon off of LHP Mark Mulder as the Reds held on for a 7-6 victory to complete a series victory against the 1st place Redbirds. Dunn has struggled versus left-handed pitching, so I'm not so convinced that he should be hitting 3rd against LH starters, but the only time that he should EVER be hitting 7th is in the All-Star game.