Another week of great sports action, and so many great performances with which to choose. Step right up readers and give us the one (1), uno, une performance that stands out for you this past week.
Cliff Lee grabs my POTW.
Lee did not toss a perfect game like Don Larsen in game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Lee didn’t even have a game equal to Bob Gibson’s performance in the 1968 World Series when Gibson struck out 17 and walked 1 for a complete game shutout in a Game 1 win over the Tigers, 4-0. Lee’s performance takes a back seat to Jack Morris who threw 10 shutout innings in game 7 of the 1991 Series.
Lee’s performance is not better than those legendary outings.
But Cliff Lee had a performance to remember. The southpaw went the distance holding the Yankees without an earned run while striking out 10 and walking none as the Phillies beat the Yankees, 6-1.
Who gets your POTW?
My POTW goes to Casey for setting up a Pickin’ Splinters twitter account, then taking his mastery of new technology a step further by using bit.ly shortened URLs to link to blog posts. Nice job, Casey. 😉
Aw shucks, I’m speechless.
I wish I could take credit. Twitter makes it pretty easy. Have to credit Rey for making the suggestion.
As for the short urls – that’s all Twitter.
I am going with the entire Boston Celtics who have opened the season impressive and seem bent on turning this season into an “efff you” tour.
If everyone stays healthy and they continue to play lockdown defense like they have – this could be a long season for opposing NBA teams.
Can someone explain what Twitter is?? I am really starting to get old..
Chas
I will let you explain Twitter. I am not sure I can really explain it. I don’t know it as anything other than a chance for people to see there are new articles posted on Pickin Splinters.
Smitty –
I guess my best explanation of Twitter would be that it’s like your facebook status. Users “tweet” about what they’re doing right now, what’s on their mind, or news they have to report. They also follow other users, so the tweets of those they’re following show up on their Twitter home page. Again, kind of like you see the facebook status of your friends on your home page.
It’s also called micro-blogging. Tweets can be up to 140 characters, so you can get a lot of information across if you’re concise. It’s great for a blog to offer another way for readers to be notified of new posts, as Casey’s mainly using it for. It could also be used for a news feed on a web site, kind of like an RSS feed.