Just a one-liner in this CSU Fullerton Daily Titan piece, but I thought you guys would be interested. Via Vin Scully Is My Homeboy.

Sure, it was a typo, but he was right nonetheless... hah!

Blogwhoring alert: the Angels' shutout of the Rangers set a Texas record for number of times shut out in a single homestand with four; you'd have to go back to 1984 for the last time they were shut out as many as three times in the same home stand. This is also the 11th time they've been shut out this year, the most since 2003.

Baseball Time In Arlington pieces together a series of events that, taken separately might not be meaningful, but in light of the team's proposed sale, might indicate the league is running things behind the scenes, something Tom Hicks denied earlier today. Lowballing the team's first-round draft pick, Matt Purke, is probably the most compelling thing on this list.

Rays Index speculates that the return on the Kazmir trade is Brandon Wood. Discuss.

A minor bit of blogwhoring, but Bud Selig's recent comments on the Giants' territorial rights being "sacred" are just so much hooey, as the Angels expansion into Los Angeles shows. For the right price, a deal can be done.

Proceeds to go to unspecified local charities.

David Eckstein's 3-run jack to left ties a game in the ninth that the Pads entered five runs back, 6-1. Hilarious!

It was his first longball of the season.

Ken Rosenthal says the Rangers have requested outright release waivers on starter Vicente Padilla. He has a 5.57 ERA so far this year; the release may have been connected to him plunking Mark Teixeira twice yesterday.

A minor bit of blogwhoring, but I figured that some folks might be interested to know that the 2009 Angels bullpen is the worst in team history as measured by ERA (The second worst was the 1994 arson squad, with a 5.47 ERA, that is, this team is a full half-run worse; measured against league average of 4.88 ERA, this team's bullpen is more than a run worse than that at 6.01). The only two relievers with above-average ERAs (as measured by ERA+) are Darren Oliver and small-sample-sized (3.1 IP) Rich Thompson.

Can Brandon Wood pitch?