Cheers & Jeers: Josh Beckett saves MLB pitching with 20-win season
Cheers & Jeers: Josh Beckett saves MLB pitching with 20-win season

By Berry Tramel
Published: October 4, 2007

CHEERS
• To Josh Beckett of the Red Sox, who won 20 games this season. Until 2006, never had both leagues failed to produce a 20-game winner in the same season. But if not for Beckett, it would have happened again in 2007. San Diego's Jake Peavy led the National League with 19 wins.

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• To OSU's offensive coaches, who somehow get the ball to Adarius Bowman even though he's got no sidekick like Juaquin Iglesias. Bowman has 31 catches through five games; Sooner stud Malcolm Kelly has just 17 in five games. The Sooners didn't really need Kelly until Saturday, and then they needed him in the worst of ways.

JEERS
• To Fox Sports Net, which selected the Texas-Iowa State mismatch for telecast on Oct. 13. OSU-Nebraska, a much better game, was not picked and will be on pay-per-view instead.

• To Bob Stoops' blown leads. The three biggest blown leads in OU history have come under the Stoops administration: 17 against Texas in 1999, 16 against Notre Dame in 1999 and now 17 against Colorado in 2007. Part of Stoops' problem is that he gets so many big leads. But Barry Switzer and Bud Wilkinson had their share of big leads and never once lost after leading by more than 15.


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Berry, you are right on about Fox Sports. When I saw that schedule, I couldn't believe it. I can certainly understand televising OU/Mizzou, but Texas/Iowa State? Just proves where the money is...Texas pulls a lot of weight, but it's not fair to regular fans. If anything, the Texas/Iowa State game should be pay for view--that way only Texas (for the most part) folks would pay for it.
Jim, Rockwall - Oct 4, 2007 at 12:08 pm
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