Since Brendan appears to be having too much fun hanging out with the fam, I’ll go ahead and post a link to this news bit about former ND wide receiver Jeff Samardzjia.
As most ND sports fans know, he chose to head to the professional baseball route instead of the NFL, and so far, so good.
The Cubs farmhand has recently been added to the Double A, Southern League affiliate of the Cubs, the Tennessee Smokies. In other words, it’s the local hometown team in these parts. I meant to post this earlier this week after it happened, but just got around to it now. Sorry for the delay.
Samardzjia threw six strong innings, only giving up one run on six hits to the Montgomery Biscuits. I suspect that he’s likely to make his way to Iowa next year, and will probably get rushed along to the bigs as soon as possible, so that his career can come to a crashing halt due to injury like Kerry Wood and Mark Prior’s have. It’s just the nature of the Cubs organization.
Brenners, you happen to be very lucky–getting to see the Shark pitch. Maybe, if he doesn’t read the blogs and know who you are, you can get a picture with Beckles and the little one.
Shark struggled a lot at single-A, but showed improvement and was promoted. Hopefully he’s on the right track with baseball, although I will miss watching him play football.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:21:24 pm
This is good news.
I hope he goes to Iowa so I can see a game.
August 11th, 2007 at 2:29:09 am
Brenners, you happen to be very lucky–getting to see the Shark pitch. Maybe, if he doesn’t read the blogs and know who you are, you can get a picture with Beckles and the little one.
Shark struggled a lot at single-A, but showed improvement and was promoted. Hopefully he’s on the right track with baseball, although I will miss watching him play football.
Thanks for the update, J.
August 11th, 2007 at 1:03:37 pm
so that his career can come to a crashing halt due to injury like Kerry Wood and Mark Prior’s
Dude, not funny.
August 11th, 2007 at 9:36:33 pm
Shark was the only reason BQ went in the first round and not the fifth.