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Show THE CHRONICLE UTAH SUMMER inri 1 Basebal Players Selected Late in MLB Draft Three U 99 innings for pitching a team-hig- h the Utes this year, he garnered a 5 mark and a 5.91 ERA. The Mountain West Conference had 15 of its players taken overall in the Draft, including seven from San Diego State. BYU had two players selected, while Air Force, New Mexico and UNLV had one apiece. SDSU's Marcos Mendoza was the 5-- 50-rou- ERIC WALDEN Chronicle Sports Editor felt '? viwS'tf trio of University of Utah baseball players were selected in last week's Major League Baseball Draft, but don't expect to see any of them squaring off against Pedro Martinez anytime soon. Ryan Bailey, Chris Shelton and Travis Palmer were all taken on June 6 the second day of the annual MLB Draft but are all likely to return to the U for their senior seasons of collegiate baseball, given their low Draft statuses. Bailey, a righty hurler originally of Chula Vista, Calif., was selected by his hometown team, the Anaheim Angels, in the 31st round, at pick No. 929 overall. He had a record and a 6.70 ERA while posting 58 strikeouts on the season for the Utes. His 7 victories were a team high. Meanwhile, Shelton, the MWC Player of the Year and a Second Team was drafted in the 33rd round (989th overall) by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He led Utah with a .374 average, 19 home runs (12th in the nation), 66 RBI and 22 doubles. Palmer, a Sandy, Utah native, went to the St. Louis Cardinals as the 1,242nd selection (41st round). In A 7-- Travis Palmer was drafted by the Cardinals, but should return next year for his sensor season at the Girl Fight? WALDEN neo-hip-pi- touchy-feel- Chronicle Editor My brother Josh and I used to beat the bloody hell out of each other on a regular basis. Separated by just 20 months of age and a few feet of bedroom space, it was inevitable that we would be at war more often than the Balkans. Wc could find just about any issue to argue about, and any justification to turn a disagreement into a brawl; didn't matter if it was who's smarter, who's a better athlete or who's more likely to become a transvestite folk singer. Basically, we were all the evidence anyone would need to make a compelling argument for teaching proper birth control methods in health classes, or, on a more radical level, advocating human population control. In retrospect, though, now that I'm calmer, more mature and more (than he is, I look back at all the time wc spent punching each other in the spinal cord and kicking each other in the groin and I can't help but think... ol ), NBA FINALS VS Lakers 76ers(LA. leads 613 3 9 p.m. 2-- 1) VS Starzz Charlotte 614 ET Philadelphia, Pa. 5:30 p.m. (1-- (1-- ET Charlotte, N.C. CHRONICLE SPORTS EDITOR 3) 3) 5 4 - t . 4 & Mike Westfall was named to the Freshman Team. c, e vq Stingers Sacto Frazier-Lydher prior chala combined boasted record; the lengers Teela most notable of these was run back and to tried who turned her Reese, there really is something wrong with legalizing two people savagely beating one another in order to make some money. Let's focus on how this particular match was a bigger sham than Dubya's It's fairly telling that a As for Jacqui Ali-Frazi- er 16-- 2-- 4, grandmother and Mar-jori- e Ali-Frazi- er Jones, who filled in when her son's girlfriend backed out, lasted a whole 1 minute, 8 seconds, collected her $800 check and promptly checked herself into a drug rehab center once it was all over. (39-26- ) (30-35- ) Sacramento, Calif. ERIC "WALLY" WALDEN Starzz - Houston 617 614-1- 7 high-scho- WNBA VS S e, away when she saw the opposition come out of the corner toward her at the first bell. Frazier-Lyd- e didn't give Hell, the y become a to law practice up her personal-injurparticipant in the sweet science until one year ago when she heard the youngest of Muhammad Ali's seven daughters was a pro boxer, and she saw dollar signs in front of her eyes. This fight was a disgrace to the likes of who paved the Christy Martin, a way, and Lucia Rijker, widely considered the female fighter. They may be betbest ter, but with their lack of name recognition, you can't exactly convert them from an undercard to a main event, let alone put their mugs on the cover of TV Guide, now can you? The whole thing pisses me off. Mostly, though, because while Josh and I had many a fracas more notable than Friday's majority-decisio- n fight, the name Walden really hasn't done me much good other than endear me to a English teacher with an Thoreau. devotion to ungodly Eric welcomes feedback at: plan. sport so lacking in credibility that it could raise a fighter's ranking from No. 7 to No. 5 a month after he died could not even completely take this bout seriously. It was billed as IV, ostensibly the continuation of boxing's greatest rivalry one initiated and consummated in three epic fights by their respective fathers some 30 years earlier; but to suggest that these women did anything other than cash in on their fathers' names and trample on their legacies is tantamount to believing that Texas will give up the death penalty. Sure, their resumes looked impressive going o in, with the two of them posting a combined record, but who did they fight? Laila Ali's first six opponents went in with a collective mark of and her seventh was tax-reba- te PCL BASEBALL WNBA Game 4 psycho-babbl- Fra-zicr- self-assure- d nccncr-nccncr!- y crapola that I could look back upon my fights with my brother as something other than sibling rivalry, but what would be the point? No, I don't view all the experiences we had as wasted opportunities to bond and communicate. In fact, the only regret I do have about our spontaneous fisticuffs is that my last name wasn't Ali and his wasn't Frazier. Had those been our monikers, we'd both have enough cash to hire our respective therapists to cream each other and work out all the excess aggression that's been weighing us down all these years for us. It's ALL in the name folks, and the proof is in the pudding (butterscotch pudding I hope, because I'm really hungry right now and that just sounds so yummy): On Friday, June 8, 's Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila and Joe banked each over daughter Jacqui $100,000 to flail...cr, fight.. .er, box each other for eight rounds. For the time being, let's disregard the ethical-it- y of boxing and, for that matter, my own difficulty at reconciling my voyeuristic fascination with it as a sport against my gut feeling, that Sports high-scho- inner-harmon- y, 11 IV Just a Scam for Ali-Frazi- er Damn, we didn't even get paid for fighting. What? You were expecting something more cerebral? I suppose that in this era of ERIC U. see BASEBALL, page ol PCL BASEBALL (1-- v; Stingers Vegas 3) (5-1- ) 12 p.m. CT ) (28-38- ) 618-2- 1 Houston, Texas EWALDENCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU (39-26- Las Vegas, Nev. 581-704- 1 |