Sorry, you can’t, because someone else already bought the domain name. Who, you ask?

Major League Baseball went out and snatched the domain, presumably so no one else could.

And MLB did it through GoDaddy.com, which means they’re paying a mere $9.99 or less to keep someone from saying disparaging things about the White Sox General Manager.

I guess the disgruntled fans will have to make a sister site to heavethehawk.com and call it heavethekenny. Anybody? It’s available…

Bloodhorse.com reported today that Teuflesberg, the three-year-old thoroughbred who was injured in the Grade III Phoenix Stakes earlier this year at Keeneland, will enter stud.

Teuflesberg scored his big win in this year’s Woody Stephens Stakes (gr. II) at seven furlongs in 1:21.49 at Belmont. He also played a part in this year’s memorable running of the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland, finishing fourth in a four-horse blanket finish in which subsequent Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Street Sense was second.

Also this year, Teuflesberg won the Southwest Stakes and placed in four stakes. At 2, he captured the Sugar Bowl Stakes and ran second in the Sanford Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga.

Teuflesberg is my all-time favorite horse and I was devastated watching him go down on a nationally televised race. I’m glad to see he is recovering well and will be able to live out the rest of his life happy.

Go breed some speedy offspring, Teuflesberg!

Kenny Williams made a move Monday that ranks among his best, at least for now, I think.

The Diamondbacks are sending Carlos Quentin to the South Side in exchange for minor league first basemen Chris Carter. Quentin is a former blue chip who the White Sox have gotten pretty cheap, and I am all for buying low.

Sure, his 2007 numbers look awful, but they are also a small sample of a still-developing player. Quentin has also been playing with the shadow of other top D-Back’s prospects constantly looming.

Baseball Prospectus called Chris Carter the fourth-best prospect in the White Sox system, which sounds better than it is, given the lack of talent in the pool. He’s a converted third baseman that Baseball Prospectus recently broke down:

The Good: A true slugger with tremendous strength and power to all fields, Carter has made great strides in his approach, drawing a good number of walks while greatly reducing his strikeout rate from a year ago. He hits lefties and righties equally well, and has no significant weaknesses against any pitch type.

The Bad: Originally a third baseman, Carter is a poor defender, even at first, and needs to improve his positioning and footwork. He can be guilty at times of trying too hard to muscle up his swing when his natural strength is more than adequate. He’s a below-average runner in terms of both speed and instincts.

My favorite part of the BP article was the Fun Fact, which said Wikipedia has seven entries for Chris Carter, none of whom are this Chris Carter.

With Paul Konerko locked up through 2010, I can’t get too upset about losing Carter, especially if Quentin turns out to be who we think he is.

Just, out.

Jake Peavy livin’ it up at KAM’S

Well I just had one of the more interesting nights of my life.

The scene: The DI Sports Bar Crawl is underway at Joe’s Brewery and things are just starting to get exciting on the poles. Then, a phone call was received from a friend of a friend of DI on-air reporter, Jon Stiffler in fact, who said Jake Peavy, Roy Oswalt and Brad Penny — three of the National League’s most dominant pitchers (Peavy, my favorite player/hero being the 2007 NL Cy Young winner) — were at KAM’s fraternizing with the UI student body.

In my best Cosmo Kramer impersonation, I said: “Let’s go.”

You have to understand, I just bought a brand new Jake Peavy jersey two weeks ago — one that I had been wanting for years (tip of the cap to deputy news editor Sky Opila, who found the jersey on eBay for me for just $16.)

Sky, good timing.

So I went up to Jake first, him being my hero and all, said hello and shook his hand. Shook his hand, people!

Just to refresh your memory, Peavy’s 2007:

IP: 223.1
W-L: 19-6
ERA: 2.54
Ks: 240 (!!!)

We chatted for a few minutes, and he explained that he was in town on a hunting trip with Penny and Oswalt. I congratulated him on his Cy Young. He seemed appreciative.

Peavy chatting it up with some Champaign locals

Then I told him I had just bought the aforementioned jersey. I don’t think he believed me and the conversation pretty much ended there. Well, what happened next should come as no surprise.

I ran home, got the jersey and a Sharpie, ran back and presented it to him. He put it on, danced a bit, took a photo with me and signed it: “Jake Peavy, 44, ‘07 NL Cy Young.”

Best moments of my life, in order:

5. Getting accepted to Illinois
4. Getting my vintage Ditka sweater
3. My Bar Mitzvah
2. Bringing my dog, Hayley, home from the pet store
1. Meeting Jake Peavy

And that was that. I have an 8-page paper due tomorrow at 10 a.m. that I haven’t started. And here I am, blogging about Peavy, Oswalt and Penny at 1:30 a.m.

I’m busting.

A better journalist than myself would have really focused on the interview at hand, but I think exceptions can be made for meeting your hero…right?

From DI on-air sports director Alex Symonds:

Tune into WPGU 107.1 FM on Friday from 6-7pm before the Illini hockey coverage for a possible interview with all three. Please tune in to Standing Room Only at the above mentioned time to hear from the MLB all-stars.

Sidenote: It’s unbelievable how starstruck college men can get at the sight of players such as these. It’s like they were middle school girls in the late 1990’s at an *Nsync concert. This is by far one of the best moments of my young life.

I got all fired up after I heard the trade news yesterday. The White Sox sent Jon Garland to the Angels for Orlando Cabrera and cash. A strange deal if you ask me.

No trade not involving blowing up the entire White Sox roster will satisfy me at this point, and this is no exception. Kenny Williams has added even more age to his roster at even greater cost.

I’ve been a big proponent for some time when it comes to trading Garland. He is without a doubt one of the more overrated pitchers in baseball. This is about the time that White Sox fans point to back-to-back 18 win seasons and scream, curse and yell. Well, settle down.

Garland is overrated.

The problem here is that Cabrera is JUST AS OVERRATED. If you’re going to deal an overrated player, why trade him for someone equally overrated, at a position you already shored up!?

Now I’m no Juan Uribe fan, but do you really think Cabrera is a big improvement? Well, he is and he isn’t. Cabrera’s 2007 OBP is an unremarkable .345 while Uribe’s is a pithy .284. That’s significant. But Cabrera’s slugging average is .397 while Uribe’s is .394. That isn’t so significant.

Certainly not significant enough to deal Garland, anyway.

I’ll stop right there because I just realized James Holzhauer wrote up a nice transaction recap this morning:

What’s really pointless about this deal is that it doesn’t accomplish what should be the Sox’s prime objective: Acquire young, cost-controlled talent. The Sox could have cashed in Jermaine Dye and Mark Buehrle for prospects at the trade deadline, or let them walk and collected compensation picks in the draft. Instead, they signed both to overpriced deals, giving the team a fighting chance at .500 for 2008, along with a less optimistic outlook for 2009 and beyond.

Even though I’m not Kenny Williams’ biggest fan, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, since he could probably still collect draft picks when Cabrera leaves as a free agent after 2007. That was before I read this:

“Last year did not sit well with any of us. I’ll be damn if we’re going to go through that again. We will aggressively pursue a championship,” Williams said.

Look out, Cleveland. Williams thinks Orlando Cabrera represents aggressive pursuit of a championship, the kind of player who single-handedly takes a team from 72 wins to 95. As a Chicago native, I’m deathly afraid he thinks the next step is to throw $90 million at Torii Hunter to take them from 73 wins to 75.

I heard on 670 The Score Monday night that Kenny Williams was now going to work on trading Uribe. See how this is getting more and more idiotic?

Williams likes to fly by the seat of his pants and has no regard for logic when it comes to organizing a team. As Rob Neyer points out, “…The No. 1 principle of making deals is buy low, sell high — which is what the Angels are doing, and exactly the opposite of what the White Sox are doing.”

Garland is solid. He’s made 32 or 33 starts in each of the last six seasons and his ERA is always right around the league average or a little better. I suppose somebody might see his 10-13 record last season and think he doesn’t know how to win, but I see his 18-7 record in 2006 and think he was particularly lucky in 2006 and particularly unlucky in 2007. True, he’ll probably be the Angels’ fourth-best starter. But what a luxury!

Meanwhile, Cabrera probably will never again play as well as he did last season. He was 32, and it was his best season wince 2003. He won the Gold Glove this year, but didn’t deserve it. He’s solid with the glove, but probably no better than Uribe. Yes, he’s the better hitter. But he’s not that much better. In fact, the projections in the 2008 Bill James Handbook predict that Uribe will actually out-hit Cabrera next season.

And as I make the rounds from ESPN writers to bloggers and columnists, I’m having a hard time finding people who really like this deal.

But wait, Mike Downey at the Chicago Tribune thinks it was a good deal. He also thinks Orlando Cabrera is a world-class shortstop.

Of the half dozen Hall of Fame shortstops who played their careers after 1950 (Apiricio, Banks, Reese, Ripken, Rizzuto, Smith), none were as bad offensively as Cabrera. Except Smith. He was pretty bad. He actually had a career slugging average that was lower than his career on-base percentage. Yikes!

But I digress. What was I talking about? Oh, yes, world-class shortstops. I’ll tell ya what: If the Sox reach the playoffs in the Cabrera era (heh, Cabrera era), and he hits a homer to lift the team into the World Series AND Joe Buck screams “Go Crazy, folks!” I’ll let this whole thing go.

Just, out.

From the AP wire today:

Jockey Tammi Piermarini won the first riding title of her career and became just the third female jockey to win a meet title in the 72-year history of Suffolk Downs, which wrapped up its season Saturday.
Piermarini amassed 100 wins from 584 mounts to finish 25 wins ahead of her nearest Suffok competitor, David Amiss. She joins Suzanne Kelly (1980) and Denise Boudrot (1974) as the only women ever to win riding titles at the East Boston oval.

Also, if you’re planning to do some simulcasting this weekend, check out the following stakes races, courtesy again the AP:

SATURDAY, NOV. 17
All American Handicap, 3&up, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M, Golden Gate Fields
Cardinal Handicap, 3&up (f&m), $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M (T), Churchill Downs
Autumn Stakes, 3&up, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-16M, Woodbine
Stuyvesant Handicap, 3&up, $100,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M, Aqueduct
Sharp Cat Stakes, 2yo fillies, $100,000, 1 1-16M, Hollywood Park
SUNDAY, NOV. 18
Colonial Cup Steeplechase Handicap, 4&up, $150,000, Grade I, 2 3-4M (Steeplechase), Camden
Glorious Song Stakes, 2yo fillies, $125,000, 7F, Woodbine
Kennedy Road Stakes, 3&up, $125,000, 6F, Woodbine
Mariah’s Storm Stakes, 3&up (f&m), $100,000, 5F (T), Churchill Downs
Real Quiet Stakes, 2yo, $100,000, 1 1-16M, Hollywood Park
THURSDAY, NOV. 22
Falls City Handicap, 3&up (f&m), $300,000, Grade II, 1 1-8M, Churchill Downs
Hollywood Prevue Stakes, 2yo, $100,000, Grade III, 7F, Hollywood Park
Fall Highweight Handicap, 3&up, $100,000, 6F, Aqueduct

I did a hefty analysis of the National League Rookie of the Year race over at Just Baseball, and don’t want to simply repeat it.

You can check it out here.

Ryan Braun’s numbers sure look good on paper, but he’s not very good at defense, if you hadn’t noticed.

Troy Tulowitzki deserved the award.

Curious about what a horse does after it’s put out the stud? Well, the answer is just about nothing, but check out these videos to see some recent retirees.

For the curious, here is the NTRA money leaders for jockeys, trainers and thoroughbreds through Nov. 12, courtesy the Associated Press. As usual, forgive the formatting:

Jockey………………………Starts……1st……2nd…..3rd……..Earnings
Garrett Gomez……………..1107…….231…..191…..164……$21,523,981
Robby Albarado…………….1096……218……182…..178……$17,985,332
John Velazquez…………….1042……183……142…..142……$17,105,239
Cornelio Velasquez………..1511……244……187…..210……$15,458,952
Rafael Bejarano…………….1351……220……224…..172……$14,167,797
Ramon Dominguez…………1198……294…..208……184…..$13,970,631
Eibar Coa…………………….1454……255…..235……206…..$12,839,431
Edgar Prado………………….1016…..186…..161……131…..$12,651,050
Kent Desormeaux…………..1022…..192…..171……128……$12,438,102
Javier Castellano……………1036…..156…..164……165……$11,972,031

Trainers……………………….Starts……1st……2nd…….3rd…..Earnings
Todd Pletcher………………..1120…….253…..171…….169….$26,529,207
Steven Asmussen………….1932…….409…..347……..274….$21,398,617
Kiaran McLaughlin………….464………106……77………56…..$12,088,413
Robert Frankel………………493……….114…..99………73……$10,809,437
Doug O’Neill………………….926………141…..122…….134….$10,283,399
William Mott………………….697………142……97……..97……$8,853,115
Scott Lake…………………..2050……..416……381…….306….$8,624,234
Richard Dutrow, Jr………….593………147…..103……..90…..$8,567,703
Bob Baffert…………………..381……….68…….56……..59…..$6,709,572
Gary Contessa……………..1074……..153…..146……164…..$6,610,848

Horses……………………..Starts…..1st……2nd…….3rd………Earnings
Curlin………………………….9……….6………1……….2………$5,102,800
Invasor (ARG)……………….2……….2………0………0……….$3,900,000
Street Sense………………..8……….4………3………0……….$3,205,000
English Channel…………….7………4……….2……..0………..$2,640,000
Hard Spun……………………10…….4……….3……..1……….$2,572,500
Kip Deville…………………….7……..3………1……..1………..$1,965,780
Ginger Punch………………..8………5………2……..1………..$1,827,060
Cloudy’s Knight……………..9………3………3……..1………..$1,762,868
Lahudood (GB)………………5………3………1……..0………..$1,560,500
Lava Man……………………..8……..3………1……..0…………$1,410,000

In this photo provided by Benoit Photo, jockey Garrett Gomez rides Spring Awakening to victory at the Moccasin Stakes, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 at Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif. The win gave Gomez his 71st stakes win of the year, eclipsing Jerry Bailey’s record of 70 set in 2003. (AP Photo/Benoit Photo)

Garrett Gomez won his 71st stakes race this year and passed Jerry Bailey for the most in a year. Gomez rode the 2-year-old filly Spring Awakening to victory in the $100,000 Moccassin Stakes at Hollywood Park.

“At first when they kept telling me about it and telling me about it, I was just going like ‘yeah, yeah, yeah,’” Gomez told Blood-Horse after tying the record on Saturday. “But now that I’m there, it’s a nice feeling to be able to put my name up there with a guy like that (Bailey).”

From the Associated Press: Gomez and Spring Awakening, the heavy favorite in the 7-furlong sprint, sat a comfortable third on the backstretch then dueled with Sindy Jacobson in the homestretch before taking the lead and pulling away for a two-length victory.

“When we turned for home, these two fillies really got to running,” Gomez said. “I couldn’t ask her to run too much faster. Her little legs were going a hundred miles an hour. I didn’t put her in the race, she put herself in the race. She was doing it all on her own.”

Gomez has all but locked up an Eclipse Award, especially after winning two races on the undercard at the Breeders’ Cup. He now has 21.5 million in earnings in 1,107 starts in 2007.