tongue-tied lightning Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 it's up to the Reds bullpen to get Homer his 1st win. it's a longshot Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Boy, the Devil Rays' bullpen is awful. The Marlins were down 8-2 in the 3rd inning, and are now up 14-8 after 12 straight runs in the last 3 innings. They now have former Marlin shortstop prospect Josh Wilson coming out to pitch. He's not a former Shortstop, mind you. He's a shortstop. But he's coming out to pitch. Because the Devil Rays are atrocious. The Marlins, on the other hand have pitched 5 1/3 innings of relief and only given up one run. I don't want to jinx it, but hello .500. Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Boy, the Devil Rays' bullpen is awful. The Marlins were down 8-2 in the 3rd inning, and are now up 14-8 after 12 straight runs in the last 3 innings. They now have former Marlin shortstop prospect Josh Wilson coming out to pitch. He's not a former Shortstop, mind you. He's a shortstop. But he's coming out to pitch. Because the Devil Rays are atrocious. The Marlins, on the other hand have pitched 5 1/3 innings of relief and only given up one run. I don't want to jinx it, but hello .500. You have no idea what awful baseball is. I have been a Texas Rangers fan since 1972. This year is a total and unmitigated clusterfuck. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Four seasons ago, my team lost 119 games. Link to post Share on other sites
rareair Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 you poor souls. Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 You have no idea what awful baseball is. I have been a Texas Rangers fan since 1972. This year is a total and unmitigated clusterfuck. I think what I described is a pretty accurate description of awful baseball, regardless of what the Rangers have gone through. I'm not a D-Rays fan, so I don't care one way or the other.' And the Rangers are a pretty easy team to fix, if they stop signing people to ridiculous deals. Get a bunch of ground ball pitchers, good infield defense, and your ballpark will take care of the runs. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 For anyone interested, here's Schilling's breakdown of the near no-hitter the other day. This is from his blog, 38pitches. He's also a member of SoSH and takes a dig at the very end of the piece at the poster I mentioned in the game thread the other day that mentioned the potential no-hitter around the 7th inning. I think it's kind of cool to get the first-hand perspective as to what it's like to go through it (others may disagree): http://38pitches.com/2007/06/09/6707-vs-oa...80%a6%e2%80%a6/ Link to post Share on other sites
OOO Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 I went to a major league baseball game this evening. Thats all. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Nothing else to say about it? The shadows at CoPa are making it very difficult to watch this game on MLB.tv. Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 You have no idea what awful baseball is. I have been a Texas Rangers fan since 1972. This year is a total and unmitigated clusterfuck.I'll bet you remember this dude then, "The Sure Thing". Boy those guys were really bad in the early '70's. Link to post Share on other sites
OOO Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 Nothing else to say about it? The Dodger's Stadium isn't as nice as Wrigley, in my humble, yet unanimously agreed upon opinion. It was nice to go see a ballgame, but I am not a Dodgers or a bluejays fan, so I didn't have a high level of excitement. Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 the a's pitching staff has been flat out getting it done lately. Link to post Share on other sites
H-Bomb Henry Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I find the Atlanta Braves chant offensive and lemming like. I guess that goes with the territory Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I'd like to see a Marlin starter aside from Sergio Mitre pitch well. Kthxbye. Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 So Luis Terrero has been tearing it up in limited ABs. .270/.372/.595 and half the White Sox board doesn't understand why the other half would consider taking ABs away from this currently injured player: .264/.311/.341, 7-9 SBs. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Because Terrero isn't gritty? Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Right. His skin is too dark to be a grinder. And he is clean-shaven. Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Right. His skin is too dark to be a grinder. And he is clean-shaven. Yep, definitely no grittiness there. It's funny, for a while I thought the Marlins most gritty play was Alfredo Amezaga who is Mexican, and I thought that may be why we are so bad. Every good team has a useless "gritty" player who is white. Maybe that's what we are missing. We need our own David Eckstein. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I thought that was what Aaron Boone was for. Can pitchers count? I'm trying to figure out who fills that role for the Tigers, but all of the shitty white guys are relief pitchers. Link to post Share on other sites
darkstar Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I thought that was what Aaron fuckin' Boone was for. fixed it Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 I thought that was what Aaron Boone was for.Now, he was a TRUE Yankee. Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Guillermo Mota is single-handedly putting to rest any questions people may have had about whether steroids can impact the performance of pitchers. 2006 ERA and WHIP with Mets: 1.00 and 0.832007 ERA and WHIP with Mets: 8.10 and 1.95 Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 But he's pitched less than 7 innings this year. Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 But he's pitched less than 7 innings this year. And in 6.2 innings this year, he's given up 3 times as many runs as he gave up with the mets last year. I guess he came over to the Mets mid-year last year so that's not all that telling either... What I do know is that this guy was filthy for the Mets last year for the first time in his career since 2003, then he tests positive for steroids and now is back to being the scrub the Marlins and Indians thought they were trading away. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 He's appeared five times this season. In his last appearance, he gave up 3 runs in 1/3 of an inning. Yeah, that's shitty. And then in another appearance he gave up 3 runs in 2 innings. Also bad. In his other 3 appearances, he's pitched 4 1/3 innings of scoreless ball. I'm not saying that Mota is good or anything (he's not), I'm just saying, those numbers can get awfully skewed by one bad appearance when you're talking about sample sizes that small. Until his horrible 1/3 inning on Saturday, his ERA was 4.26, which is pretty much exactly league average. Link to post Share on other sites
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