2010 Baseball Thread No. 2 (which was my Little League number!)

I'm aYankees fan and have sworn off these games, save maybe for the final inning. Its akin to the final 5 minutes of a basketball game.

 

Girardi is using his sixth pitcher. He's up 9 runs in the eighth. He's got one pitcher in the pen plus a dinged-up Rivera. A six-run Sox rally would serve him right, but then the game might not end in time for tomorrow night's game.
Joe West is a horseshit umpire, but in this instance, he was speaking for all decent Americans. I hope all the Fox crew lost their dinner reservations and have to do room service. Serve 'em right.

 

The Red Sox, or "Sawx" when Kornheiser says it.

Michael, the sooner Joe Buck stops talking about how long this game is going, as a way to "feel bad" for viewers, the better.

Oh, thank god! The saga is finally over...until tomorrow night for Sunday Night Baseball.

 

Milwaukee's Jody Gerut just doubled off the wall in the ninth at Arizona to complete the cycle -- a feat much rarer than a no-hitter but a feat that gets nowhere near the attention.

 

Cycles much rarer than no-hitters? I think not, Tony


No-hitters in 2009: (2) Mark Buerhle, Jonathon Sanchez
Cycles in 2009: (6) Melky Cabrera, Ian Kinsler, Felix Pie, Jason Kubel, BJ Upton, Orlando Hudson


No-hitters in 2008: (2) Jon Lester, Caros Zambrano
Cycles in 2008: (4) Adrian Beltre, Carlos Gomez, Stephen Drew, Cristian Guzman,

 

So... Gil Meche went to shit immediately after he threw 130 (or thereabouts) pitches in completing a win over Arizona last year. He's been getting hammered this season. Tonight, Trey Hillman leaves him out there for 128 in a loss (what else) to the Rangers.

At the time, I was in favor of Meche finishing what he started. What the hell? But the fact remains that both he and Bannister's season ended early last year with arm problems. And Meche started the season on the DL while making sure his arm was OK after a setback.

And tonight, he's left in for 128 pitches? I dont' fucking get it, and I don't want to. Trey Hillman needs to be sent the fuck back to Texas, Japan, wherever the fuck he wants. Anywhere but my fucking hometown.

 

If a veteran major league pitcher can't throw 130 pitches in a game once a freaking year he has no right being in the majors, let alone making $11.4 mill a year for being a mediocre piece of shit.

 

Come on, spnited. Some pitchers can handle that much pitching and some can't. Has nothing to do with how good they are. Pedro Martinez and Whitey Ford, to name two good pitchers, were babied by their managers during their careers, and rightly so. You don't take the Ferrari out of the garage to go to the store when it's snowing.

 

headbutt, there were half as many teams when Whitey Ford was pitching. Half the guys in the majors today would not have been in the majors then.
True, there were fewer black and Latin players then but there were as many good hitters in every lineup then as there are now.

 

Bodies are different. Some guys can throw 120 pitches. Some can't top 100. Some people can hold their liquor. Some can't.