Baseball Thread Rated X -- Mature Audiences Only

Two things are obvious:
One, you don't live in Florida, because if you did you would have to be drunk to be up at this time and no one could be putting forth reasonable arguments like these drunk.
Two, you need to quit responding on the baseball threads before I even have a chance to read your original response.
Goddamnit Columbo.

 

Hard to do.

 

According to the Sun-Sentinel, Joe Girardi won't be back with the Marlins.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2598362

Somewhere, Columbo is fine-tuning his resume. Or bawling uncontrollably.

 

So, will rumors about Girardi as manager of the Cubs surface?

 

I would think so. I would be stunned if they didn't surface.

 

They already have.

BTW, caught Steve Rosenbloom from the Trib on the XM morning baseball show and he absolutely torched Dusty Baker. Torched him so much in fact that they cut the last part of the interview out when the show was rerun later in the morning.

 

this surprises no one. nice scoop by the sun-sentinel though. i didn't see it in my copy of the miami herald this morning.

 

And of course, he has never pitched well when the pressure was on... or has he? hmmmm

 

The pressure on/ off idea is, I think, BS, given Beckett's postseason history and the fact that the game is still a sellout at Fenway and the Twins most assuredly had something to play for.

I think I agree with whomever said that maybe a pitching coach finally convinved Beckett that he couldn't throw fastballs by AL hitters all night. That back-door cutter was coming in at 90 or so, but was aboslutely unhittable. And I seem to remember Derek Lowe using just such a pitch to his advantage a couple years back with the BoSox.

Maybe they both finally listened to a pitching coach, at least for a while.

 

Definitely not the latter.

 

Yahoo Sports is screwing up tonight in their baseball score ticker.

It has the Seattle-White Sox at 2-2 in the middle of the fifth with Seattle having 26 hits.

Of course the actual score is 8-6 Seattle in the seventh (as of this post).

 

Good news for Royals fans as well. Zack Greinke made his return to the majors, pitching in relief in the ninth. Tigers had got three runs to break up a 4-3 game, but Greinke quieted that down.