Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Now *that* I find intriguing. Great work!

 

Come on, Rick, you can't let me off that easy.

It doesn't look like we're going to see tonight how Lincecum pitches with a five-run lead. Shocking.

 

You give up an 8-1 lead, you should be having a heated confrontation with your pitching coach, NOT your hitting coach.

 

Brewers backup catcher George Kottaras hits for the cycle tonight, meaning the last three Brewers to go for the cycle are Kottaras (.219 career average), Jody Gerut (.262 career average) and Chad Moeller (.226 career average).

 

Sure I can! All I've ever wanted out of baseball is for people to show their work, to make an objective case based on the factual records we have available to us. I'm not contrarian just for the heck of it. Well, maybe sometimes.

 

Last two Braves to hit for the cycle were the rotting corpse of Mark Kotsay (in 2007) and Albert Hall (in 1986).

 

I know he's not really in the Cy Young discussion, but Ian Kennedy is having one hell of a season for the Diamondbacks. One run over seven innings tonight to beat Lincecum, get his 18th victory and drop his ERA to 2.96.

 

Kennedy really needs the Diamondbacks to drop into last place, and then he'll have a chance.

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It was before that debacle.

A few weeks ago, Williams said in the press that he liked Gordon Beckham's swing coming out of Georgia more than he does now. That set Walker off, for obvious reasons, as it was a passive-aggressive call-out. Why it took three weeks for the explosion to happen, I don't know. Walker's a pretty laid-back guy, but he must have felt like he wanted a part in dump-on Ken Williams Week, as well.

It's a total shitshow circus. On Friday, Joe Cowley from the Sun-Times and one of the hosts on the Score spent 20 minutes shouting at each other about how Cowley deals with things "like a man" after the host accused him of carrying Guillen's water in his feud with Williams. Cowley kept calling him "Hollywood" Williams, which he frequently does in his columns, as well, with no context. He said if he hated Williams, he could "blow him up" with "dirt from his personal life." He made some reference to Toni Braxton, the singer. Claimed he'd told Jerry Reinsdorf that he could "blow (Williams" up," as well.

I hate this team.

 

Said it over and over again. Shouting most of the time. It was embarrassing.

 

Cowley is a cancer survivor. He doesn't give a shit about crazy Ozzie or Kenny Williams or the caprices of the newspaper industry.