Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Sac Fly Watch, More Shutdown City & An April A-Hole
Fucking hell with this cold weather:
AJ Burnett gets shelled in start one, then goes for 6 and two-thirds giving up but a solo bomb to someone named John Buck;
Curt Schilling gets similarly shelled in his first outing, shelled in his second by Frank Catalanotto, but remains on point to deliver 7 innings of one-run ball;
Daisuke Matsuzaka somehow lives up to the hype, though against the Royals, giving up only a rocket to David DeJesus while sitting down 10;
San Diego's Chris Young shuts out the Giants through 7, turning Matt Cain's no-hitter into a 1-hit loss on a Geoff Blum's Sac Fly...
Which leads us, giddily, into the first installment of the Sac Fly Watch!
One week in, 2 Sac Flies produce a ten-way tie for first - some notables include Beltran, Garciaparra, Berkman, and Cincy catcher David Ross, who has gathered 100% of his ribbies on those two flyballs with less than two-out; Blum's Game-Winner, alas, only put him into a 54-way tie for second...
As for A-Hole's ridiculous start (6 HR & 15 RBI in 7 games), well, it's April; wait until he blows a play at third, gets booed, and forgets that he's the Best Player in Baseball History.
That'll be hilarious.
Even funnier? The Yankees not making the playoffs...could it happen?
For all our sakes, let's fucking hope so; there's a bunch of bad karma in the air, and we need to put a stop to it. The first step is collectively willing the Yankees to fail; after that it's all gravy.
Trust me. ¶ 9:47 PM
AJ Burnett gets shelled in start one, then goes for 6 and two-thirds giving up but a solo bomb to someone named John Buck;
Curt Schilling gets similarly shelled in his first outing, shelled in his second by Frank Catalanotto, but remains on point to deliver 7 innings of one-run ball;
Daisuke Matsuzaka somehow lives up to the hype, though against the Royals, giving up only a rocket to David DeJesus while sitting down 10;
San Diego's Chris Young shuts out the Giants through 7, turning Matt Cain's no-hitter into a 1-hit loss on a Geoff Blum's Sac Fly...
Which leads us, giddily, into the first installment of the Sac Fly Watch!
One week in, 2 Sac Flies produce a ten-way tie for first - some notables include Beltran, Garciaparra, Berkman, and Cincy catcher David Ross, who has gathered 100% of his ribbies on those two flyballs with less than two-out; Blum's Game-Winner, alas, only put him into a 54-way tie for second...
As for A-Hole's ridiculous start (6 HR & 15 RBI in 7 games), well, it's April; wait until he blows a play at third, gets booed, and forgets that he's the Best Player in Baseball History.
That'll be hilarious.
Even funnier? The Yankees not making the playoffs...could it happen?
For all our sakes, let's fucking hope so; there's a bunch of bad karma in the air, and we need to put a stop to it. The first step is collectively willing the Yankees to fail; after that it's all gravy.
Trust me. ¶ 9:47 PM
