While I watch Randy Johnson give my fantasy team a bad name against the Mets, here are some random thoughts on a few of the games this evening:
I'm As Dumb As I Look
Dodgers @ Florida: Russell Martin, where the fuck did your power go? You’re hitting .277 (just fine), OBP’ing .394 (very nice), and slugging .328 (not a misprint). You have zero homers and six doubles. Luckily for you and the Dodgers, there are plenty of solid bats to make up for your woeful lack of power. However, tonight you’re going to have to step it up because with Eric Milton (!!!) on the bump for you, you’ll need runs. A bunch of them. ERIC MILTON! Check this out. How do guys like him still get work? Sidney Ponson just smiled because he’s no longer the worst starting pitcher in Major League Baseball.
Colorado @ Pittsburgh: Ian Snell is a guy who could be something special if he could ever figure out where the strike zone is. He has good stuff, misses a lot of bats (swinging strike average of 9% is nice), and doesn’t give up many homers. That said, his 4 walks per 9 innings so far in his career have doomed him to the 1-2 WAR middling starter territory, and I fear that’s where he’ll stay. There’s nothing particularly wrong with that, but he could have been so much more. Tonight, he takes the hill against Aaron Cook.
Cincinnati @ San Diego: Last year the Reds had the fourth worst defense in the league, according to UZR. Despite good-to-excellent defensive from Brandon Phillips, Joey Votto, and Jay Bruce, way too many innings went to Jeff “I wish I had Jeter’s Range” Keppinger, Adam Dunn, Edwin Encarnacion, and the expired corpse of Ken Griffey, Jr. This year, Keppinger, Dunn, and Griffey are gone, replaced by Willy Taveras, a now healthy (at least for now) Alex Gonzalez, and a Laynce Nix/Jerry Hairston platoon. So far this season the Reds have the third best defense in the league. Also, the team ERA is second in the NL. Coincidence? I think not.
Some more baseball here.
Enjoy your evening.
I’ll mention it here too. Max Scherzer, with runners on first and third, just did the fake pick off throw to third and picked off Chipper Jones at first. Then, they doubled off Escobar at third. Never seen that before.
I’ve seen it done in little league.
/says the guy who was picked off first.
That is some good ol’ Fashioned Braves ineptitude right there
/Kobe Doin Work is fucking terrible
/I remember when Saturday nights were for getting drunk and hopefully getting laid..now I am eating a sugar free English Toffee and watching a Spike Lee filmed Year old meaningless basketball game narrated by a guy who is famous for being < LeBron and anally penetrating a girl in Colorado
First!
/sugar free English toffees are for limpwristed fags
Fucking Diets make you do crazy things, like share a hotel room with Hef next weekend
/my ass hurts thinking about it
Which town is the NAMBLA meeting being held?
Boston…at Fenway Park…the Red Sox play the Mets next weekend followed by The Marlon Brando Lookalikes doing their thing
Boston, mothafucka! Sox/mets game at Fenway.
/w00t!!!
Speaking of sugar free, Cherry Coke Zero is my new jam. Shit’s bomb.
Jinx.
Ferrell on SNL starting now. I’m letting some commercials build up.
/East Coast thing
Ohio isn’t East Coast, poser.
/fixed for Bill Nye
Ferrell as Dubya never gets old.
/needs more Casey Wilson
Is casey Wilson the fat one that’s never been attractive ever?
Hammond just used the prompter for “live for New York”
Or funny.
Hammond needs to die or retire already. He hasn’t been funny in years.
You aren’t.
Yes I am.
verfy good SNL tonight. Best of the season.
i havent watched it yet but they are really going to have to put on a good show to top jt’s show last week. that one actually restored my faith in snl being funny. it is sad that a dude who is known as a singer was funnier than any cast member though. it is even sadder that kristen wiig is supposedly considered funny.
I won’t ruin the entire show, but Harry Carey makes an appearance. And I like Wiig. she’s better than all but Hader.