Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

vockins wrote:It seems the Yankee way may be sweeping the series.

It was incredible to see Randy Johnson blow away that decimated Oakland A's line-up yesterday. Man, Randy Johnson looks really great this year.

And the New York hitters just destroyed Dan Haren. Dan Haren was completely overmatched, so you had to feel pretty bad for him by the end of the game.

God, the A's never had a chance.

Ha Ha. That was funny.

The real joke wasn't Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson had a shitty first. Then he wasn't laying off his knee as he had done in his past few shitty starts. He threw the ball plenty fast. His location was OK. He'll come around - I believe this.

The incredible joke, the stunning dipshittery, the monumental gutbuster is that the Yankees decided to replace Tanyon Fucking Sturtze with the only person on the fucking planet that's worse - Scott Erickson. This dude has a 6.67 ERA and 24/45 K/BB over 82 1/3 innings since 2004. WTF.

But wait! I'm not even at the punchline! The casual observer might think that the Yankees had no middle relief options in the minor leagues, trading all their prospects away for an aging all star, and that person would be very wrong. In fact, the Yankees have some excellent arms available in the farm system. There's Colter Bean, who has a 0.77 ERA, 11 BB and 30 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings. He put up similar numbers the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that year. If I were Colter Bean, I would get a job selling insurance, because it is obviously God's plan for you not to play Major League Baseball. If you can't get called up when Tanyon Sturtze gets hurt with those numbers, just fucking kill yourself.

There's more! Maybe Bean shot Joe Torre's dog or something and they wanted him to suffer in Columbus some more. Fine. Why not call up Matt Smith again? The guy made the top of the Blue Jays lineup look dumb this year. Twice. He didn't allow one baserunner.

But no. They called Erickson.

In fact, I'd go as far as declaring that the Yankees might have their best bullpen since 1996 if they'd bother to play the right people. But they don't.

vockins wrote:The real joke wasn't Randy Johnson.

To me, the real joke was the 7 total runs the Yankees scored in the 3-game series.

Because the current Athletics are a bigger joke, the Yankees won two of these games. But only 7 runs total, facing a couple of AAA call-up relievers and a spot starter, at home...that's not so good. Even without Garroid or Groundzilla.

On a somewhat related note- "Melky" is an interesting first name.

vockins wrote:Colter Bean

Colter Bean lives in a special personal level of professional baseball purgatory.

And he ain't exactly young.

vockins, maybe you and "Coney76" should get together for a Brooklyn Cyclones game and bond over your Sturtze/Bean frustration.

Anyway, here's a good looking photo of Colter Bean. Note the snappy outfit of recent championship vintage!

vockins wrote:Matt Smith

Well, he's a lefty, so I don't believe that the Scott Erickson argument works as well here. What about Mark Corey or Darrell Rasner instead?

Plus, you have to keep in mind that Scott Erickson provides a "veteran presence".

The Yankees love that sort of shit, right?

Veterans?

And presences?

But really, Scott Erickson should be throwing at a Twins or Orioles fantasy camp at this point.

Hey, vockins. I have the solution for the Yankees right-handed reliever woes. You ought to have Brian Cashman call Ken Williams. The Sox have a veteran right-handed reliever in their system whom the Yankees would love.

I coulda sworn I read that vockins wrote:The incredible joke, the stunning dipshittery, the monumental gutbuster that is the Yankees.

and I almost crapped out a little crap.







There's always Javier Figueroa, when you need someone in a pinch. There are also others. I am fairly certain they would play for 1/8 their moneyball value! How can you pass that up?




Who is that madman giving the finger? Who is that handsome devil in the sweater vest? Who is that dirtbag in the grey hat who needs a hairtrim? Who is that 2-years-away-from-world-champion-baseball team in the background? What magical times.

Angus Jung wrote:

vockins wrote:The real joke wasn't Randy Johnson.

To me, the real joke was the 7 total runs the Yankees scored in the 3-game series.

Well, the Yanks just doubled that, and they needed every single one.

Thank Christ for Jorge Posada. That game was fucking wacko.

mlb.com wrote:The Cubs have signed second baseman Tony Womack to a Minor League contract.

what

Dusty Baker wrote:"He can play the outfield, he can pinch-hit, he can pinch-run. When we had him [in 2003], he was injured. We didn't see the real Tony Womack. His arm was bad, and he's apologized for that many times." Womack hit .235 in 21 games for the Cubs.

wtf

The fact that I might get to see Pierre and Womack in the same fucking lineup is so amazing to me. It's like Disneyland for shit baseball. I hope Pierre and Womack hit 1-2 one day. That would be incredible. Wow. The Pierre vs. Womack crap debate will be settled once and for all. This team will eat bald eagle nuts. I am stunned.

vockins wrote: It's like Disneyland for shit baseball.

Fifteen - Love. vockins to serve.

steve wrote:

vockins wrote: It's like Disneyland for shit baseball.

Fifteen - Love. vockins to serve.

I've always wondered why the term "Love" is used in tennis.

rachael wrote:

steve wrote:

vockins wrote: It's like Disneyland for shit baseball.

Fifteen - Love. vockins to serve.

I've always wondered why the term "Love" is used in tennis.

Per Wikipedia:

A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than his opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" or "zero", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. When at least three points have been scored by each side and the players have the same number of points, the score is "deuce". When at least three points have been scored by each side and a player has one more point than his opponent, the score of the game is "advantage" the winning player. During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "ad out", depending on whether the serving player or receiving player, respectively, is ahead. (See Tennis score for further explanation of how to score a game.)

HTH

-Jeremy

oucheh wrote:

rachael wrote:

steve wrote:

vockins wrote: It's like Disneyland for shit baseball.

Fifteen - Love. vockins to serve.

I've always wondered why the term "Love" is used in tennis.

Per Wikipedia:

A game consists of a sequence of points played with the same player serving, and is won by the first player to have won at least four points and at least two points more than his opponent. The running score of each game is described in a manner particular to tennis: scores of zero to three points are described as "love" or "zero", "fifteen", "thirty", and "forty" respectively. When at least three points have been scored by each side and the players have the same number of points, the score is "deuce". When at least three points have been scored by each side and a player has one more point than his opponent, the score of the game is "advantage" the winning player. During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "ad out", depending on whether the serving player or receiving player, respectively, is ahead. (See Tennis score for further explanation of how to score a game.)

HTH

-Jeremy

hth? That doesn't answer the question at all