Lot to talk about, gang. Pirates...first team to 50 wins. No jinx, but damn, they look slick right now. What else, what else (c)my Pops:
Josh Beckett is done, no disrespect? Look, I kinda don't like his fat-faced ass but I can't party on anybody's season (possibly career) being over.
Waino is cookin!! Dude has four CG this season and his K/BB is damn near 10!!! LOL!! He's a video game right now and the Cardinals were right for locking him up and avoiding any drama. I SO wanted him to come on back to the Braves next season.
Chris Davis is taking home run derby swings during actual games. He's like the anti-Brady Anderson that won't fall off the earth after his 50 home run (or more) season.
Blue Jays won like 47 straight games and are still 7.5 out, LOL.
I like that Rodney/Cabrera shit yesterday. Leyland said there will be a price to pay. That should be fun.
Brandon Phillips is still better than your favorite 2nd baseman.
...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft
2. "What if one's favorite secondbaseman is Robinson Cano?" In response to Reply # 0
Because he's, like, a lot better than Brandon Philips.
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4. "That was the controversial pitch?" In response to Reply # 0
Obviously, Cabrera is right to be uncomfortable with a 98mph fastball that close to his brain. But the guy was a teammate fairly recently, so he shouldn't be working under the misapprehension that Fernando Rodney throws his fastball where he wants.
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7. "The pitch that went over the umpire's right shoulder?" In response to Reply # 5
Rodney walked nearly seven guys per nine innings when Cabrera was his teammate in 2008, so again, it's not like he's unfamiliar with the fellow's body of work.
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9. "Edit: Less whining from Leyland" In response to Reply # 8 Sun Jun-30-13 04:57 PM by Walleye
It was obviously unintentional. Shit happens.
edited to reflect the primary source of this nonsense: Jim Leyland's absurd tough-guy rant.
Cabrera not talking about it and then homering today was pretty awesome.
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11. "Watching Molina play goalie on those pitches is enough for me" In response to Reply # 10
Fernando Rodney comes off as kind of a goofball, but I don't think a marginal two-pitch talent has accumulated 21 million dollars by throwing at people when he's up 1-2 during a tie game in the 10th pitching for a playoff contender. He threw inside and it sailed on him. Shit happens.
And the tough guy nonsense trickles down from there. Possessing eyeballs, I assume Leyland knows that it was an accident, so anything past that is posturing.
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14. "I had been wanting to make a post all season talking shit about the..." In response to Reply # 0
Cards but I didn't want to jinx them, we've hit a bit of a rough patch recently but they still have been balling out, those bats are sick, I'm worried about our pitching staff outside of Waino
18. "time to talk about Jose Fernandez" In response to Reply # 0
just shutout San Diego, his sixth start in a row allowing 2 runs or less (2.72 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 9.1 K per 9). he caught my eye when he one-hit the Phillies back in May, and he's only gotten better: throwing pure gas with a sweeping, slurvy slider and tight curve. nobody cares since he plays for the Marlins, but his rookie season has been right there with Miller and Puig.
- his game score of 87 against San Diego is the highest by a 20-year-old since Kerry Wood (1998)
- struck out 10 batters for the second time this season, the first pitcher under 21 to do so since Felix Hernandez (2007)
26. "Five time All-Star Papelbon's single season innings high: 70" In response to Reply # 24
So I assume he'll be cool as long as Puig gets another 90 plate appearances this season and approximates 1/3 the workload of a season-long starter at his position.
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