The Official MERB 2010 Baseball Thread.
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Yup...they ought to end the season right now...give co Cy's to CC and Hughes...ah hell, make it 3 give one to AJ too...give the World Series trophy to the Yankees...give gold gloves to the entire Yankee infield...give the triple crown to Cano...give manager of the year to Girardi...
And all of that will happen when...the fat lady sings, you get a sense of humor (whoa), doc starts liking the habs for real, eb starts liking ugly fat women, spec k decides to root for the yanks, I start 'not' having fun oh yeah ... you make an intelligent post ...
Holy crap - you crack me up...
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Yup...they ought to end the season right now...give co Cy's to CC and Hughes...ah hell, make it 3 give one to AJ too...give the World Series trophy to the Yankees...give gold gloves to the entire Yankee infield...give the triple crown to Cano...give manager of the year to Girardi...
And all of that will happen when...the fat lady sings, you get a sense of humor (whoa), doc starts liking the habs for real, eb starts liking ugly fat women, spec k decides to root for the yanks, I start 'not' having fun oh yeah ... you make an intelligent post ...
Holy crap - you crack me up...
And your pick is who numbnuts?, oh I forgot, you and Merlot have the same pick, in other words, Chicken shit!!!!!, cluck cluck cluck cluck.
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And your pick is who numbnuts?
Numbnuts?...he pitches in the National League doesn't he?
My point was it's the first week of May, to early to be handing out awards you fucking moron®...
Why don't we wait until at least June... Maybe even the All Star break...Bottom line is it's way too early; as a Yankee's fan you are way too biased, there is no clear cut leader a month into the season and WAY too many things can happen...hell Cliff Lee sat out the first month...
Have fun,
Jman
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Not a very competitive game tonight, I don't think that I will watch the next two games if it's going to be like this one, Naaaaught!!!!! Bawhahahahahahahaha
Not a very competitive game tonight, I don't think that I will watch the next two games if it's going to be like this one, Naaaaught!!!!! Bawhahahahahahahaha
The game was disappointingly non-competitive as have most of the last 14 games the Yankees have played against the Red Sox. Beckett was clearly worn down after a great start and lost his composure and at the end, he was crap.
One great positive: Nick Swisher visited the Boston Children's Hospital today and promised a kid there that he would homer off Beckett. To that kid, that was Swish-a-licious and it was for you! Get well soon!
One negative: Johnson is heading back to NYC tonight for an MRI on his wrist. How does this guy keep getting hurt playing DH????????? He is so brittle it's ridiculous.
Usually I will not get down in the gutter with an idiot, nor will I waste my time commenting on stupidity. But, enough...
Does adding to your post after the fact and calling people names somehow give you an enlarged sense of manhood? Were you the jock with no brains who always had to feel big by putting people down but ultimately had the respect and admiration of no one?
Typically in my experience someone of your stature(behavior) that constantly finds he must satisfy the need to belittle others by calling them childish names like chicken or chicken shit suffers from one of two problems. The first could be called never ending adolescence, or the state where the persons mind is stuck at the age of 14 never having matured past puberty. The other is a much different issue in which one has to compensate for some type of personal inadequacy...it is often referred to as tiny penis syndrome.
Which is it for you?
Frankly, you are not funny...and your adolescent behavior is getting old.
Grow up.
why thank you JoeT. i dont know why i even reply to rumples rants, he just ignores them anyways.
Yoohoo, rumples, you watching the game?, I hope you are at least enjoying your popcorn.
Classic lggy, pure classic.
Kudos to Swish!, that is a awesome story Beav. thanks for sharing it.
I have followed Phil Hughes' career since the minors and what he is doing now is not a shock to me, the guy is the real deal and the American League teams could be in for a very long season when he pitches, he has raw talent and with the likes of Pettite, Mo, CC, and AJ to learn from on a daily basis, the sky is the limit for Mr. Hughes
Yanks dominated tonight, it is only one game, but we will take it, as we know EVERY game in the AL East is a huge one.
I have followed Phil Hughes' career since the minors and what he is doing now is not a shock to me, the guy is the real deal and the American League teams could be in for a very long season when he pitches, he has raw talent and with the likes of Pettite, Mo, CC, and AJ to learn from on a daily basis, the sky is the limit for Mr. Hughes
Yanks dominated tonight, it is only one game, but we will take it, as we know EVERY game in the AL East is a huge one.
Not a very competitive game tonight, I don't think that I will watch the next two games if it's going to be like this one, Naaaaught!!!!! Bawhahahahahahahaha
Oh how the mighty Red Sox have fallen....HARD!! At least the game didn't last its usual 4 hours!
As for my Jays, they're playing much better than people thought they would, especially me. Maybe it has to do with me openly telling people that the Jays suck. Maybe i'm on to something good. So i might as well keep on saying it & they'll keep on winning: Jays suck!!!!
(Again, not as much as the Red Sox, a team in total disarray)
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Jeez, Jman, thought you were a better judge of character. Isn't it obvious? Joe was the guy who was laughed by the coach when he showed up for tryouts for the freshman baseball team. Joe was the guy the girls laughed at when he asked them out. And he's been compensating ever since by playing the clown. At least Igna has an excuse.
Hey, I got a suggestion, guys. Why don't you start your own baseball thread. I've even got a title for you: "The Baseball Sandbox: Taunts, Teases and Rants for the Young, the Childish, the Immature, and the Stupid." Rather than pollute this thread, you can have one of your very own.
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Dunno, Doc. 10 out of the last 16 ain't bad, though, admittedly, three of the wins were against the Jays.
It was a bizarre performance, Beav. He was a dominant as I've ever seen him for the first three. The, in the fourth, after getting ahead of Teixeira 0-2, he started nibbling until he walked him. That's when I started screaming (figuratively) at the TV. After the Rodriguez hit and his punching out of Cano on fastballs, he got ahead of Swisher, again, 0-2. And then he started nibbling again, before hanging that 0-2 yakker, which Swisher did with what you're supposed to do with Uncle Charlie when he's hanging. The sixth was postively weird. I've seen bad performances by Beckett before, but that's the first time I've ever seen him come unhinged.
Another positive. A 47 year old man threw a 2 hit, 0 walk shutout last night. Congratulations to Jamie Moyer.
Actually, Beav, this is his first DH injury. In the end, the biggest losers last night might have been the Yankees. While Johnson has sucked so far, it was just a matter of time before he started hitting. Now? He has a long history of wrist injuries. I wouldn't be surprised if he's gone for a long, long time. http://www.theyankeeu.com/2010/01/a-quick-look-at-nick-johnsons-injury-history-13857 Note that he was gone for four months with wrist surgery in 2008.
As for last night's other walking wounded, I'd bet the Yankees don't see Robinson Cano for the better part of a week. The Sox probably lose Varitek for the rest of the weekend. This is not the time for injuries; both teams have VERY difficult schedules for the next three weeks.
Hello Jman,
Don't bother. Joe.t did little but talk trash when the Yankees couldn't win a championship and there was no reason to think he'd ever change once they won one.
There were plenty of legitimate points to made about last night's game, the most obvious being how Beckett went from solid to unglued. It's troubling when considering how Matsuzaka kept his head after getting battered around and Beckett didn't. Whether hitting those batters in the 6th was a strategy or accidental it was all part of either bad pitching or bad choices and poor mental direction or control. You can argue all you want about the value of intimidation pitching, but it didn't serve him or the team at all in this case and many other cases.
Closing Time: The Josh Beckett problem
By Scott Pianowski
http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blo...e-The-Josh-Beckett-problem?urn=fantasy,239616
Beckett's shelling from the Yankees Friday (nine runs) shouldn't surprise anyone; crooked numbers come with the territory with the righty. The Blue Jays got him for eight runs back on April 26, and the Rangers pushed across seven runs the prior week (albeit over seven innings of work). Beckett's career ERA is 5.96 against the Yankees and 4.66 at Fenway Park; mixing those two hurdles into the same start is a recipe for trouble. The batters of the American League East claim another victim.
Beckett's stuff hasn't completely deserted him, of course; he whiffed eight Yanks on Friday and he's got 34 punchouts over 41 innings. The big issue with him has been the effectiveness of his fastball; in 2007 and 2008 it was his most effective weapon, but it was a neutral offering last year according to the fantastic Pitch Value Data on Fangraphs, and so far in 2010 Beckett's got a negative score on the heater.
Some will point to a high BABIP as a major cause of Beckett's struggles, and he's got an unsustainably-low strand rate as well, but he's also making a lot of his bad luck: consider his gory line-drive rate (24.8 percent), the dip in his ground-ball rate (42.1 percent) and his highest walk rate in seven years. Beckett's obviously got a lot more ability than what he's shown, but I can't see how he's going to miraculously turn things around overnight, not in this meat grinder of a division. In truth, he's Boston's third or forth best starter right now, not their front-line guy.
pffffsssssst,
Merlot
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Jamie Moyer 2 Hitter Against Braves
The Braves had not been hitting and were struggling mightily on offense, but the 2 hit shut out by the 47 year old Moyer has to be the ultimate embarrassment for their team. It's hard to believe but Moyer is actually older than I am.
The Braves had not been hitting and were struggling mightily on offense, but the 2 hit shut out by the 47 year old Moyer has to be the ultimate embarrassment for their team. It's hard to believe but Moyer is actually older than I am.
It was suggested by Al Leiter and the YES group of announcers that Beckett became so frustrated with the Yankees taking pitches and not swinging at his nibbles that he began overthrowing and aiming. The frustration level incrementally increased until the door came off the hinges. It's not the first time it has happened this year by an opposing pitcher against the Yankees. Scott Kazmir had the same thing happen to him and he had, unlike Beckett, thrown 100 pitches in less than 4 inning, the result of excessive nibbling and getting worn down and then finally losing his composure.
I'm not sure that works, Beav. A) He was throwing good, tough strikes before he started nibbling and B) the "nibbles" weren't really close enough to get guys to bite. They weren't good enough to fool. I knew as soon as that crap left his hand that they weren't going to work. In particular, I'm thinking of the four balls to Teix in the 4th and the two to Swisher that preceded the home run.
They weren't good pitches and they weren't good ideas. Had he blown Teixeira away with a good heater, Swisher would have led off the fifth.
Word is that Cano is out today, questionable for the next few. What I didn't know is that Jeter is also playing hurt.
Hello rumples,
Well my fallback position was he was the coaches kid who never deserved a spot but always got it through nepotism...but I like your analysis too. Anyway, I'm done wasting my time and probably going to invoke the ignore feature.
Can't wait to see if the thread is ever birthed...but I'm not holding my breath. Some people just get a cynical, sick feeling of well being from being a persistent agitator...what a lonely life...kinda sad. But then they are the ying to the yang and it takes all kinds.
Have fun,
Jman
Well good to hear the staff of YES could see this ... as it is exactly what John Farrell told the NESN staff in an interview taped before the game when they were speaking relative to his inconsistencies this season so far. Farrell said his(Beckett's) problems were between his ears. As we know, most great pitchers can be head cases. It's when they loose the ability to harness their emotions aka mind over matter that they fail. Beckett has to get a grip on his emotions. IMHO at some point during that inning his catcher and/or pitching coach should have had a chat or 2 with him to calm him down. It is evident he has the talent and had the stuff early last night as he sat 5 of the first 6 Yankees on k's...they actually all looked pretty bad. As Merlot pointed out - between the pitches he did not make , the circumstances and the failed strategy he just became unglued in a 10 minute window last night. Disturbing to watch...but it's one game...maybe RSN will get a treat and can see it happen to CC or AJ in the next couple of days...they have had the same experiences at Fenway in the past.
BTW this phneomenon of the great Yankees line up taking pitches and frustrating pitchers is nothing new nor did they invent it. The Red Sox did the same thing to Kazmir this past week and are notorious for doing so.
Have fun,
Jman
PS I actually almost shed a tear with that touching story. But then something smelled like BS. I'd really love to see the documentation on that Swisher story...did he make that up for the post game interview or did someone actually document it BEFORE he hit the HR? Cause a google search turns up mention of the visit...but mysteriously no where is big bad Nick's bold prediction that you mentioned...You would think that such a BOLD prediction by a mediocre (at best) outfielder would be documented, since afterall the press loves that kinda thing...please help me to believe the story.
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Hello Jman,
Don't bother. Joe.t did little but talk trash when the Yankees couldn't win a championship and there was no reason to think he'd ever change once they won one.
pffffsssssst,
Merlot
Hello Merlot,
Yeah...I know.
Recently I heard someone describe Phillies fans as being just like Yankees fans only twice as obnoxious and half as educated...
Hmmm...
Good commentary on Beckett...it's mental. Maybe my recall is not wrking right...but seems to me Tek and /or Farrell should have taken a little more time during that implosion to calm him down...
Have fun,
Jman
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