It's fun to see a liar's logical constructs collapse:
"But Monday is Aug. 1, and for now, Reyes is not just still the best player in town this season, he is the MVP of his league. He has the second highest batting average in baseball, after Adrian Gonzalez, who is the MVP for the American League so far. He has scored 78 runs, even though you know what the rest of the Mets batting order has looked like for so much of this season."
The Mets are tied for the 7th-best record in the National League (I will ignore the American League, since this discussion is about the NL MVP).
The Mets have the same record as the Pirates.
Jose Reyes has 4 HRs and 35 RBIs. (Yes, CitiField decreases HRs, but it also increases triples.)
78 runs is a lot; 23 stolen bases is a lot; Reyes gets extra credit for playing shortstop, even though he's been mostly a butcher with 12 errors already.
Consider the season that Curtis Granderson is having so far: .269/.363/.567, 28 HRs, 77 RBIs, 94 runs, 19 stolen bases.
So this is a CFer with 16 more runs scored and 42 more RBIs.
Reyes is (a lot) better in batting average and triples.
Granderson's team is (probably) going to make the playoffs.
So which player is having a better year?
The whole "team record" thing isn't my rule. It's Lupica's rule. It's a rule that applies to every MVP contest for the past 30 years, but it suddenly doesn't apply to Jose Reyes and the Mets.
"Oh, sure, there are other players with better across-the-board numbers in the National League, starting with Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles McCourts. Ryan Braun is having a big year for the Brewers, so is Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard always has the numbers with the Phillies, who still have the best record in baseball. Brian McCann of the Braves was in the conversation before he got hurt."
Oh, sure, across-the-board numbers don't interest me in MVP discussions.
Neither do team records.
Neither do injured players like McCann, with the exception of Jose Reyes, who missed three weeks.
"He has done that without hitting the ball over the wall, done that from leadoff, done that with all those multiple-hit games and all those triples, done that standing on second or third after blowing into one of those bases and smiling and clapping his hands. No one in the league has carried a team more than this."
It's probably true that Reyes has carried his team more than any other NL player. But now you're giving Reyes extra credit for playing on a bad team.
Also, this is the 700th column you've written about Jose Reyes.
The Yankees, 21 games over .500, 2 games back of the Red Sox ... they bore you that much?
The only mention of the Yankees in this three page column are (1) mocking ARod, (2) praising HOPE week, (3) an indirect knock that the Mets are the best story in New York, and (4) mocking the Yankees' chances in the playoffs vs. the Rangers.
Which makes no sense.
The Yankees are boring.
The Mets are the best story in New York.
When the Yankees are playing the Rangers in the playoffs, I want a profile of Lucas Duda. Or maybe you can caddy for the so-called NL MVP on the golf course.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
But ...
"There was supposed to be no season and there was supposed to be no Mets future and somehow now, at least in the short run, they might have both."
I dispute the notion that there was "supposed to be" no Mets season this year. They have a $115 million (?) payroll and that should allow for some roster depth in the event of injuries.
As for the idea that there was "supposed to be" no Mets future, how far in the future are we talking about? The Mets are not "supposed" to play .500 ball for the next fifty years?
It's difficult to decipher Lupica's unusual use of English words and verb tenses.
The idea that, in the past, a future event was not supposed to happen ... that's very confusing. Because I don't know if today's present is the past's future or if the future in question is an indeterminate point in time even further in the future. Which would mean it "is" not supposed to happen instead of "was" not supposed to happen.
But, yeah, I get the gist. The Mets are 3 games over .500, which is impressive to a lot of people who had low expectations.
"Maybe you still aren't sure about the future part, because you think the Madoff trustee, Irving Picard, is going to eventually shut the Wilpons down like a bank foreclosing on one more house. But all of a sudden that story isn't being covered the way it was for a long time, which means like a slam dunk, excluding the New York Times, of course."
The Mets will have a lot of money. If not from the Wilpons, then from someone else. They rake it in every time Chris Carlin uncomfortably corners a barfly in "Beer Money."
"They come into Thursday afternoon's game with the Reds two games over .500, even though there have been all the times SINCE they became a real team where we have declared them legally dead in the National League and in the wildcard race. They come into Thursday afternoon's game 7 1/2 games behind the Braves in the wildcard race and if you are a Mets fan, you know how close they are to being closer than that after the Braves stole one game against the Pirates and got a walk-off win in another."
But ...
They are already dead in the NL East race.
But ...
They were never declared legally dead in the wildcard race.
But ...
7.5 games behind the Braves is a heckuva lot, but that's not the most daunting task. They're also behind the Diamondbacks, Cardinals, and Pirates.
But ...
The game where the Braves won on the bad call at home plate? The Braves might have won that game, anyway, even if the umpire had gotten the call right.
But ...
You're criticizing the Braves for a walkoff win? Walkoff wins don't count as wins?
"Because you can keep saying this, again and again and again: If somebody had told you that everything that has happened to the Mets would happen to them - and that means apart from all the Madoff drama - you would have been sure that they would be the Cubs right now, or the Orioles, or the San Diego Padres."
Wow. You set the bar kind of low there.
The Cubs are only 13 games behind the Mets ... and if the Mets hadn't swept the Reds ... and if the Mets didn't have that walkoff win against the Yankees ... and if the Cubs had won some of the games they almost won ... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The Mets are just another Forced Underdog story because that's the only narrative that is palatable.
I dispute the notion that there was "supposed to be" no Mets season this year. They have a $115 million (?) payroll and that should allow for some roster depth in the event of injuries.
As for the idea that there was "supposed to be" no Mets future, how far in the future are we talking about? The Mets are not "supposed" to play .500 ball for the next fifty years?
It's difficult to decipher Lupica's unusual use of English words and verb tenses.
The idea that, in the past, a future event was not supposed to happen ... that's very confusing. Because I don't know if today's present is the past's future or if the future in question is an indeterminate point in time even further in the future. Which would mean it "is" not supposed to happen instead of "was" not supposed to happen.
But, yeah, I get the gist. The Mets are 3 games over .500, which is impressive to a lot of people who had low expectations.
"Maybe you still aren't sure about the future part, because you think the Madoff trustee, Irving Picard, is going to eventually shut the Wilpons down like a bank foreclosing on one more house. But all of a sudden that story isn't being covered the way it was for a long time, which means like a slam dunk, excluding the New York Times, of course."
The Mets will have a lot of money. If not from the Wilpons, then from someone else. They rake it in every time Chris Carlin uncomfortably corners a barfly in "Beer Money."
"They come into Thursday afternoon's game with the Reds two games over .500, even though there have been all the times SINCE they became a real team where we have declared them legally dead in the National League and in the wildcard race. They come into Thursday afternoon's game 7 1/2 games behind the Braves in the wildcard race and if you are a Mets fan, you know how close they are to being closer than that after the Braves stole one game against the Pirates and got a walk-off win in another."
But ...
They are already dead in the NL East race.
But ...
They were never declared legally dead in the wildcard race.
But ...
7.5 games behind the Braves is a heckuva lot, but that's not the most daunting task. They're also behind the Diamondbacks, Cardinals, and Pirates.
But ...
The game where the Braves won on the bad call at home plate? The Braves might have won that game, anyway, even if the umpire had gotten the call right.
But ...
You're criticizing the Braves for a walkoff win? Walkoff wins don't count as wins?
"Because you can keep saying this, again and again and again: If somebody had told you that everything that has happened to the Mets would happen to them - and that means apart from all the Madoff drama - you would have been sure that they would be the Cubs right now, or the Orioles, or the San Diego Padres."
Wow. You set the bar kind of low there.
The Cubs are only 13 games behind the Mets ... and if the Mets hadn't swept the Reds ... and if the Mets didn't have that walkoff win against the Yankees ... and if the Cubs had won some of the games they almost won ... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The Mets are just another Forced Underdog story because that's the only narrative that is palatable.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Burn it down.
The Tropicana Dome has a roof which is the color of baseballs. It's pathetic and embarrassing to major league baseball, the Rays acknowledge as much, and it is about to cost the Yankees a ballgame as Granderson loses a can of corn in the 7th inning.
Mets Stats of the Day.
- Since their 5-13 start, the Mets are 42-35.
- Including their 5-13 start, the Mets are 47-48.
- If the Mets win all of their remaining 67 games, they will match the record of the 1998 Yankees.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Ubaldo Jimenez isn't Uber-Anything.
Uber means Big and Great and Spectacular.
The only thing Ubaldo Jimenez is Uber at is being an average major league pitcher:
"So the first name floated this season is Ubaldo Jimenez of the Colorado Rockies, a young righthander who came out of the blocks last season looking like the most unhittable pitcher anywhere."
The most unhittable pitcher anywhere?
So that's all it takes nowadays? You have a good month or two and you're something special? Call it Joba Syndrome.
"So Jimenez is the one who might be the game-changer for the Yankees, because there is supposed to be a game-changing pitcher almost every July. Whether the Yankees are in first place at the time or not."
Just randomly looking at the past 20 years. Starting in 1991. How many game-changing pitchers have the Yankees picked up in July?
David Cone.
Can you think of any others?
Denny Neagle? Cory Lidle? Esteban Loaiza? That's quite a stretch to consider them game-changers. Though Loaiza pitched pretty good in the playoffs for, you know, eight innings.
Did they get Sterling Hitchcock back one year? Yes! I looked it up! In 2001, in July, the Yankees traded Brett Jodie and Darren Blakely for Sterling Hitchcock. So there you go. Maybe Lupica thinks the Hitchcock trade Changed the Game. I know I've personally always thought that the Yankees soul has never been the same since they traded away Brett Jodie.
Actually, I thought of another one: Jeff Weaver. He was supposed to be a difference-maker. They traded Ted Lilly, who was decent.
There's a heckuva lot of turnover in the bullpen as Armando Benitez keeps the seat warm for Jeff Nelson, but that can't possibly be what Lupica is referring to.
I might be missing someone and I might be missing someone obvious. All the big names I can think of were free agent signings and or offseason deals ... Clemens I and II, Wells I and II, Key, Pettitte II ... ummm ... Kenny Rogers, Scott Sanderson, Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright, Jon Lieber, Jack McDowell ... am I forgetting about some top-line pitcher?
Sometimes, they get lucky with Aaron Small, or whatever, but that's just scrapheap stuff.
Besides David Cone and Jeff Weaver, were there any bigtime starting pitcher the Yankees picked up at the trade deadline in the past 20 years?
Because Mike Lupica just said this happens almost every July.
"Last year, and famously, the guy who was going to make all the difference in the world was Cliff Lee, who ended up going to the World Series with the Rangers and might end up doing the same this year with the Phillies. The Yankees thought they had Lee locked down and then the deal got blown up at the end."
I agree that the Yankees expected to land Lee, but Lee was never on the Yankees. I'm a little mystified by the constant calculus where the Yankees supposedly lost something that they never had.
The financial flexibility is not such a bad thing.
They are in position to pick up (gag) Ubaldo Jimenez and a DH. Though I was hoping for Jered Weaver and a DH.
"The Yankees? They have gotten by so far, and pretty well, with Scrap Heap All-Stars like Freddy Garcia and Bartolo (Christmas Miracle) Colon."
What is the Christmas Miracle joke? Does anyone understand this joke? Because I don't understand this joke.
Did Colon undergo surgery on Christmas, or something? Is this common knowledge?
Or does Lupica just think it's funny to put the word "Christmas" in front of the word "Miracle"? Like, since Lupica is skeptical of Colon's credibility, why doesn't he just call it a "Miracle" instead of a "Christmas Mircale"?
Anyway, from a baseball perspective, I think Cashman got two vets on the cheap and got a lot out of them. That's shrewd. That also leave him money to pick up Jered Weaver and a DH.
"The Yankees are 4-1/2 games ahead of the Rays for the wild card, 5 ahead of the Angels, 6½ ahead of the Tigers. Are the Yankees and Red Sox better than all of those teams? Yeah, they are. Nobody really thinks, as we move up quickly on 100 games played, that the Yankees won't make the playoffs this season."
Ummm ... okay.
Maybe you don't know what uber means and you don't know what nobody means.
"But does anybody really think they win it all with a rotation of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Hughes, Garcia and Colon? In a pitching year in baseball?"
1) In my entire life, I don't think I've ever seen a proposed five-man rotation for a playoff series.
2) Stop listing A.J. Burnett as the #2 starter.
3) Can they win it all with this rotation? Sure. I'd give them about a 15% change. Replace Colon with Zero Ring Lee and it probably would have jumped up to about 20%.
4) This rotation is instantly upgraded as soon as Aldo Nova is promoted.
5) Because they didn't spend money on Damon, Matsui, Werth, Crawford, and Lee ... now they can afford Jered Weaver and a DH.
6) A rotation of Sabathia, Weaver, Lee, and Jimenez does not guarantee a World Series title.
"Ubaldo Jimenez becomes the first name we hear this July. He probably won't be the last. Hughes is a kid. The rest of the current Yankee rotation is the 30-year-old Sabathia, the 34-year-old Burnett, the 35-year-old Garcia, the 38-year-old Colon. So far they have stood up better than younger guys with the Red Sox. We'll see about that the rest of the day.
But, yeah, the Yankee roster is not complete. Duh.
On a completely unrelated note:
"-- I don't want to make a big thing of this, because you know I'm a glass-half-full guy, but Mark Teixeira - at .240 - is hitting a snappy 43 points below his career batting average."
I actually have to give Lupica credit. He noticed that Teixeira is not that good. Giambi was considered a bust and Teixeira is considered an MVP candidate. Teixeira is basically Giambi with a glove.
The only thing Ubaldo Jimenez is Uber at is being an average major league pitcher:
"So the first name floated this season is Ubaldo Jimenez of the Colorado Rockies, a young righthander who came out of the blocks last season looking like the most unhittable pitcher anywhere."
The most unhittable pitcher anywhere?
So that's all it takes nowadays? You have a good month or two and you're something special? Call it Joba Syndrome.
"So Jimenez is the one who might be the game-changer for the Yankees, because there is supposed to be a game-changing pitcher almost every July. Whether the Yankees are in first place at the time or not."
Just randomly looking at the past 20 years. Starting in 1991. How many game-changing pitchers have the Yankees picked up in July?
David Cone.
Can you think of any others?
Denny Neagle? Cory Lidle? Esteban Loaiza? That's quite a stretch to consider them game-changers. Though Loaiza pitched pretty good in the playoffs for, you know, eight innings.
Did they get Sterling Hitchcock back one year? Yes! I looked it up! In 2001, in July, the Yankees traded Brett Jodie and Darren Blakely for Sterling Hitchcock. So there you go. Maybe Lupica thinks the Hitchcock trade Changed the Game. I know I've personally always thought that the Yankees soul has never been the same since they traded away Brett Jodie.
Actually, I thought of another one: Jeff Weaver. He was supposed to be a difference-maker. They traded Ted Lilly, who was decent.
There's a heckuva lot of turnover in the bullpen as Armando Benitez keeps the seat warm for Jeff Nelson, but that can't possibly be what Lupica is referring to.
I might be missing someone and I might be missing someone obvious. All the big names I can think of were free agent signings and or offseason deals ... Clemens I and II, Wells I and II, Key, Pettitte II ... ummm ... Kenny Rogers, Scott Sanderson, Randy Johnson, Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright, Jon Lieber, Jack McDowell ... am I forgetting about some top-line pitcher?
Sometimes, they get lucky with Aaron Small, or whatever, but that's just scrapheap stuff.
Besides David Cone and Jeff Weaver, were there any bigtime starting pitcher the Yankees picked up at the trade deadline in the past 20 years?
Because Mike Lupica just said this happens almost every July.
"Last year, and famously, the guy who was going to make all the difference in the world was Cliff Lee, who ended up going to the World Series with the Rangers and might end up doing the same this year with the Phillies. The Yankees thought they had Lee locked down and then the deal got blown up at the end."
I agree that the Yankees expected to land Lee, but Lee was never on the Yankees. I'm a little mystified by the constant calculus where the Yankees supposedly lost something that they never had.
The financial flexibility is not such a bad thing.
They are in position to pick up (gag) Ubaldo Jimenez and a DH. Though I was hoping for Jered Weaver and a DH.
"The Yankees? They have gotten by so far, and pretty well, with Scrap Heap All-Stars like Freddy Garcia and Bartolo (Christmas Miracle) Colon."
What is the Christmas Miracle joke? Does anyone understand this joke? Because I don't understand this joke.
Did Colon undergo surgery on Christmas, or something? Is this common knowledge?
Or does Lupica just think it's funny to put the word "Christmas" in front of the word "Miracle"? Like, since Lupica is skeptical of Colon's credibility, why doesn't he just call it a "Miracle" instead of a "Christmas Mircale"?
Anyway, from a baseball perspective, I think Cashman got two vets on the cheap and got a lot out of them. That's shrewd. That also leave him money to pick up Jered Weaver and a DH.
"The Yankees are 4-1/2 games ahead of the Rays for the wild card, 5 ahead of the Angels, 6½ ahead of the Tigers. Are the Yankees and Red Sox better than all of those teams? Yeah, they are. Nobody really thinks, as we move up quickly on 100 games played, that the Yankees won't make the playoffs this season."
Ummm ... okay.
Maybe you don't know what uber means and you don't know what nobody means.
"But does anybody really think they win it all with a rotation of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Hughes, Garcia and Colon? In a pitching year in baseball?"
1) In my entire life, I don't think I've ever seen a proposed five-man rotation for a playoff series.
2) Stop listing A.J. Burnett as the #2 starter.
3) Can they win it all with this rotation? Sure. I'd give them about a 15% change. Replace Colon with Zero Ring Lee and it probably would have jumped up to about 20%.
4) This rotation is instantly upgraded as soon as Aldo Nova is promoted.
5) Because they didn't spend money on Damon, Matsui, Werth, Crawford, and Lee ... now they can afford Jered Weaver and a DH.
6) A rotation of Sabathia, Weaver, Lee, and Jimenez does not guarantee a World Series title.
"Ubaldo Jimenez becomes the first name we hear this July. He probably won't be the last. Hughes is a kid. The rest of the current Yankee rotation is the 30-year-old Sabathia, the 34-year-old Burnett, the 35-year-old Garcia, the 38-year-old Colon. So far they have stood up better than younger guys with the Red Sox. We'll see about that the rest of the day.
Jimenez is 27. You can see how this makes him almost irresistible. Somebody always is at this time of year at Yankee Stadium."
Just because Lupica said the Yankees are getting Jimenez, I really think they will not.But, yeah, the Yankee roster is not complete. Duh.
On a completely unrelated note:
"-- I don't want to make a big thing of this, because you know I'm a glass-half-full guy, but Mark Teixeira - at .240 - is hitting a snappy 43 points below his career batting average."
I actually have to give Lupica credit. He noticed that Teixeira is not that good. Giambi was considered a bust and Teixeira is considered an MVP candidate. Teixeira is basically Giambi with a glove.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Alex Rodriguez is old and on the DL. If he was young and on the DL, one might confuse him with Jose Reyes.
"This has been the Yankees season - and off-season before it - dominated by Derek Jeter. It started with his contentious contract negotiation, has continued all the way through 3,000 hits and through the, which he did not attend, citing exhaustion, because of the 3,000."
Years ago, I went to a movie theater and watched the first Harry Potter movie. I instantly became disinterested in all things Harry Potter.
The final Harry Potter movie is currently in theaters -- it's not called Harry Potter 8, but instead it's called Harry Potter 7, Part 2 -- and lots of people think it matters, but I don't care.
Kinda like the women's US soccer team. Don't even care enough to google the scores. Though it's nice to see Han Solo and Princess Leia's daughter doing so well.
You can choose to pay attention to what matters to you.
The Yankee season has been about a lot of things. Second place; Eighteen games over .500; 1-8 vs. Boston; A starting pitcher with 12 wins at the All Star Break; Granderson and Teixeira hitting HRs like Mantle and Maris; David Robertson; A team with an unusual combination of power and speed.
In my world, the first 88 games have not been dominated by Derek Jeter.
"A few years ago, coming out of the 2007 when Rodriguez hit 54 home runs for the Yankees, you could make a case that he was as big a baseball star as there was in the world, the way - who turns 36 at the end of this year - was still the biggest sports star in the whole wide world. Now it is the middle of the sports summer and A-Rod is out of action with a bad knee and so is Tiger Woods, who misses his second straight major because of injury, and might miss a third before the summer is over."
ARod is on the DL. Jeter just got off the DL. Wright and Reyes are on the DL. About 100 players are currently on the DL. Tiger Woods doesn't play baseball.
"The attention will shift to Jeter's right, where the third baseman will come back and move up the all-time home run list a little more. He is at 626 right now. Junior Griffey is at 630. So A-Rod will pass him at the end of August or in September. Next year he is scheduled to pass Willie Mays, who sits at 660. And he will be the next Yankee to get to 3,000 hits, either next season or the one after that."
How boring.
"Big numbers approaching for Alex Rodriguez, even as his numbers keep slipping. The Yankees are paying him big to play into his 40s, but ask yourself a question: Do you expect him to ever again carry the Yankees the way he did in the 2009 postseason?"
Sure, why not?
Edgar Renteria won the World Series MVP last year. Crippled Hideki Matsui won the World Series MVP the year before that.
"The Yankees paid him to carry the team and then, almost immediately, had to go get Mark Teixeira to help him carry the team. Think about that: They paid A-Rod upwards of $300 million to be The Man and then had to go pay Teixeira nearly $200 million to be his sideman."
This is a dig at ARod that makes no sense.
When a baseball team signs a big free agent, their game plan is not to never sign another free agent ever again. I can't really think of another instance where the Yankees stopped signing free agents.
Two players can be The Man. We'll call them The Men.
"Alex Rodriguez may retire with numbers across the board as great as anybody since Babe Ruth has had. The Yankees, bless their hearts, have him for six more years after this one."
Stupid Numbers as great as stupid Babe Ruth. Yawn.
Years ago, I went to a movie theater and watched the first Harry Potter movie. I instantly became disinterested in all things Harry Potter.
The final Harry Potter movie is currently in theaters -- it's not called Harry Potter 8, but instead it's called Harry Potter 7, Part 2 -- and lots of people think it matters, but I don't care.
Kinda like the women's US soccer team. Don't even care enough to google the scores. Though it's nice to see Han Solo and Princess Leia's daughter doing so well.
You can choose to pay attention to what matters to you.
The Yankee season has been about a lot of things. Second place; Eighteen games over .500; 1-8 vs. Boston; A starting pitcher with 12 wins at the All Star Break; Granderson and Teixeira hitting HRs like Mantle and Maris; David Robertson; A team with an unusual combination of power and speed.
In my world, the first 88 games have not been dominated by Derek Jeter.
"A few years ago, coming out of the 2007 when Rodriguez hit 54 home runs for the Yankees, you could make a case that he was as big a baseball star as there was in the world, the way - who turns 36 at the end of this year - was still the biggest sports star in the whole wide world. Now it is the middle of the sports summer and A-Rod is out of action with a bad knee and so is Tiger Woods, who misses his second straight major because of injury, and might miss a third before the summer is over."
ARod is on the DL. Jeter just got off the DL. Wright and Reyes are on the DL. About 100 players are currently on the DL. Tiger Woods doesn't play baseball.
"The attention will shift to Jeter's right, where the third baseman will come back and move up the all-time home run list a little more. He is at 626 right now. Junior Griffey is at 630. So A-Rod will pass him at the end of August or in September. Next year he is scheduled to pass Willie Mays, who sits at 660. And he will be the next Yankee to get to 3,000 hits, either next season or the one after that."
How boring.
"Big numbers approaching for Alex Rodriguez, even as his numbers keep slipping. The Yankees are paying him big to play into his 40s, but ask yourself a question: Do you expect him to ever again carry the Yankees the way he did in the 2009 postseason?"
Sure, why not?
Edgar Renteria won the World Series MVP last year. Crippled Hideki Matsui won the World Series MVP the year before that.
"The Yankees paid him to carry the team and then, almost immediately, had to go get Mark Teixeira to help him carry the team. Think about that: They paid A-Rod upwards of $300 million to be The Man and then had to go pay Teixeira nearly $200 million to be his sideman."
This is a dig at ARod that makes no sense.
When a baseball team signs a big free agent, their game plan is not to never sign another free agent ever again. I can't really think of another instance where the Yankees stopped signing free agents.
Two players can be The Man. We'll call them The Men.
"Alex Rodriguez may retire with numbers across the board as great as anybody since Babe Ruth has had. The Yankees, bless their hearts, have him for six more years after this one."
Stupid Numbers as great as stupid Babe Ruth. Yawn.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
I found a baseball columnist who is less talented than Wallace Matthews.
Critiquing this column is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
I know why David Ortiz missed Kevin Gregg's face, by the way. Gregg just made his face look like a curveball.
In 1999, David Ortiz was 0-for-20 with 12 strikeouts.
I'll bet one of my toenails that David Ortiz met a li'l helper named P.E.D. sometime between his .000 performance in 1999 and his 139 RBIs in 2004:
"In the four years before A-Rod became a Yankee, including the years when he says he was juicing in Texas, he averaged just about 50 home runs a year.
I'll bet one of my toenails that David Ortiz met a li'l helper named P.E.D. sometime between his .000 performance in 1999 and his 139 RBIs in 2004:
"In the four years before A-Rod became a Yankee, including the years when he says he was juicing in Texas, he averaged just about 50 home runs a year.
Five-oh."
Five-oh, yo, five-oh!
Lights flashing behind him / But they scared of Lupica, so they mace him to blind him
"In his first four years with the Yankees, he averaged 43."
Right, and the whole time, you basically said ARod wasn't any good.
"If he hits the same 30 this year he has hit the last two, he will have averaged 31 home runs for his second four-year term with our kids from the Bronx.
Stop me if you see a trend here."
Sunday, July 03, 2011
If you had to choose Dennis Rasmussen or Jeff Kent, but Kent had to bat left-handed, and the games were played underwater, which would you choose?
"And that makes for an intriguing question: if you could choose one or the other to put on your team for the rest of his career, which would it be, the Mets' shortstop - who had to leave Saturday's game after two innings his left hamstring tightness - or the Yankees' second baseman?"
That is not an intriguing question.
It's a moot question and a very dumb question.
But, if we're talking about right now ... as in July 3rd, 2011 ... I'll take the player who is not injured.
That is not an intriguing question.
It's a moot question and a very dumb question.
But, if we're talking about right now ... as in July 3rd, 2011 ... I'll take the player who is not injured.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
No Go, Nova.
"And still I think he's the one getting kicked to the curb to make room for Phil Hughes.
It doesn't seem fair, especially after Nova earned his eighth win of the season as the Yankees reminded the Mets which team in New York is the hottest, defeating their crosstown rivals, 5-1, Friday night.
But, in truth, there's no easy call for the Yankees to make as they suddenly find themselves with a surplus of starting pitching.
It's a nice problem to have, and it's about the only problem the Yankees have these days.
Still, with Bartolo Colon rejoining the Yankees' starting rotation Saturday and Hughes waiting in the wings, Nova may well have felt like he was pitching Friday night to keep his spot."
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