Brandon Backe arrested

Brandon Backe arrested in Galveston.

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To: Luis Mendoza "Please die in a fire." LSJ; PLEASE

by Seth. on Oct 5, 2008 11:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That's nice.

Backe sucks. Wouldn’t be surpirised if the Rangers signed him to a minor league deal if the Astros release him over this.

Fire Todd Dodge. Seriously. 42-10 to FIU? Come on.

by sprite on Oct 5, 2008 11:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd be surprised and saddened.

He’s the worst, Jerry. The worst.

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by thedirkatron on Oct 5, 2008 11:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Minor league deal.

Like I said, he sucks. But it’s the Rangers and it wouldn’t surprise me if they took a flier on him.

Fire Todd Dodge. Seriously. 42-10 to FIU? Come on.

by sprite on Oct 6, 2008 12:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sidney Ponson 2.0?

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by lonestarJon on Oct 5, 2008 11:54 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The charge: Being the worst pitcher in baseball.

From fangraphs:

Brandon Backe just may be the worst pitcher in baseball consistently given start after start, and his league worst -2.90 WPA/LI topped or bottomed all others. In 166.2 innings, he posted a 6.05 ERA with a 1.67 WHIP. His FIP did not portend any type of luck, either, as it finished the season at 5.87, thanks to a rather pedestrian 1.65 K/BB. In raw numbers, 77 walks and 127 strikeouts might be acceptable for a rookie with massive upside, but that does not fit Backe’s bill. His .326 BABIP may have been a bit unlucky, but nowhere near the level of unluckiness that a couple other on this list experienced. Why this man still gets paid to pitch in the major leagues befuddles me.

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by thedirkatron on Oct 5, 2008 11:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

Defintely Sidney Ponson 2.0.

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by lonestarJon on Oct 6, 2008 12:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I read somewhere that Mendoza was statistically the worst pitcher in baseball this year.

by oc on Oct 6, 2008 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Worst single-season VORP since 2000

Mendoza’s in the conversation as having had one of the worst single-season pitching performances in the last 20 years.

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by jamcadbury on Oct 6, 2008 12:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's gotta be like a per game average, right?

Cause he didn’t pitch enough innings to have sucked that hard overall.

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by thedirkatron on Oct 6, 2008 1:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope, season total

I guess he was just so bad that in the few times he was good, it wasn’t nearly enough to make up for the shittiness that is Mendoza.

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by Gdawg on Oct 6, 2008 1:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I heard ...

the fracas started when Kevin McCarthy threw Clarice Tinsley into the pool.

by shroomer on Oct 6, 2008 12:15 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Let's throw it Backe to Ron in the Fox 4 Weather Center.

by oc on Oct 6, 2008 1:14 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

lol

by Brett Perryman on Oct 6, 2008 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Call me delusional but...

as an Astros fan, I’m clinging to the hope that he’ll bounce back next year and post 20 starts with an ERA of < or around 5.

Actually, I really don’t know why he sucked so hard this year. He was never going to be a #2, but I thought he’d be better than what he did this year (basically, mixed some solid starts with a couple of excellent starts, a crapload of bad starts and a few more awful starts)

Doubt he’ll be as bad next year…if there is one for him.

by jonthefon on Oct 6, 2008 5:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Delusion it up.

Just like when the Astros gave up the farm for Tejada. Astros are setting themselves up for a long, painful decline to Rangersville.

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by FuturePants on Oct 6, 2008 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I broke stuff

when we traded for Tejada. I kept believing that it was something along the lines of my worst nightmare. True, our farm system before we made the trade was already pretty bad and as it turned out, two guys tore labrums, one AA minor leaguer sucked, one pitcher was sorta-kinda-okay in the O’s bullpen and the hitter turned out to have a better OPS than Tejada and that Bourn guy we traded for, so it wasn’t that ba…right, it was pretty crap, so my fears were realized.

Silver lining? IN maybe four years, we’ll have an awesomely high draft pick.

by jonthefon on Oct 6, 2008 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Really, a "star"?

Best part is that under most emailed stories tab it says, “Baseball star among arrested.” A “star”? Backe? Ummm would that be like saying Kam Loe is a star?

by texasbuckeye on Oct 6, 2008 7:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Backe - Tommy John Surgery

He maybe better next year. Remember he’s only one year away from having Tommy John surgery.

by big stros fan on Oct 6, 2008 9:15 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i had raisin bran for breakfast.

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by Longhorn on Oct 6, 2008 9:32 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs