by mccarthy last night. he wasnt perfect but he’s making strides and just seeing him healthy and challenging hitters is a good first step.

“you people?”

because it was May/June, we still had some (blind, koolaid-induced) hope for the season, and our shitty pitching staff was getting slapped around like a red headed stepchild.

I’d pay to never hear “meh” or “+1” again.

I was very encouraged by McCarthy last night… but after he was done, like you I was was pretty disinterested. I wasn’t comfortable that we’d win and didn’t want to invest myself until midnight to see some form of meltdown so I went to bed. It’s so screwed up that we’re in the AL West with all these complete bullshit 9:00 start times.

Nice to read this morning that Jack was decent. Cleaned up his own mess, anyway.

…completely shit the bed last night swinging 2-0 against a possibly struggling K-Rod.

most of the time the entire GDT and not just one or two random people are commenting about pulling a pitcher, its someone who has nothing at all that day and isnt long for the game anyway.

the biggest single moment of “pull him stupid” this year was mendoza. i think he got about 2 more outs to go along with 3-5 runs before he was pulled mid inning. there are isolated incidents where he does need to pull those guys. there are innings where someone is a little off but its worth trying to see if he can put it together and thats fine, but there are times when the guy needs to be pulled because there is very little chance he actually throws any significant number of innings and saves the bullpen anything as he trashes the game. and i tihnk more often then not thats when people go crazy about it.

Now that’s a quality program. Was that on TV or were you watching DVDs?

K-clods fist-pumping last night? Come on Tex, is it that big of a deal to beat a large market team that spends like a small market team?

isn’t a very good pitcher. I don’t think the number of innings has much to do with it.

Every gameday thread’s text has the word “Bleah” in it.

sure, it’s a VERY small sample size, but it’s much better than anything we had on him the last full calendar year, and something that has me somewhat excited:

2 major league starts: 1.80 in 10 innings
2 minor league starts: 0.00 in 13 innings

Combined: 0.78 ERA in his last 23 innings

NOT BAD. Hard hit balls or not.

in East New Orleans. It’s a very modest one story ranch style brick home. You can walk right up to the front door-it’s not in a gated community or anything like that. It’s considerably smaller than my aunts 150K home in Carrollton. There are bars on the windows.
     
     About a third of the neighborhood is gutted or has wood covering the windows. Many of the houses have that orange spray paint that signified whether people or pets were found in them. Enormous Lake Ponchatrain is only 5 blocks away. I took a look and the only thing that separates Wash’s neighborhood from the lake is a modest hill and a pile of rocks. I hope Gustav is kinder than Katrina was.

Not that long ago, a game like this would have had me swearing, screaming and hating life until well in to today.

Now, I merely had the game on and was half interested in the fact that the lead was somehow blown. The game was on, I just wasn’t aware of what happened, who blew the lead or how, and I certainly wasn’t getting pissed. Only passively annoyed.

I stopped and watched the 9th inning just to see how it ended up, but that was it. My mind has officially gone to seeing how the rest of the league does in late September and October and the start of football.

Scott Miller of CBS Sportsline wrote yesterday that John Hart has told the Mariners, who are currently being run by interim GM Lee Pelekoudas, that he’d like to come out of retirement and run a team again.

Yay!

Joel Hanrahan 75.0
Josh Rupe 74.2
Chad Durbin 74.0
Jamey Wright 73.2
Carlos Mármol 73.0
Saul Rivera 72.2
J.P. Howell 71.2
Aaron Heilman 71.2
Rafael Pérez 68.1
Ryan Madson 68.1

Rupe and Wright are way up there…but…notice that most of these other guys are pitching well. Some of them are pitching as well as they have all year. Heilman is the worst, and he’s gotten better and better of late.

I think there is something to the notion that our guys either aren’t very good or just aren’t the kinds of resilient arms that can handle a large load.

Happy Labor Day, foax.

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2008/8/29/603843/prospect-retro-ian-kinsler

So I was browsing +/- numbers today, and noticed Bradon Boggs is currently second in baseball in left field with a +10 (Carl Crawford leads with a +20). That’s. . . really nifty.

David Murphy apparently doesn’t qualify for some reason in right, because he has a +11 there, which would rank 5th in baseball, third in the AL. He’s been pretty bad in left and center, though.

So. . . go Brandon.