Archive for General

Phillies 9, Cardinals 2: Trading for Matt Holliday is all Wellemeyer and good, but you gotta pitch too. Despite their new bauble, the Cards drop two of three to the Phils, and find themselves knocked out of first place because . . . Cubs 5, Reds 2: The Cubbies are on fire. I was a […]

So my wife — who is not a baseball fan by any stretch of the imagination — goes to the Columbus Clippers-Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees game last night. It was a work function and the beer was free. You know how that goes. Anyway, when she came downstairs this morning I asked her how it went. […]

White Sox 5, Rays 0: Nice game for Josh Fields (1-4, grand slam). Scott Kazmir’s nightmare season continues. Rumors have him on the trading block to free up some salary for the Rays to get Lee or someone. What a difference a year makes. Wait, why are you looking at me like that? Did something […]

The best hitters at getting to 3-0

My wife gets to go to a ballgame tonight and I have to stay home with the kids. The more I struggle to make sense of this world, the more confused I become. Apart from silly bluster, what do Joe Morgan and Hugo Chavez have in common? You’ll have to click through to find out. […]

Braves 4, Giants 2: “Ladies and gentlemen: the part of Tim Lincecum will be performed tonight by Jair Jurrjens.” (7.2 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 9K). A’s 16, Twins 1: The A’s scored so much so early that starter Trevor Cahill had to run down to the bullpen to warm up again while his teammates […]

Slightly abbreviated morning, as I was called unexpectedly to court at 10AM. I’m just getting back now, though if you are called to court with zero notice and aren’t thrown in jail for something, you have to call it a victory. I did get some quick hits up, however: My take on that DNA testing […]

Nationals 4, Mets 0: Not to take too much away from John Lannan (CG, SHO, 7 H, 1K 0 BB), but David Wright was the only player in the Mets’ lineup who has any business starting for a Major League team, let alone one that still pretends that it’s contending. Indians 2, Blue Jays 1: […]

Things to read while you realize that high-volume blogging is a lot more like running a radio broadcast than it is like writing . . . Jon Heyman said that the Mets rejected a reasonable Roy Halladay deal. Wait, no they didn’t. Heyman is full of it. In light of all of that, I’m a […]

Pirates 8, Brewers 5: Pittsburgh snaps their 17-game skid against Milwaukee, and the Brewers look pretty damn immature in defeat, plunking Jeff Karstens in what I guess was retaliation for him hitting Ryan Braun back in April. This despite the fact that they hit three Pirates the day after the Braun thing, and had an […]