Say it with me: “Joey Fucking Votto”. Learn it, live it, love it. The guy is a budding superstar, having belted three homeruns in two games since returning from an inner ear infection that was causing him dizziness.
Oh, and a hearty “Screw You” to Roy Oswalt, whom was 23-1 against the Reds until last night. I really enjoyed watching you walk in the tying run with the bases loaded. It’s about time the worm turned for the Reds against you!
25-20 baby, and still chugging. Go REDS!
Frankly, I’m a little ashamed of my fellow Mets fans. This team is 25-20, half a game out of first place with the third-best run differential in the National League, and that with the starting first baseman and All-Star shortstop missing lots of games, the centerfielder and center of the offense hurt, and a host of flukey stupid stuff that is unlikely to be sustained throughout the season.
And yet to hear the Mets’ Fan Chorus tell it, the sky is falling. What did you all expect, people? 120 wins and a coast to first place, in a division with the defending champs ? Nobody said it would be easy, but given the team’s injury problems and everything that’s gone wrong, I’ll take half a game out of first place on May 27 in a heartbeat.
Watching the Pirates/Cubs game. The Pirates just scored the tying run in the 7th after a pitch got away from Geovany Soto and the runner came in from third.
When the runner was called safe, Carlos Zambrano, who made the play at the plate, went ballistic. After a bunch of ranting and raving, he gave the umpire a little bump with his arm, and was promptly ejected. He yelled and screamed some more, and after Lou Piniella got him to back off, he launched the ball into left field, threw his glove into the dugout, and then laid into the Cubs’ drink machine with a baseball bat before being herded into the dressing room.
When i first saw the play, i thought that Zambrano had good cause to be angry, because it looked like he got the tag down before the runner touched home. But a couple of replays suggest that the umpire actually made a really good call, because the slow-mo replay suggests that the Nyjer Morgan’s left hand touched the plate before Zambrano got the tag on him.
Of course, none of this would have even been an issue except for an awful error in left by Soriano that turned a long single into a triple. He just missed the ball, and it rolled down into the corner, allowing Morgan to get to third. Soriano is lucky he can hit, because he can be diabolically bad out there in left.
2-2 in the 7th now, and that run lost Zambrano the chance to record his 100th win.
I predict, at 3:58 PM MDT, that Rockies manager Clint Hurdle will not make it through this week, and possibly not through today.
They were just talking about that on the Dodger broadcast. Barring a miracle in the bottom of the 9th, the Rockies are about to get swept.
Why do I open my mouth?
Zambrano is a freaking headcase.
And the Redleggers sweep the mighty Sinking Fastros, 6-1. Bronson Arroyo pitches a complete game, Jay Bruce wakes up from the doldrums and belts two homeruns, and all is well. 6-3 homestand before we take to the road to deal with the likes of the Brewcrew and the Cubs (whom appear to be melting down).
26-20 baby. The Reds appear to be for real. We’ll get Brandon Phillips and Edinson Volquez back soon, too. Let’s keep this momentum rolling through the road trip!
GO REDS!
Somewhere, Bayard is looking over his shoulder, nervously.
A few outs away now in two games. The Yanks winning 9-2 in the 9th and the Red Sox losing to he Twins in the 9th 4-2 & 2 outs. The Yanks will move into a tie for First in the AL East! (If both socres hold up.)
It has been a while since the Yanks had a share of that pie.
It’s over the Red Sox lost!, Yanks need three more outs for the tie.
Pffft! The Cards have clawed their way back into first despite hitting something like .126* as a team in May. Once they turn their hitting around and Pujols stops looking like a human and starts looking like Albert Freakin’ Pujols again, it’ll be smooth sailing straight through to October. Especially since Carpenter is on a pace to end the season with an ERA of … uh … 0. Nothing can stop us now!
*I made that up. I think the team BA in May was something like .210, though. And AP is only hitting .318. I mean, come on!
I am relishing the thought of Johnny Cueto facing Big Albert again. As Jay Bruce said “We’re planning on coming home from this road trip in first place”.
They can do it, too. The stakes are high. We are playing the Brewers away, St Louis away and then the CUbs at home (I think). I want to see 7-3 out of those ten games.
Most important road trip of the year for the Reds, I think. it will define them as legit contenders or rattle their confidence back into mediocrity.
I agree with you, except on the “sky is falling” bit. That’s fanned by the ever-so-lovely NY tabloid media. Of course after the way the team blew the division lead in the final week of the season not one, but TWO seasons in a row (though there are good reasons to view the hobbled ending to 2008 through a different lens than the utter collapse of 2007, the pit of the stomach feeling is about the same), many Mets fans are already one foot off the ledge until the magic number is zero, and even then, will be worried about some kind of decision from the Commissioner overturning some game result or other that requires a one-game playoff after the end of the season that will see Oliver Perez take the mound for the Mets, and oh no, it’s Chipper Jones at the plate and even though K-Rod hasn’t blown a save all season here it is with 2 outs and 2 men on base that he put on with back-to-back walks and OH GOD PLEASE KILL ME NOW BECAUSE I HAVEN’T THE GUTS TO DO IT MYSELF…
ahem excuse me.
I believe I was about to say, yes, I’ll take half a game out on 5/27, or half a game up on 5/28. Especially when the team is as banged up as it is (hopefully things can only get better in the next 2 months), and it’s behind a Phillies team that has awful starting pitching, and whose closer, Brad Lidge, the key difference maker to get the WS Champion Phillies even into the playoffs, by going perfecto for the season while the Mets set a team record in blown saves.
Coincidentally, at 3:58 PM MDT, Clint Hurdle is no longer the manager of the Colorado Rockies.
OK I have tried to be patient, but Holliday is starting to piss me off. I understand that he was a coors field hitter with unimpressive splits away from there, but this is pathetic. Not just his lame #s (22 6 28 2 .273) he just simply doesn’t put together good at bats. He swings at bad pitches and gets himself out way too much. Considering we traded a top prospect for him who I rather liked (carlos gonzalez who admittedly isn’t even playing at the moment), we really aren’t getting anything. We were hoping he would be a lineup sparkplug, or at the very least some tradebait for the deadline. Now all we are getting are 2 draft picks. Weee. On the bright side, him and Boras HAVE to be kicking themselves about turning down the $85 mil deal that colorado offered. At this rate they will be lucky to get half that.
Also, when your best hitter (by far) is Adam Kennedy, well, lets just say you can go ahead and start making your October vacation plans.
I’d completely gut the A’s. Seriously, dump Giambi, Chavez, and Nomar. Trade Holliday for a bag of balls. Send Travis Buck back to minors.
Well, that’s a start!
Holliday had a terrible April but in May he’s batting .295 with power. He hasn’t made an error all year. You guys want to dump him now that he’s playing well?
Well we wouldn’t get anything on the trade docket for Giambi or Nomar. Chavez is crippled and making like $12 mil - the only way we are getting rid of that is with a federal bailout. We could just waive them and eat the salary, but with the way our callups have been playing it hardly seems worth it.
I was mainly venting after watching him stink up the joint in the double header yesterday. Yes his numbers have picked up and he has been doing well with RiSP, but he just doesn’t seem like the same hitter I saw in the World Series a couple years ago. In his defense, he is surrounded by putrid hitters up and down the lineup, so I’m sure pitchers aren’t giving him anything good.
I think I’ve figured out the secret to success for the Seattle Mariners: I need to not listen to the games. I swear, whenever I’m available to sit at home and listen to the game, they lose. When I’m at work during the game or otherwise can’t listen, I check their Web site later and discover they won. Business was brisk at my job in April so I couldn’t listen to many games, and the Mariners finished April with a winning record and in first place in the AL West. Business slacked off in May so I had more time to listen to the games, and the Mariners tanked and are finishing May in third place.
Your fault. But then you knew that.
Most of my opinions were shaped during the doubleheader yesterday as well. I saw quite a few A’s games during Spring Training and he looked decent as well as Giambi. Of course, that was in a spring training park with incredible wind.
Seriously, does any team have as many injuries each year as the A’s? Is Chavez ever healthy? They’ve got Nomar, Chavez, Mark Ellis, Duchscherer on the dl right now. Plus Joey Devine is out for the whole season.