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What does this mean? There weren’t enough seats in the dugout? 
Someone needs to do a better job linking to the new month’s thread from the old months thread. 
Well Jays shut down the Yanks pretty well this weekend until the 4 run late rally and despite losing the series 2-1 I am fairly happy as Vazquez seems to have righted himself and looks much more like prior years Javier Vazquez .
It would be nice to gain ground on the Rays, but at least the Yanks are not losing ground. It should be a fun race with all 4 teams hanging around in striking distance. The Jays starting pitching is good. I think if they can find some bullpen help from the minors or via trade they will stick around this year.
I am pretty pleased with my Yanks. Starters are looking good overall with some yips of course and the bullpen is slowly improving as the year goes on. The hitting is very good and A-Rod and Teix have yet to warm up. Most importantly the team is getting healthy with Granderson and Posada back and Wynn thankfully gone.
Some of us know how to read a calendar.
Dodgers manage a split with the Braves, which is all we were really hoping for. Ely got lit up for the first time since April, but the bullpen comes through. Ellis gets a walk-off single, which is a little compensation for being with the team rather than home for the birth of his son. The race in the NLWest gets tighter.
Yeah, Jays did really well last couple games. Good team this year.
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So the Kid Phenom Strasburg will be pitching tonight for the Nats and I understand it will be aired on the MLB channel. I plan to watch some of the game at least.
BTW: The Yanks drafted a 17 year old shortstop from Rochester, NY with their first pick. 32nd overall.
Feast or famine. After scoring a handful of runs their last few games, the Dodgers exploded last night against the Cardinals. 12-4 is the type of score I didn’t expect against the Cards. I’m sure karma is waiting in the wings, but for the nonce I’ll just bask in the glow of a great game.
On the draft front, I would like to note that a student in one of my Econ. classes this year just got drafted by the Mariners (#43 pick).
Blue Jays took four pitchers in their first four picks yesterday; the first of whom being Deck McGuire, a 6’6 righty out of Georgia Tech.
I don’t know about karma, but with Carpenter and Wainwright waiting in the wings, I don’t think you can expect that kind of score the rest of the series.
Wainright vs Kershaw should be interesting, to say the least. I hope they are both “on.”
On one hand McGure has great stuff and a great first name.
On the other, I’ve been watching him pitch and he has arm trouble written all over him. His motion has him violently yanking his arm laterally across his body after the moment of release, rather than expending the energy forward. It’s very jolting and puts a lot of torque on hs shoulder. I don’t believe I have ever seen a pitcher who did that who DIDN’T blow his arm out at some point. Hopefully theyll try to straighten that out.
Strasburg looked good tonight. The 14 Ks in 7 innings looked really good.
Phil Hughes was not great tonight but just OK but he is now 8-1 on the season. This is the guy that technically was our 5 at the start of the season.
As to be expected from great pitching, the Cards and Dodgers scored exactly 1 run between them last night. Manny Ramirez drove in Furcal with an RBI double in the bottom of the 8th. The Dodgers are now in first place in the NLWest. Things are as they should be.
You know, I remember Mark Prior coming up. All the talking heads yammered endlessly about his flawless mechanics, and I sat there wondering if they were watching the same guy I was. Prior’s mechanics were unequivocally terrible, but they were terrible the same way every single time and the idiots that pass for baseball commentators mistook his repeatability for sound fundamentals.
I would say that fundamental instruction has improved in the intervening years, but I’ve seen the Washington Nationals pitching staff, who each seem to feature a mechanical flaw that should have been addressed in high school.
But the Jays seem to have a knack for pitching development-here’s hoping they get their new kid sorted out before he gets Priored.
And Strasburg-Jeez. I’m not easily impressed, but I caught his final inning last night, and I was more than impressed. You know, barring pitch counts, he had a shot at 20 K’s? In his friggin’ debut? Trying to think of someone that young who came on that strong…and of course the answer is Kerry Wood, who struck out 20 at age 21, in his 5th MLB start.
There, I’ve invoked both Wood and Prior; any other young pitchers in this post are doomed to injury altered careers.
Going to take The Boy (and, maybe, The Girl, but not The Mom) to see the last game of the current Jays v Rays series. Wade Davis has not pitched well lately, so this will probably be the one the Jays win. Should be fun anyway. At least hoping our bats stay hot.
Man, somehow the Reds just keep coming back late in games to win. Watching the Giants Guillermo Mota melt down in the 8th inning and giving up 3 runs so the Reds could win 7-6 was pretty gratifying!
Bring on the mighty Royals!
So the Jays go 4-5 in their nine games against the Yankees and Rays, with three of those losses due to the bullpen. Not great, but it’s better than 0-9, or 2-7.
On to Coors, and Romero vs. Jiminez tomorrow night.
Phillies offense is really struggling. I’m used to see Howard have a slump here or there. But, this Utley slump is hard to figure out!
Oh well. Better to be struggling in June then struggling in September. I just wish they weren’t wasting so many excellent pitching performances from both the bullpen and starters.
Last night was pretty disappointing. AJ Burnett did not pitch well and Yanks lost. I had hopes of making up one game on the Rays last night.
On Tuesday night, I was listening to the Mets radio broadcast of the game against the Padres and found it amusing that Howie Rose corrected Wayne Hagin’s slip of calling Chase Headley (the Padres 3B) “Chase Utley” (of the Phillies) by using a line from “Blazing Saddles”: “That’s HEDLEY!!” (Got the intonation and accent dead on, too!)
I went to the ballpark with my wife and kids on Thursday and when Chase Headley came up to bat for the first time, I remembered that incident and told it to her. Then later in the game, around the third inning, three younger people showed up (teenagers), and one of them introduced his friends to an older fellow seated adjacent to us one row down as his grandfather “who wrote Blazing Saddles”! When we butted in to introduce ourselves and told him we were big fans of the movie (of course), I mentioned Howie’s line from the previous game’s broadcast, and he cracked that “Howie owes me money”.
The Mets lost that game (alas, it was the 1pm game and not the 1-hitter by Niese) but I’ll remember that anecdote for a while!