The Pershing Punitives are putting a whooping on me so far this week... must be the name change.
jpinMilwaukee wrote:The Pershing Punitives are putting a whooping on me so far this week... must be the name change.
I softened you up last week ....
That musta been it.
Yeah, we're pesky puppies. And -- wh00p -- Clemens is returning!
Yo rednecks... I need you to start playing the puppies a bit better. I made an amazing comeback against the Pershing Punitives but I need your help beating the puppies.
I wish I could help you, Jo. But it has not been a good week for the rednecks. At one point I was down to Jespah 19-1 which must be a record. 3 days left.
Looks like you're doing better today, I think it's 12 to 8? I just looked but I need coffee ....
Hey Jespah... this week... you and me... head to head... and I'm done playing nice!
You were playing nice before?
Still interested in rap battles, rjb?
Even though my pitchers
Lost three in three
Still know that my players
Cause fear in thee
I'll be glad to make a comeback
Just like the one I did before
Because the Fiery Tamales
Have winning in the core
Oh, RJB, eek, sorry Beckett was shelled.
Last week, Jespah, my pitchers had a perfect record: 0 wins and 7 losses. Monday, I sat them down and we talked about that. They seemed to be listening to me. But on Monday Beckett goes 1.1 innings and gives up 7 runs! Fortunately, the Tamales pitching stafff didn't do much better.
I have a roster full of starting pitchers and I hope last week was an aberration. But why is it, JPinMilw or anyone else who knows anything about baseball, that starting pitchers rarely throw complete games anymore? I think I have had a total of one. I had a picther who tossed a nice game for 7 innings, giving up only 2 runs, a few walks, but he was taken out of a game his team was winning comfortably. Is, for some reason, the role of a "closer" becoming more important?
And. Pantalones, I seem to be having a writing block re rapping. It is tough to come up with words that rhyme with Tamales.
By the way, I play on-line scrabble and the other night I played someone from Birmingham UK who turned out to be a female rap artist. How cool is that! She won't be able to help with an anti-Tamales rap; she is participating in the All-UK Female Rap Contest starting today in London.
realjohnboy wrote:But why is it, JPinMilw or anyone else who knows anything about baseball, that starting pitchers rarely throw complete games anymore?
part of it is the closer role. They pay big bucks for a guy to come in a pitch one inning... may as well let him do what you pay him for. part is big contracts of starting pitchers. With all that gauranteed money riding on his arm, you don't want to over work it to the pint of breaking... especially if you have a closer ready to come in. Part is a, some would say, unhealthy obsession with pitch counts. He's over 100 pitches take him out.
Remember back when nobody thought it was possible to run a 4 miute mile and then somebody did it and like the next year there were all sorts of people running a 4 minute mile? I think that is like the pitchers arm. They get comfortable throwing around 100-120 pitches a game and once they get there they hit a wall and can't go any further. Back in the day people used to pitch complete games all the time. I've even heard of a guy pitching both games of a doubleheader.
Nate Robertson was real close to having a complete game in his match up with Mike Mussina last week (8.2 IP). He was one strike away, as a matter of fact. But he couldn't get that strike, and he was pulled. But Mussina got the CG -- and the win -- and so too did my opponent last week, ShmokeanaPancake, since Mussina's on his roster. (Like he needed to win that category too.
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Yeah, if a complete game is pitched -- just one! -- it's often enough to win that category.
Hmm, RJB, perhaps your new rapper friend would like A2K? In between Scrabble and actual performances, that is. She sounds neat.
Jespah, the week my team played a complete game, yours did too, and you didn't even notice, even after my smack talk about it ("My complete game is cuter than yours", I wrote, since mine was a shot out).
This post is to prove that if your name is Jespah, you can be oblivious of your
team and win. But it your name is Pantalones, Ticomaya, jpinmilwaukee, realjohnboy or -specially- fbaezer, you bench someone, they'll homer or win the game; you start them, they fail miserably.
I've done the oops I shoulda benched the other guy thing, too. I got lucky today, I had benched Taveras and Ensberg and they both played like garbage. Played Ausmus and he hit the only home run in the Astros game. Was gonna play Ortiz and Lowell but that game is postponed, so Thome will play and I just won't have a third baseman today.
I'm flyin' by the seat of my shorts, I'm tellin' ya!
Looks like it is gonna be another close one, Jespah.
Well, benching Burrell yesterday turned out to be dumb, he hit 2 home runs. Oy, ya live, ya learn.
