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This would be the "Matt Carpenter doesn't wear batting gloves" portion of the broadcast ...
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Great start for Lynn. Cardinals desperately need to win tonight and tomorrow.
Kershaw on Sunday.
Against Miller. It's rare I actually look forward to a baseball game, but that should be fun. Miller strikes me as the kind of guy who could get pumped for a game like that.
ESPN's Sunday Night game is Mets/Braves. Because the Mets are awesome.
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Agreed on Gonzalez. I used to feel bad for the guy when it seemed he was stuck in SD. But ever since he was traded, he doesn't seem like a guy who will play for many winning teams.Absent the steroid compoment, he's kind of his generation's Rafael Palmeiro. He's accumulated some impressive numbers, but nothing he's ever done has really mattered.
A hitter's version of Felix Hernandez.
Exactly, I'm sure both of their WARs are extraordinarily impressive.
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Kershaw on Sunday.
Against Miller. It's rare I actually look forward to a baseball game, but that should be fun. Miller strikes me as the kind of guy who could get pumped for a game like that.
ESPN's Sunday Night game is Mets/Braves. Because the Mets are awesome.
Well, they do have Rick Ankiel now.
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Against Miller. It's rare I actually look forward to a baseball game, but that should be fun. Miller strikes me as the kind of guy who could get pumped for a game like that.ESPN's Sunday Night game is Mets/Braves. Because the Mets are awesome.
Well, they do have Rick Ankiel now.
Whose OPS is 1.073 since he got to New York. Not a lot of players have much of a shelf life after they get cut by the Astros.
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There's your home run, TK.
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Are we really hanging the Seattle Mariners' lack of success during the prime years of Felix Hernandez's career on him? Because I'm pretty sure the guy who takes the ball every fifth day isn't really responsible for signing Yuni Betancourt, letting Adrian Beltre go, trading Adam Jones for Erik Bedard, giving Jarrod Washburn $40 million, giving Carlos Silva $50 million, giving Kenji Johjima $17 million, giving Chone Figgins $36 million, bringing back Ken Griffey, Jr., trading for Casey Kotchman, trading Cliff Lee for Justin Smoak and trading what's left of Michael Pineda for Jesus Montero.
I mean, maybe Felix Hernandez has the same mystic powers that Bill DeWitt has, but I'm guessing the Seattle Mariners losing about 800 games over the past seven seasons is more about the team that makes stupid trades, signs horrible players and can't develop a farm system.
That's probably a stretch, though.
ATTABOY ALLEN CRAIG!!!
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The Dodgers really do look like they couldn't care less.
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Not blaming Hernandez, just pointing out that he's pitched in roughly the same number of meaningful big league games as I have.
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Are we really hanging the Seattle Mariners' lack of success during the prime years of Felix Hernandez's career on him?
Yup. I bet he smells like cabbage, too.
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I'd like to take credit for this. You're all welcome.
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Didn't the Dodgers have AAAron Miles within the last couple of years? And Adam Kennedy? If so, along with Schumaker and Punto that's a lot of crappy ex-Cardinals utility players.
There you go TK, now we're up to 5 HR from the corner infielders.
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TK, can you write something like "Gast has never thrown a no-hitter" during tomorrow's game thread?
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"Didn't the Dodgers have AAAron Miles within the last couple of years? And Adam Kennedy? If so, along with Schumaker and Punto that's a lot of crappy ex-Cardinals utility players."
The oddity being all four of those guys have World Series rings. So does Glenn Brummer, but I'm just sayin' ...
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"Didn't the Dodgers have AAAron Miles within the last couple of years? And Adam Kennedy? If so, along with Schumaker and Punto that's a lot of crappy ex-Cardinals utility players."
The oddity being all four of those guys have World Series rings. So does Glenn Brummer, but I'm just sayin' ...
So does "Good Guy" Johnny Gom--. Never mind.
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According to the ticker scrolling across the bottom of FSMW, Nick Swisher was activated from the "paternity list" today. If the NBA had a "paternity list," Shawn Kemp would have averaged about 24 games a season.
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"Didn't the Dodgers have AAAron Miles within the last couple of years? And Adam Kennedy? If so, along with Schumaker and Punto that's a lot of crappy ex-Cardinals utility players."
The oddity being all four of those guys have World Series rings. So does Glenn Brummer, but I'm just sayin' ...
So does "Good Guy" Johnny Gom--. Never mind.
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A couple more runs and it might even be safe for Boggs to pitch.
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A couple more runs and it might even be safe for Boggs to pitch.
in Memphis?
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Again Matheny perplexes me. Did Lynn throw 80 pitches? I understand the bullpen has to be able to hold a 7-run lead, but I can't think of a good reason to go to the bullpen this early.
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Weirdly enough I'm OK with him pulling Lynn. He rode him hard last week against the Mets and he didn't look sharp at all against the Brewers. An extra day of rest + a night where he only throws 77 pitches is probably not a bad thing. I wish there was more consistency to his decisions though.
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The old Skip Schumaker would have slid head first into first base.
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Uh oh. Max isn't going to like that play.
which one?
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Uh oh. Max isn't going to like that play.
which one?
Jay scored on a home plate collision with the catcher.