Last night was simply a thing of beauty. You're hearing and reading a lot about the Dodgers play of late, but nothing compares to last night. How this could be the team I wrote about a little over a month ago is the same team now, I don't know. But when you have the following pitching:
Chris Capuano
Carlos Marmol
Brandon League
Kenley Jansen nearly blowing a save, for texture
...and Nick Punto playing like I told you he would: 0-5 on a night when everyone else got a hit...
...you don't win the game. When it was 8-3 after the 6th inning, I said aloud (to, it turns out, no one interested) that I didn't like the fact that the Dodgers in essence forfeit every 5th game when Cap pitches.
Then the tide turned.
After playing UCLA ball in the 7th, the 8th inning came around. Gonzo and Either with dongs, and we have the lead...and somehow (despite the list mentioned at the start of the article) the Dodgers win.
Just as when you're in a slump you find ways to lose, when you're truly hot you win games like that. Still can't believe it.
Of course, the first I read of this crediting Donny Mustache at all for this win, I'm throwing the monitor out the window.
Showing posts with label maybe punto should not play the baseball anymore. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Grumbles
(Tommy Lasorda was seen muttering to himself after last night's game. Thankfully, a Dictaphone was nearby, recording his comments)
Christ, look at me. Look like I haven't slept in fucking days. Feel like it, even though I've been enjoying those new Big Blue Burgers. What a shitty series against the Padres. The fucking Padres! Two wins those guys have, and they come up here...well, first those assholes injure one of our star pitchers. Then they come up here and manhandle us.
Take last night's game for example. Donny Yankees thinks Kemp is "frustrated" so he starts Skip Fucking Schumaker?! Guy's off to a worse start than Kemp! Still no solution for the Third Base and Short Stop problem. I still don't trust that Punto guy. Hey Wallach, is it POON-Toe or PUNT-o? Aw hell, it doesn't matter. He finally gets a start and goes 0 for 4 with an error. Just watching pitches go by. Sellers isn't even at .200.
Then there's last night. We finally put Cap back as a starter...Donny Yankees trying to make starters closers with all the injuries we have...and he's serving up more meatballs than I can handle. Well, more than Doc says I can have, but you guys know my capabilities. By the way, I know I'm supposed to have turkey meatballs now, but you have to tell me when they're turkey and when they're ground Italian sausage, capice?
Oh man, that means we have to start Lilly sometime next week. Well, you'll find out how far a car will run with no gas.
(Lasorda than took a long draw from a glass containing one of his award-winning wines, and stared into his wall of fame)
Christ, look at me. Look like I haven't slept in fucking days. Feel like it, even though I've been enjoying those new Big Blue Burgers. What a shitty series against the Padres. The fucking Padres! Two wins those guys have, and they come up here...well, first those assholes injure one of our star pitchers. Then they come up here and manhandle us.
Take last night's game for example. Donny Yankees thinks Kemp is "frustrated" so he starts Skip Fucking Schumaker?! Guy's off to a worse start than Kemp! Still no solution for the Third Base and Short Stop problem. I still don't trust that Punto guy. Hey Wallach, is it POON-Toe or PUNT-o? Aw hell, it doesn't matter. He finally gets a start and goes 0 for 4 with an error. Just watching pitches go by. Sellers isn't even at .200.
Then there's last night. We finally put Cap back as a starter...Donny Yankees trying to make starters closers with all the injuries we have...and he's serving up more meatballs than I can handle. Well, more than Doc says I can have, but you guys know my capabilities. By the way, I know I'm supposed to have turkey meatballs now, but you have to tell me when they're turkey and when they're ground Italian sausage, capice?
Oh man, that means we have to start Lilly sometime next week. Well, you'll find out how far a car will run with no gas.
(Lasorda than took a long draw from a glass containing one of his award-winning wines, and stared into his wall of fame)
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
No Hanley, No Win #1
It's a long season, we know this...and we know we can't win 'em all. That said, last night's shut-out loss to the Giants showed the problem the Dodgers have in filling that gap.
A parade of minor-league talent will be taking that position. Last night was Justin Sellers...and if there was a 1-man loss, here's a stat line for you:
2 AB
0 H
1 K
2 E
So after personally (and I mean that in the most literal sense) putting the Dodge down 3 runs, Donny Yankees chooses Nick Punto in the 8th. Nick will "pinch hit." He came to the plate, the crowd said nothing, and here's the sequence:
Ball
Strike looking
Foul into the dirt
Ball
Strike out looking
Did you expect anything different? The Dodgers were blinded by Giant pitching last night, and it can happen against most anyone. But when you're giving up runs due to lack of ability, you're screwed either way. Sellers, I'd be saving those checks big time until Han Ram returns. Maybe you could own a sports bar or something...maybe a car wash?
A parade of minor-league talent will be taking that position. Last night was Justin Sellers...and if there was a 1-man loss, here's a stat line for you:
2 AB
0 H
1 K
2 E
So after personally (and I mean that in the most literal sense) putting the Dodge down 3 runs, Donny Yankees chooses Nick Punto in the 8th. Nick will "pinch hit." He came to the plate, the crowd said nothing, and here's the sequence:
Ball
Strike looking
Foul into the dirt
Ball
Strike out looking
Did you expect anything different? The Dodgers were blinded by Giant pitching last night, and it can happen against most anyone. But when you're giving up runs due to lack of ability, you're screwed either way. Sellers, I'd be saving those checks big time until Han Ram returns. Maybe you could own a sports bar or something...maybe a car wash?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
This...this is not good
So Hanley Ramirez is out for in the least the month of April for the Dodgers. That is just a putter to the junk. There's no other way to say it...because here are the options
1. Move Luis Cruz to SS, which Donny Yankees may do, but only shifts the problem to 3B (where Cruz usually plays)
2. Use the SS back-ups, which include the following gems:
Juan Uribe
Tommy will have to do more than the usual motivation...and even that might not be enough...
1. Move Luis Cruz to SS, which Donny Yankees may do, but only shifts the problem to 3B (where Cruz usually plays)
2. Use the SS back-ups, which include the following gems:
Juan Uribe
- 2012 season .191 in 47 games
- Played only 4 of those at SS
- Lead team in donut consumption
- 2012 season .228
- When returning from injury was replaced with better player
- Currently injured "day to day"
- Will attempt to not swing at every first pitch in 2013 season
- Will attempt to not throw each time to the 5th row
- No description needed.
Tommy will have to do more than the usual motivation...and even that might not be enough...
Monday, July 20, 2009
Collapse Like No Other
Ok, sorry to Tommy and friend, but this needs front page treatment.
When you score 13 runs in a game.... when Justin Morneau hits a grand slam and a three run homer IN THE FIRST THREE INNINGS, when your "staff ace" is on the hill, when your bullpen has been pitching actually quite well recently, and when you play the THIRTY EIGHT AND FUCK FIFTY TWO ATHLETICS...
YOU
SHOULD
WIN
THE
GAME
Let's just see here: Blackburn gives up seven runs in 5 innings. That's horse-piss. Nick Punto bats second, which is a good spot if you can, you know, GET A HIT IN FIVE AT BATS WHICH HE CANNOT BECAUSE OF HIS STUPIDNESS. And then that bullpen... Keppel and Mijares just run it right down their leg in a 7 run 7th, culminating in a grand fuck slam to tie the game.
Oakland's starting pitcher, one Gio Gonzalez... you ready for this? 2.2 INNINGS PITCHED. TEN HITS.
ELEVEN EARNED RUNS.
He gets a no decision out of that.
I've gone through a lot this year, ups downs, strikes, gutters, but this one is the worst loss of the year by far, just awful. Just a dogshit performance, a complete muck-up of a game that should've ended with Morneau breaking the Twins record for RBI in a game. Instead it ends with a loss to Oakland and a further slip in the standings.
I'll say it again right now, just like I said it last year: I cheer for this team. I want them to have success. But they DO. NOT. DESERVE. to win the central division. If they are in the race, it's only an indicator of how horseshit the Tigers and Sox are.
It's last year, all over again.
When you score 13 runs in a game.... when Justin Morneau hits a grand slam and a three run homer IN THE FIRST THREE INNINGS, when your "staff ace" is on the hill, when your bullpen has been pitching actually quite well recently, and when you play the THIRTY EIGHT AND FUCK FIFTY TWO ATHLETICS...
YOU
SHOULD
WIN
THE
GAME
Let's just see here: Blackburn gives up seven runs in 5 innings. That's horse-piss. Nick Punto bats second, which is a good spot if you can, you know, GET A HIT IN FIVE AT BATS WHICH HE CANNOT BECAUSE OF HIS STUPIDNESS. And then that bullpen... Keppel and Mijares just run it right down their leg in a 7 run 7th, culminating in a grand fuck slam to tie the game.
Oakland's starting pitcher, one Gio Gonzalez... you ready for this? 2.2 INNINGS PITCHED. TEN HITS.
ELEVEN EARNED RUNS.
He gets a no decision out of that.
I've gone through a lot this year, ups downs, strikes, gutters, but this one is the worst loss of the year by far, just awful. Just a dogshit performance, a complete muck-up of a game that should've ended with Morneau breaking the Twins record for RBI in a game. Instead it ends with a loss to Oakland and a further slip in the standings.
I'll say it again right now, just like I said it last year: I cheer for this team. I want them to have success. But they DO. NOT. DESERVE. to win the central division. If they are in the race, it's only an indicator of how horseshit the Tigers and Sox are.
It's last year, all over again.
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