Comments on: Funniest blog comment ever

By: Danny Baseball

Danny Baseball — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:03:54 +0000

The other thing we’re missing from the M&MD bit is “c’mon, be fair!” I think they probably say that 5 or 6 times an hour.

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:31:58 +0000

I love the “Phil Use” line… much like the name Mar-Teenis

By: randyhater

randyhater — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:25:19 +0000

Terrific game all around for Joba, especially with the economy of pitches, but I’d hold off on the “I told you so” stuff until we’ve seen more than one solid effort from Veras.

Granted, he was lights out last night and maybe he’s ready to step forward. But it’s a long season and we’re gonna need multiple guys not named Mo to pitch consistenly well in tight spots. Even if Veras becomes dependable, it seems like the current strategy is have the starters go deeper and count on Kyle as the back-up closer. Does anyone really believe that will work?

By: Brandon (supporting "Alex being Alex") (J.Santana HR allowed count: 12 )

Brandon (supporting "Alex being Alex") (J.Santana HR allowed count: 12 ) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:18:25 +0000

With Rasner coming down to earth with his last few starts, how do you see our starting rotation shaping up come August?

Coming down to earth ? he’s had one bad start, the Minny game doesn’t count (that had to be the worst strikes to ball misses by an umpire I have ever seen in my life) and how about him going 8 IP the start before Oak ? He’s really had 1 bad start, which is the Oak game.

By: DFox

DFox — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:18:13 +0000

That was hilarious and very well written. Great stuff.

By: whozat

whozat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:13:35 +0000

“With Rasner coming down to earth with his last few starts, how do you see our starting rotation shaping up come August?”

I think it’s a little much to say that he’s coming down to earth. He’s just regressing back to his expected performance…league average-ish. He’s a 5th starter…if he eats innings to the tune of a 4.50 ERA, that’s fine as far as I’m concerned.

If Ian or Hughes is in the minors showing that he could maybe be better than that, and/or Rasner starting getting banged around like he did in Oakland on a regular basis…then you maybe make a move.

By: Brandon (supporting "Alex being Alex") (J.Santana HR allowed count: 12 )

Brandon (supporting "Alex being Alex") (J.Santana HR allowed count: 12 ) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:11:30 +0000

CC Sabathia anyone? This would make Yankees team to beat in my opinion.

What would you guys give for him?

I’m Sabathia’d out already. It’s been a few days I said already I wouldn’t touch him till the offseason.

By: Confucius

Confucius — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:11:29 +0000

“What would you guys give for him?”

Crabs.

By: whozat

whozat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:10:54 +0000

“What would you guys give for him?”

Check back through the threads over the last several days. We’ve beaten it to death.

By: whozat

whozat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:10:14 +0000

“You know, Iâ€™m starting to wonder whether there was some truth, after all, to the Flordia mediaâ€™s criticism that Girardi destroyed the arms of the Marlinsâ€™ pitchers.”

He’s only let guys go really deep once or twice. Rasner had a high count once, and Andy a couple times. But Joe T did that with Andy last year too.

I dunno…I think there’ll be a pretty clear mandate that Joba’s “not on a pitch count” but that he should never EVER crack 110. I’m not really worried about the other guys’ arms.