Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Farnsworthless Leads Us Off

This purpose of this blog is totally unclear, but we will try to make the most of it. It should be a mix of sports, current events, and other random things. Anyway, here it goes.

So the Yankee Dynasty (read: Joe Torre) survived for another day, despite the best efforts of Kyle Farnsworth. In case you missed it, Kyle Dial 911 entered the game in the 8th inning leading 7-1. He promptly surrended a homer to Coco I'm-Burnt-to-a Crisp (Coco's first of the season), then walked Manny Ortez's bigger half. Typical stuff from the Yankee reliever. But then the clown show really began. Given the five run lead, Doug Me-i-stink-o-witz was playing behind Ortiz, which Kyle apparently failed to see despite wearing his Wild Thing glasses, as he faked a throw to first base. The rulebook says that's a balk. Anyone dumb enough to have this idiot on their fantasy baseball team deserves to take the hit that comes with leading the league in balks. If only he would take a permanent vacation, rather than criticize others for taking time off.

Other tidbits: Bobby "Sweet as Candy" Abreu looks like he is on some serious candy. In addition to his recent bunt attempts (including yesterday with no baserunners and two outs), he missed a line drive right at him tonight --- apparently losing it in the lights. Maybe he needs whatever the GiamBALCO was taking to wake him up. Jeter passed Joe-D on the all time Yankee-hit list, while Carl Pavano won't be passing pitchers in wins any time soon. The American Idle is rapidly closing in on Kerry Wood and Mark Prior for the King of the DL distinction, however.

And now for the OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS 20/20 update: Clemens managed to throw 102 pitches to get through 5.1 IP in Double AA. The Baseball Tonight crowd suggested that since Clemens was pitching against the Red Sox affiliate, Theo Epstein (or someone else in the Red Sox organization) sent the word out to the minor leaguers to take a lot of pitches so as to wear out the Rocket. Unclear if Theo was pleased that Wily Mo Pena started in place of JD (Aren't-the-Dodgers-Glad-I-Opted-Out) Drew in the big league game. Well, at least the Yanks only spent $40 million on Pavano - uh, excuse me, $39.95 million - while JD stands to collect $70 million.

2 comments:

Chairman Mao said...

You forgot about Abreu's falling asleep on the base paths and getting picked off first.

Unknown said...

im sure not mad random..