Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client

shit is deep, son

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Jamie Moyer, expert on pitchers who can break a pane of glass

looks like strasburg just doesn't have what it takes to win games >:)

ray knight and rob dibble debate straburg. i wondered whether to put this here or in the dunmbass analysis thread. i'm attaching a link w/ the clip and commentary from washington post's dan steinberg. pretty amusing.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/06/dibble_and_knight_debate_stras.html#more

from the AP, via dan steinberg:

"Nationals pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg already is a household name -- except in Ozzie Guillen's household. In downplaying his team's recent sweep at Washington, the White Sox manager said: "We only scored one run against the first guy, Starborough, or whatever his name is.""

Scarbury, Scarborough...

MASN was showing fans at the stadium before Strasburg's debut, and one dude said something like "STRASSBORG IS THE REAL DEAL!!!"

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Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Starburns

community dude on the right could totally be a smarmy third MLB Network announcer
he has Amsinger/Vasgersian hair

so Jose DeLeon sruck out a lotta guys in his first 5 starts...

I guess they'll leave him in only one more inning? two?

he didn't have v. many pitches did he?

ian desmond is not steve's fav teammate rite now

no, not sure he's at 80 TP yet

game over?

92 pitches

2-0 braves

not a clutch performer

Total Nationals runs scored in Strasburg's last three starts: 1

I guess the rest of the guys just want to stand back and admire him.

Clippard's W/IP: 8/48

Strasburg's W/IP: 2/31.2

RIP

I don't know why I'm following Keith Law on Twitter, but ugh:
"Strasburg pitched well enough to win." But he didn't win. So whose fault is that - Strasburg's, or the stat's?

He is relentlessly negative about everything but I still enjoy following him.

klaw is so fucking wrong there; the cliche "pitched well enough to win" does not refer to the stat

"pitched well enough to [get the] win" vs. "pitched well enough [for his team] to win"

I think the former is implied more often than the latter.

Here is where klaw is so fucking wrong:

156. Throwing Muses – “Bright Yellow Gun.” The most rock-infused song from a promising but generally uneven band. And I think I need a little poison.

Songs by Soul Coughing, Milla, and Sublime ahead of it, btw.

but in this case even "get the win" is absolutely synonymous with the team winning--not like the bullpen blew it or something. desperate overreach by klaw.

And Sponge.

xpost

The fuck is a Clockhammer

sorry

lol

Klaw on pitcher wins is like deej on Gucci mane at this point

how harshly do you judge keith law when it comes to his tastes/opinions about music

Very harshly

I had a brief twitter argument with him about real estate.

hahaha awesome

yeah, and Bobby Valentine loves his old boss Dubya, who effing cares

xxp

Wilpon?

He believed that real estate should only be valued based on square footage and location.

for a "smart" person, he is a complete moron

I can't blame Klaw for instinctively adding piss to the punchbowl, cuz everybody on ESPN and Fox (save Joe Morgan) sets up all these "if" criteria for Strasburg to 'deserve' an All-Star spot, which they will chuck on July 8 no matter what. Reminds me of Obama fans.

not sure what you mean?

As far as Harvard grads go, he is no cave17matt.

Strasburg fans to skeptics when he gets his All-Star spot: "Would you rather have McCain??"

(I'm not paasionately against him being in the ASG, far less deserving people will be there, like an Oriole)

morbs i'm setting the politics aside for a number of reasons, what do you mean about klaw feeling obligated to counter what the other commentators are saying?

ppl are anointing the guy as virtually a surefire HOFer! Sure, he looks fine so far, so did Kerry Wood.

rite, but klaw seemed to be commenting on the win stat as a concept, not stras as a pitcher

yeah I see that. I didn't read anything this week from him cept what you guys are quoting.

Law very rightly has a vendetta against statistical wins and losses, but man is he tiresome about it.

but then again, Sutcliffe talked about Strasburg as an All-Star entirely in W-L terms last night, so pick yr poison

Buck & Millar, muted

"It was kind of anticlimactic. Not that he’s not very good. He’s good. But I felt like the ball was going to be invisible. I actually saw it."
—Mets starter R.A. Dickey on seeing Strasburg in person.

I just turned the game on and apparently Strasburg felt something wrong when he started warming up...? Anyway, Miguel Batista's getting the emergency start.