Stephen Strasburg, pitcher and Scott Boras client

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.

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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.

RIP

Braves booth passes along the report -- he just couldn't get loose, and the general manager is the one who made the call to pull the plug on his start.

OH MY JESUS FUCK. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO BASEBALL JESUS? A Hall of Fame career cut short. Tragic.

this kinda fucks up the awesome Aug. 6 Kershaw v. Strasburg game in LA tho =(

anyone else think that they wanted to skip his start but didn't have the balls to screw over the home fans so they're pulling the old baseball fake injury thing

Rizzo did a half-inning in the Braves booth answering questions, kinda surprising. They asked him where specifically the problem was -- arm, back, legs, etc -- Rizzo said it was his arm, which just wouldn't loosen up.

xp Joe Simpson said "you know what all the columnists are going to speculate about tomorrow, that they announced SS to fill the stadium and then pulled him."

i cant wait for the Strasburg vs. Latos game where they both go onto the DL simultaneously after a national anthem fist bump misalignment.

well he's certainly better than aaron rowand

"inflamed shoulder"

Yes jordy, Strasburg is certainly better than Aaron Rowand. Good call there.

DL-bound. Pitch count limits ftw.

said it before...

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right now i'm more interested in whether jordan zimmermann makes it back this year tbh

RI{P

uggla is slugging .660+ in the second half

yea he is beasting

"beasting"?

in the act of being a beast

O_o

i've heard/used the term "beasting" since i was a kid!

maybe they were saying "bee sting"

hiker stung by 300 bees sez he was "bee sting"