hahaha awesome
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, and Bobby Valentine loves his old boss Dubya, who effing cares
xxp
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Wilpon?
― ksmh (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
He believed that real estate should only be valued based on square footage and location.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
for a "smart" person, he is a complete moron
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure what you mean?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
As far as Harvard grads go, he is no cave17matt.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl are anointing the guy as virtually a surefire HOFer! Sure, he looks fine so far, so did Kerry Wood.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
rite, but klaw seemed to be commenting on the win stat as a concept, not stras as a pitcher
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I see that. I didn't read anything this week from him cept what you guys are quoting.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Law very rightly has a vendetta against statistical wins and losses, but man is he tiresome about it.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
but then again, Sutcliffe talked about Strasburg as an All-Star entirely in W-L terms last night, so pick yr poison
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Buck & Millar, muted
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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 =(
― mayor jingleberries, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― My totem animal is a hamburger. (WmC), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i cant wait for the Strasburg vs. Latos game where they both go onto the DL simultaneously after a national anthem fist bump misalignment.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
well he's certainly better than aaron rowand
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"inflamed shoulder"
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes jordy, Strasburg is certainly better than Aaron Rowand. Good call there.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
DL-bound. Pitch count limits ftw.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
said it before...
http://i46.tinypic.com/2d7vjnp.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/ofadfs.jpg
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
right now i'm more interested in whether jordan zimmermann makes it back this year tbh
― It's like normal life except you power up by peeing (ciderpress), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
RI{P
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
uggla is slugging .660+ in the second half
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yea he is beasting
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"beasting"?
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
in the act of being a beast
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
O_o
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i've heard/used the term "beasting" since i was a kid!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they were saying "bee sting"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
hiker stung by 300 bees sez he was "bee sting"
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Honey smuggling racket foiled by "bee sting".
― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
his romantic advanced spurned by Bee Arthur, he was suffering from Bee-sting.
― oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
tephen Strasburg was pulled from Saturday's game against the Phillies with an apparent elbow injury.
Strasburg looked to be in a good deal of pain after throwing a pitch in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Nats should reveal more about the situation shortly. He had thrown four-plus innings of one-run ball against a tough Phillies lineup and finished the night with six strikeouts.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/38801133/ns/sports-player_news/
― ('_') (omar little), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/FuIHr.jpg
― bnw, Sunday, 22 August 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
that does not look good?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Strained flex0r tendon
― Andy K, Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
if it's strained then he should be out like 5 weeks or so (happened to brett anderson this year), if it's actually torn... then he'll be fucked up for a longer time obv
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
there's no way they're gonna try to get him back before the end of the season either way
― ciderpress, Sunday, 22 August 2010 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
no
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Dibble thinks Wussburg man the fuck up, rub some dirt on it.
"So for me, a little bit has to be put back on Strasbug here. Ok, you throw a pitch, it bothers your arm, and you immediately call out the manager and the trainer? Suck it up, kid. This is your profession. You chose to be a baseball player. You can't have the cavalry come in and save your butt every time you feel a little stiff shoulder, sore elbow."I mean, excuse me. There's guys I played with that had screws holding their elbows together. Chris Sabo played two weeks on a broken ankle. I put a steel plate in my wrist so I could be back in five weeks instead of three months. So, this is your choice. You can either suck it up and be a man at 22 making $2 million a year (with) a $15 million contract, or every time you get an ache and pain you can go out of the game and say I'm gonna let down the other 24 guys right here and possibly end up forfeiting the game."
"I mean, excuse me. There's guys I played with that had screws holding their elbows together. Chris Sabo played two weeks on a broken ankle. I put a steel plate in my wrist so I could be back in five weeks instead of three months. So, this is your choice. You can either suck it up and be a man at 22 making $2 million a year (with) a $15 million contract, or every time you get an ache and pain you can go out of the game and say I'm gonna let down the other 24 guys right here and possibly end up forfeiting the game."
"There's so many (other) guys....Josh Willingham, who is gonna have surgery on his left knee, was playing with torn cartilage in his knee, could barely run around the bases. This is the simple answer to this, you need to know the difference between pain and injury. When I was 12, my arm hurt. When I was in my teens and I would throw and walk off the mound when I was a starter, my arm would throb. I couldn't even hold a glass of water. And you know what? I loved it."I was so sick, I loved it, 'cause I felt 'ok, I'm throwing hard enough to make my arm shake when I'm just standing there.' So I was a totally different animal than I think has been created here with Strasburg, where now you're telling this kid as soon as you feel any arm pain, call us and we'll come help you. Please."This is the major leagues. This is not college any more. You're not on scholarship. You're being paid to do the job and guys depend on you, and I think it's unfortunate that the Nationals and the team are in a situation here where this kid now, he feels any kind of arm pain, he's gonna call you out? That's scary to me."
"I was so sick, I loved it, 'cause I felt 'ok, I'm throwing hard enough to make my arm shake when I'm just standing there.' So I was a totally different animal than I think has been created here with Strasburg, where now you're telling this kid as soon as you feel any arm pain, call us and we'll come help you. Please.
"This is the major leagues. This is not college any more. You're not on scholarship. You're being paid to do the job and guys depend on you, and I think it's unfortunate that the Nationals and the team are in a situation here where this kid now, he feels any kind of arm pain, he's gonna call you out? That's scary to me."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/08/rob_dibble_to_stephen_strasbur.html
― Andy K, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The byline of that story should read "Rob Dibble was washed up at age 29".
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link