less sympathy for a guy who can't decide whether to pitch in Philly or Arlington, two shitholes of the universe.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:21 (ten years ago) link
tbf he didn't go to miami/the bronx, but yeah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
Kershaw and Fister tomorrow night could be great.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
?
doug fister's having kind of a ho hum season right?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
his peripherals suck, but 12-5, 2.55 always looks nice
in any case, he's hardly a match for kershaw, who will now probably give up nine straight hits
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Posnanski had an interesting column on Fister a week or two ago--basically that the Tigers traded him because of a baseball-wide "deep suspicion and profound lack of confidence in pitchers who cannot throw 90 mph."
http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/the-need-the-need-for-speed/
I look at Buehrle's collapse here and I think, "There's good reason for that--eventually, your unimposing stuff catches up with you." But for the moment at least, Fister's year looks pretty good to me (I'll call the ERA and K/BB ratio a trade-off with a hit-per-inning). He's not Kershaw, no.
(Related note on how different things once were. I started watching Mark Fidrych's famous Monday night game in 1976--someone sent me a DVD of the complete game a few years ago, but it wouldn't play on my old DVD, so I let it sit there; it plays on the newer one. Holtzman was starting for the Yankees; it was his third start for them after coming over from the Orioles. They flashed his stats before the game: 5-5, 2.92, 114 IP, 116 H, 36 BB, 29 K. That's 2.2 K/9. Science-fiction.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
fister's strikeout and hr rates are of concern, but he's a solid 'back end' starter, and at the moment probably rather better than a combination of buck farmer and robbie ray
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
those are two names you made up, right?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/David+Dombrowski+Jim+Leyland+Announces+Retirement+NahGKx-AzFpl.jpg
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
Farmer and Ray are now out of the picture. Enter Kyle Lobstein.
"Lobstein's the fifth guy right now," Ausmus said. "We'll see how Lobber, how Kyle throws and we'll go from there."
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
the ol' lobber
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
btw i saw a guy at a leather street fair in June wearing a FISTER 58 shirt
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwjU7PmCMAAyWji.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
lance lynn and johnny cueto are ~dealing~
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
lol good jinx *pats self on back*
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Sale/Kazmir is a good battle right now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
no shame in gettin shut down by Sale, but damn, poor A's.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
They used up all their runs in the second game of the series.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Johnny Cueto has had a heck of a year one of the best pitching seasons in Reds history but it is kind of lost in Kershaw's big shadow.
― earlnash, Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Per fWAR Cueto's 2012 was better.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 11 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
that year he was also lost in Kershaw's fshadow.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Felix-Weaver tonight
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Bumgarner-Greinke.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
Price-Cueto atm
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
i noticed
prime pitching matchups 2015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
Didn't realize it was Scherzer-Greinke today; 1-0 Dodgers going into the ninth (Scherzer got lifted after six).
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 July 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
@Lynn_HenningChris Archer, Verlander, perfect through 4: combined 12 strikeouts.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Sale vs Archer tonight
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Kershaw-Cole tomorrow is about as marquee as it gets at the moment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 August 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
buffalo's randy wolf (7-1, 2.48) vs. charlotte's brad penny (5-5, 3.90) tonight
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
I can suggest an umpire.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
i predict the pirates get three (3) hits at most off kershaw tonight
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
lmao 1 pitch
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
ok i was wrong, but bases-loaded-no-out-and-no-one-scores makes up for it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
totally slothroprhymed that shit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
sale/felix friday
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
KO, Sale. Felix's ERA+ has dropped below 100.
Greinke/Kazmir today--I guess Kazmir counts based on this year.
― clemenza, Saturday, 22 August 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
totally slothroprhymed that shit --mookieproof
lol how'd I miss that
also, kazmir/greinke def counts
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 22 August 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
also a couple of "an ace vs...some dude" matchups today - gray/ramirez, cole/leake
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 22 August 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Greinke/Bumgarner: two of the best pinch-hitters in the league.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
strasburg v degrom is no slouch tonight
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
ja happ v keyvius sampson tho
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
jose fernandez v scherz on fri
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
Kluber-Ventura tnite
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
cueto vs. verlander, tanaka vs. matz in addition to scherzerman vs. jose tonight
your "an ace vs. some dude" matchups: greinke vs. locke, madbum vs. de la rosa
aaaaand "a potential ace vs. LOL" matchups: stroman vs. porcello
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Zito v Hudson on Saturday
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link
MadBum-Kershaw tonight
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link
Almost marquee; sort of marquee; could've been marquee...I'm down at the game tomorrow night, and will miss Kershaw-Stroman by a day; getting Stroman-Maeda instead. I've had my fingers crossed since we bought the tickets a month ago.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 May 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Kershaw-Strasburg tomorrow night.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 June 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
For the first time
― Andy K, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link