Veryolddodgerfan – Yep, I have to say, you really seem have a desire for people to react negatively to you.

well i saw a pitcher that dominated for five innings despite a little lack of sharpness around the edges. in the sixth it appeared to me he just ran out of gas. it could of been as simple as walking around the 110 degree temps of downtown phoenix for a couple days. he could of come out a couple hitters sooner but he’s a cy young pitcher and i tink there might have been a left hand hitter involved. the fact that jamie w didn’t have his usual command made it worse than it had to be.

and for all the horrible lineups people keep referring too. they’re in first place mostly without Kemp. in other cultures they would be writing and singing songs about the players like the kennedy’s, hairsonts, herreras et all.

Have you checked their record without him?

well yes when he’s in a stretch he does do that. but i think he’s trying to get quicker to the plate with men on base. you see the slow exaggerated movement, then quick slide step. but i haven’t seen any correlation between that and any performance problem. to me last night he just got tired.

 Let’s hope nobody ever gets labeled the “next Uribe.”

He was converted to a reliever.  He was a starter in the minors as recently as 2010, IIRC.

I woulnd’t mind seeing him in Mattingly’s lineup this evening.

>> This is regarded by many as the greatest game ever pitched

That perfecto of Sandy’s was pretty darn great too, for both starters.  Total hits by both teams: 1.

The rain delay has really put a damper on things. While seeing J-Mac deal against the gnats is pleasure enough, he’s also on my fantasy team. I hope the delay is short and he comes back out.

Siiiiigh. I keep telling myself he wouldn’t have fared as well in the NL and Dodger Stadium etc. But man, he still would’ve helped.  I don’t know the details of how much the Dodgers tried to get him, and all that, so not sure if it’s  something I can blame it on someone. But would’ve been nice.

I’m finding some solace in the stupid MacDonald-Dotel trade if James keeps pitching well against the Giants.  Not a lot of solace mind you, but some.

Pedro Alvarez went to the High school where I teach — he was this incredible outlier on a prep school  varsity team in NYC.  It was fun (when they were still using aluminum bats) to see him take out the wooden bat and put on a show for the scouts when he was a senior.  We’re rooting hard for him to figure it out.  He has had some crazy/streaky ups and downs thus far and has surely benefitted from being on a team that has been patient with him — talking about your trauma of potential, I think there’s a good chance that a NY or LA team would have given up on him already (given the depths of  last year and the early part of this year).

The stat that jumps out at me for JMac: after today’s performance, he has given up 76 hits in 110 innings — Wowser!

 I think he means something like this:

The
oendan plays a different song for each Swallows batter,
and most fans clap plastic megaphones along with the
music. If you want to join in, all you need to know is
the basic katobase cheer.
Though
it’s nearly impossible to literally translate
“katobase,” most people say it means “get
or hit” or “let’s go.”

Suppose
Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta comes to bat. The oendan will play his
song, and fans will chant (in seven beats),
“Ka-to-ba-se Fu-ru-ta.” If foreign slugger Dwayne Hosey comes to bat, fans may chant,
“Home-run, Home-run Ho-o-sey.” And if a player
has a longer name, like first baseman Takahiro Kobayakawa, the chant becomes, “Ka-to-ba-se
Ko-baya-kawa.”

 How ‘ bout “Abraham, Martin and John?”

Poetry?

There was an old man named Uribe,
…