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[clyde]

Boy, now that is bad.



You do realize if they lose AC for anything beyond 3 or 4 games....it is like sssssso over.

[horseofcourse]

Verlander lost 1-0. I find that hilarious for some reason!

[clyde]

Oh my...you are supposed to respect your rival fucl<ers.




But I don't either.....so that's great news.

[clyde]

what the fucl< does Pastano think he's doing!!?

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by clyde

what the fucl< does Pastano think he's doing!!?

I think he wanted Perez to get another save is all. Both Grady and Brantley were pathetic that inning on pretty easy balls too, that didn't help either. Asdrubal and LaPorta however....great defense assisting the Bat all game. LaPorta is better at first than Santana. I had already forgotten about him on the team.

They won the series, which is great, 3 in a row now. Bat was unbelievable as it was on evpn so another rare viewing for me. Man he looked good.

(urns had two more hits tonight! he loves playing the spankees).

[clyde]

Thanks so much for keeping it real.I don't believe the writers on Cleveland PM...really...I don't!!


What if Urns starts hitting?

We're going to look stupid.

[horseofcourse]

They have decided to go with McCallister tomorrow. Read a scouting report on him...another big tall sinker ball pitcher whose aim is lots of ground balls. A less talented version of Bat I think is how I translated it. Doesn't throw as hard as him (low 90s as opposed to mid 90s) with not as good secondary stuff either. We got him for Urns so if he does anything in his career we came out ahead!

[clyde]

Should be fun.

[horseofcourse]

Good read I found on Tomlin....


Consider what I said in my last column with respect to Josh Tomlin:

I think this is Josh Tomlin’s ceiling. I think Josh Tomlin can pitch Exactly This Well. He may have some differences based on chance fluctuations, but I think Tomlin is a Finished Product.

So there you have it: Josh Tomlin’s ceiling is a guy who can take a no-hitter against the most potent offensive lineup in baseball into the 7th inning after retiring 18 hitters in a row. How droll.

This, of course, is completely absurd. I did not realize this, but the last guy to no-hit the Yankees by himself did it before I was born and is now in the Hall of Fame. Obviously that’s a lot of incarnations of Yankees to go through, but it doesn’t take all that astute of a fan to recognize that the Yankees have had a premier offense for at least the last decade and a half, and to throttle them like that takes some real ability.

Here’s what I noticed as much as anything about Tomlin’s performance last night: every pitch appears to have a purpose. When he pounds Mark Teixeira inside, it is not solely because he thinks this is the best way to retire Mark Teixeira. In later plate appearances, he threw pitches that looked like they might bore in on Teixeira, then faded away instead. He would sometimes go to a spot several times in a row, then switch up and go there only once. He threw some pitches out of the strike zone that looked like he MEANT for them to be out of the strike zone. Will you swing if I put it just a little bit outside? Will you swing if I put is just a little MORE outside? No? Well, how about if I throw it THIS hard? What if I only throw it THAT hard? I firmly believed while watching Tomlin that he knew WHERE he wanted to throw WHAT and HOW he wanted it to get there THIS time so that he could throw ANOTHER pitch NEXT time.

Now, obviously, Nick Swisher beat him on a ball for a two-run double, and he did actually walk a guy for the first time in a month or so. Tomlin is not The Perfect Pitcher. But he might have the perfect APPROACH to pitching: whether his arm can catch up to his brain might dictate whether he is Brian Bannister or Greg Maddux (whom I consider the ends of the spectrum of Thinking Pitchers: there are a lot of Brad Radkes and Randy Joneses and John Tudors and Eric Shows in between). In a sense, though, his most impressive inning was probably not something in the 2nd-through-6th range when he gave up nothing whatsoever, but rather the first, when Derek Jeter reached on a gaffe by Lonnie Chisenhall and Tomlin wanted little part of Curt Granderson with a runner on base. With two men aboard, all Tomlin did was saw through Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez, and Robinson Cano, who are, by the way, pretty good hitters. When he did that, I relaxed CONSIDERABLY.

So, apparently, did Tomlin.

(Bat may have even been better last night...MY INPUT!)

[clyde]

Thanks so much....that sounds like the type of pitcher Tomlin seems.I did pick up on a thing where he is like the first pitcher since 1919 to go at least 5 innings in his first start and continue to do so for the next 25 starts, or so.


I think the Tribe has two gems in Bat and Gosh....and looks like maybe CC,Jr. I like Alex White and you would think there is one more good one among the rest.The relief guys , short the one, has been amazing.


This is a good thing.

[horseofcourse]

IN other news, the reign of Dopey ends for awhile. When the defensive carnage is that great, .196 isn't gonna work I guess!

[clyde]

!

Who takes his place?




Please...don't say "yes."

[horseofcourse]

LaPorta came off the DL so someone had to go down. It was Dopey. And McAllister coming sent Judy back from where he came.

[clyde]

!!




And thanks for not saying "yes."

[horseofcourse]

And in the end, I now get it....who did take Dopey's place as who is on first, very good!

[clyde]

yes!!




Could have been fun,though.

Oh well....maybe next time.

[horseofcourse]

Nice, Chisenhall drilled in the face with a pitch, guess he hit a homer in his last at bat last night so we need to pay for that. God needs to further tell us how much he hates Cleveland sports.

[horseofcourse]

Kid needs to learn he doesn't have to exactly duplicate the guy who went on the DL....fitting. Only has 94 pitches through 4!! Not a disaster, and some more shoddy defense. Not exactly Tomlin either though.

[horseofcourse]

America's DH is what that's called, walkoff salami!!! 5 run 9th. Good night everybody!!!

[clyde]

holy mother of GOD!!









































THUD!!