Sunday, July 17, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves
Maybe Not Such A Loss
Bobby Jenks: 20.25 ERA, 0-0, 1.1 IP, 13.50 K/9. Jenks came in to pitch the 7/9 game against the A's, who promptly flattened him, giving up three runs. He has not pitched since, but remains on the roster.Whether he actually pitches in the majors ever again, whatever career he has, I do wish him well; he's had a tough go of it. All the same, I get the sense the Angels did the right thing in cutting him.
Devil Rays DFA Nomo
Even the Devil Rays have limits on incompetence, and they met theirs yesterday, designating Hideo Nomo for assignment after he gave up seven earned runs in two innings to the Blue Jays. Nomo is 1-7 with a 10.32 ERA on the road, and 4-1 with a 3.91 ERA at home. Nomo has said he doesn't want to pitch in Japan.The Real Reason Yankees Suck
No, it's not that they're bad, but that they can't be consistently bad:Gee, thanks, Yankees. I had a whole rant planned about how much you guys have sucked the bag so far this season, and the reasons why, but can I bust out all that fulminating and finger-pointing now? Noooooo. You had to go and haul your asses up to .500 and wreck my flow. GOOD ONE.
We've all heard the expression that rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the phone company, but until about a week ago, rooting for the Yankees had started to feel like rooting for…I don't even know. Enron? An internet start-up that spent all their venture capital on beanbag chairs and overpaying the Flaming Lips to play the launch party instead of working on a business plan and beta-testing the search engine? Even now, it's like rooting for Donald Trump, who looks like a rich guy and who certainly acts like a rich guy but who, when you look more closely at the figures, is actually not nearly as good at getting rich as he's led you to believe.
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