Outside of the fact that my trade bust Frank “Ginormous Head” Thomas was signed by the Oakland A’s and started in the clean-up spot for my wonderful team, not much doin’ today. Also, let me state that Edwin “Shitfinger” Encarnacion now leads the Cincinatti Reds in home runs. I am currently tied for 3rd place (or 4th place, however you want to look at it (I obviously prefer the previous to the latter (the latter making my team all the worse))).
After that excuse to triple-parenthesize the shit out of that paragraph, I must say that I have been receiving abysmal run support for my pitchers. Yovanni Gallardo pitched 7 strong innings, only to receive a single run of support. Granted, Johnny Cueto got roughed up today by the Astros, but still, his previous two starts were worthy of the win. If Dusty Baker could forget the fact that he was Dusty, maybe he wouldn’t be batting Corey Patterson OR Jerry Hairston Jr. (both winners of the “Where Am I Playing Today? Oh, Wait, I Just Struck Out Trophy”) lead-off and could PRODUCE RUNS with his line ups. That would be, well, nice.
Also, Slanch’s team has risen to the top of the league, with Dibbes in at a close second. He’s been helped out by the sterling performances of Chase Utley, Nate McLouth and J.D. Drew. Granted, Drew and McLouth will fall off the charts, as will Justin Upston, Maddux, Jurrjens…whoops, fell asleep trying to cast doubt on the number one team.
Shatraw remains mired in the basement with Eick and Tristan. Tristan’s team just took another blow as one of his closers, Manuel Corpas, has been replaced by the Dibbes’ owned Brian Fuentes. Dibbes now boasts four closers, yum yum yum.
Also, let it be known that scrubby catcher tandem of Mike Napoli and Jeff Mathis have provided the following combined line:
Mathis/Napoli: .240/ 6 R/ 2 HR/ 6 RBI/ 1 SB
That, my friends, is fun.
i am still mired in the basement. when will i break out? only tim will tell.
and yes, i meant tim.
he’s my fantasy spirit guide. he used to be cool, but this year he’s totally blowing it.
my team’s rise was inevitable and unstoppable,
also, how come i dont feature in the tags on this post? dibbes gets one line and i get a paragraph but no tag
i’d like to get an administrator on this asap, this is no way to run a blog good sir…
also, while obviously mcclouth will come down, he’s still gonna be good, and upton has convinced me, he’ll have one bad like two weeks but otherwise he may never stop hitting
jurrjens will win the cy young this year
my team blows.
this blog rules.
Mathis-Napoli and Doumit-Paulino are both very productive platoons so far. Usually platooning angers and confuses players, but when everyone is just happy to be in the bigs and has hot bats, everyone wins!
Tristan, your team may be scuffling, but at least you aren’t Eick!