Yeah, I too am all sorts of confident in a CC-Liriano duel. Except I’m not.

I take it there’s some sort of twitter promotion where instead of getting a man-cave, the fan who gets the most retweets from Twins players gets to pitch thursday against Hughes. So, pencil that in on the right hand side of the ledger.

Carl Pavano will crush us, with Garcia trying to better his career mark of 5 WP’s in a single game. This will lead Cashman to attempt a trade for Pavano before the deadline. I figure it’ll cost us Gardner and Bichette.

Since Marquis’ career is entirely AAAA (NL) we’ve never faced him before. You know what that means.

We’re staring down the barrel at a home sweep. From the wrong end.

“Tampa Bay’s fan”

heh.

“Tampa Bay’s fan”

heh.

I was actually pretty surprised at the number of Rays jerseys and tshirts I saw in and around the park yesterday.  Maybe they were family, I dunno.

Good news Townies lose.  Bad news Shakespeare(one of 5 Cy Young candidates) pitched well

7 BB in < 7 IP counts as pitching well?

7 K’s in 6.2 can cover a lot of walks, if you time them right.

0-7 w/RISP. The Devil Rays are woefull.

I hope he pitched just well enough to guarantee several turns in the rotation, with less well timed K’s.

[4] - As I posted in the other thread before I saw you reposed it here…

I know he only let up 1 run and K’ed 7 in 6.2 innings and I’d take that every single game, but he did BB 7.  That’s really bad.  If he keeps that up the results will be ugly over the long run.

5 Should have said seemingly.  Only caught the score not the box, my bad.

[8] To be fair, he walked 4 in 6 innings, pretty bad but not that horrible. And he was over 100 pitches in his longest outing ever, in midday heat after pitching 6.2 innings when he walked his fifth guy, feared slugger Sean Rodriguez. After giving another single, Bobby Valentine still left him in for 2 consecutive 4 pitches walks, god bless his soul.

Asked about his managerial decisions, Kevin Youkilis answered
“I don’t think Bobby Valentine is as mentally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason.”

This is all to say that, well, just wanted to share my schadenfraude, no real reason to recap all that.

If I ever start a Yankees website, it will be called the Schadenfreude Blog.  You would all be invited.  Were that to happen.

[10] “no real reason to recap all that”

Au contraire, mon frère.  Every word in your comment is worth its weight in palladium.

To be Announced has owned the Yankees over the years. And he’s also arrogant for not capitalizing his middle name.

[13] Truly, he’s the e.e. cummings of made-up pitchers.

Who, to be fair, could also outpitch Hughes.

I trust Nova more than any other pitcher in the rotation right now (given the way CC’s looked so far) to pitch decently against Boston, which means he’ll probably get shelled.

I’m feeling your double-negative mojo jinx here, but I’ll note that Kuroda really impressed me in his last outing.  His fastball was moving all over the place in the zone, and at 92 to boot.

I watched the TWN game.  I hate to say it, but I thought Bard looked good.  His fastball and slider were unhittable at times and his change up was good enough, not great.  It’s Valentine’s fault for leaving Bard in when he was clearly gassed.  That’s when he gave the walks that hurt him.

14 nobody has better hands then Jeter, not even the rain.