fat EMO kid baseball blog

Wow, an unassisted triple play to end the game and kill their comeback against their biggest division rivals? I’m really starting to feel bad for the Mets. Well, ok, not really, but if I actually had feelings, maybe I would. What a year for them.

Still no news on Billy Wagner-to-the-Red Sox, but let’s hope the Mets do what’s right for New York and keep him.

So far my Red Sox/Yankees series prediciton is right on the mark, with the final game taking place in a few hours. I would really be (pleasantly) surprised if the Yankees were able to knock off Josh Beckett, at Fenway. CC has been good this year, but he is the kind of guy who consistently goes 8 innings with 3 runs given up. He is almost the opposite of Beckett, who could have no-hit stuff one night, and get shelled the next. With the way the Yanks sleep walked through yesterday’s game against a marginal pitcher, I’d be surprised if they won tonight, but we’ll see.

Tough news for the Reds, who are having a season not much unlike the Mets, as their ace Aaron Harang will miss the rest of the season after having an emergency appendectomy. Now I can remember being in elementary school and my friend getting his appendix out, and being back in school a few days later. Although I can see why you’d need to be at 100% health to pitch to those 6 wins and 4.21 ERA.

That’s it for now, back to watching ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on tv. When does football season start??

Pedro Martinez is back in the big leagues, starting tonight against the Cubs.  He was given a gift, matched up against rookie Jeff Samazijdoifdzia who should be catching passes in the NFL.  Pedro still looks like a shell of his former self, but has been able to hit 92 on the radar gun a few teams, and still has the ability to get a call on anything within a foot of the plate.  I don’t think he will be a difference-maker for the Phillies, but he can’t be any worse than Jamie Moyer, who is taking his demotion like an 8 year old girl, has been.  It’s low risk, high reward for the Phils, but isn’t that what Boston said about John Smoltz?

EDIT:  despite what Rick Sutcliffe (the biggest drama-queen in the history of annoucing)  would have you believe, Pedro’s stuff was good for about two innings.  He’s completely done now and it’s only the fifth, if it wasn’t 12-3, he’d be gone by now.

A Cubs fan just threw a cup of beer on Shane Victorino, what is this, fenway?