fat EMO kid baseball blog

Rumor is that a prominent ny baseball player has tested positive and his name will be released today. Is it true? My money is on benny agbayani.

Yankees trade is stupid. They just traded for nick swisher without the on base %. Something bigger is coming.

In other news, get your jose rijo oil painting out of storage, he’s coming back to the reds!

I’m very happy to be wrong

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??

What is going on this year?  Another big name player has suddenly come down with a case of the “I’m sad about stuff”’s.  Justin Duscherer of the A’s, due back soon from arm surgery, is going to miss the rest of the season because of clinical depression.  Until this year, I had never heard of this in professional sports, and even if it was around, would never be admitted.  Are baseball players getting in touch with their feelings?  Are they getting soft?  Is coming down from steroid cycles throwing their hormones into overdrive?  Who knows.  Duscherer could have found himself on a contender, but instead will spend the rest of the season laying on a couch and popping pills.  Seriously though, hope he recovers quickly, it’s all fun and games until something serious happens. 

In other news, the Yankees pounded the Red Sox tonight, 20-11, in what had to be one of the worst-played games this season.  More interesting news was made off the field, as the Red Sox have supposedly claimed Billy Wagner from the Mets.  This of course, means the Yankees wont get him, which would have been a great fit.  Hopefully the Mets do the right thing and don’t let him go to Boston, but it was good to see him back on the mound, throwing 95, on Thursday night. 

Also, if you saw the game on YES tonight, or maybe even read the news, you’d heard a story about Jim Rice bad-mouthing Derek Jeter.  Rice lumped Jeter in with A-Rod and Manny, as guys who only care about money.  There are so many things wrong with that, but I wont get into it all right now.  I am as big a Jeter supporter as you will find, but it surpised me that the Yankee announcers were so outraged by this.  Did they miss this?