EVIL~! alkeiper

The Jays would need to go 16-6 to reach 90 games, but I understand the point. The problem is that interleague play threw off the standings, so a .500 caliber club in the American League will win something like 85-86 games, while .500 in the NL is closer to 78-79 wins. The bigger news out of the Morrow game last night is that the Yankees lost, and the Sox won. The Yankees are 8.5 games back of the wild card. Finally, I feel comfortable saying it myself. The Yankees are DONE. Re: Carlos Quintin. Boy, does picking up Ken Griffey look good now, doesn't it?

Can this jinx nonsense die already? No hitters aren't broken up because someone spoke up and broke the delicate spiritual balance. They are broken because a no-hitter is really a statistically difficult thing to do. Morrow is a type one diabetic, incidentally. I can't help but feel good for him.

Perhaps Harley Race's King of the Ring tournament victory. And certainly his 1983 win over Ric Flair earlier in the year is on tape.

Brandon Morrow is absolutely nasty tonight. No hits through seven innings.

Chalk it up to Brett Myers being on a serious roll since his promotion back from AAA. Now if the Mets can't hit Moyer, then you might have a problem.

So Carlos Quintin broke his wrist hitting himself with a bat. I think that automatically disqualifies you from an MVP race on general principle.

"The harder the game sometimes, the more difficult they get." Chris Wheeler, 2008. Yogi Berra he ain't.

Ugh, Utley and Howard back to back. The weakness of the Mets is that their relievers are mostly situational types who struggle against the opposite side. You can NOT let them slide by stacking a lefty for two straight batters.

Phillies/Mets kick off a three game series tonight, with the Mets up three games in the standings. This is a big series obviously, a Mets sweep would put them in the lead by six games with 19 to play. And how many teams in history have blown a lead like THAT Seriously though, I think if the Phillies don't win at least two of three, they can kiss the division goodbye. The Mets starters had a 5.51 ERA in September last year. They have a much better corps this time around.

Too bad there aren't any gold glove center fielders going 30-30. That would make an MVP choice a bit easier.

If it weren't for the chicken wire, the higher-ups would be in to check on it in a very day.

I think they should try booking a big stadium for a Summerslam event, build it up. Shea Stadium would've been perfect this year. In any case, it would give a chance to build up a big card, and also run a huge event in a northern city where it'd be impossible to place Wrestlemania outdoors.

ECW did so much editing that it may have been cut in the first place.

One of the retrospectives shows Hulk Hogan heading out of the dressing room towards the ring to face the Iron Sheik. Look fast to see Vince Sr. standing to the right of the curtain.

Beau Vaughan, of the Pawtucket Red Sox. Wow, a camera!

Since Tiger Stadium was mentioned earlier, an update.

Here's Edinson Volquez over the last three years. 2005: 140 2006: 154.1 2007: 178.2 2008: 170+ Turns out Volquez actually has 4-5 starts left. So under the standard you mention, 200 innings pitched would be acceptable.

There has always been some level of pitching attrition. How much of that is workload and not is hard to say. Are they sudden injuries or is it wear and tear over time? And guys who are relief pitchers who throw less than 100 innings a year also run into the same problems. I think most experts would say you can increase a pitcher's innings by some increment. If they are throwing an extreme amount more, that's a problem. In this case, we're talking an increase of 30-40 more innings, I doubt that's extreme. All I advocate here is that there is little harm in letting Volquez take his regular turn through the season.

I'm sorry, but I don't see how simply resting a guy will improve his chances of not getting hurt (well, besides the obvious risk of sudden injury). Six starts left at most, if he goes seven in all of them that's an extra 42 innings, giving him something in the neighborhood of 210 innings. That is NOT an extreme workload. Twenty pitchers have completed 210+ innings at the age of 24, quite a few of them turned out to be very durable.

I heard Kellerman and Kenny once, they seemed to have their stuff together.`

Decent MSG show. The Bezerker looks like Jim Henson dressed as Bruiser Brody.

The Harley Race HOF piece was disappointing. You have a nearly 30 year career to sum up in an hour, and you show a Harley Race title LOSS?

Giants 8 Dodgers 9 WP: Moore, LP: Ramos Five RBI day for Bill Dickey, including the game winning single in the tenth inning. Another fantastic game. 09-04-2008 10:37:33 # 1 --------------------------------------------------- Lineup: 08 Giants McDougald 3B White DH Keller LF Mantle CF Gordon 2B Skowron 1B Meusel RF Howard C Rizzuto SS Lineup: 08 Dodgers Elberfeld SS Murcer CF O'Neill RF B.Ruth LF Dickey C Lazzeri 2B Baylor DH Baker 3B Etten 1B Inn. 1: 08 Giants [Starter] Pettitte McDougald K . . . White 6-3 . . . Keller K . . . Inn. 1: 08 Dodgers [Starter] Reynolds Elberfeld 4 . . . Murcer 8 . . . O'Neill 1B . . X B.Ruth K . . X Inn. 2: 08 Giants Mantle 6-3 . . . Gordon K . . . Skowron BB . . X Meusel 3B X . . 1 Howard 4-3 X . . Inn. 2: 08 Dodgers Dickey 9 . . . Lazzeri 5-3 . . . Baylor 2B . X . Baker 6-3 . X . Inn. 3: 08 Giants Rizzuto 7 . . . McDougald BB . . X White K . . X Keller 1B . X X Mantle 5-3 X X . Inn. 3: 08 Dodgers Etten 1B . . X Elberfeld BB . X X Murcer 8 . X X O'Neill BB X X X B.Ruth E-1 X X X 1 Dickey BB X X X 1 Lazzeri 6-4 F X . X 1 Baylor 5 X . X Inn. 4: 08 Giants Gordon 1B . . X Skowron 8 . . X Meusel 8 . . X Howard BB . X X Rizzuto 6 . X X Inn. 4: 08 Dodgers Baker 4-3 . . . Etten 9 . . . Elberfeld 1B . . X *SB:Elberfeld SB . X . Murcer BB . X X O'Neill K . X X Inn. 5: 08 Giants McDougald 2B . X . White 7 . X . Keller BB . X X Mantle E-6 . X X 1 *SB:Keller SB/E-2 X . . 1 *SB:Mantle SB X . . 1 Gordon 8 SACF . . . 1 Skowron HR . . . 1 Meusel 2B . X . Howard 8 . X . Inn. 5: 08 Dodgers B.Ruth BB . . X Dickey 8 . . X *SB:B.Ruth SB . X . Lazzeri K . X . Baylor HR . . . 2 Baker 1-3 . . . Inn. 6: 08 Giants Rizzuto BB . . X McDougald 4-3 . X . White K . X . Keller BB . X X [Relief] Stanton Mantle 6-3 X X . Inn. 6: 08 Dodgers Etten 4-3 . . . Elberfeld 6-3 . . . Murcer 1B . . X O'Neill 6 . . X Inn. 7: 08 Giants Gordon 2B . X . Skowron 1B . . X 1 Meusel 5-3 SAC . X . Howard K . X . Rizzuto 2B . X . 1 McDougald 7 . X . Inn. 7: 08 Dodgers B.Ruth 1B . . X Dickey HR . . . 2 [Relief] Hamilton Lazzeri 1B . . X Baylor 7 . . X Baker 1 . . . Inn. 8: 08 Giants *EX:White (for PH) *PH:Cree 3B X . . Keller K X . . Mantle 1B . . X 1 [Relief] Moore X@2:Mantle CS 2-4 . . . Gordon 6 . . . Inn. 8: 08 Dodgers Etten BB . . X Elberfeld 1-3 SAC . X . Murcer BB . X X [Relief] Duren O'Neill K . X X B.Ruth BB X X X Dickey 1B X X X 1 Lazzeri K X X X Inn. 9: 08 Giants Skowron 3-1 . . . Meusel 3B X . . X@4:Meusel 1-2 SQ . . . Howard E-5 . . X Rizzuto 5-3 . X . Inn. 9: 08 Dodgers [Relief] Ramos Baylor 5 . . . Baker E-4 . . X Etten BB . X X Elberfeld 6-4 F X . X Murcer K X . X Inn. 10: 08 Giants McDougald 5-3 . . . *EX:Cree (for PH) *PH:Stirnweiss 6-3 . . . Keller 3UN . . . Inn. 10: 08 Dodgers O'Neill 6-3 . . . B.Ruth 2B . X . Dickey 1B . . X 1

Giants 2 Dodgers 15 WP: Cone, LP: Reynolds Five RBIs for Bobby Murcer, complete game victory for David Cone. Giants 1 Dodgers 10 WP: Shawkey, LP: Mays Tony Lazzeri with three RBIs in this effort. Complete game for Bob Shawkey. Dodgers 9 Giants 10 13 Innings WP: Duren, LP: Akers The best game of the tournament? The Dodgers took the lead with four in the seventh and held a three-run lead in the ninth. A two out error by Goose Gossage extended the inning and gave Moose Skowron a chance to hit a three run home run to tie the game. Gil McDougald hit the walk-off home run in the 13th. Dodgers 4 Giants 6 WP: Gomez, LP: Moore, Sv: Duren Charlie Keller drove in the tying run and Mickey Mantle the go-ahead run in the 8th. This series will go to a fifth and deciding game.