This Week in Baseball 4/30 - 5/6

[Guest Richard McBeef]

Brewers fans celebrate a win over the Pirates.

[Guest Smues]

"US out of North America!"

"And Packers WOOOOOOOOO"

[vivalaultra]

Even more bad news for the Cardinals. In the midst of a 9-0 blowout at the hands of my Houston Astros, I just heard that Chris Carpenter, who was on the verge of coming back, is now scheduled to have arthroscopic elbow surgery next week and will be out at least another three months. Not even a trade for Jeff Weaver can help them now, methinks.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

George Will dropped by to share his five favorite presidents: Jefferson, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Coolidge.

 

The Nationals, they ain't too fuckin' good. They're walking the Cubs. The Cubs!

[The Man in Blak]

This is going to be a long season.

[vivalaultra]

The final tally in St. Louis was 13-0 'Stros. Pujols, Rolens, and Edmonds all went hitless. Matt Albers pitched 7 1/3 innings of 3 hit ball. The Cardinals only got 3 singles all day. Hunter Pence hit his first major league homerun in the 7th. It was a grand slam. Good win today.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

I've always been a big proponent of never counting out the Cardinals, but I think 10 under is when I will count them out. North Siders are back to .500, but they still have a whole lot of work to do. I can say that things have been looking better hitting-wise since Theriot took over at shortstop and Soriano moved to left. Zambrano still isn't pitching like a man in his contract year, though, and that's cause for concern. Jason Marquis can't sustain a 2.25 ERA and strong run support forever, you know, and we don't really have a fifth starter.

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

I've always been a big proponent of never counting out the Cardinals, but I think 10 under is when I will count them out.

 

In May? That's gonna bite you in the BUTT.

[Boon]

Jason Marquis can't sustain a 2.25 ERA and strong run support forever, you know, and we don't really have a fifth starter.

Call the Yankees, they've got lots of 'em.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

The Phillies are a strange team this year. Myers turns into a closer. Victorino turns into a base stealer. Rollins turns into a slugger. Howard just gets walked a lot, which makes him a GIRL.

[snuffbox]

I've always been a big proponent of never counting out the Cardinals, but I think 10 under is when I will count them out.

 

In May? That's gonna bite you in the BUTT.

 

They have no pitching.

[Guest Smues]

Wang has a no-hitter through six. JYNX JYNX JYNX JYNX JYNX come on ESPN hex him!

 

Edit: Actually it's a perfect game. DOUBLE SECRET MEGA JYNX.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

Perfect game through seven. Let's see if he can keep up that perfect game. It would be so great for the Yankees if he got a perfect game.

 

Perfect game.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Hey, the Giants have "GIGANTES" written on their uniforms instead of "GIANTS" (in honor of 5th-o of May-o, I assume).

[CanadianChris]

Perfect game through seven. Let's see if he can keep up that perfect game. It would be so great for the Yankees if he got a perfect game.

 

Perfect game.

Good job.

[KingPK]

Well geez, the FOX guys were doing all the jinxing they could, showing the final outs of Wells' and Cone's PGs right before Wang gave up the HR.

[Guest Smues]

God bless FOX.

[Guest Smues]

Actually now that I think about it a perfect game could have been good for the headlines it would produce.

 

"Yankees have the perfect Wang"

 

"Untouchable Wang"

 

"Wang on fire"

 

"Mariners unable to Wang Chung tonight"

[Guest Queen Leelee]

Perfect game through seven. Let's see if he can keep up that perfect game. It would be so great for the Yankees if he got a perfect game.

 

Perfect game.

Good job.

Hey, that Halladay really kept up his fine play.

 

I'm only pissed for fantasy reasons.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe]

I was at the Stadium today. Thanks for jinxing it, jerks.

 

Jeff Weaver rekindled days gone by, getting bitch slapped around to the tune of 6 runs at Yankee Stadium. Just not in a Yankee uniform this time.

[devo]

Miracle of miracles, Jorge Sosa turned in a really good start (6.1 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, 2 R, 3 K) for the Mets tonight! I'm not gonna get too excited yet, but considering how well he's done in AAA this year, I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually somehow been turned into a good pitcher.

[Failed Bridge]

Red Sox losing that game last night hurt a bit. Johan wasn't sharp at all and his velocity was down quite a bit and they still couldn't manage to produce more than one run.

 

I still don't understand why they paid Julio Lugo all that money. I wish they had kept Alex Gonzales. Lugo is terrible as a leadoff hitter; the guy doesn't take many pitches at all before flying out to right or popping up.

[Annabelle]

the dodgers called up andy laroche. unless he totally stinks it up worse than betemit, he is going to be their every day third baseman. betemit is staying on as a left handed hitting ph.

 

they've got a lot of talented young guys waiting in the wings. both james loney & matt kemp are ready to be called up but they don't have any room.

[Craig Th]

Well, Roger JUST annouced at Yankee Stadium that he was coming back to the Yankees.

 

Fuck, well, fuck.

[Boon]

Let's see how well that ERA holds up in the AL East.

[DrainYou42]

So, once again Fat Rodge proves that the only thing that matters to him is the bottom line.

[vivalaultra]

Hmmm...

[Guest Richard McBeef]

Fuck Clemens. Retire already. I should be pleased that he's out of the NL Central, but I just hate Fat Rodge at this point.

[Craig Th]

George must have paid him $20 million. I'm serious too.

[vivalaultra]

It had to be more than $20 million. He made $22 million last season. I doubt he took the paycut. Well, people in Houston are gonna be pissed. I'm not. The Astros' rotation is looking pretty decent w/o him and if he wants to go to the AL East and make 80 Brazilian dollars to pitch 120 innings of 4.50 ERA ball, good for him.