Friday 19 August 2011

That's our Ricky


Everybody's favorite Bluejay, RickyRomero, went out and destroyed some fools last night.  It's really a shame that ballgames are only 9 innings, because holy fuck man.  I'm wondering if the Ricky was a little off, because he doesn't usually give up any more than 1 hit the way he did last night, but I'm not complaining (Pitch f/x tells me that he was excellent last night).  Maybe that's why he got so many ground outs.  If you somehow missed, Romero went all 9 innings, allowing 0 ER and 3 hits.  Easy Zaunhead for guy.  Romero also happened to hit embarrass the Oakland A's batters in front of his family, which probably felt fucking awesome.  Turns out he's an excellent pitcher.  A's manager Eric Wedge said after the game that “We’ve had inconsistencies across the board at times so when a guy like him has some struggles, everybody feels it.” which is a fucking stupid statement since it's about Trevor Cahill, and not Ricky Romero.


Colby Rasmus hit a massive tater to add to the Jays early lead.  Too bad the A's got no-hit by the best pitcher in baseball over the last month from the 5th until the end of the game.


Okay, that was fun enough while it lasted.  And if you didn't notice what I was doing there, you don't read this blog enough.


Brett Cecil will get a rematch against Rich Harden, who shut down down the Jays on August 9th.  The Jays look to go 5 games over .500 for the first time this year, which is pretty good for a team who was supposed to win like 74 games this year/had Corey Patterson and Juan Rivera on the team to start the year.


Brad Mills, who was supposed to lose start Sunday, has been instead demoted, being sent back to AAA Las Vegas.  Luis Perez will move from the bullpen to the rotation, and the Jays have called up Joel Carreno to take his spot in the bullpen.


Speaking of new guys, Colby Rasmus had 3 hits last night, and has raised his (AL-only) batting average to .253, while Brett Lawrie went 2-for-3 and is up to a small-sample-size-and-ridiculous-babip'ed .378, which I'm sure is due for a regression, but maybe he's just that good.


What would you do with the guy responsible for all of these terrible contracts?  If your answer was "Fire him 8 years ago," as is the answer with most people with half a brain, you'd be wrong.  Jim Hendry, GM of the Chicago Cubs for the last 9 years, was finally fired yesterday after 9 years of incompetence.  Seriously, reading that page of contracts is about as head-swimmingly painful as anything I know of.  The fact that I'm currently poor, and this stupid fuck has had a front office job with the Chicago Cubs makes me sad.  I thought I read something the other day about the Cubs having already assured him that he'd be back next year, but maybe I imagined that.  Go crazy Cubs fans, go crazy.

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