a) the fucking Los Angeles Angels
b) the fucking Los Angeles Angels without their best player
c) the fucking Los Angeles Angels without their best player, at home.
d) the fucking Los Angeles Angels, without their best player, at home, in the middle of a pennant race.
How? One answer is Nasty Nestor Cortes. He is now 5-10 with an ERA of 4.42. That's not nasty. That's nice. He's Nice Nestor. He's awfully nice.
Last year, his ERA was 4.97. He's been Nice Nestor for two seasons now. He's becoming Naughty Nestor.
Frankly, we have no starter who is a sure thing, and some - Nestor and Stroman - are crapping the beds.
This is trouble.
Pitching, pitching, pitching. And we don't have it.
ReplyDeleteSo that was a poop stained mattress out on the mound last night.
ReplyDeletePhew….
Butt still —- ewww.
Extra, smelly work for the grounds crew.
The brain's smoke and mirrors ain't gonna work...
ReplyDeleteHis 15min are up
ReplyDeleteCortes said he had trouble gripping the wet ball and babbled something like “it was hard to get into my glove, and they’re calling for another pitch in 15 seconds.” Oh.
ReplyDeleteWhen the halos took a 2-1 lead, I tuned out. Watched "Grand Prix" (1966) with James Garner instead. What a great movie by director John Frankenheimer. Pretty incredible racing scenes. Very good script too, a rarity. This movie is probably superior to "Le Mans" with Steve McQueen, although that one too had awesome racing scenes. The difference is that Grand Prix's non-racing dialogue scenes are better, at least that's what I thought. Some great character development. Toshiro Mifune with a cameo role adds a nice touch too. 2.35:1 widescreen digitally remastered. You practically feel like you're standing on the racetrack or along for the ride with the drivers.
ReplyDeleteLast night's game was free on the mlb streaming site.
ReplyDeleteWorth every penny.
I don't like these new comment pages. A pain in the ass to navigate back to the blog.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the Honorable Rufus T. Firefly issa back - in das Haus
ReplyDeleteHammer, because of that PIA, I always open comments in a new tab.
ReplyDelete"Improvements" brought to you by poorly paid, poorly supervised coders in some backwater that don't even use their product.
Ah, thanks Rufus! Good tip! I'm not exactly a tech genius. It's always extremely frustrating when websites make sudden changes to their layout. And the new "improvements" always make it worse. Why do they have to re-invent the wheel every couple of years? Kind of like Yankee management, eh?
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees wheel is sorta like retreads on Fred Flinstone’s car
ReplyDeleteJohn Frankenheimer had a string of great movies in the 60s. If you've never seen Seconds, starring Rock Hudson in a very different kind of role, find it and watch it. Really terrific.
ReplyDeleteOur record for “Big August” is 3-3. I’m thinking Bob Hope in that last, pathetic commercial he did for Big K-Mart.
ReplyDeleteJames Wong Howe's cinematography was excellent in Seconds (as were many other things in the film)
ReplyDeleteAny further word on Volpe? Asking for Peraza’s Uber driver.
ReplyDeleteLooked up "Seconds," which I have never seen. Wow, that sounds like one dark, mamajama of a movie, JM! But a good one.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I hate the new Comments section, too.
ReplyDeleteFrom @Yankees:
ReplyDeleteTonight’s Yankees-Rangers game (Friday, August 9) has been rescheduled due to the forecast of sustained inclement weather and will be made up tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, as the second game of a single-admission doubleheader, which will begin with the first game at 1:05pm
Another split upcoming. Big August slogs on
Remember Ramiro Mendoza? He wouldn’t be allowed to exist in the current MLB. They’d up his spin rate, tell him to ditch his change up and make him a one inning reliever. As JM posted above…pitching, pitching, pitching. That bullpen is a disgrace or re-treads and never-weres. “Super Pen” my ass. But make sure you but the steak sammy or lobster tail by the third inning.
ReplyDeleteJust as well it's rescheduled, because it's rainy and yucky outside, and the Yankees stood to get mud and other dirty dirt stuff all over themselves. You can't play in that.
ReplyDeleteThe Gas Station is out of gas...time to go Electric...
ReplyDeleteJohn Frankenheimer also directed Ronin, a pretty good movie from the 1990s. It's got an excellent chase scene through the streets of Paris.
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