No One in This World Ever Gets What They Want and That is Beautiful: Game 34, Rays at Jays
Tampa Bay Rays @ Toronto Blue Jays
The Jays look to strike back tonight as two fine young pitchers face off. Matt Garza goes for Tampa while Shaun Marcum looks to keep his excellent season going for the Jays. Marcum's Whip is under 1 and he's struck out an impressive 35 in 40 innings, while only walking 15.
I won't be around for lineups today, as I'm playing softball after work. But I'll be back for most of the game. Let's go Jays!
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With Stew the starting LF and Lind struggling
Lind was sent back to AAA and Jorge Velandia brought up as Shortstop insurance. Velandia sucked for years, disappeared for a while, then came back with good numbers in limited appearances last year with Tampa last year. He’s been hitting pretty well (.900 OPS) against RHP in AAA despite being a righty.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 5:44 PM EDT
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Scutaro gets the start tonight, though
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:11 PM EDT
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Marcum fields his position
on an Iwamura tapper on the 3B side.
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May 7, 2008 7:10 PM EDT
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Crawford hits it hard to Overbay
who relays it to Marcum just in time
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May 7, 2008 7:11 PM EDT
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Bossman Junior strikes out looking
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May 7, 2008 7:13 PM EDT
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Rios grounds out to short on the 1-0 pitch
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
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Stew gets as far as 2-2 before grounding to short
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:18 PM EDT
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Rolen doubles into the left field corner
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May 7, 2008 7:19 PM EDT
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Stairs draws the 2 out walk
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:21 PM EDT
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Wells grounds out to second on the 3-1 count
0 for 1
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:23 PM EDT
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Marcum strikes out Peña
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May 7, 2008 7:27 PM EDT
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Longoria strikes out too
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May 7, 2008 7:28 PM EDT
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The crowd goes wild
over the Hinske strikeout, Marcum’s 4th straight.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:31 PM EDT
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Overbay strikes out
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May 7, 2008 7:35 PM EDT
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Hill flies to left
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:36 PM EDT
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Missed a whole half inning talking to a co-worker
Marcum apparently gave up a single to Navarro, who was thrown out at second; he also got his fifth strikeout.
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May 7, 2008 7:49 PM EDT
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Scutaro singles
Why couldn’t he do that yesterday with two men on?
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:50 PM EDT
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Rios singles to right
RISP time, with nobody out.
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May 7, 2008 7:51 PM EDT
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Stew grounds slowly to third
0 for 2, but the runners advance.
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May 7, 2008 7:52 PM EDT
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Rolen flies out shallow to right
Runner can’t score. 0 for 3.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 7:54 PM EDT
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Stairs pops up to second
0 for 4
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May 7, 2008 7:55 PM EDT
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Iwamura grounds to second on a full count
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May 7, 2008 7:58 PM EDT
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Marcum fields a Crawford chopper on the first base side
also on a 3-2 count
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
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Bossman Junior grounds to third on the first pitch
which I didn’t see because of my terrible work windows laptop not having the CPU power to display mlb.tv without going into stuttering fits every few minutes.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
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Wells grounds softly to third
Longoria playing too deep to even bother making a play.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:05 PM EDT
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Overbay flies out to the left field track
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May 7, 2008 8:08 PM EDT
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Hill pops up to third
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May 7, 2008 8:09 PM EDT
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Barajas flies out to left
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May 7, 2008 8:11 PM EDT
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Peña strikes out for a 6th straight time
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May 7, 2008 8:15 PM EDT
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Marcum fields another tapper
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May 7, 2008 8:15 PM EDT
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Hinske flies to left
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May 7, 2008 8:16 PM EDT
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Scutaro flies out short of the track in center
Why couldn’t he do that with runners at first and third with one out yesterday?
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:20 PM EDT
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Rios draws a walk
Hopefully he can steal second.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:22 PM EDT
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I hope we don't lose 1-0
on a Hinske solo shot.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:25 PM EDT
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You think Hinske has a bit of a chip on his shoulders for the Jays?
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:26 PM EDT
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"How dare you resent my past suckage?"
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:27 PM EDT
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He doesn't
and Stew grounds into a double play
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:24 PM EDT
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Thanks to Navarro trying to stretch that single
he’s faced the minimum.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:28 PM EDT
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Navarro trickles one to first
Overbay handles it easily
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May 7, 2008 8:27 PM EDT
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Gross grounds to first
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:29 PM EDT
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Bartlett flies to right
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:30 PM EDT
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My son bought a retro jays cap today......
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:31 PM EDT
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I have one that's 1/8 size too big
after the regular cap I got was 1/8 size too small.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
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Barojas is hitting much like I thought he would this year....
Unfortunately
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:35 PM EDT
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Rolen doesn't take advantage of a 3-2 count
popping up foul
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:35 PM EDT
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Stairs at least so a lot of pitches.....
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:38 PM EDT
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Of course getting to the bullpen is unlikely to help us
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:41 PM EDT
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Yeah....they can't seen to hit anyone....
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT
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Especially the Rays bullpen
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT
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Stairs strikes out on the 10th pitch
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May 7, 2008 8:38 PM EDT
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Wells grounds to third on the first pitch
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:39 PM EDT
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Wow wasn't that a great catch by Wells....
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:41 PM EDT
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I didn't think there was any chance of him getting to it
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT
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Good thing it's too late to jinx it
Jamie noting that Marcum has no-hit stuff.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT
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whoops and now he can't face the minimum
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:44 PM EDT
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Damn you Bossman!
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May 7, 2008 8:45 PM EDT
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Crawford strikes out
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May 7, 2008 8:43 PM EDT
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And now falling behind Peña
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May 7, 2008 8:47 PM EDT
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Peña breaks his strikeout streak
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May 7, 2008 8:47 PM EDT
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Gameday says 85
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May 7, 2008 8:47 PM EDT
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We'd better get the lead
Hinske’s due up next inning.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:48 PM EDT
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I sure hope Hill can make Garza regret it.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 8:53 PM EDT
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hmmmmm Didnt' think it was that bad a bunt....overbay didn't get a good jump?
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:54 PM EDT
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I don't think he's regretting that walk right now
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May 7, 2008 8:54 PM EDT
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RISP time!
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May 7, 2008 8:57 PM EDT
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Geeze that first pitch makes you think scoot couldn't catch up to one
by Tom Dakers on
May 7, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
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Maybe he was sitting on an offspeed pitch?
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May 7, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
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1 for 5, at least
and it’s still RISP time
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:00 PM EDT
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Marcum's 8th strikeout
You think Pizza Pizza wants to up the pizza threshold?
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:08 PM EDT
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I think it's 7
but that might have been when the pitching wasn’t expected to be good.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:10 PM EDT
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That makes 9
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May 7, 2008 9:11 PM EDT
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Well the alternative is BJ
who didn’t look that sharp in his last outing, and even if he can go on alternating days, I don’t think I would have him go every other day ad infinitum. (Not sure he can really go on consecutive days yet, despite what they said.)
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:13 PM EDT
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We came into this game 3rd in the majors in Ks
2 behind Oakland.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:12 PM EDT
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Gotta like that....pitching to contact might be the team motto but strike outs are great
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May 7, 2008 9:13 PM EDT
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Cinci is first
which I guess is good for them, with the hitters’ park they play in.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:15 PM EDT
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Stew draws the 4 pitch walk
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May 7, 2008 9:16 PM EDT
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Of coure BJ is going to come in
because they don’t want to warm him up and then sit him back down, but I’d feel better about Marcum finishing the game now.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:19 PM EDT
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Catching snippets of the Sportsnet commercials
makes me miss Canadian restaurants. Why can’t we have Harvey’s or Swiss Chalet down here? Or Tim Horton’s west of I-75?
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:20 PM EDT
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SF bay area
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May 7, 2008 9:22 PM EDT
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A long way from good donuts and double doubles.....
The A’s look a lot better this season than I thought they’d be
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May 7, 2008 9:24 PM EDT
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Haven't been to a Swiss Chalet in a long time....but was in Harvey's last month....
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May 7, 2008 9:25 PM EDT
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Stopped at Timmy's Monday....
The girl behind the counter had a badge that said “Princess’ and under that ‘In Training’....thought that was cool….Asked what you had to do to be a Princess in training…..she said her name was Princess and she was training at Tim’s.
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May 7, 2008 9:31 PM EDT
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Krispy Kreme coffee sucks
and the glazed is their only good donut.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:29 PM EDT
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Overbay might have cost BJ a save
with that double to put us in RISP time again.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:28 PM EDT
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2 for 7
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:32 PM EDT
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We're so close to 100% WP that we can pretty much call the JotD
as Marcum (.577) and Scutaro (.136)
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May 7, 2008 9:34 PM EDT
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Marcum's gotta get it for 8IP, 1H, 1BB, 9K, 0R
No matter what happens next.
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:35 PM EDT
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That's true.....but if scoot commits 4 errors in the 9th....I'll blame you....
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May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT
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It'll take 5 now!
Has Scutaro made a single play today?
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by Torgen on
May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT
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He lost a bunch of WPA early.
He’s net -.010 for the game.
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May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT
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Barajas makes us 3 for 8
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May 7, 2008 9:36 PM EDT
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Who are these guys in the Jay uniforms?
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May 7, 2008 9:40 PM EDT
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Yeah, save some of these for tomorrow
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May 7, 2008 9:40 PM EDT
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4 for 9 courtesy Scoot
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May 7, 2008 9:40 PM EDT
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4 for 10 courtesy the Rios double play
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May 7, 2008 9:43 PM EDT
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I hope he didn't get tired between innings
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May 7, 2008 9:45 PM EDT
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Rolen-esque
Furthering his Best Jay Ever credentials.
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May 7, 2008 9:47 PM EDT
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If you have to pick a guy for the ball to get hit to
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May 7, 2008 9:48 PM EDT
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Oh no, a second hit
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May 7, 2008 9:49 PM EDT
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Downsie is in for the last out
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May 7, 2008 9:51 PM EDT
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Oh wait, the correct nickname is Snakeface now.
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May 7, 2008 9:51 PM EDT
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Yeah course....since I'm not the best looking guy in the world....is a little mean
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May 7, 2008 9:52 PM EDT
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It's a reference to the snake tattoo on his face
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May 7, 2008 9:52 PM EDT
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really? hmmmm haven't looked...I thought it was that he was ugly.....
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May 7, 2008 9:53 PM EDT
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I haven't noticed it
but Mike Wilner says it’s there.
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Because supposedly he wasn't imposing enough to be a closer
so he got a snake tattoo
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May 7, 2008 9:54 PM EDT
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Peña strikes out swinging for the 7th time this series
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