Mlb 2011!

Hanacker · 2011-10-04T18:16:51.000Z

Why is everyone freaking out about AJ Burnett but nobody seems to care that Porcello has similarly bad numbers (4th worst batting average against in the AL, etc.)? Is it just a NY bias thing?

sluggo · 2011-10-04T18:34:47.000Z

Because Burnett is making 16 million a year to be a solid #2 starter and has been nothing but awful all year?

Alan_Dunkin · 2011-10-04T18:40:41.000Z

Last year too. He’s been a Lackey-esque turd muffin for the last two seasons.

I wouldn’t mind seeing the Phillies lose at all honestly.

— Alan

sluggo · 2011-10-04T19:11:17.000Z

Wow, I can’t believe Burnett is still out there. I’d have had the bullpen take over in the 5th.

sluggo · 2011-10-04T19:33:15.000Z

Granderson is the MAN.

Courteous_D · 2011-10-04T19:39:18.000Z

Yeah, that was sensational. Couple of great fielding plays in this one.

sluggo · 2011-10-04T20:20:05.000Z

OK, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief for tonight.

RyanMichael · 2011-10-04T20:28:03.000Z

This will only make for a spectacularly embarrassing home-field loss in 2 days.

MichaelD · 2011-10-04T20:46:44.000Z

sluggo:

Elsewhere, Adrian Beltre has joined one of the most exclusive clubs in baseball history by hitting 3 home runs in one postseason game.

Which just kills me. Who the hell throws a hittable pitch to a guy who’s already hit 2 home runs? Throw it in the dirt!

RDansky · 2011-10-05T12:16:38.000Z

Apparently Shane Victorino was impressed by the amount of Clydesdale after-product the Budweiser horses dumped in front of the Philly dugout during their trot around the stadium yesterday. And here I was thinking Tony LaRussa was the only horse’s ass on that field…

sluggo · 2011-10-05T15:13:02.000Z

Bad Ways To Start An Elimination Game, by The Cardinals

Give up a double, triple, and single and trail 2-0 after 3 batters.

Ryan_Markel · 2011-10-05T17:33:08.000Z

sluggo:

Bad Ways To Start An Elimination Game, by The Cardinals

Give up a double, triple, and single and trail 2-0 after 3 batters.

So far they have made up for it.

Mark_Asher · 2011-10-05T17:44:48.000Z

Bad start but a good finish! Onward to Philadelphia! Go Redbirds!

sluggo · 2011-10-05T17:55:05.000Z

Indeed, that’s a great job by the Cards of rebounding from an awful start. That play by Albert to cut down the runner at third was amazingly heads up.

Also, in 30+ years of watching baseball, I have never seen a squirrel run across home plate like that, certainly not as a pitch was being thrown. Birds, yes. Squirrels, no.

Carpenter vs Halladay for all the marbles on Friday!

sluggo · 2011-10-06T17:10:31.000Z

Oh, crap.

BennyProfane · 2011-10-06T19:17:20.000Z

Still hoping the Tigers win, but if the Yankees come back and take it, I’m going to have to quit watching baseball the rest of the year–I just can’t take these TBS announcers fellating the Yankees any more. It is disgusting how biased they have been this entire series: Darling in particular has his lips firmly locked on Cano’s penis.

RyanMichael · 2011-10-06T20:04:15.000Z

That’s the consensus of everyone I know. It’s really awful commentating.

sluggo · 2011-10-06T20:38:59.000Z

BennyProfane:

Still hoping the Tigers win, but if the Yankees come back and take it, I’m going to have to quit watching baseball the rest of the year–I just can’t take these TBS announcers fellating the Yankees any more.

You apparently didn’t hear the way they were fellating Verlander during his start on Monday. They’ve just been awful in general.

sluggo · 2011-10-06T20:42:22.000Z

%#^@&#^$.

That is all.

RyanMichael · 2011-10-06T20:43:15.000Z

Suck it, TBS.