Everyone gets seduced by the occasional dominant outing, but Javy is what he is: a 30+start, 200-inning, league average pitcher. His ERA+ is 100 or lower in 4 of the past 5 seasons. No way he should start game 1 of a playoff series—not that Ozzie had any other great options, though. His trade value is as low as it gets right now, so look forward to another year of him torturing us.

Is he having a career year or has he finally figured it out? This was a guy anyone could’ve acquired last year if memory serves correct. They called him Ballfour in Milwaukee last year.

(although perhaps a stronger throw to the cutoff man would have been able to help nail him at third.)

i thought i heard ozzie say, during the in game interview (and before the hanger to longoria for his second homer), that javy was doing ok but just threw one bad pitch (referring to longoria’s first homer) but that pitch to iwamura was real bad too.

cabrera with an epic fail. did he say something about what balfour did after striking out uribe or was that something you (and others) noticed? i only heard jesse rogers say after the game that cabrera said he was trying to get in his head but obviously it didn’t work. if cabrera wanted to pull some shit i would have been ok with him trying the little league maneuver of squaring to bunt on the second pitch, which is a little less of a douchnozzle move than what he actually did.

another Sun-times reporter with an ax to grind with a player.

Start with Vazquez. He never can pitch for the Sox again.

or how about this gem

Vazquez threw the worst pitch ever thrown in big-league history.

Nice job there, Bud. That’s a great way to promote the product — have a non-West coast game starting at 9:30 EST.

"Everyone always says if you come to ballpark every day, you’ll see something you’ve never seen. If you came to the ballpark Friday night, you saw something nobody has ever seen. It happened in the sixth inning with the Dodgers leading 2-0. Pablo Sandoval was on first. I hit a pitch that bounced off the right-field wall. I stopped at first, and Pablo advanced to third.

Bochy had already told Manny Burriss that if I reached first, he’d go in as a pinch-runner for me. When I got to the dugout, I saw Omar telling Bochy that he heard the ball hit the green metal roof above the wall, which meant it should have been a home run. Bochy talked to the umpire, who apparently felt confident in the call. Then Bochy saw the ball – it had green paint on it. The crew chief called for a review under the new rule, and he ruled it a home run,.

So now Manny’s standing at first, and I’m about to go back out there to complete the run around the bases. But the umpire said that, because Burriss was officially entered in the game, I couldn’t go back in. So he ran the bases.

When he came into the dugout, I was laughing. “Nice swing,” I said.

I heard the official scorer had to call the Elias Sports Bureau to get a ruling on how to score it. They said I’d get credit for the home run and the two RBI but not the run scored. So I am the only player in baseball history who has hit a home run without scoring."

fairly cheap after tonight

Who cares about the North Siders at this point.. they are non existent to me at this point

Now go fuck yourselves.

that 87% of Cubs fans would rather do the cha-cha slide than watch baseball, anyway. Have fun with your dance parties, douchebags.

Hey, someone without a huge rep for choking in the postseason on the roster!

7-0

the guy with a watermelon on his head, you got it wrong pal, it’s more like egg on your face

I’m gonna fight some bum on the El now brah, maybe some gays off of Belmont.

as opposed to getting a start and potentially soiling himself.

Now if he does get a start over another starter (I’m looking in your direction Javy), he’ll have already popped his playoff cherry.

And…I predict…OCab (or the team in general) will get a last laugh at some point with Balfour. Apparently he’s a hot head (see: Zambrano, Carlos) so there’s a good possibilty the karma train will arrive and smack him right in the keester. I must credit OCab for admitting after the game that Balfour had “won the battle.”

Let’s hope MB can pitch a gem tomorrow and that the bats wake up a bit more. We’re not really going to rely on DeWayne to be our “ignitor,” are we?

http://www.earthcam.com/usa/illinois/chicago/wrigleyfield/

Hay Mark Buherle, your the biggest bitch I have ever fuckin seen, he stole raymonds atv because he was beating a white sox blow up
he fucking rolls it in the outfield and pissed me the fuck off

9=8

by raysbball on Oct 3, 2008 5:13 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs