Recap: David Price has more Postseason Wins than C.C. Sabathia, and I don't care.

BJ is CLUTCH

but on a side note, David Price just recorded his first W in the majors.

Fernando is the quickest man alive. BJ and Longo are better than any of us ever will be.

Our future is sorta bright.

time to rush Boston

I’m… Well.. It’s… Hmmm… You guys played a hell of a game today, but I can’t stop myself for blaming Tito. He left Beckett to face Pena. That was silly. Carlos got a hit, he drove a run and everything. Then he let Beckett face Longo. That was very stupid. Evan ended up on 3rd. Then he put Javi in to face CC, and after one pitch he pulls Javi. That was very moronic. And then, he pulls Masterson after 0.2 innings. That was downright idiotic. And in the end, he puts in Timlin instead of Paul Byrd. Okay, this was a close call, but Byrd these days is the better pitcher. You offense kept you ass on the game, Tito, give ’em a shot to win it! No? Okay, then…

I’m not taking anything away from the Rays, they did great. But Tito was Grady Little dumb tonight.

did anyone else realize that team from Tampa just won a game in the motherfucking ALCS? 3 more coming!

That was the most awesome experience….EVER

CAN I HAZ 7 MOAR WINZ AND A PRETTY TROPHY?!?!

I also got to tell an old guy to “fuck off” after BJ hit his monster shot…that was fun.

Watched the game tonight and had to get up a 4am for work today. Ouch. Never been so happy to be sleep deprived. This is one you tell your grandkids about one day.

Please keep winning.

We need more of the above:

and less of the below:

the little one just doesn’t produce enough annoying sound.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080927&content_id=3557322&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf

I smell a future stat of the day

But right now, in this October, Beckett and Kazmir are not what their records say they are. Rather, they are both working with greatly diminished stuff, and will likely not rebound until 2009, at the earliest; they just don’t have the weapons, and the hitters are telling us that, without uttering a word. Think about this: On Saturday night, Beckett threw 93 pitches — and of those, the Rays swung and missed at just four. Kazmir threw 98 pitches, and of those, only seven generated missed swings.

During the regular season, opposing hitters swung and missed 9.2 percent of Beckett’s pitches. In Game 2, they swung and missed 4.3 percent of the time.

During the regular season, opposing hitters swung and missed at Kazmir’s pitchers 12.4 percent of the time; in Game 2, that percentage dropped to 7.1 percent.

Rays manager Joe Maddon said emphatically after Game 2 that Kazmir will start in Game 6. But Kazmir might be even more compromised than Beckett is right now. His velocity is down two to three miles per hour, and his changeup is inconsistent, and that might be OK if his slider was right. But scouts have noticed that Kazmir barely uses his slider any more, and that it is flat when he does use it, and they suspect that he is pitching with elbow discomfort, having seen him shake his hand repeatedly in the way that you would if you got dinged on the funny bone.

According to Inside Edge, this is the percentage of sliders Kazmir has thrown in the last four regular seasons:

• 2005: 21.1 percent
• 2006: 24.4 percent
• 2007: 20.3 percent
• 2008: 12 percent

- Buster