Recap: GO GO GADGET GARZA!
by P Brady on Aug 15, 2008 11:19 PM EDT
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Make no mistake about it, when Garza is on he is the most dominant pitcher on our staff. 9 IP, 2 H, 0ER, 10K, 1BB. This trade is looking better and better every day. If in a few years Garza attacking the zone like this every day, I would choose him over any other pitcher in our org besides David Price. He's that good. Tonight he just threw Fastballs and change-ups until he got to 2 strikes and then just unleashed his filthy slider and curve.
Tonight the O did their job by ripping open an inferior SP and bullpen. Hinske, Aybar, Gross, and Pena all homered. Aybar's been hotter than a stove lately in the wake of Longo's abscence, which is much appreciated. He doesn't play bad D either, so if he can keep this up he may not be as much of a drop off as originally thought. Cliff Floyd has also been freakishly hot lately, now with an OPS over .800.
Random Musings:
- Justin Ruggiano is the sickest man in America.
- Shawn Riggans, please give navi tips on catching Garza.
- Barty's back!!!!!!!!!!
- Pena's still freakishly hot.
- Winning Roadtrips = Fun.
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Pena just keeps hitting homers
What do you think his total will wind up at? Think he gets over 100rbis again?
Amazing how he is winding up with another great year after that start he had
How can we win without CC and Longo?
I hate to say this… but our season is doomed.
All things LONGORIA!
At least we still have Upton....
oops
by Top Gun Numba 1 on Aug 15, 2008 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
An absolute punk.
Limited game. Unlimited trouble.
He’ll get shipped out like Young and Dukes, so as not to contaminate quality talent like Longoria.
Posted by: Mitch | August 15, 2008 at 11:24 PM
by Top Gun Numba 1 on Aug 15, 2008 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
i cant get over this
It’s bad enough he wants him traded but he wants him traded IN the AL East? Sure, help out the Yanks with their CF problem, genius move that would be.
Let some other AL East team deal with our black trouble.
Well, it won’t be boston for obvious reasons, but still…
by Top Gun Numba 1 on Aug 15, 2008 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
But he doesn't hustle... we can replace him with
white people
All things LONGORIA!
by RalphieTheRay on Aug 15, 2008 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Crawford wasn't hard to replace this season.
by R.J. Anderson on Aug 15, 2008 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions
You think that but...
look at our record since he got hurt…. especially the losses.
All things LONGORIA!
by RalphieTheRay on Aug 15, 2008 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
we've been winning the whole season without Crawford
my blog // calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy // past results do not guarantee future performance
me fail at reply tonight. I'm sleepy
All things LONGORIA!
by RalphieTheRay on Aug 15, 2008 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions
The BJ thing is an issue
As much as it’s swept under the rug, Madden has made it clear what he wants and BJ has not done what is asked. I think it’s ridiculous, so do others here, but it’s still something he has to fix.
I tend to agree...
maybe everyone on the team isn’t singled out like BJ… but if you’ve already been benched once…I’d like to think that you sprint out even a dribbler to the catcher. It’s called a lesson already learned. People get better from those.
All things LONGORIA!
by RalphieTheRay on Aug 15, 2008 11:39 PM EDT up reply actions
B.J. just needs to run them out.
Apparently others can get away with it, but for our winning sakes he needs to just do it.
by R.J. Anderson on Aug 15, 2008 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions
also... look at what hustling out every play has done for less talented players...
it makes them more popular… maybe even scrappy-ish
All things LONGORIA!
by RalphieTheRay on Aug 15, 2008 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions
for the major-league minimum
i would be the scrappiest, 5’9"-iest, hustlingest, most divey, whitest scrapper on the team.
i would dive into home, bat in hand, before every at bat to dirty up the ol’ uni.
i would smoke marlboro reds in the outfield, clenching them between my teeth as i hustled to back up 3rd on the around-the-horns after strikeouts.
i would drink 80 beers on cross-country flights, and they wouldn’t be light. at the same time, i would have a heartwarming christian testimony. I would wear my uniform to church, hustling to the altar like a champion right through the priest’s stop sign to receive communion.
i would start growing a playoff beard in january. i would brush my teeth with infield clay.
i would bat .024 and have a .487 zone rating. i would sign a 4-year, $31-million contract with the dodgers. tears would be shed and threats made in The Heater’s comments.
by calmer than you are on Aug 16, 2008 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm not much of an in-game blogger
i don’t own a lap top
That's easy.
Elijah Dukes is in Washington.
Sign lady must die.
by EminenceFront on Aug 15, 2008 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions
wrong thread but
4 mins til the deadline. 8 unsigned 1st rounders including 4 from the top 10. Time for some last minute magic, Pirates CAN NOT let Alvarez walk away, same with Royals and Hosmer
yes yankees just lost 4-3! 10 1/2 behind us lol
Longo=ROY. Friedman=Executive of the year. Maddon=Manager of the year. BJ UPTON IS NOT LAZY! ! ! Gabe Gross= clutch. David Price is the next big time pitcher.
their 7 games out of the wild card
there are done, lol anyone hear about hankstiennbenner cry that injuries have destroyed his team, um boston was without david ortiz for almost 2 months, we are without longo until sept 1st and were still winning so shut up dumbass hank
Longo=ROY. Friedman=Executive of the year. Maddon=Manager of the year. BJ UPTON IS NOT LAZY! ! ! Gabe Gross= clutch. David Price is the next big time pitcher.
7 games out of the wild card now doesn't make them done
But it probably does in September. I’d say they’re pretty much out of the running in the AL East.
Smoak and Dykstra signed
surprising to see Dykstra signed
Still nothing on Alvarez, Hosmer or Posey…..
Alvarez signed.
formerly websterjtc; 9 = 8
by walkoffwalk on Aug 16, 2008 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/pbc/archive/2008/08/15/pirates-alvarez-agree-to-terms.aspx
formerly websterjtc; 9 = 8
by walkoffwalk on Aug 16, 2008 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions
I would not argue the point
about Garza. When on, he is amazing. But it seems to me we can say that about any pitcher with ace stuff. And I have been at games when Kazmir was just as untouchable and his stuff just as mouth-agape impressive as Garza’s or anyone else’s. And further, Kazmir has had longer stretches of absolute dominance than Garza has had. I am not ready to dislodge him from his perch as the ace of the staff despite his recent struggles, nor do I forgot how absolutely dominant he can be when it is all working for him.
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