What Do You Do For An Encore? Game 142 Preview
Jon "Cy Young Hopeful" Garland (R, 16-4, 4.37) for the Heros
vs.
Fausto Carmona (R, 1-8, 5.76) for the Politically Incorrect Monikers of Cleveland
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So if ever there was a chance to start a streak, today's the day. The White Sox Ace is on the mound, and a lousy converted closer is on the mound from the bad guys. I had a joke about Fausto and selling his soul to the baseball devils, but it really really sucked, so I skipped it.
One more note: No Hawk Harrelson tonight. Black Jack McDowell will be filling in. I wonder how much dead air will be floating across WGN tonight.
My Pick to Click today...Joe Crede, the healthy one!
Drop the picks to click in the comments.
vs.
Fausto Carmona (R, 1-8, 5.76) for the Politically Incorrect Monikers of Cleveland
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So if ever there was a chance to start a streak, today's the day. The White Sox Ace is on the mound, and a lousy converted closer is on the mound from the bad guys. I had a joke about Fausto and selling his soul to the baseball devils, but it really really sucked, so I skipped it.
One more note: No Hawk Harrelson tonight. Black Jack McDowell will be filling in. I wonder how much dead air will be floating across WGN tonight.
My Pick to Click today...Joe Crede, the healthy one!
Drop the picks to click in the comments.
posted by jamesmnordbergjr at 11:21 AM
164 Comments:
Gimme BA.
Jeeves is having his own problems with Blogger so he emailed me and asked post Gooch as his PtC. He originally wanted BA, but before I could post it, Fornelli bogarted it.
saltwater farmer took thome
2 friggin' penalties took ND out of TD territory and they've had to settle for 2 FGs.
This is an ugly game.
Brady Quinn is just a tad off.
I'll take Dye, and if he goes 0-fer with 3 K's, I'll be glad to live in NY and be out of harms way. Wait, did I say I live in NY? I meant KY. No, Cal.
;)
I feel better at the half of the ND game, 20-0, but ND is a little lucky!
Well tell Jeeves that though I may have bogarted his pick, he has, and always will bogart my heart.
When are we going to Chuck E. Cheese, Fornelli? Go ND!
I feel ALOT better now, after that defensive TD by Zibs!
To all the haters, ND 41 PS 17...and it wasn't that close.
Time for Jon to stomp the Cleveland Politically Incorrect Monikers into submission.
Hey Pander, sorry to hear your move has been rough. Whenever you want a recap, you got it.
No Crede, so I'll take Cintron who's playing 3rd for Joey. Normal lineup otherwise.
Pods
Gooch
Dye
Thome
Paulie
AJ
Juan
Alex
BA
Someone stab DJ in the neck with his mic holder please. He's slobbing BJM's knob a little too much.
BTW, nice wiggle out by Jon.
Fornelli, we gotta start a Hugh Johnson Report for DJ cuz this is just criminal.
Yay! I'm back!
We'll call that good karma with regards to my return
Yah, Pander, I sent you an e-mail a few days back, so just check that out if you get the chance
Great work yesterday James, and thanks a million for covering my ass. I really don't know what was going on with Blogger.
Jeeves!!!
poetic timing
There's a lotta energy in the crowd tonight
I'm going tomorrow, so there'll be ALOT of energy then!
So Jeeves, the site wouldn't load or did you have the comments problem like I had?
It just wouldn't load...the blogger home page would sort of load, but it was really messed up. The blog wouldn't load at all. I tried fire joe morgan and that wouldn't load either. I dunno what happened
Good to have you back. I thought you and Fornelli were on a mission last night, until AJ saved someone's ass.
Big point of this game early. Jon has to get Sizemore here.
Sizemore 0-2, 2-Ks
Jon looks like an Ace.
Jon IS an ace as of '06
Pander and DJ made a good choice with their picks tonight?
I hope i didnt imagine this, but does Carmona have something drawn on the underside of the brim of his hat?
phew...thats real close for victor martinez
wow, I think Pods got two breaks...on the pick off and the steal
beautiful 2-out run...flashes of '05
nice...2 outs, sb, manufactured run!
fausto sux
dumb friggin luck
yah...i think they ruined him by making him the closer
Homer #40?
Nuts, so much for being prophetic
nostra-not-us
It's times like these when I need two TV's...White Sox and Texas vs. OSU
haha, if i were nostradomus, i would be in vegas
I got lucky the ND game ended at exactly 6:00
You can thank the new clock rules for that.
was looking for that, but I didn't really notice that much a difference
so will AJ get plunked in his next at bat?
Smooth inning
okay, I'm rooting for the buckeyes...this is big ten country
I'm conflicted...I generally cheer for the Big Ten, but I was taught to be a Michigan fan...but I don't quite have the passionate hate for OSU as I do for say the Packers
look at it like this...root for OSU so UM can beat an undefeated team later on this season...of course, UM will have one loss at that time, but it won't be in conference...ND will hurt UM next week
Yes, that would be good for ND, then you could pull those crazy comparisons between teams that didn't play eachother...ND beat Michigan, who beat OSU, so ND is better than OSU, OSU beat Texas, so ND is also better than Texas.
Me and Juanito down by the schoolyard!
Oh baby, tell me Juan is catching fire again, a la last year.
I feel bad for Carmona. He's got good stuff, but he must have absolutey ZERO confidence.
HEY!!! ND has the toughest opening stretch of any ranked team...
GA Tech
Penn State
Michigan
Michigan State
Can't disagree with that...that's the benefit and the curse of being an independent.
Black Jack is right...if Jon loses a pitch next inning, the sox lose Jon.
Bad call by the ump.
I always hate warnings...they just screw with the pitchers.
Actually, I hate warning unless Padilla is on the mound.
damnit, well, I'll always have this on him...in my parents' native language choo means penis.
(I dunno exactly how the spelling would translate over)
huh? what?
Choo = penis, in Singalese (the language from Sri Lanka)
Whachu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Not bad by Jon there, you give up a lead off triple, it should score. He stopped them there.
haha...just another wang joke
You don't speak it yourself?
Not anymore, unfortunately. I did when I was real young, but my mom was worried that I wouldn't learn English properly so she stopped speaking it to me
but i still know a few words and phrases
That sucks! One thing I'll do before I die is learn a foreign language. (Preferrably French)
like choo
There was a kid in my second grade class with the last name chu, and I thought it was the funniest thing ever.
In second grade or 12th grade, that's funny. Your own "private" joke.
Wow, another 2-out hit
There's something about Sox fans and puns
I'll hold the wow until there's another 2 out rbi
Yah, JD! THat's the type of hustle I like to see from an MVP
Fine...wow!
WOW for the rbi
WOW for the triple
WOW for Thome
WOW for the swinging Paulie bunt
fun inning
very fun...SOx have scored in every inning so far
so if jon can get his era under 4 and get to 20 wins, does he have a chance at the cy young?
3-k's for sizemore
I don't think so. I think Santana has it locked up.
Especially considering he's been garnering zero consideration so far
santana has the name recognition too
And a 2.84 ERA
just looked at his numbers 17-5, 2.84, 0.99 whip, 219 ks
yikes jon don't have a chance
Ws, Ks, ERA all lead the AL
Jon, not counting today, has only 92 Ks
this game is lagging
OMFG
Can we steal Seizmore from Cleveland?
pods with signs of life
I thought Jon was destined for a shutout
Ouch...body + chainlink = ow
That was almost the same hit as the homer he hit over Delmon Young
No no no no no no no
please get up please get up please get up
thank you thank you thank you
Aaron's gonna call JD tonight
I think JD deserves a day off...are they off monday?
Let's see how JD feels in the morning...I'm holding my breath until then. I don't want to hear about a swollen knee.
They're off Thursday
Yeah, the knee was my worry too
Wowie Maui! I loooove when that happens. Big play in the field, big hit the next inning.
Fuck yeah, JD!!!!!
MVP!
He does have a bloody knee!
Pull him please, Ozzie.
Very bloody indeed. I didn't notice that until the replay
Back to back jacks, baby!
someone's getting plunked now
so JD is a single from the cycle, does Ozzie let him go for it?
Hey Pander, I said it earlier, but in case you didn't read the earlier stuff...i sent you an e-mail the other day
This is a bit of a shocker...
A.J. Pierzynski's walk-off home run Friday night was the team's first of the season. The last was Scott Podsednik's game winner against the Astros in last year's World Series
And by back to back jacks...CLEARLY (sarcastic) i meant in official at-bats.
hmmm, all those game winning hr's early must have been aon the road
And by back to back jacks...CLEARLY (sarcastic) i meant in official at-bats.
huh?
Thome walked in between the two homers. I forgot Paulie was batting fifth.
Good deal, Pander. Just glad to see you back.
oh, gotcha, I was still revelling in JD's monster shot
btw, aren't you glad now that you got gooch instead of BA?
haha, just a bit. Fornelli potentially took a bullet for me, although there's still time for BA.
so if gooch gets a hit here...does Ozzzie really give JD the chance for the Cycle?
lol
I wonder if there's ever been a triple steal attempt in baseball.
hey jeeves, you got an update on that Texas OSU game
7-0 Buckeyes, 3 minuts and change left in the 2nd
Tex with the ball on the OSU 9
close game...cool
7-7
Okay, I said this at SSS, and I'll say it here...
Maria Sharapova is HOT!
That would be unbelievable, although we would need the pitch to strike an unsuspecting bird and go rolling off to the side for that to work.
Pander: that would be the first ever quadruple play in baseball
Very hot, and she lets out some serious moans and grunts when she plays
I'm torn
Kornikova or Sharapova?
I'm not very tall, so i would have to go with Kornikova, plus she's not very busy playing tennis so she's be around home a lot more.
any thought pander?
Okay, how did the safety not slide to Ginn's side on that play? moron
This just in...
Twinkies 2
Tiggers 1
What happened? I missed it. I was cycling through tennis and baseball and missed it.
logan loaded the bases, and brandon gives up an rbi jam shot single...there is one out
I hate jam shots (unless they're strawberry)
9 run lead
is now a
7 run lead
not time to panic yet
DP ball right here
7 run lead
is now a
5 run lead
not time to panic yet
get a fucking out though
I'm so glad that Hermy's back.
okay, but kornikova seems kinky
nice play by gooch
very nice and i'm glad Uribe had the sense not to fire it to first
...and all of a sudden we have a ball game on our hands
Crede makes that play no prob
still a 2 run lead
betcha ozzie wishes he left jon in there now
phew, we have the lead still.
Is 7 really considered a crooked number? It's essentially two straight lines.
so now I can't relax
JD needs to hit the ball
An extra insurance run would be nice.
which is worse, calling on Buehrle in the playoffs as a LOOGY or Cotts?
Well, if I had to date or marry one of them, I think Sharapova would be more down to earth and for lack of a better word, cooler.
who can we trust tonight?
Are matt and mike available?
and what of jenks?
Wow, this is shocking. Buehrle would be the ultimate LOOGY. His ERA vs. lefties is 0.00
scratch that
Must be some error on the site. He's in fact given up 8 homers to lefties.
I trust Jon Garland tonight
haha, that made me chuckle out loud, Pander
and I trust Mikey Mac
and I trust Mikey Mac
OSU 17-7
I'm surprised Mac didn't get the heave-ho, that's the second player he just missed hitting.
Props to the Ump for realizing it wasn't intentional, though.
Man, James' commenting got disabled again. I don't know why he keeps getting blocked.
Someone send a Memo to Ozzie and tell him to quit pulling Garland out. This was almost the second win Oz would've cost him for pulling him on pitch count.
Yes, that was risky bringing in Thornton
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