Re-hydration process commencing

Your omniscient author in absentia:
OK, here's the skinny. A couple of weeks ago my day-job company won a prestigious and significant award for overall kicking ass in our industry, and last night we had the celebratory party …

So this morning, to put it bluntly, I have a hangover the size of Poland, and my sad, sorry ass is dragging.

I saw nothing of last night's loss to the Yankees, not even a single highlight (thankfully), and this morning the miserable light from the computer is blitzkrieging my brain like a Stuka.

And I'm so old that I make metaphors about Stukas, so you can only imagine what this boozification is doing to my not-in-my-20's-anymore body.

But, hell, you know, it could be worse.

 

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Comments

[Kaz]

Completely full of shit, J.O.

That's why the Romans were fond of saying:

Semper ubi, sub ubi.
(Always wear underwear.)

* literally, it's nonsense: Always where, under where.

[Shando]

"So, remind me why we re-acquired Mirabelli?"

Cause he's better than our other option: Josh Bard!

[Dave S.]

On Cornroyo...his sliders clearly just hung up most of the time he hit anyone. Maybe he tossed at a Tampa Bay Double-A or two, but really not so much the Yankees. It'd have been stupid...and anyway, had he done it, I'd hope that he'd plunk a Yankee with something harder than that junk-slider he throws.

Anyway, his overall non-HBP control numbers suggest (small sample notwithstanding) that he's improved his command. He's twice as good as last year, and better than his excelllent 2004:

Year BB/BF K/BF K/BB
2003 0.0615 0.1859 3.021
2004 0.0615 0.1139 1.852
2005 0.0543 0.2054 3.786

Some of it's probably the NL, and some of it's probably luck, but most of it is probably just improvement. Anyway, there's still plenty of time for him to hit batters this year.

[pawsoxpop]

Bronson and Hanley have my NL fantasy team off to a 5-2 start, so for that I am grateful -- and we don't add or subtract points for HBP so I wasn't keeping track of that particular stat.

Apologies if everyone has already seen this but it's pretty funny. For a pregame laugh check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Y6PchDYfw&eurl=

[Jason O.]

OK, hmmm, PSP is out and Kaz is out...thanks for chiming in.

I must have been mistakenly posting under one of AJM's family members' screen names, then. A thousand pardons.

[AJM]

Hey, a cheap shot at my family. And such a witty one, to boot. There's that classiness that Yankee fans are so famous for. Might as well throw another couple of Latin quotes in there to keep that Mystique and Aura thing going too. Helps to make up for the lack of facts or logic in the shots you take at Sox players, past and present, in your posts.

[pawsoxpop]

Man-Neee, Man-Neee, Man-Neee

[AJM]

I wish I could say I enjoyed Manny's homer, but I was far too concerned that Yankee fans might take offense at his trot around the bases.

[Dave S.]

...a post I saw from Replacement Level Yankee Fan that both Sox and Yankee fans can probably find funny at the same time:

"We have secretly replaced the bats of David Ortiz with those of Alex Rodriguez. Let's see if anyone notices."

[AJM]

That is a good line. I'll tip my cap to Farnsworth for making a great pitch to Papi at a crucial point. Guess Papi can't come through every time.

Definitely not tipping my cap to Matt Clement, though. No excuse for his 2-inning implosion against the dregs in the bottom of the Yankee lineup. And I still have no idea why Wily Mo didn't score on that wild pitch in the 8th.

[Jason O.]

He can dish it out, but can't take it...
Just like his boy Arroyo.

[AJM]

...says the guy who started the ad hominems and insulted my family. Like I said, when you don't have facts or logic on your side...

[AJM]

By the way, kudos to Dave S. on the excellent post above providing quantitative evidence for Arroyo's overall improved control this season as well as the qualitative description of why he was hitting so many guys the previous two years...very simply, he threw a lot of breaking pitches to righty batters that didn't break enough.