Listen live at 1:05. Here are your lineups. It's interesting and hilarious to see that many Texas starters taking the field against Jarrod Washburn. Also here's an article where Jon Papelbon compares Manny Ramirez to cancer. Whoever wrote that up missed a golden opportunity to make Jon Lester really uncomfortable.
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Because if it's anything Papelbon needs...
…it’s more attention!
section331 - March 12, 2009
Pants.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Papelbon needs pants?
Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Ricky Schroeder?
I’m sorry, “Rick”….?
section331 - March 12, 2009
Low class joke alert
better to be a clubhouse cancer than the guy in the clubhouse with cancer, amirite?
(I feel bad for thinking that one up)
bluemax - March 12, 2009
I live for the day when Lester becomes a clubhouse cancer.
JI - March 12, 2009
Michael Young at 3B
Is this likely to carry over to the regular season?
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Yes
He is not happy about it though.
hcoguy - March 12, 2009
He should be happy he's bankrupting the team
instead of being on the 3/21 contract he deserves
JI - March 12, 2009
Interesting
he’s a butcher with the glove at SS, but doesn’t he derive most of his offensive value from being a “SS”?
bluemax - March 12, 2009
I think he derives most of his offensive value from Arlington.
hcoguy - March 12, 2009
Right right.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Most years his defensive horribleness has wiped out his positional value and then some.
Last year he was only -2.6 defensively. He was actually worth twice as much as he got paid. Weird.
Aaron Campeau - March 12, 2009
Holy shit you're right.
Last year was the first year of his contract extension though right?
It’s all downhill from here.
hcoguy - March 12, 2009
Actually it only kicks in now
Jeff Sullivan - March 12, 2009
Oh yeah, still an awful deal and his defensive numbers are an outlier.
Still interesting.
Aaron Campeau - March 12, 2009
Remember when Buck Martinez said Jon Lester was the best pitcher in baseball during the ALCS?
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/10/13/634215/10-13-open-alcs-game-3-thr#9353175
seattlebruin - March 12, 2009
Did that really happen?
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Griffey, per Drayer:
“Bedard doesn’t have a butt, you can believe me”
what?
Bearskin Rugburn - March 12, 2009
He would know.
Aaron Campeau - March 12, 2009
I have all these photos that say otherwise...
section331 - March 12, 2009
White people are all the same
Jeff Sullivan - March 12, 2009
They're all "DOOT-DE-DOOT"
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Jr has always been very conscious of his own boo-tay, and of those belonging to others.
msb - March 12, 2009
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I don’t know why, but I seriously almost fell out of my seat laughing at that. Why? Couldn’t tell ya.
Zwakamatsu - March 12, 2009
Dustin Pedroia somehow makes me hate him even more in the MLB 09 The Show commercials
Matthew - March 12, 2009
I love the commercials
if only because they help me hate Pedroia more and the response of the dude is awesome.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Also
at least Pedroia has some form of personality. Lincecum and virtual Lincecum have about the same level of personality.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
But Lincecum is awesome
seattlebruin - March 12, 2009
Well if I was picking players I'd rather have on my team
then Lincecum would get the nod over Pedroia every day of the week.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
I like how the latest post on Drayer's blog
refers to Aumont’s pitching against Pedroia… and the catcher called for a high inside fastball.
Two Rs and Two Ls - March 12, 2009
Randy Johnson made that commercial.
“He needs to put a towel on.”
The Typical Idiot Fan - March 12, 2009
I think it's funny
Jeff Sullivan - March 12, 2009
You're just jealous that you wer're completely wrong about him not being the MVP
JI - March 12, 2009
That would have been so much better
had I whipped up a “Biased Curruth” screen name.
JI - March 12, 2009
Biased Carruth says...
You wouldn’t be so damn upset if it were a Mariner in that commercial. BIASED!
Sentinel - March 12, 2009
I think Angel fans already hijacked that one.
EnglishMariner - March 12, 2009
wer're? seriously?
PositivePaul - March 12, 2009
It's the new slang, Paul.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Based on pitch F/X
Pedroia hit .281 on fastballs in the upper and inside third of the strikezone
Matthew - March 12, 2009
This seems liek a different argument entirely
JI - March 12, 2009
I love those commercials
Robert - March 12, 2009
I know everyone benefits from the Band Box at Arlington...
but how much do you think Kinsler benefits? I mean, Arlington has basically made Michael Young a household name, but I think Kinsler could flourish in any stadium.
Sentinel - March 12, 2009
Kinsler could be good anywhere but Texas makes him look terrific, per usual
Jeff Sullivan - March 12, 2009
Road numbers career
.259/.330/.422/.752
Home numbers career:
.321/.390/.525/.915
bluemax - March 12, 2009
And that's a damn-near even split.
The Ballpark at Arlington: making superstars out of average players since 1994.
Sentinel - March 12, 2009
People generally hit worse on the road anyway
JI - March 12, 2009
160 points of OPS worse?
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Well no, but you can't take road splits solely as the guy's true talent level.
JI - March 12, 2009
I did think it interesting that he's player 186 road games and 185 games at home.
I don’t know why, but I did.
Sentinel - March 12, 2009
More often then not teams play half their games at home and half their games on the road.
JI - March 12, 2009
And playing "The Natural" theme for scrubs that just hit a cheap HR.
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Better than Shea cranking out "Soulja Boy"
Two Rs and Two Ls - March 12, 2009
Soulja boy's not as bad as the Fox Sports Network theme for good catches in OF in Arlington.
And at least Shea lets the “Superman that ho!” line play, while Safeco censors it.
BrettJMiller - March 12, 2009
I want the funk, though, you know what I'm saying?
Two Rs and Two Ls - March 12, 2009
I really hope they bring this back for a third go-around.
It’s kind of a Safeco field staple at this point.
BrettJMiller - March 12, 2009
That doesn't take into account the road stadium's parks though.
I’m not saying Arlington doesn’t inflate his numbers, but home/road splits don’t paint the full picture.
BrettJMiller - March 12, 2009
Personal catcher!
Teej - March 12, 2009
Every Texas Rangers commercial
is about Josh Hamilton.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Holy crap
Another one. And they all talk about Josh Hamilton homers.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Nose candy commercials?
Graham MacAree - March 12, 2009
We've got a bucket of nose clams, fresh from the sea. Sweet delicious nose clams that are looking for a home if you follow me.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
They play him in Center field to keep him away from the white lines.
joof - March 12, 2009
But then he has to be off with the crack of the bat.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
That must caost them, like, 20 runs a year
JI - March 12, 2009
Hey have we done our player projections for this season yet???
EnglishMariner - March 12, 2009
Oh my
Rangers copying the Dodgers with all you can eat seats.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
This is a bad idea in Texas.
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Go Rangers!
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
110 degree heat + All-you-can-eat dogs
I’m glad I don’t work in janitorial services at TBPiA.
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Fucking
gross dude.
Zwakamatsu - March 12, 2009
Padres are doing it, too.
Teej - March 12, 2009
There was an article on Slate last year
about what the experience is like.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Is it my imagination or does Washburn commit an above average number of throwing errors?
EnglishMariner - March 12, 2009
Anyone have a gameday link?
joof - March 12, 2009
Why do they make them so damned hard to find?
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Only the finest and most clever can follow gameday.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Well I'm out.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Alternatively:
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Rec'd
because I think it’s awesome, and funny, and I’ve never seen it before.
As a side note, it’s funny you can “unrec” things here. So Kevin, if you EVER piss me off, prepare to be unrec’d with fury.
Zwakamatsu - March 12, 2009
The bird, not Cartmen.
Zwakamatsu - March 12, 2009
I'll walk the line.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
It's pretty behind.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_12_texmlb_seamlb_1
bluemax - March 12, 2009
3-0 in the 4th inning?
I take it Washburn has already worked his magic….
section331 - March 12, 2009
I think you misunderstand that this game isn't a 16 year old girl.
JI - March 12, 2009
Did you know Carlos Silva is fat?
joof - March 12, 2009
Silva fat jokes have been dead meme'd for months.
JI - March 12, 2009
As have Washburn pedophile jokes.
joof - March 12, 2009
The joke is how laboured the setup is
JI - March 12, 2009
Get
Washburns pedophilic ass off the team. Now. Please.
Zwakamatsu - March 12, 2009
Y'know...
I’m afraid I must have missed out on Jarrod Washburn’s…uh…paedophilia….? What?
section331 - March 12, 2009
Miguel Batista is a side armer now?
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Why the hell not?
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Batista's secret
Finally reveals itself!
section331 - March 12, 2009
He's actually left handed?
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Throws better with his foot.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Yeah, but left or right?
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
At that point it doesn't matter.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Texas Rangers
built for speed, built for power, built for fun!
bluemax - March 12, 2009
Washburn and Batista pitched and we only gave up 4 runs?
ThundaPC - March 12, 2009
And I think Satan just bought his hockey skates.
Sentinel - March 12, 2009
.
DCMariner - March 12, 2009
Wait, Josh Hamilton had a drug problem?
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Yeah, Rick Reilly broke the story during the Home Run Derby last year.
Teej - March 12, 2009
Crazytown.
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
This is a strange two-way whooshing.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
I was kidding.
He wouldn’t stop yelling about it while Hamilton was hitting all the homers. Pretty much 20 minutes of “Did you know he used to be a crackhead?!?”
Teej - March 12, 2009
AND NOW HE'S AT THE HOME RUN DERBY!
seattlebruin - March 12, 2009
I NEED TO GO WRITE UP AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS IN WHICH I USE THE STORY OF SOME POOR 16 YEAR OLD GIRL
TO DEMONSTRATE HOW COLD THE WORLD CAN BE UNTIL SPORTS INTERVENES.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Make sure there's a real villain in this story
perhaps the mean high school coach who cut the one-armed sixteen year old girl from the state champion varsity softball team
seattlebruin - March 12, 2009
Hamilton's drug use cost her that arm.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
I thought it was A-rod deciding not to play for her team that cost her the arm
pdb - March 12, 2009
No, that's the reason children are starving in Mongolia.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
No I'm aware you were both kidding, it just was a strange sequence in all.
Reilly is a wack.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Every time I see his face on espn.com
with that little whimsical smile, I hate him a little more.
waldo rojas - March 12, 2009
Damn it, Corco.
marc w - March 12, 2009
Messenger 4 Closer.
ThundaPC - March 12, 2009
I want to go fishing with Roy Corcoran.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
Mike Morse playing catcher? Or is this another Gameday glitch?
shinallsrevenge - March 12, 2009
No, he's just hitting for Burke
so until he takes the field, he’s listed in Burke’s position.
marc w - March 12, 2009
Oh, Gameday specifically said that he was remaining in the game at catcher.
shinallsrevenge - March 12, 2009
Unfortunately, no audio unless I want to broadcast it across a cafe.
shinallsrevenge - March 12, 2009
Yeah, they still aren't changing it, there's no other C in the line-up....
didn’t Bloomquist do this one spring?
marc w - March 12, 2009
Gameday says Moore
not Morse.
bluemax - March 12, 2009
That's Moore like it.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
They changed it then.
shinallsrevenge - March 12, 2009
Yes, they changed it - and this makes much more sense.
marc w - March 12, 2009
Mike Sweeney hit a homerun?
Holy crap.
ThundaPC - March 12, 2009
anyone know about those new photoshop skills the Rangers announcers are talking about?
I need to learn them so I can take pictures of my teenagers borrowing my Lexus.
yuniform - March 12, 2009
SO now the M's are putting up much a fight I'm watching the new South Park episode...
Slurvey - March 12, 2009
I really liked Mickey's cameo.
Matthew - March 12, 2009
All I could think about was Disney lawyers racing each other to come up with a lawsuit
shinallsrevenge - March 12, 2009
South Park would become the most televised show in the nation after that publicity hit the fan
Ezzra - March 13, 2009
Now they need to get him into the WWE .
THE BOSS IS HERE!
Slurvey - March 12, 2009
I liked the whole thing, particularly the ending
JI - March 12, 2009
It was the first time I remember them using faggot in a episode even though they have done it in the past.
Robert - March 12, 2009
How does Smoak look. Dammit I wanted him in Seattle.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
You really are a cock maven, aren't you?
marc w - March 12, 2009
You obviously missed the tattoo on my forehead that reads "cock maven."
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
yes yes yes
Aaron Campeau - March 12, 2009
You're like Johnny Cockmaven Seed
abender20 - March 12, 2009
I really prefer hear wild speculation on M's prospects
…but the Rangers got some good-looking kids on the field. Kids that nail Triunfel.
yuniform - March 12, 2009
what they do in their spare time is no business of ours.
pdb - March 12, 2009
You're a gentleman.
kevin_ess - March 12, 2009
I just got my cock maven tattoo replaced with GENTLEMAN
works better at the holidays around the relatives, too.
pdb - March 12, 2009
Your sig makes me think it's pdb every time.
Teej - March 12, 2009
yuniform and I have never been seen in the same place at the same time
makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
pdb - March 12, 2009
I forgot Nolan Ryan talked liked that.
Usually, his fists speak for him.
yuniform - March 12, 2009
I actually attended the famous Robin Ventura game
One of the top 5 highlights of my life.
arbeck77 - March 12, 2009
You are my hero sir
that would have been awesome.
pdb - March 12, 2009
Every once in a while, it's therapeutic to beat the shit out of a man with a girl's name.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Lookout Leslie Nielsen, I'm coming for you
pdb - March 12, 2009
He's a much safer choice than the Lopez twins at any rate.
abender20 - March 12, 2009
Leslie Nielsen is about the only other human being I could take in a fight
i’m a bad fighter.
pdb - March 12, 2009
I assume that is 2009-era Leslie.
Because 1970s Leslie was a Bad Ass.
msb - March 12, 2009
I don't fight in the past
I only operate in the present day. 1970’s Nielsen would have broken me in half.
pdb - March 12, 2009
I lost count of how many evil schemes he hatched in the 70s.
msb - March 12, 2009
The world could really use more super villians.
Matthew - March 12, 2009
Dude, where's my economy?
You’re welcome.
I seriously can’t believe you people actually fell for credit default swaps.
marc w - March 12, 2009
I hope that's not the new name of the site
Lookout Leslie would be terrible
seattlebruin - March 12, 2009
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