Surprise!
Surprise!: Surprise of the week, nay the month, has to be Dice-K’s lockdown performance last night. I’m not gonna lie- my typical pre-Dice-game routine involves stocking up on a month’s worth of emergency rations to last me through what usually is an eighteen hour game, as well as two month’s worth of alcohol to drink away the pain. Well, the joke is on me because he pitched six scoreless innings in a game that ended before 10pm. Take that, me!
Not surprising: Journalists and bloggers used approximately 1.45 million different puns on Dice-K’s name in their headlines and post titles this morning. Everyone’s been hoarding Dice-K puns for so long, they just couldn’t contain themselves any more. DICE, DICE BABY! SNAKE EYES!
Other surprising developments over the last week or so (maybe two weeks, whatever!) while I’ve been so cruelly torn away from these here interwebz?
Surprise!: Someone out there is angling to get Jonathan Papelbon into the Cy Young debate. The AL Cy Young “debate” should begin and end with Zack Greinke, with a little Felix Hernandez thrown in for spice – and any writer’s attempt to shoehorn Papelbon into that group pains my soul.
Not surprising: Papelbon did not know a closer has won the Cy Young Award seven times. Our lil’ Rhodes Scholar isn’t paid to know baseball history, people!
Surprise!: Paul Byrd is a farmer! Billy Wagner has his alpacas, Paul Byrd has his pumpkins.
“It was ready to go, but I planted like 50 pumpkins and I’ve only got four,” Paul explained. “And all of my tomato bushes died. My corn died. My cucumbers grew but they’re crooked. So what I discovered was — soil is extremely important, so is following directions, and I’m a ballplayer, not a gardener. But I guess the positives are that I have four pumpkins.”
Not surprising: Buster Olney’s guess that the Red Sox would trade for Prince Fielder in the offseason is being shot down left and right. Why? Because there’s little chance Theo will trade Clay Buchholz or any of his other pitching binkies.
Surprise!: Big Papi’s blogging again! And apparently Victor Martinez isn’t afraid to use physical violence to motivate him.
Victor keeps me going during the game. Oh, yeah. He’ll be screaming at me, he will punch me. He’ll do whatever it takes.
Not surprising: John Henry’s radio silence has ended, and now he’s blogging at NESN. He’s the Curt Schilling of ownership, except with more money and a younger wife.
Um, Paps didn’t know that a closer had won the Cy Young? I know he’s not the most brilliant guy on the face of the Earth, but wasn’t he sitting next to one Eric Gagne for half a season? You know, the 2003 NL Cy Young winner. Seriously, does he clue into anything?
I’m starting to love V-Mart more and more every day. Anyone who can fire up Papi like that is fine in my book. I love that new duo.
Aw, come on, I know he’s a MFY, but throw Mo a Cy bone too. He’s been back-to-fantastic. (I agree it’s ultimately Greinke though.)
So much goodness in this post — it makes me smile. I was sorry to have to miss last night’s game, as I know it was a good one, but duty called, as it probably will for awhile (I’m embarking on a massive decluttering project for the sake of saving my health and enabling me to move to better quarters). I’ll be around when I can. Thankfully there are great bloggers like Texy to keep me in touch with all things Sox!
voters are generally idiots, and will discredit Grienke because he can’t buy a win in KC. Watch CC/Verlander end up getting more votes. Also, Papelbon in any discussion for cy young is utter nonsense.
But woo hoo for Dice K! That means I wont have to see Paul Byrd pitch Game 4 of the ALDS!!
I couldn’t believe my eyes at that Daisuke performance – particularly because when it was over, it was 9:55! Unbelievable!
Shouldn’t the title of that article be changed from “Papelbon enters Cy Young debate” to “I enter Papelbon into the Cy Young debate…but it will be a short debate because no one else but my dumb ass thinks he belongs in the debate”?
Yes. Let’s throw the fourth best closer into the Cy Young debate. Brilliant.
Prince Fielder would be nice, but could someone explain to me why getting either Pujols or Mauer is out of the question.
Wouldn’t it be great to get Mauer and instantly quell everybody’s fear of him overextending himself at catcher by supplementing him with V-Mart? How about adding the best player in the game, wouldn’t that be great? Sure they could both resign with their respective teams, but can you envision an off season where the top two FAs sign on the cheap? I cant. Especially when considering that this will all be happening around the same time the league will be trying to get a draft slotting system in place and promoting free agency as the great equalizer.
I would love a masher on this team, but we aren’t beggars.