Today's featured comment
Today's entertaining featured comment comes from regular contributor Chris Joseph, who saw a little humor in my comparing Alfredo Simon's rocky outing on Saturday night in Washington to the Apollo 13 mission. Enough so, that he basically turned the whole thing into a mini-screenplay:
A mid-April phone call placed by Dave Trembley:
Trembley: Warehouse, we have a problem. It's been a week and none of my starters have made it out of the fourth inning. Hendrickson just broke a team record--12 hits allowed in a third of an inning. I need help ASAP or we're gonna crash!...Over.
Warehouse: Roger that, Skip. Help is on the way, but it's gonna take at least a year to get there. You'll have to improvise. Try sticking Baez or Albers in the rotation. If that doesn't work, we can always bring back Cabrera...Over.
Trembley: Cabrera? You gotta be kidding! This ship is already careening out of control. I need somebody who can get people out...Over.
Warehouse: What do you want from us, Skip? We already got you a Japanese guy...Uhura, Urethra...whatever. And we scoured the Mexican League for Alfredo Simon...Over.
Trembley: Hell, I'd rather have Paul Simon. Where have you gone, Rodrigo Lopez? A city turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo woo woo...Over.
Warehouse: I think you're losing it there, Skip. You better pull it together fast. Don't make me put Kevin Bacon at the helm. Failure is not an option!
Trembley: Oh no. Eaton just gave up his third grand slam this inning. It's no use. We're doomed! Maybe it's time to further my acting career. I made a really funny MASN commercial, and people say I look a lot like William Shatner (he's the guy on the left). Ahead warp factor one!...Trembley over...and out!
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Comments
Nice comment Chris!
Hey Peter, how aout talking to the Sun's web guru about having the various minor league teams game results being in a box somewhere on the front page? Since it looks like any encouraging news for the O's this year will be coming from the minors, an easily found boxscore for their games would be a nice feature.
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Pete's reply: Not a bad idea. I'd like them put on the blog under the major league line score. I'll get right on it.
Posted by: Roy | April 5, 2009 2:52 PM
This is off topic but why does everyone think that the Orioles are going to finish behind the Blue Jays? The blue Jays are not that good either. They have Roy Halladay and that's it. I'm not real familiar with anyone in the bullpen other than BJ Ryan and from what I have heard, his velocity is way down for some reason. They do have a few guys who can pop the ball (Rios, Wells)but no more than the Orioles. Yea, the Orioles have starting pitching problems. However, I think they are greatly improved from a year ago. This is the year that they get out of the cellar.
Posted by: Matt | April 5, 2009 3:44 PM
The Jays have an unbelievable bullpen that is so deep that Jeremy Acardo, their closer last year with over 30 saves, got sent to AAA. Their problem may be starting pitching but at least they have an ace.
I think this year's disappointment will be the Rays and wouldn't be surprised if they finished behind the Jays and in front of us.
Posted by: TerryP | April 5, 2009 7:48 PM