'Are you going to pitch like a man today?'
Considering it is Winter Meetings and stuff is, you know, totally happening, I figured I better write a little something. I just started a new job and as a result, I'm a bit brained but I'll try to pull myself together.
Derek Jeter and the Yankees, surprising no one and probably irritating a least a few (thousand) with the drama, agreed to a 3-year, 51 million dollar deal, keeping Jeets in pinstripes. Jeter says he was "angry" about the process and the dithering on the part of the team, but now says that he, Steinbrenner and Cashman are "a big happy family." I'll exhale now.
Adrian Gonzalez was traded to the Boston Red Sox, becoming the newest guy that will surely irritate me. He is Latino, so I'm sure SOSH will come up with some sort of vaguely racist and totally assholish nickname for him when Gonzalez fails to live up to some sort of delusional expectations they have. Great hitter, though.
Shaun Marcum, Toronto's resident Chucker, is now a Brewer. Marcum was fun to watch pitch. Dude was what you call crafty. He jokingly called his fastball a warmer, as opposed to a heater. He took a no-hitter into the 7th and only gave up a hit to the Oakland A's in August. Oh, whatever the A's. Well he did it to the Rangers in April, too.
Pat Hentgen, in the broadcast booth earlier in the summer, called Marcum a bulldog. That he was so competitive that his mindset for every hitter he faced was "Do you want to go? Cause I'm ready to do this."
Marcum used to ask the other pitchers before their start, "Are you going to pitch like a man today?"
"Every start, somebody says something about it," Marcum said of the unofficial motto. "I think it loosens us up a little bit and everybody goes out there and tries to pitch like a man, go deep in the game and give the team a chance to win." Marcum also doesn't cry on the radio.
Pitched smart. Pitched ballsy. Pitched after TJ surgery. I'll miss him as one of ours.
Visit Getting Blanked for Parkes' stellar postings on the Winter Meetings. And re. Scott Carson saying Kyle Drabek is too short to be an ace at 6'1". I often say I don't trust pro athletes that are so close to my height. But I mean it as a joke. As is much of Carson's post.
Derek Jeter and the Yankees, surprising no one and probably irritating a least a few (thousand) with the drama, agreed to a 3-year, 51 million dollar deal, keeping Jeets in pinstripes. Jeter says he was "angry" about the process and the dithering on the part of the team, but now says that he, Steinbrenner and Cashman are "a big happy family." I'll exhale now.
Adrian Gonzalez was traded to the Boston Red Sox, becoming the newest guy that will surely irritate me. He is Latino, so I'm sure SOSH will come up with some sort of vaguely racist and totally assholish nickname for him when Gonzalez fails to live up to some sort of delusional expectations they have. Great hitter, though.
Shaun Marcum, Toronto's resident Chucker, is now a Brewer. Marcum was fun to watch pitch. Dude was what you call crafty. He jokingly called his fastball a warmer, as opposed to a heater. He took a no-hitter into the 7th and only gave up a hit to the Oakland A's in August. Oh, whatever the A's. Well he did it to the Rangers in April, too.
Pat Hentgen, in the broadcast booth earlier in the summer, called Marcum a bulldog. That he was so competitive that his mindset for every hitter he faced was "Do you want to go? Cause I'm ready to do this."
Marcum used to ask the other pitchers before their start, "Are you going to pitch like a man today?"
"Every start, somebody says something about it," Marcum said of the unofficial motto. "I think it loosens us up a little bit and everybody goes out there and tries to pitch like a man, go deep in the game and give the team a chance to win." Marcum also doesn't cry on the radio.
Pitched smart. Pitched ballsy. Pitched after TJ surgery. I'll miss him as one of ours.
Visit Getting Blanked for Parkes' stellar postings on the Winter Meetings. And re. Scott Carson saying Kyle Drabek is too short to be an ace at 6'1". I often say I don't trust pro athletes that are so close to my height. But I mean it as a joke. As is much of Carson's post.