Damn Springtime Yankees
There was a lot of things to like about last night's game. One being that it was on tv and they weren't playing in snow. The other thing was like Jo Jo Reyes pitched himself a dandy, until he got a little tired and the pitches flattened out. He mixed his pitches and they had nice movement. He worked quickly and confidently. It took a little of the sting out of the loss of Brandon Morrow to the DL.
And then David Purcey arrived and ruined everything. The other great thing about this game is that it doesn't count.
With the DL addition, the rotation seems set at Romero, Cecil, Drabek, Reyes and Litsch. I'm ready for this season to start already.
In other news,
L.A. Times T.J. Simers opening question to Marcus Thames went like this, "Are you that horrible on defense that teams don’t think it’s worth playing such a home run threat?"
Wow. He goes on to write, "Maybe somebody else wastes time schmoozing with Tims/Tems, but he’s a one-year rental who has some explaining to do. How bad are you on defense that teams don’t dare risk playing you?"
Maybe somebody wants to feel like a big man by taking another guy's performance personally and also behaving like an asshole for no other reason than being an asshole and trying to seem cutting edge and relevant in the ever more populated realm of sports writer. It drives me nuts when people hide behind truth telling and use it as an excuse to be a jerk. Thames resisted the urge to punch this smug SOB and merely smiled in response.
Curtis Granderson defended Thames via Twitter. Through a blog on MLB.com that he wrote while he was a Tiger, I found Granderson to be one of the nicer and more grateful ball players around. He is just decent. And the stank of pinstripes can't even cloud that.
Even his Thames defense is polite and accommodating:
But Curtis, Simers problem is that he has no shame!