Toronto FC host the Chicago Fire today at BMO Field where they'll hope to maintain their perfect record at home. Kickoff is 4pm
With Derek Jeter the lone unscathed member of the "core four" after the Sports Illustrated, looks at the left like the Yankees are taking steps to keep the captain healthy in Boston this weekend, at left. The Yankees beat up on Josh Beckett again in a 10-3 win, but lost the ridiculously hot Robinson Cano in the process after he was drilled on the knee by Beckett. He's day to day.
Reason for optimism for Toronto Blue Jays fans: Sports Illustrated has them ranked #10 in their latest power rankings.
Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden - and that is required information so you know who and what he is - is still chirping about A-Rod running across the pitcher's mound a few weeks back and openly talking about revenge, including a fight because that's the way they roll from the 209. Yes, he referenced his area code from Stockton, California. If I'm A-Rod, I laugh, and then on the first conference on the mound, dance on it, and spit on the rubber when running off the field. For a guy who trumpets himself as a team guy while trashing A-Rod as playing for the name on the back of his jersey - which doesn't exist, by the way - Braden sure says "I" a lot in this piece. Very appropriate initials in DB for a D-Bag. Rodriguez lone response was to say he didn't want to add to Braden's 15 minutes of fame.
Have a great Saturday.
9 comments:
so much for Dallas Braden being nobody...
Yeah, a guy who is a career 17-23 with an ERA closer to 5 than 4 and gives up more than a hit an inning through four seasons is a REAL somebody. Maybe in Toronto, but nowhere else.
But hey, he did beat the second best team in baseball today with a perfect game. Shame he couldn't top the first.
A perfect game puts him in the record books, and forever a part of baseball history. And his feat isn't tainted...
Trust me, the 17-23 et al are very much a part of the record book too.
But I'll take multiple MVP's, World Series champion (with more to come) and eventual home run record holder over a single perfect game win for a guy who is barely a household name in his own household.
A-Rod on the perfect game: "good for him, even better that he beat the Rays." Well done, Alex. Go Presidential on it and not give the pretender any rub.
Wow, the vanilla Derek Jeter was asked about Braden's saying it was "his mound" and got off this gem:
"Did he bring it from home?"
Nice work, El Capitan!
Your hating on Braden like he's some bum. Dude is 26 and is enjoying his third straight solid year, and obviously just made history.
Gotta love Bradens grams saying A-rod can "stick it" when reporters asked her about him after.
As gfor A-Rod his career is tainted, and even if he does get the hr record, those years in texas where he admitted to using PEDs should be left off. I'm not worried though, cuz regardless, Pujols is going to make that record clean once again...
Also loving Burnett getting shelled.
5-4 and 8-9 the last two years with an ERA around 3.9 in arguably baseball's weakest division is "solid"? Maybe this year's 4-2 is on the road to solid, but he's not in that category yet. That's ignoring his 1-8 opening season.
However, once again, maybe as a Blue Jay that works, but by any other measure (that is to say, that of good teams), he's a guy who anybody thinking would say shouldn't be talking about anyone, nevermind an annual all-star and one of the game's all time greats. He's not Curt Schilling, not even close, to be talking about other guys.
Pujols will have a tough time breaking it even in the weaker NL, which has helped his numbers, because he doesn't get DH days to rest some. That, and there is plenty of speculation he's three years older than advertised so he may well be 33 which makes the gap of 213 between the two a lot larger. A-Rod was at 464 in his age 30 season, or 91 ahead where Albert is today. Pujols also has a far more extensive injury history which surely can't be ignored.
When talking about starting pitchers, "wins" is a silly stat. Anytime a guy has an ERA under 4 for a period of time, I consider that solid. Don't see that as a stretch by any means.
And no mention of Bradens perfect game at all in todays edition?
Of course you discount wins being you're a Jays fan - that's the only way you can keep a hold on hope. There is more than plenty of writing out there that suggests ERA isn't the measure either, but I don't lean on any one stat like you do apparently, and at least went with the traditional stats (W vs. L, ERA) and added a newer generation stat (nodding towards WHIP).
If you've ever paid attention, you'd know that anything discussed in the comment section the day prior doesn't get discussed the day after. Pretty simple. Don't need to document that, it has been that way for years.
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