12 Replies to “Big Wet Kisses From the Ghost of Granny Hamner (CraigC)”

1. Patrick says:

   July 5, 2008 at 12:04 am

   Yeah, wow, thanks for that.

2. happyfeet says:

   July 5, 2008 at 2:32 am

   I like how you said please.

3. SevenEleventy says:

   July 5, 2008 at 6:05 am

   I take it your not a Yankee fan!

4. BJTexs says:

   July 5, 2008 at 7:06 am

   Taylor Bucholtz got the win? Phillies castoff? Sweet, sweet irony.

   This quote from the Yahoo AP story cracks me up:

   “Until Gregg blew his second straight save, left-hander Scott Olsen was in line for the win despite allowing nine runs (eight earned) and 11 hits— including three homers—in five innings.”

   What would they say to him after the game if he had won? Nice win? Way ta chuck ’em, sparky?

   I suspect Jeff would agree that games like these cause hardcore baseball fans REM nightmares and waking hallucinations, win or lose.

   That having been said: TWO MORE!!!

5. Jeff G. says:

   July 5, 2008 at 8:46 am

   Ridiculous game. They’re showing flashes of last year lately: never say quit, having fun.

   Still, they need starting pitching beyond Cook and Jimenez (of late) if they’re going to have a prayer. When you are praying for the return of Kip Wells, you know something is wrong. Told you they should have picked up Lohse last year…

   At any rate, I don’t think they’ll be able to sign Atkins (actually, I take that back: this team draws well, and if they were smart and not so fucking cheap, they’d sign him along with Holiday to big deals), which means he could be gone before the trading deadline. Which would be a HUGE mistake, unless he brings a top of the rotation starter and a good prospect. Similarly, look for Fuentes to get traded, with either Bucholz or Corpas taking over the closer role — weakening the bullpen. Then, next year, it’s Holiday’s turn to wave bye-bye, because the Monforts will cry poor — and because Scotty B will milk some team for an A-Rod-type deal.

   The Rockies overestimated their young pitching and now they’re going to have to pay for it. A shame, too, given that they needed to make a few tweaks to improve on last year’s team, but instead they pretended to spend big, locking up Corpas and Tulowitzki who, frankly, weren’t yet proven over the long term.

   We have so many prospects aging down at AAA that I can’t for the life of me understand why we are making due with a rotation that includes Mark Redman and de la Rosa — and a learning-on-the-job Greg Reynolds.

6. Sdferr says:

   July 5, 2008 at 9:16 am

   Apparently Seattle is talking with other teams about Eric Bedard (already? jesus, they just got him, didn’t they?). Any Rockies rumors on that front?

7. Jeff G. says:

   July 5, 2008 at 9:38 am

   Only in my dreams. We should have been in that sweepstakes early on. But no, we’ll get some “prospect” who will never pan out, instead.

   We need another top of the rotation starter to go with Cook. Francis, when he’s healthy, wins games — but he doesn’t have the kind of shut down stuff Bedard has. Jimenez has the best stuff in the league, but he’s still raw, and — though he’s greatly improved over the last couple months — tends to throw too many pitches, and walk too many men.

   I think Kip Wells can act as a nice stop gap, but adding Bedard would give the Rockies a formidable top 4 in the rotation, provided your number four starter is Francis. Then you could move wells or de la Rosa to the 5th slot and have a deep rotation.

   Instead, they’ll probably figure out a way to bring back Josh Fogg or some shit — and let their prospects age some more. We’ll be told that we need to be patient and wait for Jason Hirsh to heal, and for Franklin Morales to discover his release point.

   Fuck it.

8. Sdferr says:

   July 5, 2008 at 10:16 am

   Take heart, man. I’m stuck still pulling for the miserable O’s after all these fucking years. Some of the happiest days of my baseball loving life spent in the gen. admission seats in left at Memorial on 33rd. You know what I mean. I grew up an idiot believing smart baseball was the only kind there was and now have spent the last twenty years unlearning that laughable bit of stupidity. Soul crushing reality. Being an idiot, I still don’t believe Obama can be elected. I got a feeling I’ll never learn.

9. Patrick says:

   July 5, 2008 at 10:29 am

   Here in Philly, they’re already complaining (on the radio, at good-karma machine WIP) that Bedard wouldn’t be man enough to be successful here. You see, he doesn’t like to throw more than 100 pitches. People are freakin’ crazy.

10. Sdferr says:

    July 5, 2008 at 10:40 am

    I think he’s had arm problems last year: he’s still in recovery and will eventually get his strength back if used carefully.
    As to Philly, the first game I attended there was a home opener in ’88. I have two vivid memories. The Philly fans mercilessly booing Mike Schmidt’s first at bat because of some crap they had read in the paper a few days before. (Who are these people?) And the sound of head hitting concrete as the bourbon drunk guy who was sitting in front of me fell down the stairs when he passed out on the way to the bathroom in the fourth inning. (Oh, that’s who they are!)

11. JD says:

    July 5, 2008 at 11:21 am

    My Cardinals, on paper, should have been mathematically eliminated somewhere around Memorial Day. Not really sure how they are still hanging around.

12. CraigC says:

    July 5, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    I just had a good feeling about that game, and once the Rockies got two on with nobody out, I knew they were gonna pull it out. ‘Course, it helps when the second-baseman boots a room-service double-play ball, but when things are going your way…. Just like I had (for some reason) a feeling Manuel leaving Durbin in to hit last night would work out. He cost the Phils the game I went to in Oakland last week by not taking Moyer out when he went out there.

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