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cknox0723 · 08-29-2006, 06:51 PM

Being as the regular season has ended, I could get all up on you with tables and pump you full of statistics and standings and recaps and lessons to learn for next year. But I won't, for one simple reason.

For these Pale Hose, there's still baseball to play.

So let's get to it. Game 1, ALDS, at Seattle's Safeco Field. Our pitcher is left-hander Mark Buehrle, who threw 242+ innings this season and ran up a 17-8 won-loss record and 2.79 ERA. He won't win the Cy Young, not in a league where Pedro Martinez had an ERA nearly a run lower and not when John Lackey won twenty for a .500 ballclub.

But what a shot of confidence it is to have such a pitcher on the mound, especially with an opponent as unassuming as Clint Nageotte, a 26 year old rookie right-hander with a 14-10 record but below-average 4.66 ERA. He's starting the first game of the playoffs because the stupid stupid AI pitched ace lefty Odalis Perez in the last regular-season game and ace righty Tomo Ohka the game before that. The Mariners had already sailed to the division title by then; presumably these guys needed to pitch so the club could lock up the best record in the league.

This game...this damned game...so frustrating sometimes. Things like that make me want to throw OOTP Out of the Computer.

Then, for kicks, I clicked on Nageotte's game-by-game record. Apparently he has started against us twice this season; in the fifteen innings he pitched, we've only scored one run (none earned). Here's the merest of mentions of the first lockdown; the second was sometime in August, after I clicked the "sim like crazy" button.

Fingers crossed that the third won't be in October, right here and now. Time to find out. Hope you're right here right now to follow along in real-time.

08-29-2006, 06:51 PM	#850
cknox0723 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 1,957	the beginning of the end Being as the regular season has ended, I could get all up on you with tables and pump you full of statistics and standings and recaps and lessons to learn for next year. But I won't, for one simple reason. For these Pale Hose, there's still baseball to play. So let's get to it. Game 1, ALDS, at Seattle's Safeco Field. Our pitcher is left-hander Mark Buehrle, who threw 242+ innings this season and ran up a 17-8 won-loss record and 2.79 ERA. He won't win the Cy Young, not in a league where Pedro Martinez had an ERA nearly a run lower and not when John Lackey won twenty for a .500 ballclub. But what a shot of confidence it is to have such a pitcher on the mound, especially with an opponent as unassuming as Clint Nageotte, a 26 year old rookie right-hander with a 14-10 record but below-average 4.66 ERA. He's starting the first game of the playoffs because the stupid stupid AI pitched ace lefty Odalis Perez in the last regular-season game and ace righty Tomo Ohka the game before that. The Mariners had already sailed to the division title by then; presumably these guys needed to pitch so the club could lock up the best record in the league. This game...this damned game...so frustrating sometimes. Things like that make me want to throw OOTP Out of the Computer. Then, for kicks, I clicked on Nageotte's game-by-game record. Apparently he has started against us twice this season; in the fifteen innings he pitched, we've only scored one run (none earned). Here's the merest of mentions of the first lockdown; the second was sometime in August, after I clicked the "sim like crazy" button. Fingers crossed that the third won't be in October, right here and now. Time to find out. Hope you're right here right now to follow along in real-time.