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Thursday, May 08, 2003
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9:54 AM
by Sean
The Angels won an ugly one last night, 6-5. I didn't stay up for it, but that's probably a good thing, since Lackey's performance would've just aggravated me: 5.1 IP, 5 ER, 12 H, 90 pitches.
This was Lackey's eighth start of the season - enough to get a sense of how well he's been pitching, certainly - and he's been pretty consistent. His current 7.38 ERA is right in the middle of the range he's posted all year - a low of 5.40 and a high of 8.38. Scioscia says that he thought Lackey pitched better than his line score would indicate last night, and that may well be true, but there ARE those other seven starts to consider. And if you can't get the Indians out, when the Indians are second only to the utterly hapless Tigers in terms of offensive futility, something has to change.
Kevin Appier and Aaron Sele return from the disabled list to pitch tonight and tomorrow. Jarrod Washburn and Ramon Ortiz are established in the rotation. Between Lackey, Callaway, and Scot Shields, who absolutely deserves another start or two, the Angels ought to be able to find someone who can turn in six fair-to-middlin' innings every fifth day.
In other news: here's something I missed, somehow. Apparently, on Tuesday, MLB CEO Bob DuPuy said that when teams without "tradition," like the Angels, win the World Series, it's "bad for baseball." DuPuy is quoted in the L.A. Times as saying "Anaheim was a wonderful story, the whole deal. But outside Southern California, to a fan in Montana, the Anaheim Angels just doesn't connect."
Right. Perhaps Mr. DuPuy would be so kind as to give us a list of teams that do "connect," and the rest of us will do our best to roll over and lose gracefully to them. Fat chance, numb-nuts! Gee, you think that maybe pissing and moaning about teams that don't wear "NY" on their uniforms might be just slightly inconsistent with MLB's policy of expanding the shit out of the league? "What? Well, sure you can have a team! Just don't, you know, win. Now where's our $350 million?"
I'd also like to know why Montanans suddenly became so important to Major League Baseball. Has Bob DuPuy ever actually met someone from Montana? Bozeman's a long way from Manhattan, Bob, in more ways than you can count. I don't think they're raising a lot of Yankee fans out there these days.
The Angels won an ugly one last night, 6-5. I didn't stay up for it, but that's probably a good thing, since Lackey's performance would've just aggravated me: 5.1 IP, 5 ER, 12 H, 90 pitches.
This was Lackey's eighth start of the season - enough to get a sense of how well he's been pitching, certainly - and he's been pretty consistent. His current 7.38 ERA is right in the middle of the range he's posted all year - a low of 5.40 and a high of 8.38. Scioscia says that he thought Lackey pitched better than his line score would indicate last night, and that may well be true, but there ARE those other seven starts to consider. And if you can't get the Indians out, when the Indians are second only to the utterly hapless Tigers in terms of offensive futility, something has to change.
Kevin Appier and Aaron Sele return from the disabled list to pitch tonight and tomorrow. Jarrod Washburn and Ramon Ortiz are established in the rotation. Between Lackey, Callaway, and Scot Shields, who absolutely deserves another start or two, the Angels ought to be able to find someone who can turn in six fair-to-middlin' innings every fifth day.
In other news: here's something I missed, somehow. Apparently, on Tuesday, MLB CEO Bob DuPuy said that when teams without "tradition," like the Angels, win the World Series, it's "bad for baseball." DuPuy is quoted in the L.A. Times as saying "Anaheim was a wonderful story, the whole deal. But outside Southern California, to a fan in Montana, the Anaheim Angels just doesn't connect."
Right. Perhaps Mr. DuPuy would be so kind as to give us a list of teams that do "connect," and the rest of us will do our best to roll over and lose gracefully to them. Fat chance, numb-nuts! Gee, you think that maybe pissing and moaning about teams that don't wear "NY" on their uniforms might be just slightly inconsistent with MLB's policy of expanding the shit out of the league? "What? Well, sure you can have a team! Just don't, you know, win. Now where's our $350 million?"
I'd also like to know why Montanans suddenly became so important to Major League Baseball. Has Bob DuPuy ever actually met someone from Montana? Bozeman's a long way from Manhattan, Bob, in more ways than you can count. I don't think they're raising a lot of Yankee fans out there these days.