Comments on: Joba, offense dominate Philly

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:39:51 +0000

Harold Reynolds suggested the Rays put Price in the bullpen and the Mariners put Morrow in the bullpen. I don’t know what’s with his obsession of putting potential stud starters in the bullpen.

By: Andy In Sunny Daytona

Andy In Sunny Daytona — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:17:25 +0000

http://sadtrombone.com/

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:03:45 +0000

Dan Plesac: “He’s the ultimate set up guy.”

He is. You know who else was the ultimate set-up guy?

Every good pitcher ever.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:01:04 +0000

Ben, How do you find time with law school to do TWO blogs?!!!

Easy: Both the blogs are crappy.

http://www.instantrimshot.com

(I keed, I keed.)

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:59:33 +0000

I blame Joe Torre.

No, seriously. I’m not saying that in the usual, snarky “I blame ARod” sense. I think a huge portion of this whole B-Jobber nonsense is Torre’s creation. He is friends with a lot of these NYC mediots. We know he’s incapable of managing a bullpen (or even a pitching staff in general). He has proven himself to be the type of guy who would demand to be given the right to use Joba as a closer (in the face of all reasonable baseball wisdom – wisdom that he dismisses as voodoo science). That’s why Cashman had to put Torre on a leash regarding Joba, because he wanted to make it clear to Joe that Joba was NOT going to be a long-term pen option.

I’d wager dollars to donuts that Torre was planting seeds of “I think Joba should be in the bullpen and Dummy Dumb Dumb Cashman won’t let me make the smart baseball decision to put him there” in the heads of all his Post and Daily News buddies.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:54:11 +0000

Out of genuine curiosity, why do you keep switching names? Do you want to throw people off the scent of your Bo comments, like an MI6 double agent? Do you alternate between the two for shits and giggles? Or, have you legitimately crafted two personalities for yourself, a “Bo” and a “Grant”, and you go into fugue states – like sometimes, “Grant” is in control and “Bo” is sleeping, and you wake up and don’t know what has happened, like Cornelius and Tyler Durden?

Because I hate to break it to you, but if you’re suffering from multiple personality disorder, you’ve got a pretty crappy version of MPD, because both of your two personalities are indistinguishable from each other. Both “Bo” and “Grant” are irrepressibly, clinically depressed and should each see a mental health professional.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:47:11 +0000

unless he is traded for another bad contract.

you never know.

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:45:55 +0000

Mitch Williams = Kenny Powers

By: steve (different one)

steve (different one) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:44:33 +0000

This whole bullpen thing is really a devil unleashed by the Yanks. Had they never used him in the 8th in 2007 to keep his innings under control, this debate would never have occurred to anyone.

of course, this should have absolutely no bearing on whether they should have done it or not.

it helped them to the playoffs and with a little better luck, maybe gets them to the WS.

who cares that it spawned a bunch of stupid arguments in the media? that’s not how you should make decisions.

By: A.D.

A.D. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:10:34 +0000

Good that Joba is settling in, and got to face some major league competition