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Don't We Always Suck in OpenersJason Bay and Jose Castillo picked great days to suck. Both of them stranded 7 runners on base. The absurdity of this statistic is that they bat three spots away from each other, which means we had a lot of base-runners going nowhere today.This game was quite winnable (you'd like to say that everytime Duke starts, but not when he gives up 7 runs) despite the 8-3 score. With a little more timely hitting we could have really broken our 14 hits (FOURTEEN HITS!!!) into a big day. I'm starting to thing that maybe our offense is much improved, although I credit that mainly to Jack Wilson and Jose Castillo not tanking it early, as they've been apt to. But I can't imagine that lasting, much like it didn't today, so hopefully the pitching staff will be able to pull it together so that we don't have to suffer too much longer, but really, what's another few seasons of this. Because the game wasn't worth sacrificing my job over, I just pulled in the audio, and while I listend I read this Urban Legend piece on Doc Ellis and his 1970 LSD induced no-hitter. His 1974 BeanFest and his account of diving out of the way of what he thought was a line drive, had me cracking up pretty good. posted by Rory at 4:53 PM | |
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