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Baltimore @ Kansas City


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  Today's Starting Pitchers GS IP ERA WHIP BAA BB K W-L
Garrett Olson - LH 2 13.0 2.08 1.08 .174 6 13 1-0
Brett Tomko - RH 6 (7) 34.1 4.98 1.46 .285 11 21 1-3

Brett Tomko is a pro-fessional. He's pitched for the Reds, Mariners, Padres (two occasions), Giants, Dodgers, and now the Royals. He has never been good. Past 126 innings as a rookie in 1997, Tomko's best season was 2004 with the Giants, when he posted a 108 adjusted ERA+ over 194 innings. He's had a bunch of seasons where he hovers just below league average, and then a bunch where he's quite well below league average. The best you're getting out of Tomko, ever, is him not absolutely killing you.

I've always liked Brett Tomko, for some reason. How could you root against this guy?

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What a dude. He still seems very hopeful, as if any year now, it'll really all come together. Of course, he's a millionaire baseball player with a decade's worth of big league experience, and I'm in my mother's basement in my underpants with Fruity Pebbles resting on my fat gut and barbecue sauce stains on my shorts.

One part of that is true! Game time is 7:10 on MASN.

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Gotta love Adam Jones

“I told the pitchers, I’ll go through the wall for you. If it’s over, I can’t do anything about that.”

Love that kid.

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:14 PM EDT   0 recs

Let's go Nicky

Let’s go Nicky…

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:14 PM EDT   0 recs

Hey, no bunting!

There’s fundamental baseball – get a guy on and let a hit move him over!

And yeah, Brett, it’s all your cleats fault.

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:15 PM EDT   0 recs

Supposed to really rain after midnight

so it looks like they are going to try and get this in beforehand

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:15 PM EDT   0 recs

Nick Markakis Facts

Nick Markakis once roundhouse kicked himself in the face.

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:16 PM EDT   0 recs

Also

Nick Markakis can kill two stones with one bird.

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Sometimes

Brett Tomko strikes out Nick Markakis.

That’s why the play the games.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 7:19 PM EDT   0 recs

Thanks, Herm Edwards

:)

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Razor's out

Left wrist hurt.

And the lineup gets better.

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:21 PM EDT   0 recs

MILLAR! Dong!

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:22 PM EDT   0 recs

MILLAH

Nice homer, fake cowboy.

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:22 PM EDT   0 recs

Why am I annoyed that Mora is actually doing well at the plate this year?

I liked rooting for him to fail. I still do, even. Why?

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 7:23 PM EDT   0 recs

.252

Well, maybe I’m wrong.

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 7:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

doing well??

He’s got a fucken .308 on-base percentage.

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by SC on May 10, 2008 7:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He’s hitting good right now, he sucked a lot last month.

by getxstoked on May 10, 2008 7:24 PM EDT   0 recs

Tarp's coming out

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:25 PM EDT   0 recs

How crazy is it

that it was umbrella give away night at Kauffman?

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:27 PM EDT   0 recs

Umbrella Giveaway Night

What are the odds?

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:27 PM EDT   0 recs

Dumpsey

Someone please tell him they’re not the Irilliles?

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:28 PM EDT   0 recs

Rain delay means...

I’m watching the Nats game, and wondering about Nick Johnson’s copstache

by getxstoked on May 10, 2008 7:29 PM EDT   0 recs

And

They really need a new episode of this.

by dtuck81 on May 10, 2008 7:29 PM EDT   0 recs

We may have some competition for last place

Vernon Wells broke his wrist.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 7:31 PM EDT   0 recs

Can you all help me settle something

at RR?

Is there such thing as a “Maryland accent”?

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on May 10, 2008 7:34 PM EDT   0 recs

"Baltimore accent" is more accurate

Or even “Dundalk accent”

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 7:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

But to answer, yes. There definitely is.

In fact, if you go to that video of the Baltimore cop beating up that teenage skateboarder that was big news a couple months ago, you can hear it.

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 7:36 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Thanks!

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on May 10, 2008 7:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You want to hear a really good Maryland accent

Pick up a copy of The Wire and listen to the guy who plays Lt. Mello.

by Stacey on May 10, 2008 8:07 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Several, depending on the part of the state

Even on the shore, there’s different variations. Somerset’s different than Talbot and different than Cecil. Let alone Dundalk and Oakland…

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 7:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh, I know

I just remember Maryland being where people “talk normal” because I lived there when I was single digits years old.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on May 10, 2008 7:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The DC suburbs have no accent.

For example, there is no Montgomery County accent. People there talk about as normal as you can get. But the rural areas totally have an accent, as does the Baltimore area.

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by spike2131 on May 10, 2008 7:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think that's a class thing

Kids from Newton, Mass don’t have an accent either.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 7:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Because they are not true marylanders

They consider themselves washingtonians, and are a hodge-podge of people from around the country. Fuck ‘em.

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 7:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

and fuck you!

ya’clown.

ronnie's a dillweed.

by j.q. higgins on May 10, 2008 8:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

up yours

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by spike2131 on May 10, 2008 9:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Just some friendly ribbing

..although I notice neither of you actually said that I am wrong!

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 9:31 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No, you do have a point

being from there, I can tell you there are a lot of people like that. They are called “Nats Fans”

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by spike2131 on May 10, 2008 9:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

hahahha

My parents moved from the midwest and always used to laugh at the Baltimore accent.

When I hear it, I consider it home.

by drj on May 10, 2008 8:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Nothern Maryland, including Baltimore, is typically lumped into a “Mid-Atlantic” dialect along with Philly. Watch Water’s Pink Flamingos for some Baltimore dialect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimorese

The Maryland accent gets much more southern as you get into the Southern Maryland.

by drj on May 10, 2008 8:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dice-K

Looks pretty bad.

He’s walking guys left and right, and he’s giving up a lot of line drives.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 7:53 PM EDT   0 recs

I know

He’s going to get squashed really soon.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on May 10, 2008 7:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

in fact...

when i was looking at top pitchers in the al on bp the other day, matsuzaka was the only dude really in sniffing distance of cabrera wrt walk rate amongst the top 10/15 dudes in vorp.

ronnie's a dillweed.

by j.q. higgins on May 10, 2008 8:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

He just made a pitch that will make sportscenter

The ball slipped out of his hands and went about 10 feet.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 8:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

gyro-eephus

it was intentional

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 8:09 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Rain delay farm update

Wieters just hit his 8th HR of the season. I want to say that we haven’t had a prospect like this since Markakis, but I think he’s a better prospect than Markakis.

Arrieta looks so far: 3 innings, 3 K, 0 BB, 1 ER. He’ll be in Bowie along with Wieters before long.

Liz struggling a bit: 3 ER in 5 IP and 4 BBs. Penn pitches the nightcap for Norfolk.

Moore keeps digging: 0-3 with 3 Ks.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 8:02 PM EDT   0 recs

Any word on if this'll get played?

Another double header would suck.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is on USA if anyone wants to pick up any additional Dr. Jones-isms.

by Stacey on May 10, 2008 8:04 PM EDT   0 recs

i'm telling you...

raiders is on next and i think the best lines villain lines from the series belong to bellocq!

ronnie's a dillweed.

by j.q. higgins on May 10, 2008 8:06 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Why on earth

are they on backwards? I caught the end of Last Crusade, now Temple is on, then Raiders? The hell?

by Stacey on May 10, 2008 8:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

definitely

Temple, Last Crusade, Raiders. Although when I was a kid I preferred Temple for the monkey brains and eyeball soup.

by Stacey on May 10, 2008 8:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What's the buzz on Indy 4?

I’m guessing it will be even worse than Temple, but you never know.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 8:17 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Worse

if only because we’re not kids anymore. If you watch a movie now that you loved as a kid (ie The Goonies) you still love it because you loved the way it made you feel when you watched it as a kid, and you can recapture some of that feeling by watching it again as an adult. I guess sequels can do this as well to some extent, but all you gotta do is look to the Star Wars prequels to see an example of how it failed miserably. It sure doesn’t help matters that George Lucas is responsible for a large part of the shaping of the new Indy….

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 8:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

It'll probably suck

But I’m still looking forward to it. I can’t help myself.

by Stacey on May 10, 2008 8:22 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No shame in that

Die Hard 4 was watchable, so I guess that’s the gold standard for sequels to awesome trilogies from back in the day.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 8:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Too funy

Just watched Raiders on DVD during the rain delay. They LOVED it.

"Terrible what passes for a ninja these days..." -Pops Racer

by duck on May 10, 2008 9:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

This rain-delay call-in segment on the radio is just horrid

Why do only idiots call in to these shows? I’m about ready to turn off my radio.

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 8:30 PM EDT   0 recs

Any update

Is this one getting in?

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 9:05 PM EDT   0 recs

the weather in KC looks like -

GOD IS PISSED.

Wind/rain/the animals marching two by two….

by getxstoked on May 10, 2008 9:09 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

They were going to start it a few minutes ago

but it started to rain again. Not a heavy rain, but “a wind blown mist.” It seems like the re-start is imminent, though.

by PhilR8 on May 10, 2008 9:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

good.

I’ve been watching the Nats game and it’s not pretty.

by getxstoked on May 10, 2008 9:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Since I talked trash about Dice-K

He’s been unhittable. BoSox up 4-2.

by dkdc on May 10, 2008 9:17 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You got to be careful with those jinxes

They can sneak up on you…

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by spike2131 on May 10, 2008 9:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yay, baseball!

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