“RANTS” Baseball Rant

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Rick here It is currently 2:55 am Eastern time and here comes a random/tired/bored tangent right is coming in one word. NOW! I am watching the movie “Casino.” I am absolutely convinced throw Pesci, DeNiro, and Scorsese in any movie and it would be a classic. Seriously it could be with Gilbert Gottfried and it would be a great movie. Actually now that i think about that i should write a screenplay with that premise.

Anyway our faithful readers i want to thank everyone that checked out our page and read our blog. Its appreciated like you would not believe. Again we encourage comments we want to encourage debates and thoughts and conversations. We are here for you guys. OK lame tangent number 2 is ova!

• So tonight i watched Joba’s third start. I consider this a real start because theres a higher pitch level that actually allowed the world to see what the future can look like. To quote Lloyd Christmas “I like it alot!” His velocity was up. His first inning he threw 6 pitches. He came out looking to get outs and not be perfect. He showed that he needs to shorten his stride to the plate when he was pitching out of the stretch. I have been a big believer that Joba needs to be a starter. Why? Heres why: 6IP, 1ER, 6H, 4BB (2 intentionally), 2K. Ok so the hits and the walks were nothing to be dazzled by. You may say “Rick if he is goin to be an Ace shouldn’t he be striking out more than two people?” It does not matter how you get the outs as long as you get the outs. He allowed 1ER. Thats really good. I say Joba will be a shutdown pitcher like Roy Halladay eventually, when that day comes, watch out baseball world! Jobawill need some more experience as far as learning how to change speeds, when to use your pitches andchanging locations on both sides of the plate. Every pitcher needs to learn this hell even Josh Beckett had to re-learn pitching after coming into the American League. I would love to see a little more of a change up in Joba’s arsenal. Beastly fastball, Nasty slider, and a good change up would be devastating. Joba’s move into the rotation and growth of pitch count has now given the Yankees stability in the pitching rotation.
• Wang, who returned to form the other night, and Pettitte with a solid outing last night as well have shown that if they are on their game this team can really fly. Moose has been a big shock to most of the baseball world as i have written him off multiple times and told him he sucks via shouting at my tv again multiple times. I hope he does not use up all the good innings in June and has the tank on empty come September. Darrell Rasner has shown me alot with the exception of his last start. My homeboy Phil Hughes was said to be “healing nicely” Yankee Brass has said it will be a couple of weeks before he throws the ball again. Some newspapers say early august some say late august. I would love to see him be healthy and be a lethal 1-2 combo of Joba and Hughes that will truly show what the Yankee fans have to look forward to for the next hopefully ten years. I hope Hughes is rocking the Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn glasses or maybe the Horace Grant goggles. I am not so much sold on Kennedy i believe he has moose’s stuff now but it is not the 30 year old Moose that was a strike away from a perfect game in Boston (CURSES TO YOU CARL EVERETT!) Kennedy has 38 year old Moose stuff. Its fine when you know how to pitch, when you’re 23 years old and kind of look like the guy from MAD magazines id be a little worried. I’d rather see Carl Pavano on the mound and the only way people are seeing Pavano is on the back of milk carton. I know people say this all the time but New York got to him. I can’t believe i actually wasted 23 words on him. Shame on me. Anyway Kennedy not so good. I still believe Hughes will be an amazing number two. Nice 93-94 mph fastball and knee buckling curve ball He also has a two seam fastball in the low 90s that has more movement and according to Wikipedia, you know the best source for everything, he has a slider and “developing change up”. I think his fastball, curve ball and change up would be enough with him stuff. I love Hughes. I think he will be great once he gets healthy. Just you wait. You read it here. Joba and Hughes- Beastly 1-2 in the next couple of years and will cause headaches for the rest of the division for years to come.
• So does Joba serve better in the 8Th or as a starter? After his start tonight im convinced I am right in this one. I’d rather have some one shut down a team for 7-8 innings every five days or Game 1,4,7 in a playoff series than have himsit out there chilling with Mo because Kei Igawa cant get the team out of the 2nd inning. Joba wants to be a starter. After seeing what he can do over the period of 88 pitches the key number is 1…As in 1 run allowed. Rick For the Win!

it is now 3:23 and Casino is still on. Sharon Stone’s character just told Sam Rothstein “freak you sam rothstein freak you” okhonestly this sounds retarded and wierd and honestly a little freaky. Its 3:23 i would hope there are no children watching casino in the first place i would hope they are not watching at now 3:23 in the morning. Can’t we do the Comedy central thing and uncensor things after like 1am on the weekends. Cable censorship is killing great movies. YEESH.

I appreciate you guys taking time to read all this. Anthony is most likely on his 11 dream and im tryin to get curses on tv so yea you can see how bored i am right now. Anyway ill let ant finish this up in the morning than publish it. We argue about Joba a couple times a week and he is not sold on Hughes yet. So just you guys wait his take will be interesting. Again loyal readers we ask for any comments, feedback, oppinions on the discussion it will be great. Anthony will update some time later. I believe i’ll have something on NBA finals game 5 depends on how busy my fathers day is between chilling with pops and old man softball i’ll try to get it out. Let me know what you guys think. Im finally off to bed. – Rick

Hello Bloggers,

Ant here – I would just like to say that Joba will be an ace. I was always in favor of him being a reliever, but I have now been sold that he is a starter and he will be dominate. I think as long as he develops a good off speed pich, the kid will be dominate. He is a special pitcher and will be a special pitcher for many years to come. As for Hughes I completely disagree with Rick. I think he can have the stuff to be very good but i dont see him being better than Wanger. Wang is coming off 2 19 win seasons. I think that Joba will only be the ace because he will be so dominating and intimidating that he will become the next Roy halladay of the mlb. Wang could go to most MLB teams and become there ace but he just happens to be on the yanks, and eventually joba will assume that role.  Kennedy is a bum, he just needs to go. Thats all i will say about kennedy.

Thanks again for reading.