Waters Wet Behind the…Nevermind
This “let’s use the fact that the dude has ‘Waters’ in his name to come up with clever phrases” thing is getting out of hand. Today alone, Schmuck says “Thirsting for more Waters” while Orioles.com stretches it all the way to “Orioles turn to H2O to quench their thirst for a sweep.”
Ouch.
I want to remind all my fellow writers and editors out there of a little bit of wisdom from the Book of Job:
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Now, meditate.
But be finished by 1:35 because that’s when the man himself takes the hill against Matt Harrison and the Texas Rangers.
Let’s clear one thing up early: Waters will not duplicate his performance against the Angels. He won’t. But that doesn’t mean he can’t have a good game and throw well enough to get the sweep, which is I think all any of us would ask.
Here’s hoping.
As corny as “H2O” sounds coming from Orioles.com, they make up for it by saying that’s his clubhouse nickname. What a ridiculous nickname!
How about C-Wats?
C-Wats is much worse than H2O. I despise the first initial-first few letters of last name nickname fad. Sure, it works for A-Rod, and it can even stretch to B-Rob or K-Rod, but can totally be more clever than that.
I’ll give h2o the same deal as last time. Go 6 innings and I’ll be happy. All you have to do is pitch well enough to go 6 innings. Here’s hoping. A sweep would be huge.
“Ice cold as Waters freezes the Rangers”
Rangers Washed Away in Baltimore
Noooooooot good. Not good at all. I think we probably saw Waters on one of those nights where everything was working perfectly. Pitchers say something to the effect of: most days there’s things wrong. But every once in a while you get a special day where everything just clicks into place. But you might only get like 2 or 3 of those days a year. Add into that the idea that there’s at least some report on Waters now, and you’re down 4-0 in the first. Now it’s can he adjust back?
It sure didn’t help that Cintron dropped an easy pitch which opened the (pardon the pun) floodgates on Waters.
But whatever, it’s early. Knowing how much we’ve battered the Rangers’ bullpen these first two days, and that Matt Harrison has 53 baserunners in under 31 innings…this is going to be a smashmouth kind of game.
Yes, it’s true. All that time I spend thinking about baseball has made me …good at talking about baseball.
Thaaaaaaaaaaank You.
“Hot Waters steams Rangers”
i always hated the first letter first syllable thing too until i thought of patrick ewing’s which made me laugh.
also even though i don’t watch much baseball i would like to see this headline in a few years:
Yankees No Match for Wieters/Waters
I’ll settle for: Yankees Eliminated by Orioles
I’d settle for:
A-rod Found with Farm Animal
or:
America Realizes Jeter’s Overrated and Looks Like a Nocturnal Rodent
Ouch. That inning stung.
“Waters In Too Deep With Rangers Bats”
We kind of all saw this coming, didn’t we?
No big deal though. A series win is a series win.
A series win! I’ll drink to that!
Hey, know what’s wonderful? Fuck the yankees! Yesssssss.
Oh hey, I’m giving you all advance notice so no excuses except for neal, becuase he loves the ungers more than us.
next tuesday, luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke shirt night, loss column. i’m going back to rochester afterwards, loss column night. red sox. t shirts. 50 millionth fan. loss column night. com’on!
Ok. Well, now today I’m thinking about the rest of the season and the struggle to .500 (which relies on huff not getting traded, no major injuries, and jay payton playing well…it doesn’t look good).
We’re 4 under this morning, with 45 games to go and that suspended 12th inning away at home affair. There are 8 series remaining that are must-wins for us (cleveland, detroit, new york, oakland, cleveland, minnesota, toronto, and toronto).
That leaves 6 series that we will most likely lose (boston, rays, boston, rays, white sox, yankees in the farewell).
So, honestly: oakland and cleveland is probably balanced out with tampa and boston. toronto and new york is probably balanced out. So our .500 hopes comes down to two things: playing to expectations against those 6 teams, which is .500 ball; and playing well against Minnesota, Chicago, and Detroit.
Bum-bum-bum.
the white sox have been backpedaling lately, we may be able to take that extra innings game with the hot bats.
That game is going to be weird. We have already benched the following players:
Huff (ejected)
Quiroz
Payton (that’s gonna hurt the defense a ton)
Jones (DL’ed)
Sarfate
Walker
Sherrill
Johnson
D. Cabrera
Are you ready for the Alex Cintron DH?
And if the Orioles are really smart, they’ll call it a throwback resumption and come out in ’66 road unis. Won’t happen though – you assume the White Sox only take road greys on the road with them and you can’t have 2 teams wearing the same drab color at once.
Schmuck’s reporting that Jamie Walker cleared waivers. No shock there, but they can flip him to someone, while eating at most 4.5 million dollars, and get something back for him, then we just turned two bullpen guys, one of whom was struggling horribly, into two more useful players (you hope) and freed up a bunch of cash. That would be a great set of deals for MacPhail. If it happens.
Who’s tired of Sarfate? I am! I am! He can’t throw his fastball for strikes, and they’re sitting on his offspeed stuff and driving it. He looks terrible out there.
I’m guessing Trembley tells Dennis to suck it up and throw 6 innings even if it takes him 300 pitches. And then when he comes out, he tells Dennis that he should just go back to the bullpen forever.
Just posted up the Open Thread for this game…and I’m in complete agreement on Sarfate. Let him take one for the team tonight and then let us never, ever speak of him as a starter again.