Comments on: Jake Arrieta’s Night in Rochester

By: dan the man

dan the man — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:47:25 +0000

Yeah you do hate player comps, I forgot about that. Hehe.. you’re right, but I guess I’m thinking in terms of what kind of pitches he has, and then factoring in his cockiness. 95MPH fastball, solid breaking stuff, possible douche bag = Josh Beckett. Although our guy is way hotter.

Brian’s a good looking dude, if you like short guys. But I’m talking strictly facial features, here.

I lied about having a post at 2PM clearly. It didn’t happen but fortunately Andrew saved the day. P.S. your girlfriend should totally start posting here as “Andrew’s Yankee-Loving Girlfriend”. It’d be a big hit.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:31:15 +0000

@Greg – He totally is. My Yankee-loving girlfriend and I often wonder why pitchers are such a fugly race of creatures, but Arrieta triumphs not only over them, but over basically every other baseball player on the scale of attractiveness (our current most attractive players are, in no order, David Wright, Nick Markakis, and Joe Mauer). Seriously.

As far as comparing to Josh Beckett…I won’t go there, because a) Beckett is one of the top pitchers in baseball and Arrieta is a solid AAA guy, and b) I hate player comps. They are used to get a ballpark idea of what a player is like, but we already have that with Arrieta.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:17:07 +0000

Wow, I am so psyched about Jake Arrieta now that I’ve just read that. I heard he was cocky and that’s what we need around here. We need our own crop of Yankee-hating players. We already know Adam Jones is one of them, he’s talked about making Yankee fans cry already. Arrieta is another. Felix is a guy who might be able to get under a team’s skin. We’ve seen Tillman show emotion on the field and Bergesen is a real gamer. Reimold, too.

I like.

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:59:40 +0000

I really think we as fans lost a great deal when Arrieta’s blog was taken down earlier this year. The guy was cocky, in a good way. You don’t get to see the human side of athletes as much with the corporatization of sports. My favorite excerpt, taken from this discussion thread on Camden Chat:

“My warm-up pitches in the bullpen were comical because of a Yankee fan chirping in my ear the entire time. After ever pitch he would say, “Jeter is going to knock that around the park, you better throw something better than that.” I tuned the douche bag out after a couple of pitches and really cranked it up to get ready for my outing.”

Jake, you had me at “douche bag”.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:57:59 +0000

For whatever reason, I have this Arrieta/Beckett comparison in my mind. Are they really as similar as I think?