There isn't anyone left in Iowa to write about so lets just say Casey Coleman had a good start. Also, Esmalin Caridad should be back up in the pen. He has been very tough this year.
Trey McNutt struck out 3 and allowed 1 ER in 3 IP. I thought they would keep this guy in 1 inning situations to see how he responded to that role but if anything it seems he is getting stretched back out.
Javier Baez got the clown shoes. He struck out 3 times giving him a total of 5 K's in 8 AB's. Christian Villanueva was 2-4 and John Andreoli stole his 44th base of the year.
Michael Jensen had a nice start. Jensen worked 5 IP allowing 1 ER and striking out 4. Al Yellon was in attendance and wrote what I consider, to be, the most, tortured, (sentence of English, which is a language) of all, time,. This is Yellon describing Jensen's start: "He threw five very nice innings, holding Clinton to five hits and a run, and striking out four. He might have gone further than that, but something you'll see at this level, showing the difference in ability, dropped foul popups, extended at bats that should have produced outs."
Dan Vogelbach was 1-5 with a BB and the game winning HR. Vogelbach now has 9 HR's and an OPS over 1.000 over two levels so far this year. He's every bit the hitter that we heard about after last years draft. Trey Martin went 3-4 with at triple and is hitting .279. Vogelbach wasn't the only Hawk going deep as C Lance Rymel went 2-4 with a pair of dongers.
Duane Underwood got lit up failing to make it out of the 1st inning. Underwood gave up 3 hits and 3 ER including a HR and only retired one batter. On the hitting side Ben Carhart was 2-4 and looked stylish in his work coat while doing it.
Sullivan finally found a source. Hoyer. Who says it didn’t go down the way Sullivan
fabricateddescribed it. Which did not stop Sullivan from insisting on his version of events. I’m 99% sure Sullivan made this whole thing up to provoke a reaction from THoyer, who otherwise want nothing to do with his myopic, craven, uninformed and lazy brand of sportswriting.That’s some tasty English.
@ josh:
Or mistranslated German, or whatever it’s supposed to be.
Did Yellon even go to school? I have international students who barely speak English, and they regularly compose better sentences than he can.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I’m intrigued.
Baez is off to a pretty rough start at Daytona.
@ josh:
Sullivan said the Dodgers were mad THoyer let Dempster listen to trade talks on the phone. The Dodgers won’t even comment on the story, Rosenthal and Morosi, who seem to have the best sources in the LAD org, aren’t running with it, and today Hoyer debunked it. Sullivan is still running with it.
@ josh:
It’s like he’s trying to be Cicero, but has none of the actual skill or finesse with the language.
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
He transformed.
@ jtsunami:
Into KKKorey Patterson (dying laughing)
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Sportswriter drama, sounds like. That’s pretty funny; I miss all the fun stuff.
Baez will be fine. he brings the awesomez
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Is he bored because Aramis and Z aren’t around to pick on anymore?
KG on Vitters (not sure if $$ or not)
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17916
Mercurial Outfielder wrote:
So we shouldn’t
pencilink him into the 2013 starting lineup just yet?@ Mish:
$ *sad*
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/big-long-deals/
if you imagine christopher walken reading this out loud, it sounds normal.
@ mb21:
any idea where soriano’s contract falls on this scale?
@ EnricoPallazzo:
Needs more cowbell
Kaplan talked to Dempster, Dempster refuted the story. Sullivan fabricated this entire story. He should be fired without interpose delay. He is done.
@ EnricoPallazzo:
About $5.4 million per win. About. I’ll write more when I get home.
@ mb21:
This certainly casts a much better light on Hendry’s practice of backloading deals.
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Wrong! Rosendouche ran with it
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/chi-cubs-epstein-hoyer-have-credibility-issue-20120806,0,2316477.column
What’s funny, is that all the links in that story go back to articles originated by the Tribune, not another news source to corroborate.
@ Rodrigo Ramirez:
Well, now I should write a story on it. There are already two reputable sources confirming the story.
Sullivan didn’t lie. Theo admitted right after the trade that Dempster listened in. Now they’re covering it up.
My issue with Sullivan had nothing to do with Dempster listening in but about how the Dodgers would unwilling to trade with the cubs in the future.
Story was originally on cubs.com but here. http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2012-08-02/ryan-dempster-trade-listen-phone-chicago-cubs-texas-rangers-los-angeles-dodgers
@ mb21:
Yes, I’m aggravated he made that claim with no supporting sources. I guess that’s my biggest issue with all of this.
@ mb21:
My understanding is that the beef is whether the Dodgers were really angry about this or not. I remember them saying Demp listened in.
if anyone is bored at work, this is a pretty hilarious account of dempster’s marital troubles. i have no idea if it’s true and i personally don’t give a shit what goes on in other people’s lives, but i find the catty back-and-forth to be very amusing.
http://www.parlezsport.com/mlb/history.aspx/Ryan_Dempster
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/07/christian_sites_ban_on_g_word.html
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
I’m writing something about Eavesdropgate that should be ready this evening.
So, Tony Gwynn Jr.?
Dempster wouldn’t help cover it up for Theo. He doesnt work for them anymore. Honestly, the Dodgers never said a word about being “pissed” it was just Sullivan deciding they might be
@ Aisle424:
that’s priceless
@ EnricoPallazzo:
So Dempster was having sex with his kid’s nanny?
Ted Lilly: You know, the kids don’t look very taken care of. What happened to the nanny?
Dempster: Well, she’s here. She just didn’t get around to it.
Lilly: Oh.
(Nanny comes from Dempster’s bedroom.)
Nanny: Hi, Ted.
(She picks up her money from the counter.)
Nanny: Thanks, Ryan. Bye.
(She leaves.)
Lilly: Well, what’s the matter?
Dempster: What did I just pay for?
Lilly: Uh-oh. You’re a john.
@ mb21:
He did lie. He does not have one single source that confirms the Dodgers (a) knew anything about how the Cubs FO handled the trade negotiations and (b) that the Dodgers are pissed about how the Cubs FO handled the trade negotiations. Not. One. Single. Source. Rosenthal and Morosi seemed to have the best contacts in the Dodger FO. Neither of them have touched this “story.” The Dodgers have refused to comment, and both Hoyer and Dempster have contradicted Sullivan’s version of events. He has absolutely no ground to speculate like he has, and even less grounds to masquerade that speculation as the reporting of fact. He made this up out of an offhand, poorly worded comment from Theo. There is nothing to corroborate Sullivan’s initial story. It’s a complete fabrication.
Dont know if anyone seen this but it was in Jayson Starks most recent column
“So what’s up with that? According to baseball-reference.com’s fabulous Play Index, Camp was the first relief pitcher in the live-ball era to enter a game, face seven hitters (or more) and give up a hit to all of them. That’s what.”
So Darwin Barney is on like a 91-game errorless streak at 2B? Didn’t he get an error a few weeks ago? They must have taken it away or something.
@ WaLi:
I remember him botching a transfer on an attempted DP last week but that wouldnt count as an error
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
Unfortunately, since he’s a journalist, that will probably earn him a promotion.
@ WaLi:
He made an error at SS, not 2B.
@ WaLi:
Barney’s error (he had 2, actually) was while playing SS on Castro’s off day.
I should’ve said he had 2 errors, I think…not actually. I thought it was 2 errors in one game, but both happened while playing SS.
b-ref says Barney made 1 error at short, 1 at second.http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barneda01.shtml#standard_fieldingCorrection: just 1 error at SS. I misread it.
New shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/chicago-cubs/the-dodgers-may-or-may-not-be-pissed-that-ryan-dempster-may-or-may-not-have-heard-them-say-unflattering-things-about-him-on-the-phone.html
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
I don’t know what you mean by initial story, but here are Theo’s words:
Every outlet ran with Dempster listening because that’s what Theo said.
The article I linked last night was pure speculation. There are no lies. It’s just Sullivan speculating it might be difficult to trade with the Dodgers over this. I think it’s nonsense as I said last night, but Theo said Dempster listened in.
That Hoyer is now contradicting what Theo said doesn’t make the initial article false (Carrie Muskat ran with it too because that’s what Theo said).
Sullivan is a piece of shit and his article last night was nonsense, but it wasn’t because he fabricated a story about Dempster listening in. He was told, like other beat reporters were told at the same time, that Dempster listened in. It’s plain as day that Theo says Dempster listened in.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120801&content_id=35943810¬ebook_id=35945046&vkey=notebook_chc&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc&target=Z&source=PJ_AD:Z:MLB&affiliateId=21181&clickId=432093844&affiliateCustomId=skim32290X899567X098c39c5bb09c92ede13221a0fbe2181
This cannot be mistaken as anything other than Theo saying that Ryan Dempster came in to listen to the discussions.
I hate defending Sullivan, especially when I think he wrote a shitty article last night, but saying he lied about this is untrue. Maybe Sullivan was lied to by Theo (and so were the other reporters), but he and they were told Dempster listened in.