wierd baseball game

okay, i've tuned into the yankees/diamondbacks game in the hot ass heat in phoenix, excpet it's not in the hot ass heat. it's in the cool ass dome. lame, phoenix is lame. top of the first, dontelle willis on the mound.....walks jeter. jeter winds up on second somehow (i kind of passed out for a second and missed just how that happened) and nick swisher comes up next and knocks jeter's ass in with a hit. texeira is next.... willis can't throw strikes....full count, swisher takes off before the pitch and willis picks his ass off first....dumb. next pitch walks texiera. one out, alex rodriquez up....he walks on four pitches. tex on second, rodriquez on first, cano up....two quick balls from willis before he miraculously gets the ball over the plate twice in a row and even's the count...here comes ball three. three and two is the count now now...willis can't find the plate...here it comes...texiera goes for third!....no!....what the shit?!....cano strikes out, tex is out at third....three walks in the first, one run. terrible job by the yankees...horrible baserunning costs them a big inning. but wait......the diamondbacks still have their have of the first to embarass themselves...here they come! javy vasquez on the mound...leadoff hitter up....he walks on four pitches. jeeeez louise. batter number two up now...he singles. first and second, no out. batter number three comes in the guise of justin upton...he rockets a single into right...runner on second rounds third toward home and is headed to score....but HE stops half way....gets caught in a rundown and is thrown out.....just keep going!...he probably would have been safe even. come on?!....but now upton advances to second in the rundown, barely beating the tag. next hitter walks. bases loaded. one out...next hitter up..he strikes out. now two down and the bases loaded and laroche is up...he smokes one to right for a hit...two runs score......but......the big, dumb slow catcher is thrown out going from first to third....fuck! four dudes thrown out on the bases in one single inning. bad news bears style. did i mention the two pitchers combined for four walks too.......?

big questions on this day in baseball.

as i watch the baseball game tonight i find myself with two questions. which one do you wanna you answer first?.....i'll ask you the big one first. okay, so i want to get married to genevieve. i have every reason to believe she would want to marry me as well. i am a lucky dude (seriously, very, very lucky....you have nearly no idea. last week i found six thousand dollars. the proof is in the pudding, as they say....). okay, so that is not the question, not even A question, the question is "Should i try and get the Jumbotron at Dodger Stadium to say something like "hey genevieve baby, do you still wanna marry me?" what do you think? i think it would be almost funny. how do you make sure someone even sees something like that?...what if you're eating nachos or a pretzel or romaine leaves or something and you miss it? you look down and take a bite and just as you do it's scrolling by. bummer. you missed it. maybe you think they never even posted it and you want your money back and they show you a photo of it and you eating nachos and you have it proved right there, in your face, you missed it. bummer. when i was turning twelve or something, my dad had a happy birthday to me posted up at the yankees/angels game..i think i saw it. i must have, he pointed it out to me. i know i did but i can't quite remember seeing it, just like santa clause, but that's another story. vote yes or vote no. thank you for playing.
question number two.
why don't they have swisher bat third for a few weeks and put texiera in the number two spot in the order? i think it'd be great. take a little pressure off tex for a second, don't make him "have to be the guy" all the time. baseball is so mental, we know this. let him just chill. i know he's getting paid getting paid crazy money to be "the guy" but it could be a nice break is all i'm saying. this is where the plans starts to crush though....swisher in the three spot. he's like watch lou pinella or paul o'neill right now. i love the way he thinks and plays out there the dude is raking right now...hits, liners, homers...he is awesome this season and hasn't really hit a cold spell (as i write this i'll probably jinx him, fuck no, i'm too lucky for that) and he is having the time of his life i bet. let him hit third and knock in jeter and tex who's still walking plenty and gettin some hits. alright, this will never happen. you know it, i know it. it may not even matter but i'm just saying. tex looks like a bad number three hitter right now and swisher is fucking killing it. let's do it....start the campaign now. write to the new york yankees at new york yankees, new york, new york, usa. thank you.

baseball last night!

(does anyone know who the catcher of the reds is at the moment? I don't know his name but i just saw him take his mask off during this cardinals vs reds game that i'm watching. he looks amazing. like al hrabosky, the mad hungarian, or sal fasano. huge handlebar moustache and a beard.....plus he's kind of fat. simply put, the dude looks awesome. why don't ballyplayers look like this anymore? they have mohawks now. pretty lame.)
i digress. i'm sorry. facial hair on ballplayers is not gonna be the point of this. (though i will be able help to help a good deal of these poor dudes out when i become a barber next year.) the point is that at any moment you can see something totally unique happen when you play or watch baseball. i just saw the tigers pitcher come within one out of throwing (THE THIRD ONE OF THE YEAR!) a perfect game, having it saved by one of the best catches i have ever seen from the centerfielder with no outs in the ninth, only to lose it with two outs in the ninth on a blown call on a play at first base that could have, and should have been, the final out. i felt terrible for the ump who blew the call. i know he's been doing it for a long time. he a much respected guy in the game, by all accounts a great ump..but he blew it, he even came out after and apologized. it was very sad. more exciting though was the fact that this pitcher still got 28 outs in a row in one game!....move over harvey haddix!
i than watched scott rolen get hit by a line drive running the bases, costing the reds the only real threat they had against the cardinals....this guy is not exactly a bone headed baseball player. he knows how to play the game the ball was a heat seeker. it was determined to find him......
....or how about our last Sunday Game? i managed to make one of the best catches of my life, dead on the run from left field. the ball was lined into the gap toward center. by all of my usual standards this is a tough ball to get to. i didn't think i would do it when i first saw it come off the bat, but as i took off, i saw i was getting closer and closer to it. i eventually ran it down on a dead sprint straight across. it hit my glove so hard that it nearly took it off my hands. i rate it as one of my best accomplishments. as much fun as laying on the beach in mexico, it just didn't last as long.
so that's the point. baseball is awesome. at any point, anything can happen and it usually does, when you least expect it, when you want it most.