Game 28 - Plenty of ‘K’s Left in the Scrabble Box
May 1, 2008 by Tuffy
Didn’t see the game. My apologies. I had some sleepin’ to do. So… good job, The Second Base Tenor. Dos homers son mas grande. (I think.)
However, I’m here to discuss a little matter with Jeremy Bonderman, who heartily ate 7.2 innings and 100 pitches in the win. Two earned runs, five hits, only two walks. Nice work. Uhm… except…
One strikeout. One K. Ún K. Special K. One-third of Strom Thurmond’s youth. K.
That’s a damned lot of balls in play. Look behind you sometime, would you? Outside of that handsome devil in center and perhaps that home run hitter to the right of second base, do you see anyone back there you want to depend on every fifth game? Really?
So… good job, son. But, y’know, maybe strike some people out next time? You’re waaaay off your pace for K/9 this year and it’s making us just a little nervous. (Okay, a lot nervous.)
(Representation of Bonderman’s evening in coloring book form graciously provided by Sesame Workshop. Please give, won’t you?)
If Ernie’s tied to a K, then why is Bert stuck on a lowercase “t”?
Ernie and Bert’s sexual confusion confuses me.
Also, wouldn’t Patrick from SpongeBob be more appropriate?
My theory (although I didn’t watch the game either) (but maybe it’s a good thing because they’ve won the last two games I’ve missed) (I’ll die if I’m cursed) is that Bondo tries to strikeout too many batters and instead throws a boatload of pitches, thus walking and NOT striking out that many. This game he just pitched to contact and sailed (besides the first) through 7.
Also, I wish someone had watched the game because I heard that The Mig Tilde did some sort of forehead to forehead rub in celebration of Polanco’s 2nd homer and you know I’m DYING to see that.
I am so printing that out and coloring it. I hear printing out blogs is all the rage now.
Use your “unbridled rage” crayon, assuming another writer hasn’t already chewed it to scraps.
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I appreciate pitching to contact, but it requires a vicious ground ball rate and decent fielding. Also, it’s not super easy to sustain. So, y’know, sprinkling in a little more Vitamin K will help make this a complete game.
mmm vitamin K.