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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

CLOSING GAMES AIN'T LIKE DUSTING CROPS, BOY
So, remember that scene in the original Star Wars where the Millenium Falcon is escaping the Death Star, and Luke and Han are in those turrets shooting the laser cannons at the TIE Fighters? Good, I thought you would.

Anyway, the Falcon takes a couple of hits, and Luke starts whining, and Han yells out to him, "Don't worry, she'll hold together."

The ship immediately takes another hit, and then Han mumbles to it, "Hear me, baby? Hold together."

This is like me and Francisco Rodriguez. (I am Han Solo in this scenario, which is sweet. K-Rod is the Falcon. I don't know who Princess Leia is -- I drive by this billboard of Gisele every day, so let's go with that.)

I keep insisting he'll be okay, and then he comes in and makes Miguel Tejada look the fool for a couple of pitches. Then -- boom -- just one pitch that's a bit up, and we have a one-run game.

No me gusta.

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This is apropos of nothing, aside from Rob linking to an idiotic feature at BPro (he links to mock), and then that link having something interesting linked in it. Y'see, the guys at BPro keep track of the hitting stats of all the guys a pitcher faces, so we can see what pitchers have faced the best hitters. You can see that list here.

I have learned two things from this list:

1. Ervin Santana has, to date, the second-most difficult set of opponents in the major leagues.
2. There is a man on this Earth named Seth McClung.

Anyway, the average opponenet faced by Ervin has an AVG/OBP/SLG line of 268/337/426. I don't know how meaningful that really is, but there you go.

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