Christ, I can't stand this midget asshole!
Remember a few days ago, when our favorite little munchkin said this?
I keep waiting for the news that Joba's first start has been declared an instant national sports holiday.
I guess Lupica doesn't really think Joba's first start in the majors is a big deal, right?
Then two fucking days later, he writes an article about Joba's first start!
I thought it wasn’t a big deal, mini-bitch?
He's just crying because Joba's first start is so much more appealing than Pedro's first start.
They turn Yankee Stadium into "American Idol" Tuesday when Joba Chamberlain gets the ball against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Actually, "they" will be playing a baseball game. No one has mentioned a reality TV show except, as usual, a sad sports columnist who had to play "reality sports" as a child...because no one picked him to play on their team.
The Yankees put as much on a young pitcher, even one who can throw baseballs 100 miles per hour, as they have on any young pitcher they've ever had.
How? By asking him to start a game as opposed to relieve in a game? Is anyone asking, or even hinting, that Joba has to be the savior of the 2008 Yankees?
They are asking a starting pitcher in the minors, who has had success as a major league reliever, to be a starting pitcher in the majors. Is it that big of a stretch?
It's like Hank Steinbrenner and Yankee fans voted often enough and now a kid who was pitching in the low minors a year ago gets a start in the big house, ready or not.
Ready or not? What the fuck is Lupica talking about? He was a starter, now they are making him a starter. Get a grip, asshole.
They have had just about everything since they have been Steinbrenner's Yankees. They have had more money and more controversy than everybody else in baseball. They have brought the World Series back to the Stadium. They have given us Joe Torre and Derek Jeter and A-Rod and Roger Clemens and Rivera and Posada.
Did you notice he said Rivera? This will be important after a few more lines of bullshit…
They have given us four million in attendance and $200 million in salaries every single year and remain the greatest (regular-season) baseball show on earth.
Yay! $200 million! Now we KNOW Mike Lupica MEANS BUSINESS.
I like how the little dick says that Steinbrenner's Yankees are the greatest regular-season baseball show on earth.
Is there another baseball team owner out there that has 6 or more world series titles?
The Yankees have given us everything except this:
Except a pitching phenom.
I like the overuse of the word "except."
Let me try that word in a sentence…
"The Yankees never had a pitcher from their farm turn into a phenom, except MARIANO RIVERA!"
How is a pitcher, regarded as one of the best, if not the best, closer of all time NOT considered a phenom?
Why do I hate Lupicock? I have no idea.
The Yankees don't develop pitching. They buy it used.
Because, as everyone knows, the Mets and Red Sox have their pitching staffs full of guys from their farm system, right?
Mets Best Starting Pitchers (ERA) In The Last Ten Years
2008 - Santana…NOT FROM FARM
2007 - Perez… NOT FROM FARM
2006 - Glavine… NOT FROM FARM
2005 - Pedro… NOT FROM FARM
2004 - Leiter… NOT FROM FARM
2003, 2002 - Traschel… NOT FROM FARM
2001 - Leiter… NOT FROM FARM
2000 - Hampton… NOT FROM FARM
1999 - Leiter… NOT FROM FARM
Red Sox Best Starting Pitchers (ERA) In The Last Ten Years
2008 - Dice K… NOT FROM FARM
2007 - Beckett… NOT FROM FARM
2006 - Schilling… NOT FROM FARM
2005 - Wakefield… NOT FROM FARM
2004 - Schilling… NOT FROM FARM
2003 - Pedro… NOT FROM FARM
2002 - Pedro… NOT FROM FARM
2001 - Wakefield… NOT FROM FARM
2000 - Pedro… NOT FROM FARM
1999 - Pedro… NOT FROM FARM
Yankees Best Starting Pitchers (ERA) In The Last Ten Years
2008 - Wang… FROM FARM
2007 - Wang… FROM FARM
Need I even finish the rest of the list?
Nice job, Lupidick!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Joba's First Start; Lupica Nauseates...
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Wang was also the ace in 2006 at 19-6 with a 3.63.
2003 it was Pettitte at 21-8 with a 4.02.
And in 2002, Pettitte was 13-5 with a rotation-best 3.27 but missed about 11 starts due to injury.
2000 was Pettitte too, at 19-9 and 4.35.
Which further reinforces my point that the last phenom starting pitcher the Yankees brought up was Andy Pettitte who's won 15-plus games in 8 seasons and has 206 for his career.
So the Yankees have pulled Guidry, Pettitte and Wang out of their system. That's a franchise starter in 3 consecutive generations before Joba or Hughes even come into the picture. How many teams do that?
Who was the last homegrown Boston franchise pitcher before Clemens? How about since Clemens?
Who's been amazing out of the Mets system before Doc Gooden? How about since then?
In fact, the Yankees have given more farm guys - for better or worse - shots at making the big leagues than any other team I can remember. Even if it's just a couple of fill-in starts, they give guys a chance. And that goes back to the Championship years.
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