We Messed with Texas

I realize the Texas Rangers have dominated the AL West for most of the season, but the Jays make them look bad. I mean, Vernon Wells out powered Vlad Guerrero for Pete's sake. Guerrero muscled a homer off Marcum that went to the second deck and everyone went "Woah".

And then later in the 4th, Vernon Wells found a Feldman pitch in his sweet spot (the ball had powdered sugar on it) and said "Vlad, please" when the ball landed on the fourth deck near the Tom Cheek sign. Wells was just doing his part to remind you that we all have to vote for Tom Cheek for the Frick award.


Jose Bautista, who over the weekend tried to kill a man with the B in Jackie Robinson sign, hit an opposite field 2-run double. The versatility is staggering. Plus John Buck and Adam Lind had homers, too.

Shaun Marcum had 8 strike outs and has been generally quietly fantastic in the second half. I'm making t-shirts that say "Change is inevitable. And filthy." Just for Marcum.

Listen to this and tell me something Champagne wishes and caviar dreams?

The only thing sweeter that might have been that the Rays put an absolute beat down on the Red Sox. The Jays have been unable to do anything against them, so it's nice the Rays can.

I visited SOSH, and boy, it was a little rough over there. Some highlights.

Over? Nothing is over until we decide it is!

Just to piss everyone else off, the Sox go on a tenacious winning streak and payback is in order again tonight! It's us against the world.

DICE LOOKS DOMINANT.

And then the third rolled around, and shit got real.

And tonight's Dice-K meltdown inning is ... the third.

God, I fucking hate Dice-K.

The last member of the Red Sox I hated this much was David Wells. Fuck Dice K and his fucking $100 million dollar price tag. All that choice, and you pick David Wells?

Is he like tipping the fastball or something? They seem to know whats comming.

They always do this. You know what's really easy to hit? Shitty pitching. Shitty pitching doesn't need to be tipped. It announces itself that it's "comming."

Can the Jays just catch these suckers and finish third? PLEASE?!?!?!?!

This is just comedy now. Can't believe I'll have to root for these assholes against the MFY.

I can't believe these assholes are calling Tampa assholes. Tampa is one of the more likable teams around.

Thank you, Dice-K for extinguishing the final faint flicker of hope some of us had.....

Yeah cause it's Dice-K's fault you people are delusional.

And nearly every game thread has a crown jewel moment. This is this ones.

Is there not some cultural reason why, if Theo looked Daisuke in the eye and said, through whatever interpreter was needed, that we do not think you are a major league pitcher, and you have disgraced our uniform, that Matsusaka would walk away from the rest of the contract, and return those fees we had to pay just to talk to him. And, this is what we get for letting NY scare us into signing this guy. Name a Japanese born player, other than Ichiro (and Dave Roberts) who was worth anything after his first year or so. Matsui? Barely



So racist, so insulting to a person's intelligence....disgraced the Red Sox uniform? Are you kidding me? Quit because of honour? Why, because he's Japanese, he should give back the money? Because if Theo looked him in the eye, he would step down because of the "honour"? Do you not remember Dice-K pitching for you in the 2007 World Series? The "cultural reason" Dice-K would never do that is because he isn't an idiot. An interpreter would be useless because Dice-K wouldn't be able to understand him through all the laughing. If he took a sword and sliced open his stomach,would you be satisfied if it was someplace on Yawkey Way or do you think it needs to be right there on the mound?

And 'Matsui, barely'? Are you high??!?!?!?!? That dude was extremely valuable to the Yankees for 7 seasons. His second season in 2004 he had a .298 average with 31 home runs and 108 RBIs and in 2005, Matsui hit .301 and had 108 RBIs. They didn't call him Godzilla for nothing.