Thursday, April 29, 2010
Dickities 4
Astros 2
W: Arroyo (1-2) | L: Oswalt (2-3) | S: Cordero (8)
Sounds hard.
Ah, the familiar sweep. It’s been a little while, but that brings the Good Guys up to three of them in April. Let’s ‘cap this using the sorry crutch of the unmotivated – BULLET POINTS!
- For all his many virtues, JD sometimes makes a habit of dropping trou and depositing a deuce on the doorstep of the BBGs, with last night’s game being one example of the poor outcomes that generally result from such gall. During the opening loss in the series, Jimmy postured that Wednesday was effectively the rubber game, since Roy’s start was already a lock for the ‘Stros. This is obviously frowned upon, and a correction was inevitable. Given his nearly unvarnished track record of awesomeness, this transgression is excused, but try to keep that shit in check, big guy.
- Manzella flashed some serious leather out there last night. In its most defense-y form (Feliz, Manzella, Kaz), this infield is especially fun to watch, and the junior member is proving to be an excellent anchor.
- Flapjack engaged in some truly lackadaisical bullshit in the 5th inning, lazily allowing Stubbs to go first-to-third on a routine single to left. When the alternative is to charge past the ball and let everyone score, I suppose it could be worse, but c’mon… a little effort out there would be nice. You’re halfway to the infield as it is, it shouldn’t be that fucking hard to give the illusion that you’re capable of throwing out the runner directly in front of you.
- Roy looked pretty good, got dinged a little but never had the Oswalt Inning, and threw a bunch of pitches.
- Thunder Pants homered.
- Really, that’s about all I’ve got here.
Random: So, the missus has been bugging me for seemingly eternity to watch the second Twilight movie with her. I really have no idea why. Since I’ve been monopolizing the TV – and because I was assured that there would be reciprocation – I decided to be the nice guy and agree to watch this insipid piece of shit immediately following the game. And because I’m working on being a better human being, I even agreed to not point out what an insipid piece of shit it is during the movie.
As such, I have now ground my teeth down to painful little nubs, and I’m left to tell all three of you just how badly Twilight sucks, or this rage will consume me. Seriously, that was the worst clusterfucktastrophe of shit story, shit characters, shit dialog, shit acting and shit effects that I have ever suffered through, bar none. And yes, I’ve seen Waterworld. I mean, I knew it was going to be bad, but I had absolutely no idea that it was even possible to be that bad.
Someone who has read the books please give me some good news and tell me that they all die horribly by the end of it. And I mean all of them, because I couldn’t find a single redeeming character, or even someone didn’t make me feel all punchy and stabby. (Maybe the Dad, but even he should just be put out of his misery.) If it’s not the case that they’re all dispatched by some sort of fantastic emo-fey-monster-infecting virus, can you please, please just tell me that an asteroid falls out of the sky and lands on Bella? BECAUSE I HATE HER SO FUCKING MUCH. Lie to me if necessary, Thanks.
So yeah… Braves next. Go get’ em.