"Your pitcher could be a Cy Young winner."
"We cure what ails your team."
They are currently the Anna Benson of Major League Baseball. They travel around city to city, letting entire baseball teams fuck them.
watching Zito last night confirmed my belief that if i were LH, i'd still be pitching.
I thought that it was just me. Zito didn't look special last night. But we couldn't hit him.
He gave up 13 runs in his previous two starts. He's not fooling anyone...except the Astros.
Did they really looked fooled or just inept?
Lane, the pop ups were very bad, but didn't have to be Zito for that to happen.
I'm getting sick and fucking tired of Lane admiring his routine fly balls as if he were the Red Messiah.
Interesting note in Olney's ESPN pay-per-blog: http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=olney_busterBasically he points out that in Zito's prior start, Oakland (who know him very well) loaded their lineup with their big lefty hitters, and relegated the righthanders who are usually featured against lefties to the margins of the batting order or the bench. Zito struggled horribly against the lefties. Going into last night, lefties hit him at a .309 clip with a .491 slugging percentage, while righties were limited to a .218 BA and .327 slugging. The Astros, by contrast, went with the all-righthanded lineup and were shut down.
It's amazing how he can look like he can mash a baseball but the end result is warning track power. Too much upper cut in his swing. Classic low ball hitter who won't hit a middle to high fastball squarely.
