{"id":4886,"date":"2011-09-17T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2011-09-17T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:55:54","slug":"changeups-and-screwballs-a-southpaw%e2%80%99s-perspective-for-91511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4886","title":{"rendered":"Changeups and Screwballs: A Southpaw\u2019s Perspective for 9\/15\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kershaw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4887\" title=\"kershaw\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kershaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Who does <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duncash01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Shelley  Duncan<\/a><\/strong> think he is?\u00a0 He must think he is the man he makes sure all bad things happen in 3\u2019s.\u00a0 Bad joke\u2026maybe.\u00a0 But bad defensive outfielder\u2026not last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Why in the world was <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kershcl01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Clayton  Kershaw<\/a><\/strong> ejected for that pitch the other night?\u00a0 And I better not hear the argument that he was attempting to seek revenge on Parra, either.\u00a0 That means that you are telling me one of the best pitchers in baseball, a Cy Young frontrunner if you will, wanted to hit a guy and couldn\u2019t do it?\u00a0 That\u2019s crap.\u00a0 And so was his ejection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0You know Joe Maddon is cooler than a New Mexico winter when he doesn\u2019t mind playing tricks like this\u2026in the middle of a chase for a playoff spot.\u00a0 And to think, that was poor little <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moorema02.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Matt  Moore<\/a><\/strong> making his MLB debut.\u00a0 Was it the trick that gave up this shot though?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0The Astros lose again. Weird.\u00a0 At least <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/norribu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Bud  Norris<\/a><\/strong> made this play; otherwise it was just another day at the corral for Doc Halladay.\u00a0 You know the kind, one where he goes the distance, throws a shutout, only issues one walk mixed in with a healthy helping of strikeouts, and makes it look easy.\u00a0 Man that guy is good.\u00a0\u00a0 On a short aside, I am hoping the Astros lose every single game from here on out.\u00a0 Might as well make history, right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Is there any pitcher more frustrating than <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nolasri01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Ricky  Nolasco<\/a><\/strong> right now?\u00a0 His yo-yo season is down right confusing.\u00a0 How can a guy with that good of stuff- and it is legit stuff- not be worth the dingleberries on his own ass for half his starts?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00a0Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.mlb.sbnation.com\/2011\/9\/15\/2426697\/stats-moneyball-movie-branch-rickey-constipation\">an outstanding article<\/a> from SBNation\u2019s baseball blog Baseball Nation.\u00a0 Make sure to waste some work time and read it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; \u00a0Who does Shelley Duncan think he is?\u00a0 He must think he is the man he makes sure all bad things happen in 3\u2019s.\u00a0 Bad joke\u2026maybe.\u00a0 But bad defensive outfielder\u2026not last night. &#8211; \u00a0Why in the world was Clayton Kershaw ejected for that pitch the other night?\u00a0 And I better not hear the argument that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,10,14],"tags":[2256,685,2747,178,52,2393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}