{"id":4904,"date":"2011-09-19T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2011-09-19T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:34:00","slug":"changeups-and-screwballs-a-southpaw%e2%80%99s-perspective-for-91911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/4904","title":{"rendered":"Changeups and Screwballs: A Southpaw\u2019s Perspective for 9\/19\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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– \u00a0What a weekend for baseball.\u00a0 The Rays were able to pull within 2 games of the Red Sox and the AL Wild Card spot. The best play of this series was started by David Price\u2019s chest, though<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Justin Verlander<\/a><\/strong> is a beast.\u00a0 12 consecutive starts, and 12 consecutive wins.\u00a0 Not to mention he has now won 24 games this season.\u00a0 But that\u2019s the obvious.\u00a0 Here are a few nifty stats for you sabr-minded folks:\u00a0 Verlander has a WAR of 7.0-still a full 1.1 WAR behind Doc Hallady; Verlander has guys swinging at pitches out of the zone at a whopping rate (33.8%); He is also only throwing pitches in the strike zone 42% of the time while getting hitters to swing and miss at a rate of 10.2%.\u00a0 Dude is filthier than the turds I leave in the toilet after a night of partying.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Apparently Dmitri Young<\/a><\/strong> is ready to play baseball again<\/a>\u2026I know, I didn\u2019t believe it either.\u00a0 It must be that whole older brother\/younger brother rivalry thing. I can\u2019t think of any other reason for a 40-year-old 1B to come out of retirement after four years.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Being a fantasy nerd, and at the same time absolutely loathing reality television, I am so thankful for Grantland\u2019s GLRTFL<\/a>.\u00a0 It now gives me a new perspective on watching the hideous programming that my girlfriend prefers.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0Speaking of fantasy, here is a quick rundown of how the Denslow Cup standings are looking heading in to the final week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Asik and Destroy\u00a0 ——————-139<\/li>\n
  2. The Clownpenis. Farts\u00a0 ————-137<\/li>\n
  3. So Fresh n So Sheen Sheen\u00a0 ——–118.5<\/li>\n
  4. Dingo Teriyaki\u00a0 ———————–113<\/li>\n
  5. tits and giggles\u00a0 ———————–100<\/li>\n
  6. The Nads\u00a0 ——————————-97<\/li>\n
  7. Dingleberry Smoothies\u00a0 ————–90.5<\/li>\n
  8. The Blump Cornelius\u00a0 —————–78.5<\/li>\n
  9. Capital City Corporate Towls\u00a0 ——-62<\/li>\n
  10. Quade Steak Burritos —————–57.5<\/li>\n
  11. The Religion of Mike Hunt\u00a0 ———-55<\/li>\n
  12. Ardi\u2019s A-holes\u00a0\u00a0 ————————-44<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you can see there is quite a race for the championship.\u00a0 Fellow writer Barfy is the manager of Clownpenis. The battle for 3rd<\/sup> is a good one too, with my team (Sheen Sheen) hoping to lock down its first podium finish ever.\u00a0 Editor in Chief, Mike (The Nads), is actually losing to his girlfriend Julia (tits and giggles) but has an outside shot of overtaking her.<\/p>\n

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    – \u00a0What a weekend for baseball.\u00a0 The Rays were able to pull within 2 games of the Red Sox and the AL Wild Card spot. The best play of this series was started by David Price\u2019s chest, though. – \u00a0Justin Verlander is a beast.\u00a0 12 consecutive starts, and 12 consecutive wins.\u00a0 Not to mention he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2661,1300,17,6,11,13,14],"tags":[2754,558,3468,616,2756,2755,179,52,549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904"}],"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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}