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You Chose Me And You Were Wrong And That’s Why I Write Such Good Songs

ubelmann — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:01:31 +0000

It's 12:14am CT, so this is going to sound like second-guessing it, but I was first-guessing this the whole way along. With Punto leading off the 8th inning, Jimmy Leyland had Bobby Seay and Brandon Lyon warming in the bullpen. Verlander was heading into the inning with ~110 pitches or so, and there had [...]

Two Seemingly Contradictory Positions

ubelmann — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:59:43 +0000

So the beat reporters at the Minneapolis Star Tribune were busy on Wednesday. First, Joe Christensen wrote about how the starters now have sufficient amounts of chest hair to pitch deeper into games. Or something like that.

As a generic position, I'm not really sure what to say about this. Pitchers ought to [...]

Jason Kubel has hit left-handed pitching about as well as Jacque Jones

ubelmann — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:17:56 +0000

.217/.305/.319 -- Jason Kubel vs. LHP, career .230/.278/.350 -- Jacque Jones vs. LHP, career

Kubel's line is slightly less awful than Jacque's line, but both lines are still awful.

I like Jason Kubel. I think he can hit right-handed pitching and this team could use a cheap DH/OF to use against RHP. However, Kubel [...]