La Ruina

Billy Wagner, Met’s closer
A recent conversation between Kenny and I regarding Billy Blown Save:
Kenneth: bell for wagner
me: bell who?
me: ok
me: done

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Stats and photo courtesy of Yahoo Sports.
Every year there is an addition from the wire that just boggles the mind.
Last year, Alex added Doug Brocail, which sparked 1500 emails in 10 minutes.
This year, John Crimmings adds John Grabow.
Who?
Yes, some shitty reliever on Pittsburgh.
This is the classic “look at the wire, click on the ‘WHIP’ category […]

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A month back, I wrote up my thoughts on the “Top 5 Worst Players in Baseball.”
On that list, I neglected to put Aaron Heilman. I’m not exactly sure why, because clearly he is the worst player ever.
I’m talking in all sports. If you listed all the people who have ever played a game, from Monopoly […]

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…it must be time to add Doug Brocail off the waiver wire.

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I was all for blown saves, thought it was a great category at first. Please explain how Heilman can get a blown save in the 8th inning. Granted the Mets were up by 2 runs and he blew the lead and sucks. If Heilman was to throw a shutout inning he wouldn’t […]

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…deciding to stay up until 1:15AM to watch the end of the Angels/Indians game, and seeing Joe Borowski predictably blow a save by giving up a walk-off Grand Slam to Torii Hunter.

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Please don’t be suprised when you see Tom Gordon hit the waiver wire.  I just don’t feel like he is a proper influence in the clubhouse on the young players.
 That is all.

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I woke up early to watch Dice K, my first drafted pitcher, open the season in Japan.
6:28AM EST: I’ve been up 5 minutes and already Mark Ellis took a fast ball over the left field wall. And there’s a walk. Current team WHIP: Infinity.
6:31AM EST: Should have added Cust. Dice K […]

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I’m drafting my 2008 fantasy baseball team with half of La Ruina and we’re all about to die.

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An article from Seattlepi.com: 
Here’s a line score oddity the Mariners never expected or wanted to see: Erik Bedard with more home runs allowed than strikeouts.
But Friday at Peoria Sports Complex, the left-hander surrendered a pair of two-run homers while notching one strikeout in five innings.
In 18 innings this spring, Bedard has struck out eight and […]

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From Rotoworld:
Noah Lowry was pulled from his start Monday after walking nine batters in one-plus innings against the Rangers.
This is getting quite alarming. Lowry walked three, hit a batter and threw two pitches to the backstop in his first outing last week. He had a couple of more sail to the backstop today. It appears […]

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I could swear he grew up in Spain after hearing this….

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