Game Day Thread: 3/11 vs. Cleveland

[CanadianHalo]

Atta boy, Howie. First ****ing pitch.

This post makes me feel like its June already

[LetsGoHalos]

Cleveland's roster looks decent. Wonder if they can follow Baltimore's footsteps and be this season's surprise team.

[WallyWorld]

5 ip 0 er 7k's for Kaz coming

 

Hard not to look in Butcher's direction if Kazmir ends up having a good year.  Huge if still though,

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Howie GDP followed by a Wells K.  Angels baseball is back!

[jshep]

Hard not to look in Butcher's direction if Kazmir ends up having a good year. Huge if still though,

I don't care much for Butcher, but Kazmir was physically broken when he was here.

I have a hard time putting that one on Butcher.

And like you said, it's still a huge if. He's not far removed from getting his ass kicked by independent ball.

[Season Over]

Cleveland's roster looks decent. Wonder if they can follow Baltimore's footsteps and be this season's surprise team.

They're certainly in the right division to make a run.  It's pretty abysmal outside of Detroit.

[Richard]

stranding runners

[Season Over]

This board is going to be comedy gold if Kaz does this during the regular season.

[Glen]

I wonder if I could be a Fox Sports West girl.

[Richard]

Wells..... 

[Chuck]

I don't care much for Butcher, but Kazmir was physically broken when he was here.

I have a hard time putting that one on Butcher.

And like you said, it's still a huge if. He's not far removed from getting his ass kicked by independent ball.

Kazmir was under Butcher when he led the AL in strikeouts with the Rays.

[KingJustinian]

I don't care much for Butcher, but Kazmir was physically broken when he was here.

I have a hard time putting that one on Butcher.

And like you said, it's still a huge if. He's not far removed from getting his ass kicked by independent ball.

 

 

Definitely not Butcher's fault. It was pretty well known that Kazmir'z elbow wasn't letting him put the sharp break on his slider and his velocity was down.

[Glen]

Kinda fitting that the play I have to leave on is Wells booting what should have been an easy plate.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

Nice catch Wells.

[Richard]

Sweet K by Weave

[FabulousFabregas]

Nice catch Wells.

 

The Blessing is a modern day Willie Mays.

[WallyWorld]

Definitely not Butcher's fault. It was pretty well known that Kazmir'z elbow wasn't letting him put the sharp break on his slider and his velocity was down.

 

I don't doubt that was the case, but for argument's sake, how are we explaining Fernando Rodney?

[FabulousFabregas]

Christ.  Why couldn't this fool pitch like this for us?

[Eric]

Two words, Mike Butcher.

[fan_since79]

Did I hear correctly that Howie is 13-26 so far this spring?

 

If true, that bodes well for the season.

[KingJustinian]

I don't doubt that was the case, but for argument's sake, how are we explaining Fernando Rodney?

 

No one knows what happened there. Probably mostly mental. We'll see how Rodney does this year to see if it's a fluke.

 

If you say it's Butcher's fault then you should also be criticizing the Tigers pitching coach.

[LetsGoHalos]

Did I hear correctly that Howie is 13-26 so far this spring?

 

If true, that bodes well for the season.

 

Howie is a superstar in Spring Training, once the season starts he's just Howie GDP.

[Aaronkv]

Nice outing Weaver.

[WallyWorld]

No one knows what happened there. Probably mostly mental. We'll see how Rodney does this year to see if it's a fluke.

 

If you say it's Butcher's fault then you should also be criticizing the Tigers pitching coach.

 

yeah, fair point.  I guess I'm suspect of Butcher's abilities, but admittedly I don't think fans can know much about how effective one coach is vs. another.

[Eric]

FYI... it was a joke.

 

I guess I should have said something like "in before someone says Mike Butcher".