Tuesday, February 10, 2004
I AWARD YOU NO POINTS, AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL
Bob Finnigan in the Times, bringing little to the table on the Villone deal...
Villone can even start, which is the role he filled last year for Houston, when he allowed only 91 hits and struck out 91 batters in 106-2/3 innings in 19 starts.
I can't believe the implications of this sentence. Look at those first four words. "Villone can even start." What the Mariners (and hell, Finnigan) want(s) us to do is look at that and think "VILLONE CAN EVEN START!!!!!!" and then jump in jubilation because we got that second left-hander in the bullpen that we always wanted. Problem? Overpayment, of course. That and a blatant lack of improvement over the predecessors, and the pure oversight that there were indeed better lefties out there and better lefties in the organization. Anyway, Villone doing spot starting will make me break things back at my apartment in much the same way that Crack DHing will when Edgar needs a day off.
Okay, so maybe the subject is a little harsh on Finnigan. Of course, this might just be due to the fact that the P-I prints online an hour or two before the Times every night. Maybe I should have saved it for the next Darrin Beene article that I'll surely lay into. Anyway, I learned next to nothing from reading this article. He came up with absolutely nothing that I hadn't heard from somewhere else.
The news of Norm Charlton's upcoming shoulder surgery better not have had anything to do with this Villone signing...
Villone can even start, which is the role he filled last year for Houston, when he allowed only 91 hits and struck out 91 batters in 106-2/3 innings in 19 starts.
I can't believe the implications of this sentence. Look at those first four words. "Villone can even start." What the Mariners (and hell, Finnigan) want(s) us to do is look at that and think "VILLONE CAN EVEN START!!!!!!" and then jump in jubilation because we got that second left-hander in the bullpen that we always wanted. Problem? Overpayment, of course. That and a blatant lack of improvement over the predecessors, and the pure oversight that there were indeed better lefties out there and better lefties in the organization. Anyway, Villone doing spot starting will make me break things back at my apartment in much the same way that Crack DHing will when Edgar needs a day off.
Okay, so maybe the subject is a little harsh on Finnigan. Of course, this might just be due to the fact that the P-I prints online an hour or two before the Times every night. Maybe I should have saved it for the next Darrin Beene article that I'll surely lay into. Anyway, I learned next to nothing from reading this article. He came up with absolutely nothing that I hadn't heard from somewhere else.
The news of Norm Charlton's upcoming shoulder surgery better not have had anything to do with this Villone signing...
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