<![CDATA[Everything's Jake - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> On a different subject, I think the umps need to stop granting the Red Shanahans' hitters time when they step out as the pitcher goes into his motion (they did it all night Saturday to Fausto, and quite a few times last night as well, notably right before Ortiz's double off the wall).

Sure, it's within the rules, but it's totally bush league.

ArmandTamzarian

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @Locker Room Guise: I think Nathan Petrelli's super power is his ability to borrow Casey Blake's beard.

Windy City Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Celine Dion's manger (to the right of Larry David) proves that the Brown's colors can be worn with anything.

Chicago Jones

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> What was with Youkilis and all that sweat last night? Dude looked like he killed an eight ball in the clubhouse.

Discombobulatingly Devastating

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Gotta love the dude on the right checking out the chick's ass while she's bending over.

DannyNoonan

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @Camp Tiger Claw: Depends on the type of sandwich.

Arriaga_II

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @DannyNoonan: Lucy Liu is MINE, dammit!

A Pimp Named DaveR

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @DannyNoonan: And no to Larry David in the middle.

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> KSK had a post about who Casey Blake looks like, and forgive me if someone else has said it, but what about Old Man Marley from Home Alone? I just think of Casey shoveling salt onto the sidewalk every time he's up.

Locker Room Guise

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> I knew Jake Westbrook was good when I traded for him in MLB 05 and proceeded to go 32-2. The Nats have never looked better

Illegal Immigrant

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> I want to preface this with the statement that Daisuke really sucked, and he would have lost that game (likely by the same margin) even without bad umpiring.

That was some super shitty umpiring overall. There were a number of pitches that WESTBROOK threw that were called balls that made me angry. It was an inconsistent zone, and even if it is large - the inconsistent zone is Daisuke's kyptonite. Having had Westbrook on my fantasy roster at one point during the year, I can say Westbrook can fall to a similar fate.

StartingAces

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Yes, to the asian girl on the left.

DannyNoonan

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> I have to say, and this isn't a knock at him at all. But Victor Martinez is REALLY good at pulling outside pitches back into the strike zone. Watching it on tv, he had me second guessing alot of the pitches.

HazelMaesLandingStrip

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @Camp Tiger Claw: make a sandwich with the boobs. they're your two slices of bread...now just add meat.

...

wtf, this isn't fleshbot!

The Gizmo from Pismo

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> paging Matt T
Have you figured out the workaround for no frickin arrows at the top????

lisa

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @G Voll the Mole: I hope Papi's crotch is still hurting him. How you you be that dumb on the base paths? Seven-year-olds in coaches pitch leagues know better than to run when the ball is hit in front of you.

Spaceman Bill Leah

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @swayzegoescrazy: unless it is the CC and Carmona from Game 1 and Game 2.

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Do I start with the Sandwich or the boobs?

Boobs.

Camp Tiger Claw

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @LeNoceur: NOBODY PANIC! FOR CHRISSAKES, NOBODY BETTER FUCKING PANIC!

shea_guevara

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> The home plate ump squeezed both starters early in the game. Then his strike zone suddenly expanded by several feet in the later innings. The least an ump can do is be consistent. Ultimately, I don't think it helped or harmed either team, but it was indicative of the fact that the umpiring this year has been atrocious.

"Rain and Sodomy," great Pogues album.

shea_guevara

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @UkraineNotWeak: You know, at a time like this, panicking is the worst thing you could do. So don't do that. Panic. That would be bad.

LeNoceur

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> The strike zone was totally inconsistant. Fortunately it seemed to be srewed for both teams fairly equally, still, is that the best MLB can do?

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Chartered Flight to Cleveland: $25000
Playoff Per-Diems for the roster and staff: $7500
Daisuke's salary per postseason run allowed: $8047619
Chance to be the New Yankees: Priceless

bigboneded

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @thedirty d: I'm pretty sure we all realize that Gorman had way less to do with the loss than Papi's baserunning or the general lack of hitting.

G Voll the Mole

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @Chicago Jones: Your thoughts verge on dirty when you hear the term "waffle iron".

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> down 3-1 facing Sabathia and Carmona would not be a good thing

swayzegoescrazy

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @G Voll the Mole: I think he had some sort of eye problem. Or maybe in his mind it was opposite day?

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> yeah, it was the umps. not your crappy pitching...

Babcocksure

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> You have to also love McCarver washing Manny's nuts as he takes pitches because of his great ability to "locate the type of pitch early" - and then the digital tracker shows an obvious strike. Awful, awful umping.

DannyNoonan

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> and I'm including game two of the Walpole Penitentiary World Series, which was eventually called on account of rain and sodomy

I heard Nuke Dufresne got hammered by Boggs, but I didn't think it was that bad.

Phony Gwynn

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @Paper Cut: Ok maybe not the worst worst, but only because Gorman was epically inconsistent for both teams instead of just one.

G Voll the Mole

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> The crappy umpiring was hurting Dice-K, but it wasn't helping Westbrook either.

If you have bases loaded in the second with nobody out and get NOTHING from it, you're going to lose. Period. Don't blame the umps.

A Pimp Named DaveR

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> My thoughts verge on dirty when I hear the term "digital cheerleaders."

Chicago Jones

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @G Voll the Mole: Fox Trak agrees

WFNYScott

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> @G Voll the Mole: Please Gregg, Eric 1997 World Series, Game 5.

Paper Cut

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> Larry David and Michael Chiklis congratulate Westbrook on a job well done

McCroskey

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> For not being in a panic mode, they say "panic mode" an awful lot.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[Everything's Jake]]> When McCarver is all but calling out the ump for being a fraud, you know something isn't quite going according to plan.

Worst. Strike. Zone. Ever.

G Voll the Mole

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