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Jon Lester Is Unbreakable

Deeeeznutz — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:36:03 EDT

@Rbastid: @Rbastid: What's a lead douchebag? That must be a heavy douchebag.

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RowdyRoddyPeeper — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:54 EDT

Jim Abbott is not at all impressed by this

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PermanentInjuredReserve — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:07 EDT

Truth be told, when Edmonds came up lame at second base, I was kind of hoping that it was the end of this failed experiment. Alas, it was not to be. Even that "brilliant" catch didn't change my mind.

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Rbastid — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:41:48 EDT

I'm glad it happened to Lester, he doesn't seem like much of a dick. If it happened to their lead douche we'd never hear the end of it.

@NYSportscene:
While it wasn't a No No, Hughes walked away from one where he got injured last year, the way he was throwing the odds someone would have hit him were .100 or so.

Remember though, Red Soxs throw No Nos, Yankees throw PERFECT games. When one of these guys throws one then they can brag all they want.

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Keep Your Sox On — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:18:39 EDT

@Yinka Double Dare: Yes indeed. Retroactive decision (according to Wikipedia) by Fay Vincent and the Committee for Statistical Accuracy.

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feed_me_a_stray_cat — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:13:58 EDT

I PUNCHEZ INVSBL CANSUR!

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NYSportscene — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:00:58 EDT

How it must be killing the Yankees that their two young guns (Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy) are looking to be a long way away from ML ready while the Sox pair (Bucholz, Lester) each have a no-hitter. And to think that all 4 of these names were being thrown around in a possible Johan Santana deal over the winter.

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The Sports Hernia — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:40:12 EDT

Meanwhile, Ellsbury's Iverson arm sock continues to be gay.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:38:54 EDT

@Yinka Double Dare: Matt Young did that, don't know about Hawkins.

Juancho

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:36:27 EDT

@Yinka Double Dare: That list reads like a who's-who of "guys who were supposed to be #1 starters but really weren't".

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Yinka Double Dare — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:35:05 EDT

@UpstateUnderdog: @garbageday: I guess those count, but they're not as cool because they gave up runs. Cowley's was more than 20 years ago too.

Didn't Andy Hawkins actually lose to the White Sox in his "no-hitter"? I'm pretty sure I watched that game and between walks and errors he gave up several runs while the Yanks didn't score. So they made his no-hitter not count because he didn't go a full 9 due to losing the game and the home team not batting in the 9th.

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NYSportscene — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:34:17 EDT

All of these guys throwin' no-no's and not a one by a Met. Just though that I would remind everyone of that.

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williamzabka — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:23:19 EDT

@Yinka Double Dare: I was actually at the Wilson Alvarez game. That was awesome.

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Red Sox Monster — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:15:57 EDT

@Mr. Soul: To be fair, an unnamed source told the Boston Herald that there is a videotape out there of Lester finding the cure.

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HugsFromHarold — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:15:00 EDT

Jon Lester is a clubhouse cancer.

ok, I'll proceed directly to Hell, will not pass go or collect my $200.

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:14:19 EDT

@UpstateUnderdog: (Joe Cowley raises his hand.)

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Deeeeznutz — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:35 EDT

All you have to do to catch like Willie Mays is to misjudge the ball just enough to barely still be able to make that catch?

I though Mays was good. Hm.

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spirit_of_chick_hearn — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:10:03 EDT

schilling goes on boston radio show today to say he almost had a no hitter last year against A'S.

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UpstateUnderdog — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:04:46 EDT

@Yinka Double Dare: what no mention of Andy Hawkins?

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:03:17 EDT

@Juancho: I spent 4 years in Cleveland, during the Kosar/Schottenheimer years. Still have much love for the Browns.

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Mr. Soul — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:02:35 EDT

I like how the Boston Globe's stat service "graded" Lester's performance an A-. Apparently to earn an A+ Lester would have had to throw a perfect game and cure cancer himself.

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Yinka Double Dare — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:01:28 EDT

@garbageday: Indeed someone in Texas is planning on a larger one. The plans for JerryWorld, I mean, the new Cowboys stadium, include a video board that stretches over the field from 20 to 20.

[stadium.dallascowboys.com]

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:58:26 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: Land of Cleve. Reasonable access to MCI via Continental/Southwest/Midwest.

Lemme see when the Tribe is in town...figures, next week, then September.

Juancho

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Yinka Double Dare — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:55:58 EDT

@LeagueofShadows: I'm not saying we'll eventually think of Lester as part of this list, but the following guys have thrown no-hitters in the last 20 years that no one thinks of as dominating guys or guys with great stuff or even as better than average pitchers:

Bud Smith
Eric Milton
Jose Jimenez
Kent Mercker
Chris Bosio
Kevin Gross
Tommy Greene

And that's not including pitchers who were pretty good but who you don't think of as having dominating stuff, such as Derek Lowe, Terry Mullholland, Wilson Alvarez, Jim Abbott, Mark Buehrle, and the like.

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DeepFriar — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:52:40 EDT

@futuremrsrickankiel: DOOD! AH YOU FROM DAHT-MUTH TOO?! SOUTH SHOWA FOWA EVAH!!

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:52:14 EDT

@Juancho: Do it, how far away are you? I love hosting (thank you couchsurfing) and have multiple geust rooms.

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IfindUrlacherfaithdisturbing — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:51:20 EDT

*do. Fuck.
**shitfaced. Double-Fuck.

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IfindUrlacherfaithdisturbing — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:44 EDT

Let him doing it shitgaced, then get back to me.

/Boomer'd

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:16 EDT

@garbageday: This is like the plan to retroactively put a removable roof on Cleveland Browns Stadium.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:49:03 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: I've wanted to come to town and see a game, if I do, we should hang.

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DeepFriar — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:48:33 EDT

@Juancho: chemo as a banned substance going forward?

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HockeyMountain — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:47:54 EDT

Derek Jeter does not see what the big deal is, he's been playing every day with Herpes for years.

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:47:37 EDT

@Juancho: But the rebuild came with a scoreboard that contains "The biggest HD TV display in the world"* *=Someone in Texas already probably made a bigger one, just because.

I really wish more KC residents would have voted for the planned retractable roof, which would have covered both stadiums and been visible from space. (Seriously.)

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HockeyMountain — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:46:13 EDT

So we found a threshold. All it takes for me to like the Red Sox is a guy who beat cancer tossing a no-hitter.

If they could do that every night I might even become a fan*

*probably not.

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Death Blow — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:46:04 EDT

Jon Lester had cancer? i had no idea

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:45:51 EDT

@Juancho: $425M to rennovate Kauffman and Arrowhead. You can't build two stadiums for that. Some people wanted a baseball stadium downtown but this town loves tailgating too much.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:45:41 EDT

@garbageday: or *cough*, a Very Special Episode™ of The Outer Limits.

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:45:01 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: Haha, yeah, he broke it up in the 9th with 2 outs, pinch-hitting for TPJ no less.

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Weed Against Speed — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:43:25 EDT

@Juancho: Only the furry ones.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:43:06 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: With what they're spending on the rebuild, couldn't they have just built a new one? I heard the figures, it's crazy.

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:43:03 EDT

@UkraineNotWeak: 4 pills, taken at once, followed by some awkward phone calls and he's in the clear.

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dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:51 EDT

Of course, Lester doesn't want to be known simply as the pitcher who beat cancer.

He knows WHIP is much better at judging pitchers than wins.

dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:28 EDT

@Juancho: I see that you, too, have watched "Poison Ivy 2" and "Embrace of the Vampire."

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UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:41:48 EDT

This Just In:

Blake DeWitt diagnosed with clymidia. He should be so lucky.

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:40:53 EDT

@garbageday: Would have made my night. Didn't Sweeney pinch hit to beark up a no hitter last year?

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futuremrsrickankiel — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:40:34 EDT

Oh god... I'm going to revert to ESPN Commenter mode and vomit up homerism all over this post in 5... 4... 3...

AHHH DOOD JON LESTAH IS FACKING INCREDIBLE AND DON'T YOU KNOW HE HAD CANSAH TOO JUST LIKE MY GRANDDAD AND NOW HE THREW A FACKING NO-HITTAH YANKEES SUCK DOOD

/wakes up on floor, drenched in sweat

I'm sorry... what?

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:39:45 EDT

@Doyle McPoyle: Not much of a stadium though, it looks like shit right now.

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Mitch Comstein, my roommate — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:39:01 EDT

kind of a shame that with Pierce's epic G7 performance and Lester's remarkable comeback-turned-no hitter... Simmons remains audibly silent.

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Whitey Fisk — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:57 EDT

Beating cancer > Beating KC

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Carmen McFanzone — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:55 EDT

Where was the IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS! guy?

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:51 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: I felt sure TPJ would get one of his 12 yearly singles in the 9th to ruin the moment. Oh well, if they'd sent Gathright up there to pinch hit, he'd have bunted to break it up, drawing the wrath of Goose Gossage and Unwritten Rules Enforcers everywhere.

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Im Hafner the man I used to be back when I was using PEDs — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:35 EDT

To follow Boston's example, Alex Gordon buried his jersey somewhere underneath Fenway Park after the game.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:12 EDT

Seriously, I'd want this kid on my team if we didn't have a glut of decent lefthanders.*

*subtracting Shaqbathia, sooner or later

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Marth — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:38:02 EDT

@Juancho: I'm right behind you.

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Artie Fufkin — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:37:54 EDT

@crazyjoedavola: No, he's giving him cancer.

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josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:37:06 EDT

@Afino: Not until he beats up a man half his age in twenty years time.

Who will be 2028's Robin Ventura? Scott Rolen, Jr., maybe?

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Arriaga_II — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:36:57 EDT

Tony LaRussa said Edmond's catch would be a 2 by anyone else. 2.5 maybe.

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Matt Sussman — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:36:34 EDT

Mark Grudzielanek tried to throw Lester off his rhythm, so he asked the umpire for remission. It wasn't granted.

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Marth — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:36:26 EDT

I wonder if Lance Armstrong "helped" him out during his recovery.

/unnecessarily mean

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:35:53 EDT

@Weed Against Speed: she likes pussy?

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crazyjoedavola — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:35:22 EDT

In response, Hank is starting Joba Chamberlain tomorrow.

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Juancho — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:35:06 EDT

I'm sure some sort of steroids helped Jon Lester beat cancer.

/shows self out

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Weed Against Speed — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:50 EDT

Alyssa Milano Has A New Boyfriend

Huh. I heard she was nailing Wizard Cat.

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Afino — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:38 EDT

Edmonds makes a basket catch.....Willie Mays-style!

Nice catch Edmonds, don't ever fucking do it again.

Afino

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Doyle McPoyle — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:14 EDT

@SadJohnson: They got uniforms and everything, it's really great!

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:10 EDT

@HIV 2 Elway: Grudzielanek on the bench that is

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Doyle McPoyle — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:45 EDT

No-hitter after beating cancer? That's nothing, Cone pitched a perfect game after beating off in front of fans in the bullpen.

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SadJohnson — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:42 EDT

Great story...but to be fair, he was pitching against the Royals. I didn't realize they still had an MLB team in K.C.

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Afino — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:33 EDT

Jon Lester is Nolan Fackin' Ryan, bay-beh!!

/Tommy from Quinzee

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HIV 2 Elway — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:09 EDT

@LeagueofShadows: Against the Royals with Grudzielanek and TPJ batting in the 9th. This merits some sort of *.

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garbageday — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:08 EDT

Kansas City Royals meet Radioactive Man = quality comic book.
Royals meet Radiation Treatment Man = no-hitter.
/Seriously, congrats to Lester from a Royals fan.

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Mr. Pennsylvania — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:32:06 EDT

@LeagueofShadows: on any given monday...

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sassydeerrun — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:31:05 EDT

First of all, congrats to Jon Lester. Second of all, boo on the cameraman who gave us a close up of Jim Edmonds ankle. Nasty stuff.

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LeagueofShadows — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:30:27 EDT

*know

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LeagueofShadows — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:30:08 EDT

So, I don't watch the Sox much, but I didn't no Lester was even that good, much less good enough to throw a no hitter.

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Evgeni Merkin — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:29:56 EDT

See Dravecky? What was so hard about that?

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UpstateUnderdog — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:29:38 EDT

Little known fact, his first name is actually Moe. You can see why he goes with Jon.

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