By some advanced metrics the Philadelphia Phillies may have the best bullpen so far this season. They've done a terrific job keeping inherited runners from scoring and have allowed homers at an infinitesimal rate. Still, and maybe this is the fanboy in me talking, while I think relief pitching stats have come a long way in the last decade, there are still some things that they aren't yet able to calculate. The ability to step in and assume the closer role, for instance. The veteran-ocity of the pen.
And there are still other things which as baseball analysts, we don't even consider when talking about what makes a good bullpen. Like the ability to cover Milli Vanilli's Blame It On The Rain. Lets see Brad Lidge and Tom Gordon do that.
The Red Sox get a bad rap around here sometimes, but what other team consistently entertains its fans in this way? And even the fans themselves get into the act sometimes. Good luck seeing that at Yankee Stadium.
4 comments:
Such extensive YouToobery I might expect from someone who has no job, such as myself...
The real give-away that I have a job and you don't is that I posted at 11:20am. You replied at four in the morning.
Also your reply reeks of whiskey, vomit, and cheep perfume.
What did he say??!! What did he saaaayyy??!!
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