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Last week, Yu Darvish had arguably his worst start of the year, giving up one run and striking out six over 6 innings against Oakland. Today, he’ll be in Arizona facing the Diamondbacks in Game 1 of a particularly strange double-header.
Category Archives: Randomness
These Cleats Are Made For Walking: Two Month Update
We’re a little under two months into the 2013 regular season. Last week, we mourned the loss of White Sox second baseman Jeff Keppinger’s epic streak towards OBP disaster. And while his wRC+ remains at a staggeringly low 19, we can’t marvel at his incompetence quite as much anymore. However, he does remain the only qualified hitter in baseball with only two walks. And he’s up to 172 plate appearances.
You Searched What?
If it weren’t for WordPress’ advanced statistics, we would sit around all day and ponder about how many people from Algeria have ever read the blog (it’s 9 by the way). One particularly great feature of WordPress is that we can see the Google search terms that lead people to CFB.
The top three searches are pretty expected.
Duh. But if you look a bit lower down the list, you’ll find some funky ones. They all fall into three very specific categories.
- Chris Davis fetishes
- Random shit
- Questions we cannot answer
.gifs From Last Night: Bourn To Be Derp
Tigers vs. Indians
- Oh we’ve totally seen this before. Slugger drives one to the warning track. CF wanders over. Ball bounces off CF and into seats for a home run. All center fielders deal with the shame in different ways. Some freak out, some laugh, some cry. Michael Bourn does all three and more:
“Wait. What? No. No. No.”
Another Fun Barry Bonds Fact Because Duh
I understand that catchers are the type of position player that you would ever expect to steal. They’re are very very few in today’s game with anything that even resembles average speed, let alone base-stealing ability. Regardless, I took a look at some career stolen base totals for some active catchers and oh my god let’s relate it to Barry Bonds because Barry Bonds etc.
So.
Earlier in his epic career, Barry Bonds actually stole a ton of bases. He was rather skinny and very quick on the basepaths, stealing a career high 52 bags in his 1990 campaign with Pittsburgh, and stealing at least 28 in nine other seasons. But let’s fast forward to the end of Barry Bonds’ career…
The NBA Draft Lottery: WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?!
Jake’s home, and what better way to celebrate then watching one of the dumbest exercises in sports?
8:40 PM: Bill Simmons and company are discussing a graphic titled “NBA Lottery Power Rankings”. How does that even make sense…
8:41 PM: White guy walks to podium. He is the senior vice president of NBA security. What that has to do with anything…we have no idea. He could clearly pass as a first baseman/first base coach.
Happy Darvish Day ! (Start #10)
Last outing, Yu threw 130 pitches over 8 solid innings against the Tigers. Today, Yu Darvish will face the Oakland Athletics at home.
These Cleats Are Made For Walking: RIP Jeff Keppinger
Well, I suppose it was inevitable but that doesn’t make it any easier. Ever since I noticed Jeffrey Scott Keppinger’s walkless existence around 50 plate appearances in, I had made it my duty to spread his impatience across the interwebz. And in the blink of an eye, it was over.
Jake Brought Delmon To The Wall
This is a picture of myself, at the Western Wall.
I am holding a card in the picture. It is hard to see from this distance, but if you enhance it a bit…
Why Jose Bautista Followed Us On Twitter
Jose Antonio Bautista is many things. He is a superstar right fielder for the Blue Toronto Jays. He, like many other major leaguers, hails from Santo Domingo in the DR. He is a well dressed son-of-a-gun. One thing Jose Bautista is not however, is a close personal friend of either Jordan or myself. In fact, the CFB twitter didn’t even follow JoeyBats19 until we realized yesterday afternoon that
To be fair, it probably doesn’t mean all that much. And he probably doesn’t actually read our stuff. But is Jose Bautista following you on twitter? Probably not. Here is a list of possible reasons for Jose to follow our Twitter:
CESPEDES FAMILY BARBECUE 