dammit.
What the heck kind of Mother’s day present is this? The day was going along fine. I was excited to finally be able to watch the Rays play a whole game. That excitement didn’t last long. Suck-n-A!
Every single dude in the line-up went 0 for 3, which made Dallas Braden perfect. It also made the Rays the opposite of perfect for the second time in less than a year.
I’ll admit it. When Buehrle threw the perfect game I was rooting for him at the end. Uh, not this time. This time the frustration level was quite high. First of all, is it just me or does this Braden guy kind of seem like a knob? Second, no one wants this to happen to their team twice! Dreadful.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t in the booth today with Staats and Kennedy. It would not have been pretty since I started to get moody around the fourth inning. There were many comments like these…
“Yeah, make sure you watch the pitches that go right down the middle”
“Righties, you could stop chasing the one low and away any time now.”
“Could we get a pinch hitter?”
“Anyone? So the idea is let these nine guys sink or swim?”
“No plans to shake it up?”
“Cool Sonny’s in. Can he hit?”
“We’re going with THAT catcher in the ninth of a perfect game? (insert many four letter words here)”
The Rays are still off to a great start this season, but man this was crushing. I really hope they can quickly move past it. Mr. Garza needs to lift these guys up tomorrow.
The baseball gods have dealt Rays fans quite a blow today. Hopefully the Red Sox can find a way to beat the Yankees. Oh and hopefully we can be on the other end of one of these perfect game/no hitters someday.
It would be nifty if all that pink stuff made a lot of money for charity, because MOTHER scratcher that was an awful way to spend mothers day!
I tuned in after getting a text message alert (after getting home from the Phils game) from MLB that Braden was in the 6th inning of a perfect game. So much for superstition!
Yeah, he seems a little like a brat, but after the ARod incident, I found myself rooting for him. Mostly becauuse MLB Network tapped into the home feed and partly because his grandmom was in the stands.
Tough for the Rays, but there are a lot of games, of course, and although it’s odd that it would happen to them twice in less than a year, they still have a hated Yankees team to beat.
Odd that 4 of the last 6 perfect games have been in the American League. So much the DH-padded lineups!
My Phillies blood would say that perhaps the reason the Rays didn’t get a hit was that Burrell was left on the bench. But you might have a different viewpoint.
We have our own pitching problems…
http://my-sick.blogspot.com/2010/05/wheres-my-trophy.html
You might laugh Anthony, but I was hoping they would bring Pat in. Anybody from the bench would have been a welcome sight, since those nine guys weren’t getting it done!