Jeremy Guthrie: the O’s double letter score
Let’s say you got a game of Words With Friends going. And let’s say it’s not going well. You’re playing somebody who’s a lot better than you are and who – let’s be honest – seems to be getting all the...
View ArticleWaiting for Guthrie
The last thing freshly crowned Opening Day starter Jeremy Guthrie needs from me is advice on pitching for the Colorado Rockies. So, naturally … I sent him a personal note. (His Twitter handle was on a...
View ArticleB&C’s Baseball Tweet of the Day
Brought to you by… Bugs & Cranks alum and current Big League Stew scribe Mark Townsend: “Shift was on Moss. Not sure why Cuddyer wasn’t stationed in the third deck.” Following Moss’ 450-foot blast...
View ArticleKansas City, Here I Come
He certainly wasn’t there for the All-Star festivities, but Jeremy Guthrie did eventually get his ticket punched to KC. If you’d have told me before the season that a trade from the Rockies to the...
View ArticleGuthrie? More like Gut Me…
Twenty-five million dollars for a dude who has lost 10-or-more games five years running, has only had a winning record once (2007) and sits 22 games under .500 for his career? This is what is wrong...
View ArticleThome’s Home: A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes … Where?
The guy who could break the all-time strikeout record doesn’t even have a team. That tells you how much is not happening this season in terms of career milestones. Fifty whiffs away from topping Reggie...
View ArticleSingularity #2: Guthrie’s Goose Eggs
I’ll post one or two of these a month: unique events and players you might or might not have heard about. They are singular achievements, and thus Singularities. Not long ago, Jeremy Guthrie was...
View ArticleI’ll take heart all day long
For all those mainstream media morons who were writing off the Royals after the Game 1 blowout, has anything changed now that Kansas City has in turn routed the Giants? There will be plenty of talk...
View ArticleWords of inspiration for Jeremy Guthrie
To begin, I’d like to point out that I was dropping Quiz poetry a week before ESPN decided to. That said, I’m going to do it again in hopes of inspiring Kansas City’s Game 3 starter, Jeremy Guthrie....
View ArticleNine months comes down to one game
Pitchers and catchers for the Giants and Royals reported for spring training in mid-February. Opening Day, Derek Jeter’s farewell tour, an All-Star Game, the dog days, eight teams qualified for the...
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