May 27, 2006
2006's obligatory early season baseball post
Posted by pete at May 27, 2006 12:39 AMRichard Justice is a funny, funny man:
Lidge has been a star and will again be a star. Burke is going to be a solid contributor on a good team. Hirsh may be a star.
Wait, you don't think Lidge is finished? I keep reading that Lidge is toast. Why are you in tank for the guy?
Because I've been around the block a time or two. I can now identify (most of the time) the guys you'll make it and the ones who won't. Lidge will make it.
Yeah, your baseball expertise and a dime will buy a cup of joe.
Go ahead and trade him, but don't come crying to me when he ends up atop the all-time saves leaderboard.
I'm sorry, that sound you heard was me spewing beer all over my monitor, then gut laughing until I hemorrhaged, then spewing blood all over the same monitor.
Brad Lidge is going to someday become the all-time saves leader? The same guy who, already in 2006, has one less blown save than he did in each of the two previous years and has a total of 84 saves in 4 years of work, is going to eclipse Lee Smith's mark of 478 total saves? Wow. That's good stuff.
The bottom line with Lidge is that he throws 97 mph and has a great slider. Whatever is wrong with him eventually will get fixed, either here or elsewhere.
As a Cardinals fan, I have just two words for Richard Justice: Rick Ankiel. But for some reason, I don't think those are the two words that haunt Brad Lidge in his dreams. Those words are: Albert Pujols.
True, the Astros went on to win the NLCS on their way to the World Series, but that towering beast of a HR in Game 4 has dogged Lidge ever since. Hell, I live in Houston, and there are plenty of 'stros fans who agree with me.
But apparently having a closer with a 6.53 ERA doesn't bother Justice. I'll bet it bothers a few of the Houston faithful, however.
Isn't Justice the one that wrote the article last season which featured a headstone as the graphic. And this was about mid-season or so? God I hate that guy.
I have Lidge on my fantasy team thus guaranteeing he will continue to suck this season. I also have Isringhausen who really sucks.