What SPORTS did you watch today?

Watched the Pirates beat the Dodgers 4-3, giving Kershaw only his second loss this year.

Watched the Pirates lose to LA 5-4 today. They blew a 4-0 lead. Liriano just couldn't handle success and kept walking people.

Liriano has been awful for at least a month now.

And with Cole on the DL that doesn't leave the Pirates with much of a starting rotation does it? I think you're in trouble when Locke is your "ace" by default.

It's a shame because the Cubs are kind of faltering right now and both the Pirates and the Cardinals are failing to take advantage of it.

007 wrote:

Watched the Pirates beat the Dodgers 4-3, giving Kershaw only his second loss this year.

I watched that game last night. Kershaw definitely didn't look like Kershaw.

Well I was flipping back and forth between RAW and the Cardinals/Royals game.  But Wainwright has sucked big time and it's already 6-2 KC in the second so I think I'll just watch RAW.  My day has been stressful enough already without watching the Cardinals throw away another game.

tohostudios wrote:

And with Cole on the DL that doesn't leave the Pirates with much of a starting rotation does it?  I think you're in trouble when Locke is your "ace" by default.  

It's a shame because the Cubs are kind of faltering right now and both the Pirates and the Cardinals are failing to take advantage of it.

Yeah and they have an ace in AAA Indianapolis, Tyler Glasnow, who by a more than one account, is practically unhittable, but they don't want to bring him up yet because of control issues (too many walks). If you ask me, that's just plain stupid, considering what their rotation has been giving you. He can't be worse than what we've seen over the last month or so.


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/prospect-heat-check--the-most-unhittable-pitcher-you-haven-t-seen-173934679.html

Watching the Cubs and Reds.

Cards @ Royals

Watched the first couple innings of the Pirates at the Mariners but those West Coast games start way too late for me. Turns out the Pirates lost 5-2 so I didn't miss much and it seems that the season is slipping away a little faster now.

I just watched Cleveland win their 14th game in a row with a 19 inning 2-1 victory over Toronto.  The Jays used Ryan Goins as a pitcher in the 18th and Darwin Barney as a pitcher in the 19th.

Watching the Pirates vs A's

I watched Cleveland finally lose a game while waiting out the Cardinal rain delay.  Now I'm watching the Cardinals leading the Brewers 3-0 in the bottom of the 6th.

Tonight I'll be watching Premier Boxing Championship on ESPN. I'm pulling for this Jamel Herring guy. He's an ex-Marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq. After having RPGs fired over your head I guess stepping into a boxing ring isn't all that intimidating.

Cards won 3-0 behind 7 shutout innings from Wainwright.

Watching this Angels and Red Sox "game". WOW!!! This thing hella blew open in the 6th... 20-1 Sox.....

Pirates vs A's

I'm watching the Cardinals try like hell to blow an 8-2 lead to the Brewers.  It's currently 9-4 in the 9th after lengthy rain delays and Milwaukee has the bases loaded with no one out.

EDIT: Wow, Cardinals hung on for a 9-8 win. 8 games behind the Cubs now.

Marlins and Braves on now.

Yeah I watched that game from Ft. Bragg too. Interesting atmosphere.

Today the Cardinals host Pittsburgh for the first of a four-game series. I hope the starters go deep in the games for St. Louis because our pen is a mess.

I watched Milwaukee at Washington this morning. I actually saw the "batting out of order" rule enforced. I had no idea that the person who should have batted is called out without ever having come to the plate. And the person who did bat has to bat again at the spot in the order where they should have batted and it's like they never batted in the first place.

Now I'm watching Pittsburgh at St. Louis.

Today I watched the Reds beat the Cubs.  Tonight I'll watch the Cards try to even the series with the Pirates after last night's 4-2 loss.   But I'm not holding my breath, the Cardinals are starting Mike "Springs a" Leake and the Bucs are starting some rookie.  Rookie starts against St. Louis are almost always a guaranteed victory especially if the guy is lefthanded.

EDIT:  Oh no!  Watching the Cardinal pre-game show and in addition to putting Brandon Moss on the 15 day DL, the guy the Pirates are starting is the dreaded "soft-tossing lefthander".  Mark this one down in the books for Pittsburgh.  Guaranteed.

Yeah Brault did alright I guess, but didn't last long enough. We'll see how it goes from here.

So we DFA'd Eric Fryer who had done a fine job both offensively and defensively in favor of this Bryan Pena clown who has now had two passed balls in both of his starts.  Meanwhile Fryer has 3 hits for the Pirates tonight.

Merry Christmas Pittsburgh!