After a horrible debut in San Diego, Brooks “Boo Radley” Raley started against the first place Reds at Wrigley yesterday. He was perfect for 4.1 innings and only allowed three runs in his six innings of work. How did he manage to improve since his last start?
“Obviously the five days between starts gave me a chance to watch the older guys and see what they do and you try to learn from it,” Raley said. “I guess the biggest thing I saw from everybody else starting was throwing strike one and getting ahead of the count and keeping the ball down.”
Dale Sveum, can you say something about his start?
“He had a couple of fly balls that went out that were not even hit that good,” manager Dale Sveum said. “He did a great job. He kept the ball down with his movement, had great command and a lot more life on his ball today. He did far and above what we needed out of him. He did a great job as well as the rest of the bullpen. They were efficient and did a great job.”
They did a great job except for the allowing five runs thing. Other than that, spectacular.
While the Cubs were busy losing three of four to the Reds over the weekend, Tim Wilken went and got himself promoted to special assistant to Theo and Jed.
‘‘It allows us to utilize his strengths, and I’ve already started using him in the process of some of our minor-league evaluations,’’ said Jason McLeod, the Cubs’ top player-development and scouting executive. ‘‘I know he’s really
excited. He’s been in amateur scouting for so long, I think he felt a little energized. He felt he was ready to contribute in other areas.’’‘‘I’m really looking forward to it,’’ said Wilken, whose contract might run beyond 2015 with option years. ‘‘It really feels good to be thought of in that manner and to be part of more areas of decision-making.’’
“I’m just happy I didn’t get fired.”
He had to watch other guys to know that he needs to get ahead in the count? Oy.
That is not a promising first impression…
Or second impression.
Hopefully he does a good impression of Harry Caray, though.
Speaking on behalf of myself I have not been avoiding LOHO because the Cubs stinks. I usually have no time to do much over the weekends being busy with events and all. However come Monday morning I do read all the previous articles and comments. We still stinks though…
No excuses!
Tell that to the Cubs.
Believe me, I have.
Then tell it to the judge. Oh wait you probably have done that too.
She doesn’t talk to judges anymore. She’s too busy watching the filming of Bollywood movies out her office window while eating sushi.
And yearning after certain White Sox players to remain nameless…
I yearn for anyone who can score from first on a ground out.
So now you yearn for Rickey Henderson?
I would yearn for Rickey Henderson before I’d yearn for any of you clowns.
Perk of working at Trib Tower: A sushi chef comes in every Monday.
Hey! Who thumbs-downed my post?
Well, you know I obviously did.
I cannot tell a lie.
Jerks.
Speaking of jerks, the Cubs play tonight.
Question is, more appropriately, who DIDN’T.
Oh yeah? I had leftover pizza from Gino’s East for lunch today.
Pfft. It’s a block away.
That’s it. I don’t want to hear you complain about anything anymore. You have every damn thing right at your fingertips.
Now my comment is hidden. Nice.
Life it pretty rough.
A first world problem…
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qgqnp/
How come the “see comment” thing doesn’t work on the mobile version? I feel left out
I just said that the Trib brings in a sushi chef to the cafeteria every Monday, and these jerks hid my comment.
Yeah, I had leftover pasta salad from yesterdays wedding shower, so I may have done the same thing
Whew! for a moment I thought my thumb down button wasn’t working.
Watching Boo in person yesterday, I don’t think he’s going to have much staying power at the major league level. Yes, he appeared to pitch well for the first few innings yesterday, but the second time through that lineup, the Reds were on top of hi pitches big time. I chalk up his early success in that game yesterday to the Reds having no scouting report on the kid.
Back to skulking around inside the house and hiding things in trees for Boo.
But is he good enough to use as trade bait to get a better pitcher?
No, I don’t think so.
My daughter was really pissed off yesterday when Johnny Cueto and Aroldis Chapman refused to play catch with her. She saw them playing catch on the field and kept holding her glove out saying, “Why won’t they throw the ball to me, daddy? I want to throw the ball too.”
Of course, then my wife had to go to the gift shop and buy her a baseball of her own so we could play catch between the empty seats around us.
Cueto and Chapman are assholes.
Cueto would have beaned her, anyway.
She did change her mind a bit when she saw him warming up on the bullpen mound. “Daddy, I don’t want him to throw the ball to me anymore. He throws too fast. You catch his throws…ok?”
On a side note, Saffy did sleep last night with her new baseball and with the promotional teddy bear that she got when she entered the ballpark.
Saffy’s the dachshund, right?
Nope. The Dachshunds are Tina and Snoopy.
And they don’t allow dogs into Wrigley Field…
They only allow that on the south side, and they mainly do that to boost their attendance numbers and to make the park look fuller than it really is….oh…and to allow the dogs to crap in the stadium to hide the bad odor that most Sox fans naturally have.
I know
Cubs send Boo down, call up Bowden. Boo can still pitch on Sunday.
So Boo went Boo?
You jerks broke my blog!
No we didn’t….
It was a LOHO Founder/CEO error that caused the disruption.
Sushi….Sheesh, while I’m stuck in an office listening to crabby paddy old ladies over coffee and doughnuts you have the time for sushi.
I didn’t break anything.
And I’m not so much a jerk as I am pest.
She has no proof-she can’t pin it on any one of us…