Saturday, April 9, 2011

And this is why panicking is Bad

When you panic too soon, things have the tendency to reverse course on you, ending up in a great start by Bruce Chen and mistakes in pizza ordering.

...not that the "Holy Cow" from Extreme Pizza was anything short of delicious, but I just wouldn't normally order anything with walnuts on it.

Okay, so it sucked. This is what comes of watching the game on your computer while ordering pizza online at the same time. Lesson learned, right? Both about Chen and the subtle nuances of clicking the right pizza picture.

Chen decided to pull out his full repertoire of CVL pitches (Crafty Veteran Lefty) to befuddle and bemuse the hitters of the Detroit Tigers, to the tune of seven strikeouts over 6 innings. I'm perhaps a bit surprised Ned Yost didn't let him pitch through the 7th with Chen only having thrown 82 pitches, but things worked out just fine. Besides, I don't think you'd want to give the Tigers hitters too many looks at the 87mph heater and the 12-to-3:45 curveball.

Sidnote: The All-Star game selections will already prove to be interesting this year. Joakim Soria has already built up enough ERA to where it could take him at least to the break to work it down to "All-Star" levels, so the league's easy out as far as the Royals' representative may be taken away from them.

Never mind that there's plenty of time for him to build up impressive statistics in all the categories that really matter besides ERA and saves...we know that K/9 and WHIP and OPS against don't get anyone into All-Star games by themselves.

On the other hand, perhaps the Royals will have a position player this year with impressive enough offensive numbers to give them an alternative. Billy Butler looks very, very good in the early going.

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