Youk Of The Nation

ELECTRIC BOOGALOOOOOO

In the words of Abraham Lincoln, "f*** you, Parmalee".

Sorry everyone, just got home from work. MacDaddy has been nuked. Please resume your normal gamethreadding.

For the Red Sox: Clay Buchholz, 6-0, 1.01 ERA http://cdn.sportsoverdose.com/thumbs/clay-buchholz-11-mlb.jpg Despite looking uncannily like the gentleman who sits in the cab of his pickup truck at the gas station, spitting tobacco out of the window and tossing Natty Ice cans at passing teenagers, Clay Buchholz has thus far pitched what experts have termed "very well" and amateurs have termed "f***ing awesome". It is not inconceivable that Buchholz, who, I can not stress enough, looks mightily like an Alabaman car mechanic, will go to 7-0 after tonights' game against a lineup that has lost a lot of its' intimidation in the past couple of seasons. But seriously, what a redneck For the Twins: Vance Worley, 0-4, 7.22 ERA http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Vance+Worley+iaKfIJKpaAnm.jpg Despite looking like an 18-year old who desperately wishes he could grow an actual beard, Vance Worley has pitched...well, actually, he's pitched exactly like that sort of guy. What may be the most disappointing part of this season is that Vance Worley is the perfect name for a time-traveling supervillain or the powerful CEO of an evil pharmaceutical company, who also happens to be a supervillain. Instead, this wonderful name that belongs on a top ten list with Lex Luthor and Dr. Claw is being wasted on a guy who appears to only wear sport-reinforced glasses because the regular ones broke too often when he got beat up in high school by the girls on the chess team. The only danger this man poses to the Boston Red Sox is laughter-induced cramping resulting in DL stints, which shouldn't be an issue now that JD Drew is no longer playing on the team. So let's do this, boys. Getting swept is never good, but put it behind you and keep moving forward. My birthday is on Thursday and I goddamn well better be still making Gamethreads then. Let's do to these Twinkies what the economy did to the real ones. Go Sox!

Sometimes when Ortiz makes contact, I'm surprised he gets a hit instead of atomizing the ball and standing befuddled in a cloud of white mist.

This, from the guy who makes a living announcing at-bats for Melky Cabrera.

Rockies again, this time knocking around Beckett. I repeat, LOVE IT

I'd forgotten how fun baseball can be to watch when your team isn't playing like the 2003 Tigers.

Damn it, Carp. You ruined my prediction.

:thumbsup:

Our neighbors' dog just knocked over our trash can. My mom asked what the noise was and my stepdad said "I think that was Mike Napolis' home run landing in our yard."

39 minutes previously. I didn't notice!

I recall a very recent discussion about 3-0 home runs

Intentionally walking Ortiz to get to Napoli is like jumping into a volcano to escape an angry bear.

Astros tied it up against the Yankees with 4 in the 4th off of Phelps. Ha.

Clean balls are happy balls!

I remember I was listening to the Yankees radio coverage at work, because the Sox station wasn't coming in as clear. I don't remember precisely what Sterling said, but I do remember him sounding like someone had just run over his dog.

Nava gonna take you deep

Napster!

Buchholz is awesome

Anything other than 162-0 is less than I was expecting. I demand perfection!

8-1 Red Sox. All 8 RBI on a grand slam by David Ross, who hits it so hard and far it tears a hole in the fabric of the multiverse, travels through time, and reemerges in our universe and flies out of the park a second time.

Thrice? Really? Even I'm not that pretentious.

This is an excellent decision, and the first time in a while I have read through an on-field personnel decision made by the Sox and not had a single bad part to point out.

Rockies beating the s*** out of the Dodgers. 12-0 in the 7th. Love it.