01
2007
Posted by @ 21:40
Okay, I’m not exactly “back” yet.  But I promised an asshole a verbal bitch-slapping of gargantuan proportions, and by Cthulu, I’m gonna deliver it.
As you guys may know, I’m a semi-participant in a Dullest Moaning Snooze blog concerning the Texass stRangers.  The woefully inept Rangers, I might add.
Part of the reason they’re so shitty is because they have no starting pitching to speak of.  Part of the reason for that  is because their half-assed excuse-for-a-general manager, Jon “In Over His Head” Daniels is, well, in over his head.  So much so, in fact, that he traded his (at the time) best pitching prospect, a big, 6’10” stud of an arm, Chris Young, plus first baseman Adrian Gonzalez for oft-injured, not-all-that-great pitcher Adam Eaton, reliever Akinora Otsuka and a mess o’ pottage.
Eaton promptly hurt the same finger he’d hurt the previous year, had surgery, missed half the season, underwhelmed the Ranger faithful the half he did  pitch, and subsequently signed a free-agent contract in Philadelphia, where he toils in relative obscurity with a 5.73 ERA.
Young, meanwhile, just dropped his  ERA to 2.42 with a seven-inning, no-run masterful effort against Pittsburgh.