It’s the most wonderful time of the year
With Dougie Mirabelli
And everyone telling you “This is the Year”
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
It’s the hap-happiest season of all
The Angels get beatings, the As we’re defeating
When the West comes to call
It’s the hap-happiest season of all…
We play the Angels next. Big series. One thing to note is that the Angels are now on a 5th-day rotation i.e. Ramon Ortiz skips starts and goes to the bullpen wherever possible. It seems this year has a lot of pitching rotation experiments: the ChiSox going to a modified 4-man rotation using the bullpen instead of the 5th starter and then now going to the 4-man, the Rockies going to the 4-man rotation, the Yankees using the 6-man before demoting Loaiza to the pen. It’s interesting times we live in. Guess 5th starters are really an odd commodity: no one values them very highly, but everyone wants them. Lucky for us our #5 seems to be Derek Lowe, who’s had a weak first half but is hot now.
How do both Derek Lowe and Bartolo Colon both have an ERA over 5 and a winning won-loss record? Volume!
Tune for the series? “Monkey Gone to Heaven”, by Boston’s own Pixies. That simian ain’t rallying no one around the Fens.
Edit: added the song parody