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I don't know how many baseball fans there are in here, but I was incredibly excited to see Daisuke Matsuzaka do AMAZING the other day. He reminded me of Pedro in the early years. Awesome!
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I read about him in the paper this morning. I might actually tune in and check this cat out. I don't know anything about him but he has a pretty cool nickname and I hope he has personality. With a lot of Japanese baseball players it's all-business.
Not that I saw... If you can find it, I'll give you a rape dollar.
that was my first thought
i have season tickets to baseball this year, but unfortunately it's for the rockies
He laughs a hell of a lot more than Ichiro. I don't know if that means anything.
His pitching is AMAZING though. 95+ fastball, nastiest slider I ever saw (better than Johnson, no shit!), and a bevy of supplementing pitches that he throws well (change-up, splitter, screwball, sinker).
He's going to be awesome this year.
Baseball is baseball... I'd kill for season tickets to any MLB team.
10 strikeouts in 7 against ANY team is really fucking good. And, contrary to Nomo (who had a 91-92 fastball and a good splitter, and that was about it), Dice-K actually has amazing raw stuff, with a 95-97 mph fastball when he wants it (I've only seen him reach 96 once since being with the Sox, but he's hit 98 in Japan before - 159 kilometers, actually, according to the video I saw), super nasty split, and amazing change, and sinker and screw/gyro.
What he doesn't have, is the Nomo cool aspect of the no look windup. So really, he loses cool points for that and it will cost him the SI Man of the Year award.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
I don't keep up with the AL.
Nope, Tigers.
And I'm a Sox fan, so it hurts me to say that. But, definitely the Tigers.
I just got done laughing five minutes straight. Seriously, Twins are all up in the Central division. 3-0 already? Yes please. WE ARE GOING FOR THE PERFECT SEASON.
He gave up 6 hits though.
Give this man a medal.
Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
with the Tamba Bay motherfucking Devil Rays
The Twins are garbage.
... And?
6 hits in 7 isn't bad. It's not amazing, yes, but it's certainly not bad.
And he had a 1-hitter through 5.
Oh, God, you're one of THOSE.
Yeah, just watch the Sox for any of the past 7 seasons (excluding '04) and see how important it is to be amazing for the first 80 games. Because the Sox OFTEN lead, sometimes by a large margin, at the break, and they have yet to take the division.
And the Tigers are amazing, I don't know what the fuck you're laughing at.
Fuck you, too.
Dude, it's 3 games into a 162 game schedule... Seriously, what the fuck? Don't be talking about the standings, just talk about the players.
Rangers clinched last night, wooooo
Well, you can feel free to stay out of the baseball threads until then, but I fucking HATE hockey, so for me, I haven't had a sport to follow since the Super Bowl, so I'm THRILLED that baseball season has FINALLY arrived.
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You do know that the "gyroball" is pretty much a myth, right?
Matsuzaka doesn't use it, and those who do in Japan get maybe 2 inches of movement with it. If it doesn't hang.
Yeah
it's a myth
the article about Matsuzaka in SI a week or so ago was very interesting.
Hey everyone else EAT A BAG OF DICKS!
I was just trying to see what reaction I could get.
Also, I'm assuming you mean White Sox when you say Sox.
h5 dude, I'm looking forward to another awesome first half of the season followed by a terrible second half
The gyroball isn't a "myth", it's just a screwball with a fancy name.