As I wrote on here yesterday Tim Lincecum was supposed to get the start vs Chad Billingsley last night in Los Angeles. However, both the Giants and Dodgers scrapped those plans shortly before game time due to the threat of ominous weather.. only to have both of them wind up pitching anyway. Lincecum picked up a win in relief of Merkin Valdez, but only by battling through a 72 minute rain delay in the process. If Lincecum had gotten hurt by being kept in a game he probably should have been removed from I would have been LIVID. Fortunately, this is a non-issue and it seems he was healthy and up to the task. Markakis, Rios, and Upton are continuing to justify their elite status as arctic anchors by producing on a consistent level in the early going. Even though it is very early in the season thus far I am getting noticeably impatient with the expedition. I believe this has less to do with whats happening on the field than it does with my stress level in general.
In other news, expeditor Gregg has been seen taking long walks alone these first few days. He was spotted by new SP Tim Alderson entering the ice cavern of tragedy shortly after night fall. “It’s one of those places on the outskirts of camp that everybody knows about but nobody dares to mention” said expeditor Buck. ”Markakis has said some pretty terrible things happened in there, long before our time.” “Penguin sacrifices, frost lizards, another Matt Cain disappearance, who knows what happened in there” says Billingsley. Arctic super hero Albert Pujols put down his cup of coffee and his cape long enough to give some insight on this unholy ground as well: “wandering players with sickly complexions is a clear sign of the dark lord Kazmior. I prefer not to discuss the place where laughter goes to retire and gloom hangs on the door like a cement block. There is little doubt Kazmior was in that cavern in the early part of the 2006 season. Our ancestral predators remain in those halls…that is as much information as I care to divulge at this time.” Gregg will be monitored closely these next few weeks, a dangerous situation which could lead not only lead to permanent expulsion from the arctic, but the revisiting of old fiends that bear the mark of something much darker and more chilling than any member of the expedition would care to confront.
Tags: albert pujols, arctic expedition, Fantasy Baseball, ice cavern, los angeles, matt cain, Nick Markakis, super hero, tim alderson, Tim Lincecum
April 3, 2008 at 10:42 pm
The thing Gregg needs to remember, should he ever enter there again, is to NOT touch the Hanley Ramirez statue all the way in the back. He doesn’t want to know what happens.