Odds and Ends: Hanley, Salcedo, Torrealba

I've had all this bile built up towards Pierzynski. But reading that article makes me feel like I could love him again... not.

Hey A.J., where did you get that ring? San Francisco? Oh wait ...

And kicking Conte in the raisins is bad because ...?

“The story about me playing cards and not going over the hitters is not true. I told them I’d be there in two minutes, and I came over there two minutes later."

That is such bullsh!t. If you are a big league catcher and you have pitchers and pitching coaches telling you it's time to go over hitters, you do not say "fine, but you are all going to wait for me to finish playing cards." Whether it's two minutes or any other amount of time. The fact that AJ has to qualify the statement ("When they say I didn't go over pitchers they are lying...BUT I should point out that yes okay I did make them wait a little, whatever") shows that he is full of sh!t and he knows it.

Good call Futureprospect3, I was thinking B Fu was an Anaheim fan who still hasn't gotten over it.

(For the most part) even Cubs fans have come to terms with the fact that Bartman didn't help the Cubs, but it was not he alone that lost the NLCS for them. In the same way the dropped third strike was not the deciding play of the ALCS. Had they retired Crede (who hit the game-winner) the game would still be tied. It was also not the deciding game of the series. How can anyone really be mad at AJ for that play. You're taught as a player to run anytime you even THINK it may have been a dropped third strike - that's what he did.

I am obviously biased towards the Sox just as B FU is biased against the Sox, but it's hard to argue that it was a bad LCS when it was so historic (4 consecutive complete games for Sox pitching - especially in an era where one complete game is rare)