First of all, props to Matt for making a graphic. I hereby owe him one Publix cookie. Lets take a look at this week's nominees.
Roy Williams - He's an asshole for keeping his starters in during a blowout. Say what you will about Coach K, but I challenge you to find a game against UNC in which he had his starters in with 20 seconds left during a blowout. When you leave your starters in, you're sending the message that it still counts. Henderson made a reckless, hard foul, but Hanbrough should've been riding the bench well before that.
Bronson Sardinha - Spring training baseball is great fodder for PCOWs due to the baseball preseason being completely worthless for predicting team success(Matt, please call me out on this if I'm wrong). A walkoff homerun in spring training makes for a very strong case for a cookie, but something else intervened this week.
Yusmeiro Petit - One of today's headlines on espn.com was that Daisuke Matsuzaka held the Marlins scoreless in 3 innings. The sub-headline was that he did well in his debut against major league hitters. The article went into intimate detail about Daisuke's outing which consisted of 2 hits, 1 walk, 3 K's after 47 pitches thrown. After paragraphs and paragraphs about Dice-K, the last one says that Petit allowed only 1 hit and struck out 5 batters over his three scoreless innings. DICE-K GOT OUTPITCHED. Aside from getting beaten in the numbers, he did this against the Boston Red Sox who have a much more respectable offense than the Florida Marlins.
There's no international hype surrounding Yusmeiro Petit's season, but he out-dueled Dice-K over 3 innings and deserves a little more than a footnote. Being in Jupiter, Florida you're much closer than I am to Publix, so you're going to have to get it yourself. I remember passing a Publix on the way to a spring training game though, so here's how you get there.
Yusmeiro, drive swiftly and safely to Publix and enjoy your cookie. You held the Red Sox to 3 scoreless innings and pitched better than international obsession. If that's not worth a cookie, I don't know what is.
2 comments:
Your ass is probably correct on this one. To pick a random, yet pretty famous example- the 1998 Yankees were something like 5-15 in spring training, then opened the regular season by getting swept in Oakland. They only lost 47 more games over the next six months, regular season and post-season. So yeah, spring training is the source of many many cookies.
Seeing as how Petit plays for the Marlins, are we sure that he can actually afford to purchase his own cookie?
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