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Miggy Miggy Miggy’s calf you see, All-Star Game ballots Kipnotize me: Tribe Notes 7/7

July 7, 2015 Ai Leave a comment

The Indians are here to suck ass and chew bubblegum, and they're all out of gum.

— Ryan C (@RyanInCLE) July 6, 2015

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What’s the Damage?

Things they don’t teach you in school:

1) How to grocery shop

2) That everything in life connects back to Call of Duty

You’ll play that game for hours and hours and hours and get absolutely manhandled. Shot in the kisser immediately after spawning, lit up from behind, things like that. This is, after all, the most accurate graph ever created:

But then you’ll have that one round, the 24-3 round, and you instantly forget about the hours of getting slaughtered. That seven minutes keeps your sanity in check and causes you to go right back to the well the next day. The same thing happens with a good round of golf, a good episode of a TV show, a good week in fantasy sports.

And the same thing happens with the Cleveland Indians. Their 25 kill round came down in St. Pete against the then-first-place Rays, where they took all four games thanks to gunships called in by Cody Anderson, Danny Salazar and Corey Kluber. Carlos Carrasco, as we all know, was one out away from a nuke. I don’t know what’s more Cleveland: Carrasco giving up a no-no with two outs and an 0-2 count in the bottom of the 9th inning, or Indians twitter complaining when their starting pitcher just went 8.2 innings, struck out 13 and the team won their fourth game in a row.

The Tribe went and took the first of three in Pittsburgh against the smoking hot Pirates on Friday. Then Jeff Locke threw his best game of the year, Gerrit Cole was Gerrit Cole and the Astros came into last night’s opener like their bats were going to expire. Another one step forward, two steps back. And we’re running out of real estate behind us.

The Royals remain a whopping 13 games over .500 and sport the second best record in the AL. They were two games over .500 at the end of the first half last year when they made it to the World Series. All-Star outfielder Lorenzo Cain tweaked a hammy on Sunday and won’t play in their doubleheader scheduled for today. It’d surprise me if he didn’t just rest through the break. Yordano Ventura returns from the DL on Thursday to face the Rays.

Thanks to the good folks out in Missouri, Twins second baseman Brian Dozier has to rely on the final fan vote if he’s going to make the trip to Cincinnati next week, despite using his bat to make solid contact with baseballs on multiple occasions this year.

Dozier leads all AL 2B in HR, runs scored, RBIs; second in doubles, triples, walks & OPS; tied for the best fielding percentage. #VoteDozier

— Joe Nelson (@JoeyBrainstorm) July 7, 2015

The Twinkies are still treading above water though, and will close out the first half with four games at home against the team in the next paragraph.

Miggy Miggy Miggy’s, calf you see. Tigers first baseman and known Indian beater Miguel Cabrera is set to miss around 6 weeks with a grade 3 strain in his left calf. That puts him out until mid-August-ish. Naturally, the Tribe has seven games in the second half against the Kitties, and all of them come in the month of September. The good news is there’s a chance that J.D. Martinez has cooled off by then. Dude’s hit 11 dingers in the past 16 days.

Chris Sale’s streak of 8 straight games with double digit strikeouts ended last night in Toronto, where he whiffed a mere six. In nine innings. And it was his first win in 5 starts. What a time to not be a Cubs fan in Chicago.

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In Other News

😐

— Jason Kipnis (@TheJK_Kid) July 5, 2015

In the least shocking news of this week, your league leader in WAR Jason Kipnis was not elected as the starting second baseman for All-Star game. He took to Twitter to emoji off a little steam, and had some pretty candid comments both before and after the announcement (he was obviously selected as a reserve).

These eyes. #SuperbadReference pic.twitter.com/ndlIhuHE14

— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) June 30, 2015

Kip’s always been a pretty straight shooter so I have zero problem with him opening up a little bit about what’s clearly a sore subject. The people who are knocking him about showing his disappointment when baseball is a team sport have definitely not won any sort of award in their entire lives. You can say all the cookie cutter, politically correct answers until you’re blue in the face but at the end of the day it’s gonna sting when your fans don’t vote for you to represent their city. There’s absolutely no denying he’s been the best second basemen in the American League in 2015. It’s as black and white as it gets. He hits the nail on the head with “If I don’t win it this year, I’m not going to win it.” And that’s a GD shame. At least his peers recognize real.

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Speaking of snubs, here’s Corey Kluber’s ranks among AL pitchers this season:
- Strikeouts: T-2nd
- K%: 3rd
- FIP: 2nd
- WAR: 2nd
And since the start of 2014:

Corey Kluber since start of 2014

354 IP (2nd)
2.38 FIP (3rd)
2.84 ERA (15th)
28.7 K% (4th)
10.7 WAR (2nd)
1 Cy Young

0 All Star selections

— August Fagerstrom (@August_DF) July 7, 2015

That’ssssssss pretty crazy. Goes to show that baseball still hasn’t completely adopted sabermetrics.

I personally had a pretty interesting night in the bleachers on Monday….

The lady with the #27 Lonnie Chisenhall t-shirt jersey in the bleachers is a lady I want to be friends with

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) July 6, 2015

On my list of best heckling lines I've ever heard, "John Cena would beat you in wrestling" is….pretty far down there. Be better bleachers

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) July 7, 2015

Guy in the #55 Matt Capps jersey has to actually be Matt Capps, right? Can't make this stuff up folks

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) July 7, 2015

I gotta stop actually sitting in my seats. I think the last time my butt hit that metal was when Section 180 ruined our season and my life:

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU TRY AND START THE WAVE IN THE 7TH INNING OF A NO-HITTER, SECTION 180? GOD DAMNIT.

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) May 14, 2015

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Television

True Detective Reddit Recap: S2 E3 “Maybe Tomorrow”

July 6, 2015 Ai Leave a comment

Episode 1: The Western Book of the Dead

Episode 2: Night Finds You

It’s Monday after July 4th weekend, so here’s the summary you guys get this week (courtesy of /u/LifeWillBeOkay & /u/namesrhardtothinkof):

Here are my questions/tidbits:

Some kind of connection with the photographer at the movie set and Caspere’s secretary, who is there just “collecting tax papers” or something like that. They show a quick shot of the photog looking at her walking before the scene where Ray and Ani talk to her again:

(/u/oshitson)

This screen cap shows a mask similar to that worn by the car arsonist later in the episode & the photog:

He sort of reminds you of Errol when you first meet him in Season 1 in the sense that it’s a quick (and rather creepy) interaction with a main character that is not minor enough to be ignored but not major enough to be made a big deal of at the time. He’s also snapping pics of two girls when Ray initially strikes up the conversation, so there’s that. Plus he works for the movie studio who was clearly behind the burning of the car later…looks like he has the physique to outrun Ani if you ask me.

The only interesting idea I’ve stumbled upon about Caspere’s safety deposit box is that maybe Ray’s money is tied up in those diamonds. Easier to carry and hide 5 million bucks in a few tiny rocks than bags and bags of cash.
It was hard to catch at first but that was indeed Ray’s idiot partner Teague snapping photos of Paul during his little lovers’ tiff. Why he was is an interesting question, but it’s not feeling to me like anything more complicated than Vinci PD having him dig up some dirt as ammo for when the state inevitably blows up Velcoro’s spot. Could explain his lack of thoughtful input and general boredom with the whole investigation (he’s reading the paper most of the scenes in the warehouse).
This one I got ALL ON MY OWN. And it probably means absolutely nothing. But during the latest meet up between Ray and Frank at the bar, one shot shows them sitting down at the table with the bar’s letter grade for sanitation from the Department of Health clearly visible. It’s a B. Now according to this article from 2014, if you walk into a restaurant in LA County there’s a 94% chance it has an A grade and less than a 1% chance it’s a C. Makes me think the B was a deliberate choice by Nic P, showing a little good and a little bad in both main characters that usually meet there in Frank and Ray. And even Ray’s dad in the opening dream sequence, who we learned was also a cop “back when you could do actual police work.” Or not, probably.
Apparently it’s always sunny in Beverly Hills, too.

(/u/Guccillionaire)

Looks like the douchebag director on the movie set was Pizzolatto taking a shot at the director of TD season 1 Cary Fukunaga.
Two obvi’s – Paul had a three day fling with that guy when they were “soldiers”, so that compounded with whatever caused those scars is ~~probably~~ the root of his problems. And Frank’s dead henchman had something similar, if not identical, done to his eyes as Caspere.

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Comments of the Week

Cleveland.com Comments of the Week: 7/6/15

July 6, 2015 Ai Leave a comment

During my daily peruse for content on Cleveland.com, I sift through some of the comments and save a handful to share with you all once a week. So when you’re hungover and clinging to life on a Sunday morning, come on over to Bottlegate and let us talk you off the ledge.

Previous weeks: 6/21/15 – 6/28/15

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