Texas at Cleveland - the series finale at high noon

I never said anything today about Washington.

Translation:

Steve shut the fuck up and leave this thread

No, I'm not fading Halladay.  I have no plans to get involved in that game. 

You made a comment about the Washington Generals and I misread it... My bad

Justin Verlander has thrown a whopping 249 pitches over his last two starts.  I know he's supposed to have this rubber arm, but this is ridiculous.  Plus, the numbers don't back him up on that rubber arm thing.  Since the beginning of June, Verlander has started seven games that followed consecutive starts that saw him throw more than 230 pitches.  Let's look at how he did in those 7 games:

June 16th - After throwing a total of 239 pitches against the Angels and White Sox, Verlander gave up 8 hits and 5 earned runs in just 4 innings at St. Louis.

July 1st - After throwing a total of 233 pitches against the Brewers and Astros, Verlander gave up 6 hits and 4 earned runs in 6 innings at Oakland.

July 29th - After throwing a total of 236 pitches against the Yankees and White Sox, Verlander gave up 6 hits and 3 earned runs in 7 innings at Texas.

August 3rd - After throwing a total of 242 pitches against the White Sox and Rangers, Verlander gave up 9 hits and 5 earned runs in 8 innings against Baltimore.

August 8th - After throwing a total of 233 pitches against the Rangers and Orioles, Verlander gave up 7 hits and 5 earned runs in 6 innings against Minnesota.

August 24th - After throwing a total of 239 pitches against the Red Sox and Mariners, verlander gave up 10 hits and 4 earned runs in 5.2 innings at the Angels.

Septemer 4th - After throwing a total of 233 pitches against the Angels and Rays, Verlander gave up 4 hits and 1 earned run in 8 innings at Tampa Bay.

Not so hot, huh?  And if I may attempt to discredit his one good start in this situation which took place just five days ago, he was facing the Rays who were already beginning their death spiral out of the Wild Card race. 

So that's 7 games in which Verlander was coming off of consecutive starts in which he threw an average of 236 pitches in his two preceding starts.  And now tonight, he's pitching on 4 days rest after throwing 249 pitches against the Rays in Detroit and the Rays in Tampa.  Who wants to bet nothing bad happens to him?  Not me.

   According to your stats, wouldn't a play on the over 8 be a better play than taking the Royals?  I went back and took a look at all the games you mentioned, and even though he did give up a few runs on a lot of those occassions, the team still won some of those mentioned games.

what I miss?

you acting like a child at your first circus all day is my problem... you were way out of line earlier and yes i am still peeved about it... and as far as how much i lost on the person and bucs... well that's none of your damn business... it was a lot more than your lunch money bets i can tell you that... but i'm over those losses seeing as how bator just saved my ass with that SD pick... still not over your antics and it might be awhile before i am...

people were losing their dicks in here and you were running around celebrating your 20 dollar bet like you just won the damn powerball... pretty fucking annoying and VERY immature... win with class, lose with class... it's that simple... but if you want everyone around here to think you are an ass hole then you did a damn good job of rubbing people that way with you actions today

you want to cheer for your win, great... go do it in a Texas thread where other people are celebrating... not in a thread that was clearly for Cleveland backers where people are losing and already pissed... we didnt ask for some yahoo to come and rub it in our faces.. especially when some of us take this shit seriously and have been doing it for years... where it is very clear to me that this is your first trip around the block...

with that said, Go Yankees