Ok so this space is supposed to be reserved for my ranting about how amazing Stephen Strasburg is but as I am writing this I am also watching the final moments of "Glee". I don't really share with a lot of people my love of this show and since no one is following this blog I'm not overly concerned with folks finding out here.
Just a few quick observations and then back to Strasburg and his 14 strike outs.
- Vocal Adrenaline, the opposing Glee club, sang Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. While I love Queen with an undying passion, I hate hearing covers of their songs. Literally nobody can hit notes the way Freddy Mercury did and when I hear other people try it just makes me angry and want to push somebody in the face.
- How soon are some of these kids going to look like they're in their 30s? Girls, and guys really, did not look like they do in this show when I was in high school. Not even a lot of the people I went to community college did.
- Is it just me or are the producers of this show trying to milk every cent out of this that they can? A new soundtrack available to download after every episode? Releasing a DVD set after the first half of the season? And no doubt releasing a second DVD set with just the second half of the season and a third with the entire season. Whatever...I have the first...I'll buy the second...on to Strasburg.
First pick of the 2009 MLB draft, Stephen Strasburg made his major league debut tonight striking out 14 batters in 7 innings, including striking out the side in his last inning. In just 94 pitches Strasburg revitalized an entire city, gave hope to a terrible franchise and began what is more than likely going to be an amazing career.
Nationals' management is being ultra protective of their new pitching phenom by limiting his pitch count and his inning length. After the 6th inning Tuesday night the Nationals manager wavered on pulling Strasburg, he had thrown 81 pitches. They let him go and he struck out the side, probably a good choice.
So what does this mean? Will Strasburg win the Cy Young award the next 19 years in a row? Maybe not, but to me this is just further proof that after steroids have finally been drummed out of baseball on a wider scale, pitching has taken over. We have already seen two perfect games and a third that should've been perfect had Jim Joyce not blown the call. ( To his credit he did take the blame for missing the call and the worst commissioner in baseball's history Bud Selig just gave everyone another reason to hate him by not rescinding the blown call and giving Gallaraga the perfect game.)
At almost the 60 game mark of the season we still have no one at 20 home runs, one person at 50 or more RBI's and only two players batting over .350. While this could be a coincidence I believe that for the rest of this season and the next few years, pitchers will be the dominant force in baseball. With talents like Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Ubaldo Jimenez, Clay Bucholz, Roy Halladay and the previously mentioned Strasburg and Gallaraga, there are far more elite pitchers than there are elite batters.
While this may mean some lower scoring games, shutouts and defensive/pitching battles I welcome it. Of course I liked the days of Barry Bonds threatening to hit a home run every single time he came to the plate and even now the sight of Albert Pujols striking fear into pitchers with each of his at-bats. But I love this, seeing these young pitchers just utterly dominate opposing teams.
We'll see how it all works out though. Maybe Rachel and Finn stay together, maybe they don't. Maybe New Directions gets another shot at Regionals next year. Maybe Quinn gets pregnant again. And I think what we're all hoping for...Will Shuster and Emma getting back together!
Oh and maybe that Strasburg kid having a few more good starts...we'll see.
Next Up...to be determined...
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