ok welp i guess i did a great job of perpetuating this thread.... but still fuck all that old may17/earlier bullshit cuz today is a great day for baseball:
JOSE FERNANDEZ IS BACK AT 11:10AM!!!!!!that's right, everyone's favorite pitcher who is known to scare the occasional manship* and make tulo look like "just a guy" is evidently tired of striking out ~8 in 4-5 innings in various minor league levels, so he's back to the bigs and ready to continue his extremely promising career. i remember watching significant chunks of every game on opening day/s 2014 (includingf the super-early dodgers in australia shit) and i said that jose fernandez was the best pitcher i saw on opening day/s 2014 and i stand by it. plus the kid is fun and likely going to be one of the leaders of that marlins team since i think he's more vocal than giancarlo "don't call me mike" stanton.
remember, when he was making his MLB debut vs the mets a reporter asked him if he was afraid of facing david wright in his MLB debut and he said "i was afraid when i was on the raft and they were shooting at me. i was afraid when my grandma fell in the water and i thought i'd never see her again. i was afraid when i was in jail and i didn't ever know if i'd be free again. what's david wright going to do to me?" --- i branded that man a cicero rockstar for life and haven't looked back since. he's definitely taken over the mantle of "my favorite pitcher" from chuckles 'dinner and a show' zambrano. welcome back jose!
oh yeah and matt moore also makes his comeback from TJ surgery for the rays at the same exact time! matt moore was my #1 coveted pitching prospect as he owned the minor leagues from like 2009-2011, and i think it's pretty fair to assume/speculate that the guy was pitching with an arm that was tearing itself apart from as early as the 2012 srretch ruin (when he started having really wacky velocity problems and managed to pitch through it) --- in 2013 he started off the first month or two in fantastic shape with a ~2.30 ERA or something, but then he hit the wall for 2 beyond god-awful starts and had a 4.50 ERA for his troubles. he took ~3 weeks off and came back and worked that ERA down to like 3.49/1.27 before petering out in either his 2nd or 3rd start of 2014. jhis recovery took a little bit longer than jose fernandez cuz he went down by like april 10-15, and jose i wanna say was like mid to mid-late may? but still 2 !!!! pitchers and two comebacks today at 11am..... its days like this i'm glad i dont have to go out and do the proper job today so i can stay home and do my gig here while i've got jose fernandez oin the HDTV and matt moore on the laptop. woo!
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and in case you forgot, here's jose fernandez absoluitely pwning troy tulowitzki.... twice!


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