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Date: Friday April 12, 2002
Subject: U-u-u-unbelievable
Sometimes it's a whole lot easier to be wrong, eat your crow, make the necessary apologies and move on with your life...
... than to be right and watch a guy with a rebuilt arm, an incredibly straight fastball and a ten-cent head blow 10-to-15 ninth-inning leads over the course of a season.
On the last day of spring training, my dad and I had our annual state-of-the-Sox marathon discussion. We were split on Ugueth Urbina. Pops liked what he saw, pointing out Urbina's gaudy stats after coming over last season. I was more concerned about his disappearing stuff, his fastball that gets straighter and slower with each elbow surgery. (How can you have a straight-as-a-straight-edge fastball and not be able to throw it for strikes?) I predicted, "with Urbina, U-get blown saves." If his mediocre stuff weren't bad enough, this is a guy who pumps his fist if he strikes out a guy even after he's blown a save. I'm surprised he didn't moon-walk off the mound tonight after his stellar performance.
Ugly Urbina is a problem. Remember when Derek Lowe
had about half of our April losses last year? Here we go again. The "New Red
Sox" share one horrible characteristic with their forebears, an unreliable
closer. We can play with the Yankees in innings 1-8, but the disparity between
our closers
is scary. And depressing.
It's hard to give up four runs to the Royals lineup over nine innings, much less over one third of an inning, but Ugh-ly can't get anyone out. Not Raul Ibanez. Not A.J. Hinch. Not Kevin Mench. Kevin Hench? Maybe.
Oh, and speaking of reconstructed elbows, Jason
Varitek can't throw. He one-hopped a throw to third base with a left-handed
batter at the plate. That's a 90-foot throw. Brutal. Hope we all got a lot out
of that
decorative 100th Anniversary casing on the on-deck circle last year because it's
still costing us.
Glum.
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