Do What Now?

The Penny-Arcade game got released today, and I was anxiously following the mini-comic they did building up to the game's release. Gabe is clearly more pumped about it than Tycho, and to be honest I think I would both love and hate hanging out with them together or even one on one, but right now I don't care about anything except two numbers.

0-8.

Do you know what that is?

Blogi, you may want to quit reading if you don't already know what this is, I feel bad harping on this...but not too bad because my team is arguably worse right now.

That's Barry Zito's record. In 9 starts. So the luckiest he's been, all year, has been to manage a no-decision. I try not to think about this for more than a minute at a time, because my head starts to spontaneously shake, so I'll try to focus some thoughts where I can.

- This guy went 23-5 with a 2.73 in Oakland in 2002. I don't care about Steroids or the Colliseum being cavernous, in the AL, that's amazing. Those are Pedro numbers, who, even if he retires this year, should be a first ballot lock with only 209 wins.
- Every year for this guy has subsequently been downhill.
- Will he ever, EVER snap out of this?

Statistically, yes, he will win a game. It is impossible to not win a game all year. I think statistically if you let anyone pitch a game over 162 games, hell, over the 33 or so starts most guys get, you will get ONE fucking win. But his season is already about a quarter doneski, and he is posting a goose egg with a 6.25 ERA. In case you're keeping track at home, that's about 2 million and change per run in that statistic.

What happened? The only thing I can think of that was this dramatic was Chuck Knoblauch inexplicably throwing the ball 10 feet in front of him one day and being out of baseball a little over a year later. I really need to digest this, because I knew things were bad, but I didn't know they were this bad. I need to think this over. That and my really hot girlfriend is home, so I'm out.

-Jobimoto...out. I just said that.
"Zito and 8."