Andres DuBouchet joins the Sully Baseball Show

The brilliant Andres DuBouchet, Emmy nominated writer for Conan and the creator of the brilliant comedy CD "Naked Trampoline Hamlet" stopped by The Sully Baseball Show podcast tonight.

It is the second hour of the Seamheads block on Monday night after What's On Second, the flagship show of the Seamheads National Podcasting Network.

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Wow... Ubaldo Jimenez is pretty good

Folks... THAT is what you call a statement game.

Jimenez comes into AT&T Park against Lincecum, throws the complete game shutout, goes to 10-1 with a sickening ERA of 0.78.

He's the 15th pitcher to win 10 games before June 1 (Brandon Webb last did it in 2008) and 20 wins seems like a given now.

Could he be the first big league pitcher to win 25 or more since Bob Welch won 27 in 1990 for the A's? No National League pitcher has won 25 since Steve Carlton in 1972... 38 years ago.

4 wins a month for the rest of the season will get him at 26.

5 wins a month? Well that will be 30 wins... but we won't go there.

My friend, the brilliant writer Andres DuBouchet asked me if this was the best start to a season ever.

I can't be 100% sure... Pedro Martinez had a sub 1.00 ERA in June in 2000 during the height of the steroid era. And one of his 2 losses by June was a complete game against Tampa where he let up 1 run and struck out 17.

Fernando Valenzuela started the 1981 season with 8 complete game victories. He was 9-2 on June 1st, all 9 victories complete games with a 1.90 ERA. Pretty damn good.

I say Jimenez is better than both Pedro and Fernando. He calls home Coors Field, which is almost unfair.

One thing IS for certain: He is well on his way to the best regular season in Rockies history!

Here are the Rockies regular season records in pitching categories compared to Jimenez's current numbers:

Best ERA: 2.80 (Marvin Freeman, 1994)
Jimenez: 0.78

Most wins: 17 (Kevin Ritz, 1996, Pedro Astacio, 1999, Jeff Francis, 2007)
Jimenez: 10

Best WHIP: 1.207 (Marvin Freeman, 1994)
Jimenez: 0.90

Most innings pitched: 232 (Pedro Astacio, 1999)
Jimenez: 80 1/3

Most Strikeouts: 210 (Pedro Astacio, 1999)
Jimenez: 70

Most Complete Games: 7 (Pedro Astacio, 1999)
Jimenez: 2

Most Shutouts: 2 (Roger Bailey, 1997, Jason Jennings, 2006)
Jimenez: 2

Fewest Homeruns per 9 innings: 0.498 (Ubaldo Jimenez, 2008)
Jimenez: 0.1

Fewest hits per 9 innings: 7.555 (Ublaldo Jimenez, 2009)
Jimenez: 5.3


You get the point.
He's rewriting his own team's record book and throwing away the qualifier of adjusting his stats for Coors Field.

I am not sure it is the best start ever... but it's damn good.

How I spent part of my weekend

Video courtesy of the brilliant Dan Cronin.

The equally brilliant Andres DuBouchet is sitting next to me.

The Ulti-MET insult to Milton Bradley

So Oliver Perez got ROCKED again... by the Washington Nationals no less. And one of the worst contract signings in history rages on in Queens.

And a terrific Met fan, the brilliant Emmy nominated comedy writer Andres Du Bouchet posted as his Facebook status update "Ok Mets. Please release Ollie and eat his salary. I'm begging you. You can replace him with a T-ball tee."

So I remembered my insane Blockbuster Trade post from last winter. Essentially it was my 9 team, 11 player swap as viturally every jaw droppingly bad contract was swapped for each other.

I had the Cubs getting Carlos Silva for Milton Bradley... which of course happened.
But in my trade, Bradley was sent off to the Mets for Oliver Perez. (The Mets actually DID pick up Gary Matthews Jr, who was also in my proposed blockbuster.)

But remembering the Perez for Bradley part of the deal, I wrote to Andres.

"Would you trade Perez for Milton Bradley?"

He responded right away "No."

OUCH!
Remember, Andres had just established the fair market value of Perez to be a batting tee!

So by THAT logic, Bradley's trade value is LESS than a batting tee. If the Mariners called a team and said "We'll send you Milton Bradley and we want a batting tee in exchange" the second team would say "You need to sweeten the pot!"

I can think of no bigger insult.

Now please enjoy Andres in a sketch from The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is in the Arab outfit.