Every good team has that one cornerstone member that they can always count on. The Yankee's had
Gherig, the A-Team had BA, and BRAWLIN310 has Jon Lester. He's always
been one of the cornerstones of my BUNT lineup since the opening of
my first pack. Needless to say, it's a priority to know if and when
he is pitching. Yesterday morning was no exception but looking back
on it, I should have tripled down and dropped my Common series and
both of my Green Parallel Uncommons given the monster game he ended
up having. Damn you Miss Cleo!
"Call me now for your incorrect information"
My lone UC (that means
uncommon because I'm tired of writing the whole thing already)
grabbed me +335 points!!!!!! The guy K'd fifteen guys in eight
innings. It was pretty damn dominant. Unfortunately, I didn't give
the Bo Sox enough credit against the abnormally good pitching of the
Oakland A's. Side Note: How are the A's so good with a Burger King
Kids Club lineup of no name players? Anyways, Big Papi's OnDeck
Limited card I have was not in play and he had a great game. I
survived. I had a lot of key players playing all at once so I know I
missed out on some gems outside of the Sox-A's match up.
The rest of the day was
tough for me outside of the scheduling obstacles. I'm one of the
founders of a Social Club and today was our much anticipated club
outing to the Rangers Vs Angels at the Big A. The game started 6:06
PM PST and I had to pick an area to tailgate. Prior to that, I had a
whole laundry list of things to accomplish before my flight out to
Seattle for business. That means my new tradition of vegging out and
watching MLB.com was put on hold for the weekend.
My game plan was a real
mash of jumping between Facebook, Bunt, Text, and phone calls trying
to heard kittens to a spot to drink and get acquainted with guests.
Thankfully, I picked up the Doyers game in progress on the AM and
immediately could tell Yasiel Puig was gearing up for a big game. I
also dropped in Adrian Gonzalez for good measure. Right before game
time, I had 5% of my battery left and only a short time to drop in
the the Angels I wanted. I forwarded all of the texts, calls and FB
messages to another founder and began to swap out parts. I was
pleased as punch to pull a Garrett Richards Common this week and
earlier in the day I pulled the Pujols UC. I had a good amount of
Mariners beating up on the Astros in the lineup with the Wild Horse
of Baseball still giving a batting clinic in Miami so I opted to
settle for the Trout rare, Richards Common and Pujols rare This lead
me to a mistake I've made multiple times this season.......Never bet
against Howie......
"Pitchers have seen this face a lot recently"
The long time Angel's
second basemen has been a beast for my squad in my young Bunt career.
The past two games Mike Sioscia has found it reasonable to put him at
lead off, and it has worked well. I left Howie out and missed his
UC's +88 pts. Pujols and Trouty brought in twelve points all
together. By the time I realized the error of my way, my phone was
dead and my chances of getting a charge at the Big A are on the same
level as a reboot of Different Strokes with Donald Sterling as the
father.
"Casting search continues"
Garret Richards Scored me
+99 pts which is great for a number four starter against a team like
the Rangers. Had he lasted another inning, he'd be on a three start
streak of scoring in triple digits. He has been good for at least six
to seven innings this season and is good for five K's during that
time. It was a great performance for a player I'm hoping is the
future number three man in the rotation. It's always good to see a
guy battle his way on to a rotation and exceed expectations.
I was even more unhappy with
my phone battery management when they brought in Ernesto Frieri to
set up Joe “The Hammer” Smith or “Smokin'” Joe Smith or “Cup
of” Joe Smith. Frieri was in top form and pulled a couple
of strikeouts. I'm sad to see Ernesto get moved to Set Up from
Closer. But honestly, I really think the one two punch of Smith and
Frieri in any order is great. I would much rather have two guys who
can close so if one goes down you aren't scrambling to have closer
tryouts during a grinder of the season. Much like my phone battery, a
back up would have been nice.
Beast of the Day! Jon
Lester!
Sleeper of the day! Howie
Kendrick
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