So last night was the premiere of the second season of HBO's "Game of Thrones". I don't know why it took so long for someone to realize it, but this is the easily the best way to adapt a novel to screen. Each episode is an hour long and there are 10 episodes per season, this way you don't have to cut anything a reader of the book might have enjoyed. This isn't to say that the producers have to adhere a hundred percent to the source material. "Game of Thrones", in fact, has scenes that never happen in the books. These scenes are necessary to compensate for the limitations of the medium. In a book, a character's motivation or back story could be told though inner thoughts or simple exposition. That doesn't really work on screen (except, of course, for the LOTR opening).

I'm tired of movies butchering a great book. Some don't even try to keep with the source. Take The Bourne Identity and its sequels; they took the title of book, the name of the main character, and the idea of an amnesiac government agent and discarded the rest. While the movies might have been good on their own, attaching the name of the book ruined them for me. LOTR was probably the best modern film adaptaion of any novel, but even that is dwarfed (haha) by the HBO series.

...and we're back!

I've decided to take this up again, Hopefully, I'll be consistent, though I won't make any promises. Hopefully someone will read this, though I know you won't make any promises. Truth is, I enjoy doing this, but a weekly football entry began to feel suspiciously like homework. That's not to say I'll never discuss sports here, just not as much. Hence, the name change. You still here?

As for the new name, it's a work in progress. The terrible secret about me is that I'm not nearly as creative as I'd like people to believe. Just ask all the novels I gotten two pages into writing. I began writing a fantasy novel, had the basic plot figured out, but soon realized that I'd have to make up names for all the people and placed. Not just name them, but make up names from scratch. Gave me whole knew level of respect for writers of the genre. I mean, bot only do they name the characters, but their names fit so perfectly. I mean, take Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, the name of any other human character would diminish the character. He can't be Boromir.

Speaking of LOTR, the casting has always bothered me. This has become an issue (the other way0 with The Hunger Games How is it that Peter Jackson casted this epic story with so many characters and the only ones who weren't white were the orcs? The orcs being the only non white characters was messed up on a few levels. First, the obvious, they were mindless and violent villans who mostly came out at night. Second, and maybe more disturbing, orcs were elves who'd become evil. So if you took the graceful, beautiful, perfect creatures and made them evil they went from white to black. Also, there were two separate camps of Men. Alright, I get it, you didn't want to make Aragorn black, you think that would bring unwelcome scrutiny to the film. Fine so Aragorn, Boromir, and all citizens of Gondor could be white. Why not make the Rohanians black? It's not a big deal.

There was an uproar about a year ago when news spread that Marvel Comics was going to have a half black half hispanic Spirder-Man. First, something about comic books that you need to know, the same character has many different comics dedicated to him. For example, Spider-Man will have many difference comic series' that he stars in that have completely different stories and are independant of each other. They're like alternate dimensions of the same character. Got that? Good.

Anyway, Marvel decided a few years ago to start a new series for all their big characters giving them origins in the modern world rather than whenever they were created. The original stories kept going, but the new ones were in their Ultimate series. So they started a new Spider-Man story. Eventually Peter Parker is killed off and a new character, Miles Morales, gets bit by a spider and dons the tights. Well, peole revolted at the idea that an iconic (fictional) character was going from being white to black. What I loved most about this was that the racists had no idea of what actually was happening and just heard "Black Spider-Man' got up in arms. Stupid. Same thing happening now with The Hunger Games.

That said, I too had a problem with the idea of Miles Morales. It wasn't so much that there was a minority Spider-Man, but that there was a new Spider-Man. If, when the Ultimate, series started they'd decided to make Peter Parker black, I'd think it was cool. just the idea that someone else could be Spider-Man seems to cheapen it a little. Make it less unique. But hey, that's the dork in me.

Sorry for rambling, this wasn't supposed to be this long.

Peace

Week 10 Thursday Afternoon Punter

Vack from holidays!

Week 10 Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking

1.) What a crazy ending in the Jags - Texans game. Man, every Gus Johnsons game! Good job by the NKnicks for distancing themselves from the Law of Gus Johnson. Now they just play boring games.

2.) Tie game. Overtime. About a minute and half left. Both teams with one timeout left. Ball within your own three. You got a choice. Run the ball and get a tie. Or go for a loss. What do you do? Well, if you're Eric Mangini, you go for the loss. He coached scared. You could get ripped for settling for a tie, but not for going for the win. Well, if you so badly want to go for the win, you should have gone for two at the end of regulation down by one. The Jets were desperate for the Browns to not run out the clock. Call me crazy, but I subscribe to the theory that what the other team wants you to do is generally not good for you. Horrible job there.

3.) That said, Jericho Cothery clearly injuring himself during a play, seeing his QB in trouble and sprinting to make a diving catch was one of the most remarkable things I've seen on a football field. More than the Hail Mary. The only thing that really beats it is....

4.) Michael Vick. It's not everyday you see a pro athlete look like he's on an entirely different level than his peers. That said, let's all calm down. It's been a couple of games. He might continue to perform fantastically, but let's see it first. I love the way he's playing, but now he's being talked about as if he's unstoppable. He's not the greatest QB ever, and even the greatest QBs ever have been stopped. I really hate saying this before he plays the Giants, though.

5.) I did love how people were talking about how the Cowboys offense is different now that Wade Phillips is gone. Jason Garrett had autonomy oer the offense anyway. The difference this week was that Jon Kitna looked like Peyton Manning.

6.) Mario Manningham's very talented. Home run threat. Reliable hands. Is going to put up big numbers while Steve Smith is out with injury. Giants should shop him after the season. Manningham's not a smart WR. Not nearly as much as Smith. Too many times I've seen him catch a pass near the sideline and bring his second foot out of bound when he had room to shorten his stride and get in, or run a thrid down route short of the marker (just pass the yellow line!), or, worst of all, catch a thrid down pass for a first down and then retreat behind the marker to try to break his guy and get tackled short. Don't get me wrong, he's a great number three WR and would be a really good number two, but I would like to see what they could get for him.

7.) I seriously reccomend going to NFL.com videos and watching the Anatomy of The Plays segments. Mike Mayock does a brilliant job breaking down every asoect of the play and shows you all that goes into a success. A must watch.

Limerick of the Week

The Knicks I continue to support
Though they're sucking on the court
Giants get torched by Vick
It all makes me sick
How long till pitchers and catchers report?

Peace

Week 9 Tuesday Afternoon Punter

Week 9 Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking

1.) How can you not love the way Mike Vick is playing? He's finally playing the way we'd all hoped he would. Well, outside of those who thought he was an elite QB in Atlanta. The thing with Vick always was was that if he could ever develop into a good passer and use his running as one option, not THE option, he'd be a QB like we'd never seen. He seems to have become that. Unless they fear injury, Philly should lock him up now. You can't let a talent like that hit the market.

2.) The Cowboys worry me this week. Changing coaches in the middle of a season sometimes lights a fire under the players, especially those who'd quit on the old one. Dallas is not short on talent. If the Giants sleep on them, they could be in for an upset.

3.) Great win for the Jets. Down 10 with four minutes left. Sanchez bounced back from playing a bad game to help get the win. That's what you want to see from a young QB. I have to be fair, that's what I always harped on when Eli was young.

4.) It is funny, though, how winning a game makes people forget how bad things were uring the game. At one point in the Jets game, the Lions were up by three with first and goal just outside the five. The Jets lined up with too many men on the field and were forced to call a timeout. Then on second down, it happened again! They burned two timeouts in a close game with most of the fourth quarter left. That's terrible. Still, players are dumb. Say you're the player who realizes that you need to run off the field to acoid a penalty. Now the other team has first and goal at around the six. Now, you can try to run off the field, drawing attention to yourself and telling the offense to snap the ball for a free play, or cost your team a timeout in a close game. What should you do? The correct answer there is secret choice C. You should run up to the line and touch an ofensive player, get called for encroachment (a dead ball penalty), give the offense half the distance to the goal (3 yards) and save your vital timeouts. If you can't stop them from the three, you probably wouldn't have stopped them from the six. Timeouts are more important there than three yards.

5.) It is interesting how much people hate the BCS, yet talk about the NFL in the same way. This week I heard so many media people talking about which teams can win the Super Bowl and which potential playoff teams may as well go home. That's stupid. Anything can happen in the playoffs (Yep, you guessed it, I'm about to make a Super Bowl XLII reference). Just ask the 18-0 Patriots. I wonder how many media people were talking about the Giants as a team that could win the Super Bowl.

6.) I don't understand why the Browns refuse to commit to Colt McCoy as the starter. He's already at least as good as anyone on the team and has a high ceiling.

7.) The roughing the passer penalty against Philly when Peyton's helmet was touched was ridiculous. It should more of a judgement call, not so strict that allows for no interpretation. And the penalty on the Collie hit was even worse. That was a reaction to the result, not the actual play. You shouldn't throw a flag because a hit looked vicious or the hittee isn't getting up.

Limerick of the Week

In July I was crushed by The Decision

October forced me to make a World Series revision

My picks were bad

Still, not as sad

As seeing Wade Phillips exiled from the division.

Peace

Week 8 Tuesday Afternoon Punter

So the Giants won the World Series. Doesn't matter. This brings up the age old philosophical question: If a team wins a World Series and no one sees it, does it matter? More importantly, if a team wins a World Series and it's not the Yanks, then did that season happen?

No and no.

My bitterness aside, game four is what was most important about this series and the coming offseason. With the Rangers down 2-1, Tommy Hinter started instead of Cliff Lee. Cliff Leem who was the answer for the Rangers. More important than game 4 is that if the series went 7 Lee wouldn't have been available. I don't see why Lee could not pitch game 4, Hunter 5, Wilson 6, and Lee again on 7. Oh of course, Cliff Lee has never pitched on 3 days rest.

I hate that point. Pick whatever workhorse pitcher you want; Halladay, Sabathia, anybody, they hadn't pitched on three days rest until the first time they did. Every pitcher had never pitched on short rest until he did. Manuel refused to do it to Lee last year and Washington id the same this year. Makes me woner if Lee isn't saying that he can't go. If that's the case, than he's no ace. Apart from that being a wicked rhyme, it's also true. An ace needs to demand the ball whenever his team's down. I thought Girardi should've started Sabathia in Game 4, followed by Burnett, Pettite, and Sabathia.I don't know why that didn't happen. Supposedly he didn't want anyone else on short rest, so having forseen that issue Pettite should've pitched Game 2 and he'd have been on normal rest on game 6. That's not the point, anyway. The point is, that after Giving the Yanks a very good start on Game 5, Sabathia told Girardi he was available to relieve in game 6... on one day's rest. He's not the only ace that would do that. Any ace would. I think Lee didn't.

On another note, I was beginning to think that the idiotic moves plaguing the Knicks for the past decade were over. I thought we were in the dawning of a new era. The "New New York Knicks" as their calling themselves, would be different.

I was wrong.

For the past decade, consistently the best part of being a Knicks fan was getting to hear Gus Johnson call 50 more games than most people do. Not only did I get to hear Gus Johnson on a regular basis, I got a different Gus Johnson. I got Gus Johnson rooting for my team announcing the games. He was way more over the top than he usually was. He had John Sterling type catchphrases for each players ("My name is Al Harrington, and I make baskets!"). It was amazing. I was looking forward to getting to hear Gus Johnson calling the action for a quality Knicks team. No such luck. For some reason the Knicks decide to let Gus go. I don't get it. I feel betrayed. This is more inexpl;icable than them trading Ewing. For me to say that, well, you could see how hurt I am by this. On to the TAP.

Week 8 Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking

1.) Randy Moss would be a Jet today if the Jets had their way. Unfortunately for them, they don't have first priority. So he probably wouldn't end up there, but man what a perfect fit.

2.) As for Childress cutting Moss. I think he was sick of hearing everyone say he didn't have the guts to bench Favre and tgus was the ramatic way to prove them wrong. It's like if a guy became so desperate to prove he wasn't having money problems that he pulls a 100 dollar bill out of his pocket and tears it to pieces. It doesn't really prove anything, just that you're an idiot. Now you're out a 100 dollars for nothing.

3.) A Chargers Vikings Super Bowl, man I gotta stop making predictions. Or predict a Jets and non Giants Super Bowl.

4.) Mike Shannahan thinks we're all idiots. He benches McNabb at the most critical point in the game for whatever reason and brings in Grossman. Maybe that could've worked, maybe the backup QB kick starts the offense and they march own the field. Still doesn't mean it's the right move. Especially if you're going back to McNabb as the starter. Even more especially if your ace in the hole is Rex Grossman. Then after the game he tries to drown everyone's criticisms in some football jargon, throwing around words like "two minute offense terminology" As we all know, the two minute offense is simpler than the regular offense. Running plays are all but eliminated. That's half the playbook. Also, it needs to be simple enough to call at the line, in a hurry, I don't think it can be all that complicated.

5.) How can you not like Josh Freeman? Ahem, "When you look at this guy, here's a guy who's a football player. A football player in the National Football League that wins football games." I think black guys deserve some of that too. Eight career wins, six fourth quarter comebacks. Impressive.

6.) Watched the NFL redzone channel for the first full Sunday this week. That thing is awesome. I mean if the Giants aren't playing, game breaks are my favorite parts of games, this channel is all game breaks. Absolutely worth the money, or the time to find it online, which I may or may not have done.

7/) Nice job by Rex Ryan throwing his punter under the bus after a terrible fake punt. Ryan said the punter has the green light to go whenever he wants. That's a you problem. You don't give punters or kickers green lights, and if you do you make sure you give them the re light when it'd be moronic to go. They're punters. Not QBs. Don't give them authority.

Limerick of the Week

Off the team did the Vikes Moss kick

I guess he and Childress didn't quite click

Now he'll sign with the Pats

The we gotta say congrats

To BB for somehow getting a free draft pick.

Peace

Week 7 Tuesday Afternoon Punter

There's always a backlash against anything that's popular. It happens with almost any great athlete. celebrity, or organization. The United States is the most criticized country worldwide, yet everyone wants to live here. How much ripping does ESPN take? But nobody would want to live without it. That goes for this World Series, as well. Most everyone who wasn't a Yankee or Philly fan wanted to see the Giants and Rangers in the Series. They justified this by saying things like "I want to see new blood win it", which would be fine if it were true. In reality, these people just didn't like the Yanks and/or the Phills. As a result, all these people who wanted to see new blood will not be watching.

They would if it were the other two teams.

Hey, I'm no different. If in the NBA conference finals you had the Lakers against he Jazz and the Celtics against the Bulls, I'd be pulling hard for the Bulls and Jazz. I'd be happy if they won, but I wouldn't watch the Finals. Or at least not as much as if it were the Lakers and Celtics.

Now before I get to my next point I want to say, the Rangers would have beaten the Yankees without Cliff Lee. They were the better team. Their starters outpitched Yankee starters, their bullpen was overall superior to the Yankee bullpen, their hitting, fielding, baserunning, and managing were all better.

With that said, I've always been fascinated with the events of July 9, 2010. That was the pleasant Friday that sports fans woke up to find out that Cliff Lee was headed to the Yankees. It was a done deal, according to everybody who covered the sport. There were a formality or two to be taken care of but both teams had agreed and it was over. The hours passed and still, Lee was definately headed to the Yankees, though neither team had made it official. Then there came some whispers that the deal was no longer as done as first reported. Seattle, reportedly was having cold feet. Still time passed. Then, suddenly, WHAM! News breaks that Lee had been dealt to the Rangers.

Now let's all recall the climate in baseball on that ay. The Yankees were rolling. They seemed to be clearly the best team in baseball. Adding Lee to a rotation that already boasted ace Sabathia, Hughes, who was still rolling, and Pettite having a terrific season. It was almost laughable. The Lee story became such a forgone conclusion that discussions had already begun as to whom the Yankees would leave off of their three man rotation in the ALDS. The rest of the season was a formality, start preparations for the parade.

Meanwhile, the Texas Rangers were floundering. They were the best team in the AL West, but that was more to do with a lack of competition than anything great the Rangers were doing. Moreover, Texas was being run by Major League Baseball, Tom Hicks having gotten in to financial issues. Therefore, the Rangers were in transition and couldn't take on any more money until they were officially sold. They were in negotiations to try to land Lee, but were not willing to offer what the Mariners wanted. Seattle, allegedly, reaches a deal with the Yankees. This, let's face it, would have been bad for Major League Baseball. The rich getting richer, buying championships, competitive imbalance and all that garbage would be all anyone talke about as the Yankees routed their way to a 29th title. Now, Seattle doesn't pull the trigger with the Yankees and gets what they want from Texas, at the same time defusing the chance that the Yankees would walk to a title and raising the value of the team being run by Major League Baseball. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.

Look, when trades are being negotiated, this all I assume, the party with the player everyone wants, tries to raise the asking price by claiming they're getting better offers elsewhere. It's up to the other teams to decide whether or not to believe them. Sometimes a story may even be leaked to the press to sway negotiations. The only people that might know whether or not a deal is agreed upon are the two teams and MLB. The problem here is that MLB happens to be one of the teams that want the player in question. When they find out what deal is agreed upon, they can offer a slightly better deal. Which isn't exactly a level field.

It's like in a fantasy league. Where two teams agree on a trade. The commissioner contact one of the managers and says "You accepted that?! Here' I'll offer you something better, then vetoes the original trade and gets his push through. I know this sounds far fetched, but there are three things in sports you'll never convince me of:

1.) LeBron made his decision the morning of "The Decision" or even that summer.

2.) That was actual blood on that sock.

3.) The events on July 9, 2010 regarding the Cliff Lee trade were totally Halal.

Week 7 Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking

1.) The league can't stay away from controversy. I mean, this week there were no illegal hits, no helmat to helmet anything. Hell, even Monday Night Football took the graphic of the two helmets colliding out, but now we got to talk about replay and it's shortcomings. Ben gets stripped going in to the endzone, dogpile ensues, refs rule TD. Miami comes out with the ball, but since that's not obvious in the replay and the refs unloaded the ogpile by signalling T, the Steelers players can argue they just let go, the refs can't give Miami the ball just take the TD away. Why don't refs get encourage to let a play finish before making a ruling? Let them fight for the ball, see who comes out with it, then tell everyone that the ruling is a TD. That way, all your bases are covered.

2.) Wade Phillips doesn't get it. In the fourth quarter, Giants were up by 18 with around 7 minutes left. Dallas had a fourth an goal and they go for it. Look, if you want to make a comeback, you'll probably need a FG anyway, so why not take it there? I know you want TDs, but a FG is needed and basically guaranteed there while a TD is at best a 50-50 proposition. The problem is, it doesn't look that good. Going for three down 18, but that's the call.

3.) Great challenge by Coughlin on a Dallas punt that was owned at the one. Someone in the Giants noticed that the guy who kept it from going in to the endzone stepped out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball. The guys in the booth never saw that. Touchback.

4.) I figured out why Collinsworth is considered to be the best color guy.He's good, that's not a doubt, and he does avoid cliches which helps, but the biggest thing, and he said this before, is that he doesn't follow the ball. He's said before he watches the line live and the play on replay. That's ridiculously smart. Most fans know enough to know what they just saw happen with the ball. So explaining that just seems obvious most of the time, but we rarely watch the lines. So when, right when the play ends, Collinsworth starts talking about something he saw in the line or a trend he's noticed he seems really informed because we only see it on the replay. Good tactic, don't know why more guys don't use it.

5.) Favre's hurt. Obviously. He limpe after every pick an after the game which obviously means that he's obviously hurt. Never mind that he ran around like a kid out there when he thought he threw a TD to Harvin.

6.) Spent all of Sunday in the car so missed all the games, which made some of the scores (Saints/Chiefs, Raiders/Broncos) all the more shocking. Well, since I didn't get to see much football, I didn't have many thoughts I think I thought about thinking. I think.

Week 7 Limerick of the Week

The Giants needed no extra reason

To put an end to Dallas's football season

But Texas beat the Yanks

So I advance a thanks

To the Giants for ending Texas's baseball season.

Peace

Week 6 Tuesday Afternoon Punter

Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking

1.) A lot's being made about the big hits in the league and how to protect the players. I know it sounds counterintuitive, but the best way to protect the players is to give them less protection. The penalties on hitting defenseless receivers are hard to avoid. Safeties are taught to seperate the player from the ball. You can't ask them to judfe whether or not the player is defenseless or not. It's a split second's decision and a split second is the difference between a receiver being defenseless and a receiver side stepping the hit and escaping for a 72 yard touchdown. I hear people rationalizing that the reason there are more head injuries now then there used to be is that doctors are better equipped at diagnosing them. While that might be a part of the reason, I'm not sold that it's that simple. The equipment players wear now is so much more advancedthan what they use to. They're lighter, more comfortable, and safer.This, I think, gives the players sense of immortality that previous generations lacked allowing defenders to launch themselves at the opposition with no fear of what injury might befall themselves. I mean, what is the purpose of shoulder pads? Sure they protect you, but mostly they allow you to hit others without fearing of hurting your shoulder. It's like, if you took the gloves off of boxers, there would probably be less head injuries because a boxer's hands would usually be too sore before they reach the point of doing any serious damage. Or maybe not, I'm just guessing here.

2.) The Giants are worst in the league at converting third and three or less. That's of no real surprise. They're playing on Monday night this week, watch them. Anytime they're in third and short away from the goal line, Manning's in the shotgun. I can't emphasize enough how meticulous this is. I mean, at least have the threat of the run. That isn't to say that they don't run from th gun in these situations, but that's the point. A run from the shotgun is effective when the defense is sure you're passing and, therefore, not really holding the line. If you're in the gun in short yardage, the defense will be weary towards the run and inside hand offs aren't nearly as effective when the defense is looking for them. They've converted a few of these, but mostly because Bradshaw made three people miss and just passe the chains.

3.) By the way, I nominate "Playing ahead of the chains" as the next football cliche that will be run into the ground mercilessly.

4.) That was absolutely a pass interference on Denver at the end of the Jets game. It had to be called. It's just a shame that a team could do everything wrong at the end of the game and be rewared so handsomely. I think defensive penalties in general are ridiculously harsh. Offensive holding is a ten yard penalty and a repeat of the down. Defensive holding is a five yard penalty and automatic first down. That hardly seems fair. Defensive holding should be a ten yard penalty and if the offense passes the marker it's a first down. I've seen too many times a team fail on third and 15 plus and be rewarded with an automatic first down because of a five yard penalty. Offensive pass interference is the same as offensive holding while defensive pass interference is a spot foul and automatic first down. I don't think defensive PI should be changed, but I think offensive PI should be changed and enforced strongly. An offensive PI should be however many yards ownfield from the line of scrimmage the penalty occurred and a loss of down. It's not fair that a defense could get a fifty yard penalty but offenses can't. Morewover, offensive PU needs to be called more, just look at the Texans Chiefs game. Andre Johnson blatantly pushed the defender away from the ball and the refs called defensive PI solely because there was contact. Maybe PI should be challangeable.....

5.) Why do the Packers get such a free pass? I see no real difference between the Packers and the Cowboys: Both teams have bad coaches who tend to mess up the ends of games, both teams have high powered offenses, both teams feature great regular season QBs who fold in big spots. I don't get it.

6.) When Vick gets healthy, it's time for Reid to make a call on the future of the team. If he thinks the future is with Kolb, then he's the starter. If not, you go with Vick.

7.) LDT is such a jerk. He was asked if he enjoyed the Charger's struggles, he grinned and said no comment is needed, the smile says it all. Moreover, he got a Jets tattoo and said that his years in San Diego are dead. Why spit in the face of those fans that cheered you for your whole career because you don't like the way the organization treated you? That hurts the fans. Plus, what did the Chargers do to him that was so terrible? After three paltry seasons they decide he was no longer a starting HB? Here's a newsflash for Tomlinson: The Jets thought the same thing! They brought you in to be Green's backup. If you were so confident in your abilities during the off season, why didn't you sign an incentive laden contract with San Diego and agree to compete for the starting job?I dislike the Chargers and hate their front office, but I don't blame them for this oe.

8.) I don't buy that Revis is so hurt. There's no way he can cover so well if his hamstring's as bad as the Jet PR is making it out to be. He didn't get toasted on any play last week, he was always steo for step with the WR, but Orton put the ball where it needed to be to be caught. No DB can cover a perfect throw. Revis's problem is that people think he's hurt and Cromartie's playing so well so offenses will go after Revis. If the Jets want to help him, stop making excuses and put it out there that he's a hundred percent and looks great in practice and put him on the other team's number one WR and let his reputation work for him. He's playing just as good as last year but teams think it's okay to go after him, so they are.

Limerick of the Week

Yankee fans are beginning to sweat

We can't help but bite our nails and fret

He can't get an out

Against hitters so stout

There's never been a pitcher in history worse than A.J. Burnett