Saturday, September 04, 2004

Morris starting to come around... Matty Mo is Rick Vaughn

Matty Mo is starting to look more and more like his old self. Last nights game was the most dominating start we have had by a pitcher this season...

I was more than a bit nervous about matty earlier in the year. When he is throwing 88 or 90 instead of 95 he is a little bit easier to hit.

This season matty mo reminds me of Ricky Vaughn (AKA Wild Thing) from Major League 2... He starts throwing the "The eliminator and the humiliator to compliment his fastball, the terminator." And lo and behold what happens, ye olde terminator doesn't have the same zip anymore.... Then he (Rick Vaughn) starts throwing the fastball more often... and the velocity comes back... The same thing is happening this year. Remember how early in the season all we heard about was matt's changeup? He was throwing that and the two-seamer a lot.... And he lost his velocity. In the last three starts he starts throwing the 4-seamer more often and it's finally getting back up to the mid 90s. Funny coincidence.

Good quote from the Major League 2:
Vaughn: I got a new one I'll show ya...you get a piece of it, I'll let you name it. Vaughn pitches the ball and Parkman hits it out of the stadium.)
Parkman: I'd call it the masturbator.

Another Good Quote:
Harry Doyle: That looked like the Terminator, only slower. Maybe it was his Out-of-Stater! Or it could have been the Hibernator. That baby is definitely going away for the winter. Whatever for Vaughn, it might be see-ya-later, he's probably gonna become a spectator.

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