Don’t Worry! Homer’s Here
By
Amanda
Posted at 6:30 pm
I was several sentences into a post dripping with sarcasm about how Homer's going to single-handedly win the next 15 consecutive games to bring the Reds back to .500 ball, but I decided against it. There's no way Homer saves the team. In all likelihood, he doesn't even make much of a difference.
But, hey, let's take any opportunity we can to get excited. Maybe I'll actually watch the game tonight instead of playing Solitaire on the computer in front of the t.v.
Go Homer! Go Reds!
Reds
Norris Hopper CF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Ken Griffey, Jr. RF
Jeff Conine 1B
Edwin Encarnación 3B
Adam Dunn LF
Alex Gonzalez SS
David Ross C
Homer Bailey P
(Do you ever think that maybe the reason that Ross has this big “better ERA when he's catching” is because he catches Harang and Arroyo and Bailey while Javy and Moeller don't get a chance to catch until it's Stanton and Weathers on the mound?)
Indians
Grady Sizemore CF
Casey Blake 3B
Travis Hafner 1B
Victor Martinez C
Trot Nixon RF
David Dellucci LF
Josh Barfield 2B
Mike Rouse SS
Cliff Lee P
Well, I’m not playing Solitaire, but I am multi-tasking while I sit in front of the t.v. If all goes well, there’ll be a new Homer Bailey human league entry this very night!
Wow, the crowd is very appreciative of Homer’s every strike.
Uh-oh. Indians lead it 1-0.
Say what you want, it doesn’t change the fact that those Bronson Arroyo caps they’re giving away at the game tonight come with mullet wigs attached. It’s *so* Joe Dirt.
Homer! The other kind!
Brandon Phillips is teh awesome against the Indians.
So, where is everyone tonight? Did everyone get tickets to the game?
Just got here…electricity was out here for the past three hours, I missed a space shuttle launch and the first four innings of Homer’s debut. Grrrr!
The Reds are up 2-3 on the Indians. Bailey is doing just lovely here in the fifth inning. I’m going to some of the credit to Phillips, but even he may just be inspired by the wonder that is Homer.
What? No credit to the guy C. Trent calls JC, PH?
:laugh:
I haven’t seen that reference. Is that in the comments?
No, he often calls him that – Jeff Conine, Professional Hitter
But only in his blog, not in the paper
Whoo, scary. But Homer got out of the bases-loaded situation in the fifth inning. A strike-out even.
I wonder how long he’ll go. They certainly haven’t built him up complete-game stamina in the minors, have they?
Just looked up Bailey on The Baseball Cube:
2004, Gulf Coast Redsox, 0-1, 4.38 in six games (3 starts); everything you posted from 2005 and 2006 in Human League entry is statistically correct, RHM
Yes! Punches out Delucci to end the inning.
I don’t think he’s gone the distance in Louisville. Seems like all the starters down there are on a 90-pitch limit.
Sorry to hear about your electricity, HMZ. We lost power yesterday when a car accident took out a power pole nearby. Jon found out when he tried to come home to take a nap at lunch and couldn’t get in because the garage door opener wouldn’t work and we haven’t had time to make a second key.
What’s going on to take out the power in NY? Thunderstorms?
He’s gone now anyway, Babe Moeller just hit for him. 😥
Yep…thunderstorm dropped a tree limb onto a power line, which dropped the power line onto a chain link fence, which turned my radios off for three hours. 🙁
Sta…Stan…Sss…I can’t bear to say it. There goes Bailey’s shot at a W in his MLB debut.
You need some D cells, my man.
Hang in there. Perhaps the power of the Homer will compel Stanton. Wait…that doesn’t actually sound like a good thing…
Hey, Staton held ’em! Go Mike!
Will Narron ask him to do it again? I sorta bet so.
#577 for Griffey. He’s on fire. How wonderful to have a not-injured Griffey for a while.
Actually I have a huge deep cycle marine battery and a 3000-watt generator here, but it’s not worth getting all that stuff out and hooked up for just a few hours of power outage. If it gets to like 8 hours or so, then I’m the oasis of light amidst a sea of darkness.
Wow, cool, Stanton forgot his gasoline can, 1-2-3 inning.
Clutch Hitter of the Month to lead it off for the Reds.
Holy crap. Stanton didn’t suck.
Yeah, Junior!
I love how Yahoo says, “K. Griffey Jr. homered to deep right.”
Well, duh! Anybody ever homered to shallow right before?
Anyway, how do you like the new abode?
Dunner’s turn to go yard
The house is *so* awesome. I absolutely love it. And the commute is wonderful. It is so great to get up in the morning and leave work in the afternoon utterly without the dread of sitting in traffic on I-69.
You know it’s bad if it’s spoiled I-69 for you.
The thing is that we still haven’t sold our old house, so we are having to tighten the ol’ belt to keep up both mortgage payments. We splurged on a new dining room table (and it’s beautiful), but two rooms in the house are still completely empty and the only seating in our basement is a couple of beanbag chairs. Our houseplants are sitting on boxes of books in front of the beautiful bay windows.
It looks sort of like some college kids are staying in the house their parents moved out of a month before.
LOL I hear ya there, RHM. For a while there when I was younger I had a great bookcase made out of conder blocks and wooden planks…until I upgraded to milk crates.
That’s it for Stanton…who’s Narron got warming up in the pen for the eighth?
Hey, I still have bookshelves made of milk crates and 2×12’s.
I have bookshelves made of particle board with wood-grain stickers on the outside.
Majewski’s in. Cross your fingers!
Narron wants this game. He wants to save it for Homer.
I would like for him to want every game. Or, say, half of them. That would be a start.
My, what a professional at-bat that Conine just gave us.
Runner on second in a 2-4 game in the bottom of the eighth. Can EdE make up for his bobble in the top of the inning? It’s be nice, but it’s not necessary; EdE has nothing to prove!
Well, yeah, but what I meant is that he’ll now manage like it’s game seven of the World Series and burn through the whole bullpen trying to save tonight, and then lose the next two.
OK, let’s hope Weathers and/or McBeth can shut the door here, we don’t want extra innings tonight
Gulp. Well, I guess that’s why you don’t want to send Stormy out there with just a one-run lead.
…or in a tie game.
Griffey’s 577th is now the difference.
Sweet. Stormy came through.
Hafner: What was that that just went by?
Marty: And this one belongs to the Reds.
We’ll take it!
All right! He pulled it off!!
It’s a win! It’s a win!
And two in a row. Just one more for an actual streak! Just 14 more (in a row) for .500 ball!
Bailey’s unofficial line:
5 IP, 5 hits, two runs, 4 BB, 3 K, 3.60 ERA, and (W, 1-0)
Ya know, if they get Bray and Guardado back before somebody else in this division goes on a hot streak……
Welcome to the big leagues, kid!
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It’s amazing: Homer doesn’t have much of a Texas drawl. His parents sure do. He must be a man of the world.
Dude, Jim Day was practically screaming in his face in the post-game interview. Perhaps it was much louder in the stadium than we could hear. More likely, he needs to calm the heck down.
Great game. What a nice change of pace.
And thanks for coming by to chat, guys. It’s always nice. 🙂
Thanks for having us!
I was at the game friday , Homer looked more like a 31 year old pitcher instead of a 21 year old ,especially when your 1st MLB game is against one of the best hitting teams in all of MLB , He was great ,he’s already one of my favorite reds