7/12/08: Eaton Unit

First two guys reach base on singles.

I’m generally not in favor of killing ballplayers, but…

Eaton gives up his required two runs in the first. Still going, at the moment.

Victorino ties it with a two-run homer off Johnson in the home 3rd. Ruiz had walked.

Adam Eaton is a complete fuck up. He should be sent to the minors for that AB to Johnson alone. Happ, Carrasco, anyone would be better than watching this worthless turd trot out there every 5th day. That is all.

Really, it would be hard to overstate how much Eaton sucks.

Two outs in the fourth.

He gives up a single to the #7 hitter.

Then walks the #8 hitter-batting .171-on four pitches.

Randy Johnson’s up, Eaton gets ahead 1-2, count goes even, Johnson fouls off three pitches, count goes full…

And Eaton lays in a meatball over the dead center of the plate, with Johnson-batting .095 before this encounter-rips down the line for a two-run double. They’re losing again.

Now a four-pitch walk to Drew.

Sometimes I wonder what the hell must be going through Eaton’s head when he is out there on the mound. What is his thought process?

Whoever can figure that out deserves a Nobel Prize.

And another extra-base hit. 5-2.

Also, that was Johnson’s first XBH in four years.

It’s kind of entertaining to listen to Larry Anderson, getting increasingly enraged at Eaton’s performance.

As they say in chess, I resign.

I need a cold compress after this one.

Swindle is not looking very good in the major leagues.

For those keeping track: the Phils are now 8-20 on weekend games (including today’s loss).

Late to the game in this thread, I am, but I must say that it was the biggest waste of 75 bucks I have had in years – although the cheesesteak I had prior to the game was worth the drive.

I have to agree with some of the above comments, Eaton is finished as a starter….he has to be – he is an embarrasment to the team. That AB of Randy Johnson looked even worse in person. My father was absolutely apoplectic and catatonic after that AB, something that doesn’t normally happen to him, considering that he has been a Phillies fan for nearly 50 years.

What baffles me about Eaton is how he could’ve possibly fooled any team into giving him $24 million dollars. I’m no scout, but even when he results are decent (through luck or the other team’s offensive incompetence), I can tell his stuff is piss poor and his command of it and feel for pitching is worse. If the Phillies cut him (which they absolutely, unequivocally should), I wonder if any team would bother to bring him on for the minimum.

Someone would bring him on, and he would become Cy Young for the rest of the season.

Well it looks like they have abandoned the Swindle project. He was sent back down today. Too bad.