So, I've been busy and bad on the blogging front. I'm trying to get this kid out of jail (he got totally hosed), I'm studying for finals, and I've had some poker to play. That said...this post is jampacked with some wicked awesome DiNardo news -- below you'll find info on:
(1) DiNardo's last outing
(2) David Riske's Trip to the DL
(3) David Wells's Trip to the DL
(4) Lenny's Start on Monday (plus, liveblogging!)
(5) Silvio Berlusconi's Loss (plus, fascism!)
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1.) Last Outing: April 12, 2006
Wells got shelled (as expected) and Lenny got a chance to work some innings. This seems to be Lenny's role on the team: A starter lets up half a dozen runs or so, Lenny is brought in to eat up innings until we can get to the next game. Hey, it's a role...
Unfortunately, DiNardo let another inherited runner score (what the hell, Wells deserved the extra ER). Beyond that, he pitched alright. He allowed one run of his own over the 3 innings of relief to lower his ERA by .048 to 3.38. Here are the pitching lines for Wednesday's game.
| Boston |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
HR |
ERA |
| Wells (L, 0-1) |
4.0 |
10 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
15.75 |
| DiNardo |
3.0 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3.38 |
| Seanez |
2.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
9.00 |
Also, the DirtDog's updated nickname for Lenny is a little better than last time: What a Relief: Lenny DiNardokay, Seanez Says Hello
2.) Riske on the DL
So, you may have been wondering -- how is it that DiNardo came in to relieve Wells? Wasn't he supposed to be sent down to AAA to make room for the Big Boomer? Yes, he was supposed to. But terrible pitcher, David Riske, experienced a bad case of back pain from sucking so much. The Sox placed him on the 15-day DL, leaving the spot for Lenny.
3.) Wells on the DL
After his painful outing last Wednesday, April 12th, David Wells was placed BACK on the 15-day DL as well, retroactive to Thursday, April 13th -- which, after careful sabermetricizing, comes out to about NINE HOURS of service on the team so far this season.
4.) Lenny's Start
The good news about Wells's and Riske's trips to the DL is that Lenny not only stays on the big league club, but he gets the START on Monday. Hey, I might try to Live-Blog this sucker. That would be a first for The Lenny DiNardo Blog -- and one that I bet would have about 3 people reading it live -- thanks, mom, Graham from Brookline, and Chris from Westboro.
No promises yet - but check back on Monday at 11:05am - the best In-Game action you're gonna find. Screw ESPN's gamecast.
By this point, this has been widely reported...but special thanks to Graham from Brookline for the tip early today when only Jeff Horrigan from the Boston Herald had the story.
5.) Berlusconi's Loss
This is the random piece of news from today: Insane Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi devised a system a few years back that allowed "Italians Abroad" (or those citizens of other countries who have Italian bloodlines) to vote in the National Italian Political Elections.
The "Italians abroad" voting scheme was designed by Mirko Tremaglia,
the 80-year-old Minister of Italians in the World. An unapologetic
defender of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, Mr. Tremaglia is
said to have modelled the scheme after a Fascist scheme that defined
Italians as a race.
Under Mr. Tremaglia's new electoral law, eligible voters are defined
as anyone with a continuous line of male descendants going back to a
man born in Italy. The voter needs only to register with an Italian
consulate, and does not have to speak Italian, have visited Italy or
even have parents who were born in Italy. Link.
Turns out that the proud Italians in other countries actually voted against Berlusconi's government. Those foreign votes were actually the deciding votes in parliament -- which appears to have shifted to the center-left Prodi government. How crazy is that? And we thought that the World Baseball Classic definitions of an Italian were stretching a little. We had no idea that they were Fascist!!
...I wonder how the DiNardo clan voted?
