Please sir, can I have some more?

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Is this thing on?

So, how 'bout that game last night?  Ya . . . my bad on that extra overflow thread.  I'm getting ahead of myself though.

Mike Parisi didn't look good last night.  He didn't look like a major league pitcher to be honest.  Everything was up in the zone and my willingness to attribute that to nerves lasted one start -- his previous one.  Location was a problem but I'm not sure it was the only problem.  In the first inning, Parisi threw just 4 curveballs out of 25 pitches.  Pumping fastball after fastball after fastball and the Nationals were all over him.  His fastball isn't even his best pitch but that's what he was totally reliant on in the first. more...