Jon Lester Jacking It Lefty Splooge Thread

[R-V]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

Nice stickpoke.

Now can you translate that into English?   

[CT III]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

This is the first post in like 6 months that I didn't consider to be a hate read.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

This is the first post in like 6 months that I didn't consider to be a hate read.

Thanks for sharing.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I would like to add that yesterday was a more needed nails performance than last Wednesday's game.  It would have been nice to sweep the Cardinals last week (and Lester certainly did his part--Maddon just pulled him early) but yesterday also served as Jon's elusive STOPPER game that Arrieta has typically serviced.  Nice that they win a game to snap a 3 game losing streak and didn't continue to have to turn to Jake to stem the tide since his shoulders should be awfully sore by now from having done it pretty much all year. 

[R-V]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

Nice stickpoke.

Now can you translate that into English?   

Nuair línte Huey suas 8 prátaí inning ar an tábla le iomlán de bites reáchtáil amháin nó níos lú a tógadh amach acu

[flannj]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

Nice stickpoke.

Now can you translate that into English?   

Nuair línte Huey suas 8 prátaí inning ar an tábla le iomlán de bites reáchtáil amháin nó níos lú a tógadh amach acu

*Inserts Babel fish into ear, realizes it won't work on something as primitive as Gaelic.*

[Tonker]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

Nice stickpoke.

Now can you translate that into English?   

Nuair línte Huey suas 8 prátaí inning ar an tábla le iomlán de bites reáchtáil amháin nó níos lú a tógadh amach acu

*Inserts Babel fish into ear, realizes it won't work on something as primitive as Gaelic.*

Ha ha... wait, what?  HEY!

[Bort]

I'm just glad they don't NEED a win, as Lester has proven largely disappointing as a stopper.

That said, he's done well most of the year but I don't know that we've seen a "nails" performance (i.e. 8 IP 1 or fewer runs) in several weeks now.

Today would be a great fucking day for that.

A hearty congratulations to Jon Lester on his second Quality Potato Start* of the last 3 weeks.

*When Huey lines up 8 inning potatoes on the table with a total of one or less run bites taken out of them

Nice stickpoke.

Now can you translate that into English?   

Nuair línte Huey suas 8 prátaí inning ar an tábla le iomlán de bites reáchtáil amháin nó níos lú a tógadh amach acu

*Inserts Babel fish into ear, realizes it won't work on something as primitive as Gaelic.*

Ha ha... wait, what?  HEY!

At least no one is mocking your native creole of Aboriginal Australian and Flemish.

[morpheus]

If my Facebook is any indication, pretty much all of the BFIB (Cardinals) and WFIB (White Sox) have come together united by the apparent FACT that Jon Lester's pickoff follies mean that he's worthless as a playoff pitcher because everyone will steal on him or whatever.  It's a "huge issue" or a "glaring issue" or something.  So, DOOM.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

If my Facebook is any indication, pretty much all of the BFIB (Cardinals) and WFIB (White Sox) have come together united by the apparent FACT that Jon Lester's pickoff follies mean that he's worthless as a playoff pitcher because everyone will steal on him or whatever.  It's a "huge issue" or a "glaring issue" or something.  So, DOOM.

If morph's post is any indication, he's got way too many idiot Sox and Cardinal fan friends.

[morpheus]

If my Facebook is any indication, pretty much all of the BFIB (Cardinals) and WFIB (White Sox) have come together united by the apparent FACT that Jon Lester's pickoff follies mean that he's worthless as a playoff pitcher because everyone will steal on him or whatever.  It's a "huge issue" or a "glaring issue" or something.  So, DOOM.

If morph's post is any indication, he's got way too many idiot Sox and Cardinal fan friends.

Well... yeah, I do.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

If my Facebook is any indication, pretty much all of the BFIB (Cardinals) and WFIB (White Sox) have come together united by the apparent FACT that Jon Lester's pickoff follies mean that he's worthless as a playoff pitcher because everyone will steal on him or whatever.  It's a "huge issue" or a "glaring issue" or something.  So, DOOM.

If morph's post is any indication, he's got way too many idiot Sox and Cardinal fan friends.

Well... yeah, I do.

But speaking of that, last night's successful pickoff has me wondering if that ONE TIME has now unlocked whatever it has been in Lester's brain that was blocking his ability to throw to first base.  It's not a huge issue--he allows so few baserunners vis-a-vis most major league pitchers to mitigate the effects of this idiosyncrasy--but there also have been enough cases of guys going from home to third on 3 pitches to make me a little anxious.  I wish he didn't have this "issue" but I'll live with it since he's otherwise pretty damn good.

[Saul Goodman]

Jon's just saving it all up for an epic walk-off pickoff of Matt Carpenter to end Game 7 of the NLCS which leads to a humiliated Carpenter's immediate retirement from the game of baseball followed by the rest of the Cardinals, one by one, 2014-2015 San Francisco 49ers Offseason style. The team is folded, St. Louis's economy crumbles, and the city is razed to the ground by its creditors and thoroughly destroyed by drone strikes personally authorized by President Obama under the official codename Enduring Darren Wilson live via satellite on the Busch Stadium jumbotron.

[CBStew]

If my Facebook is any indication, pretty much all of the BFIB (Cardinals) and WFIB (White Sox) have come together united by the apparent FACT that Jon Lester's pickoff follies mean that he's worthless as a playoff pitcher because everyone will steal on him or whatever.  It's a "huge issue" or a "glaring issue" or something.  So, DOOM.

If morph's post is any indication, he's got way too many idiot Sox and Cardinal fan friends.

Well... yeah, I do.

But speaking of that, last night's successful pickoff has me wondering if that ONE TIME has now unlocked whatever it has been in Lester's brain that was blocking his ability to throw to first base.  It's not a huge issue--he allows so few baserunners vis-a-vis most major league pitchers to mitigate the effects of this idiosyncrasy--but there also have been enough cases of guys going from home to third on 3 pitches to make me a little anxious.  I wish he didn't have this "issue" but I'll live with it since he's otherwise pretty damn good.

What made that pickoff throw work was Lester deliberately trying to throw at Rizzo's feet.