The Sergio Romo Phenomenon
Romo and Wheezy have traveled some parallel roads. The dude who just *looks* illegal isn’t yet at Wilson status in terms of stardom. Wheezy dominates him on twitter (645K > 82K– and Wilson hasn’t tweeted anything since last October while Romo fires tweets off at a furious pace). BW had the tonight show appearance. Of course, Romo had that too. Both have fantastic *closer* personalities, both have had fantastic success as closers, one is healthy, the other one is getting there….
I’m on record as saying I didn’t think Romo could ever handle the grind of the closer role over the course of a full season. He wears knee braces, he’s whispy as fuck, he throws sliders that look like each and every one should be breaking down precious muscle fibers on the way to an accelerated visit with Dr. Andrews…..But he has ALWAYS had the stuff to close. He keeps the ball in the ball park and he knows where his pitches are going with an INSANE K/BB ratio. Sickeningly insane. And this year he’s started off in spectacular fashion. He’s got 6 saves, 2 hits allowed in 6 innings pitched, no walks and 10 K’s. He’s making Craig Kimbrel look like Matt Herges (admittedly, in his prime)….
So where is this going? Bochy dropped hints all Spring that Romo would get some help with closing, there would be an influence of the BP by Committee that worked so well last year. But he’s pitched 6 times in 10 days. I don’t think that’s the blue print of success for Romo over the course of the entire 162. But how can Bochy do anything but what he’s doing now? We’re talking about the most dominant current closer in the major leagues. How do you rest a guy like this in a 1 run game in the 9th?
Do they make knee braces for knee braces?
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I’ve been skeptical, too. But heck, I’m on board now.
Plus he tries different looks with the facial hair.
I tend to like the Closers that bring heat. But, I have to take my hat off to Mr Romo, he gets the job done. I also like that he seems to be a bit of a nut. Last year in DC, the temp was about 1,000 degrees but there was Mr Romo hanging out in the BP with his hoodie on.
With Sir Bruce calling the shots, I’m not too concerned. I think as starters do deeper into games, we’ll see more of Casilla and Affeldt.
Don’t know if this was already linked…From the excellent Tim Keown.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9114943/giants-closer-sergio-romo-more-just-goofball-prankster-espn-magazine
Cool story/video….thanks for sharing. I have always liked Keown going back to his days as a local beat writer.
Maybe you work Casilla in once in a while when there’s a save situation, but a 2 or 3 run cushion, not 1. Casilla’s been looking pretty good again. Bochy seems to be OK putting Romo in often as the save situations show up, as long as his pitch count isn’t excessive. I’m guessing excessive is more than 20…
All of the above. (I’m in my succinct mode. Long day; sold some books at signing.)
I picked up Romo for my fantasy team, so I’m good with what Bochy’s doing so far.
Down on the farm- Gary Brown is 0-3 tonight w/3 K’s and is now hitting .167.
Susac hit 2 HRs for Richmond..
There’s something kind of twitchy and weird about Greinke. He got in a brawl tonight in the Dodger/Padre game.
Pretty good brawl, and it took a while to sort things out. Looks like Kemp got tossed as well.
Man, the A’s sure stuck it to the Angels this week.
A double barrelled brawl. It was settled, then broke out again.
Matt Kemp is a punk. Scully had it sorted out pretty well, he’s still good at age 106. Both bullpens emptying is always a hilarious sight. They run it at full speed, then stop immediately and mill around…
Greinke out with a broken collarbone. Apparently he drilled Quentin before.. On a 3-2 pitch? Probably not intentional.
Greinke blocked Quentin’s rush with his left shoulder. That must have been the collarbone.
That is laughable, the guy is going to miss about $6 million worth of starts because of a stoopid brawl…
Greinke verbally challenged him after nailing him. Just watched the replay – he clearly challenged him. Oops.
They have a history in the AL.
But, Quentin gets plunked all the time.
Kemp had a fastball come high and tight earlier.
But, it looked on replay like he thought nothing of it at the time.
Later, he gets all hot and bothered during the scrum like he was wronged. What a punk…
Yep. Punk.
I don’t know, I couldn’t really see Greinke say anything to Quentin, it happened pretty quickly that Quentin charged the mound. I suppose there was enough time for a quick “fuck you” from Greinke. Doubt he was trying to hit him in that situation, maybe just wanted a brush back to *retaliate* for the high inside pitch to Kemp earlier in the game. At any rate, it was gamesmanship, and it will cost LA losing Greinke for awhile. Kemp seemed to be the biggest thug of them all during the mess. At one point after it had settled down, you could see Kemp jabbing Ethier in the chest and saying something to him, and then Ethier ran at someone, starting the whole thing again. WTF that was, who knows. Kemp’s hot head will boil over again during the season, I’m sure. Dogs and Pads have a LOT of games left …..
I am still laughing about Twin’s fishing experience, especially since mine was much the same. I was dating Pete Rozelle’s daughter or neice at the time (I forgot the relationship specifics) and we went on a party boat out of Half Moon Bay. Captain took us a few miles out and said, “Drop your lines.” Five minutes later, he said, “Reel them in.” Like magic, I had 3-4 rock cod on my line and I am wondereing, “How did that happen?” especially since my line hadn’t jerked, much less any type of movement indicating there was anything on my line besides a pristine hook. Boring. About the only exciting thing that happened on the boat that day, was watching people get sick because they didn’t take the sea sickness medication (forgot the name of it) and the chain reaction which usually followed of other people getting sick from seeing the last person get sick. Ha. Now that was some funny shit. 🙂
Dang, blade.
If you played it right, you could have been … Commissioner Blade… 😉
Or at least Goodell’s flunky. That’s probably worth $500K a year, at least…
Hahaha. The reality was much different with her – Frankly, I couldn’t keep up with her “party til dawn” ways.
I broke up with her after a few months. I was a firefighter at the time, working at Moffett Field on the flight line and the fire chief calls me into his office, handing me a letter of reprimand. I read it and I said, “Wrong guy Chief.” What had happened is that another fire fighter had been dating her since I broke up with her and was so infatuated with her, that he had been calling her during inflight emergencies. Not a big thing, except she was an air traffic controller overseeing these emergencies and he was a firefigher that should have known better to make any personal calls to the tower. Anywho, the Fire Chief eventually rescinded my reprimand letter and that guy learned a painful lesson going out with Ms. Rozelle.
Just watched the video of the brawl again, and by lip reading Kemp, he clearly said to Ethier, “Hey, that Padre over there said your Mother wears army boots” …
I’ll say again, Kemp is a punk. And, a chump.
I hope Giant’s pitchers deal on him all season long.
The Dodgers and SD have no love lost for each other for many years now.
Their rivalry is pretty good, and the Pads have been taking LA down fairly well the past few years. I hope it continues.
Just seeing that Doghair blue and all their yappers yapping got my BP up a bit.
I want the Giants to take them out big time this year with all that payroll on exhibit. 13-6 would be nice…
Agree, Kemp is a punk. It also was a little funny seeing McGwire in the mix, he looked completely winded. No ‘roids now, huh, being clean is a bitch….
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As Quentin walked into the parking lot, Kemp told him, “We’ll see, bitch.”
You can give a punk $160 million, but he’s still a punk…