City of Pain

so pat gillick is once again during someone else’s garbage into…garbage. this year’s ryan franklin is chad durbin, a starter/reliever type (meaning he sucks at both) who at the young age of 30 finally got a chance to start for a decent team (le tigre). he did medicore (how’s a 4.88 era sound? sounds like adam eaton’s got some competition).

i think the best thing about chad durbin may be that some tigers blogger has devoted their time to dress chad up like a pimp. this is uplifting. less than uplifting is this from roar of the tigers:

So far this season it seems that Durbin has three pitching modes:

1. Terrible. This is what everyone expects (expected?) him to be. He was supposed to just be rotation-filler until Kenny Rogers recovered from his vascular explosion.
2. Serviceable. This is what everyone hoped he would be, at the absolute best. Nothing spectacular, but just good enough to give the Tigers a fighting chance during his starts.
3. Pimp. This is what he’s been… I think this is the 5th time this season. A pimp start is when Chad Durbin absolutely dominates the snot out of the opposition in a way that is completely shocking when you consider his past baseball history.

ladies and gentlemen, your 2008 phillies!

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