Frankie Say STFU

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Snoozeday beatwriter David Lennon blogs:

]Four-out saves for K-Rod? Don't ask Figured it might be worthwhile to ask Frankie Rodriguez this morning about being used for a pair of four-out saves during his stint with Team Venezuela. After all, it was something that he hadn't done in a save situation since August 17, 2007 (He pitched 1 1/3 innings in the playoffs last October). His last four-out save actually was way back on Sept. 14, 2006. So, um, Frankie, are you going to need a bit of a breather back here to recharge from those longer save situations? "Why should you tell me that I�m not ready to get back?" Rodriguez said. "I think I put a lot of work into it. I prepared myself really good before every game, so I don�t think it�s going to take me 10 days or two months to get my energy back. It�s going to be right back the next day. "I don�t know what you�re honestly trying to tell me or what the point is you�re trying to get at. A four-out save is like a three-out save. To me, it�s the same. I know people have made a big deal about four-out saves. I want to have the same opportunity here, too. I don�t know why it�s such a big deal." OK, then.

[G-Fafif]

Frankie suffers the banal not lightly. Let's hope the brilliant Chico Harlan doesn't compare him to Horatio Sanz.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's right. There should be more four-out saves, not fewer.

If the situation calls for your best reliever to get you out of a jam with two outs in the eighth, then you should absolutely use him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If he can't handle the banal, he will have scant honeymoon time with the New York press.

[G-Fafif]

It's Doug Henry all over again!

[G-Fafif]

If K-Rod doesn't blow any saves the first week or so and he's allergic to the banal, then he'll be a rugged competitor who lets nothing get in his way. If he sucks and he's short with the media, then he'll be too thin-skinned for their awesome inquisitions.

Though it would help his cause if he'd put on the vertical swastika. Then he'd be golden.

[metirish]

Wow , I'm not so sure Rodriguez is suited for the unique pressure of playing in NY.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think we just may owe Gordon Edes-- he of last week's WBC article-- an apology pretty soon.

[Benjamin Grimm]

="metirish":uvg678hi]Wow , I'm not so sure Rodriguez is suited for the unique pressure of playing in NY.[/quote:uvg678hi] Playing in the same city as Derek Jeter should make things easier for him. And it will make his food taste better too.