Kim And The Great Rocky Mountain Sucking Sound
The sucking sound that the entire world is hearing these days is Byung Hyun Kim’s continued embarrassing performance as he continues to make life miserable for every team he plays for….and Colorado may be his last MLB team.
To those of you who have argued in previous posts, that Kim doesn’t suck, just take a look at the most recent attempt at playing baseball by Kim. If we are lucky, he may snap and give us another brilliantly offensive headline.
Kim’s stats are simply horrific. His earned run average for the the year so far is 9.64 which is horrible. But his ERA for the past seven days is 27!! TWENTY-SEVEN!!! Someone please tell me how that doesn’t suck!!
Things are not going well when the local cheerleading newspaper, the Rock Mountain News, calls you a blunder and proceeds to rip you apart:
Former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver once told general manager Hank Peters he would rather have a 24-man roster than take an extra player he didn’t want. “If he’s in uniform,” Weaver said, “I’ll wind up using him, and then we’re all in trouble.” Kind of like the Colorado Rockies with Byung-Hyun Kim
Right in the midst of a feel-good weekend, Kim entered the scene against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday afternoon at Coors Field. The next thing the Rockies knew, their visions of a weekend sweep of the National League West-leading Dodgers had been wiped out by an 8-6 loss in the series finale.
They were within six outs of the sweep, taking a 5-3 lead into the eighth, then the bullpen imploded. Jeff Francis’ bid to become the first Rockies pitcher to win his first four Coors Field starts became history.
Ostensibly, when the Rockies felt the urge the final week of spring training to allow Boston to dump the unwanted Kim on them, they had visions of a quick fix for the one-time closer in Arizona. Kim is only 26 but his career crumbled with the Red Sox.
He didn’t even get an out Sunday.
On came Kim, and on went the Dodgers. First, Kim hit Jeff Kent with a 1-2 pitch. Then he gave up a double to Milton Bradley. A single by Olmedo Saenz followed and the Dodgers were on their way to a winning five-run rally after a 5-3 Rockies lead.
There have been no tangible signs of growth from Kim. He is supposed to be able to throw strikes but that hasn’t been the case with Colorado. He has allowed only six hits in 9 1/3 innings but he has given up 10 runs, primarily because he has walked 11 batters and hit two others.