Listening to the "Extra Innings Show" on 700 WLW earlier tonight, I heard host Doc Rodgers make a good point. Bronson Arroyo had just picked a complete game shutout against the Mets. This is the same Bronson Arroyo who had been lit up for ten runs in less than an inning a couple of weeks ago. Rodgers question: where's the middle ground. His contention was, it's great to see Arroyo pitch a complete game shutout. But what a team needs more than that, is for a pitcher to give a consistent effort. Sometimes, it's better if you know you pitcher will toss six innings of three or four run baseball, rather than have a pitcher who careens from one extreme to the other.
It helped that Arroyo was pitching against the Mets, a team so decimated by injuries it can barely scrape together a legitimate major league line up.
Just posted on my web site, www.kenbroo.com is my latest Broo View Podcast. My guest in this episode is Michael Lombardi, former NFL front office executive and currently one of the featured writers on www.nationalfootballpost.com. We talk about the prospects of a long holdout by Bengals first round draft pick, Andre Smith. You can find it on the front page of www.kenbroo.com.
Among my guests this week on Sunday Morning Sports Talk will be Hit King Pete Rose. I want to ask him about how he'd fix Jay Bruce, the man who never met a breaking call he could hit.
My show airs on 700 WLW in Cincinnati. If you don't live around here, you can always listen on line, on 700wlw.com.
Have a great weekend!
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