i ate 10 tacos next to jeff weaver last night

This thread is like a Mobius strip wrapped in a warm flour tortilla.

I would love to see a list of hitters that are dangerous WHEN INJURED.

I think Alex in SF mentioned something about Pujols not being fully healthy in the past 4-5 seasons.

Jeffrey Leonard '87 ;_;
Kirk Gibson obv

Aw, Mike Sciosia is trying to assemble a rally monkey with Jared Weaver parts.

Why is Edwin Jackson giving a speech to the D-Ray pitchers? Was Doug Waechter unavailable?

And why is Jose Contreras jerking off?

I'll ask my mom.

I mean ask her to translate, that is.

hahaha omg

o_O

So weird.

The TV broadcast of the 60 minutes Bill James segment used Jeff Weaver clips to show:

1. the significance of walks (Taco Time 3:05)
2. that Fenway favors lefties (epic taco served to J.D. Drew (Taco Time 8:00).

But the embed on CBS's website (linked by Morbs here) edited out Taco Time.

!!

*creeeepy Taco Bell tolling*

The CBS website has no MLB footage at all. It was resynced with Spring Training footage.

Hooray for copyright and the crafty, taco-munching lawyers at MLB.com. :)

I just learned via text message that my japanese language partner had dinner (10 nigirizushi?) next to Hideki Okajima last night in SF.

crafty, taco-munching lawyers

o_O

mmmmm . . . rights (munch munch)

http://www.620wtmj.com/sports/17735914.html

Brewers Assistant General Manager Gord Ash confirmed on Wisconsin's Morning News that the Brewers have signed free-agent pitcher Jeff Weaver.

Best beer to go w/ tacos?

fitting that they would sign the Gord Ash of pitchers.

"Best beer to go w/ tacos?

-- David R., Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:45 PM (39 minutes ago)

-i do not believe they make dos equis in milwaukee, though bernie the brewer is allegedly fond of the chorizo taco.

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2006/07/itsachorizo.jpg

TACO WATCH 2008 CONTINUES:

Jered -- 36.1 IP, 39 H, 18 R (17 ER), 11 BB, 24 K, 4 TACOS (2-3, 4.21 ERA)

Jeffe -- N/A

How bad would it be for the Brewers to just bring Jeff Weaver up right now? His 2007 6.20 ERA/career 4.72 ERA, looks pretty good after the Suppan/Turnbow fire + gasoline combo.

NASHVILLE - Weaver was told he was being called up to plug Milwaukee's ailing bullpen in a 2 a.m. phone call, and flew all morning to reach Wrigley Field 2 1/2 hours before game time. "I had no clue," said Weaver, a a 31-year-old former starter for the Tigers, Yankees, Dodgers, Angels, Cardinals, and Mariners. "I was eating tacos at my favorite taqueria in Music Row, getting ready to honky tonk with my friend Mindy (McCready) -- she's been a little down lately -- when they told me I was getting moved. I assumed Scott (Boras) was flipping me to another Triple-A team again," he said. "They said, 'No, the big leagues.' Oh, OK."

Weaver held the Cubs to a mere 3 runs over 4 innings, giving up only 4 walks and 1 home run, and successfully getting some consecutive batters out. "Thank god," Brewers manager Ned Yost commented.

ha hah hahaa

http://www.nashvillesounds.com/images/news/weaver.jpg

HR: Sullivan (2, 3rd inning off Weaver, 2 on, 1 out).

5 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 1 T

A narrator describes a phone ringing in the White House Bullpen: "It's 3 a.m. a total blowout and your children starters are safely asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?"

http://i32.tinypic.com/106fqbm.jpg

Tres AAA starts, 5.40 ERA, tres tacos por el Jeffe.

Consecutive game taco streak por los Sonidos de Nashville is now four.

Most recent line:

6 IP, 12 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 4 K, 0 BB, 1 T

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_213711.jpg
6 G
35 IP
39 H
31 R
26 ER
25 K
13 BB
8 T (aka HR)
1 W
3 L
6.69 ERA

But he's smiling!

he's stoned.

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shit

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Hey I like that taco emoticon.

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felicity is my co-pilot

Steady as she goes.

Vaya con dios, El Jeffe. :(

Houston, TX (Sports Network) - The Milwaukee Brewers released pitcher Jeff Weaver from Triple-A Nashville on Thursday.

In nine starts for Nashville, Weaver was 2-4 with a 6.22 earned run average. The right-hander had a clause in his contract that allowed him to elect for free agency if he was not in the major leagues by June 15.

Weaver, who has played parts of 11 major league seasons for six different teams, has a career ERA of 4.72 with a 93-114 record.

He shd really hook up w/ Jim Bowden -- they'd be like Starsky & Hutch, but with roach clips and bottles of Mad Dog. And a Segway.

BUFFALO

Reunited with HS pitching coach Scott Radinsky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight_(band)

great coding ILX mods!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5agjtj

Local baseball: Tides pound Weaver, Bisons

Daily Press
10:50 PM EDT, July 23, 2008

The Norfolk Tides had 15 hits -- 12 while scoring seven runs in six innings against former big-league regular Jeff Weaver -- as they won 8-5 Wednesday night over the host Buffalo Bisons.

Not "World Series champion"

Man

Taco time is here again!

DODGERS AGREE TO TERMS WITH RIGHT-HANDER JEFF WEAVER ON MINOR LEAGUE CONTRACT
WITH AN INVITATION TO MAJOR LEAGUE SPRING TRAINING
Left-hander Shawn Estes and right-handers Ronald Belisario, Charlie Haeger, and Tanyon Sturtze
also agree to terms on minor league deals with invitations to big league camp

LOS ANGELES – The National League West Division Champion Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to terms with right-hander Jeff Weaver on a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League spring training. The club has also agreed to terms with left-hander Shawn Estes and right-handers Ronald Belisario, Charlie Haeger, and Tanyon Sturtze on minor league deals with invitations to big league camp. General Manager Ned Colletti made the announcement.

Weaver is a veteran of nine Major League seasons, including two with the Dodgers from 2004-05. Weaver, whom the Dodgers acquired from the Yankees in the Kevin Brown deal, went 27-24 with a 4.11 ERA in 68 starts while in a Dodger uniform. He is 93-114 with a 4.72 ERA in 284 games (267 starts) overall with Detroit (1999-2002), New York Yankees (2002-03), Los Angeles Dodgers (2004-05), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2006), St. Louis (2006), and Seattle (2007).

The Fullerton native has appeared in four postseasons, including one World Series in 2006 with St. Louis. He went 1-1 with a 2.77 ERA (4 ER/13.0 IP) in two Fall Classic starts, and was the winning pitcher in the Cardinals’ Game 5 clincher over Detroit at Busch Stadium. In nine postseason appearances (six starts) overall, he is 3-4 with a 4.03 ERA (17 ER/38.0 IP).

Weaver was a first-round pick of Detroit in the 1998 draft, going 14th overall. His brother Jered pitches for the Angels.

85 healthy innings last year between Nashville and Buffalo (16 tacos surrendered in 13 starts)!

Had forgotten how fast he was run through the Tiger system (seven starts).

this man is epic

Dude says he wants to pitch out of the bullpen. Can't wait.

Jeff Weaver aims for comeback

11:07 PM PST on Monday, February 23, 2009

By DIAMOND LEUNG
The Press-Enterprise

PHOENIX - Jeff Weaver was flipping through channels when he came upon the MLB Network replaying Game 5 of the 2006 World Series.

Until then, Weaver hadn't seen a tape of himself tossing eight innings for the win that night to clinch the championship for the St. Louis Cardinals.

"Instant chills," Weaver said.

For better or for worse, emotions always have played a big role in Weaver's career, which has been defined by playoff success and failure.

Now 32, Weaver is merely a spring training non-roster invitee in his second go-round with the Dodgers, trying to make it back to the majors after spending all of last season in the minors.

And after a chance meeting with General Manager Ned Colletti at a Manhattan Beach restaurant, Weaver got a minor league contract and yet another chance.

"I let him know that I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get back to the big leagues in whatever role I can help them compete and win, hopefully continue what they did last year," Weaver said.

To do so, the right-hander will have to impress Manager Joe Torre, whom he still refers to as "Mr. Torre" from their Yankees days together.

In his book "The Yankee Years," Torre is quoted as telling New York general manager Brian Cashman that "You've got to get rid of this guy because emotionally he can't handle it, trying to come back from that."

That refers to Weaver giving up the game-winning home run to Florida's Alex Gonzalez in Game 4 of the 2003 World Series.

Torre said he had no problem with Weaver personally, but the Yankees traded Weaver to the Dodgers along with Yhency Brazoban for Kevin Brown, and Weaver won 27 games over the next two seasons.

"I'm hoping to get him back to where he was," pitching coach Rick Honeycutt said. "I know what he had in the past. He's a great competitor."

After winning a World Series with the Cardinals, Weaver admits to slacking.

"I didn't handle it properly, as far as you go late into October and usually you're home resting by that time," Weaver said. "I really think it was my fault not getting back into the workout routine. I was tired. I was beat.

"I felt like I could just go into spring, get my work in, and everything would be fine and dandy. Obviously, it backfired."

Weaver went 7-13 with Seattle and then pitched in the minors for Milwaukee and Cleveland, swallowing his pride to work as a reliever in the Indians organization.

Weaver wants to pitch another three to five years, and said he pitches with a lower arm angle now while getting his sinker back in form.

"Just to see that, my confidence is high," he said.

My dinner was interrupted by Jeff Weaver last night

http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/2009/03/jeff-weaver-loo.html

He's pitching in a minor-league game today so they can stretch him out to three innings in anticipation of using him as a long man out of the bullpen or possibly giving him a spot start now and then. But he clearly has this team made as a reliever, even though no one has come out and actually said it yet.

``He has been pretty consistent for me, without telling you he is on the club,'' Joe Torre said this morning. ``I think doing what we're doing today (is telling). Normally, you want to see somebody pitch against big-league clubs, but this is more of a physical thing. I would like to see him stretch it out.''