They Haven't Banned Twinkies

He may not be able to wash it down with an ice-cold Boggs, but C.C. Sabathia, one of our favorites, may still harness the strength of processed sugars to fuel his run at the AL Cy Young. This evening, C.C. delivered arguably his most dominant performance of the season: CG, 5 hits, 0 ER, 0 BB, 8 K's against the juggernaut that is the Kansas City Royals. Franklin Guttierez provided the offense, obviously, and the rest is history. We love to see Indian-killer Mike Sweeney shining C.C. like a new trophy, too.


We've been saying for years that double-C (that's what his friends call him) needed to address the mental part of the pitching game to really become dominant--no more trying to throw 4,000 mph after giving up a hit. It seemed like that clicked in the second half of last season, when he was a top-3 AL pitcher, and we were excited to see his efforts this year. 9-1 is a good start, we think, but we're not in baseball. Most importantly, the Tribe is 12-1 when C.C. starts this year. Little Debbie's on us, C.C.

A note on the Boggs link above: thanks to Tuck for the look on that one. How great is that story? Could anyone have predicted Sorrento would take it up to 70 from Nelson's ridiculous estimate? Does Sorrento maintain his amazing jheri-curl mullet to this day? Can I start calling beers "Boggses" too? So many questions, so few readers... We can only imagine that Grant Nairn would be pissed to see that someone's made a run at his single-sitting title (inside joke, sorry).