Last season, Aaron Harang and Carlos Zambrano hooked up four times, with Harang getting the better of Zambrano every time, earning 3 wins and a no decision that the Reds eventually won, while Zambrano lost all four games. (He did beat the Reds in two games in which Harang did not start.)
Aaron Harang lost six games last season. Six. Over the whole season. I emphasize this because he has already lost four games thanks to the wasteland that has swallowed the offense. But - they build entire communities in the deserts these days, so it's time to build some homes out of bats in that woeful wasteland. It'll happen. You just gotta believe.
In my eternally stupid optimism - or at least eternal until a team is twenty games out in July - I was trying to come up with some more evidence why we should have hope, and I found it last evening thinking of the Chub$ rotation. What rotation? They sent Rich Hill back to the minors, Ted Lilly has lost velocity and ability to pitch decently, Jason Marquis has a 5.08 ERA with a K/BB ratio of 21/15 in 33.2 innings, and there is a reason they call him Ryan Dumpster. Jon Lieber is about to enter the rotation, but he's anything but a sure thing. Bottom line is their rotation is a mess. If the offense goes into any length of slump or if they lose any of their big bats to injury, they will go on a Chub$-like losing streak. They have already lost 8 of their last 11.
It's time to send them on a long losing streak right now. I'm heading down to GAB to watch Harang kick Zambrano's butt! Woohoo! Go Reds!
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