Dan Straily 2019

[wildcard]

5 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

Maybe.  And that would be Ok.But Ynoa is not a future rotation piece in my mind but may be a good bullpen piece.  Giilmartin is a lefty and 29 and not a future piece of the rebuild seemingly.   I would tend to let someone doing well like Ynoa stay where he is for awhile. 

I don't know how many rehab games they are going to give Bleier but he has had three.  He could be back sometime soon.

[OFFNY]

o

 

(vs. TIGERS, 5/27)

 

Straily pitched 4-plus innings of 1-run ball out of the bullpen this afternoon.

He walked 1, struck out 4, and threw 57 pitches in the process.

 

o

[Cumberbundy]

The Nats are looking less than crispy in the pen, perhaps it’s time to sell high.

[Frobby]

(To the tune of “Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey”)

Won’t you go home, Dan Straily,

Won’t you go home, 

Go home, and stop your pitchin’.

Don’t need those towerin’ homers,

Those gopher balls,

That leave the fans all bitchin’.

You say it’s not your problem, 

It’s Doug Brocail’s,

That keeps baseballs zooming off towards Rome,

That’s not what we fans think,

We’re pretty sure it’s because you stink!

Dan Straily won’t you please go home!

[atomic]

He seems done.  Pretty amazing that he has made 11 million during his career.  

[Going Underground]

17 minutes ago, atomic said:

He seems done.  Pretty amazing that he has made 11 million during his career.  

Curse of the Dan's.

[spiritof66]

2 hours ago, Frobby said:

(To the tune of “Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey”)

Won’t you go home, Dan Straily,

Won’t you go home, 

Go home, and stop your pitchin’.

Don’t need those towerin’ homers,

Those gopher balls,

That leave the fans all bitchin’.

You say it’s not your problem, 

It’s Doug Brocail’s,

That keeps baseballs zooming off towards Rome,

That’s not what we fans think,

We’re pretty sure it’s because you stink!

Dan Straily won’t you please go home!

Well done, but I would change "Rome" to "Nome."

Bill Dailey was a relief pitcher who played just four years in the bigs, but had a very good season with the Twins in 1963. Someone wrote and recorded a song about him, to the same tune, that I heard on  radio broadcasts as Dailey was coming in from the Twins' bullpen. (I think the radio was just picking up the sound from the ballpark, but it could have been a radio-only thing.) My cousin, a Twins' fan in sort-of-nearby Iowa, really liked that song and sang it frequently, and it was on my summer visits to that part of the country that I was exposed to Daikley and the song.

I can remember, and maybe inaccurately, just the first few lines:

Won't you come in, Bill Dailey. won't you come in?
We blew a five-[could have been four-] run lead
You do the pitchin', Billy, we'll do the rest  . . .