A fortune in fabulous prizes may go to these people today if they know when The Price is Right. -Rod Roddy
Public service Announcement: Ok, here we go. The Ray Pride Parade marches on. I love a parade. The tramping of feet. I love every beat, I hear of a drum. I love David Price. I loved him at Vandy. Dynamite! When Vandy starts to fight. Fight! Fight! Fight!
David Price is athletic. He’s big. He’s strong. He has a big strong heater. A big strong ninety-eight mile per hour heater that can’t be beater. Tough as concreter. He has a big strong slider. A big strong eighty-eight miles per hour slider that’ll take you for a rider. Bonafider. Vernon here’s got a job. Vernon’s got prospects. He’s bona fide. What are you? I’ll tell you what. David Price got prospects. David Price is bona fide.
When’s he coming up? When’s he coming up? That’s what everybody wants to know. He is coming up, right? I mean, he ‘s gotta come up, right. I mean, he is 10-0 down on the farm, right? 1.97 ERA down on the farm, right? 0.99 WHIP down on the farm, right? Eighty-five Ks in eighty-six innings, right? Eighty-five Ks in eighty-six innings with only nineteen walks. Gadzooks! He’ll be up tomorrow, right? Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba! Yee-hah! Not so fast there Speedy Gonzales.
The Rays didn’t get to where they are by making rash decisions. They’ve plotted and planned. Planned and plotted. Spent the last decade trolling through the dregs of baseball patiently waiting for this day to come. Rays Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, Andrew Friedman: “We want to call Price up when we feel like, developmentally speaking, he’s at the point where that next challenge is the right thing to do for him, and not just filling a need for the team.”
The Rays staff is stockedpiled with young, talented pitchers. Stockpiled with Scott Kazmir. Stockpiled with James Shields. Stockpiled with Matt Garza and Andy Sonnanstine. So what’s you hurry? Slow down. You’re moving too fast. You gotta make the morning last.
Clearly David Price has the stuff. The HR Pufnstuff. Who’s your friend when things get rough? H.R. Pufnstuf. Can’t do a little ’cause he can’t do enough. He’ll get his chance. If the Rays are still in this thing come crunch time. Come Hawaiian Punch time. If they’re still in this then, then Price will most probably be featured as the Rays’ set-up man as they make their playoff push. And that ain’t so bad, right? So do like Marcellus Wallace says to do: “Go back in there, chill them niggers out and wait for the Wolf who should be coming directly.”
Public Acknowledgements: O Brother Where Art Thou, Warner Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, Sid & Marty Krofft and Pulp Fiction
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