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Derek Holland: The Pitcher, The Legend, The ... Trade Bait?

And then just as your confidence develops a few hairline cracks, just as you feel your patience beginning to wear thin, just as you resume contemplating if/when he's really going to figure it out ... well, he goes out and does something like this. Something that hasn't been done by a player wearing a Rangers uniform in nearly 28 years, even. There are but a select few pitchers in the entire history of this franchise who have tossed back-to-back complete-game shutouts (including Ferguson Jenkins, Bert Blyleven, Gaylord Perry, and one other, and Holland has now joined their company by means of some really filthy pitching over the last 10 days, with a composite pitching line that reads thusly: 18.0 IP, 9 H, 0 ER, 15 K, 3 BB, and 67.5 percent strikes.

Yeah, it's been compiled against two offenses that are treading on historically inept ground in Oakland and Seattle. You can certainly keep that in mind when you're evaluating the raw results, but don't discount the performance out of hand on that basis. A healthy number of players that we consider to be good by whatever standards we measure them against would look decidedly less good if you significantly penalized their performance against bad opponents.

And if you stuck around last night to evaluate the process that led to those results with your own eyes, you'd know this wasn't some bizarre fluke borne solely from Holland's good fortune in facing a bad offense in a pitcher's park. Holland was a monster, serving practically nothing up over the middle of the plate ( visual evidence here -- seriously, take a good, hard, long look at that), consistently burying his breaking offerings on the corners, sustaining the mid-90s punch into triple-digit pitch territory, yielding not a single "well-hit ball" all night (as determined by ESPN.com's Inside Edge scouting service) while taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, toppling Charlie Hough's claim to being the last Rangers pitcher to throw consecutive shutouts (in Sept. 1983) ... I really don't know what else to say about it. Maybe there really isn't much else to say about it.

West Seattle Blog… » West Seattle Crime Watch: BB break-in ...

Others in the area know.

This happened at 11:30am 4/29, in the 9400 block of 45th Avenue SW (at Roxbury)

The intruder shot a hole in our kitchen window with a BB gun, in order to unlatch the slider.

Our alarm system went off once the intruder tripped the motion detector in the hall, and he left through the side door. Nothing was stolen, fortunately. He couldn’t have been in for more than a few seconds.

Has anyone heard of this break-in technique?

We just called the cops on a prowler in our backyard at about 615 am Saturday morning. It was a white guy, brown hair, dark coat, dark pants, thin to medium build, maybe a bit under 6 feet. My wife spotted him out our second story front window checking out a neighbor’s car or house. He cut across the street to our house, opened our side gate, walked through our yard and out the back gate to the alley. My (wife) alerted me to his presence as he was leaving our yard. I opened our back door as he was closing our back gate and told him we were calling the cops, which I now wish I hadn’t done. Oh well.

I just wanted to put a posting on West Seattle Blog in case someone saw/heard a theft of a motorcycle Monday night in Admiral neighborhood. It happened at California Ave & Atlantic St. A 2001 black Harley Davidson Night Train was stolen from a covered carport at Park Hamilton apartments. It happened sometime between 10 pm (Monday) night and 7 am (Tuesday) morning. If any of the neighbors, bus drivers or anyone saw anything please report it to the police. The bike was secured so they had to have wheeled/pushed it away for a few blocks before putting it on a truck or something.

@ Reeve – Apparently, this break-in method is not so unusual. Our home was broken into in early April and they used the exact same method of entry. Unfortunately, we did not have an alarm system, so they stole most of our electronics, all of my jewelry and trashed our house in the process. We now have an alarm system (and a cleaner house)! By the way, when we were filing a report with the police, they stated a break-in occurred in the Alki area with the same entry method being used.

Last Saturday (the 23rd) we returned from dinner out to hear someone shooting a BB gun in the parking lot across the street (Riverview Playfield). We quickly entered the house through the closest door and asked the sitter to stay inside while we called 911. 3 police cars arrived within 2-3 minutes; and then took off immediately, we assume in pursuit. We hoped they had caught the shooter. The response was sure fast.

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