Gothamist: Last Night's Action: Oh, Joba!

MisterTissue

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:16:15 -0500

Joba sucks. He's fat and looks like Fred Flintstone. Gonna have a hard time buyin' this championship, Hank!

JenChungsBra

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:40:21 -0500

I didn't see the game last night but I have noticed that the Yankees have been having Joba throw may too much junk these days. The guy dominated last season with a 99 mph fastball and a nasty slider. He should be throwing those two pitches 90 percent of the time.

GOP

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:41:28 -0500

Could the definition of irony be that Joba Chamberlain gives up three runs in the majors on the same night that Ian Kennedy dominates AAA? Nope. Irony isn't that. Irony is something like Reagan getting hit by a bullet that bounced off his bullet-proof car. Or your plane crashing while you're on your way to a seminar about the safety of air travel. The American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel found it unacceptable to use the word ironic to describe mere unfortunate coincidences or surprising disappointments that “suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly.” This definition still allows the above usage but excludes examples like Alanis Morissette’s “It's a traffic jam when you're already late” for a meeting, unless perhaps the topic of the meeting were traffic congestion, not something implied by the lyrics of “Ironic”.