I'm scared of the Yankees/Indians thread, so maybe I'll just chill here for a while.
It's like being the first one to a movie, opening up the paper, putting your feet over the chair in front of you. Watching the slide show over and over and over.
If I can just keep from finishing my popcorn before the game.
I've altered my seating arrangements tonight, stretching out on the couch instead of the big leather chair. I do this because the Cubs lost while I was sitting in the chair last night and, clearly, the primary influence on the final outcome of Cubs baseball games is the geographic location of my buttocks.
For anyone who wasn't watching the Yankees/Indians game when this was announced, Cubs/Diamondbacks is going to be on TNT until Y/I is over. Sadly, here in Chicago, this will pre-empt the final hour of 'A Time To Kill'.
43 I think Soriano really benefited from working with Mitchell Page, last year's Nationals hitting coach who really preaches a careful, work to get your pitch, approach and who spent a lot of time getting Soriano to lay off those diving away pitches.
Sadly, he's had drinking problems and is now a roving instructor.
You don't have to run inside the lane on that particular play. Ojeda's "baseline" is defined by how he's running. He just has to not go more than three feet out of that imaginary path, which I don't think he did.
The lane is just to protect fielders on throws to first.
If Wuertz comes in that can't be a good sign for the Cubs. He appeared in 50 Cubs losses, the most in the majors. Scott Schoeneweis and Rudy Seanez made late charges, but came up short (47 and 46).
Bob, if you're out there, I'm sorry about falling down on the job, this afternoon. I was unexpectedly called away. Good thing bhsportsguy stepped up in the clutch.
91- I think they're interchangeable. I guess plate discipline could connote something in addition to ability to take a walk (like P/PA?), but they both at least include walk taking.
Young's tied for 75th among the 162 batting crown qualifiers in P/PA, with 3.83. For context, Juan Pierre is 153rd, with 3.4. Corey Patterson is dead least with (rounding) π.
95- That's correct. Although, his P/PA this year was the highest it's been since the year I graduated high school. At 3.34, he would have been 158th, if he'd qualified, displacing Pedro Feliz.
It's never made sense to me that a team would take an animal as it's name and then have something different as a mascot... it'd be like the Cubs having a giraffe as a mascot. Or the Padres having a rabbi
106 - right, but that doesn't bother me much because they're named for mountains. The Phillie Phanatic doesn't bother me because, really what's a Phillie (other than a female horse)?
oops I'm sorry folks; I forgot I wasn't at DT still :|
I haven't chimed in about yesterday's pitching strategy yet. I can't fault Sweet Lou for going with his bullpen, but not pinch hitting for Z was a bit off.
It's like being the first one to a movie, opening up the paper, putting your feet over the chair in front of you. Watching the slide show over and over and over.
If I can just keep from finishing my popcorn before the game.
Irish, maybe?
My nap ended at the right time.
I envy you guys who can nap. I was tutoring at 6:45 am, and I still can't sleep in the afternoon.
My naps are dictated by my medication I take for epilepsy to a certain extent.
You're better off.
Don't swing at the junk.
Baseball: Steroids bad, shenanigans OK.
Football: Steroids OK, shenaningans bad.
Meanwhile, I'm just bummed about Marion Jones who has such a great smile.
Dodger Sims Simulator: 54.40%
LV Hilton Sports Book: 55.56%
vr, Xei
Or throw the ball 4 feet above the catcher's head for that matter.
Michael Vick is something else entirely different from steroids / shennanigans.
They say words I didn't know excisted until I was 13 yrs+ :o)
yay, Cubbies!
(ducks)
Sorry Cub faithful, I picked against you.
"Yeah, he goes like this!"
Oh, Ron, you clown, you.
Sadly, he's had drinking problems and is now a roving instructor.
I shudder to think what he'll be like by the end of his way-too-long contract.
All but four (of fifteen) runs in the Indians/Yankees game scored on extra-base hits.
All runs in this games, thus far, have scored on extra-base hits.
We Dodger fans simply do not recognize this form of baseball. Can it really be played this way?
Frankly, no one on the D-Backs.
;)
The lane is just to protect fielders on throws to first.
Stephen Drew is like Jesus, but not in a sacrilegious way.
He has a .295 OBP.
I'm not sorry about renaming the cycle alert.
Missing home plate is so 2003. It's all the rage now.
That is, if I had a prayer of being able to throw a breaking ball down and away.
Winners 30
Losers 10
The Rockies mascot is a dinosaur.
But the others, just seem strange
Although..... one of our stupider fans got into a fight with the Giants' Seal Mascot during All Star Weekend.
I haven't chimed in about yesterday's pitching strategy yet. I can't fault Sweet Lou for going with his bullpen, but not pinch hitting for Z was a bit off.
Aw man, I hope the Cubs can come back...
"Chicago at Arizona, night game"
Inexplicable. Cubs over Snakes was my Best Bet.
Hmmm. Try grabbing them right behind the head. Or use gloves.
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