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Question for you Jon - what's the big deal about 81 wins?
Look for it finer stores.
So, I guess Andrew won't be finding any apples at his store of choice
Jon likes achievable goals.
Then again, you might want to ask him. :)
It's Yankees-Red Sox here, of course. Because Texas is Yankee country, didn't you know. Particularly when the Longhorns are playing football at the same time on another station.
Daron Sutton and Eric Karros behind the mike.
Also, in the grand scheme, it's a fairly meaningless game for the Red Sox, who don't need to win it, although I'm sure they'd like to.
I guess I'm not Perspective Man, the superhero who sees things from everybody's point of view is always sympathetic.
Bonifacio
Drew
Byrnes
Clark
Reynolds
Salazar
Young
Montero
Hernandez
Vin Scully should be at home today.
When I'm able to dictate terms to Rupert Murdoch, one of the things I'll have at the top of my list...
I've heard rumors from ESPN that there is a team called the Mets. And there are also some sketchy bits about a guy in San Francisco that the network was stalking for a while.
What? Dish Network's menu says it's the Dodger game. I pulled up a chair and it's the o-t-h-e-r game.
It was clever of him to have us face Livan Hernandez. The DBacks apparently don't realize he's terrible.
Golfer Zach Johnson will need to hole a bunker shot to make birdie on 18.
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The Mets and Giants' bullpens are both on my hit list.
Unless that motivated him.
;-)
Moot point now.
Of course its a D-less Fox saturday in the east.
Yes, they do.
Rupert Murdoch, Bud Selig, the entire United States Congress, everyone ever associated with the broadcast of MLB games through any electronic medium whatsoever, everyone behind this travesty or mutely consenting - may you all burn in eternal torment. And Ned Colletti, too, since I'm on the subject.
Time Warner tells me I'm watching the Yanksox game but the Dodgers are playing the Diamondbacks, so it's all even.
Lowe makes a pair of outs in the air. This is Not Good.
Thanks a bunch MMSMikey
I think the Chiefs could even beat them.
... I think that the Dodgers would make an extra $1 million of revenue if they did a $1 raffle/sweepstakes entitled "Win a chance to watch a Dodger game with Vin Scully".
Sigh.
Oceania is at war with East Asia.
Hasta luego!
Hard for me to leave here before that one's over, darnit...
The Notre Dame-Michigan game was on TV where I had lunch.
Maybe we can trade him to the Giants for their young broadcaster Dave Fleming.
He is one of the best young broadcasters.
Steiner has been (although not formally announced) rehired through 2009.
I agree he stumbles on faster plays. To me his mispronunciation of Spanish surnames ("En-kuh-nar-see-own") is his most annoying misfeature.
You're afraid of Loney turning into Eric Byrnes?
I don't see that.
It's not that I hate 'em but he gets me all worked up over nothing sometimes, like the supposed home run Byrnes ALMOST HIT, ugh!
Or a guy like Finley, but I'm sure he won't, I'm just saying that cause about a month or so ago he got insanely hot as well.
"My plan is for him not to play tomorrow to give him a couple of days off," Little said. "And he's probably not going to catch both games Tuesday," when the Dodgers play a doubleheader in Colorado.
Do you have that set as a macro?
You could just set up some combination of keystrokes that would enter "I hate Charlie Steiner".
Something like CTRL+F10+S
When McCourt rogered Ross Porter, I vowed not to listen to Dodger broadcasts when Vin wasn't on unless I absolutely had to. I haven't found a great need.
Also, I live in Las Vegas, where the Dodger affiliate's signal barely reaches to the station parking lot. In the car, I often can pick up 680 in SF, and I have to say, hearing Jon Miller or Dave Flemming or, yes, even Duane Kuiper is preferable to what we get on Dodger radio--not only the pbp, but the unceasing advertising.
I pick the teams I root against very carefully -- the Yankees are one of the few qualifiers for now, and the Cowboys used to be on my list in their heyday.
On the one hand, I'll be happy for Olson if he turns out to be a good QB for UCLA. On the other hand, it would be great to have a strong Utah team again because it helps BYU if the MWC is strong. Yet I'd be sad if UCLA lost because the Pac-10 never gets the respect it deserves and this would kill them.
Mostly about all I'm feeling right now is shock that Utah scored, given that their starting QB is out for 3 weeks and their starting RB is out for the season. And a little bit of excitement because I generally like underdogs.
Thanks, that's what I thought. I would think the back of the fence in center has to be well over 500 feet from home. And the fence isn't low either.
I guess it did, but it sure came close.
I know the UCLA diehards here consider me "soft" on USC.
UCLA, from what I can glean from the boxscore, is playing just how I thought they would be playing this year. Which is a very annoying style.
Probably just gas.
He's supposed to be a very nice person. He talks to the media after all the games.
He doesn't screw up running the bases as much as Jeff Kent.
That's the ninth tiebreaker to decide homefield advantage in the playoffs also.
That's what Greg Brock would say. He would accuse me of sleeping with the enemy.
But I'm a gentleman so I won't say.
< 25%
Wickman is one of the few pitchers (David Wells is also on this list) whom I would trust to block the plate without getting injured.
Sometimes you pay the price for forgetting to bring a sweater up to the Timberline Lodge.
http://tinyurl.com/255pz7
Huh?
I hate Fox's Saturday Stranglehold.
Are Houlton, Hull, and Meloan hurt? Are the Dodgers going to have to lead or trail by 80 before they get into the game?
... So you're telling me that Broxton doesn't blow games? That Beimel doesn't blow games?
They're up by five with six outs to go. If they can't use the back end of their bullpen in that situation, they don't deserve to BE in "the crunch of the pennant race".
Little is no different than any other manager in a pennant race in that situation.
... Apparently, you've never seen Whitey Herzog in a pennant race. Just one example.
I hope not, we need him for more serious games, todays game bring in somebody like Meloan or Hull
that sounds like a good idea, we'll see who Grady will bring in.
I don't see any unusual relief patterns in 1987. Worrell was healthy that year.
The doubleheader was agreed to by the Dodgers and Rockies.
Eric Byrnes is really upset by his performance today.
Did we win-it looks that way on gameday!
Now 100% of the FOX Network is on the Yankees/Red Sox Game&trade
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN199907221.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN199907222.shtml
Can somebody explain why Baseball-Reference has box scores for 1999 games, but Retrosheet still says they don't?
Baseball-reference paid for 1999 boxscores. Retrosheet is nonprofit so they are looking for a donation from an outside source.
Pick the adjective to describe UCLA's first half performance in Utah:
a) desultory
b) disappointing
c) disgraceful
d) disastrous
e) Dorrellian.
... Point I was trying to make is that Herzog used his entire bullpen; didn't over-use one or two particular pitchers in it.
The particular Baseball Gods* that love Ned set it up that way so it looks more impressive when the Dodgers win the division title.
*The same ones that dumped Martin, Loney, Kemp, Billingsley, etc. in his lap
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/no-mirage-in-arizona/
I guess not in football.
Or is that aiming too high?
If we lose to Notre Dame they should just get rid of football all together.
Let's see if he can make it three weeks in a row mentioning college football fans like to smoke weed.
But even if you take out the stats of the Diamondbacks' bad relief pitchers they should still be at best about a 0.500 team.
I wrote about this on September 4, not that anyone saw, likely. :) Anyway, as of Sept 4 the cumulative OBP and SLG allowed by the good relievers of Slaten, Pena, Lyon, Valverde, and Cruz and the four regular starters of Webb, Owings, Hernandez and Davis were 0.324 and 0.400.
Arizona was getting OBP of 0.315 and SLG of 0.407 from their offense. So even with the bad pitchers thrown out they're 9 points worse in OBP than their opponents, and 7 points better in SLG. About a 0.500 team.
Oh, snark away, Marty. I hadn't bought into any hype about UCLA being good this year.
I may run into Droid at the ESPN Zone tomorrow.
Still not Nationals complete game by the way.
I really thought the whole "rally killer" meme was a joke. How could someone as exerienced and intelligent as Tim McCarver, who I know bugs some people but is not a stupid person, believe that it is more likely to score multiple runs when you get a walk than when you get a home run which means you already have a run in the bank and your baserunner cannot be doubled off?
Luis Gonzales: "Honestly, I don't think I'll be here [next year] unless things change dramatically. . . . They're playing young players here who are going to take over. They're going to be here for a long time. I've been around a long time. I can read the writing on the wall. I know what's going on around here."
http://tinyurl.com/2ga9n2
Cordero has loaded the bases to face Chipper Jones, who is 2-3 with a walk (incl. a 3 run HR) and is 8-11 in this series.
Make sure it's a yellow jersey
Make sure it's XL.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Despite having an inferior quarterback to Sam Keller, USC still wins.
I can't imagine how that could happen!
And I swear the Gnats only existance in my life is to cause my team nothing but heartache and grief, as Feliz GIDP with bases loaded!
Oh, I'm well aware of that. I was referring to an earlier comment where someone remarked that Nebraska would win because of Keller was so much better than Booty.
Even a dopey coach like Dirk Koetter knew to get rid of Sam Keller.
I guess fresh starts really do work (I know he'll implode but WHEN), man, I was really hoping Bombko would pitch like his old self too, I even tried jixing him but to no avail.
We've been playing Zona great & even better in there home turf, I'm still clinging SOME hope that we can win the NL West, but realistically I guess the wild card is our only hope.
Sigh.
Glad about the Dodgers today, though, of course.
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But certainly he's been much better than I expected him to be - at the beginning of the season I thought he'd be like Roberto Hernandez has been for us, but instead he's been mostly effective, even if he scares me sometimes. But all told, I'd hope the Dodgers wouldn't resign him. They can toss Meloan and Hull out there much more cheaply and get the same to much better results.
vr, Xei
Ahem. See Bill Terry's sarcastic query "Is Brooklyn still in the league?" back in the 1930s. The NY Giants were eliminated from the pennant by the Dodgers that year.
The fates should not be tempted.
D4P has been tempting the fates all year. He's a fate tease.
My first step-dad's parents got divorced, and married another couple who had divorced. In other words, his father married the female from the second couple and his mother married the male from the second couple.
D4P has been tempting the fates all year
I ain't 'fraida no ghost
I was going back & forth with the Gints vs Pads game(watching some other programming) & I swear the Gnats were playing half ass.
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Marty can, as the song by Argent says:
Hold his head up (yeah)
Hold his head up (yeah)
Hold his head high!!!
Despite his team not having a quarterback as good as Sam Keller.
Bring out the BROOM!
10. Cody Ross
11. Kenny Lofton
21. Juan Pierre
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Loney, 1B
Kent, 2B
Gonzo, LF
LaRoche, 3B
Ethier, RF
Lieberthal, C
Loaiza, P
Josh also adds:
"Matt Kemp is batting .337 this season, the seventh-highest average in baseball and second-best in the National League behind Cincinnati's Norris Hopper (.340) among players with at least 250 plate appearances."
No doubt that's why he's sitting yet again - to preserve his average or something....
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Loney, 1B
Kent, 2B
Gonzalez, LF
LaRoche, 3B
Ethier, RF
Lieberthal, C
Loaiza, P
But Kemp is only hitting .317 vs. Righties, whereas LuGo and Ethier are hitting a more start-worthy .273 and .286, respectively.
Again, I think this is all coincidence as I doubt Bob Melvin or Grady Little have the slightest idea what holiday today is unless they have a calendar that happens to note it.
Did Martin start on July 1?
Where does Juan Pierre fit in all of this?
Phillies 2, Mets 0 in the top of the second.
And Juan Pierre, I'm pretty sure does not speak Spanish or French. I believe Martin speaks French.
Instead it will be either Tyler Walker or Brian Wilson.
It's 3-1 Phillies.
http://tinyurl.com/2effc4
This is from a story about Nomar. Don't know if Lowe endorses applying this to other players or not.
On the off days, I'll be answering reference questions off a tee as well as well as setting up mock schedules for the rest of the staff.
I can't make a real schedule at home because that would be a violation of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
And that is actually not a joke.
Sam DC has power to enforce that I hear.
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