Matt Kemp Has The Stage For One More Night
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:29 PM PDT
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The Dodgers head into the final game of the season tonight against the Diamondbacks with several statistical marks still in play, most of which involve 2011 National League MVP Matt Kemp.
Batting Average
Not going to happen. Jose Reyes got a bunt single in the first inning Wednesday afternoon then came out of the game, ending his season with a league-leading .337 average. Kemp needs 12 hits in 12 at-bats to pass Reyes. Ryan Braun begins his night at .3345, needing three hits, either in three or four at-bats, to win the batting title.
Home Runs
Kemp is tied with Prince Fielder atop the National League at 38 home runs, one ahead of Albert Pujols, who could have two games left if there is an NL wild card playoff on Thursday. Kemp has nine hits in 27 at-bats with three home runs off Joe Saunders, tonight's Arizona starter. Two of those home runs have come this season, and the other came on October 2 last year.
The only Los Angeles Dodger ever to lead the league in home runs was Adrian Beltre, who hit 48 home runs in 2004. I get the feeling that if the season was three weeks longer, Beltre might set a new career high this season. He has 32 homers this season, which includes an astonishing 11 circuit clouts in his last 14 games.
There were seven Brooklyn Dodgers to lead the league in home runs: Duke Snider (43, 1956), Dolph Camilli (34, 1941), Jack Fournier (27, 1924), Tim Jordan (12 in 1908, 12 in 1906), Harry Lumley (nine in 1904), Jimmy Sheckard (nine, 1903), and Oyster Burns (13, 1890).
RBI
The only LA Dodger to lead the league in runs batted in was Tommy Davis, with 153 RBI in 1962. Kemp leads the NL with 124 RBI, four more than Fielder. The only Dodgers to ever lead the league in both home runs and RBI were Dolph Camilli (34 homers, 120 RBI in 1941) and Oyster Burns (13, 128 in 1890).
Kemp is tied with Mike Piazza (1997) for third-most RBI in a single season by an LA Dodger (and tied for 12th on the all-time franchise list, including Brooklyn years), one behind Shawn Green (2001) for second.
40/40
Kemp needs two home runs to become the fifth member of the 40/40 club. This we know. But, Kemp is also tied for second in the NL with Drew Stubbs and Emilio Bonifacio at 40 stolen bases. Cameron Maybin has 39 steals. Stubbs did not pick up a stolen base in the Reds' final game earlier today. Kemp is trying to become the first player in baseball to finish in the top two in the league in both home runs and stolen bases since Hank Aaron in 1963.
Runs
Kemp also leads the league in runs scored at 114, a five-run lead on Braun. The only LA Dodger to lead the league in runs was Brett Butler (112, 1991). There were eight Brooklyn Dodgers that led the league in runs scored: Duke Snider (126 in 1955, 120 in 1954, 132 in 1953), Pee Wee Reese (132, 1949), Eddie Stanky (128, 1945), Arky Vaughan (112, 1943), Pete Reiser (117, 1941), Wee Willie Keeler (140, 1899), Hub Collins (148, 1890), and George Pinkney (134 in the American Association in 1888).
OBP
The last Dodger to post an on-base percentage of .400 or higher was Gary Sheffield, who had a .417 OBP in 2001. Kemp opens play tonight at .3991. Excluding sacrifice flies or catchers interference, if Kemp has one plate appearance tonight, he needs to reach base; if he has two or three PA, he needs to reach base twice; if he has four, five, or six PA, Kemp needs to reach base three times for a .400 OBP.
Note: if Kemp reaches base in two of four PA, his OBP will be .3997. The record book will say .400, but we know the real story.
Total Bases
Matt Kemp has 349 total bases, a lead of 13 over Braun for most in the National League, and 14 bases behind Jacoby Ellsbury for the major league lead should Kemp go off tonight. No LA Dodger has ever lead the league in total bases, and the last Dodger to do so was Snider, who had 378 total bases for the 1954 Brooklyn Dodgers.
Now, for some others...
30/30
A month ago Ted Lilly was a cinch to become the 19th pitcher to allow 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in one season. On August 26, Lilly allowed a first-inning home run to Carlos Gonzalez that hasn't landed yet, and stood at 28 home runs and 29 steals allowed. Lilly has allowed four stolen bases since then -- he is tied with John Lackey for the most steals allowed this season -- but hasn't allowed another home run, a span of five starts and 35 2/3 innings.
Hitless Wonder
It has been a miserable season for Eugenio Velez. He is 0 for 36, which would set a new major league record for position players for most at-bats without a hit in a single season, surpassing Hal Finney, a catcher who was 0 for 35 for the 1936 Pittsburgh Pirates.
Velez is also 0 for his last 45, dating back to 2010, which is tied with Bill Bergen (1909) and Craig Counsell (earlier this season) for the worst stretch of futility by a position player in major league history.
RBI, Part II
Jamey Carroll has had a fine season, hitting .287/.357/.341 in 145 games, but he also has 16 RBI, which is tied with Dave Roberts (2003) and Tony Smith (1910) for the fewest ever by a Dodger with at least 400 plate appearances. Among players in modern major league history (since 1901) with 500 plate appearances (Carroll has 507), the only two players with fewer RBI than Carroll are Enzo Hernandez (1971) and Goat Anderson (1907), each with 12.
Closing Time
Javy Guerra has pitched three straight days and four of the last five, so he is almost assuredly out for the season finale. Kenley Jansen has only pitched on back-to-back days once since returning from the disabled list four weeks ago, but he is a likely option to close tonight. Jansen needs four strikeouts for 100, and right now he could probably accomplish that by facing only two batters.
Matt Guerrier has pitched each of the last two days, so he is likely out tonight too, which is a good thing since it would ensure Guerrier becoming the first player in baseball history with exactly one save in six straight seasons.
*****
Game Time: 6:40 p.m.
TV: Prime Ticket
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He helped me win fantasy with that big year
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
by Pure Azure on Sep 28, 2011 3:47 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
/joins
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
2011 National League MVP Matt Kemp.
FTFY
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
that makes it
even funnier
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I tried to make it "BOLD"
guess it didn’t work
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Great Stuff Eric
What is the take on this being the great offensive season ever by a LA Dodger?
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
I need more time. Kemp is definitely up there, and probably is the best overall when taking everything into account and the fact that he leads so many categories.
Off the top of my head, Beltre, Piazza, Guerrero, Green, and probably Tommy Davis all have a claim in some way to that title.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Sheffield 2000.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I knew I forgot someone. Reggie Smith is probably up there too.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Reg
Do you still believe your prediction that both the Sawx and Braves will make the playoffs?
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
100%.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
If I were a gambling man, I would take that bet
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
what if
you were a rambling man?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
He wouldn’t have ended up in Maryland
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Angry Phil, must have replaced happy meercat
@ work today
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d think the odds are in both the Rays and Cardinals favors right now. Price against the Bullpen and team who does not care, Card’s against the Astro’s.
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Games played matter
If you have nearly equally great seasons, and one guy starts every game, while the other guy has to have some scrub start for him some of the time, you gotta go with the guy who plays all the time. I love Pedro Guerrero’s 1985 season, for example, leading the league in OBP and Slugging (in DS!), but he did also not play in 25 games.
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Playing and producing are big in my book. Playing and sucking, not so much.
Given that ??? marks surrounding Beltre, Sheffield, and Piazza I’ve got no problem thinking this was the greatest offensive season by a Los Angeles Dodger from start to finish.
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If Spawn were here, she'd say two things
1. It’s Hello Kitty!
2. Why did that man take a bath in his clothes?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeff Kent's 2005
was pretty impressive if you factor in he was playing 2b.
.289/.377/.512 with 29 hr & 105 rbi in 149 games played.
Fuck him and the hard hat he road in on.
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Am I one of the few that appreciated him in his time here?
And the fact that he thinks “fuck Barry Bonds”?
I didn't like him personally but he was a helluva hitter and even on the downside of his career
I still liked watching him hit. But had trouble rooting very hard for him.
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Speaking of Jeff Kent
and since I was clearing out the vault last night:
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FWIW, B-R has that as a 4.6 WAR season, with a -0.2 dWAR
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And if you’re a dork, Kemp is at 9.7 WAR right now, a huge game, something like 4 for 4 with two home runs would bring him up to 10 WAR, making him the third Dodger and second LA Dodger ever to reach that mark
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9.3. He would probably make it if he had as many at bats as Kemp.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, he was the other LA Dodger. Jackie Robinson ’49 is the All Time leader at 10.3.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Do the Marines use a different scale than MLB?
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Haven't been in a fight since 7th grade
against Matt Bumpass. First and only time in detention.
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Never new I had any street cred
I’m a 45 year old white man with 3 kids. Who knew?
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I appreciate that a young’un can make an age crack and toss in an R.P.M. reference at the same time. iiidown must have spun a lot of records.
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Earlier today my boss came over and asked how my subcontracting plan was coming along. I mentioned that the lady I was working with had been great, and was a sweet old lady no older than 35.
You'll go far
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Don’t you work in a diversity office?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m having a hard time picturing the snarky Gary with the nice person I met.
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Bumpass cannot be a real name?
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Yep, he was a dick
Why do you think we got into the fight. A fat kid with that last name never stood a chance in Junior High
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Bumpasses!!!
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Is Duke Snider the Brooklynite or did Jackie Robinson have an amazing year both on offense and defense?
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of Beltre, he’s been insane in Sept.
Then again so has his teammate Kinsler, between them they have hit 23 home runs in Sept.
Kemp is having a great Sept, but Ryan Braun is right with him. They are 11 and 12 in wRC in Sept.
Miggy only has six home runs but has an OPS this month 1.291
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whats the home/road split and how hot has it been in dallas in september?
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Royals Rocking
In Sept the Royals have four players in the top 35
Reg’s favorite
Local Chatsworth star
Possible ROY candidate
and some sonofabitch I’d never heard of until a few weeks ago.
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The 82-79 boys
Gordon SS
Sellers 3B
Kemp CF
Rivera LF
Loney 1B
Sands RF
Barajas C
Carroll 2B
Lilly P
Even now, does it not seem extremely silly to have Sellers second and Carroll 8th?
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If he does not get an at bat tonight he may never get another major league at bat.
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Velez is gonna run the show today.
He’s encouraging the players to avoid hits at all cost.
No one wants to show up the manager on TV and shit.
I'd like to see Gibby take a hack or two
by Greg Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
if he plays
Donnie has to as well
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
That would be bumpass.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
like pimpin
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
If I ever write my memoirs, they’ll be called “Pimpin’ Is Easy.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
the foreward by Bride
will be awesome
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you ask him about pimpin’, as a career choice, vis-a-vis its ease or difficulty?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Goat Anderson!
According to B-R:
Height: 0’ 0", Weight: 0 lb.It’s tough to drive in runs when you weigh nothing. (85 hits, 81 singles, .225 slugging!)
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I was going to make a joke of that being the name of a certain former Angel on the 2010 Dodgers.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
More and more
I believe Reagins is nothing but a figurehead, with Scoiscia pulling the strings.
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
It is an all-time blunder.
IMO, a blunder has to fit three criteria:
1. It has to look like a bad idea at the time
2. It has to play out badly
3. When future generations look back on it, it has to look bad still
The Wells trade is gonna fit all three.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Its one of the worst and most obviously bad trades of all time
only worse one I can think of is Babe Ruth for cash.
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At least No No Nannette was pretty good.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Mike Napoli and Adrian Beltre = 11.5 WAR
Jeff Mathis and Vernon Wells = -.7 WAR
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
12.1 then.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Though to be fair Napoli wouldn’t have played all that much on the Angels.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
from toronto you mean?
napoli was a jay for like a week or so..
I think the angels did get some cash back, but it was a laughable amount like 1 mil out of the billions owed to vernon wells..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
it can only get better right? RIGHT?!!
MLBTR said Beltre called the Angels and begged them to sign him.
excuse me, according to Peter Gammons
@pgammo Peter Gammons
Adrian Beltre begged the Angels to sign him, lives 30 minutes from park. Instead, they traded Napoli for Wells. Beltre/Napoli…division
Hell if we had signed Beltre we’d have been in the postseason. Because if you take the stink from Uribe and replace it with the perfume of Beltre you have a scent that would have rocked this stadium.
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Any second now someone will tell that Beltre would only have been worth about 3.2 wins and Uribe only cost us .23 of a win but we finished out of the playoffs by double that.
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Well if you want to put it this way if we sign Beltre buy at the deadline and count the WARs we probably make the playoffs.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
One could argue that Miles would be even more necessary with +Beltre -Uribe because Beltre isn’t as versatile.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
You definitely can't go off that
Because WAR never adds up to your team’s win total. I very much agree with the fact that if we had Beltre the Dodgers would have won close to 90 games.
Team WAR +42 is as good as run differential.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
42?
So the question in THGTTG was really about WAR?
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Of land war in Asia magnitude.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
For pete’s sake, thank you. I was wondering if I was losing my mind that the word “blunder” was sitting there, all on its lonesome, without getting whacked with a Princess Bride ref.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Period 6 had to end for me to comment. And shanah tovah to you, good sir.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
And to you.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Yankees lineup
Derek Jeter SS
Curtis Granderson CF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Robinson Cano DH
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Nick Swisher RF
Andruw Jones LF
Jesus Montero C
Eduardo Nunez 2B
Probably more regulars than usual for the finale owing to circumstances.
Damn impressive lineup.
I guess Montero can catch.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Or perhaps that is the Yankees’ wily plan that will reveal itself when the Rays score 10 on passed balls.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh. I like Justin Sellers' twitter account
is called @SellBlock_12
http://twitter.com/SellBlock_12
Seems to use it to tweet girls more than anything (just to make their day, seems innocent) but more power to him. They like his tats!
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what is he, 80?
I just got the twitter last night after the win!
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haha
I’m all on the twitter and the facebooking with the young ’uns!
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Phil Collins.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Lionel Richie.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
That still makes me laugh out loud. Mind if I tweet that?
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I thought that was “Up All Night.”
/notreally
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
was there a big Caribbean-Latin phase in the 80s?
by Josie Becker on Sep 28, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Billy Ocean says yes.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
My god, I was going to make this very comment.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
must have been after Live or Let Die. That movie ruled!
by Josie Becker on Sep 28, 2011 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
or?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Live and Let Die was c. 1974, I believe.
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There is no crappy song named “One More Night.”
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
If Red Sox have a play-in game tomorrow, they’ll pitch Lester.
CSNNE.com’s Sean McAdam reports that the Red Sox have “given up” on trying to find a last-minute starter.
.
Jon Lester will take the mound on Wednesday night against the Orioles. If the American League Wild Card then requires a tiebreaker, the Game 163 starter will come from within the Red Sox organization. Bruce Chen was a target for Boston, but he’ll be a Type B free agent this offseason and so the Royals decided to keep him.
On short rest!
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I love it that the playoff start on friday and saturday rather than having to miss 3 day games because Im at work on thursday.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Phil
Ron Darling – 136
Bill Hutchinson – 182
Yale recently severed its affiliation with the Church of Christ, but both players had finished their careers before then. Believe they cut ties in 2005.
recently for Yale? Wonder how much of an on campus presence they had. Though I’m sure the WASPs didn’t mind.
by Josie Becker on Sep 28, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, I never would have fit in with the Ivies
by Josie Becker on Sep 28, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Did not realize the D-backs last year had the worst ERA in the history of baseball (according to Buster Olney)
Did he also say “relief” or “bullpen” because that might have been true.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m kind of amazed this guy isn’t in the hall of fame
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mathebo01.shtml
Lead the league with a 1.6 K/9 twice. Dudes stuff must have been unreal.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
101 Ks in 578 IP. His FIP must have sucked.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The answer to every question like this is Cy Young.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Nolan Ryan lead MLB in Ks and BBs in five of six years from ‘72-’77. In ’78 he led the majors in walks, but only the AL in Ks, because J.R.Richard struck out 303 NL batters.
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he never won the cy young
lost it one year to a reliever who had only thrown 137 innings.
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is this the biggest descrepincy
between WAR and career wins for a pitcher? 16.1 bWar and 297 career wins.
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Tim Wakefield.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Livan. 3300?
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I know it’s foolish, but I’m still hoping he comes back.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
one of my fondest memories at DS was
Moyer getting shelled in the first inning, once Raffy went yard, it was party time
is this in the nlcs?
Moyer got his ass lit up in the only game I went to/and the only game they won that year in the nlcs..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
amazeballs
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
He said that, but he’s also 74 years old, so who knows?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Because of what he said about Kershaw?
I’ll note that if he’s pitching, he’s not on TV, analyzing, wrongly.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Buster Olney on Twitter:
We are giving our favorite baseball moment of the season on baseball tonight this evening. yours?
For me, it is either Kemp’s walkoff against St. Louis (“They pitched to the one guy who could beat them and he does!” or Trent Oeltjen’s inside-the-park home run in Colorado (because I was at that game).
Ben Revere’s catch was pretty nice. I know what it’s going to be and I’m already not happy about it.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Are you as mad as I am that the Jeter flip against the A’s gets as much credit as it does? The dude was in no man’s land and only gets credit because the bad Giambi didn’t slide.
There was the other Kemp walk-off. “Sooner or later, the word is gonna get around the league about Matt Kemp — he might beat you!”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Kershaw vs. Weaver I at Dodger Stadium. Gordon safe at the plate. Was at that game, it was awesome.
by Michael White on Sep 28, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gordon's first game/Rubby's first start
and the general chaos of that game. definitely one of the funnest of the season
by eitherethier on Sep 28, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
The Javy Guerra load-the-bases-with-no-outs 1-0 save against the Padres was a pretty sweet 9th inning.
The win in the 8 2/3 no-hitter for the Padres was sweet.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw none of it, but Matt Kemp absolutely owning the final home game of the season, building up the excitement and finishing with a home run in the 8th seemed pretty sweet.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I was there for this one too
As soon as Zito came in, delias man basically called it. As long as somebody gets on and Kemp comes up to bat, Kemp will hit a home run.
by Michael White on Sep 28, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I am kinda fond of Clayton Kershaw.. its icing on the cake when your ace is unbeatable when playing your bitter division rival.
Bryan Stow
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Marty’s mean quotient has increased exponentially since he left the green pastures of DT for the badlands of TBLA.
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I also remember thinking that Eric had to be one of the nicest guys around when he was posting at DT.
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You have yet to corrupt BH and Underdog, those dudes are nice
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait until the Limey’s get done with him.
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If BH came back absolutely hating the British, it would be a plot development worthy of a halfway decent docu-drama
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck all youse
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
yeah, you are all bad these days….
{shakes head}
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Interesting observation (via Twitter)
6 or 7 of top 9 payroll teams won’t make playoffs, while 2 of bottom 6 will http://bit.ly/oDRC1Z
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Like the Games Started number: 4
18 whole innings pitched.
by Michael White on Sep 28, 2011 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh
SI_JonHeyman: i liked mike piazza being introduced as one of marlins former greats at their ceremony. great he was. for 5 games (18 ABs)
He should totally go into the HOF as a Marlin.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I have long thought that would be an appropriate comeuppance for his hamartia.
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That’s a right fancy work fer backne.
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Unloading Sheffield but getting Piazza is a great trade. Flipping Piazza for Preston Wilson, Ed Yarnall and Geoff Goetz, not so much.
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And Todd Zeile! Who did they get for him from Texas(?)?
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I was a huge Preston Wilson honk for a while
by Michael White on Sep 28, 2011 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
One of those guys who was more fun to watch then was actually any good. Luckily he got to Coors.
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He was a 9th overall pick so he wasn’t a 23-year old pile of crap when Florida got him and even had some decent years, but the lack of plate discipline was a problem.
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This guy?
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
I bumped into him once
In the elevator at the Four Seasons when I was doing time in Houston and he was an Astro.. his gf had lovely red hair and nice shoes.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
“In Baltimore, there’s a tradition as old as Chespeake Bay. I’m talkin’ crabs.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
My husband went to Baltimore
and all I got were these lousy crabs
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
He was up all night
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New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town,
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down,
The people ride in a hole in the ground,
New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town!
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
I love me some Comden and Green.
Later today, some team is gonna be singing The Party’s Over…
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
JJ Hardy standup double, one out in the bot 1st in baltimore.
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A GM with imagination could have had JJ Hardy as a 3rd baseman in LA.
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Markakis strike three called. Baltimore announcers say it’s a strike but Markakis doesn’t think so. two out
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
three out now. double wasted. no score in baltimore.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
more like loltimore
amirite
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Sep 28, 2011 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
See, now, that’s a correct use of “amirite.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
it really needs its own square on the periodic table
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I still say that’s a name made for vaudeville.
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ParkyerMarkakis?
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
by mleadman on Sep 28, 2011 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Question for the Youngins
Who knows what famous two people ParkYerKarkus is responsible for?
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Related
In the 1937 Warner Brothers cartoon Porky’s Hero Agency, Porky Pig fought Medusa as a Greek hero named “Porkykarkus”.
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HJ has been known to make a Turkey meatball with hidden porkfat, also known as Porkyturkcarcass
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Some of these young'uns
don’t know who those two people you’re referring to are. I do follow one of those people on twitter though.
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Three famous people, if you count Charles, who wrote the great baseball book Willie’s Time.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
My new favorite Matt Kemp stat
He could go 0 for his next 184 and still have a higher OPS than last year
There's nothing like goals
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
nothing like a 52 game out streak to bring you right back to earth
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
pardoning Kinbote but
Head Explodes
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This seems like a fluke season on the level of 2004 Beltre
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without the ankle injury. That’s next year
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
step away from the glue bottle, both of youse
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Velez says, “Missed it by that much.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Kemp could go 0 for 105 and still have a better OPS than 2009
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
This is one of our local supervisors
I keep expecting to hear Sheeeeeiiiittttt
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
:( Josh Rawitch saying goodbye
Whether you witnessed me eating 165 Dodger Dogs during the 2003 season, throwing batting practice at the 2011 media game or any of my other antics in between, I hope you realized how deeply I respect this franchise, this position, and the important role that the media plays every day in connecting us with our fans.
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and if not for that dingle-berry McCourt and his sexually harrasing ex-wife (my ass still is black and blue from where she grabbed it at the x-mas party 2 years back…though she did have a really lovely mouth), anyways I digress, if not for these two I would never been leaving this jewel of baseball for some upstart two bit operation filled with a 120 degree days and scorpions in your shoes. May they go to hell for driving me from baseball paradise
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You had me at dingle-berry
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
thx, really trying to appeal to the courser element here, I think I might have been a few hours early for the right crowd to see it
but then again, it involves 5 sentences so they might not have made it that far anyway
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Link?
Not from his blog, it doesn’t look like.
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FTFU
and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, September 28, a Wednesday of hazy skies and foggy mornings, and smog-clogged lungs and 2 more Matt Kemp Home Runs, it stopped, and summer was gone.
thanks Bart
Days are getting noticably shorter
I hate that
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
that fact + that poem = always gets me on this day
another season done for all of us
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Two catchers who I was told would never catch are catching for the Sox and Yankee’s.
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and Eddie Murray played third base a few times. Doesn’t make him a third baseman.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
but I think we can correctly classify Jose Canseco as a reliever
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Something I forgot to add to the column above
The only Dodger ever to lead the league in both runs scored and RBI was Duke Snider in 1955.
Matt Kemp leads runs by 5 and RBI by 4
all done with Duke’s 4 on the sleeve!!!!
Kis-fucking-met
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Duke’s was a tad bit more impressive given he did it on a team that won a World Series and had a decent share of players he had to beat off. Wonder how many times Jackie in his Prime did not lead his team in runs scored or Campy did not lead in Runs batted in?
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he was also doing in a pennant race so he had that pressure to deal with
Matt does it in nothing but meaningless games
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Ibet Kemp
doesn’t have to beat off any players on this team
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Marty found the hanging deuce, swung hard, didn’t miss
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Not while there’s a Dutch Rudder on the roster.
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he would be my second favorite player as a Dodger, no doubt in my mind
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
meh, I like him but if you take him away from Boston I think he’s an ordinary play who would need to concentrate more on getting on base as his power would drop off quite a bit.
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liar, you would gush over him like a teenage school girl
I would not love him like the Bison, but scrappy and can play? oh boy
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
For instance, career Laser splits
Fenway: .323/.387/.506
A-way: .285/.358/.418
Still like those road numbers, but Winston Wolf is needed here.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess PR isn’t really an issue for Baltimore.
Apparently the guy was a Dodger at one point.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
From B-R
# January 10, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
# March 30, 2008: Released by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And from SBNation:
March 6, 2008 Assigned to minor league camp.
January 10, 2008 Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers to a minor league contract.
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Just to show I'm not the mean guy you think I am
Pandas!
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Nothing beats
Panda on a stick
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
I was going to say “Marty doesn’t do fast food. This is his version of Panda Express.” :)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Hah!
Orat on a stick (tm Sierra On-Line).
by jim hitchcock (railway) on Sep 28, 2011 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
The sun goes down on the Rays
unless Boston loses.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
It could happen!
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
It sure could.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
really hoping for a dual shit the bed at this point
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Kevin Goldstein says the Rays killed the Rays by not calling up What’s His Name and You Know Who earlier than they did.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe, Jennings hit a long dry spell, so maybe he’d have simply hit that sooner if he had been up sooner. Moore would have had to replace Wade Davis, maybe over a few games he isn’t Schoolboy Rowe.
For example the month of Sept has Jennings with an OPS of .525. You might even say playing him everyday in Sept cost them a postseason berth.
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My opinions:
1. I think Goldstein makes an interesting point and it’s worth discussing.
2. It might be revisionist history. Saying the Rays should have called him up when they were 10 games back of the WC? I dunno. The Rays are in this thing because Boston has shit the bed on a historic level, not because the Rays got hot. Goldstein would say that that kind of stuff happens… but it really doesn’t, not like Boston was blowing it… It’s hard to blame the Rays.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Seems to me he’s ignoring the fact that once the pitchers saw Jennings they have owned him.
Anyway I blame Zobrist for leaving the team last week to hold his wife’s hand during childbirth. He missed the game Tuesday they lost, they he had to hurry back to the team on Wednesday for the DH and showed up just in time to strike out in the first game, and then K’ three more times in the second game as they lost three in a row to the Yankee’s.
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I admire the human capacity to dish out blame
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Per Dylan H
Mattingly said he wouldn’t make an extra effort to get Velez into the game — unless Milwaukee wins early.
from memory
Give a hoot
don’t pollute
never be a dirty bird
in the city
or in he woods
help keep american
lookin’ good!
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a customer named Uggla who was mighty impressed I knew that. Aw, shucks, Vinny told me.
by jim hitchcock (railway) on Sep 28, 2011 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
What timing!
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
you know little of the American league and collapse
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
heard this somewhere
might have been a 3 bagger for the Dodgers with a little creative thought
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I always thought a “3 bagger” was a dude what has an extra teste.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
you didn’t disappoint, I hid in there like an easter egg waiting and watching
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Or a REALLY
Uggla girl
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
also an acceptable answer
“Someone who both wants lower taxes and the right to gay marriage”
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to balance him out by playing John Kruk at 1B.
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I watched a cartoon once called Hardy Har Har I think.
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Definitely
He was a hyena, sort of downcast one though.
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Sidekick though
Heck being a Hyena sucks, you are always hoping someone else will kill something.
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Hardy fuckin har
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
If that happens, one of two things will happen, I predict:
1. Predictions come true and he doesn’t make it out of the first
2. He defies all predictions and throws a complete game shutout
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Neither, he’ll gut out a 10 -5 five inning victory.
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Nah. I think if he allows five runs, he’s not allowed to go five full innings, no matter how many runs the Sox have.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
He didn’t get 12 wins with a 6.41 ERA by not being allowed to pitch 5 innings
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will be like Tommy taking the ball from Doug Rau all over again
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The vast majority of those games were not of the “win or go home” variety.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Pressure is on the Braves for the moment.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 28, 2011 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Keith told me Myers would not suck
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Maybe the Cardinals put pictures of Myers’ wife on their bats.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
We certainly got the wrong idea this morning
all ESPN did was not broadcast Monday, sent their Monday night crew to the B game. Stuck the Sunday night crew in the BBTN studio, and pipe in with updates on the two others as necessary. ESPN2 is supposed to carry the finish of the Cardinal tilt though, so it’ll be interesting to see how that works.
These people will be on the field watching Kemp round the bases often
Bloomquist SS
Hill 2B
Upton RF
Goldschmidt 1B
Young CF
Roberts 3B
Parra LF
Blanco C
Saunders P
I will gladly take whatever Santa is bringing me for christmas and trade it for a lump of coal, if that means Matt Kemp hits two home runs today
Please Santa, please
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to like his honesty, when asked why there was a dead body, he simply said, “he made my day”.
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“He said, ‘He gotsta know,’ so I had no choice,” Simon said.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Hope he gets them. Fuck Reyes.
by jim hitchcock (railway) on Sep 28, 2011 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
They will both finish behind Mr. 12 for 12
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Why is Reyes getting shit for sitting out today after one at bat when he played Monday/Tuesday while Braun was talking a nap on Monday?
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That’s a fair point. Fuck him anyway,
by jim hitchcock (railway) on Sep 28, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Well that's easy
Braun’s team is going to the playoffs and he got a day off to rest, a relatively normal thing.
Reyes specifically left the game to protect his batting average lead. I really don’t think it’s a big deal either way. I would have preferred Reyes to play the whole game today, but he made the percentage play after that single, and winning a batting title is pretty cool.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
welll
if braun doesnt win the batting title, it gives matt kemp a better chance at winning the MVP…. fuck braun for today… right??!?
When was the last time a guy didn’t sit out to win the batting championship?
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions
They aren’t usually this close are they? Seems like ages to me that a BA was being decided on the last game.
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Yeah it hasn’t been an issue for a while but I feel like sitting down to protect a batting championship is a time honored tradion.
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by regfairfield on Sep 28, 2011 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
a few years from now, hell a few weeks from now, Reyes will be off the hook and simply the batting champion
lots of dudes have sat
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Stan the Man never had to sit.
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I remember one BA race that ended up being a racial thing. Was Bill Madlock involved in that? Somehow I think it was the Twins so maybe Carew.
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Bob Timmermann tweeted today about Ken Griffey Sr. sitting out the final day in 1976 with a lead, but entered the game later after he was passed by Bill Madlock. Madlock won the crown.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Wuss move. Good for the Mad Dog.
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so common, you only recall the guys who played and risked
should tell you something
/or I could be totally wrong
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Braves up in the 5th, the Phillies have to take their foot off the gas soon, right?
by Josie Becker on Sep 28, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I blame all of this on Jon Weisman for getting everyone all excited about Matt Kemps chances for a triple crown when no one was thinking about it.
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Quadruple Crown
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Kershaw was number one before today (.977 to .981) but it was close. Nice to see.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Ridic WHIP for a starting pitcher
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If Hamels completes five innings tonight and doesn’t allow another hit or walk, he will beat Kershaw (.977064 to .977143)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
off a murderer
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What the hell is Ray Lewis doing pitching?
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
dual triple crowns in pitching?!
does this happen often…
verlander BARELY got the ERA title this year… thought his ERA was much lower
Four times
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/triple_crowns.shtml
1924 was the last, Walter Johnson and a Dodger, Dazzy Vance
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I have heard the words “Pitching triple crown” more in the last 2 months than all my years as a baseball fan
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it corny
that after 23+ years of marriage, Mrs. Dave and I still recognize today as the anniversary of when we first started dating, 27 years ago?
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nice
baseball is home the true romantics
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
He calls her Mrs. Dave and spends eight innings talking to Craig and I while she sits alone. He ain’t no fucking saint.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Seven innings – and she sent me! I know how to take a hint. Mrs. Dave has at least one Garboesque quality, at times.
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Napoli has homered against the Angels. That seems fitting. The flip flop of Napoli catching everyday for the Angels instead of mashing for the Rangers might be something Scoscia could consider this winter as he tries to decide if the Wells trade was indeed a mistake.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
by meercatjohn on Sep 28, 2011 5:46 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
HJ
I just spoke to my professor about the Luther quote you brought up earlier, and she said that the quote was actually a way for protestants to rebel against the Catholic Church, which had absorbed the authority of reason. So reason = Catholic Church, and scripture was now the way that you access your own faith.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
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very cool, makes total sense to me
I found the phrase on accident, when looking for something else online – it didn’t sit right with me so I chewed on it over and over for days. Obsession is a double edged blade for me
now my mind is back at rest – thank you for sharing!!!!
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Guy went from HoF
to KP
to pretty damn good
and all we got was the KP for our troubles
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s doing it solely as a lefty masher. 218 PA before today for NY.
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.290 / .389 / .548 / .937 in 144 PA vs. lefties this season. Better than Thames, that’s for sure.
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that’s why I say “pretty damn good”
if he had that line versus lefties over 500 at bats, he’d still be HoF
by Hollywood Joe on Sep 28, 2011 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but he can’t hit righties nearly as well, so if he was playing full time his numbers would likely take a big tumble and overall probably below league average.
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Quadruple Crown!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean, Braun could go 4 for his next 4 and win it.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 28, 2011 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
From Jeff Wilson of Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Napoli’s homer in second gave Rangers four players with 29 homers. First in club history, sixth in AL history, 18th in major-league history.
and
strikes him out
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 28, 2011 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions
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