game 1 stone + hawk going on and on about how you cannot pitch to mauer like you have a plan. he's a catcher. he knows your plan. o he's a catcher who is an extraordinary athlete. the simple answer is you can't pitch to mauer. he's less lethal at first base 4 times than he is going 3 for 4 at the plate.
i'm afraid he'll see craptosses in the playoffs. morneau even a possibility at this point?
doofy, you may have some insight in this - they were complaining on both tv and radio about mauer's trips to the mound. stone even went so far as to divulge "mauer thinks there might be a camera in center field" - i know the sox are notorious at stealing signs...(who was their old bench coach...real ugly guy - was there forever). i wouldn't put it past them and, quite honestly, i'd be amazed if they didn't. i'm sure every team steals signs with different degrees of success. 'cept the cubs. they're too goody goody for their own good.
68 - Morneau says he thinks he'll make it back, but I don't think it'll happen. Would sure be nice, but the Twins do have the best record in baseball since the All-Star Game and he's been out the whole time.
can you get a message to gardie for me? here's what i wrote to a buddy (sox fan - who i can ride like a tendollarhooker) after he acquiesced the baseball season to me + wished the twinks the best in the playoffs:
"if there were any way we can get morneau back, start resting thome - give mauer some time off and start charting ways to match up crain vs. Teixeira...gardie has to come to terms that the yanks will take pitches, take pitches, take pitches.... nibbling at them only reduces the ump's zone. imho , the cost of taking pitches - if rewarded by an ump's small strike zone - is to nail the batter after ball 3. serious. you can't have first base, raise the pitch count AND an ump squeezing you without dealing out some damage in return."
o - and tell him it's time to break out the running game : )
@doofy - YES! nossek it is.
what's with the baseball cards from antiquity? i pull out my collection from 1973 about 1x every ten years. the last time was to bust a yanks fan who didn't believe me when i told him the yanks had 5 thirdbasemen that year.
also, i'm thinking about writing a story about third base. third base, indeed.
I actually probably could get a message to Gardy through some connections, but I'll pass on that one.
Costello: Power hitter comes up and hits a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don't know! He's on third, and I don't give a darn!
Abbott: What did you say?
Costello: I said, I don't give a darn!
Abbott: Oh! That's our shortstop!
Meh. You're allowed to be gauche now and again. When it comes to the Vikings (and Timberpups) it's not great smack talk as far as I'm concerned, though.
Now, if you were to talk about the fact that the Blackhawks currently have the Stanley Cup while the Wild are mired in mediocrity, well, them's fightin' words!
@craig - dude - thx for getting the message to gardie BUT i was only joking about the running game
SB - O Hudson (8, 2nd base off J Gomez/L Marson), M Cuddyer (7, 2nd base off J Gomez/L Marson).
as far as football, the bears were so much fun back in the day, but its such a cheap operation. mccheapskeys really need to sell the club so it can get on par with the rest of the world. and too many trips to door county have made me a packer fan - aaron rodgers was the right decision.
we did attend the cup parade downtown - it was packed...with the exodus in the off-season it will be curious to see if toews and kane can get anywhere close to last year. how 'bout toews year - gold + the cup in all of 3 months time.
A coworker of mine was at the game last night and stayed until the end of the Sox/A's game. Jon Rauch came out of the dugout and threw a bucket of water on the fans that were still there, getting a direct hit on my coworker. Sounds like fun to me!
Ah, Hawk Harrelson. The single worst announcer in the history of announcing.
This only shows that you have never heard the Sox radio team of Ed Farmer and Darrin Jackson.
Obviously neither of you has listened to Ron Santo call a Cubs game.
I can't believe there was a baseball conversation right here under my beak all this time. Of course, I don't have a dog hunting anywhere in this confab, but whatever, I'll let my rage bleed over into AL discussions.
santo - whether he's trying or not - tries too hard to be the emblematic cub fan. bleeding cubbie blue is one thing, losing cubbie blue appendages/hairpieces, etc, with it all rolling in to some made-for-the cubbie blue-hairs "this ol' cub" video is just not a pretty picture.
i do like the baseball project effort. not many teams can really pull off "heart" as conveyed in that video.
my mom cried when bill buckner was traded to boston. '84 team was really the best team they've ever put on the field. i had tickets to the bartman game - but our oldest came down with the flu + we couldn't go. sold the tix for $500 and watched the misery from the comfort of my living room.
twinks have been my team for about ten years - too many south side buddies made it impossible to root for both teams in the city. and the twinks do have the honest to goodness purist appeal.
o man - the yanks end up the season with boston. i recall years ago, dusty baker was managing the giants and had won over 100 games. they were playing the dodgers the last day of the season. this was before division realignment and you had to win your division outright. the giants had to win to force a playoff game v. the braves - who won, you guessed it, earlier that day to have one more win. the dodgers smoked the giants something like 12- 1 and laughed the whole game. dusty took his 102 wins and went home. i think that was one of the more remarkable milestones in the braves stopping barry bonds at every turn cycle.
o - the phils with the two roys and cole in the rotation are the class of the post season. it will take an enormous effort to knock them out and get to the pen.
and really, there is only ONE single worst announcer in the history of sports. saying his name is worse than making you get an air supply song stuck in y'er head, but here goes: bill walton.
Tonight it all comes down to which Liriano shows up. The calm dominant force, or the nervous over thrower. I think the Twins will score enough that if Liriano can give us 6 or 7 good innings, they'll get the win.
I'm far from confident we'll get 6 or 7 good innings from Liriano though. I really wish they'd have started Pavano in Game 1, and hopefully had Liriano take the mound with a one game lead.
Time to stop talking, and time to start doing, Twinkies.
As a native of that other city I felt I just had to throw that down, since even though I don't care that deeply about baseball anymore there is after all only one team in it that has ever mattered. I did use to like the Twins when they had Killebrew.
Yep, BB, Bill Walton is the absolute stink under the pile of shit. I had to endure him calling an NCAA game between Illinois and Arizona--when his freaking son played for ARIZONA.
He sucks on NBA games, if he called a high school game he would suck, if he just sat in the booth and didn't say anything the entire game he would suck. He just sucks.
kkkkkkriiiiiiiiiiiiiistt. did i not say "crain: map out a way to get teixeira out" ??? !!!
craig. plz. get the message to gardy. he must drill a-rod so his cheatin'/actin' ass can not get up. yes. cheatin'. flat out cheater. steroids. wife. swatting the ball from bronson arroyo's arm and then acting like he was absolutely innocent - an f'n fraud - cheats at will. nail him and let him know baseball smells his stink.
otherwise he'll just keep acting like anything thrown has him backing off to save his life. what a skirt.
here's where we lost: denard span with men on - a bunch of dribble. curtis granderson with men on - clears the bases.
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i'm afraid he'll see craptosses in the playoffs. morneau even a possibility at this point?
doofy, you may have some insight in this - they were complaining on both tv and radio about mauer's trips to the mound. stone even went so far as to divulge "mauer thinks there might be a camera in center field" - i know the sox are notorious at stealing signs...(who was their old bench coach...real ugly guy - was there forever). i wouldn't put it past them and, quite honestly, i'd be amazed if they didn't. i'm sure every team steals signs with different degrees of success. 'cept the cubs. they're too goody goody for their own good.
You are thinking of Joe Nossek, who is of all things...
a former Twinkie!
Craig
"if there were any way we can get morneau back, start resting thome - give mauer some time off and start charting ways to match up crain vs. Teixeira...gardie has to come to terms that the yanks will take pitches, take pitches, take pitches.... nibbling at them only reduces the ump's zone. imho , the cost of taking pitches - if rewarded by an ump's small strike zone - is to nail the batter after ball 3. serious. you can't have first base, raise the pitch count AND an ump squeezing you without dealing out some damage in return."
o - and tell him it's time to break out the running game : )
what's with the baseball cards from antiquity? i pull out my collection from 1973 about 1x every ten years. the last time was to bust a yanks fan who didn't believe me when i told him the yanks had 5 thirdbasemen that year.
also, i'm thinking about writing a story about third base. third base, indeed.
Costello: Power hitter comes up and hits a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don't know! He's on third, and I don't give a darn!
Abbott: What did you say?
Costello: I said, I don't give a darn!
Abbott: Oh! That's our shortstop!
Craig
...Off topic at best, my bad.
Now, if you were to talk about the fact that the Blackhawks currently have the Stanley Cup while the Wild are mired in mediocrity, well, them's fightin' words!
Craig
SB - O Hudson (8, 2nd base off J Gomez/L Marson), M Cuddyer (7, 2nd base off J Gomez/L Marson).
as far as football, the bears were so much fun back in the day, but its such a cheap operation. mccheapskeys really need to sell the club so it can get on par with the rest of the world. and too many trips to door county have made me a packer fan - aaron rodgers was the right decision.
we did attend the cup parade downtown - it was packed...with the exodus in the off-season it will be curious to see if toews and kane can get anywhere close to last year. how 'bout toews year - gold + the cup in all of 3 months time.
Craig
The Baseball Project: Feat. Craig Finn - Don't Call Them Twinkies
Craig
Obviously neither of you has listened to Ron Santo call a Cubs game.
I can't believe there was a baseball conversation right here under my beak all this time. Of course, I don't have a dog hunting anywhere in this confab, but whatever, I'll let my rage bleed over into AL discussions.
Craig
i do like the baseball project effort. not many teams can really pull off "heart" as conveyed in that video.
my mom cried when bill buckner was traded to boston. '84 team was really the best team they've ever put on the field. i had tickets to the bartman game - but our oldest came down with the flu + we couldn't go. sold the tix for $500 and watched the misery from the comfort of my living room.
twinks have been my team for about ten years - too many south side buddies made it impossible to root for both teams in the city. and the twinks do have the honest to goodness purist appeal.
For his heroic efforts in working alongside Ron, I say Pat Hughes has earned a spot in the Hall of Fame.
So Twins will almost surely get the AL East wild card, and at the moment it looks like that's going to be the Yanks!
clink.
Beating Sabathia at home would be highly recommended.
I'm far from confident we'll get 6 or 7 good innings from Liriano though. I really wish they'd have started Pavano in Game 1, and hopefully had Liriano take the mound with a one game lead.
Craig
As a native of that other city I felt I just had to throw that down, since even though I don't care that deeply about baseball anymore there is after all only one team in it that has ever mattered. I did use to like the Twins when they had Killebrew.
He sucks on NBA games, if he called a high school game he would suck, if he just sat in the booth and didn't say anything the entire game he would suck. He just sucks.
twinkies uber alles
Part of me is rooting for the Twins, but another part of me wants revenge on the Yanks.
craig. plz. get the message to gardy. he must drill a-rod so his cheatin'/actin' ass can not get up. yes. cheatin'. flat out cheater. steroids. wife. swatting the ball from bronson arroyo's arm and then acting like he was absolutely innocent - an f'n fraud - cheats at will. nail him and let him know baseball smells his stink.
otherwise he'll just keep acting like anything thrown has him backing off to save his life. what a skirt.
here's where we lost: denard span with men on - a bunch of dribble. curtis granderson with men on - clears the bases.
Oh well. Glad to see Texas with a chance to do something.