Dave James Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 Yeah, shame about that championship, too. No thanks to him. In the 2009 post-season, Teixeira hit .167 in the ALDS, .222 in the ALCS and .136 in the World Series. Quote
PHILLYQ Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 Mark Teixeira finished June with 25 home runs and 63 RBI's, a .243 average, .351 on-base percentage and .541 slugging percentage. Those numbers have dropped dramatically in July, as he is hitting .238 with no home runs and only four RBI's in the first 16 games of the month. His on-base percentage is .314 and he's slugging an anemic .302, further evidence of a power outage. More great news. This has all the earmarks of another questionable long term investment. Teixeira has 5 1/2 years left on a $180 million deal. Swell. Normally he slumps in April/May, this year it's July. Quote
JSngry Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 We send him to.....OSAKA!!! (reference to a really bad Ann Jillian made-for-TV (network!) movieof several decades ago...Ann was kidnapped into a Japanese prostitution ring, started getting rebellious, and was finally proffered the long threatened punishment of being set to OSAKA!!! to perform in live sex shows, one of which was simulated by showing her pretty much full-screen front face ,but equally obviously bent over, closing her eyes and biting her bottom lip...LTB, who remembers little if anything past this morning, still remembers that show, and "we send you to.....OSAKA!!!!" when somebody fucks up has been a running gag between us for decades now. God bless you Ann Jillian!) Quote
papsrus Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 Yeah, shame about that championship, too. No thanks to him. In the 2009 post-season, Teixeira hit .167 in the ALDS, .222 in the ALCS and .136 in the World Series. ... yeah, but his defense Quote
JSngry Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 Here we go! Cruelly repackaged and offered under then-co-star Jennifer Jason-Leigh's name, like she's the star. NO WAY!!! Quote
BERIGAN Posted July 22, 2011 Report Posted July 22, 2011 Imagine how Yankee and/or Red Sox fans will feel if somehow Farnsworth is the closer on the AL Champions. I'm amazed he's been successful as a closer. Braves had him last year, and seemed so dicey, so close to imploding at any moment...but tampa is 7.5 games back right now...can't really see the Yankees and Red Sox imploding... Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 23, 2011 Author Report Posted July 23, 2011 Well Yankee fans may enjoy the whooping they are giving the A's but don't you have to be worried about Hughes, who was given 14 runs and couldn't last long enough to earn the win? I'm sure you figured him to be improving on his third start since his return but this made his ERA take another leap upward. Ugly. And baseball is a helluva game when Lackey actually does outpitch King Felix, a nail-biter until the seventh when the bats came alive as Hernandez tired, then the bullpen blew it up further. Quote
Dave James Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 Well Yankee fans may enjoy the whooping they are giving the A's but don't you have to be worried about Hughes, who was given 14 runs and couldn't last long enough to earn the win? I'm sure you figured him to be improving on his third start since his return but this made his ERA take another leap upward. Ugly. And baseball is a helluva game when Lackey actually does outpitch King Felix, a nail-biter until the seventh when the bats came alive as Hernandez tired, then the bullpen blew it up further. Hughes outing tonight makes it much more likely that the Yanks will have to do something significant before the deadline. You can't go into the playoffs with one reliable starter. Quote
Noj Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) News flash: the Dodgers stink. EDIT: Drunk post. Edited July 23, 2011 by Noj Quote
Tim McG Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 To be fair, Noj....we Giants fans felt the same way when Lurie was killing the Giants in an effort to get a buyer to take them out of San Francisco. They almost had the team in that monstrosity of a stadium in Tampa. This, too, shall pass. Quote
JSngry Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 To be fair, Noj....we Giants fans felt the same way when Lurie was killing the Giants in an effort to get a buyer to take them out of San Francisco. They almost had the team in that monstrosity of a stadium in Tampa. St. Petersburgh, to be accurate, & the Rangers were rumored to have been right on the edge of becoming tenants as well. And speaking of the Rangers, Beltre + hamstring = a sadder face than I can find an image of. Quote
JSngry Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 File under "Don't Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry, And If So, At Who": Tigers TV guy: Latinos need ‘rice and beans’ for postgame meal http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Tigers-TV-guy-Latinos-need-8216-rice-and-bean?urn=mlb-wp13541 Tigers’ Rod Allen explains his ‘rice and beans’ comment http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Tigers-Rod-Allen-explains-his-rice-and-beans-?urn=mlb-wp13651 I guess the only "safe" thing to say here is...get to know your Latino soul food. Of that, no harm can come! <h2 class="title"></h2> Quote
BERIGAN Posted July 23, 2011 Report Posted July 23, 2011 Well Yankee fans may enjoy the whooping they are giving the A's but don't you have to be worried about Hughes, who was given 14 runs and couldn't last long enough to earn the win? I'm sure you figured him to be improving on his third start since his return but this made his ERA take another leap upward. Ugly. And baseball is a helluva game when Lackey actually does outpitch King Felix, a nail-biter until the seventh when the bats came alive as Hernandez tired, then the bullpen blew it up further. Hughes outing tonight makes it much more likely that the Yanks will have to do something significant before the deadline. You can't go into the playoffs with one reliable starter. CC Sabathia* 30 14 5 .737 2.62 A.J. Burnett 34 8 7 .533 4.19 Freddy Garcia 34 8 7 .533 3.21 Bartolo Colon 38 6 6 .500 3.34 Ivan Nova 24 8 4 .667 4.12 I know that no one outside of C.C. is going to scare teams, and how you'd naturally like to get another 1-2 type of starter, but that group doesn't look like just one reliable starter to me... Quote
Tim McG Posted July 24, 2011 Report Posted July 24, 2011 To be fair, Noj....we Giants fans felt the same way when Lurie was killing the Giants in an effort to get a buyer to take them out of San Francisco. They almost had the team in that monstrosity of a stadium in Tampa. St. Petersburgh, to be accurate, & the Rangers were rumored to have been right on the edge of becoming tenants as well. The bottom line is Noj is distraught and rightly so, but there are FAR worse things. Quote
Tim McG Posted July 24, 2011 Report Posted July 24, 2011 My dad asked me a baseball question the other day I had no answer for. (He likes asking those kinds of questions). Why is home plate shaped as an irregular pentagon? Why does it have five points while all the other bases are square? Nearest I can figure is that it was designed that way for the purpose of exactly measuring out all the other distances on the diamond (pitcher's mound, etc.) -- a point being a much more specific spot to measure from than the flat edge of a square. A quick web search turns up a few arguments that the shape makes it is easier for an umpire to judge whether a pitch crossed the plate, but I'm not sure why that would be. In fact, intuitively it seems like it could make it more difficult (four corners being a more distinct shape than five). Anyways, curious. For the same reason all baseball parks are not the same in dimension and why there is not time limit on games. It is what it is. God Bless baseball! Quote
Quincy Posted July 24, 2011 Report Posted July 24, 2011 Why is home plate shaped as an irregular pentagon? Why does it have five points while all the other bases are square? ... Anyways, curious. For the same reason all baseball parks are not the same in dimension and why there is not time limit on games. It is what it is. No, he was asking why and Jim provided the answer. Once upon a time runners ran around the bases clockwise. If this was still the case in '75 it may not have been George Foster throwing out Denny Doyle at the plate. For a time there weren't walks, then it was 3 pitches for a walk. 60 feet 6 inches didn't just come out of the blue. Some people are curious and would like to know the answer to things. "It is what it is" isn't a very interesting answer to something that has an answer. Quote
Quincy Posted July 25, 2011 Report Posted July 25, 2011 (edited) 199 for Wakefield! 15 for the mighty M's. On to New York! *Oh, and nice jinx work Dan. Edited July 25, 2011 by Quincy Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 25, 2011 Author Report Posted July 25, 2011 Me? I jinxed? By mentioning the unlikeliness of Lackey beating Felix? All I can say is that by putting off the inevitable win we've only made it more likely that M's win at least one, and maybe two in NY. So on to NY indeed! And speaking of NY, I watched the end of that game yesterday and thought to myself 'the only way this MF is going to avoid losing this lead is if someone hits one really hard but right at someone' and an instant later came the lineout/DP for the ballgame. Talk about a jinx - that's a fucking jinx! Quote
Big Al Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 Zero runs Sunday night, 20 runs the next night. "That's the way baseball go." Quote
BERIGAN Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 (edited) Man, I knew the Giants offense sucked, but not this badly! From Espn around 7 pm Tuesday... Edited July 26, 2011 by BERIGAN Quote
Tim McG Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 Man, I knew the Giants offense sucked, but not this badly! From Espn around 7 pm Tuesday... It's the pitching. The Giants don't score many runs but they don't give up many either. So far as I know the team leads the Majors in one run wins. Quote
Chalupa Posted July 27, 2011 Report Posted July 27, 2011 INSTANT REPLAY NOW!!!He could ... go … all … the … way! Quote
Dan Gould Posted July 27, 2011 Author Report Posted July 27, 2011 I vote no, its part of the game. To fix the umpiring I'd rather see them fire the worst, including everyone who makes the game about themselves (and the worst offenders in that regard are usually pretty shitty about things like balls & strikes too). But bad calls happen and will happen and frankly, should happen. I like that baseball is judged in real time by honest men trying to do a good job. Quote
JSngry Posted July 27, 2011 Report Posted July 27, 2011 I vote no, its part of the game... I like that baseball is judged in real time by honest men trying to do a good job. I like that in theory, but I've seen some, enough, really, truly horrible, at times incompetent, calls made this year that I am now in favor of some kind of limited - and it would have to be very limited in order for it to work - in-game review process. Part of being an honest man trying to do a good job (and there's a few umps about whom I would not say that without some not-insignificant pause...) is being able to admit that perhaps you made a mistake & you'd like to review the evidence in the service of getting the call right. Truthfully, if we want to talk about "integrity of the game" or some such, I think the DH is a bigger game-changer than video review ever could be. Quote
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