Predictaburg

[DocTee]

Watching this on MLB---

Ho.Ly. Shit.

This guy is electric. Must be fun to be a Nats fan with him and drafting Harper.

[Frayed Knot]

DocTee wrote: Watching this on MLB--- Ho.Ly. Shit. This guy is electric. Must be fun to be a Nats fan with him and drafting Harper.

And the other thing you discover by watching him is that all of his pitches are strikes, the ones called balls are merely the ones the umps miss.
Or at least that's the world according to Nats color man Rob Dibble.

[bmfc1]

Frayed Knot wrote: I understand that the Wash DC sports media is so caught up in the Strasburg hype that they - just for today - have cut back their Redskins coverage to 60% of their programming day.

You have to live here to know how accurate that comment is.

For us, it means seeing the Mets in HD as the Nationals-Pirates game on MLB Network is blacked out so they have the SNY feed here.

[metirish]

WOW...I know it's only two innings but this kid has some stuff, electric watch, the ump seems to be getting caught up in the hype with his over the top strike three antics.

Throughly enjoying the MLB Network crew too.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I understand that the Wash DC sports media is so caught up in the Strasburg hype that they - just for today - have cut back their Redskins coverage to 60% of their programming day. You have to live here to know how accurate that comment is.

I've spent enough time and had enough relatives in that area to know that the W-Post being half or more Redskins news even in June is a staple if not a running joke.



Meanwhile, 2R HR Delwyn Young
2-1 Pirates

[Zvon]

4-2 Nats in the 6th.

11k's for the kid so far.

Has tossed 81 pitches

[Zvon]

14 Ks, the last 7 in a row.

wowzers.

[DocTee]

Yowzers is right.

[Zvon]

That's it, he's done after 7.

Nice show kid.

[Zvon]

WOW.[/bigpurple]

No pitcher in the history of the game has K'd 14 with only 94 pitches.

[seawolf17]

I wanted so desperately for the kid to get lit up. We'll see what happens next time out when he faces major league hitters.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

seawolf17 wrote: I wanted so desperately for the kid to get lit up. We'll see what happens next time out when he faces major league hitters.

Same.

[bmfc1]

FOX added the 6/19 Nationals game v. White Sox.

If the Nationals stay in rotation despite days off, the Mets will miss Strasburg July 1-4.

[Guest Kong76]

They just said something about not since 1900 but I missed it.

The Yankees will find a way to get him before the deadline.

[seawolf17]

Kong76 wrote: The Yankees will find a way to get him before the deadline.

Old George Steinbrenner would have been going nuts now, wanting to know why the Yankees didn't draft him.

Who is that old guy with the gravelly voice who calls WFAN with WATPs involving the Yankees? I'm sure he'll call the Schmoozer tonight to propose a Teixeira-for-Strasburg deal.

[Frayed Knot]

seawolf17 wrote: Who is that old guy with the gravelly voice who calls WFAN with WATPs involving the Yankees? I'm sure he'll call the Schmoozer tonight to propose a Teixeira-for-Strasburg deal.

Jerome from Manhattan -- and actually he won't propose a trade he'll just want to know if the Yanx will sign him in the off-season.
Yanqui fans, you see, are unaware of minor technicalities like 6-year rules for FA eligibility since they think the only purpose of those minor teams is to find and provide the Bronx with players.
When informed that Strasburg won't be a FA until after the 2017 season THEN he'll propose Teixeira as trade bait ... but only after the host turns down his offer of Nick Johnson.

[Frayed Knot]

In other NL East news, the Phils got their hitting shoes on tonight ... but are losing to the Fish 8-7 in the 8th

Mike Stanton in his debut: K, FO, 2 singles (one IF, one OF)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, keep in mind folks... it was the Pirates.

[Frayed Knot]

2 outs in the 9th in Philly
10-8 Phils -- Lidge puts two on base -- Mike Stanton up

[Frayed Knot]

Infield single by Stanton and they're loaded up for Paulino

[Frayed Knot]

Paulino pops out and the Phils win - so no passing them tonight.
Does put some more ground between us and the fishies though so it's not all bad.
Atlanta out west again.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Catching some of the highlights now. Granted, it was such notables as Neil Walker and the former Blastings, but Strasburg just made them look worse than the collegians he faced last year. That fastball's got some giddy-up, no?

[G-Fafif]

I'm going to hate this guy as a divisional rival, but my eyes grew mysteriously moist as he struck out batters 12, 13 and 14. What's that about?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: I'm going to hate this guy as a divisional rival, but my eyes grew mysteriously moist as he struck out batters 12, 13 and 14. What's that about?

Doc flashbacks again, huh?

Yeah, me too.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: DocTee wrote: And the other thing you discover by watching him is that all of his pitches are strikes, the ones called balls are merely the ones the umps miss. Or at least that's the world according to Nats color man Rob Dibble.

THE Rob Dibble?
The Wild Man Rob Dibble who averaged 4.5 BB per 9 IP during his career?
I know he knows fastballs.
But how does he know what a strike is, or should be?

Sorry I missed the game.
I hate it when work interferes with baseball.

Later

[Guest holychicken]

I just watched the highlights of this guy pitching. . . the amount of movement he was getting on that 101 mph fastball is scary.

[Frayed Knot]

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: DocTee wrote: And the other thing you discover by watching him is that all of his pitches are strikes, the ones called balls are merely the ones the umps miss. Or at least that's the world according to Nats color man Rob Dibble. THE Rob Dibble? The Wild Man Rob Dibble who averaged 4.5 BB per 9 IP during his career? I know he knows fastballs. But how does he know what a strike is, or should be?

Dibble's just a homer-announcer-extraordinaire.
It's not just Strasburg, all Washington pitchers are cruelly deprived of strikes by umpires.
And they're not just missed calls, they're intentionally bad calls because the umps are specifically biased against the Nationals.
And when the tracking-box thing backs him up he cites it as evidence, and when it doesn't back him up he just simply ignores it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bastid stole the back page of the Snooze from Ike Davis, he can bite my yellow ass.

F Stasberg!

[TransMonk]

Now that doesn't seem like it should be right at all.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I'm going to hate this guy as a divisional rival, but my eyes grew mysteriously moist as he struck out batters 12, 13 and 14. What's that about? Doc flashbacks again, huh? Yeah, me too.

Wasn't thinking about Doc, actually. Something about the way there was the hype and the kid exceeded it, Pirates and all. The way he got stronger as the game went on. Seven K's to close out his last seven batters. If that hack Riggleman had left him in, I wonder if Tom's record of 10 would have been safe.

It was beautiful, no matter how much dread he inspires in the practical long term.