Late Night With Terry Collins: Mets @ San Diego 8/15 igt

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Edgy DC wrote: It's like he's always so careful to make every part of the play part of his call, that he can fall 10 seconds behind the action....

Yes. I don't dislike Wayne as much as, well, anybody else but he tries too hard to tell us each detail of the play. Most times a simple and timely description will do and then use the 30 seconds before the next batter steps in to gives us the description.

He reminds me of Felix Unger, here at 6:11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5gbYmrUBwE

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Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I was never more sure of anything in my life than to wake up to a Mets loss this morning. So much so in fact, I misread the Schaefer thread as a 5-4 loss. So good on the Mets for this one. Wayne's call of the final play (listen on Mets.com) was typically rotten. WFAN played it this morning, i believe it was something like "groundball to the Shortstop, who bobbles it, and Tejada picks it up and throws to first, in time!" (Tejada seems to bobble a billion balls..)

Basically it was a hard ankle-high one-hopper which Tejada knocked down but still had plenty of time to make the throw.

He's definitely hard to define as a SS; capable of making great plays one minute then messing up seemingly easy one the next.
The play before the final one in fact was a slow-chopper towards the middle with runners on 1st & 2nd and one out. There wasn't going to be time for a DP so he just threw to 1st. There was time for him however to get the force at 2nd, a play which would have kept the winning run at 1st instead of in scoring position but also would have required him to make a semi-awkward turn in order to make the flip so it looked like he never even considered it so as to take the easiest out and not even risk screwing things up. That was the source of my "Oh I hope that play doesn't burn us" comment.

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I think anxious is a good way to define him. He's a lot like Wright in that regard. His instincts and honing serve him well. But give him time to think, and things get riskier.

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Edgy DC wrote: I think anxious is a good way to define him. He's a lot like Wright in that regard. His instincts and honing serve him well. But give him time to think, and things get riskier.

that time to think seems to play in in pressure situations too.

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But then he also has that weird Kaz Matsui aversion to backhanding the ball even though he seems fundamentally sound in other areas.

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Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I think anxious is a good way to define him. He's a lot like Wright in that regard. His instincts and honing serve him well. But give him time to think, and things get riskier. that time to think seems to play in in pressure situations too.

Well, that's when they've got something to think about --- to grow anxious about.