RA Deserves His Own Thread

[Frayed Knot]

[table:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]Year[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]Strike%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]Contact%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]GB%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]2008[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]57%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]82%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]47%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]2009[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]57%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]80%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]49%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]2010[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]65%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]79%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]55%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]2011[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]66%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]80%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]53%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][tr:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]2012[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]69%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]71%[/td:3up2u59i][td:3up2u59i]54%[/td:3up2u59i][/tr:3up2u59i][/table:3up2u59i]

[Benjamin Grimm]

If they pitch Dickey every fifth day, and he keeps winning every start, we'll be getting into Denny McLain territory.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Most books sold too.

Those would be the books he is continually putting IT in.

[TransMonk]

Dickey's ESPN game score from last night was tied with Humber's prefecto as the the second best of the year. #1 was Cain's perfect game.

RA is now blowing everyone away in the CY Predictor stat.

[Chad ochoseis]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Posting on the road from my smartphome ... what a pain in the ass. Dickey's game score last night -96. RA is 1st pitcher in live ball era with consecutive game scores of 95 or more.

I think that ties him with Capuano's two-hitter last year and the Seaver-Qualls game for the highest Met game score ever.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The perfecto he's gonna throw against the MFYs this Sunday is gonna be awesome, you guys.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The perfecto he's gonna throw against the MFYs this Sunday is gonna be awesome, you guys.

No, you stay negative. Can't go messing with karma.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

[Guest themetfairy]

Mets � Willets Point wrote:

I am so stealing this

[Edgy MD]

On live with Francesa.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: On live with Francesa.

cruel punishment for giving up that one hit.

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: On live with Francesa. cruel punishment for giving up that one hit.

Is Francesa taking credit for turning Dickey into a knuckleballer?

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: On live with Francesa. cruel punishment for giving up that one hit. Is Francesa taking credit for turning Dickey into a knuckleballer?

Probably. But I don't know, I didn't give up a hit so I don't need to be punished by listening.

Francesa's been using the Clemens trial to assert that there have always been rumors about Piazza and steroids so he's already in my doghouse this week.

[Frayed Knot]

Consecutive One-hitters = Johnny Vander Near

[bmfc1]

RA on RA (Angell on Dickey):

... the horrendous din of the game and its perpetual, distracting flow of replay and statistics and expertise and P.R. and money and expectation and fatigue have perhaps dimmed, leaving him still in touch with the elegant and, for now, perfectly recallable and repeatable movements of his body and shoulders and the feel of the thing on his fingertips.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2012/06/ra-dickey-one-hitters.html#ixzz1yI0oxA8O

[Frayed Knot]

That sentence perfectly illustrates why some folks love, while others hate, the writing of Roger Angell.

[TransMonk]

Lance Lynn failed in his attempt to stay close to Dickey's greatness allowing 5 earned in 5 innings pitched to the Tigers tonight. His ERA fell to 2.80.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: That sentence perfectly illustrates why some folks love, while others hate, the writing of Roger Angell.

Starting as it did with a lower-case letter, I'm getting that there's more to it we have to click to see.

[bmfc1]

It didn't. I made a change. My apologies to Mr. Angell.

[Frayed Knot]

My point wasn't to pick apart his punctuation or syntax, but it's that flowery language of his when describing baseball fields and games which entrances some while it absolutely infuriates non-baseball fans.

[Edgy MD]

And my point wasn't to pick apart his punctuation or syntax, but to suggest that maybe there were more flowers in that sentence.

[G-Fafif]

...enemy batters, heading back to their dugout after another feeble infield bouncer or another strikeout, look like folks anxious to forget today�s Dow.

Which is EXACTLY what the Orioles looked like Monday night. Never mind what a writer Roger Angell is. What a reporter Roger Angell is.

[batmagadanleadoff]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Dickey on pace for a 7.2 season WAR, 8th best in franchise history. Rank Pitcher/Team WAR YEAR 1 Dwight Gooden 11.7 1985 2 Tom Seaver 9.5 1973 3 Tom Seaver 9.2 1971 4 Jon Matlack 8.6 1974 5 Tom Seaver 7.7 1975 6 Tom Seaver 7.6 1969 7 Tom Seaver 7.5 1968 8 Jerry Koosman 6.8 1968 9 Jon Matlack 6.7 1972 10 Jerry Koosman 6.7 1969

Dickey on pace for a [crossout]7.2[/crossout] 8.2 season WAR, [crossout]8th[/crossout] 5th best in franchise history.

Rank	Pitcher/Team	WAR	YEAR
1	Dwight Gooden	11.7	1985
2	Tom Seaver	9.5	1973
3	Tom Seaver	9.2	1971
4	Jon Matlack	8.6	1974
5	Tom Seaver	7.7	1975
6	Tom Seaver	7.6	1969
7	Tom Seaver	7.5	1968
8	Jerry Koosman	6.8	1968
9	Jon Matlack	6.7	1972
10	Jerry Koosman	6.7	1969

Listened to yesterday's Mets/O's game on Baltimore radio. Pre-game Baltimore crew, recounting Dickey's 2nd 1-hitter, described RA's stuff as being absolutely filthy.

OE - Dickey the knuckleballer hasn't thrown a wild pitch all season.

[Ceetar]

I heard Gary mention the no wild pitch thing last night, but isn't that just a scoring decision? Josh Thole has 5 PB and Nickeas has 6. Not all of those were Dickey starts, but I don't think Dickey is completely innocent of it.

[metirish]

The article is worth reading btw.

[MFS62]

My point wasn't to pick apart his punctuation or syntax, but it's that flowery language of his when describing baseball fields and games which entrances some while it absolutely infuriates non-baseball fans.

I wonder what the percentage of each is who read The New Yorker.
It wasn't as if he was writing for the NY Post.
I was going to say The Sporting News except:
1) The don't cover baseball
2) When they did, they had some very good writers.

Later

[G-Fafif]

So, what happens to ruin everything Sunday night? These have crossed my mind:

--Sudden unforeseen steady rain messes with knuckler, umps won't halt play.
--Sabathia pulls up lame, is replaced by Triple-A callup who has studied Dickey and learned the knuckler just for this night and he bests Dickey and it's a moral victory for MFYs 'cause Triple-A pitcher is from Newark and Mets kept him from pitching in front of his family this season.
--Selig orders all umpires to redefine strike zone as of 8 PM Sunday and therefore all of Dickey's pitches are considered balls.
--ESPN reports that while Dickey has certainly had success over the past several starts, the New York Yankees are history's greatest example of success and that which is evanescent can't help but succumb to that which is transcendent.
--Fucking Jeter.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Daily News reporting that the Mets have considered having Dickey pitch continuously on three days rest. Sounds like it was discussed in May and the idea was put aside.

[Ceetar]

So, what happens to ruin everything Sunday night? These have crossed my mind: --Sudden unforeseen steady rain messes with knuckler, umps won't halt play. --Sabathia pulls up lame, is replaced by Triple-A callup who has studied Dickey and learned the knuckler just for this night and he bests Dickey and it's a moral victory for MFYs 'cause Triple-A pitcher is from Newark and Mets kept him from pitching in front of his family this season. --Selig orders all umpires to redefine strike zone as of 8 PM Sunday and therefore all of Dickey's pitches are considered balls. --ESPN reports that while Dickey has certainly had success over the past several starts, the New York Yankees are history's greatest example of success and that which is evanescent can't help but succumb to that which is transcendent. --Fucking Jeter.

No.

The wind currents at Yankee Stadium that normally allow pop-flies to float over the fence instead make the knuckleball flutter like crazy. Jeter strikes out 3 times. He nearly reaches on the first because the ball gets by Thole but he doesn't run out of the box because he was bitching about the called strike the pitch before to the ump.

Terry Francona declares Dickey is amazing and regales us with tales of Tim Wakefield similiarly baffling the Yankees. He talks about their long swings being unsuited to hit the pitch.

C.C.'s heavy frame is worn out from it being a night game during a heat wave, he's strong early but waivers in the 5th to give up 3 home runs to the Mets. Wright, Davis, Murphy back to back to back. Mets feast on the bullpen for the blow-out.




Wallace Matthews probably hasn't noticed since he covers the Yankees exclusively now, but back in the day he had some rather unprofessional and ignorant things to say about knuckleballs. I wonder if we'll get a sequel this weekend. http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2007/05/what-eff.html

[soupcan]

G-Fafif wrote: So, what happens to ruin everything Sunday night? These have crossed my mind: --Fucking Jeter.

That.

Always that.

Ceetar wrote: The wind currents at Yankee Stadium that normally allow pop-flies to float over the fence instead make the knuckleball flutter like crazy...

Except the game is at Citi