The What Keith Said Thread

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Keith Hernandez goes from insightful to bully in one inning

By Phil Mushnick
June 26, 2014 | 11:09pm

Sometimes, I would like to shake Keith Hernandez�s hand. Other times, I would just like to shake him. In less than one full inning Sunday, Hernandez won a Kewpie doll � then ripped off its head. In the bottom of the fifth, with Jon Niese shutting out the Marlins on SNY, a graphic � loaded with the latest in context-barren statistical, historical nonsense � appeared. Niese, as Gary Cohen eagerly recited, is among the Mets� all-time leaders in consecutive starts �allowing three earned runs or fewer.� Others on the list included Jerry Koosman, Dwight Gooden and, three times, Tom Seaver. At that point, Hernandez came to our rescue. Once upon a time, he said, starters were expected to pitch �seven, eight nine innings,� as opposed to today, �when they go five, six, seven, max.� Thus, comparing or even listing Seaver�s low-ERA starts to Niese�s was like wondering why Cy Young never won the Cy Young Award. For the record, Gooden pitched 68 complete games, Koosman pitched 140, Seaver 231. Niese, in his seventh season, has three. Bless his heart, Hernandez gave us a lift home from the Idiot�s Picnic. But in the next half inning, he went from enlightened analyst to schoolyard bully Nelson �Ha-Ha!� Muntz. SNY presented a photo of Padres pitcher Alex Torres from the night before, wearing a cap that bulged at its sides from a protective liner. Yes, Torres looked odd. Yet, clearly, if he were determined to diminish the chances of a fractured skull or brain injury from a line drive to the side of his head, his head, if not his cap, was on straight. Well, Hernandez took a macho, style-over-function stance, mocking Torres for looking �absurd.� (The same was heard when batting helmets arrived then grew larger until they included earflaps and would be worn by base coaches.) He wasn�t done. He suggested Torres and anyone who would wear such a thing are cowards: �If you�re scared, get a dog.� Ugh! Either Hernandez was unaware of the dozens of annual, all-levels episodes that have pitchers rushed to hospitals � some with permanent neurological damage � or such episodes have not yet left an impression on him. In Torres� case, last year with the Rays, he replaced Alex Cobb after Cobb was nailed in the head with a line drive. After Saturday�s game, Torres recalled he still could hear the crack against Cobb�s head � and Torres was in the bullpen. �I�m glad he�s alive.� Cobb, depending on how one looks at it, was lucky � he was out just two months. Good Keith, bad Keith. For better and worse, he keeps both in the game.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/26/keith-hernandez-half-good-half-bad-with-sny-analysis/

[metirish]

Oh please Mushnick, coming form you?

I agree that Keith was a little rough on Torres but he did look ridiculous, Keith was saying what a lot of us watching were likely thinking.

[Vic Sage]

i didn't see the hat, but there is routinely a lot of macho jock posturing coming out of the booth, both from him and from Bobby O after the game. It gets annoying.
"if you're scared, get a dog." Really? Really?

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Mets should put a pit bull in their dugout trained to attack any opposing pitcher that throws at Mets batters.

[seawolf17]

I saw the hat. It looks ridiculous. But if I was a pitcher, I'd rather look ridiculous than be dead.

[metirish]

Agree with Vic, Keith at times sounds like a neanderthal , wasn't that the same night he was waxing lyrical about real men John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Eastwood? , or was that the game he was raving about the broad shoulders and huge legs on Lou Gehrig?

[Lefty Specialist]

If I recall, Keith made fun of David Wright's Great Gazoo helmet as well.

And that picture of him with his trainer that they've shown incessantly is decidedly, shall we say, Metrosexual.

It's Keith being Keith. After 9 years on SNY you kinda know what you're gonna get. Guess Mushnick was desperate for something to fill the column space.

[Guest d'Kong76]

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[Zvon]

Lefty Specialist wrote: It's Keith being Keith.

Bingo.

[Edgy MD]

metirish wrote: Agree with Vic, Keith at times sounds like a neanderthal , wasn't that the same night he was waxing lyrical about real men John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Eastwood? , or was that the game he was raving about the broad shoulders and huge legs on Lou Gehrig?

Here comes Lee Marvin. He's always drunk and violent.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Keith Hernandez waxing lyrically about real men ... like John Wayne??? Oh the irony. (NTTAWWT)

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[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess we know which side of the plate you
swing from. Nttawwt

Keith doesn't bother me at all. I think when the
three of them are together, it's perfect. Gary is
is Mr. Met, I hope he stays forever. Darling is a
no-nonense guy, and his friend is the nonsense
guy. They all laugh at him. Keith does too.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: Guess we know which side of the plate you swing from. Nttawwt

Have no idea what you're talking about, but coming from you, it can't be anything good.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I thought Diego was James in Spanish, Keith.

[Fman99]

Non-news from a non-reporter. Fuck him in his regular sized hat hole.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Fman99 wrote: Non-news from a non-reporter. Fuck him in his regular sized hat hole.

Maybe we should start an Anger Forum.

[Edgy MD]

Keith on umps taking 11 minutes to sort out a replay call last night in the Oakland-Toronto game: "Everybody was afraid"

OK, Keith.

[Edgy MD]

We gotta get him to go lie on the couch. --- Keith on Anthony Varvaro having trouble executing an intentional walk