IGT 09/11 -- Nationals at Metropolitans

[Guest d'Kong76]

Nats win game one, of the oncoming 4-game sweep.

[bmfc1]

Let's hope that the Mets bring their testicles tomorrow since they don't seem to have them whenever they play the Nationals.

[MFS62]

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: On the plus side, the Yanx are getting no-hit thru 7 That comment made me look at their box score. It looks like their first hit was by ... you guessed it. Chris Young. We now send this thread back to the minus side. Later

And, he hits a three run homer to win it.
You can't make this shit up.

Later

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: On the plus side, the Yanx are getting no-hit thru 7 That comment made me look at their box score. It looks like their first hit was by ... you guessed it. Chris Young. We now send this thread back to the minus side. Later And, he hits a three run homer to win it. You can't make this shit up. Later

I've lost all joy in baseball now.

Bring on Hockey season.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Kilgore, WP wrote: They blundered on the bases, flailed at the plate and disintegrated on the mound.

Sounds about right!

[Lefty Specialist]

MFS62 wrote: And, he hits a three run homer to win it. You can't make this shit up. Later

It's the 'Aaron Small Syndrome', where players who previously sucked or had no real career to speak of don the pinstripes and hit or pitch like Reggie Jackson or Whitey Ford. They inevitably regress to the mean, but they have a brief period of POOTA (Playing Out Of Their Ass), which is highly irritating and highly helpful to the Yankees.

Lyle Overbay and Alfonso Soriano are two other recent examples of this phenomenon.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: It's the 'Aaron Small Syndrome', where players who previously sucked or had no real career to speak of don the pinstripes and hit or pitch like Reggie Jackson or Whitey Ford. They inevitably regress to the mean, but they have a brief period of POOTA (Playing Out Of Their Ass), which is highly irritating and highly helpful to the Yankees. Lyle Overbay and Alfonso Soriano are two other recent examples of this phenomenon.

Glenallen Hill is the one I remember.
Acquired by the Yanx in late July 2000 for two nobodies, GAH, at the age of 35, went on to hit .333 in 132 ABs (.262 prior to the trade) with 16 HRs (a rate of nearly 70 HRs for a full season).
Dumped during spring training the following March, the remainder of Hill's career consisted of 9 hits w/1 HR