Frayed Knot

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I think I'd rather have seen Rose getting the help he needed years ago and making the rounds each spring to talk to players about gambling addiction than any of the things that have transpired in the last 25 years. Tough for Rose to be in a position to speak about gambling addictions while he's still is a full-time gambler today and has never stopped being one his entire life. He never sought help because he had no interest in getting help and he doesn't see anything wrong in what he did, stopping only occasionally to imply that there might be when he thinks saying so will get him what he wants.

Edgy MD wrote: The issue really shouldn't be the Hall of Fame. It should be about whether he's again able to associate with baseball, hold a job, or walk on a ball field. To the extent that Hall of Fame is relevant, it should be as the last stage in his reconciliation, but the conversation usually treats it as the first. I totally agree even as most seem to view the HoF as if it's the holy grail and their one and only issue. And if Pete and the Pete-ettes think official baseballdom has been tough on him over this topic, to get in the HoF he's going to have to get past the players who will likely be even tougher.

You mean that Pete's "confessions" after decades of lying turned out to be lies themselves? Wow, whoda thunk that!! I think this changes things to some degree in that a sizable portion of those who were on his side, reasoning that 25 years were enough of a punishment or that "it's just gambling" and that he never bet on his team to lose and only as a manager not a player (as if those distinctions make the contradictions go away), are going to back away from him now leaving him with even less support than he had before. The timing of this whole thing doesn't work in his favor either. With the ASG coming up in Cincinnati, some thought that as the perfect opportunity for some level of reinstatement. Also, with only the NBA draft (Thursday) as a storyline until football camps open, this gives the chattering classes at ESPN a golden opportunity to discuss baseball without actually lowering themselves to talk about the games themselves while obsessing over a story involving a 'big personality' which is what they do best anyway.

Hartman was the one I immediately thought of as men are the perpetrators of most murder/suicides.

Murphy will require some rehab starts and therefore will NOT be reactivated on Tuesday for the Milwaukee series as previously rumored. Probably looking at next weekend at this point.

Efforts to trade Gee have yielded nothing, so he's now officially on waivers where you gotta figure that his odds of being claimed are fairly small. So, if so, he likely winds up in Vegas pitching and waiting around for ... whatever.

It's gotten to the point where I watch the first two guys get on with hits and think: 'Why are you doing this to me?' My CAHNfidence in them scoring went from 0.1% as the inning began to like 2.1% with 2-on and none-out.

1.16 [u:2rmaccot]hits per inning[/u:2rmaccot] for Teheran over his last five starts 1.00 [u:2rmaccot]hits per game[/u:2rmaccot] for Teheran in this start.

Surprised it took as many as four pitches.

So this one PH move effectively kills the bench for the game.

So are we thinking bases-loaded walk here, or a broken bat bloop that scores three?

Was just wondering if he plans on throwing a strike anytime soon.

And the Braves 19th broken bat hit of the weekend effectively ends this game. How about a new rule which will fit in well with the time saving thing they're trying to do: When the other team gets a lead against the Mets the game ends since, let's face it, the game is over at that point.

Edgy MD wrote: Seems like Harvey always catches the day they go for that chrome insignia thingie. As well as the hit-like-shit thingie. I'm getting pretty tired of each pitcher we face having their best night of the season on that day. Teheran has given up 25 runs over his last 5 starts (31 IP). And that doesn't even speak to rookie's getting no-hitters and those making their ML debuts shutting us down for 7 innings. And all that merely describes this past week.

The only type of hit the Braves haven't gotten this weekend is the one where an easy fly ball hits a bird in flight and falls for a triple. They've had everything else: bloops, bunts, swinging bunts, high choppers that took a half-hour to come down, etc. And now this game adds a deflect off the base double.

And yet another game where they head into the 4th inning searching for their 1st hit against a pitcher with a 5+ ERA.

47 pitches to get through 2 innings and only once did the Braves get the ball out of the infield!

Have we retired Simmons yet this year? Even when he doesn't get the ball out of infield he gets on base. And now it's Harvey's turn to surpass 100 pitches by the 4th inning.

When Sir Alex of Rodrigia joined the 3K hit club the other day he did so with the highest percentage of HRs among those 3,00+ hits: 22.3% now that his totals are 3,002 and 668. I was thinking of ways of trying to make the rest of this list into a quiz, but it's just too arcane as a lot of the pcts are fairly close to each other to the point of no practical distinction and so it becomes just a guessing game based on your knowledge of who has 3,000 hits (like Paul Waner & Eddie Collins) and who doesn't (Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle) so I'll just spill it out instead. Mays (20.1%) and Aaron (20.0%) are the only other ones over 20%. Bringing up the rear, not surprisingly, are all the early 20th century guys ... and Rod Carew. So after the above three: 4th - Rafael Palmiero - 18.8% 5 - Eddie Murray = 15.5% 6 - Dave Winfield - 15.0% 7 - Cal Ripken - 13.5% 8 - Al Kaline - 13.3% 9 - Carl Yastrzemski - 13.2% 10 - Stan Musial - 13.1% 11 - George Brett - 10.1% 12 - Rickey Henderson - 9.7% 13 - Craig Biggio - 9.5% 14 - Roberto Clemente - 8.0% 15 - Robin Yount - 8.0% 16 - Derek Jeter - 7.5% 17 - Paul Molitor - 7.1% 18 - Lou Brock - 4.9% 19 - Tony Gwynn - 4.3% 20 - Wade Boggs - 3.9% 21 - Pete Rose - 3.8% 22 - Paul Waner - 3.6% 23 - Tris Speaker - 3.3% 24 - Rod Carew - 3.0% 25 - Honus Wagner - 3.0% 26 - Cap Anson - 2.8% 27 - Ty Cobb - 2.8% 28 - Nap Lajoie - 2.5% 29 - Eddie Collins - 1.4%

Yeah, one of the papers stuck a headline on that "story" in an attempt to sell it as something much more than it was. Nice try but it didn't fly.

Let's hope, today being the solstice and all, that this game and its (inexplicably) late starting time doesn't make the afternoon even longer than it already is. Last night's contest was frustrating and drawn out enough.

These have been the two most frustrating games of the season.

That shallow sac fly was the hardest ball hit in the inning.

Judging by the micro-managing decisions they've used to reverse calls before, they should definitely overturn this one. ... and they do!!

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm trying to think if it would've been different under the old rules. I don't really conclude that it would've. The swipe tag is what this rule's all about, seems to me. If not for the rule, d'Arnaud's on the baseline taking that throw. Nah, the throw was just off line. The rule never comes into play there.