Frayed Knot

Edgy MD wrote: It ain't the bullpen if we don't score but two runs a game. Game 1: 4 of the first 7 NYM hitters in the game score ... they then get only 1 more in regulation after that Game 2: First NYM batter of the game scores ... then no one else Game 3: 2 of the first 3 score ... and no one since

Zvon wrote: That should be it for Zack. Decent outing. He kept us in the game. Two biggest sins for Wheeler today: 1) failing to get the bunt down 2) walking the 3rd string catcher to lead off the 5th inning

Lefty Specialist wrote: Switched to ESPN just in time to see what happens when your pitcher actually gets a bunt down properly. Yup. Wheeler can't get one down with two on, but Roark gets one down with two strikes and it leads to a run. Funny how that happens. And then Duda not cutting off Granderson's throw allows Span to take 2nd and then he comes home on Werth's hit. Like I said before: Good at scoring in the 1st, not good at just about everything else.

This game, she's a'not looking like a quick one.

The only thing the new rule says is that: - if the catcher does NOT have the ball then he can't be in the baseline (cuz, if so, the runner will be called safe anyway) - and that if the catcher is NOT blocking the plate then the runner can't hit him (cuz, if so, he's going to be called out anyway) If Tejada is somehow confused by the rule then he has no one to blame but himself.

The 2014 Mets: We're Good at 1st Inning Runs (just not so good at the rest of the game)

Tanner Roark has made 14 appearances and 5 starts in MLB including a September 12th start against the Mets (and Aaron Freaking Harang) - holding the boys to 2 runs on 6 hits over 6. Short career numbers to date: 1.51 ERA, 0.91 WHiP He won the 5th starter spot over Ross Detwiler in Spring Training.

I mean I know this stuff happens occasionally, but it's often because the movie is bad and the actor wants to disassociate himself from it. F. Murray Abraham, IIRC, refused to let his name show on the credits for BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES but that one is entirely understandable. In this case though it wasn't like the movie was bad or that the part was so tiny as to not merit inclusion. The only other thing I can think of is that DeNiro is too big to get what would have to amount to like 8th billing so he figures no mention is better than that. But it was weird finally getting around to seeing a much talked-about movie some five months after it was released and being surprised halfway through to learn that Robert Freaking DeNiro was even in it! I wouldn't have thought that kind of surprise was possible.

Pirates eventually win the game in the 16th. Naturally those two have a noon start today. Looking through the box score of that one I see this interesting play from the 13th inning: - Pirates load the bases in bottom 13 w/no outs [1B, HBP, Sac Bunt which failed to get anyone out] - next batter, Clint Barmes, hits into a [u:34759erz]7-2-3 DP[/u:34759erz]!! something which I'm going to assume was one of those five infielder deals worked to perfection - with 2nd & 3rd Jody Mercer was IW'd to re-load the bases and get to Tabata (a bit strange seems to me) but Tabata grounded out to extend the game. a Tony Sanchez PH single in the 16th eventually won it Reds & Cards played their second consecutive 1-0 game. This time it was the Reds winning on a walk-off single in the 9th. Lots of walk-offs so far this young season and a tough week for closers.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: We're actually at 974; you forgot Bartolo Colon. D'oh Next Thursday then. #972 - Bartolo Colon #973 - Chris Young #974 - Kyle Farnsworth

972 = Chris Young (or at least I heard rumors of him being in the game. I don't think I actually witnessed it) 973 = Kyle Farnsworth I predict we get to 1,000 by next Friday.

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metirish wrote: Christ, this team sucks Only the pitching, hitting, and defense.

I'm with those who thought the movie to be fun and with some good performances but not all that deep. You can barely can figure out who's scamming who much less why and so I didn't find myself caring all that much how things turned out. Now for the real question: Why was Robert DeNiro's part in this not only uncredited but also unmentioned in all (at least all that I've heard) the discussion of this much talked-about film?

metirish wrote: So did the new rules influence Tejada on that non play at the plate? They shouldn't have. You're still allowed to hit the catcher if he's in the line and has the ball; you just can't go out of your way to hit him if he doesn't. and keith is correct, no wheels. Ruben does lack in the wheels department.

Colon was getting away with far too many loud outs early on to think that it wasn't going to come back and bite him sooner or later.

1-0 Braves final. Only the Braves can throw Aaron Harang on their roster at the last moment, give him the #3 slot, and then get seven innings of 1-hit ball out of him right out of the gate. Braves batters, meanwhile, totaled just 6 runs on 12 hits in their last two games but 5 of those hits were HRs. Same shit, different year

metsmarathon wrote: y'know, it occurred to me that if this spate of pre- and early-season elbow injuries had happened in a WBC year, the entire world of baseball would explode with the fury of a thousand supernovae. but since its not a WBC year, there's a collective whimper, a sigh, a "whaddayagonnado", and we all go on with our lives. That's what happens when folks pre-reach their conclusions and then go hunting for evidence that they think backs it up.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, agreeing as we seem to that ESPN has failed to deliver baseball news and programming in a manner and volume commensurate with their market position, our only conflict here seems to be whether to drive them, through shaming, toward their own redemption, or to ignore them entirely, and so further empower their competitors who better fulfill our baseball-loving mandate. Oh I'm convinced that ignoring is the only choice. It's not like they're unaware that they're known as the all football all the time network, or that they were mocked for diving headlong into Tebow a couple years back (and now Manzell) so attempting to shame them seems far beyond even possible. And while it's not like anyone is going to knock ESPN off their perch anytime soon, nor do I have much faith that the quality is going to be a whole lot better from the likes of FOX & NBC now that they've got full-time sports networks, just the fact that there's now actual competition for shelf-space with the big dog at least means alternatives for those tuning in for sports news or games.

Ceetar wrote: But what's wrong with the look-ins? MLB Network doesn't usually stick at a place for more than a half inning anyway, and then go back to scores around the league. Nothing wrong with it and a lot right with it. I go there often and that's where I eventually got the Yanqui hi-lights last night. It's just that at the moment I tuned in they were just getting into drop-ins for the early innings of the west coast games because they were expecting to be showing the game from Oakland and therefore, at that moment, weren't doing hi-lights of the early ones. So I kept flicking between them and ESPN News figuring that the latter show generally spins through more stories more quickly. After a while it became a source of fascination to me about how little baseball they were going to do despite it being day 2 of the season, day 1 for some of the teams, and with virtually nothing else going on at that moment. At one point they even had the Yanx/Astros next on the 'run-down' list of stories coming up ... before bumping it in order to get another one of their talking heads saying the same shit about the same shit. It was as if they resolved to talk baseball only after they exhausted everything else and couldn't possibly avoid it any longer.

Yeah, I probably should have checked FOX-1 but it didn't occur to me. They, at least, have a reason to acknowledge baseball and might actually hire some people who know or care whether the ball is wound with yarn or stuffed with feathers. Not that I hold out any great hope for a nightly show full of wise-cracking jocks-sniffers from a network diving headlong into human cock-fighting, but just the fact that an alternative exists to the Bristol Clown College (as Raissman calls the 'Worldwide Leader) is a start.

Lefty Specialist wrote: What would be funnier is him hitting .180 with no power and striking out in every crucial situation, but the Yanks being unwilling to sit him down for the good of the team because he's Derek F'n Jeter, and he's got to get a fruit basket and a Winnebago from every team they visit. Oh sure. But there's also something about THE YEAR OF JETER getting transformed into THE MINUTE OF JETER via the very 1st AB (first pitch?) of the season that's almost too delicious to even contemplate. One wonders how many mediots would immediately declare the entire 2014 baseball season not worth watching once that happened. Of course he might also try to pull a Mariano and change up his retirement plan by a year, but there's a difference here: unlike Rivera, I don't think the Yanx would offer Jeter a contract for 2015. That I think, as much as the stated 'I want to do other things' reason, is why he decided that this will be his final season. Side note: Watching Jose Altuve smack two hits off CC Sabathia--who I think lost the equivalent of Jose Altuve during the off-season--was kind of comical.

Gee - 2.0 Valverde - 1.5 Brown - 2.0 Wright - 2.0 Lagares - 1.5

I never root for injuries, but ya gotta admit that there'd be a certain amount of hilarity to the situation if Jeter's hand had been broken when he got plunked in his first AB last night and had to miss like four months or something.

Even at its best, ESPN on TV is a terrible place to get scores. Because it's linear, you often have to spend ten minutes looking at games you don't give a damn about until they find ones you do. Go to the website. I haven't watched ESPN for years, except if there's a Sunday Nite game on, or you know, a Nascar race or something. I sometimes watch the MLB channel, tho if I'm looking for scores or news in general it's this Internet thing. I don't generally turn to ESPN either, but in this case I got home after the 7:00 games were over and as the 8:00 ones were just about ending and wanted to check up on those while MLBN was in the midst of dropping in on the early innings of the west coast games because of the Oakland rainout. And it wasn't just to get scores, hell I can get those anywhere and already knew some of them, but I wanted my share of nightly baseball porn SEEING the Yanx & Sabathia get knocked around by a team that racked up 320 losses of the last three seasons. Plus there were other games to check up on too. But with NINE baseball games on the slate last night the only one they even acknowledged in over a half-hour of watching was Dodgers/Padres. The rest was all Tiger (a legit story but a case here of the usual ESPN star-overkill syndrome), NCAA hoops (games NOT being played for five days but I think they were reporting on what each of the coaches had for lunch), women's NCAA hoops (no one cares even though I realize they have to pretend to), NIT games (schools with teams in the NIT don't care about the NIT), and the latest borderline felon choosing a new football team (and how that'll affect the situation in Crimea). They eventually stuffed the remaining game hi-lights into a 90 second or so package at about 2 minutes of 11, but by that time I had been home about 45 minutes and had already unloaded my frustrations on you guys. I had long since accepted that the individuals employed by ESPN are either indifferent to or openly contemptuous of baseball. But I figured the part of their programming day that allegedly deals with news (this was ESPN News I was watching) was at least going to pretend that the season had already started and was going on, y'know, as they were broadcasting. Apparently now that bird has flown too.