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  1. Frayed Knot
    I never saw E&tC so I've got no basis for comparison.
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    Harvey - 4.7 Burke - 0.2 Parnell - 0.6 Wright - 2.2 Murphy - 1.5 Ankiel - 0.4 Byrd - 0.4
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    Niese - 3.6 Lyon - 0.1 Parnell - 0.4 Murphy - 3.2 Wright - 2.2 Duda - 0.5
  4. Frayed Knot
    A little side-note to watch as the season progresses: through the (approximate) quarter pole of this season, both the Astros and the Marlins are barely keeping their heads above the 'magical' .250 winning pct mark. Both lost last night and clock in this morning at an identical 11-31 (.261) Last night Houston has a 4-1 lead in Pittsburgh, but 1 Pirate run in the 6th then 2 in the 8th means tied heading to 9 Top 9: Astros get a one-out base-runner ... except that he's promptly picked-off Bottom 8: Pirates load the bases with one out [single, GO, single, E-1]. Houston pitcher Edgar Gonzalez K's Neil Walker for the 2nd out then gets Russell Martin to pop to short RF and we're going to extra-innings ... except that the 2B & RF collide and the ball falls to the ground. Game over. THAT'S what happens to teams who threaten 120 loss seasons.
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    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It was okay. I'm kind of disappointed because I wanted to like it more, but it was really kind of dull where it ought to have been kind of exciting. The soundtrack was great. The movie could have ended when they drove away from Jersey, the whole ending, and sister-narrator conceit, and the Stones-on-the-train, were all probably unnecessary. Yeah, that's pretty much where I'm at too, expecting a bit more from the Sopranos trio of Chase, Gandolfini, & Van Zandt. A bit choppy and, at times, heavy-handed with the direction; a bit too obvious at others with the stereotypes (I hate that my dad's an ad exec so I'm going to run off to Greenwhich Village cuz that's where it's at).
  6. Frayed Knot
    Beer for Burke!
  7. Frayed Knot
    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Now with 2 outs it will be Burke v Castro Kind of makes you wish we had a reliever named Kennedy.
  8. Frayed Knot
    If Buck had his mouth open that throw would have gone right down his throat.
  9. Frayed Knot
    The BYRD is the WORD!!!!
  10. Frayed Knot
    Is there ANYONE here who feels better with Rice in to face the LHB than they would be with Harvey still chucking?
  11. Frayed Knot
    "... alert us to the impending war on subtlety." That's a great line.
  12. Frayed Knot
    metirish wrote: Love the Burnitz picture it's his golf pose I suspect that Jeromy's golf swing and baseball swing were pretty much indistinguishable. Grip it and rip it!
  13. Frayed Knot
    Lyon - 0.25 Burke - 0.25 Byrd - 2.5 Murphy - 1.1 Wright - 0.9 Buck - 1.0
  14. Frayed Knot
    Marcum - 3.5 Ankiel - 2.5 Buck - 0.5 Murphy - 0.5
  15. Frayed Knot
    ... Three chances to hear about ivy, about Ernie, about billy goats and Steve Bartman, about how hard it is to play day games, how great it is to have dinner at a reasonable hour. Gary, yesterday, threw out the line that the most dangerous scheduling in baseball is a day game following a day game in Chicago. And this weekend the Mets will be put in such peril twice.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Washington Post columnist Tom Boswell talks about Harper today and his penchant for running into walls and brings up Pete Reiser. In 1941, Reiser hit 70 XBHs, led the league in runs scored, doubles, triples, BA, SLG, OPS, OPS+, TB, and just for good measure, HBP while finishing 2nd in MVP (to teammate Dolph Camilli). He was 22 years old. Then came the injuries, many of them as a result of running into walls. Now you could also write off the fact that he never nearly matched that '41 season or again led the league in anything (except for SB twice including one season where he sole home seven times) on later losing three seasons to WWII or on that one season being a fluke. But there was also the problem where--between minor league ball, army ball, and major league ball--he was carried off the field 11 times, nine of them not regaining consciousness until he was in the clubhouse or a hospital. He had just four full seasons in the majors, his last one at age 28. He was finished even as a part-timer by 33 and was dead by age 62.
  17. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: That one that popped out of his glove the first game, I give him a pass on. But still, it was a poor read/break on the ball in the first place which caused him to need to dive. Similar to today.
  18. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: Terry sez Baxter > Valdy on the corner Lagares > Ankiel in center Ankiel looked great going back on a ball today. Thing wound up near the track and was slicing away from him as it did but he not only caught up with it (and caught it) but did so over his shoulder and seemingly with no effort at all. On the other hand he's already misjudged two balls in front of him in just a few games.
  19. Frayed Knot
    Encouraging note of the day: No closer attempting a 1-inning/3-run save has failed to convert this season. They haven't always been perfect or even pretty, but 68 times in 68 chances the lead has held. And for those of you who think I may be "jinxing" Parnell here, hey, I'm just here to inform.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Cardinal announcers are totally drooling over Murphy. When the team has 15 hits in the series and Murphy has 14 of them (that may be a bit off but it's close) it's hard no to.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Well, I don't know if Niese is "fixed" but he's tossing a helluva game and deserves to have a shut-out to this point.
  22. Frayed Knot
    I REALLLLLLLY hope we don't regret the missed opportunities in that inning.
  23. Frayed Knot
    HahnSolo wrote: The Bartman 30 for 30 was one of their best. Yeah, in the original '30/30' series starting back in '09 there was actually a decent variety of films which included several w/baseball themes [bartman; Fernando-mania; Red Sox comeback]. But now that they're tacking on to those the newer stuff is all hoops & gridiron -- IOW, essentially just run of the mill ESPN programming..
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    Ankiel makes what looks to be the 19th bad base-running decision of the series but gets away with it as the 3B ump incorrectly rules it touched by a fan down the LF line therefore a GR 2B
  25. Frayed Knot
    Except that it's gotten to the point where it seems like one of us would look better up there.
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