Frayed Knot

Suddenly a pair of quick half-innings. This long day just might end before midnight local time after all.

MFS62 wrote: Carl Furillo was interviewed by Steve Sommers on WFAN last night. Erskine. A conversation with Furillo at this point would be, as Major Strasser once said about one with Ugarte (Peter Lorre), a trifle one-sided.

MFS62 wrote: Predicting pitchers duels. You don't score too much with frozen balls. I believe the 'That's what she said' line here is well enough implied and therefore unnecessary to even type.

Marlins are 2-11 on the so-far young season and have scored a total of 23 runs over those 13 games (1.77/per). They're hitting a collective .203/.274/.262 The Dodgers are the only other team in the NL that's even below 3.0 R/G at this point Seven of their runs (or just over 30%) came in one game - the one where they did their damage off of Hefner, Burke, Rice & Hawkins - and even then only three of the seven were earned. Every other game for them has been 3 runs scored or under: 3 runs exactly = 3 times; 2 runs = twice; 1 run only = thrice; and they've been shut-out 4 times On the positive side, their runs against average of 3.83/game had been about 1/3 run better than the league average ... until, that is, the Nats pounded them for a ten-spot last night. Now they're right around the middle of the pack on that side of the ledger.

Starting that first game ever for the Roxx: David Nied. Not much of a career, that guy. No, but they did have high hopes for him at the time as he was the consensus best talent available in that year's expansion draft and therefore the #1 overall pick (I guess the Roxx won the coin-flip). Taken off the Braves roster just as they were starting to get the rep as developers of pitchers, he had had a solid four year trip through the minor leagues prior to making his debut for Atlanta in late 1992 going 3-0 in six games (2 starts) while giving up only 3 runs in 23 innings. Those would be his only non-Colorado ML innings. He's the only name I remember from that draft because he had been so highly touted leading up to it.

John Buck will set a one-day RBI mark with like 27

Ceetar wrote: These teams should probably make most early April games during the day just for that reason. Don't the Rangers play most of their Sunday games at night for opposite reasons? It used to be (like a few decades ago) that the Red Sox didn't schedule night games until after May 1st. Then, at some point, MLB passed some rule requiring a certain amount of night games during the week, a rule which seemed designed specifically to force the BoSox out of their all-April day-game habit (one which really only involved maybe ten dates at most what with the later start to the seasons in yesteryear as well as having half your games on the road). Anyway, Boston counteracted that by going with the unique start time of 6:05 for the first month (in an era when night games typically didn't start until 8 PM) arguing that 6 PM was when 'night' started. The problem, of course, is TV. SNY, YES, and all their nationwide counterparts know they'll get more eyeballs for night games than for day and are probably scheming for ways to do away with those pesky afternoon affairs on 'get-away' days. Most teams have even taken to night games on Saturdays even in April and even in northern cities; Philly for years has scheduled their first Saturday game at night. The Yankees are the only team I know of that strictly avoids Saturday night games (unless forced into it by FOX). The Mets at least wait until the warmer weather and still retain a good amount of day contests.

Harvey - 4.8 Wright - 0.8 Murphy - 1.4 Byrd - 1.2 Turner - 1.3 Tejada - 0.5

Atchison - 0.3 Murphy - 2.4 Wright - 2.2 Buck - 1.9 Byrd - 1.2 Tejada - 1.0 Valdespin - 1.0

Decent grade from me as well, mainly for pulling off the unlikely young/old romance pairing with believability. Some of the other sub-plots rang less authentic but weren't terrible. Props to Elizabeth Olsen as the college chick, both for being a good actress and for not adopting the heroin chic look of her sisters; to perennial pro Richard Jenkins as the main character's ex-professor/mentor; and a decent job as well from TV star boy (Josh Radnor from 'How I Met Your Mother') for tackling the writer/director/actor trifecta. Not a great flick, but solid.

That's what the fans in Denver are going to have lots of this week: frozen heineys

The hot start John Buck is off to got me to wondering about what kind of standards he's shooting for as far as past great months go. Maybe Grimm and his magic database can come up with a list (sorted say by OPS) of past top calendar months in NYM history. Or, in the meantime, we can come up with our own just via memory. For the record, Buck to date: .317/.318/.780 in 44 PAs (just 1 walk and 2 SFs explain the miniscule BA/OBA gap) w/a league-tied or leading 6 HRs & 19 RBIs Others that popped into my head: - Benny Agbayani, May 1999: .442/.491/.904 on 13 singles, 2 doubles, 2 triples & 6 HRs in 52 ABs although, oddly, just 10 RBIs This one wasn't actually as good as I remembered mainly because he was called up until May 12. If you want to cite the first month of his season as running through early June then he kicked in 4 more HRs and 7 more RBIs and was still hitting .400, although I'm trying to keep this to just calendar months - Gary Carter, Sept '85: .320/.403/.648 w/13 HRs and 36 RBIs for the month (this includes 4 reg season games in October although that added no HRs and just 2 RBIs) In a month where every game was HUGE, Carter started things off with 5 HRs in 2 days on the 3rd & 4th in San Diego and played in every game that month+ except for half of a DH. At one point he played 14, 13, and 10 innings in a five day stretch plus three other extra-inning games later on. - Keith Hernandez, July '85: .392/.475/.647 Scored 23 runs and knocked in 29 Coming off maybe the worst month [.220/.298/.290] at least of the established portion of his career, his diary-styled book of that season chronicled that 60-day roller coaster in detail Others??

Well at least they won't have to play in bad weather or anything. Make-up sked for Aug 19th -- now on to the warmth of Denver, Colorado

I have nothing against platooning; Baxter for Duda made absolute sense in this game for instance. But having already burned Baxter and then using Valdespin for a PH, it didn't make sense to pull Byrd and then use your last remaining OF in Nieuwenhuis (remember that emergency OF Turner was already in a DH). If Terry believes that Nieuwenhuis's defense is that much better than Cowgill and Valdy (questionable) then use him to PH, and if Terry thinks Valdespin was that much more likely to get in the 5th run than Nieuwenhuis then he can survive one inning with him in CF. And remember that this all started because he wanted to go lefty/righty for Cowgill (it's not like we were PH-ing for the pitcher here) so he wound up using three different CFs to cover the final four outs of the game. IOW, he was over-doing it there at the end IMO

What I said last Monday bears repeating here: "Folks, we got ourselves one seriously good pitcher on our hands here". Terry PH-ing with Valdy and then putting Nieuwenhuis in for CF defense seemed like a waste of a player who maybe, just maybe, would be needed later. Either PH with Nieuwy or leave Speen in the play CF.

G-Fafif wrote: Valdespin gives somebody the stinkeye, sits with his .400 average. No mystery, this Scott (shine on you crazy) Diamond guy going for the Twins is a Lefty. IOW, just Terry being Terry.

Ceetar wrote: When did Reyes start sliding feet first though? Sometimes it's probably better to just do what comes naturally. What it looked like is that he didn't think he was going to need to slide at all. Then, after he realized that he should, he did so late and awkwardly.

Edgy MD wrote: Don't tell Keith, but there's a woman in the Dodger dugout. She's their head trainer.

Ceetar wrote: the 2006 was game 2 of a doubleheader. That must've been Pelfrey's debut right? Yup.

So it seems that MLB, frustrated in attempts to obtain documents from the BioGenesis Clinic either through the Miami paper that first reported them or through legal action, is going to route of purchasing them from unnamed former employees. One reason they want to get their hands on them is that there are rumors of one or more of the players named in those papers trying to purchase them first so as to keep his name out of any further action. Reports surfaced last night with the name of the player linked to trying, via an intermediary, to make such a purchase and, to the surprise of no one, that player is Alex Rodriguez http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/sports/baseball/baseball-believes-alex-rodriguez-bought-clinic-documents.html?hp&_r=0

I predict a song sung blue by the Twins pitcher.

Undefeated in snowstorms!!!

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Not to mention that if this were YSIII there'd be about [crossout]seven[/crossout] [crossout]Eight[/crossout] [crossout]Nine[/crossout] Ten HRs to RF already tonight. Updated to include latest half-inning. Re-updated. Re-re-updated.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Not to mention that if this were YSIII there'd be about [crossout]seven[/crossout] [crossout]Eight[/crossout] Nine HRs to RF already tonight. Updated to include latest half-inning. Re-updated.

Frayed Knot wrote: Not to mention that if this were YSIII there'd be about [crossout]seven[/crossout] Eight HRs to RF already tonight. Updated to include latest half-inning.