Frayed Knot

Glad to have him on board. Now all I have to do is find out who Jamie Kennedy is.

Looking over Pesky's record: - he led the AL in both hits and sac hits as a 22 y/o rookie in 1942 while hitting .331/..375/.416 and was 3rd in MVP voting - then missed all of the next 3 seasons in the military - came back in 1946 to lead the AL in PA, AB, & hits and was 4th in MVP voting - he led the league in hits in his 3rd season as well - by 1951 at age 31 he had seven seasons played and was a career .315/.403/.396 hitter - Boston traded him during the 1952 season and he was pretty mediocre after that, drifting through 3-1/2 seasons with Detroit & Washington before being released by Baltimore just before opening day 1955 - he played all of 1955 at AAA Denver in the Yanqui system and briefly in '56 in the Detroit system (possibly as a player/mgr or player/coach) with Durham in Class B ball before retiring as a player I had never really looked at Pesky's record before. I knew of him as a long-time Boston icon and his rep as being a scrappy-type / no-power player as middle infielder tended to be described in that day. But he was a much better hitter than I imagined despite being robbed of three prime years and until falling off pretty quickly by his early 30s.

I always thought that the team from Scranton-Wilkes-Barre should be the Hyphens

Or ones who stole headlines from them: Dwight Gooden Darryl Strawberry Kevin Elster Rafael Santana Sid Fernandez

Edgy DC wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Edgin wasn't squeezed There are no excuses for this inning by anyone. Yes he was. That's not an excuse but a reality confronting a manager. If you feel different, that's fine, but spare me the "Yeah, and..." sarcasm. I didn't walk anybody and neither did you. Edgin threw 20 pitches and hit the strike zone (or got a swing) 9 times. In between getting two guys out (FO + K) he walked a guy on 4 pitches, walked a guy on 5 pitches, and missed the zone by 2-1/2 feet when his 0-1 pitch drilled Freddie Freeman up under the back of his neck. Even if you're arguing that that S/B ratio should have been - what, 11/9 rather than 9/11? - do you really think there was no justification in removing him and would have left him in to face, in all probability, RH-swinging PH David Ross (.273/.360/.473 -- and .306/.385/.510 vs LHP) with the bases loaded and that Terry did so only because the Closer Alarm Bell in his head went off?

Machado starts his ML career by going 6-for-16 including 1 double, 1 triple and 3 HRs Baltimore has slid 1/2 game behind the Rays in the AL East but still hold a 1/2 game lead for WC#2 over Oakland.

Niese - 4.7 Rauch - 0.4 Johnson - 0.3 Wright - 1.5 Valdespin - 1.5 Davis - 0.8 Tejada - 0.5 Baxter - 0.3

Read 'em and vote

From Sunday's eX-Files: eX-er Jose Reyes broke up eX-er Chris Capuano's no-hit bid with a single in the 7th inning.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Oh, good. Good. This IS good, right? Barely.

Edgin wasn't squeezed There are no excuses for this inning by anyone.

And all on ONE freakin' hit.

Now it's 20/80

I'd say we've got about a 50/50 shot at winning this game.

No reason to make them actually earn it or anything.

THROW STRIKES !!!!

Edgy DC wrote: Edgin getting seriously squeezed and bases are loaded. Technically a save situation, and so Terry goes to Frank Francisco, because it's the law. Yeah, and also because Edgin retired just 2 of the 5 batters he faced.

Hey, you know what would be a really good idea right about now? -- NOT bringing the tying run closer to the freakin' plate!!

... though I've doubted you and flayed you I'm glad that Terry chose to play you You're a better man than Sheets is Valdespin

Tejada - 1.1 Torres - 1.1 Wright - 0.5 Cedeno - 0.3 Acosta - 0.9 Rauch - 0.4 Francisco - 0.2

Thole, once again, never got a ball out of the infield -- 3 GOs (1 GiDP + twice 6-3) and a K

All right, I know Atlanta has like 18 hits at this point and we are earning every bit of this ass-kicking ... but, c;mon, have more than 4 or 5 of those balls been hit hard? Every ball they've hit hard has found a hole, and every ball they haven't hit hard has found a hole.

Harvey - 2.5 Parnell - 0.25 RRamirez - 0.25 Johnson - 0.5 Hairston - 0.5

Dickey - 5.0 Torres - 3.2 Thole - 1.3 Tejada - 0.25 Baxter - 0.25

It's depressing when you feel it's not a matter of IF the game gets out of reach but merely how it happens. The Braves have, what, 3 hits all game?, and yet we've never really been in the game. Might have something to do with the 47 ground balls Met bats have hit tonight.