Frayed Knot

Not going to win a lot of games while amassing just three hits.

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Leadoff walk for Cubs, followed by a K Runner on 1st, one out, Ben Zobrist up. Zobrist lines out to RF Javy Baez is their last hope Baez K's ... Cubs lose, THAAAAAA Cubs lose!! Now we need to un-lose this one or none of this matters.

Frayed Knot wrote: Leadoff walk for Cubs, followed by a K Runner on 1st, one out, Ben Zobrist up. Zobrist lines out to RF Javy Baez is their last hope

Leadoff walk for Cubs, followed by a K Runner on 1st, one out, Ben Zobrist up.

Edgy MD wrote: What happened to Nimmo? JD PH'd for him vs the Reds' only lefty reliever. Flied out to the wall.

So I've had this pet peeve all season long but I've been keeping my mouth shut about it -- until now! Could youse IGT starters post the time of the start of the game going forward in what little remains of this season? Thanks. Jeez, I thought this was a night time start. Ok, now that we know our plan for not announcing start times has served its purpose, this is the point where we intentionally start posting incorrect times just to screw BatMags up. I did post this on the secret part of the forum where he can't read it, right?

Edgy MD wrote: Look for 2011 Met Miguel Batista to get the permanent job. Howie Rose mentioned (former NYM) Moises Alou as part of the conversation. Said he's also been talked about as a future GM somewhere. I don't recall hearing his name in the recent past when jobs have come up.

Kimbrel has been REALLY bad for the Cubs this year. Back to back HRs (on back to back pitches) to the Cards to start the 9th (and then a walk) 9-8 Cards, still batting (in a game that's already well over 4 hours old btw) Finally a caught stealing bails him out. Cubs coming up for their half of the 9th

That's four K's (two pair of two) in two different RiSP situations with the guys you wanted up: -- Nimmo & McNeil w/2nd & 3rd/one-out; -- then McNeil & Alonso w/sacks loaded/one-out Coulda busted the game wide open in either/or

Let's beat these commie bastids!! https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQlDK2r-x29H-faYWO4hd5IFVnIU0vDMmCKFWwGEck5dl2hL_E5> K. Marx - P F. Engels - C V. Lenin - 1B J. Stalin - 2B F. Castro - SS L. Trotsky - 3B G. Hall - LF E. Debs - CF A. Hiss - RF

I always found it funny that RBIs were long treated as paramount among stats while runs scored went virtually ignored even as it was essentially just the other half of the same coin. It was as if (and some DID explain it this way, in various forms anyway) RBIs were something a player did at the right time (Clutchness!!) while runs scored was more a passive thing which happened to you. iow, except for hitting a HR, you couldn't have scored unless someone did the hard part (drove you in). Yet the same logic applies where, again except for HRs, you get no Ribbies unless some guy(s) was nice enough to get on base ahead of you. A classic example comes from the mid-80s Yanx: Does Mattingly have all those RBIs without Rickey on base alla time in front of him, or did Rickey rack up all those runs scored as a benefit of hitting in front of Donnie Baseball? The answer is, of course: Yes! Still, it was decades later when Francesa, while touting Hidecki Matsui as not only a good hitter but also a 'clutch' one, naturally cited Godzilla's RBI numbers as proof. Left unmentioned was that, while Matsui was obviously a terrific hitter, the fact that, during his first three seasons over on this side of the Pacific, he ranked 1st, 2nd, and then 1st again in the number of runners on base when he stepped up to the plate. Ya think that MIGHT have had something to do with his perceived clutchability factor?

=Fman99 post_id=22441 time=1569030264 user_id=86] Diaz? CHRIST. ALL. MIGHTY.

Cecil Fielder was said to have held the major league record for having his back pockets further apart than any other player.

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Kwik Kwiz: Aside from both playing ML baseball in Ohio, what's the connection between Cincy LF/leadoff hitter Josh VanMeter and HoF pitcher Bob Feller? I don't know where Josh is from but Bob was from Van Meter, Iowa. Still is, I guess. Ding Ding!! Van Meter/VanMeter is the connection.

Kwik Kwiz: Aside from both playing ML baseball in Ohio, what's the connection between Cincy LF/leadoff hitter Josh VanMeter and HoF pitcher Bob Feller?

And in the top of the 8th, the Cards get 2nd & 3rd w/one out ... and they don't score. btw, 2-1 game, not yet into the bottom of the 8th, and already well over 3 hours.

Maybe the team with the biggest say in the NL WC race is ... the Cleveland Indians. They'll be home to Philly starting tonight for a three game set. Then they'll go on the road for the remainder, starting with three at the ChiSox followed by three at Washington. And, of course, Cleveland needs these games as much as the Natiphillies do. They currently sit tied with Tampa for the #2 WC slot, 2.0 games behind Oakland

Cubs get 1st & 2nd/none-out in their half of the 7th ... don't score. btw, the Cubs have a Wick and a Wieck (apparently also pronounced WICK) in their relief corps, and both have pitched in this game. Does that mean they've been ... Wait for it! ... burning the candle at both ends today? Wieck is a lefty (which is I guess how they tell them apart) and was originally drafted by the Mets (7th round - 2014)

Oddly, between Suarez & Aquino -- plus the rookie Senzel and Derek Dietrich -- this is the one year where he doesn't have to carry the load nearly as much. But if you're the Reds, you'd best be hoping that he's got more than ONE good season in him. And, yeah, if he got traded to the Yanx he'd have 45 HRs by mid-May, 8 or 9 via check swings.

Reds are 4th from the bottom this season at scoring runs but also 4th from the top at preventing them which, in that offensive environment, seems both tough to do and out of character per recent Cincy tradition (or even not-so-recent Cincy tradition - it wasn't the Big Red pitching machine after all). Their RS/RA (675/668) suggests they should be about .500 but are in fact not very close (72-81) so they're either being unlucky or something isn't clicking somewhere. They're .500 in September (9-9) but during a stretch where they almost exclusively played competitive teams: StL (1-1), PHI (2-2), ARZ (3-3), SEA (1-2) CHC (2-1) One of their big questions going forward is whether Joey Votto is becoming an old man real fast or if this is just a one (really, two) year dip. After OPS'ing right about 1000 (980) for the nine-year run from 2009 (his 2nd full season) thru 2017 where, at age 33 he led the league at 1032, he dropped to 837 last year and to 782 this season. And the main culprits are what they might have expected NOT to diminish with advanced age, his ability to get on base and, in this era, HR power. But his OBAs from 2017-19 have slipped from .454, .417, and then .360. And after 36 HRs in '17, he has just 27 combined in 2018-19 (12, 15). In THAT park and in THIS era while still playing virtually full time (right about 1,000 ABs), that's not a good sign. He turned 36 ten days ago and, you guessed it, they owe him more than $100 million dollars over the next 4-5 seasons (thru 2023 plus an option/buyout for '24). And while he's a good 1st baseman, he's still exclusively a 1st baseman in the non-DH (aka: proper rules) league. No one (aside from Tom Brady and Keith Richards) is immune from the age bug.

Edgy MD wrote: ... so he's already rotating toward the secondbaseman coming over to cover, so the ball richochets perfectly with the front plane of his body to the second baseman. That ball didn't even ricochet to the 2Bman as much as it ricocheted to the spot where the 2Bman was going to be anyway by the time the ball reached him. He (McMahon) not only didn't have to break stride in order to catch the rebound but he also didn't have to alter his path in order to continue towards the bag. There are trick-shot pool artists who don't get their angles that perfect.

If nothing else, we've chopped two games off the Nationals in under 24 hours.

We even manage to hit into GiDPs when the opposition botches the play AND makes a bad throw.

Reliever Joe Harvey comes in but turns into the Dark Nightmare for Rox fans.

Alonso is in the on-deck circle with an i-Pad checking out the incoming reliever. Not sure I like that.