Thank you to Gabe Kapler for confiscating Chris Young's compass, and congrats to Mat Gamel on his first Major League hit.
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Wow.
Did that suck.
FDR can suck it. - Jeff Sackmann
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Sep 7, 2008 3:37 PM CDT 0 recs
Matt Antonelli
The only Padre in the box score without a hit.
Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.
by TheJay on Sep 7, 2008 3:38 PM CDT 0 recs
Holy crap.
I missed the game, but just saw the play-by-play on ESPN Gamecast. That must have been infuriating to watch.
by andrew_p on Sep 7, 2008 3:41 PM CDT 0 recs
Nah
Game was over by the fifth inning, when I tuned in. By that point, it was just a matter of how historically bad the game was going to be.
by Cheeseandcorn on
Sep 7, 2008 3:45 PM CDT
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thank you
NFL for starting today and providing a worthy distraction
by molitorfan on
Sep 7, 2008 3:46 PM CDT
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not bad
get to root against the Phils and Bears and watch the season premiere of Entourage
by molitorfan on
Sep 7, 2008 3:47 PM CDT
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Go Mets.
But if your lose, please lose the next 10 games as well. It’s only the polite thing to do.
FDR can suck it. - Jeff Sackmann
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on
Sep 7, 2008 5:47 PM CDT
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And even if you win,
you have permission to lose your next 10 games!
by oconnobe on
Sep 7, 2008 6:22 PM CDT
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Ted Simmons on FSN
Telling Trenni how tough Chris Young is. Yep, with his 5 ERA.
We’ve got a offensive outage. Everyone is swinging for the fences, and the opposition knows it.
by heybatterbatter on Sep 7, 2008 3:47 PM CDT 0 recs
Kind of like an entire team of Rob Deers
Wait…I guess the plural of Deer is still Deer.
by Cheeseandcorn on
Sep 7, 2008 3:49 PM CDT
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He's hanging around Yost too much.
FDR can suck it. - Jeff Sackmann
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on
Sep 7, 2008 5:48 PM CDT
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talk radio predictable criticism
No Sunday lineup. No lefty platoons.
by ol Pete on Sep 7, 2008 3:52 PM CDT 0 recs
Ned just gave Trenni the "if you ever played"
What a dickmove. Not the greatest question, but hardly an out of bounds one.
Derailed
by Lake County on Sep 7, 2008 3:57 PM CDT 0 recs
Basically to the effect of
“does this frustration ever turn to anger?”
A bit silly, but I’m sure a lot of casual fans out there wonder just such a thing.
Derailed
by Lake County on
Sep 7, 2008 4:06 PM CDT
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About what exactly?
Ned mentioned that “if he catches it, etc” in the context of the big inning.
That’s all I heard. The man just can’t hit the softball questions at all…just recaps the game for us.
Derailed
by Lake County on
Sep 7, 2008 4:09 PM CDT
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The "if you ever played" line is the last bastion of the dumb jock who finds himself being questioned.
Ned just happens to be dumb and an a##hole simultaneously.
FDR can suck it. - Jeff Sackmann
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on
Sep 7, 2008 5:49 PM CDT
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I was at the game
& I’m pissed that Braun still hasn’t switched back to Go Getta
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 7, 2008 5:21 PM CDT 0 recs
Me Too!
This is exactly what happened to him the last time that he changed his song. As soon as he brought it back he was on again. Bring back the Go Getta Braunie!
by zsattler on
Sep 7, 2008 5:25 PM CDT
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I think that Rickie has the coolest batting music.
It builds my expectations up so high (making it so much worse when he pops up or strikes out). But I wish they would play it while he is running the bases after any homeruns he hits.
Wait, what?
by NoahJ on
Sep 7, 2008 7:19 PM CDT
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Rickie’s song is awful. If I had a choice, I’d go with the instrumental for Pharoahe Monche’s Simon Says
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 10:57 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 10:59 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:00 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:09 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:10 PM CDT
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This is the kind of shit I daydream about. I’m not kidding. I have tons of walk-up songs.
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:11 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:22 PM CDT
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Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:24 PM CDT
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Okay. I’m done.
Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.
I am anti-Suppan and pro-Durham.
by Dikembe Meiztombo on
Sep 7, 2008 11:26 PM CDT
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What is it now?
He had Superstar for a little while at the beginning of the year, and that was OK, but I don’t think that’s what he’s using now, is it? Go Getta is really signature, I can pick the first part of it on the radio and know that Braun is coming up if I’m not listening to closely.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
by jihad on
Sep 7, 2008 7:37 PM CDT
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Phillies already winning 1-0
Howard hit an RBI single. Come on, Johan.
BCB's "very own marginally deserving all-star!"
by battlekow on Sep 7, 2008 7:18 PM CDT 0 recs
Is Kapler criticizing small sample sizes?
“Baseball is not meant to be looked at in a nutshell, not meant to be looked at in a period of four, five [or] six games,” said Kapler. “It’s meant to be looked at over the long haul. That’s why we have batting averages. That’s why we have ERA. Statistics are special in baseball because they tell a story over a long period of time. Over a short period of time, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to analyze it.”
Whoooo! Now if he’d have subbed in OPS or EQA and FIP, we’d have our very own player sabermatrician!
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
by jihad on Sep 7, 2008 7:43 PM CDT 0 recs
few players think this way though
it’s really hard to differentiate “I suck” from “I’m just not seeing the ball right now” from “I’m just getting unlucky right now”. For better or worse, players are always making little adjustments.
And so many quotes and newspaper articles can’t be taken seriously. Twice after hot streaks from Prince, Haudricourt/Witrado have basically written the same article twice about how Prince had been pressing, but now he’s figured it out (implying that his recent hot streak meant Prince would return to 2007 form):
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=757620 (Haudricourt, Jun 2)
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=773505 (Witrado, July 16)
Clearly, there has been a difference between 2007 Prince and 2008 Prince, but no player ever says, " I’ve had a run of luck, but I’m swinging the bat the same as I was last month when I sucked, so I’ll probably go through another rough patch when I suck."
by keephopealive on
Sep 7, 2008 8:08 PM CDT
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5-2 Mets in the 6th
Looks like the dream scenario of today’s awful performance only costing the Brewers a half a game in the Wild Card standings might come true.
BCB's "very own marginally deserving all-star!"
by battlekow on Sep 7, 2008 9:04 PM CDT 0 recs
Disaster (mostly) averted

BCB's "very own marginally deserving all-star!"
by battlekow on
Sep 7, 2008 10:06 PM CDT
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Gamel first hit video
I see you uploaded it, but there seems to be a sound issue. It’s all there, but it skips about four seconds in the middle right when he gets the hit, you don’t hear the crack of the bat until he’s almost to second. That’s for me, anyway, but it did it both times I watched it. Thanks for uploading the video though, pretty sweet to have all that stuff archived in one place. I didn’t get to see it live.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
by jihad on Sep 7, 2008 9:23 PM CDT 0 recs
Huh, weird
It’s something about Facebook compressing the audio and video when I upload the files; the video plays too fast (remember Brett Lawrie’s Babe Ruth-double speed video?). It seems to work fine when I upload them to BCB’s Metacafe account, so maybe I’ll upload them there first, redownload the video from Metacafe in .flv format, and up THAT to Facebook. Kind of a pain in the ass.
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by battlekow on
Sep 7, 2008 9:50 PM CDT
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