M’s play none today
DMZ · April 8, 2007 at 9:15 am · Filed Under Mariners
Double-header’s canceled. In the Times blog, Geoff Baker goes off on this ridiculousness.
Most interesting pitching matchup today might be Johan Santana vs John Danks. There’s also the ex-Philly reunion of Schilling and Padilla… man, I wanted my two M’s games today.
…walks the second hitter.
this is fun
…third hitter bunts for a base hit. Bases loaded, no outs.
Pineiro yanked after loading the bases without an out. I get the feeling that will happen a lot this year.
48… not Joel, at this rate!
…Joel gets yanked. He is responsible for three runners. Hopefully they all score.
Watch Papelbon’s arm fall off.
nevermind I guess we’ll have to wait for that.
The Greek God of Missed Groundballs.
this should help Pineiro’s ERA continue it’s trend of rising one run every year since his rookie year.
Interesting “quote” Morgan relayed from Francona about how he might consider using Papelbon in a dicey 8th and someone else to finish the 9th.
Of course using Pineiro at all should be a black mark, anyway.
you can’t just pay someone 4 mil and not throw them into high leverage situations.
Imagine if Boston hadn’t traded Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli…
Pineiro gives up one run while getting no outs. For those of you keeping track, that’s an ERA of infinity for today and an ERA of 7.71 this season.
what’s his ERA+ for today?
If Texas ties or takes the lead, I hope Schilling beats the snot out of Joel in the locker room. Or maybe just slaps him all around the clubhouse.
Wow, Miller pronounced Otsuka’s last name right.
If Texas ties or takes the lead, I hope Schilling beats the snot out of Joel in the locker room. Or maybe just slaps him all around the clubhouse.
What if the Sox win? Are you saying he should leave Joel alone, or exact another form of punishment entirely (water torture, the rack, Babylon 5 reruns, etc.)?
Lock him in a dark closet with Sanjaya Malakar.
Lock him in a dark closet with Sanjaya Malakar.
Dibs on his sister.
huh?
back long ago when the snows first came (friday?) there was an ESPN radio discussion about rigging the schedule to favor domes and warm climates at the start of the year, and when asked if the northern cities would object to losing the home games at the start of the year, the commentator opined they’d rather get the game actually played …
oh, and Drayer put her 2 cents in today, plus some snow fun notes
Baker has some updates on his blog, including one posted about an hour ago, where he opines there may ne no games tomorrow as well …
Shilling’s line – 7.0 IP, 4 hits, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6K, for +0.353 Win Probability Added. Shiny.
Pineiro comes in for the 8th, goes 0.0 IP, 1 hit, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, for… -0.353 WPA.
I worried a lot when the Red Sox signed Allard Baird to be a scout for them, and I worried more when they signed Pineiro on Baird’s say-so. Hopefully Epstein will take this is a lesson that Baird was not an innocent victim of circumstance in KC.
Papelbon gets +0.537 WPA for his work in cleaning up Pineiro’s mess and then going on to beat up the Rangers in the 9th. I hear the kid’s pretty good.
70: I may not be recalling this correctly, but I believe that a lich is a ghost.
#74– a ha. not a typo then.
“Lich – in modern fantasy fiction, a lich (sometimes spelled liche, and pronounced ‘litch’) is a type of undead creature… Warcraft III – Lich is the least used Undead Hero, partly because it is difficult for beginners to use him properly.”
Finished reading The Cheater’s Guide on the way home today. Good stuff DMZ. Coincidence or not that after I get the book we get K-Rod doctoring balls and Hargrove delaying the game to scratch a loss off the books?
Bribery and blackmail. Not in that order.
If you want to do me a favor, drop a review on Amazon or BN or wherever — reviews help sales. And I really need sales.
I read it on the bus. Does that count as advertising?
OKAY, OKAY, I’ll work on a review soon.
Also, 76… maybe K-Rod and Grover read the book when it came out and got some ideas ;P
DMZ-
Just wanted to say that I saw your book at Barnes and Noble in Reno(I also bought it while I was there), it was displayed on a main table with other baseball books. I’m impressed, you’ve hit the big time!:)
Next hurdle: pronouncing Okajima right.
You know, I’ve heard every organization has a kid like Papelbon. There’s really nothing special about him.
Liches in modern parlance are almost always corporal undead.
But by their nature, liches are highly intelligent and have a highly developed ability to manipulate necromantic (and sometimes other forms of) magic. There’s really no such thing as a ‘typical’ lich; they are all individuals with their own quirks. So I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are non-corporal liches running… ok, floating around somewhere.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think that Peter Gammons is a lich. Roger Clemens might be, though.
Just in case anyone is interested, I saw R. Soriano’s velocity didn’t seem to be an issue on Saturday… he gassed as high as 98 mph while throwing easy at 94-95 mph. His off speed stuff was around 80 mph… It was cold and he mercilessly pounded his heat inside to guys most of whom looked like they wanted no part of it.
I kinda miss him…
Clemens can’t be a lich; if anything, he’s a vampire. He exists by sucking the life out of other pitchers. He might also be a mummy, as he apparently covers almost his entire body with bandaging.
Hargrove delaying the game to avert a loss (See # 76)
Regardless of the motivation, it was quite dangerous out there, and that game should never have been started.
Things have come to a pretty pass when “getting in the game” takes precedence over the players’ safety.