Comments on: Woo Felix Woo!

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:30:04 +0000

See, that’s why everyone thinks Ibanez is fast: they point the pitching radar at him and he’s doing 4-5mph when he’s just standing in the outfield.

(Or maybe Moyer left his metric radar behind. Would be a nice rehab gift for Bedard. Oh la la).

Actually, I think it’s the radar gun the State Patrol uses on I-90 out by North Bend.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:12:49 +0000

I’m waiting for Felix’s apotheosis, which will occur in the course of a 54-pitch perfect game, featuring zero strikeouts, just 27 miserable ground ball dribblers to third base off of that crazy curveball. Whap whap whap. I think he could do it.

By: joser

joser — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:07:58 +0000

See, that’s why everyone thinks Ibanez is fast: they point the pitching radar at him and he’s doing 4-5mph when he’s just standing in the outfield.

(Or maybe Moyer left his metric radar behind. Would be a nice rehab gift for Bedard. Oh la la).

By: smb

smb — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:02:57 +0000

When I was a rookie “Domer” for the team, I sometimes ran the speedpitch machine. Yeah…not accurate. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Safeco ones aren’t calibrated either.

By: Mike Snow

Mike Snow — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:39:58 +0000

That’s what they said, at least. (There’s a footnote at the end of the paragraph that gives you the source for the information.) As with any radar gun in baseball, who knows? I’ve noticed that the readings they put up on the Safeco scoreboard can be a couple MPH higher than what shows up on mlb.com’s Gameday.

By: jyeh3112

jyeh3112 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:27:56 +0000

“at age 14 in a tournament near Maracaibo, Venezuela. Fuenmayor recommended Hernández to fellow scouts Pedro Avila and Emilio Carrasquel, who were impressed with the youngster who could already throw 94 mph.”

really??? is that even possible??

By: smb

smb — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:22:20 +0000

Wow, Mike, very impressive! I’m not a wiki-wonk so I didn’t want to speculate further, but it was clear you put a lot of work into it. Thanks for the tip about the King Felix pipe…how cool! Keep up the good work!

By: Mike Snow

Mike Snow — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:17:30 +0000

Hard to tell…a Michael Snow has the majority of the edits, but that doesn’t prove he wrote that part, and I don’t see any recognizable USSM usernames among the contribs. If you know how to read Wikipedia "diffs" you can see that I did add the nickname to the article. The bulk of the text is my writing, certainly. My favorite contribution, though, is not actually visible there - it's this: Type "King Felix" into Wikipedia's search box, click "Go" and it takes you straight to the article. (Fortunately, there are no historical kings named Felix or it would have to be disambiguated.)

By: joser

joser — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:03:16 +0000

No, the most epic thing regarding USSM is that Dave's pitching analysis got handed to Felix and had some effect. In, you know, real life. In comparison to that, Wikipedia is very small potatoes indeed.

By: jspektor

jspektor — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:49:59 +0000

Either way, the fact that USSM is credited with coming up with the nickname King Felix is probably one of the most EPIC things I have heard in a while.

Good work!