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1. Craig Calcaterra Posted: February 27, 2008 at 03:29 PM (#2700935)That's awesome.
I don't get it. The White Sox were tied for 18th in the majors in sacrifice bunts last season -- they were 19th the year before. Why would they be drafting someone who likes to bunt?
We all know no Mets pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter in a real game, but what about in a split-squad four-inning spring training game?
Now that Kevin Mulvey is gone, I wholeheartedly endorse this POV.
Why would Wagner take exception to a 4th inning bunt?
No idea. Except I suppose if I'm Billy Wagner, maybe I think this college kid should want to take his cuts against me so he could tell his kids he once got a hit off Billy Wagner. What the hell is he doing bunting away the opportunity?
For one thing, you should throw out the NL teams from those lists.
For that matter, play to actually get people out in October.
Maybe he wanted to tell his kids that he got Billy Wagner suspended in a spring-training game for hitting him in the head with a pitch. That would be a more interesting anecdote.
Didn't work though.
Because that kid takes Spring Training seriously, in true White Sox fashion! Grrr!
Well, 16 of those were in teh NL. Those don't count. And teh White Sox live up there.
(someone should write down all these unwritten rules so I can keep them straight)
OK, fine. The Sox had 41 SH last year, tied with the Twins and Yankees for 2nd in the AL. Outside of 2 outliers, Rangers with 57 and A's with 18, every AL team was between 31 and 41. The Sox were about 8 over the median. Does one extra bunt every 20 games really mean anything?
I sincerely hope this never stops me from asking a question. It hasn't so far!
Not to me, but IIRC, over Guillen's tenure the ChiSox bunted more than most AL teams.
Look back a few seasons.
Wow, Ron Washington must have really suffered being an A's coach. Now he is unleashed!
I was just poking fun at KW's new seriousness about Spring Training, not their propensity for bunting. I weep for what I have wrought.
As for Billy Wagner, get real. You could use some practice fielding a bunt, too, old guy.
Ozzie says that kind of thing every year. I realize it's always funny to talk about the crazy brown guy (Red Sox fans get a lot of mileage out of it with Manny Ramirez), but you are (presumably) an adult, and not required to believe everything you hear.
Can't wait to see who he blames his first blown save of the season. A pool should be started.
Lloyd Carr
GO BUCKEYES!
1) The double he gave up?
2) The walk he issued?
3) The fact that the Mets didn't beat Michigan?
1) The double he gave up?
2) The walk he issued?
3) The fact that the Mets didn't beat Michigan?
I say none of the above. He should just freakin relax.
Shouldn't that read: (Forget) the Phillies?
what, he went to App State?
I played against Ferrum a couple years after he left and his retired number was hanging on the outfield wall.
So he was an early user?
sounds like you'd get rusty pretty quick there
No, he's a career-long National Leaguer.
Certainly, there'd be no worries about iron-poor blood.
...and we've come full circle.
Go * yourself.
GO BLUE!!!
Randolph is the ultimate killjoy, I really think he needs therapy to learn why he has the compulsion to take the joy out of baseball for everyone.
Just watch a Mets broadcast, no matter what is happening when the camera shows him he is almost always standing or sitting alone, looking either miserable or pissed off.
Luckily, you won't find more than about 30 people in major league dugouts with that kind of demeanor.
If that's pronounced with a long E, that would be the perfect alma mater for Jim Rice.
Oh, and on topic, Wagner is a world class d1ck. I thought so when he was here in Philly, and he hasn't changed since he's become a Met.
Not that Wagner should be getting upset about this, but you're in college and get a chance to play the Mets and you bunt? Come on man, swing!
As alluded to by SugarBear, Wilpon is a Michigan alumnus. He recently made a sizable donation to upgrade the Wolverine baseball facilities.
Maybe he grew up idolizing Neifi Perez.
Didn't Nolan Ryan bean his own kid? He was pitching batting practice and hit his own kid on purpose. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly.
That's why Wagner was pissed. He is a closet saberite, and he knew that giving up the out there was a poor play. He was personally affronted by the poor strategy.
Surely Wagner believes his pitching ability lowers the scoring environment to dead-ball levels wherein the bunt has more value.
Big ###### surprise.
...
Because she was a woman.
he is a centerfielder who had 1 HR and 7 EBH in 152 AB last year. I'm guessing he is small and fast. You can try to bunt for a hit, not just sacrifice.
http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2006-2007/mich.html
I now can say with full confidence that at least one Primate will burn in Hell. Do I have to go too if I laughed at the punch line?
You have it backwards. Billy Wagner wanted to tell his kids he struck out Kevin Cislo.
To Wagner: Man up, Nancy. Bunting is part of the game. It's as much a part of the game as getting all pissy about something that shouldn't make you get all pissy.
I now can say with full confidence that at least one Primate will burn in Hell. Do I have to go too if I laughed at the punch line?
I will publically say I am agasht at this line of humor because I don't want a woman with a Texan accent siccing a dog name Barry Lamar on me.
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