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Is this a typo or has BU changed its policies since I graduated? When I went there, there was only one fraternity affiliated with the university (and it seemed to spend half its time suspended or on double-secret probation). All of the frat houses on Bay State Road were rented by MIT fraternities. BU has many faults, but a rowdy frat community isn't one of them, or wasn't.
Every move they make works out. Every washed up veteran, retread pitching project, faceless minor league FA, everything always ####### works out for them.
CHECKLIST:
Evergreen-
Conradian Play []
Infield Fly [ ]
THIS TRAIN! [X]
Dramatic Late-Inning HR [ ]
Men in scoring position with nobody out-- nobody ends up scoring [ ]
1-2-3-4-5-6 inning [ ]
Pitcher gets a hit [X ]
Regular Season starter warms up in bullpen [ ]
Shapeshifting strike zone [ ]
Idiot runs on field [ ]
Strike out of side [ ]
Decibel Meter [ ]
Intentional walk [ ]
Stolen Base [ ]
Caught Stealing [ ]
A team facing elimination is said to be down to their last X [ ]
Movie previews: Argo [ ] Wreck-It Ralph [ ] Cloud Atlas [ ] Lincoln [ ] Skyfall [ ]
Surprise bunt [ ]
Web Gem [ ]
Play at the plate [ ]
Replay review [ ]
2-Out Rally! [ ]
Shapeshifting strikezone [ ]
An announcer basically screams out "I LOVE THIS GAME!" [ ]
"Deke" []
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Costas mentions Mickey Mantle [ ]
Costas mentions Roger Maris [ ]
Costas mentions Stan Musial [ ]
Costas mentions Walter Johnson [ ]
Costas mentions any Olympian [ ]
Teddy Roosevelt [ ]
Edwin Jackson's No-Hitter [X ]
Harper does something awesome [ ] (Harper Ks instead [ ])
Mark McGwire [ ]
They point out a politician at the game []
"Sun Monster" [ ]
Pujols mentioned [ ]
FREESE! [ ]
Game 6 2011 flashback [ ]
Shot of Strasburg in the dugout [X ]
And the big pre-game talking point, the big in-game talking point, and the big talking point if the Nats disappoint next year, or if Strasburg gets injured, or if Strasburg doesn't get injured, or if Strasburg pulls a Walter Johnson and doesn't make the playoffs again until he's 36...
It was a pre-game talking point.
What do you mean? This was the make-up call for what happened in Detroit.
That makes sense. This is probably the series I've followed the least of the four and being at work I'm following on my phone so I have no audio.
Pics or it didn't happen.
So I guess Espinosa was bunting for a hit, and should have been safe?
I'm a little out of date now too (graduated in '03), but at the time I think there were 2-3 frats (I didn't run in those circles). I think I recall something like 5% of the student body was in "Greek" organizations. Point being, you're right - BU has plenty of douche factor, but if it's frat boys driving you nuts, it's likely Northeastern, MIT, or BC. (When did you graduate, SdeB?)
Yeah, I get it. It does make me a little nuts to look up their stats and go "who are these guys?" while looking at a bunch of 110-130 OPS+ lines. The fact that Kyle Lohse was 16-3 with an ERA under 3 for them this year is also a serious WTF. Kyle Lohse!
Yes. I thought it was clear in real time that Espinosa was safe.
He's actually been metronomically good: he throws low strikes on both sides of the plate, doesn't walk anybody, and doesn't give up homers. And he's a noticeably excellent fielder, which helps more than some may realize.
EDIT: OK, Lohse gave up 19 hr in 2012, and while that's around his career low rate, it's nothing special.
Because it pays the electric bill. Besides, I seem to recall NBA guys being featured during NFL games and seeing baseball ads during NBA games...
setting aside that i consider that trying hardest to win post a cheap shot and having no dog in this fight if strasburg pitches, his arm falls off, are you second guessing having him pitch?
i realize you can give any answer you want but i will assume the honor system in place
i ask because that is such a sportswriter thing to say (what you posted) and the same writers would hammer the nationals for pitching the kid and he got hurt.
"If we had (Strasburg), we'd be up 2-0," the anonymous player told FoxSports.com.
Maybe this time the reporter will think to ask the player's name.
That Nats are cool though, they've got Edwin Jackson. What could go wrong? And if that somehow doesn't work out, Ross Detwiler in Game 4. That's money in the bank.
if it moved differently i would just write it off as a spitball but it doesn't have that type of action
it does miss bats. almost by magic
........a Yankees fan is making this complaint?
Does anyone throw the spitball these days? When I was a kid (70s/80s) it seemed like there were a lot of players believed to throw a spitball, every team seemed to have at least one guy. It seems like the only time it gets mentioned now is when someone gets busted on the mound. I mean how are there not rumors swirling about say a Justin Masterson? (not saying he does, just that in 1982 it would have been openly discussed as a possiblity).
Is that in favor of shutting him down or not? Anderson was great last night but also isn't exactly a guy you'd point to as the example of a healthy and durable pitcher.
Kozma's a local boy - he hit a HR to win the Oklahoma State HIgh School Championship 1-0, so I guess he's a clutch hitter. ;>)
Of course not. Pitchers get hurt. I don't think the Reds did anything wrong by starting Johnny Cueto or the Cardinals in starting Garcia.
That's an easy thing to assert, but I would really like to see some evidence that it has ever happened before.
And I meant it quite literally. I have a hard time rooting for a team in a sporting competition that is not trying its hardest to win. That's why I have little interest in things like the All-Star Game or the WBC.
Robert, you know better. This was not an oversight; it's just that no player would go on the record with this statement.
I would not, now, activate him. They shut him down, it's over. I do think, and have always thought, there is a high likelihood that it is a decision long regretted in Washington.
Still plenty of time to prove me wrong, of course. Except that you're up against the Cardinals which is the true team of mystique and aura. I don't hate the Cardinals. I hate the lowest "seeded" playoff team continually winning and felt the same way early in the 00s when some excellent Cardinal teams got knocked out by lesser foes.
I still have this feeling we're headed for Tigers/Cardinals while the 10 teams that finished the season with better records than them are at home.
I would chuckle a bit if that was Edwin Jackson's quote.
Fixed.
It's more in favor of having "shut him down" a different way. I could have brought up Kris Medlen, too. Anderson probably shouldn't have been out there for an entirely different reason (the oblique injury) but also no matter what the A's do with him nobody who isn't an A's fan will care. Just like most of us who don't follow the Braves didn't pick up on Medlen's rehab regime until late in the season.
In other A's TJ news Andrew Carignan's supposed to be throwing by November. He had the surgery in mid-June.
There's good luck involved, but Luhnow had an incredible run with STL. The amount of talent he managed to assemble without exceptional draft position is staggering. We'll miss him more than Albert.
And, speaking of good luck, by b-r WAR, Molina just had a better season than Pudge Rodriguez did at any point in his career.
you must not be familiar with the greatest works of mike lupica
he's the easiest example that comes to mind. i don't follow him much nowadays but in his heyday lupica would first guess, second guess and third guess faster than ned yost gets confused in a game of tic-tac-toe
It depends on the next couple of sentences that time traveler used;
"...but Strasburg would go on to win 316 games in his MLB career and lead the Nats to 8 playoff appearances and two world titles while cementing his place as the best non-Walter Johnson pitcher in Washington history"
"...which proved frustrating when Strasburg blew out his knee covering first base in March, 2013. He never really regained his strength and combined with Jordan Zimmermann having a second Tommy John surgery effectively ending his career a year later the seeds of a third lost Washington team were planted."
Obviously the Nats think that the former is more likely. To that end I think losing the NLDS would not have changed their approach one bit. They knew the risk but obviously feel the short term risk is worth the long term benefit.
Half of this statement is true.
livan hernandez tries but can't throw hard enough for it to work consistently. at least that is my impression. but my eyes are going to h8ll
I don't know how Dave Duncan never got a nickname; if I had to guess, he was probably such a redass that everyone was afraid to call him anything other than his Christian name. Regardless, I think "Two-Seam" Duncan has a nice ring to it. God knows how much money he made for pitchers like Lohse in his coaching career.
mike doesn't put much in print these days so i cannot google anything easily but i know what i heard before i stopped following the guy in any capacity
Ditto, particularly if the runner moved to third refuses to run on a subsequent ground ball.
You like a league in which the guy hitting 9th gets hits? I mean, where else can you get that?
I imagine it's like 1.75 to 1.2 or something.
To be fair I would have given Carpenter a 0.001% chance of scoring on that ground ball....though I suppose running would have taken out the possibility of a double play.
Dammit Jay, if you get an RBI I have a decent chance at Bingo, why would you do that.
You're assuming that Zimmerman throws home instead of going for the DP to end the inning.
Yeah, but he came in with a reputation as a smart guy, even a thinker.
Oh, yes he does....
I completely disagree. Pour it on, demoralize them, make the fans start thinking about catching the Metro before it gets too crowded. 9-0 does that, not 5-0.
i never suggested what was driving the nationals decision-making.
i was looking at your post in the very narrow prism of how it sounded like something a writer looking to take a cheap shot would make and just wanted to know if you were willing to explain it
i am done now as this is distracting from teh game and i am getting annoyed
This is tense.
I disagree, I completely believe that the goal of a team should be to shoot for the sweet spot of runs 4-7, which gives you a great chance of winning, the percentage differences between winning with 8 runs vs 5 is negligible.
Also another run means more than a grand slam to tie the game is necessary.
I wish Mozeliak had tightened the leash a little when he hired Matheny, but I suspect that he's valued for his leader-of-men qualities and flexibility with players. Even so, he's not Brenly-level awful, and maybe with experience he'll loosen up and gain enough confidence to deviate from the book every now and then.
Carpenter trying to make things exciting...
Well, I am never above taking the cheap shot, but I meant it very sincerely. I would have a very hard time rooting for these Nationals.
Jay has a chance of moving the runner by swinging, and, obviously, a chance to do more than that. I don't see that you improve your chances of getting the fifth run by giving up an out.
Cards hitters: 1 BB, 4 KO
Nats hitters: 2 BB, 1 KO
Cards up, 4-0 (?!?!)
Is there more to it, or is this a severe case of BAPIP + clutch making a game the Nats are playing well into a Cards blowout?
True. But obviously, removing Strasburg lowered their margin for error, which was the point of the criticism all along. If one of their remaining "big three" crapped out (like Zimmermann did), they are almost certainly looking at a 5 game series. (Not offense to Detwiler either, just that it's a fair bet that either the Nats will lose the Detwiler start and/or just get unlucky and lose one of the Gonzalez/Jackson starts.)
Maybe if it'd been Kozma or DD, but Jon Jay has a .370 OBP, we had the platoon advantage, and Edwin Jackson was born with a 1.40 WHIP. Though I'm listening to the broadcast--was it a straight up sacrifice, or it possible Jay was bunting for a hit?
Sarcasm and WC hate received, but it's hard to believe that the Nationals minus Strasburg would be more appealing to the nation than the Cardinals.
I'm not usually a defender of the bunt, and 99% of the time will suggest that you should never bunt, if I was a manager, I doubt that I would ever call a bunt other than the obvious pitcher batting situations and maybe tied game, as the home team in the ninth or extra innings, but just because I wouldn't call for it, doesn't mean I can't defend the call.
Straight up sacrifice.
Nats hitters: 2 BB, 1 KO
Cards up, 4-0 (?!?!)
Is there more to it, or is this a severe case of BAPIP + clutch making a game the Nats are playing well into a Cards blowout?
The Cardinals have hit a home run. That's kind of important even if you want to reduce it to a BABIP thing.
Plus, the odds of "getting one more run" were not significantly improved. If nothing else, Jay is a lefty, who strikes out 14% of the time- he's probably going to hit it to the right side, if he makes an out. He was also only successful in 13 of 19 bunt attempts (4 hits), this year, so it's not like it's a sure thing that bunting will even get the guy to third.
Hypothetically, though, what if the 2011 Nats season looked like the 2012 A's season? Would Strasburg have returned just for a few September starts like he did, or would they have let him pitch the 2011 postseason? Would they have altered his August/September usage to facilitate a potential 2011 postseason appearance?
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