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Granted that I know nothing about advertising, but it just seems like the Transformer thing was a bad way of showing a good feature. I mean, who needs to pause something and watch it immediately in the kitchen when they go get a soda (or whatever it was). However, it happens all the time when I'm downstairs watching something and I need to go do something (like drive somewhere). Later that evening when I'm upstairs and I want to watch the rest, it's nice that I can just resume.
Same with the original Tivo ads. They had a guy watching a football game. His team was down and they were going to kick a field goal for the win. He pauses the game, drives to church, prays, drives home, and unpauses. The field goal is good and he cheers. Um, that doesn't make me want Tivo. I didn't understand why I'd want to pause things until I actually saw it in action. Show two people watching a show in a split screen. Doorbell rings. Maybe it's publisher's clearing house and guy 1 pauses and answers the door while guy 2 doesn't want to miss his show. Or guy 1 pauses, answers the door, comes back, and watches the show, while guy 2 answers the door and misses some crucial part of the show. Or (separate scene) guy 1 is doing his grocery shopping, and stops to talk to a pretty girl, gets her number, comes back home, and starts watching his show. Guys 2 rushes through the store, ignores the girl, and still misses the start of the show.
These things are obvious now, but 10 years ago they were not and Tivo did a terrible job of educating people on why they would want one.
Looking at the numbers Paul is pretty wretched against LHP (.355 OPS in a very small sample). If not Frazier, it's gotta be someone.
Why not just send Frazier up there against Kontos and have at it? Top of the order to follow take a chance to get a base runner and get an inning going.
307. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 02:39 PM (#4264177)
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308. hokieneer
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 02:39 PM (#4264178)
Why not just send Frazier up there against Kontos and have at it? Top of the order to follow take a chance to get a base runner and get an inning going.
You force Bochy into the next decision, though. Getting Phillips-Affeldt is a solid matchup.
Actually, Ludwick has reverse platoon splits for both this year and his career.
There's a bunch of BABIP fluke going on, though. (.325 vs RHP, .260 vs LHP). His other component hitting numbers have normal splits. BABIP for platoon splits takes forever to normalize.
I was working off my observation of Ludwick as much as the numbers. Ludwick is a guy who really struggles with good RHP breaking stuff.
334. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 02:53 PM (#4264216)
376. hokieneer
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 03:16 PM (#4264285)
C'mon man. Can someone get the big hit.
377. Tom Nawrocki
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 03:17 PM (#4264286)
Jesus Cristo, these Reds are going to give me a heart attack.
378. cardsfanboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 03:18 PM (#4264287)
When it gets down to the final game, it makes you find out who you are rooting for in the "neutral" games. I find myself rooting for Ludwick/Phillips/Dusty more than the Giants.
In comes Romo. I still don't quite get why Dusty would want Frazier -> (eventually Navarro) over Stubbs->(potentially Frazier) in this inning but oh well.
380. Gamingboy
Posted: October 11, 2012 at 03:19 PM (#4264290)
Wait, Girardi's dad died on Saturday and nobody told Joe until today? What is this, the Chinese Olympic Team?
I really did not see that ball being caught off the bat. Was Pagan playing him in and toward the gap, did the ball just hang up there, or did he cover a ton of ground?
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if folks can claw their way on base ludwick can tie this s8cker
I know that it looks suspicious to have a major league athlete just keel over of a heart attack, but this accusation seems a little much.
EDIT: Bourbon to the Samurai
His father died.
His father died.
Granted that I know nothing about advertising, but it just seems like the Transformer thing was a bad way of showing a good feature. I mean, who needs to pause something and watch it immediately in the kitchen when they go get a soda (or whatever it was). However, it happens all the time when I'm downstairs watching something and I need to go do something (like drive somewhere). Later that evening when I'm upstairs and I want to watch the rest, it's nice that I can just resume.
Same with the original Tivo ads. They had a guy watching a football game. His team was down and they were going to kick a field goal for the win. He pauses the game, drives to church, prays, drives home, and unpauses. The field goal is good and he cheers. Um, that doesn't make me want Tivo. I didn't understand why I'd want to pause things until I actually saw it in action. Show two people watching a show in a split screen. Doorbell rings. Maybe it's publisher's clearing house and guy 1 pauses and answers the door while guy 2 doesn't want to miss his show. Or guy 1 pauses, answers the door, comes back, and watches the show, while guy 2 answers the door and misses some crucial part of the show. Or (separate scene) guy 1 is doing his grocery shopping, and stops to talk to a pretty girl, gets her number, comes back home, and starts watching his show. Guys 2 rushes through the store, ignores the girl, and still misses the start of the show.
These things are obvious now, but 10 years ago they were not and Tivo did a terrible job of educating people on why they would want one.
Why not just send Frazier up there against Kontos and have at it? Top of the order to follow take a chance to get a base runner and get an inning going.
---EVERGREEN---
Conradian Play [X ]
Web Gem [ ]
Baserunning blunder [ ]
Play at the plate [ ]
Replay review [ ]
Ump blows call [ ] (Blown call eliminates team [ ])
Dramatic late-inning homer [ ]
Double Play ends an inning [ ]
1-2-3-4-5-6 inning [ X]
Strike out of side [ ]
Stolen base [ ]
Caught stealing [X ]
Gamesmanship []
Shapeshifting Strike-zone [ ]
THIS TRAIN! [X]
"They're down to their last X...." [ ]
Pitcher gets a hit [ ]
Non-pitcher bunts [ ]
Regular Season pitcher warms up [ ] (Playoff starting pitcher warms up in pen [ ])
Game needs to start on TNT (with exception of A's vs. Tigers) [ ]
---SF at CIN specific---
Dusty Baker with Giants [ X]
WILD BRIAN WILSON APPEARS [ X]
Cain perfecto flashback [ ]
Buster Posey does something awesome [X X ] (GRAND SLAM and THE THROWOUT PORTION OF A STRIKEOUT/THROWOUT DP)
Joey Votto gets back to normal, does something awesome []
Big Red Machine referenced [ X]
Willie Mays referenced [ ]
---STL at DC specific---
Strasburg in the Dugout [ ]
Crowd chants "We Want Strasburg" [ ]
Bryce Harper does something awesome [ ] (Harper strikes out instead [ ])
Pujols mentioned [ ]
FREESE! [ ]
Teddy [ ]
Flashback to game 6 of 2011 WS [ ]
Davey Johnson managerial career recap [ ]
Matheny's playing career [ ]
---BAL at NYY specific---
Raul Effing Ibanez comes to the plate [ ]
Orioles hold one-run lead at any point of the game []
Yankees get run in half-inning immediately after Orioles score [ ]
Thome career retrospective [ ]
Buck Showalter as Yankee manager [ ]
Joe Saunders' Wild Card performance flashback [ ]
Ichiro does something awesome [ ]
Tyler Teagarden shows up []
A-Rod strikes out, assuming he even plays now that Raul Ibanez is Mr. Effing October [ ]
---DET at OAK---
Bernie Lean explained [ ]
Verlander no-nos flashback []
Prince Fielder robbed of extra-bases [ ]
Moneyball mentioned [ ] (Mention of Brad Pitt [ ])
Pat Neshek's son mentioned [ ]
Trout mentioned in any way (fish or player) [ ]
Miguel Cabrera does something awesome [ ]
Verlander hits 98+ MPH after 80 pitches [ ]
Mention of the tarps [ ]
Added in.
With one out and no one on. Now of course Bochy is overthinking it and letting Affeldt face the righties.
Wrong Brennaman, Harvey? Or 'a chip off the old block'?
swung at a pitch a foot outside
Starting Zito in an elimination game.
Leaving in Cain with the tying run up.
Leaving in Affeldt to face Ludwick.
I was working off my observation of Ludwick as much as the numbers. Ludwick is a guy who really struggles with good RHP breaking stuff.
Now, I'll have to look up whether this is generally true for throws left/bats right players
Web Gem [X]
dangit
The Giants radio guys mentioned the trainer met him when he entered the dugout and was talking to him about something. Pretty vague.
just one more hit and this is a real nailbiter
easy
hanigan and stubbs get on and then pinch hit for the pitchers spot
I was thinking "who the hell is Ross?" then realized the other game was on now too.
Are you ####### kidding me.
(So why'd he wait until today? Because, I got to say, if he's trying to make this a "win for the Gipper" thing, that's... kind of unsettling as well.
Although now that I think about it it probably just kind of leaked out.)
HOLY HECK ANGEL PAGAN!
My wife is home nursing our newborn son all day. These TNT starts keep messing with her Law & Order DVRing!
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