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Starters: 117-122 3.52 ERA
Relievers: 60-53 3.49 ERA
Dodger splits:
Starters: 11-3 2.60 ERA
Relievers: 2-8 3.75 ERA
Well, he's pulled in the 3rd inning after walking eight Red Sox in 2.2IP.
Edit: Coke to Bellylard
Re-edit: And the reliever gives up a grand slam to A.J.Pierzynski.
####, the Jays are no fun to watch.
Make that 6 runs on 2 hits, as Middlebrooks makes it back-to-back HRs.
If you don't like baseball, don't be involved in it's production.
Trout had a 6+ pitch at bat, and not once did they talk about his at bat. They still haven't mentioned the fact that he walked during that interview.
I'd love to see a baseball game produced in the manner of an NFL game, with wide angle shots as a hitter comes to the plate showing the defensive positioning and the analyst actually breaking down plays, like how an outfielder got a good/bad break on a fly ball and what difference it made, etc.
God forbid they actually show what makes the game interesting instead of shots of the manager picking his nose and the pitcher adjusting his cup.
NESN's Red Sox broadcasts are the worst offenders of not showing the game. They have guests in the booth constantly, promoting this charity or that event or this so and so. And then they do the stupid interviews with the "Fan of the game" or whatever, and they show all kinds of stupid crap like a player's favorite movie and restaurant and ####. It's absurd. Plus Remy and Orsillo frequently stop talking about the game to just chatter about inane #### and then giggle about their inane #### as the game passes by with no commentary.
Absolutely agree, and it's something I've been ######## for for a long while. I have no idea who told these guys that the game is more interesting the less of the field/player that you see. Has to be the same people who have told action directors that fight sequences in movies look better if you show the action from really close to the actors..
He's the Yankee version of Jeff Mathis.
"that is amazing, it's been since the first game of last year that the Angels have been over .500."
How the F, is that "amazing?"
Kevin Jepsen. Oh, boy.
I was predicting that it was gonna be broken up by a botched Jim Joyce call that was later upheld on replay review.
And in a twist of irony, after losing an out the other night when Jayson Werth dropped a catch in RF because of the "new" interpretation of the transfer rule, today the Nats had a baserunner called out at 2B under the "new old" rule when Gyorko bobbled the ball while trying to turn a DP.
On Rivera: Bob Carpenter mentioned his up-and-down, sporadic career last night when he came up to pinch-hit...was the Mariners' third catcher from 2004 to '06, bounced around in the minors for a few years (even playing for Camden in the Atlantic League), but finally returned to the bigs with the Twins in '11. Padres picked him up in November '12; he came up the following July and has been in the majors ever since.
I watched the Patriot's Day game with my 10 year-old nephew, and he was equal parts befuddled and angry at the Red Sox announcers. He couldn't understand why they spend a half-inning talking about how because it was a morning game, they could relax and (literally) put their feet up.
And no, not every play is worthy of an analytical breakdown, but there are several per game that are. And instead of that, we get a bunch of angles of replay with the announcers adding basically nothing.
Nobody is saying do hard analysis after every play, but it's ridiculous to see a 6+ pitch at bat go, and not one mention of the game going on.
It's not even his results -- he's only up to 90 pitches though 8 innings, with a mere two hits and one walk to 7K -- as much as his approach that impresses me. He hasn't been "dominating" the Padres lineup so much as intelligently exploiting their weaknesses. Smart pitching, especially from a guy who rarely if ever breaks 90mph on his fastball.
Even when he makes a mistake (like calling Ryan Howard "Frank Howard") he does it with such aplomb that I can't fault him greatly for it.
Blame NBC for starting this way moronic practice way back in 1969. They had Tony Kubek interviewing David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon so many times during the World Series that you'd think they'd just ended the Vietnam war.
Exactly. I want to see announcers and broadcasts that primary purpose is the game that is going on and the players in that game. I don't want to see McCarver in an Angels/Padres game talking about Derek Jeter (Al Hrabosky would mention the Cubs in every single broadcast no matter what....nothing more frustrating than something totally irrelevant to the game at hand) I don't care about charities, but if you are going to do it, spend 30 seconds on it, not a full half inning. The fact is that it's a tv medium, and most charities have a web site nowadays, so put the website on the screen for the full half inning, but don't waste my time with talking about it for 7 minutes.
When there is an analytical breakdown, make sure you have your announcers on board with any stat you are going to introduce, or at least have been given good information on what it conveys and doesn't.
This is not in Sports TV Production 101. Nor any of the other hypothetical courses that are not taught. You will not get your wish I'm afraid.
I blame radio for most of it. Baseball broadcasters have approached the TV medium as if it's radio and have even tried to emulate what the radio does. The problem is that the radio guys aren't showing you a live play, so they can fudge the results as they are happening to make the in between crap/conversations "miraculously" fit within the content on the field.
I still hate these close ups. I really wish someone would set a rule that says at no point during a broadcast should you show a view of the player that doesn't include the feet. Unless it's being used as an analytical tool. This Yankee/Angel game is using an angle I like a lot, when there is a runner on first, they have showed a nice angle that shows the pitcher, first baseman and runner on first.
they need to suck a little more, they wanna keep their edge seeing as how the dbax are fighting hard and the cubs are bringing up the rear, in spite of having 2 good pitchers, with one who hits better than any position player
can bo porter manage to lose his shtt like lou pinella out there and at least get a few laughs?
josh fields is teh sukc. so is anthony bass. and george springer does not look like no gold glover. or even hunter pence
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=roark-001tan&type=pgl&year=2012
His minor league stats show 1 CG in 2012 with Syracuse, but being ignorant of such things...do they only play 7 innings in AAA ball?? The largest innings count is 7 and appears in 3 games in late July; is that a complete game??
Oh, and Roark had a base knock his first time up, so stick that in your D.H. pipe and burn it.
Nah, you should marvel at their restraint. They probably consider Jeter the greatest human being of all time.
Also, Anibal Sanchez was yanked from the game with an apparent hand/arm injury. Bad news...
EDIT: And Phil Coke walks Joe Mauer on four straight pitches to walk the tying run in! Bases STILL loaded and nobody out.
I love the weirdly non-horrible Twins right now and the way they take walk after walk after walk. Seven in this game already, and it's only the fifth inning.
except Uncle - who is lookin like saint looey Uncle all of a sudden
The Red Sox are unimpressed.
It was a doubleheader. Minor league doubleheaders are only 7 innings for each game.
this is why baseball is awesome.
I don't know the last time I checked a box score every day to see one player's line. Maybe Pedro in the early 2000s?
5 of them are in the Twins lineup right now.
The Twins New Plan: Don't Swing
He is making it easy to forget Joe Mauer!
Pirates now lead 3-0 as Sanchez hits a double(advances to third on the throw)..... Boo...Hiss...
The Jeter for Commissioner talk is beginning to build.
I wouldn't have a problem with Joey Votto as commissioner, but not sure I would want someone like Jeter.
Let's hope this is somehow the start of a 1988 Orioles-like losing streak for St. Louis.
Jinxed him.
So with his fastball, curveball, and change up that makes him a 6-pitch pitcher???
2. David Hale tonight: 8.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K. He drops his ERA for the season to 2.31. At some point we have to start taking David Hale as seriously as we took Brandon Beachy, right?
We haven't won yet, and we need to keep pace.
Beer: making BBTF a better place for more than 6 hours.
At some point we have to start taking David Hale as seriously as we took Brandon Beachy, right?
But not as seriously as Tanner Roark, apparently.
I had never heard of Tanner Roark until this morning.
Fortunately there was only one Lastings.
Much my thought about the Joey's Whores and Sam's Goatfuckers not losing trend. It supports ugliness, which is worse.
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