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1. The importance of being Ernest Riles Posted: October 06, 2008 at 12:48 PM (#2971374)I guess it's time for an obligatory spreadsheet joke.
Perhaps he should stop sending self-aggrandizing messages to Gammo's cell phone until he manages to get a ####### hit or two.
And all three immediately suffer painful head wounds?
A rabbi would have hurt the team less, because he would have taken Friday night's game off.
When you have a rabbi with three balls, you have a man's man of a rabbi.
And who's the patron saint of pawnbrokers? Jolly old St. Nick!
Toys made by elves, my ass.
This deserved more credit, I think.
BTW, as long as we're talking about the game and series, what are the opinions on the umpiring last night? The way people were shrieking in chatter, I expected a link to a news story about it this morning. I'm neutral (even if rooting for the Sox), but thoughts in the cold light of morning after a night's sleep?
I will say that before the series I said that this was probably the two best teams in baseball facing off, and I think the games so far back me up on that. Each game has been quite close, and other than a couple mental errors, quite well-played. (In some ways Game 3 was the least close, as the Angels should have scored far more runs than they did, and the Sox got 75% of their runs on a bloop that should have been caught)
The umpiring in this series has been atrocious. I say that objectively, as it's been awful for both teams. Ed Rapuano has had a horrible series, blowing check swings in games 1 and 3, tonight to the Angels brief benefit, and Wednesday to their detriment. He blew the call on the pickoff at second in game two. Kerwin Danley's strike zone tonight was just awful. I'm pretty sure he had no idea where it was. And the Angels caught a huge break when Danley called an inside fastball to Napoli a ball. That same pitch was strike three to left handed hitting Jacoby Ellsbury just minutes before. Napoli followed with a single, and scored the winning run.
What is this, some kind of joke?
He jumped a foot in the air. It's one thing to grouse, where only the ump can hear you, but if you act in a way that fans 400 in the bleachers and those at home can see your displeasure, you're kind of asking for a wider zone on the next pitch. It shouldn't be that way, but it's not exactly shocking it happened.
I saw that too.
maybe he was timing Papelbon's motion to for purposes of stealing bases, although I dont even remember if he was pitching from the stretch at the time. I dont know why he was showing it to the TV cameras though.
I don't see what he could have been upset about. But then again, is there much point to the stopwatch with nobody on base, as I think was the case at the time?
While I agree with everything else, I have to take issue with this one. Replays showed pretty clearly that Coco slid back, behind the glove. He should have been out, but Kendrick(?) caught the ball and waited for Coco to slide into his glove on the ground, rather than trying to make a move towards the base, where he would have tagged the leg.
And we're taking a different tack on Pedroia if the rocket he hit in the 11th goes somewhere other than right at Figgins and scores the winning run.
I thought most relievers pitched the same stride and motion regardless of the game situation, for consistency in their pitches. Which is why most of them pitch from the stretch regardless.
That's the rub, though, isn't it? He's hitting the ball hard but has done nothing but make outs in this series. Bad luck or no, he's been crap so far.
Now, if he continues to hit the ball the same way I'd expect some hits to finally fall, but the upshot of it is that he's 0 for 13 and has been the Sox' worst hitter in this series. He needs to start getting on base like, tonight.
On the Hunter play last night, getting to 2nd with no out is a worthwhile gamble if you have a decent shot at it, and even though the ball took a fortuitous bounce and got to Bay quickly, I thought Hunter had a decent shot at it, given his normal running speed.
Then I saw how slowly Hunter was running coming around first, clearly not 100%. It's as if he forgot he wsan't running well, his mind was at 2nd but his legs couldn't get him there. Given his current speed, Hunter should have turned back as soon as he saw the ball bounce right to Bay. When he came up short on the slide, I sort of expected him to wait for Pedroia to motion for him to come a little closer, at which point Hunter would flip him off, Willie Mays Hayes style.
He better be careful. You can hurt your knee doing that.
Kevin,
The ump knew why he did it. The guys in the TV booth knew why he did it. And you knew why he did it. No one was fooled.
Sure, you'd like the umpire to quickly forget it and call that final pitch correctly. But that's not the way it works all the time.
Must be no Cubs fans around to prod, huh Freddy.
Sure...after the game.
Yes. Certainly any player not as good as A-Rod is an overrated joke. :/
Careful, you're projecting again...
As for the Ellsbury bithcing part. He shouldn't have. But the umps still get paid to be profesional, not to stroke their own dicks...
I don't really care, they're writing themselves an express ticket out of baseball. And I for one, will welcome our new robotic overlords.
My guess would be this.
agreed, i watched a lot of last night's game. i guess because all of a sudden i'm rooting for the angels everything seems more desperate. but am i wrong to suggest they can be a tad over-aggressive in general?
No, it's unethical, and he should never be allowed to umpire again.
But Ellsbury was a little out of line.
Did not see the play in question, but these are professional athletes in intense competition with everything at stake right now. Professional referees MUST understand and allow a release (that does not physically harm anyone else).
They can certainly be aggressive. Like Howie's at bats in games 1-2, but then most of those are better described as pathetic. When Howie's going bad, not only does he chase the slider outside and in the dirt, but he misses the fastballs he gets right down the middle. Not a good combination. Last night he was much better, laying off the impossible pitches just enough to get the borderline pitches, and hit them hard somewhere.
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