Ordered Bell numbers…and that’s exactly what they’ll get.
Even as his Giants are battling to advance to the World Series, general manager Brian Sabean looks around and sees his NL West rivals already gunning for San Francisco next year.
You bet he took note when the Diamondbacks slithered into action Saturday by acquiring reliever Heath Bell from Miami and shortstop Cliff Pennington from Oakland.
“That’s the nature of our division,” Sabean said Sunday afternoon as the Giants prepared for Game 6. “Our division is very competitive and very underrated.
“I say it every year. Every year, it’s a shotgun start in our division. And it will be the same next year.”
With Bell, if Arizona can get him back on track, the Diamondbacks could have a lockdown bullpen next season. General manager Kevin Towers says he envisions Bell as his seventh inning guy, David Hernandez for the eighth and J.J. Putz to close. Plus, ground-ball specialist Brad Ziegler will be an important factor.
“I can see why they did it,” Sabean said. “A strong bullpen is very important. A lot of tight games are played in this division.”
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Posted: October 21, 2012 at 07:27 PM |
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1. Jim (jimmuscomp) Posted: October 21, 2012 at 07:47 PM (#4278282)Its when, instead of every group starting on the first hole and teeing off in order and playing the course in order, they all start at the same time on a different holes and continue until they've played all 18 (in my experience, signaled by a wrist watch rather than a shotgun blast).
I have no idea what it means in this context. I don't think Sabean understands the words he's using here.
i.e. be active and you're bound to hit something.
geesh, if the course can't at least do an air horn, might as well take "shotgun start" out of the equation altogether.
:)
tends to be linked to "scramble" tournaments - golfers of varying levels of skill play as a team, each hitting a second shot from the spot of the best 1st shot, then each hitting from that spot until the ball is holed.
the closer you get to the hole, the more likely even a mediocre golfer might hit the best shot (or at least establish a "safe spot" where all the better golfers know they can live with that result if no one hits a great shot).
Bah !
"People do stupid things like those contracts we gave Barry Zito and Aaron Rowand, but sometimes they still win the World Series" he added.
I was at a wedding this summer on a farm across the road from a golf course/shooting club. There was a lot of golf punctuated by gun shots...I never considered that they may have been the same activity!
The Cubs have represented the NL in the WS zero times in the last 67 years which is actually more times than you'd expect given how pathetic they have been. (I know, it surprised me too. It's the pancake flops that kill them.)
To be fair, I've only played ina couple of them, and mostly at a course adjacent to a shooting range (which isn't nearly noisy enough to carry across all 18 holes, so I can see why they shotgun part might have fallen out of favor)
I count three of the last ten: Giants in 2002 and 2010, Rockies in 2007.
If Sabean implies that people generally don't think much of the NL West... he's got that right... then again, on a relative level most people don't think much of any NL division as a whole....
Oops.... I included 2012....what a dumbarse....
He is saying everyone hits the ground running at the start of season. Sheesh guys, get your heads out of the spreadsheet and read some poetry once in a while..
Also that each team starts out in a different place, but is ready to compete from Day One.
if you're going to use a cliche, I say, at least make it one with a creative twist.
A poor metaphor indeed, as a shotgun start has no impact on quality of play.
Everytime I see this headline, I hear it said in Hyman Roth's voice (this is the business we’ve chosen)
As opposed to his less famous brother Hymen Roth who was removed earlier in the movie.
I like to think the author gave a fist pump after he thought of this line.
He was in the hospital a lot in the movie.
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