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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
RedSox (89-71) @ Orioles (68-92), Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 7:05pm
BOS: Erik Bedard (32, LHP, 5-9, 3.50) BAL: Zach Britton (23, LHP, 11-10, 4.44)
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Posted: September 27, 2011 at 01:00 PM | 853 comment(s)
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He's insane
Thanks. Good genes. Both my parents were gym teachers.
And, for the record, because RB is so square as to warp time itself, it's only two earrings, one in each ear. 0-gauges, though.
M.V.P!!
M.V.P!!!
I am as clueless as you are. If you'd asked me in April, I would have bet three months rent he'd never hit 30 homeruns in a season.
He has gone from using his power swing once or twice a game to every swing. He used to save it for 3-1 or 2-0 counts, etc. and use a slappy little swing otherwise.
Don't think I've met the Boston primates, but I've met a whole mess o' BTF folk from elsewhere. Even roadtripped to Baltimore for the kevin/Andy/DiPerna/Nieporent summit a few years ago...
It won't surprise me if he never matches or exceeds his 2011 HR total, while still being very good.
I will forever regret missing that.
Man, that's such a strange divide between "AW-HELL-NO" and "I-GOTS-TA-KNOW" ...
Maybe he wants him shot in the head on a B-more streetcorner.
You ever watch The Wire?
Yeah, same here. I see him hitting like .290-300, 60 walks, maybe a .450-.475 SLG.
I'm with you so far.
Watch how they spit ...
CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNE
Will do. That's a good one!
Wow, that's quite the connection. Have you been watching the Wire this season or did you recognize the spitting?
Yeah, that's the way I envisioned him, from my limited frame of reference. I remember seeing a game summary from August or something and thinking "Wait...Ellsbury's got 24 homers? That slappy-hitting CF who can't stay healthy?"
That is beyond brilliant - just awesome
We should take in a Mariners game!!!
He's got a future Alex Cora feel to him. Maybe with less OBP skills.
I think he's going to be walking more. The power spike should mean guys will start pitching him more carefully. I see him as maybe like .300/.380/.480 going forward.
Well, they weren't really going out on a limb. This is kind of par for the course for Bedard.
They were mixing in the "he's not a competitor" talk, so I figured they were making it up. Looking at his game log, yeah, not hard to see this coming.
I saw him pitch extremely well when he was here in DC, he doesn't look like the same guy at all.
At this point, I really only care if he doesn't give up runs. 5 IP, 2 R right now would feel like 7 and 1 would normally.
I have small enough faith in the human race as it is, I don't think I could even take that.
So right at this moment:
Reyes .3345864 (1-2)
Braun .3339317 (game not yet started)
Bedard pitching at all in September is quite remarkable; he usually had Prior/Sheets level of consistency in being hurt when it came to September.
A glimpse into the life of Yankee fans for the next 6 years.
Reyes .3345864 (1-2)
Braun .3339317 (game not yet started)
NTN, what ar the hit/AB numbers exactly? They can't actually tie, can they?
There's a Bartman documentary? Somehow I managed to miss this.
You mean (entering tonight):
Braun 186 H/ 557 AB
Reyes 177 H/ 530 AB
That being said, the zone is awful on the inside for righties tonight.
Both (at the time) snakebitten franchises, both in Game Six (meaning there was a Dead Man Walking game still left), after the team seemed to have things clinched, both a singular goat in the public imagination, requiring just a single word ("Buckner", Bartman") to bring to mind exactly what happened to even the most casual fan - and to top it all off, neither one was nearly the biggest cause of their team's collapse.
Done by Alex Gibney, no less.
As someone who became a spitter because of my time playing baseball, I'd guess I'm slightly attuned to the art of it. Watching The Wire, I was immediately struck by how Bodie spit, just because it involves more effort than your usual spit, it's this fairly unique method where you form pressure between your tongue and teeth and kind of "squirt" the spit out between your teeth on the side of your mouth. It's not hard, per se, but it's more technically challenging.
Having recognized that, it was pretty simple to make the connection with Martin, since he does the same, relatively rare thing.
Besides, it's always best to strive to come up with non-obvious nicknames for players, even if they don't stick.
Better a Bodie that only I use, than everybody goes about calling him R-Mart or some other lazy, uninspired nonsense ...
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