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| Jun-12-10 | | Travis Bickle: <Deus Ex Alekhina> Oh definetly! Tomorrow The U.S. takes on Britain! ; P |
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| Jun-12-10 | | Travis Bickle: Hey Phony here's a few tidbits of info on The Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championship. Game 5 Michael Jordan was at the United Center watching the Blackhawks wearing a Hawks jersey! At the parade when the Blackhawks, Coach Quenneville, Bobby Hull, Stan Makita et al took the stage Bears Super Bowl MVP Richard Dent was with his daughter watching the ceremonies! Finally in The Believe it or Not category: When I drove down to The United center to purchase my authentic Chicago Blackhawks Championship hat I could have swore I seen Bill Murray, Ernie Banks and Lady GaGa in line to get a Hawks cap! ; P |
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Jun-12-10
 | | Phony Benoni: Austin Jackson at it again. His hitting is beginning to tail off, but the defense is still there. http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/video... |
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| Jun-12-10 | | Jim Bartle: Second coming of Gary Pettis. |
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| Jun-12-10 | | Jim Bartle: Have you seen the uniforms in the Pittsburgh-Detroit game? |
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Jun-12-10
| | Phony Benoni: I'm trying not to. There must be better ways to honor the old days. |
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Jun-13-10
| | Phony Benoni: We may have to nickname the Tigers' bullpen <The Vultures>. It happened again today. Armando Galarraga pitches 7 2/3 innings, but departs trailing 2-1. Brad Thomas comes in, throws three pitches, gets one out. Miguel Cabrera hits a three-run home run in the bottom of the 8th, and Thomas gets the win. So far, he is 4-0 this year, but he's not alone. Among some of the other relievers, Phil Coke is 4-0, Eddie Bonine 3-0, and Joel Zumaya 2-0. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: Is that technically vulturing? I thought you had to give up the lead, and then win. In this case he was behind when he came in. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Maybe if Austin jackson were positioned better, he wouldn't have to make those long running catches. Doesn't coach Leyland have a chart on all the opposing batters? |
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Jun-13-10
| | Phony Benoni: You use the personnel. Since Jackson is so good at going back to catch the ball, he can afford to play shallower and thus catch short flies that might otherwise drop in. Other players are better at coming in, so they play deeper. Here's a relevant passage from the SABR biography of Tris Speaker, available through Retrosheet at
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm... <In the outfield, Speaker played so shallow that he was almost a fifth infielder. "At the crack of the bat he'd be off with his back to the infield," said teammate Joe Wood, "and then he'd turn and glance over his shoulder at the last minute and catch the ball so easy it looked like there was nothing to it, nothing at all." Twice in one month, April 1918, Speaker executed unassisted double plays at second base, catching low line drives on the run and then beating the base runner to the bag. At least once in his career Speaker was the pivot man in a routine double play. As late as 1923, after the advent of the lively ball forced Speaker to play deeper, he still had 26 assists. "I know it's easier, basically, to come in on a ball than go back," Speaker said later. "But so many more balls are hit in front of an outfielder, even now, that it it's a matter of percentage to be able to play in close enough to cut off those low ones or cheap ones in front of him. I still see more games lost by singles that drop just over the infield than a triple over the outfielder's head. I learned early that I could save more games by cutting off some of those singles than I would lose by having an occasional extra-base hit go over my head."> As noted, you couldn't get away these days playing as shallow as Speaker could back in the dead ball era. But the principle remains. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: That's what I read about Speaker as a kid, but later I sort of came to think it was a myth. Guess not. |
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Jun-13-10
| | Phony Benoni: Even Hall-of-Fame players have their bad moments. Here, George Kell leaves the bases loaded to end Boston's 7th inning: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: Hey, I went to Wrigley Field and a hockey game broke out! And now Soriano got a double to end Floyd's no-hitter in bottom of the seventh. Lilly's no-hitter still going after seven complete. Guess that's the new curse of the Stanley Cup. |
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Jun-13-10
| | Phony Benoni: Looks like the Black Hawks used up Chicago's entire supply of hits for the year. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: And those guys singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." They were terrible, but everybody cheered. |
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Jun-14-10
 | | WannaBe: Those guys could have sung 'New York, New York' and the fans would still have given them a ticker tape parade! |
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Jun-14-10
| | WannaBe: So, who won the baseball game? Milwaukee? |
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| Jun-14-10 | | Jim Bartle: Chicago won, 1-0.
Both the Sox and the Cubs had no-hitters in the 7th. |
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Jun-14-10
| | Phony Benoni: I thought Chicago lost, 1-0.
By the way, did you catch catch some of the numbers for the Cubs' closer, Carlos Marmol? He's walking over 5.5 batters per nine innings, which would normally be a problem for a closer--except that his strikeout to walk ratio is 3:1! Nearly 17 strikouts per nine innings is insane. |
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Jun-14-10
 | | keypusher: <Whoever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?> Frank Chance, morning of October 8, 1908. That afternoon, the Cubs beat the Giants 4-2 at the old Polo Grounds in the replay of the Merkle game to win the National League pennant. They go on to beat the Tigers 4:1 in the World Series. Source: <Crazy '08> |
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| Jun-14-10 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> Rookie Joe DiMaggio in 1936 used to play very shallow--so much so that pitcher Lefty Gomez asked him what he thought he was doing. "I want to make people forget Tris Speaker," said the young outfielder. "If you play that shallow," answered the veteran pitcher, "you're just gonna make 'em forget Lefty Gomez." Source: Lefty Gomez tending bar at a long-ago winter meeting. |
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| Jun-14-10 | | Jim Bartle: "He's walking over 5.5 batters per nine innings, which would normally be a problem for a closer--except that his strikeout to walk ratio is 3:1! Nearly 17 strikouts per nine innings is insane." So what do the fielders do? Play cards and drink beer? |
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Jun-14-10
| | keypusher: <Phony Benoni: Even Hall-of-Fame players have their bad moments. Here, George Kell leaves the bases loaded to end Boston's 7th inning:> Bizarre coincidence -- a friend just asked me if anyone ever had three hits in an inning. You there in Ted Williams' shadow! Step forward, Gene Stephens! |
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| Jun-14-10 | | YouRang: <Phony Benoni: Even Hall-of-Fame players have their bad moments. Here, George Kell leaves the bases loaded to end Boston's 7th inning:> A terrible inning for Kell. He actually made the last TWO outs of the inning. Then again, it's all relative: Usually one double per inning is considered pretty good. It does raise a question: Has there ever been a batter who made ALL THREE outs in an inning? |
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Jun-14-10
| | keypusher: Apparently Johnny Damon got three hits in an inning too. |
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