Comments on: Zombieland?

By: Hugh Mulcahy

Hugh Mulcahy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:42:02 +0000

[1406] Bravo. You’re the leader in the clubhouse for best partisan interpretation of the Fox crew. See [1377]

By: Hugh Mulcahy

Hugh Mulcahy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:39:22 +0000

On an unrelated note, Fukcing Saints give up a meaningless field goal w/ 32 secs left to fukc me on the point spread.

Good night Yankee fans. See you back in the Bronx.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:39:07 +0000

[1392] The ball-strike umpiring WAS awful and in my estimation tilted toward Philly tonight. Tonight was a night that having a Billy Martin heckling from the dugout would have been nice–if for nothing else than to soften the umps for Game 6. The Yanks were destined to lose and Billy would have taken the opportunity to rattle the shit out of the umpiring crew. He would have done crazy shit like stop the game in the middle of an inning and ask the umps to check Lee’s cap bacause there was “some substance” on the bill–even if it were nothing. And then his partner in crime–Steinbrenner–would have made a sideways comment to the press after the game about the umps “calling it both ways.” The ump union would be furious. MLB would be furious. And you know what, it would get us a couple of close calls at the Stadium.

And, Tim and Buck are NL guys who hate the Yankees and everything they stand for.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:34:56 +0000

[1397] The umpires sucking is something I feel powerless against. I’ve made my peace with the fact that they suck. But they’ve sucked so irredeemably, and in so multi-directional a fashion, that what’s the point in saying anything other than “they suck.”

Now the fact is that I’m deluded enough to think I could do a better job than them on the bases, but not deluded enough to think I could call balls and strikes. That shit is hard with even fast pitch softball. Fuck that.

Otoh, as someone who has done live radio and was a damn fine writer with a horrific deadlines problem and a case of the born into the wrong generation, you know the generation that doesn’t give a crap about integrity and, I don’t know, something at least aiming for excellence, I *know* I could do the job better than McCarver and Buck, and they truly offend me on a professional level.

In summary, the umps are what they are – and that they suck equally in both directions shows that it’s sheer incompetence – in the case of FOX, it’s willful savaging of any sort of standards or professionalism, and that can’t be excused.

[1396] I’m glad someone else would like to see the results of that sort of study.

[1393] Believe me, I almost left little bits of bone and blood and brain all over the walls over the “no way, no way at all that was intentional” bit with Blanton. Full on, complete loss of shit over that.

And I agree we’ve heard his stupid broken hands story a million times, and why, oh why can’t we just settle for twin broken larynxes – and yes Schmuck and McCodger, I’m looking at the two of you.

But his little “Puddles? Where are you Mr. Puddles?” ramble about why Posada was brought into the game earlier rather than later was some kind of gem. How can you possibly employ someone who is obviously so senile that sort of idiocy could escape his lips?

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:30:25 +0000

[1398] I thought it was. It worked out, inasmuch as Hairston doinked a single off of a tiring Pedro. But yeah, I thought it was a poor move.

In any case, you can Hairston in RF a little easier than you can in CF.

By: Hugh Mulcahy

Hugh Mulcahy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:28:51 +0000

[1400] That was a tremendous play by Gardner. Yanks have been stellar in the field this series.

By: 51cq24

51cq24 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:28:29 +0000

[1394] i’d go with gardner too, but i won’t be too upset either way. they both kind of suck. at least gardner is a decent outfielder, but he isn’t all that great. nice catch tonight though.

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:27:42 +0000

[1395] He’s a supersub. He’s not a stating CF…he would be a significant downgrade from Gardner, of that there seems little argument.

I already got to watch his LF “defense” help piss away a post season game against the Angels. I don’t relish waching him stagger around in CF.

By: Bobtaco

Bobtaco — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:12 +0000

[1388] No one else makes that catch on Werth. Gardner was not totally worthless. He should really learn to drag bunt over the winter.

By: Hugh Mulcahy

Hugh Mulcahy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:09 +0000

[1397] the guy in game 1 was the best. He called a fair, consistent zone. the next 4 have been varying degrees of suck on balls and strikes. personally, though, I hate the pitchtracker box. It ain’t any better than teh umps. the strike zone is 3D, for starters.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:24:54 +0000

[1394] Was sitting the .880 OPS RF with 29 HR in Game 2 a whiff of panic?

By: 51cq24

51cq24 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:23:19 +0000

[1392] the home plate umpires have gotten progressively worse. the guy tonight was awful, and it was a little strange that fox hardly used their replays tonight. but i don’t know why you direct your anger towards the idiot announcers instead of the incompetent umpires. who cares what the fox broadcasters say about it? the home plate umpire sucked just the same.

By: seamus

seamus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:21:51 +0000

[1392] an objective analysis of when Fox has chosen to use thei pitchfx tool would be interesting indeed.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:21:30 +0000

[1389] JHJ is not a conventional middle IF. He has substantial experience playing CF in his career.

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:21:18 +0000

[1391] Well, it’s only a slight upgrade over .674 career OPS, and a significant downgrade in CF defense.

Some complain about Girardi being panicky. Starting a loght hitting middle IF in CF sure has the whiff of panic.

By: Hugh Mulcahy

Hugh Mulcahy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:21:12 +0000

[1384] I love the passion of your hatred. My favorite player as a kid was STeve Carlton but, McCarver caught him every time he threw for years on end. He sucked then and he sucks worse now that I have to hear his rambling nonsense. Did you hear the one about him and Irish Mike Ryan breaking their hands one out apart in 1970? Heard that one about 1000 times already. Shut hte fvck up already. He’s had some real gems in this series. Could make a mint betting against his predictions. My favorite? Blanton didn’t intend to hit Rodriguez yesterday.

By: jjmerlock

jjmerlock — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:19:23 +0000

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfx/index.php?s_type=3&sp_type=1&batterX=091102_232421&inning1=y&inning2=y&inning3=y&inning4=y&inning5=y&inning6=y&inning7=y&inning8=y&inning9=y&month=11&day=02&game=gid_2009_11_02_nyamlb_phimlb_1%2F&year=2009&pitchSel=425492.xml&prevGame=gid_2009_11_02_nyamlb_phimlb_1%2F

Check it out.

Pitch 1 to Tex. Fox, don’t act like you didn’t have plenty of time to throw your stupid little strike zone box up for that one.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:19:19 +0000

“Hairston-of-the-.701-career-OPS” is a major upgrade over Gardner of the .0000000 OPS.

By: seamus

seamus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:18:27 +0000

well, i actually only half watched tonight which was strange. I found myself at a bar with friends and playing shuffleboard. I thought we had it in the 9th. Too bad it wasn’t to be this time.

By: monkeypants

monkeypants — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:17:48 +0000

[1383] Those situations are not at all comparable. Sitting Swisher was a dubious move, but you can sacrifice some RF defense. But to start a middle IF at CF? No way.