Paraphrasing from last night: "I would say about 70% of swinging strike outs are on pitches out of the zone...but it depends on the pitcher."
― Andy K, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
I think that's close to true of all swinging strikes?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
angell demurs: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/goodbye-tim-mccarver.html
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
well, Roger's over 90.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 October 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/11/1/5056084/tim-mccarver-fox-baseball-replacement-harold-reynolds-candidates
The answer to all of this is MUTE btw
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/09/tim-mccarvers-broadcasting-days-arent-over-yet/
Tim McCarver retired as Fox’s leading analyst after the World Series. But he’s not dropping the mic just yet: Fox Sports Midwest is about to hire him to do a limited number of Cardinals games next season.
JESUS CHRIST, COME ON.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 December 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
dodgers hired orel away from espn
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
i don't mind orel too much, based off of my limited experience listening to him. and although mccarver is the devil, he is probably better than al hrabosky in the cards' booth. and yes, that is very very sad.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 December 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Dodgers replacement for vin is currently Charlie Steiner so this Orel news is music to my ears.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 9 December 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Orel is pretty much with old-school will-to-win crap, like McCarver you'll never hear any advanced metrics from him.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
charley steiner is 64! he's like the prince charles of dodgers broadcasters
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 December 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci to join FOX World Series broadcast team, per report
http://www.sbnation.com/2014/2/27/5455632/tom-verducci-harold-reynolds-joe-buck-fox-baseball-2014-world-series
Good luck TV non-muters
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 February 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
Fox sticking a toe in the sabermetric Rubicon for NLCS Game 1
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/02/fox-is-going-to-experiment-with-an-new-kind-of-commentary-for-game-1-of-the-nlcs/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Rob Neyer talks to Fangraphs about Saturday night's sabercast of Cards-Giants:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/discussing-the-nlcs-powered-by-jabo-with-rob-neyer/
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
This will be awesome or a huge train wreck, there's probably no inbetween.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 11 October 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
train wreck > Harold Reynolds
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
will this be avail on mlb.tv, anybody know?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
not 100% sure, but i think it's not. it's a miracle that they're even playing a few of the NLCS games on mlb.tv, so it seems unlikely that they'd add on a second channel.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
i'm curious to see what sabermetrics taken seriously looks like on cable without brian kenny the excited beagle
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 11 October 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Can we get a title mod edit posthaste? ILB should afford homophobia no sanctuary.
― iggwilv azaelea (sanskrit), Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
what
― polyphonic, Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
suck is not gender or orientation specific, esp when it means SUCKS BADLY
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
were the real fox guys making fun of them the whole time? i turned it on and immediately heard a return of the jedi joke
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 12 October 2014 04:12 (nine years ago) link
it's a miracle that they're even playing a few of the NLCS games on mlb.tv
international fans get 'em all :)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 10:34 (nine years ago) link
@keithlaw I thought I heard that. “@kentonwong: @keithlaw Joe Buck believes the pitcher's spot is due up 2nd in next inning...”
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
He corrected himself about five minutes later.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
تقومون به اللهعمل
― pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
pretty interesting look at fox's decision-making regarding volquez -- kinda sounds like it was pretty much up to rosenthal?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2015/10/28/why-fox-held-the-story-of-edinson-volquezs-fathers-death-even-when-most-viewers-already-knew/?postshare=6331446053265266
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Heard on MLB Tonight @HeardOnMLBTI'm being straight up honest. I have no idea what run differential is. - Harold Reynolds
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 October 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
haha
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 31 October 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/based_ball/status/660658536242810880
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
(it takes a big man to change his mind 180 in one day)
https://www.facebook.com/deadspin/videos/10156195180925072/
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/aiNEeR2.jpg
Untitled, Francis Bacon, 1989
― pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
i like Yankee fans in the Astro game better, ya troll
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/sports/baseball/john-smoltz-named-lead-baseball-analyst-for-fox.html?_r=0
Fox Sports named John Smoltz, the Hall of Fame pitcher, its lead baseball analyst on Tuesday, replacing the team of Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci after only two seasons.
Smoltz has called games for Fox the last two seasons but has chiefly worked for MLB Network. As analysts for Fox and Fox Sports 1, Reynolds and Verducci were seen as overly talkative and lacking strong chemistry.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 02:25 (eight years ago) link
great news!
...which puts HR one step closer to being employed by the Marlins.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
Joe Buck admits that hair plug addiction almost ended his career
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Joe-Buck-hair-plug-addiction-voice-loss-9874173.php
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
lololl excellent Onion headline.
― Godspeed You! Black Widow (Leee), Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
FoxSports.com has gone all-video, so Ken Rosenthal can't write there
the people... demanded it?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
a cunning plan devised by an executive who was abruptly fired last week for sexual harassment
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 July 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
https://deadspin.com/please-enjoy-21-years-of-joe-buck-hyping-forgotten-f-1819646868this is pretty funny
― na (NA), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
look at the dance about 1:12 into that video
wtf
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
this inspires me to try to get to work on the most pointless baseball-related supercut of all time, though. in the 8th inning of just about every cardinals broadcast, dan mclaughlin reads out the attendance figures for the game in the same exact way, saying the total, and then reading out each digit, one at a time, e.g., "Forty-Two Thousand, Seven Hundred Thirty-One... 4 - 2 - 7 - 3 - 1". i've always wanted to isolate just the "4 - 2 - 7 - 3 - 1" part of that from each game so that he'd be reading out digits for thirty minutes straight with ambient baseball crowd noise in the background.
― Currently (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
i'm glad it inspired you
― na (NA), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
while the other networks are showing reruns, you'll experience the passion, magic, and the mystery of ROAR. an epic new series premiering this monday 9 eastern, 8 central on FOX.
― nomar, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
i remember seeing the promos for arrested development and thinking 'that looks stupid'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
and you were right!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
so that he'd be reading out digits for thirty minutes straight
This would sound like those infamous radio "numbers stations" of the Cold War.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link