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Phils-Rays on now, Ibanez w/ first of many flyouts

h.r. and Joe Magrane are delighted that Cito Gaston has had Toronto abandon the "deep counts" philosophy to "swing the bat." Is there any basis of reality to this?

they really need to retire that screamo track they play at EVERY FUCKING BREAK.

Hubla nubluh bluh (c'mon c'mon)
Things are gluh when blu whuh uhg (c'mon c'mon)
Yuh buh heeba bluh (c'mon c'mon)
Ebbluh neebuh hlow ('cmon c'mon)
Yedleh nuhdluh bluh neh debla bluh (c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon)
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon

Awesome torrent of idiocy on stats and the almighty power of elderly scouts (after an even-handed bit on BP/PECOTA from Vasgersian) by Reynolds, Casey, Larkin. Keywords: winners, character, straw hat, stogie, laptop, calculator, touch and feel.

― Andy K, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:02 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Here it is:

"Gray hair" also a prerequisite for talent evaluation.

C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon

so this is the Von Bondies. Thank you retroactively, Jack White, for smashing the singer in the face.

Wow, that clip is infuriating.

Al Leiter breaking down the Reds' last chance vs Johan on Monday was pretty awesome.

very clever use of Tom Jones song on a promo.

just caught last few frames of this Cub-Cardinal tilt:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN198406230.shtml

lol aging Bowa

Now I'm glad they showed that Fidrych game.

i lol'd @ Mitch Williams the other night on Ryan Braun's HR styling: "If I was still pitching, Ryan's pretty blue eyes would be black and blue."

they're showing the '86 Dave Henderson Boston-Angels game right now. (i'd forgotten Hendu tipped a Grich fly over the fence.)

That was interesting to watch again. Great catches by Rice and Downing in key situations. The Gary Pettis/Devon White/Ruppert Jones experience. And Rob Wilfong!

hey if anyone's bored they're showing giants/nats right now, rj's potential 300th win. sick double play just turned by giants 2Bman

Way to go, Edgar.

hate that dude so much

Rain shortened game with 50 people in the stands would be pretty anticlimactic.

Oh, man, that 3-2 call on Dunn...

Looks like young Tanner must have his mother's personality.

kinda prefer RJ's personality to A-Rod's and Gary Carter's.

I wonder who was in the Expo lineup in his first win besides ...Raines?

Harold Reynolds with the automatic "maybe last guy to win 300" thing that's been said about the last 6-8 guys. Fucking moron.

Nixon cf 4 2 1 0 0 0 3 0
Jones lf 4 1 1 2 0 1 0 0
Galarraga 1b 4 2 2 3 0 0 5 0
Brooks rf 4 2 2 1 0 0 0 1
Dave Martinez rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wallach 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Fitzgerald c 4 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
Hudler 2b 3 0 2 1 0 0 3 1
McGaffigan p 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Rivera ss 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 3
R. Johnson p 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Paredes ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Parrett p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sauveur p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Foley 2b

I guess I remember five out of the lineup

haha, Tony Clark is kinda making "HR" sound like an idiot.

Dodger feed of game vs Rox is on right now, so afternoon plans cancelled to listen to Scully.

if they knew what they were doin, Min-Det would be on now.

The key to shutting down these potent offenses is THROWING STRIKES and GETTING THEM TO HIT INTO OUTS.

Not 100% sure if I heard HR correctly, but I believe he said Mauer hurts his case for MVP because HE IS A CATCHER, which means he cannot play every day, unlike Derek Jeter.

And I think I heard him say that Mauer played in 130 games (he played 138) while Jeter played every day (actually 153), for a 32 game difference (technically less than half of that, but whatever).

HR said JM played in 110 games -- cherry picking that he had, in fact, played in 138 games (DH, etc).

I'm so glad I won't even hear HR by accident all winter, at least

Mauer was injured for the start of the season, and returned on May 1st. He missed 22 games because of injury. Besides the injury, he only missed two games. So what the fuck is harold on about.

ugh

extra time to work on the interns in the winter

A graphic of McCovey's OPS+ was just shown as a graphic on Baseball Seasons: 1959.

A graphic shown as a graphic, yes.

yeah, Harold Reynolds doesnt work on that show.

what's up with that douchebag Ken Rosenthal who plans out everything he's going to say then gets all emphatic reciting the rehearsed lines while gesturing with his hands. everyone else talks normal or at least fakes off the cuff while dude is doing little orphan annie monologues.

why are you watching this in the offseason, for insight?

they were talking about the beltre signing

Jon Heyman is dumber on MLB network than he is in his column.

MLBN personalities POX

Mae
Ripken
Gammons
Leiter
Williams(?!)

Uh... make that POV. These people are the least annoying of the bunch.

Yelloff is the worst: "Look at the numbers of Cubs starter Carlos SILVA! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?!?!"

Dan Plesac = Horatio Sanz

Does Gammons have a regular timeslot on this channel? I don't want to just leave the yammering running, hoping PG will make an appearance.

pg was on night before last and dude was basically like, "meh..." for all discussion points. that's how he came across, anyway.

getting kind of sick of millar
pretty shrewd move bringing him on for the nascar set

Plesac and Williams are pretty good. I prefer them to anyone on Baseball Tonight. Ripken makes me uncomfortable for some reason but he's fine too.

i dont understand from a business perspective the point of solid 60 (only live look ins no desk)
its basically the "see i knew i didn't need to buy extra innings" show

that might be true for East Coast fans but for me (here in Los Angeles) i could not live without MLB Extra Innings.

I liked Bob Costas and Jim Kaat doing the Mets - Phillies game Thurs. night.

Also it was nice to be able to watch the end of the Halladay perfect game as it was happening.

Gas face to Fuck Face for citing wins as the ultimate (only?) determining factor for his hypothetical CY vote.

Scoffing at Verducci's logical defense of Felix: also worthy of the gas face.

who is FF? I only miss MLBN for the games.

http://deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/05/BillRipkenFuckFace2.jpg