just blew out 'lectric lights a la Redford
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 May 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Knocking out the "I" in "Big Mac" wasn't quite as cinematic as the Natural, but still impressive!
― ^ Z S on the internet here (Z S), Friday, 22 May 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
MLB Network is not a movie
(The Natural isn't much of one, either)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 May 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Saturday, 27 June 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
JESUS CHRIST
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Saturday, 27 June 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
dont understand why they pitch to him
― s1ocked up, they won't let me out (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 June 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Me neither, but I'm glad they do.
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Saturday, 27 June 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
After opening the third inning with a fly out, Pujols returned to the Cardinals clubhouse to review video. There he predicted to assistant hitting coach Mike Aldrete that his next at-bat would ricochet off the yet-to-open Royals Hall of Fame behind the visitors bullpen in left field. “He didn’t say he might hit the Hall of Fame. He said he would hit the Hall of Fame,” Aldrete recalled . . . When Meche finally threw the pitch, Pujols swatted it some 423 feet off a Hall of Fame window.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 28 June 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/2367035793
CARDINALS ACQUIRE MARK DeROSA FROM INDIANS; REDBIRDS SEND CHRIS PEREZ & PLAYER-TO-BE-NAMED TO TRIBE...
― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 28 June 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
cubs fans will love that! would rather have lost Mott over Perez :/
― bnw, Sunday, 28 June 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
this fucking guy.
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
they can give him the mvp already
― rembrandt what (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
you could rearrange the seasons of this guy's career in any order you'd want and they'd all look the same, this flat pattern of awesome.
― spiritual giant Cubby Culbertson (omar little), Thursday, 2 July 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Three singles--that's how close Pujols is to an N.L. Triple Crown this morning. I got really caught up in Delgado's bid in 2000, and in the end the only thing he led the league in was doubles. (He finished with a little more or a little less than 90% of the league-leading total in each of the TC categories.) I was six when McClain won 30--I know that won't happen again unless the game profoundly changes. Dimaggio's streak, all but impossible; .400, maybe. I've always believed there'll be another TC, though. How do people assess Pujols' chances?
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
sorta buy in 2 the argument from earlier in the season that theres not enough around him 4 giant RBI #s (tho i guess now w/ derosa [who is hurt?] & a non-pitcher batting 9th maybe im wrong)...idk it'd be interesting to see the stats of his # of ABs w/ RISP vs. say Prince Fielder
~also his IBB #s may start to take off...noticed SF walked him in the 1st inning yesterday
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
all depends on Wright. Wright is obv off the juice this year, his isoP is about 50% of his career average but he's still hitting for average.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
worst troll yet.
btw guys, it's Suggest Ban Shasta Day.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
D Wright, NYM 3BMiscellaneous BattingSEASON IsoP2004 NYM .2322005 NYM .2172006 NYM .2202007 NYM .2222008 NYM .2322009 NYM .153Total -- .217
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Albert PujolsSEASON TEAM IsoP2001 StL 0.2812002 StL 0.2472003 StL 0.3082004 StL 0.3262005 StL 0.2792006 StL 0.3402007 StL 0.2412008 StL 0.238
― Steve Shasta, Friday, May 16, 2008 11:25 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― bnw, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
JUST LOOK AT HIS IhoP, PEOPLE! LOOK AT IT!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
bnw there was another post you must have missed that had pujols best isoP season <<< than bonds final season.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/2e54c40.gif
― bnw, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
get back to me in September, Trollbot. With DW's ROAD numbers.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 July 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
WALK HIM
― a poppy seed NAGL (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 4 July 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, July 2, 2009 10:23 AM (Yesterday)
oh the irony ;_;
― Nabisco™ (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 July 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
bases loaded, 3 run lead and you pitch to Albert = GO CRY WITH MARK PRIOR DUSTY LOL
― bnw, Saturday, 4 July 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
O_O
― heave imho (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
This just made my night! Is he back in the league lead for RBI's now? *checks*
― ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN (Z S), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
WELL?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol rbis
― 8080's and internet break (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I got sidetracked by pizza time. It appears that Prince Albert Pujols er reigneth
― ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN (Z S), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
wau espn just ran a stat...alb w/ bases loaded is 7-9, 5 HR, 2.444 slg this year
― 8080's and internet break (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
still hasn't been walked with the bases loaded...
― bnw, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
rockin' his tongue sneer tonight too :P
― bnw, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Good lord, even off the bench he's unstoppable.
― OLIGARHY (Z S), Sunday, 6 September 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
He wasn't far off. A few years ago, I tried to come up with a quick and easy method of ranking post-Yastrzemski Triple Crown bids. I'll just link to the piece rather than try to describe it here. By my estimation, Pujols edged ahead of Larry Walker's 1997 season for the seventh-closest run at a Triple Crown since Yaz. The top seven: 1. Dick Allen ('72), 2. George Foster ('77), 3. Jim Rice ('78), 4. Mike Schmidt ('81), 5. Dante Bichette ('95), 6. Willie McCovey ('69), 7. Pujols ('09). He came up 9 hits and 6 RBIs short.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
185 assists, a record.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4531189
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops--the link didn't work.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, once more with feeling: http://phildellio.tripod.com/carlos.html. If that doesn't take, I give up.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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― velko, Monday, 5 October 2009 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
By my estimation, Pujols edged ahead of Larry Walker's 1997 season for the seventh-closest run at a Triple Crown since Yaz.― clemenza, Sunday, October 4, 2009 7:59 PM (1 hour ago)
― clemenza, Sunday, October 4, 2009 7:59 PM (1 hour ago)
clemenza, let me aid with your research:
Bonds 2002: .370 (1st) / 46 HR (2nd) / 110 RBI (5th) but also SIXTY EIGHT (ie, 68) INTENTIONAL walks, shattering his previous record of 52. Had Bonds been pitched to, he would easily have won the triple crown this year, as well as a few other years.
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 October 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
pujols 185 assists for a first baseman broke a record held by bill buckner
― omar little, Monday, 5 October 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Pujols fell short of the 2009 quadruple crown:
#2 in errors by a 1B13 errors to Ryan Howard's 14.
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 October 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Ranked dead last in Zone Rating of all qualified MLB 1B.
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 5 October 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
True enough, except that precisely because Bonds wasn't pitched to, he never had a realistic shot at the Triple Crown. In 2001, he finished 23 RBIs behinds Sosa; 18 behind Berkman in 2002 (probably his closest bid; he won the batting title and was only 3 home runs behind Sosa); and 30 behind Castilla in 2004. In my original piece, I established a cut-off that said you had to have a minimum of 90% of the league-leading total in any one category, and Bonds didn't reach the 90% bar for RBIs in any one of those years. I wasn't trying to figure out who might have won a Triple Crown under ideal conditions, it was just a cold calculation of who actually did come the closest.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
And if you start throwing what-ifs into the mix, I'd say that absent the 68 intentional walks (and the other who-knows-how-many intentionally unintentional walks...), there's no way Bonds hits .370 that year.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 October 2009 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, he's a drug cheat.
― Mark C, Monday, 5 October 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Ranked dead last in Zone Rating of all qualified MLB 1B."
Where are you seeing that? Fangraphs has him at middle of the pack for UZR as does Hardball Times for RZR.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 5 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
lol, Trollie loves batting average and errors.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
bye bye bone spurscynical theory - cardinals hold off on new deal until surgery to fix what is causing spurs i.e. tommy john
― bnw, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link