Red Sox 6, Orioles 4: Lines you shouldn't read in a box score
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 2, 2010 10:28 PM EDT
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This is not the complete story of tonight's game, but it's a story of tonight's game. If I never see Wigginton at first base after this, it'll honestly be too soon.
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It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 2, 2010 10:30 PM EDT reply actions
If you keep it up with your brilliant and funny posts here
people are going to run me out of town and demand you take over.
Luke and Felix are good for the soul. -33
never!
Animated corpses could play better than Lugo
by Dodge that Bird! on Sep 3, 2010 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Stacy would like a word with you.
Bring back Luis Matos.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 2, 2010 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Stacey would like a word with stacy
Bring back Luis Matos.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 2, 2010 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
MS Paint, F T double u
Bring back Luis Matos.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 2, 2010 10:49 PM EDT reply actions
Possibly a sign that Stacey and I are completely insane.
Eat More Esskay: The more I think about it the less sense it makes.
Reimold should have been swinging away, then Corey PH for Izzy.
Stacey: word word word
Eat More Esskay: Moldy was due.
Izzy was also due, but he sucks.
Stacey: Plus Moldy doesn’t suck!
I don’t care what the numbers say
he doesn’t
not like izzy
Eat More Esskay: We could have told him we saw Anusface hitting on his model sister, then he would have hit a home run.
Stacey: I love telling Reimold mean things about Red Sox pitchers
Eat More Esskay: I have no idea why I suddenly think Nolan is the kind of guy who’s going to go Hulk Smash if you say something like that, but I just imagine him hitting and him picturing the baseball with someone’s face on it and it seems so perfect.
Stacey: ahahaha when they make the movie of Nolan’s life, the ball will always have someone’s face on it, floating towards him before he knocks it out of the park
Eat More Esskay: Most likely it’s his baby mama’s face at this point, but that’s not very Hollywood.
Stacey: the baby mama will get her comeuppance in the movie though, don’t you worry
Eat More Esskay: Yeah, when the Orioles win the World Series she’ll be watching on some rundown old TV in the back of a McDonald’s restaurant.
Stacey: ahahhaha
Eat More Esskay: Meanwhile Nolan will be making out with like… I don’t know. Some young starlet. At home plate.
Stacey: I feel like maybe Nolan meets a nice Baltimore girl who isn’t interested in being a gold digger. The audience will love her hometown charm while that bleach blonde fake boobed baby mama cries as she’s reduced to having to work at Hooters.
Eat More Esskay: Yes. This is beautiful.
Stacey: ahah
Eat More Esskay: The girl doesn’t even like baseball at first and she meets Nolan by accident somewhere.
Stacey: yeah she has no idea who he is
Eat More Esskay: And she has a Fathead of Joe Flacco in her apartment instead.
Stacey: ahahahaah
maybe we have some scene of Nolan trying to have a beer somewhere after the game and all these girls are fawning over him because he’s the star of the team and he just doesn’t understand why no one likes him for him
Eat More Esskay: He walked right across to Pickles Pub and it was full of Red Sox or Yankees fans and he was sad.
Stacey: aw poor sad nolan
he has to meet the hometown girl of his dreams somewhere random, like the gas station and he doesn’t tell her who he is for awhile because he loves feeling normal
and that’s the conflict, when she finds ot
out
Eat More Esskay: She wonders why he can never do anything at night, or why he disappears for days at a time, and she sees him on MASN right as Gary Thorne is saying, “Good bye, home run!”
Stacey: ahahhaah
I can’t for Gary Thorne to be the Bob Uecker of this movie.
Eat More Esskay: No, wait, she turns on right when they’re comparing Nolan to Brady Anderson through 414 career games and she sees his picture there.
Stacey: he tells her he has to go out of town for business, she thinks he’s some kind of salesman
ahahah those stupid comparisons
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 2, 2010 10:57 PM EDT reply actions 7 recs
I... can't believe I just read that whole thing.
You guys won’t resort to this once the Orioles are in contention again, will you?
Presumably winning Orioles baseball will leave us feeling slightly more sane.
I think our Nolan movie idea is pure genius here, though.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 2, 2010 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions
This is fucking tremendous.
TREMENDOUS.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
This is definitely a Barry Levinson Joint.
Definitely.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
The Joe Flacco fathead
sealed it for me. I’ll send $10 seed money.
"Now let's quit talkin' about it and get it started."
--Buck Showalter
Looks like I missed a good one.
Darn. What was so terrible that I missed?
The stache is back!
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 3, 2010 12:38 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Three things mostly.
1. Wiggy was a butcher in the field at 1B. Three unearned runs due to his error, and a fourth run that I feel is chiefly on him for failing to scoop a relay throw from Roberts at 2B.
2. Bottom of the 9th, Pie and Wieters lead off with singles. Two men on, no one down. O’s down by two runs. Due up is Nolan. Buck PHs in Scorey to lay down a sac bunt.
3. The next batter is Cesar Izturis. Buck leaves him in the game and he strikes out. No one is surprised.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 3, 2010 12:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Frickin' Hwhigglingggton. Frickin' Buck. Frickin' Izzy. Frickin' SCOREY, for that matter. He shoulda, y'know, "missed a sign"
I mean Cheez whiz, this kinda loss is so Old Familiar Orioles, 1998-2010, I wanna toss my breakfast cookies just looking at the regular box score.
Judas Frickin’ Priest, will this kinda sh#t#ss loss NEVER end?
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
In other news: Need a sure bet...?
Hey, who doesn’t? OK, here’s today’s Mortal Lock Dead Cinch: EuroCup 2012 qualifyer tonight: Russia vs. Andorra.
What? C’mon, go look at a globe. Or an atlas would probably be easier, actually. Go ahead, I’ll wait. OK, dja find it? Well, Andorra’s chances of whipping up on Russia tonight, even at home, are about as good as their chances of taking over Russia’s place on the globe you couldn’t find Andorra on —um, “modest.” More to the point, ask this: What’s their record since entering Euro competiton? Um, 3-90.
But see the good news is, you may find a bookie who’ll actually take a bet, ’cause Russia beat them last time…1-0! Yes, barely. Anyway, get some euros down on Russia here, even at steep odds. New Russia coach Dick Advocaat [sic] has this team fired up. Like I said: Mortal Lock.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
Tomorrow!!! The wait is OVER!!! Pac 10-er-12 Weekend Pix!!!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
its only 12 these days?
with all the racket they made in the offseason, i thought it was like 26 or something
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
Yeah, it sure was a weird "explosion"...which produced not 18 new teams or something but, um, 2 (and in 2012, I think).
And they’re not on the Pacific, either, of course. But let’s not start again…Anyway, for this year (and next?) it averages out to the Pac 11— but I sort of like the Pac 10-12 designation better…
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
I still say that Roberts' shitty ass throw was worse than Wiggy's shitty ass non-pick.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
Nay.
B-Rob made a pretty great play to even get to the ball in time, and throw in off-balance in the air; he hurrried up so they might have a chance to get the runner at first. turns out they did have a chance, but only if Ty makes a great play to scoop it. he did not. and, he already messed up a few balls before that.
I remarked to the guy in the next seat when he arrived in inning 2, ‘game OK, but Ty is having a bad day at first base.’ and it got worse. However, he has good days too, this one just cost us the game.
lol
What kind of “great throw” goes a total of 75 feet??? It was fucking horrible. Why the fuck did he hurry up? He had FOREVER. The throw, even on a fucking rainbow and bounced 8 feet in front of the base beat the runner by 3 steps.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
Yeah I'm just having a conversation by myself - responding to my own comments and all...
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
What on earth?
How on earth could you lay down a bunt to bring up Izturis??? The bunt is one thing, but then letting Izzy bat is just weird. Almost anyone on the bench would have had a better chance of coming through, including some of the pitchers. Watching Izzy strike out on splitters in the dirt was torture.
Letting Bell bat I kind of understand. If he’s going to be the 3B of the future, he needs to hit in these situations. It’s not like we’re contending.
At least Wieters is improving. 3-4 with two doubles, and not a cheap one in the bunch.
It was a good bunt as bunts go
But why Scorey bunting in front of Izturis and Bell? maybe he thought Scorey could beat the throw for an infield hit, but they were expecting bunt so probly not. and no outs? MLB managers see no outs and say ‘free bunt’ but I see three chances to get a hit, darnit. Pardon my French.
Everyone keeps criticizing about reimold
I think you may still be blinded by last year. In pretty sure he’s done… No need not to PH
by GeoffreyA on Sep 3, 2010 2:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Meaning we wouldn't want him to hurt himself on a sac bunt
If he even made contact
by GeoffreyA on Sep 3, 2010 2:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It's not so much about taking out Reimold as it is taking out Reimold only to sac bunt.
The O’s were down by two runs. Having two guys in scoring position with one out means a fly ball deep enough to score a guy is still leaving you one down with two outs. And this is a guy with a career fly ball percentage under 30%.
So basically, giving up an out means you need the next two guys to not make outs. Izturis – career OBP sub-.300, with a .273 OBP this season. Bell – is a rookie and strikes out a lot and Papelbon a batter per inning – so definitely a strikeout pitcher.
The sac bunt was just a terrible play in that situation. Leaving in Izturis was awful as well – although that was perhaps a function of injuries having depleted the bench, and if that’s the case that’s fine. I mean, the bench right there was Fox (who would have probably been even worse than Izturis against a pitcher like Papelbon), Tatum and Andino. Maybe you could bring in Andino if it was a lefty closer but Papelbon’s a righty and Andino bats righty, so okay, whatever.
I honestly would have rather seen Lugo hitting than Izturis, but Lugo had already been used to run for Wieters. A better sequence may have been Patterson PR for Wieters, Reimold hits normally (cross your fingers), Lugo PH for Izturis, Bell stays in and probably still inevitably strikes out on a 3-2 pitch out of the zone. We still lose unless Nolan gets on base, but having him batting gives us a non-zero chance of avoiding an out, whereas the Patterson sac bunt gave a 0% chance of avoiding an out with absolutely no benefit.
One run down, I can sorta see some rational argument for a sac bunt there. Play for the tie at home or whatever. OK. I still think that would be wrong with Izturis coming up, but it’s not as wrong. Down two, there’s no way, shape or form the sac was a good play. It did nothing to bring us closer to win the game and it did everything to bring us closer to losing it.
It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters
by Eat More Esskay on Sep 3, 2010 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
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