Update on the Giambi interview
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on May 03, 2007 
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Thanks to all 283 of you who sent in questions for Jason Giambi. It was hard to get to 10 so I picked 15 and the Big G graciously agreed to answer them all.
I have to say, you guys came up with a lot of good questions. Giambi got a kick out of doing the interview and the whole concept.
The transcript and the audio will be available here on Sunday morning. This will be available on the blog, not in The Journal News. A little added value for your blog loyalty.
sounds good Pete, I look forward to it, thanks for doing it man.
Awesome
Giambi’s got to be a great interview. I thought of a better question than the one I e-mailed in, but I’ll save it for when Pete interviews Johnny Damon.
wow this is horrible. Damon is doing worse than coco at this point.
looking forward to the giambi interview.
you know what i’m really, really tired of? watching yankee pitchers fail to put hitters away in good counts (0-2, 1-2), fail to get the third out of an inning (pettitte got two outs and walked two in the first before recording the third), and give up runs directly after the offense has scored a run in the previous frame. the first two lead to higher pitch counts, which leads to shorter outingss, and the second gives the offense zero chance to get something rolling. they got a one-day respite from this with hughes, and then lost him for two months. it’s absolutely maddening. i don’t care that this game is tied 1-1 in the third inning. as long as yankee pitching continues to fail in these three areas, the yankees will continue to struggle. i don’t know how you can watch this happen right now and think this team is going to be okay. even they’re “good” pitchers fail in these regards. it’s absolutely disgusting to watch.
I put on Gameday and initially thought Pettitte was doing fine. Then I saw his pitch count. Wha?!
kasey, I think all your concerns are very specific versions of (a) our pitches give up too many runs and (b) don’t go deep enough into games. It’s frustrating when a pitcher immediately gives up a lead, or puts runners on with two outs, or wastes good counts, but the result’s the same if the same if the pitcher never lets us get a lead, puts runners on base with no outs, or never gets good counts.
By the way, how new is Gameday’s depiction of pitch trajectories? It’s amazing for a free applet.
Attention: Jason Giambi is currently batting .326. Yes, you read that correctly. No need to adjust your monitor.
Jeremey, I think it’s just a week or so old. I have been watching the games on MLB.TV, but somebody mentioned the trajectories last week and I went to see for myself. It *is* pretty cool for a freebie, isn’t it?.
Oops- I misspelled your name. Sorry about that, mate.
Peter,
Something Lettermanish:
Publish the top ten funniest questions submitted, whether they were asked or whether they were relevant.