Fight on, Phil Hughes
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The USC football team faces Washington at Husky Stadium this afternoon. It’s a short ride from Safeco Field and Phil Hughes will be there on the sideline for the first half.
Phil is a devoted fan of the Trojans and is fired-up to see the team up close. Seeing the USC Song Girls up close won’t be such a bad deal, either.
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He’s not the only one that is a fan of USC, especially their cheerleaders.:) Go Trojans!
Neat for Phil – hope he has a good time.
I’m feeling nostalgic for his days as a starter – I want him in that rotation badly, lol.
Here’s the link to the Batman story:
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports.....FpSoKUKFbI
LOL ……..good, I don’t like the recent Batman movies. The 60’s series is a classic………..
bru
September 19th, 2009 at 11:15 am
“as long as jim pir-one does not cross the line he should not be banned
the people who email pete because he might be a pain or write off the wall stuff need to get a life.
please pete can you ban him because he is off the wall ???
please get real
now i dont know if he crossed the line but if he did not big deal
bunny did cross the line by calling someone a sl*t or tr*mp”
He did not cross the line. He has differing opinions than most of us on the blog. Which is why he was banned.
Pat si – He monopolizes the comments section with his crap. Its got nothing to do with his opinions being nonsense, its the fact that he takes over everything with them. I’m sick of the sheer volume of them. I gave up interacting with him when his rants over Cody Ransom became illogical and immature, much less his vitriol towards everything Boston and New England.
I can take obnoxious insanity in small doses – Jim crossed the “small doses” line a long time ago though.
Going back to previous posts regarding Ichiro: To walk or not to walk that is the question. Not 20/20, at the time I thought they should’ve walked him, In spite of his poor #s career-wise vs Mo, he is a hot hitter. He had the GW the previous night, had 3 hits in current game, is hitting 350 and is the only hitter on that team who can hurt you. Earlier in the game Coney said if Ichiro came up late in the game with a chance to beat him he’d walk him. (Although in postgame he backtracked on that perhaps wanting to avoid publicly 2nd guessing Joe). If Ichiro was walked, sure he could’ve scored on a 2b. But would you rather risk Gutierrez (sp?) getting a 2b or Ichiro getting a single to tie?
Phil is gonna be all over those song girls
The Yankees are 11-6 in September
The Red Sox are 11-5 in September
Wow… those Red Sox are HOOOOT
How bad could it get, well it could get pretty bad. The outcome I think comes down to this week. I’m not sure looking at the aggregate of games left for both teams gives the true picture. Yanks 2 more in Seattle, then 3 in LA before Boston. Boston plays 2 more with Baltimore and Leister pitching today, Dice K tomm, then 4 with KC and Beckett pitches the first game. You have to figure that Boston wins most of those games.
The worst case scenario is the Yanks don’t match Boston wins over the balance of this road trip, then they play each other next weekend, the standings are close and they play the last week almost evenup.
I actually think today’s game is critical. CC has to win to mute what I think will probably be a Leister win. Then if they could win tomm and even take 1 from LA things would look much better for the Sox series.
I would have walked Ichiro but you have to remember that Mariano was on the mound, and he feels like he’s good enough to get anyone out. I’m pretty sure Mo would not have been happy intentionally walking the winning run with 2 outs, and Girardi certainly knew it. If it was Hughes or Aceves in the same situation in the 8th inning, then it might have been a different story.
Who is Leister?
Angel – A tale told by idiots – full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am
“Pat si – He monopolizes the comments section with his crap. Its got nothing to do with his opinions being nonsense, its the fact that he takes over everything with them. I’m sick of the sheer volume of them. I gave up interacting with him when his rants over Cody Ransom became illogical and immature, much less his vitriol towards everything Boston and New England.
I can take obnoxious insanity in small doses – Jim crossed the “small doses” line a long time ago though.”
I dislike his vitriol towards everything Boston and New England, too. However, I agreed with his sentiments regarding Ransom. Ransom is the farthest thing from a major league baseball player.
Phil Hughe$ i$ a U$C fan?
What a $hock!
RS I agree, even though there was some pride involved I’d rather not pitch to a guy hitting .360 with the tying run on second. Hughes was already gone and they were using Mo so the remaining cannon fodder in the bullpen would have been in if it went to extra innings.
It just didn’t work out and the timing was pretty poor for it to happen. You would really like to win that first one of the season. Yanks really had some chances but let the opportunities go by. Now today becomes a very big deal and lets hope Yanks can win this one.
Sorry series not season
“He did not cross the line. He has differing opinions than most of us on the blog. Which is why he was banned.”
Many here have dissenting opinions. Some are like nails on a chalkboard about them though.
Sometimes it’s not what you say but how (and how often) you say it that is the source of conflict.
Nick.
I asked in the last thread for your CFB lock today…(As well as Pat M’s.
My lock is Michigan/E Michigan OVER- 54.5
My Alma mater at Clemson right now. Good Luck against the Gophers.
Hope you have had a good start to weekend.
-dennis
Who’s got more power? Lopez or Ichiro?
So, yes, Ichiro’s likely to get a hit. But it was probably .1 % chance he hits a homerun.
So let’s say, he hits a single and knocks the pinch runner in. Tie game.
Then you attack Lopez. But Ichiro had to beat the odds that he’d get a hit to even get to Lopez. And what are the chances that Lopez scores Ichiro from first? Or even second? Odds keep going down in Seattle’s favor.
No one, even the ones who claimed they wanted the IBB, thought that Ichiro was going to hit a bomb off Rivera. No one.
So, the manager still made the right move. It just didn’t work out. 999 times out of a 1000 it works. Just wasn’t last night.
Sorry, dennis, didn’t see. I guess it’s too late to give Cal as my lock, ha. I knew it was a mistake for Minnesota to invite Larry Craig to give the pre-game motivational speech.
I don’t know about cold stone locks, but I like Nevada this afternoon and UNLV late — and not even as a get-well game.
I kind of like UW and the points, especially with a little friendly teasing.
Bowling Green and UCLA as well.
Pat si
how come he got banned if he did not cross the line?
i know people who are downright nasty to pete & others who do not get banned
claire challenges pete to the point were she is under his skin.
all of our opinions are different
bru,
Saw your previous posts.
I agree with you on the conspiracist. If you don’t like it, scroll past.
fuzzy math, m.
Angel – A tale told by idiots – full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
now there should be a limit on posts ???
i know a ton of people who have gotten into very heavy debates & post a million times
i dont know what he did but it seems very petty
maybe i am missing something but people should be allowed to express their opinions.
there are better ways of dealing with pain in the butt people who do not cross the line than being tattle tales
Anyone know if Posada is playing tonight?
UCLA’s version of SC’s ‘Fight On’ song (which Pete cleverly references in his headline) used to be:
Fight on
for old SC,
the players want
their salary!
Yeah, but the point is that Lopez was more likely to knock one out of the park than Ichiro. And if you put Ichiro on, you don’t even need a Lopez homerun for Seattle to win.
The earliest Posada can play is Sunday.
You never intentionally walk the winning run. Especially not Ichiro who can easily score from first on any double. no, no, no.
The name of the game is winning, not whether or not someone gets a home run or a game-tying hit. Ichiro is more likely to plate the run and there was an open base. Pitching to Ichiro there is not a 999-to-1 proposition.
I’m not saying it was an awful decision, as the bashers seem to be, just that it’s not some type of 999-to-1 no-brainer to pitch to Ichiro there. Walking him would have been very defensible.
Bru- His opinions, while I do not agree with many of them, are not that outlandish. However, nobody wants to believe that the sport(s) they love is corrupt, and that is exactly what Jim suggests on a daily basis.
Tough game last night. Mariano moved past it pretty quickly, I suggest we all do too. 6 games is alot of ground. As you can see by the Sept. record of our boys compared to those chasing us, we have nothing to worry about.
Go get em today !
I would love to see if someone could bring up that Stat, when was the last time Mariano have intentionally walked someone in the 9th inning?
Never?
CB
September 19th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Walk Ichiro.
The only one who can prove they aren’t second guessing.
nick in sf-
if you don’t know about this site check it out and type in your username:
http://www.backtype.com/
i was just glancing at 51 pages of one of our illustrious posters.
pretty funny.
i think you’ll see the possibilities if you haven’t already.
I will check it out later, I have to get to work.
Cal 2H -7. Book it.
Good day and good luck!
Godspeed.
That’s baloney that Jim would have toned it down if he had been asked to do so.
People have been telling him to tone it down for weeks and he’s never gotten the hint. He continued to post all that stupid conspiracy nonsense even after Pete told him to stop doing it or he’d be banned.
It’s one thing to have a differing opinion and another thing to single-handedly turn the blog into a cesspool as it was last night.
When one person provokes that much commotion and mayhem, Pete has every right to get rid of said nuisance.
And I say this as someone who has had more than his share of heated exchanges with Pete the last 9 months.
I wish this was more Thread / Forum based, combined with pete’s updates, than Blog based. I would be so much easier to read and search. Everyone would have to have ONE username with ONE email address.
It is so much easier to see and sort through the abusers / trolls / slimeballs that way.
If it was Vbulletin based, you could even hide certain people you don’t want to see. So many advantages including searching capabilities.
Guys: please do not respond or comment on trolls. This sick person has submitted literally 200+ comments in the last 24 hours, 99 percent of them into the spam filter. Twisted stuff. I’ve asked others to handle it. Please, just ignore him. Thanks.
It is amazing to me that Pete moderates this blog. How in the world does he have time?
Hi Pete.
It’s not second guessing. Ichiro is a .360 hitter, by far the best hitter on the team.
He’s a killer with RISP. It doesn’t matter if you have Mo on the mound or not, with a base open in a one run game in the ninth, you walk Ichiro – always.
You walk Ichiro to get to a mediocre hitter like Lopez.
The argument that no one thought Ichiro was going to hit a home run is nonsensical. He certainly is always a threat to get a hit, and that’s all it would have taken to tie the game. He’s only got about 220 of them already, which leads the league.
It was a missed call by Girardi. Simple as that.
Pete,
Thanks for doing what you have done to keep this environment sane and accommodating to those of us who wish for an intelligent, reasonable discussion of Yankee baseball. I am not one of those who emailed you requesting that you take action, but appreciate it none the less.
rconn23,
I don’t think it would be defensible to intentionally put the winning run on base in the person of Ichiro Suzuki. Not with the havoc he wrecks on the base paths.
Mariano facing Ichiro, it was our HOF pitcher against their HOF hitter. It was a great baseball moment. In this case, their HOFer won out. He did it in a dramatic, wholly unexpected way. Appreciate the beauty of baseball in that encounter.
Remember the outrage when Girardi asked MO to intentionally walk Longoria?
I sure don’t know what the odds of Ichiro scoring the winning run from first would have been if he was IBB, but I sure could have slept better knowing that Mo was beaten by Lopez than the way it went down. As well as it would have been harder to second guess Girardi for the move and now he can be.
In the end it really doesn’t matter they lost and they will move on.
As for my own selfishness, I want this division wrapped up ASAP and seeing a Roger Maris jersey would have been great.
randy l.
September 19th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
nick in sf-
if you don’t know about this site check it out and type in your username:
http://www.backtype.com/
i was just glancing at 51 pages of one of our illustrious posters.
pretty funny.
i think you’ll see the possibilities if you haven’t already.
THAT is scary yet useful
Ichiro was 2/10 against Mariano in the past. That was his first HR and RBI against Mariano. Mariano had previously intentionally walked him once before.
Seems like Mariano had the odds, but Ichiro was due.
The thing that stinks the most is being up at 1:00am to see them lose that way…I would have much rather read about it this morning.
Vadner,
And waiting until 10 PM tonight to watch them again
Vader,
I too was in shock when Suzuki hit that bomb. That game was already in the win column in my head. After all, Mo is “automatic,” right? I don’t like the loss either.
However, I don’t think you can fault Joe for the match up. I’ll take my chances with Mo against anybody. Putting Ichiro on base (especially with something to prove after being picked off twice last night) was a bad idea. Having Mo pitching to Lopez, ticked off that Joe didn’t trust him to get Suzuki could have been a worse idea.
This morning, I can be more philosophical about it and just enjoy it as another great baseball moment. It wasn’t a critical game for the Yanks. We’ll just go get ‘em with CC on the mound tonight.
It is perfectly reasonable to argue an IBB was called for when the best singles hitter on the planet can tie the game with a base hit.
Generally the rule of thumb that rejects putting the winning run on base is correct but not always. If the opposing team’s best hitter is at the plate in that situation and a “pretty good” hitter is on deck I walk the better hitter ever time.
I don’t think Girardi could have made a “bad” decision either way, but it is clearly debatable.
Letting Molina hit was less debatable. A run is more valuable there than emergency catcher insurance
Ed,
True and to me it really doesn’t matter…what does is watching the Tigers let the Twins back in, with six games left it will be interesting to watch.
“However, I agreed with his sentiments regarding Ransom. Ransom is the farthest thing from a major league baseball player.”
Yes, he wasn’t going to go to Brian Cashman and ask to be designated for assignment because people think he’s not, which was the crux of his riduculous argument regarding Ransom.
*ridiculous
“now there should be a limit on posts ???”
“This sick person has submitted literally 200+ comments in the last 24 hours, 99 percent of them into the spam filter.”
Yes, Bru, there sometimes should be. This is one of those times. Freedom of speech comes with responsibility.
Apparently the spam filter agrees with me too.
“there are better ways of dealing with pain in the butt people who do not cross the line than being tattle tales”
Who said I “tattle tailed”, Bru? I didn’t email Peter about him for your information. I skip over Jim’s posts – have since I decided he wasn’t worth a second of my time. But others felt differently, which is their right too.
what are the odds of Lopez/Guthirrez hitting another gapper off MO?
You don’t face Ichiro, period.