Kansas City Royals at Houston Astros, Jun 24, 2009 7:05 PM CDT
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:00 PM CDT
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Royals lead the series 1-0
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Kansas City Royals Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009, 7:05 PM CDT Partly cloudy. Game time temperature around 95.
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The Astros need to celebrate Mier's signing with a win behind the Wizard.
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yeah
and Matsuit over Maysonet at 2nd, even though Matsui sucks.
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despite the single
it was awfully nice of the Royals to put DeJesus at the top of the order like that.
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Hochevar starts with 2 consecutive K's.
The Royals’ pitcher appears to have a dandy breaking pitch tonight. Astros’ players can’t make contact.
I want that bust
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
LSU just walked in a run
After three BB and this BB was a ridiculous 10+ pitch AB.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
Texas -LSU game is exciting
Longhorns load the bases in first and third. Took like forever to finally scoe a run – but did get 2 runs somehow in the third.
LSU Leads 4-2 but there will be many more runs scored from the looks of things
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions
The LSU pitcher
Just seemed gassed at the end. Such a long frame.
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Idiot tried for inside the park homerun
and gunned down easily!!!!!!!
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:32 PM CDT reply actions
On the other side
Bourn seems lackadaisical going up Tal’s Hill
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:34 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't know how it is for you guys
For me it goes ESPN, ESPN 2, FSN three baseball games, all a click away…it’s over load.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
I've got Longhorns on ESPN.
Astros on Internet ,
and am eating my freshly grilled hamburgers.
Oh yeah – and followoing The Crawfish Boxes
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm in the same boat
Only I just finished the freshly grilled burger.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:40 PM CDT up reply actions
of course
that was a great example of the ridiculous dimensions in CF
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Pudge seems like
He could go for a few days off.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
with the way every Astros hitter is swinging....
it looks like that they could all go for a day off.
Mmmmmm
Gotta love facing the minimum.
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What I would do with that hour of my life back?
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:43 PM CDT up reply actions
http://www.crawfishboxes.com/2009/6/24/923909/no-deal-yet-with-mier-in-spite-of
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Well
Keith Law tweeted it was a done deal this morning, the Heck denied it. So I posted the denial to clear up the confusion. Then I get home from the post office, no more than 30 minutes later (damn post office lines) and suddenly it’s a deal.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:47 PM CDT up reply actions
you misunderstand me
in spite of twitter what said
forget it, I’m feeling snarky today.
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Oh
I see it now. I suck.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I want some slack cut
I’m sick which only compounds my normal inability to edit anything I read on computer screen.
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:00 PM CDT up reply actions
on a* computer screen
FML
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Why did Keppinger try to backhand that ball?
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:47 PM CDT reply actions
you know
his defense this season is really making me hate Carlos. It just seems to be even worse this season. I am so tired of seeing him lazily jog towards balls bouncing around in the corner.
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Have you seen his "run" to first?
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:54 PM CDT up reply actions
yeah
but that’s not nearly as horrible to me as his crap in the field. The light stroll towards first base might cost the Astros a few runs per season. That sucks, but he makes up for it with other hitting skills.
But his defense is so awful, and he just doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Come Roy!!!!
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Strikeout with the bases loaded
That takes care of things
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 7:53 PM CDT reply actions
Beautiful
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:54 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Roy should learn something from this inning.
Don’t trust your defense.
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by Only_A_Lad on Jun 24, 2009 7:54 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
HAHAHA
rec-ed
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not going anywhere
and I’d like to see that too.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm turning my clothes inside-out as we speak
Didn’t work against the cubs last year, but whatever.
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I could employ my 2005 NLDS strategy
And start stripping
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I didn't realize they were hitless
That’s not good
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:01 PM CDT up reply actions
if I get back from my tennis match, and find out the Astros had a no hitter...
tossed against them….I will be pissed. And, I’m not even mentioning that it is a perfect game for Hochevar so far.
We need to get JD and Brownie to immediately start talking about it on the air
To jinx Hochevar.
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A good friend of mine used to say, "This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." Think about that for a while.
by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions
according to Brown
The Astros have scored less than 3 runs in 20/35 of the their home games
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Two Tied games
Astros – Royals – 0-0
Longhorns -Tigers —4-4
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:00 PM CDT reply actions
Oh dang
How’d the Horns get those runs?
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:01 PM CDT up reply actions
HOMERUN (for last two runs) i fifth inning
Ground out and walked in run in third inning
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:02 PM CDT up reply actions
It was the HR I missed
Thanks
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Hochevar might not be the ugliest pitcher the Astros have gotten no-hit by in the past few years
but he seems like he’d be the least douchebaggy.
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It's the five-year anniversary of the Beltran trade
I do love hating that SOB.
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Tomorrow's the anniversary
of Chacon’s “incident” with Wade.
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Hahaha
Awesome
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 8:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Carlos you idiot
What the hell are you doing trying for two
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wow
Butler’s surprisingly fleet-of-foot
He was safe, btw.
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Rough inning for Astros and Longhorns
Royals score 1 to take the lead
Tigers score 2 to take the lead
Royals and Tigers still batting
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:30 PM CDT reply actions
Roy Oswalt
over 100 pitches and they were hard pitches. I’d be surprised if he returns for the seventh inning
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:34 PM CDT reply actions
MIguel Tejada said it's time to play small ball.
so doth it be.
by entropic soul on Jun 24, 2009 8:38 PM CDT up reply actions
LSU 9 Longhorns 4
middle of the sixth
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:40 PM CDT reply actions
3 unearned runs
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:43 PM CDT up reply actions
KC Fielding getting sloppy this inning
They are helping the Astros
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:40 PM CDT reply actions
PINCH Homer - Erstad
2 runs to give Roy a chance to win this game
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 8:42 PM CDT reply actions
Hunter walks
Hochevar kept throwing him sliders outside and low, but he only swung at that pitch once. That’s what I meant by the “2008 book” thing.
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Cardinals LOST 11-0
Reds LOST 8-2
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:04 PM CDT reply actions
Fernando Nieve got the win in the Cardinals game
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Pirates WON10-6
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:11 PM CDT up reply actions
with good starting pitching
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Farnsworth
In pain
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CWS going LSU's way
8th inning
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:13 PM CDT reply actions
WHAAAT????!
Of course Coop just uses him to bunt.
by entropic soul on Jun 24, 2009 9:19 PM CDT up reply actions
and he bunts
how frustrating for him
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:19 PM CDT up reply actions
why?
Maysonet’s fast. Kaz is fast. The top of the order is coming up. CUT IT OUT.
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Hmm.. Matsui's hitting .345 this month.
One of the fewer Astros who is hitting better this month than the whole season.
Keppinger batting with 2 outs and runner on third
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:23 PM CDT reply actions
Walked
That’sagood
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:24 PM CDT up reply actions
But not his third strike swing
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:28 PM CDT up reply actions
LSU Scored again
lead 10-4
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:29 PM CDT reply actions
Error Berkman
I want to say Buckman
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:33 PM CDT reply actions
He better turn an awesome double play to make up for it.
I know he hasn’t bothered to get on base today.
WOW
Jason Michaels great catch (or did he?) and then doubled off the runner at first – Wait – now umpires say NO CATCH!!!!!!!
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:36 PM CDT reply actions
he should do that
at the start of every game
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by Only_A_Lad on Jun 24, 2009 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Reason #4,591,268
That wins are stupid.
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 24, 2009 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Tie game
Royals still battig with 2 runners
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:41 PM CDT reply actions
or
Carlos, who played terrible defense
Miggy, who played poor defense
All the hitters who couldn’t get on freaking base
One unlucky play does not a game make.
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It does in the 9th inning...
when you’re winning by 1 and the game would be over now because there are two outs, but instead it’s tied with bases loaded.
by entropic soul on Jun 24, 2009 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Ask Billy Buckner about that
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:48 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Actuall
Buckner’s error is a spectacular example of my point.
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I'm so down
Bases loaded for KC
Longhorns trail 11-4 in the ninth
Sinking
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:46 PM CDT reply actions
Okay _ Astros can win it with one in the ninth!
Let’s go Astros.
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:47 PM CDT reply actions
The “ball bouncing off a wall in the field of play cannot be caught for an out” rule is stupid…that’s harder to do than catching it in the air…it should count for two outs!
Man, that’s what we would have done in middle school…
“Does anybody know the rule on that? No? OK, let’s make it worth two outs, but if you hit that tree over there, you double your runs”
some of the ground rules in Major League parks these days....
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All will be forgiven
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:51 PM CDT up reply actions
LSU CWS National Champions
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 9:53 PM CDT reply actions
as a former Tulane student
and current UT student…
fuck LSU
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zOMG
the failed Moneyball script has been leaked
oh, and Pena just stabbed us all in our hearts.
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jesus christ
you all have to read this thing
From the opening scene:
we reach an underground room – a danke and desolate purgatory – where a solitary figure bench-presses weights with the intensity of a soul expiating sins.
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Ugh - rewrite please
that’s horrible
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Is it Roger Clemens?
He seems like he would press weights with the intensity of a soul expiating sins.
by entropic soul on Jun 24, 2009 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Byrdak pitching did not instill confidence
Homerun hurts bad
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:02 PM CDT reply actions
Model tells Terrell Owens to shut up
This has nothing to do with baseball but in case you like a foul mouthed model tell Terrell Owens to shut up, this is for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmPfLRsx_Bs
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:10 PM CDT reply actions
Astros need some bench players bad
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:12 PM CDT reply actions
Scored by an eyebrow
to tie the game!!!!!!
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:14 PM CDT reply actions
oooohh- so close
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe he liked Angels in the Outfield as a kid.
by entropic soul on Jun 24, 2009 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Second time tonight
Tejada had a terrible swing at thied strike
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:23 PM CDT reply actions
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and all the heartache associated with that, and you can’t take an extra-innings game in June?
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Another KC Homerun
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:24 PM CDT reply actions
JD suggests Coop walk the next two dudes
sure. Why the hell not? It would probably get Soria out, I suppose.
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Fulchino wants to strike out the next two guys
HE struck out the first one
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Second guy popped out to Bourn in shallow center
The question now is Will Astros score in the bottom of the inning?
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
If recent history tells us anything
Yes, they will score one run to tie it up and then give up a homer in the first pitch of the next inning
Why is Michaels on the MLB roster? ...
Someone please explain .. he doesn’t even have a chance
i am so sick
of watching the team blow it so after many chances to win. I normaly am a very mild mannered when watching the stros but this is horrible i mean WTF pudge if the guy is checking to see where ur lined up call for a FB high and tight and you won’t have your pitcher being hung out to dry(although not really a good pitch anyways), and Berkman my God if you are going to prove that ur still playin hard even if your manager is an idiot then u might want to follow baseball fundementals and put your golve on the ground. and coop where i know Ersytad finally came through( Finally) but WTF Roy was cruising, but you will look smart because Erstad hit a homer(Even a blind Squirl finds a nut).
ASTROS LOSE 4-3
too numb to hurt
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by Joe in Birmingham on Jun 24, 2009 10:41 PM CDT reply actions
I came home to see an extra inning loss. at least I spent some time reading that moneyball script. some of it sounds funny.
I read the entire thing
I see why it was shelved. The Bill James cameo’s are just ridiculous.
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by Stephen Higdon on Jun 25, 2009 1:43 AM CDT up reply actions
He comes off like the unibomber
writing crazy screeds from his bedroom, lecturing the audience.
The biggest problem that the script has, I think, is that it is trying to mimic the format of the book too much. So it has these halting documentary moments when James is glowering at his typewriter/audience or whatever and his voiceover tells us why batting average and errors suck. Then we segue back into the “action,” and the whole thing just feels weird.
I mean, there’s a good way to introduce sabermetrics to the audience, and it’s the same way Beane was introduced to it: Sandy Alderson. Alderson was secretly using all these ideas that James was advocating, and he taught Beane everything he knew.
Maybe if the story is told in a more chronological fashion, moving from Beane as a high schooler to 2002, the whole thing would come across better. We could see Beane fail in a more understandable fashion (in the script, we just see a flashback of him striking out and getting cut from teams; well, that and the Dykstra cameo), then we could get a less weird method for explaining Bill James’ ideas.
Part of the problem is that Moneyball (the book) tries to tell three stories:
1) The A’s vs. the Yankees, Red Sox, etc.
2) The “nerds” vs. the “traditionalists”
3) The young players vs. the scouts.
And, in the book, all of these come across very well. The first story is pretty obvious, and we find out how the A’s take on the wealthy teams almost completely. The second comes across in the “exposition” parts of the book (the bits about James and STATS inc.), as well as in the arguments between Beane/Podesta and the scouting department.
The third is stated explicitly at a few points in the book, but it’s a big subtext throughout the whole thing. Lewis insinuates (though he might very well have flat-out stated it; it’s been a while since I’ve read the book) that Beane’s attraction to stats and aversion to subjective evaluation stems from his failure in professional baseball; he didn’t want other kids to go through what he went through because some scout imagined he could be a star in some heat-stroke induced fantasy.
In the script, though, none of this but the first story is really explored (we get James, the broadcasters, and Morgan for the 2nd, but very little of it seems to fit; the most we ever really get is Art Howe’s speech, and that was just stupid). And even that isn’t very interesting. What’s introduced doesn’t go anywhere, anyways.
I think you could make a good book that tells Moneyball’s story, but you can’t just copy the book’s rhythm, and you have to make more of the picture about the characters. We get that to some degree with Beane, de Podesta, and Hatteburg, but that’s it.
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here is a writer who read the script and kind of liked it...
His take is that the first and last scene are very good, but the middle part isn’t a great. He thinks the script works pretty well.
I like your idea about tying the story to Bean’s formative years as a young prospect. I think a traditional narrative “chronology” might be called for when the project itself is a subject which is difficult to commercialize.
As for the “unibomber” feel to the James character, the analogy probably isn’t that far off, in terms of a Hollywood story line. To many people, James would seem to be strangely obssessed, as he wrote his articles during his boring hours as a night watchman, and then mimeographed them for a cult of followers.
the only suspense to look forward to now...
is to see whether Cooper is going to lose it in his press conference.
Cooper didn’t say much of note. “this loss is disappointing.” He said the Astros struggle at home and he doesn’t know why.
Pudge's comments.
He used the classic Biggio line: “That’s baseball.”
He was asked about some angry words he had with the Royals bench near the end of the game. He wouldn’t say what he said to them. “That stays on the field.”
Pretty professional comment about it staying on the field. Keeps from creating bulletin board material, anyway. And less likely to get the ol’ chin music tomorrow.
But I’d still like to know what happened out there.
yeah, I missed a lot of the game....
so I don’t know what was going on. Were the Royals doing something to show up the Astros? Steve Sparks said it wasn’t surprising that Pudge didn’t want to make it bulletin board material. However, Sparks said he saw Pudge saying something to the Royals’ first baseman like “if that’s the way you want to play the game, then we can make sure you have a long day tomorrow.”
Just watching the highlight shows
Pudge had a problem with the Royals catcher peek at him giving the signs. I’d think there has to be more to it than that.
Wow
simultaneous post.
The no-peeking thing is one of those unwritten rules, and I think Pudge especially expected Pena to abide by it since he was the catcher.
My best guess
I think when Pena was batting, he may have been trying to peek at where Pudge was setting up. Pudge started jawing at him in the middle of the at-bat and at one point put a finger in his chest, although it didn’t look too confrontational.
yes, that may explain it.
the unwritten code is that someone who “peeks” in an obvious fashion gets a pitch in the ribs. that has been known to happen often enough that if someone peeks, it isn’t obvious.
I read something recently about an opposing team airing complaints about A-Rod. Supposedly, he was yelling “code words” from the batting circle to alert the Yankees batter on the location of the catcher. He may have gotten thrown at in the game, I can’t recall. This struck me as humorous, given A-Rod’s history (e.g., the allegation a few years ago that, as a base runner on 3d base, he called “I got it” when the rookie 3d baseman tried to catch a pop up, causing an error).
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