Game Thread 3: April 15, 2009
by Ryan on Apr 15, 2009 4:25 PM EDT
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PrintBottom of the 7th, the Indians up 5-2.
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Coco didn’t hit an inside-the-parker.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:28 PM EDT reply actions
Not buying it.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Are you comparing Betancourt to Chulk?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Just clarifying.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
There is no Adam Miller.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m sort of hoping it’s zero.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Pulled off the PA turnpike to find a sports bar for the end of the game. Strolled into “Legends” at the Holiday Inn, Mechanicsburg, PA. We scored two runs to go up 5-2 within my first 90 seconds here.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 4:33 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Hell no. Hotel has free wifi. 15 miles out of my way and worth every wasted minute.
LG-F-ing-T BITCHES
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You’re really not trying hard enough to fix the Indians.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I hate driving the PA turnpike, it feels like you’re driving through a DMZ, there’s so much concrete.
I like 80 a lot. Very scenic.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
We may be thinking of different stretches.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, I’m very rarely driving to Philly.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Have you decided where in Mechanicsburg you’re going to live for the rest of the year?
by Logodaedalus on Apr 15, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
He demanded a trade?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Interesting side note to pass along:
Nebraska Cornhusker football coach Bo Pelini is a big Indians fan. He grew up in Ohio and played for the Buckeyes (I think). He sent Kelly Shoppach a package of Husker gear the other day after he met Shoppach during spring training. I cover the Nebraska football team for my college newspaper. I’m going to ask him at practice today about his thoughts on the season.
I don’t know anything about him. Does he have a personality?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Anyone notice how many #42 have participated in this game? Feels like at least 5 to me.
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Elaborate, I just noticed everyone was wearing #42. I am a dumbass, is there a real reason?
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Question: Do we need Graffanino if Ponson is out of the game?
Eric Wedge. The Adam LaRoche of managers.
I love Choo. Seriously, though, what is Jensen doing out there?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:42 PM EDT reply actions
Are we going to go to Wood if Lewis gets in trouble? Is that the plan?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions
I’ll blame him for the walks, but not for this inning.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, boy. Wood, please.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:44 PM EDT reply actions
It’s either Mariano Rivera or Jackie Robinson.
by FredOx on Apr 15, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ok so while we’ve got a pause in the action, can I ask an MLB.tv question? Overall I like the new interface, but is there a way to make the “Jump to Inning”, pause/skip controls NOT show up every time I mouse over the window? That’s infuriating.
Why not Wood? He’s pitched in two freaking games!
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:46 PM EDT reply actions
We don’t have to beat the Royals. We just have to beat Miguel Olivio.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions
JESUS H… what the hell are these guys doing out here? Have they been smokin’ it all over the place all day?
I’m telling you, the Royals are swinging cods right now.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s my birthday!
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
That would explain a lot.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
If I could rec this 40 times, it wouldn’t be enough.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Just don’t go back to the same pitch.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions
Pretend I said “and location”
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Whew.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:50 PM EDT reply actions
One thing I miss about the fat man is the CGs
by millionairesrow on Apr 15, 2009 4:50 PM EDT reply actions
He’s ajerkjackass.
You know better than this.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions
What are the odds that it will be a save situation by the time Wood comes in?
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68%!
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ve been watching this game for less than one complete inning, and I already think this everybody-wears-42 thing is totally irritating and retarded.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Didn’t the Indians do the exact same thing for him in ’07?
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Here’s a stand: Jackie Robinson would think this was trite.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Jackie Robinson would bear the indignity of this trite marketing tribute with heroic stoicism.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Where’s that line? It’s here somewhere.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Not you, just the heroic stoicism joke. And I’m mostly kidding.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Fact is, in seriousness, Branch Rickey ended segregation in MLB. Robinson’s contribution was being a superstar player while bearing the weight of a lot of abuse.
But, you know, Obama is a White Sox fan, so the hell with it.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
To take it further, Rickey (and Veeck also) was far more interested in marketing dollars than in social equality. I’m not carrying the banner for the P.C. police. And I don’t think any of what was said diminished any of their accomplishments, nor does criticizing the ridiculous tribute.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, no doubt.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions
So whoever said “#42 will do good today” on thread one, was that a joke?
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you say this as though there were controversy on this point….
by Logodaedalus on Apr 15, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope. I still think we need table setters like Cabrera in front of him
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
You’re not seeing it. What if there were two lesser hitters too rarely on base in front of him so he could be at the plate with outs more often? Think of the possibilities.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Right where we want them.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Not a terrible idea, Victor is also swinging a cod right now.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
They get way too many no hitters as it is.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Everything Lucas has touched has been garbage for more than 25 years now.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Apparently Spielberg loved the Frank Darabont script for the 4th movie, but Lucas hated it and was allowed to veto. Lucas is solely responsible for the abomination
I also heard this version of the story.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions
The catcher beat him to the plate but I think he might have gotten his foot in under the tag to his chest.
He did get the foot under the tag. Unfortunately, the foot actually missed home plate.
by woodsmeister on Apr 15, 2009 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
What happened? Gameday is infuriating me by not saying what happened!
La Presidenta del Club de Amantes de Rafael Betancourt.
Ball in dirt, Grady out trying to take home.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
The market was over-invested in underfunded mortgage securities and their derivatives that were over-valued in part because of a misguided belief that they were government-backed.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
… because of a strain in Scott Lewis’ shoulder.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wedge teams never run well, especially when 3B-coached by Skinz.
by JulioBernazard on Apr 15, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Really? You are familiar with Wedge’s running game in the minors, without Skinner?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
No, haven’t done the research. His major-leage clubs run poorly.
by JulioBernazard on Apr 15, 2009 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Not only does Wakefield have a no-no going, he’d have a perfect game if not for an error by Mike Lowell.
Wakefield and Lowell are the only Sox I don’t hate.
La Presidenta del Club de Amantes de Rafael Betancourt.
I’m humming Welcome to the Jungle. Making it sound totally badass.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:07 PM EDT reply actions
Kerry Wood. ’Nuff said.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:09 PM EDT reply actions
Garko does not have many impressive skills, but I will give him this, he has a catcher’s good presence of mind.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Kerry Wood.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
glad you included the quotes, or I would have thought you were some kind of megalomaniac…
by Logodaedalus on Apr 15, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey! Coco swings at the first pitch in a key AB! I have never seen that before, multiple multiple times.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
Wickman and Borowski were watching confusedly.
Ben Francisco: An Outfielder only on baseball cards and roster sheets.
by westbrook on Apr 15, 2009 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Kerry Wood!
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:11 PM EDT reply actions
Jay, you pretty much got here just in time.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:12 PM EDT reply actions
True. How fortunate they’re irrelevant.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sums up my feelings nicely.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, don’t remind me. Although I don’t have a complaint about the spot he used Smith.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah, can somebody give me a pre-Ryan shakedown on Laffey today? I missed it.
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:15 PM EDT reply actions
He’s here to stay.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m not doing the recap, but he looked pretty good. He seemed in rhythm, pitched quickly, was even getting strikeouts.
I take it the slider was notching strikes today then?
by fleerdon on Apr 15, 2009 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I really consider them just as bad.
So 2009.
by Gradyforpresident on Apr 15, 2009 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you have a personal vendetta against him or something? I don’t get it.
So 2009.
by Gradyforpresident on Apr 15, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Sowers feels like hurting, Laffey feels like pleasure.
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by LGT Patrick on Apr 15, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I haven’t had the opportunity to touch him yet.
by Joe. on Apr 15, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
You’re thinking of Lewis.
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Apr 15, 2009 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions
2 more runs 8-0 Sox
Harry Doyle: He'll need a rocket up his ass to catch that one; that baby's out of here.
Nope. I supose I should just go to a bar, but I’m trying to give the impression of working.
Lead singer and driver of the Winnebago.
Have you looked at getting DirecTV installed at your desk?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Did someone say this was free?
I refuse to ever root for a team that routinely does the MVP chant for opposing players.
by TheVanillaGorilla on Apr 15, 2009 5:27 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks
I refuse to ever root for a team that routinely does the MVP chant for opposing players.
by TheVanillaGorilla on Apr 15, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions
The Red Sox have already won this game. I think we can root for the no-hitter.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Apr 15, 2009 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’ll admit: I was rooting for Buchholz when he had his too.
Ben Francisco: An Outfielder only on baseball cards and roster sheets.
by westbrook on Apr 15, 2009 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
damn. . . i was hoping wakefield would get to finish the least-dominant no hitter of all time
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Apr 15, 2009 5:28 PM EDT reply actions
Andy Hawkins couldn’t have been terribly dominant. I think he gave up 4 runs!
by JulioBernazard on Apr 15, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Matt Young, in 1992. I remember because I was there. He pitched for the Tribe the next year. I don’t think it was officially recognized, though.
by kennesawmountainwahoo on Apr 15, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Back on the road. Really glad I could show up for a little bit.
Freddy, you keep on living the dream.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Next mission:
Permanently make the opening of the new Yankees park a losing affair for New York.
by APV on Apr 15, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
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