Game Thread 2: May 12, 2009
by Jay on May 12, 2009 9:11 PM EDT
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PrintDoesn't it sometimes feel like the real game is something like, Victor and Asdrubal vs. the other 23 guys on our roster?
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Both “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Closing Time” have been stuck in my head all day. You can all imagine my pain.
You know something? “Feeling Strangely Fine” is a damn good album.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Off hand, I don’t know enough Seminsonic to judge. But I do like Closing Time, so I could give it a shot. Bon Jovi, however, is another story.
It’s just really well-executed pop. It’s not transcendent or anything, but their musicianship is legit.
Bon Jovi, well, I respect Bon Jovi the way I respect professional wrestlers. They found something that works for them.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m with you on Bon Jovi. “You Give Love a Bad Name”, though, I’ve recently come around on. That song is pretty epic.
I have a pretty negative initial reaction to that early-80s power-pop production, hard for me to get past. Like, I recognize that there are fun .38 Special songs, but I think they’re unnecessarily hard to listen to.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
how do you get the thing before the ¡ ?
by Logodaedalus on May 12, 2009 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Bavasi pretty much restocked the whole AL Central. Thornton for Borchard, Detroit getting Carlos Guillen for basically nothing, and of course the Indians.
“He’s capable possibly of hitting 20 home runs.”
Possibly? Victor hit 25 in his last healthy season, and 20 and 23 in two other seasons.
Rick Manning was capable possibly of hitting 10 home runs. But he never did.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
SIIIIIIIIZE-more
you got to put out the green light
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:23 PM EDT reply actions
Is sending Lewis out for a third inning wise?
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
Just thinking that. 30 pitches seems to be Jensen’s limit. He’s finally doing well, why push our luck?
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Did I mention before that while I like having LaPorta in the lineup, I hate having him at 1B?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I think Garko has been great at covering the base. The other stuff, meh.
Sometimes, I just like to b****.
The only thing Garko does well is catch pop flies, as far as I can tell. Mediocre around the bag, and still going after the wrong balls after four years playing the position.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
To explain: As near as I can tell, this is only LaPorta’s fourth game at first base in his entire pro career.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The easiest way to get out of a team slump is to bench guys for days then play them at unfamiliar positions.
by xrickx on May 12, 2009 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, great theoretical physicist – bad baseball manager
Insanity is repeating the insanity is doing the same thing over and over quote over and over.
by odradek on May 12, 2009 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Call down.
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
Trying to max out your XP and stamina?
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Manning, at some point, you have to credit the guy’s 4.2 40-yard-dash speed and not just his hustle and awareness.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:32 PM EDT reply actions
Ah… the old 2-base wild pitch while we have Grady getting thrown out trying to steal 2B for no real good reason
I’m somewhere between wanting not to laugh and wishing I’d thought of this.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe he has a track and field background like that other guy they’ve been talking about.
by woodsmeister on May 12, 2009 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Matt Herges warming.
I cannot get over him pointing into the air when Jason Bay hit the ball in the air, as if it say that it’s an infield popup. Then, the ball landed over the fence.
Not trying to support the White Sox but does Jenks really deserved to be fined 3/4 of a million for a pitch that didn’t even hit a batter?
His former agent, Matt Sosnick, is on record as saying that Bobby Jenks is the only client he doesn’t regret losing, because Jenks is perhaps the worst human being he’s ever met.
Actually, I think it was 750 nickels. But he has to count them out himself.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
And put them in rolls without using a machine.
by woodsmeister on May 12, 2009 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking as a former bank teller, I’m here to tell you, use the f’ing machines.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions
In no universe does Corky Miller get hits.
Mark DeRosa can’t touch DJ Carrasco, but Corky Miller can hit Ton Sipp.
Cool hasn’t happened to me on Gamecast yet
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on May 12, 2009 9:40 PM EDT reply actions
If you close it now it will never happen.
by Ryan on May 12, 2009 9:41 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would have settled for our only scoring one with the bases loaded.
I would have settled for them only scoring one with the bases loaded.
Our chance of winning this game is about the same as our chance of making the postseason … right around 11%.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Seems everytime this year the Tribe has the bases loaded, squeezing runs is impossible. I knew after DeRosa k’d that Choo wasn’t going to do it. And I had a bad feeling that after Sipp got Fields that Corky was going to get a hit. Conclusion: Indians suck hitting with the bases loaded. And also suck pitching with bases loaded. How many two-out hits?
Is it weird if I still feel like we win this game?
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
It’s pathological, to be honest, but I won’t fault you for it.
by Logodaedalus on May 12, 2009 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions
You know, I get these shots for my seasonal allergies. Among the symptoms of anaphylaxis they tell you to watch for is “sense of impending doom.”
I presently am feeling mildly anaphylactic.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 9:43 PM EDT reply actions
Jon Heyman wrote today that Wedge’s job is safe because some AL GM would be shocked if it happened.
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
Out of curiosity, is there anyone you want to see as the Indians manager should/when Wedge gets fired?
LGT as a group. We must agree on all decisions by at least a 75% vote.
by JRontherim on May 12, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Her “uniform” must consist of hot pants, stirrups and top 2 buttons undone at all times.
Sometimes, I just like to b****.
Yea, me too. It bums me out that 95% of Summer blockbusters do nothing for me. Especially since most of them play upon my childhood nostalgia.
Summer movies are entirely bad. I looked through all of this Summer’s releases, I think I saw two, three tops, that I want to see. And I think that includes that Denzel movie that comes out in the very beginning of June.
I’m a big Cormac McCarthy fan, but I hated this book. Although I thought No Country for Old Men (the book) sucked, too.
I don’t read those types of magazines. And that’s precisely why—that’s enlightening journalism there.
I’m not putting any woman who was mentioned here down, it’s just a trend I’ve noticed. Women are looking more and more masculine as time goes on.
[redacted]
I have a problem with the desire of some celebrities to weigh under 100 pounds. They lose a lot of their good “qualities”
I just have a problem with celebrities in general. I like baseball, but I don’t need pictures of what Victor Martinez wore to eat lunch on Wednesday before he came to the stadium. Yet that kind of crap fills magazines.
I am supposed to know who these people are?
I'm not really into Song of Hiawatha.
by sarcasmdave on May 12, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
He’s definitely comfortable in the dugout…
by still ill on May 12, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Domino Player/Manager
I'm not really into Song of Hiawatha.
by sarcasmdave on May 12, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Another solid night by the looks of it.
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
And whether the plane of his swing is improving.
by woodsmeister on May 12, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
And whether he’s In The Game.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 12, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
This would all be amusing if it weren’t actually factoring into his assessment.
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
If DeRosa was for some unfortunate reason dealt this deadline, I wonder if we’ll see Peralta at 3B for a half-season, Marte with the call, Hodges’s pretend 3B play, or Jamey Carroll’s encore.
Because that’s what a utility player does.
by woodsmeister on May 12, 2009 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, I am going to bed to talk to my beautiful wife.
You losers have fun watching this team. ; )
Sometimes, I just like to b****.
I’d like to be critical of people for not being better writers, but I wonder how much of it would be me criticizing them for not having wonderful teachers like I did. Basically, i don’t know how anybody learns to write without getting clobbered with remedial grammar, and I don’t know many teachers who can do remedial grammar.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
A decade of education later, and I still have never taken a test as hard as my freshman English final.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Bahaha. I literally was screwed out of an A because of a poor throwing arm. I didn’t know how to phrase the protest — “physically incapable of succeeding.”
Fortunately my 100%+ in health pulled me through.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Remedial grammar is not fun to teach at any level. I spent a couple quarters teaching remedial comp at Columbus State. I don’t ever want to do that again.
by woodsmeister on May 12, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Same here. My high school had excellent English teachers, and I breezed through college courses. Science, on the other hand…
my college english prof and journalism grammar prof were much better than anything i got in HS
FE WEE
Even before Sowers gave up that second homer it finally really hit me that this guy will never even be a #5 starter in our organization. The only reason he can get outs is because he is deceptive. So, it works the first time through the lineup. Then the second time in the lineup he avoids/walks the guys who can hurt him and then ends up putting a crapload of guys on bases. Couple that with his propensity to give up a homers and it Makes the big inning inevitable.
Which makes me think that maybe he should have been the choice for reliever instead of Laffey. While Laffey would be more effective in high leverage situations, he is much more likely to give you a quality start than Sowers is.
Ugh.
Ever since I saw Sowers pitch, I already felt that he will end up in the NL (NL West specifically, since they have those big ballparks) That was my initial impression of him and still is until now.
Not if the Nationals get first crack at him. And they always do!
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 12, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Finished the movie. Undivided attention on game.
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
All the Presidents Men
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
A thought: DeRosa did not get enough reps at 3B in the spring to start the season fully polished, after a year or more off the position.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
ST was too long, didn’t you get the memo?
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Two years ago, Herges drank the magic water. He was the lighting in a bottle that was the Colorado Rockies. Let’s hope he saved some.
This is a AAAA lineup we are facing. It’s kind of sad we allowed them to score as many runs as they did.
I was watching the Oscars and realized I have never seen a movie with Meryl Streep. I found this odd considering how many awards she has won
Anyone seen The Pursuit of Happyness? Watched it yesterday, thought it was pretty good.
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
What the hell, does everyone here only see sci-fi/fantasy/comic book movies?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I saw it and really liked it. Not sure how much you want me to say about it, spoilers and all.
[redacted]
No, just want to know if I should make a point of seeing it.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
It’s one of those reserved, everything-is-subtext kind of flicks.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
The leads are good. Amy Adams is a little cloying. The dialogue gets increasingly stilted. Maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10 if you’re the patient sort. I liked Star Trek better.
by fleerdon on May 12, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
star trek rawked
how about harold whipping that romulan’s ass with a sword!?
by Cap'n Snegiryov on May 12, 2009 10:23 PM EDT up reply actions
so rondon’s first appearance in relief. . . not so great
by Cap'n Snegiryov on May 12, 2009 10:19 PM EDT reply actions
Shap: “Let’s put as many square pegs in round holes as possible. How can it possibly go wrong?”
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
can’t wait to see derosa at 1B, asdrubal at 2B, jhonny at SS, valbuena at 3B, garko in the outfield, dellucci as DH, and rondon as a reliever
versatility!
by Cap'n Snegiryov on May 12, 2009 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Wedge needs to go as soon as possible. I feel as if we’ve reached that dangerous area where the interests of the organization and the interests of the coach are going in different directions.
They have the same interests—winning. Of that I’m sure. But they’ve underperformed their Pyth in 5 of 6 seasons with him. I don’t know how to explain that.
Enough of that old argument. There’s no evidence that’s the manager. Something new, please.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
i blame that more on the FO than on wedge
wedge has to use the bullets he’s given (if that is a saying)
by Cap'n Snegiryov on May 12, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
This game was worthless
Waiting for Rondon.
by Gradyforpresident on May 12, 2009 10:23 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah he tried jumping the totem pole. But since he plays for the 2009 Cleveland Indians, this will happen to him tomorrow.
by supermarioelia on May 12, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
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