This is a great photo for a lot of reasons, and one of them is that it opens the door to the old Sesame Street game of "One of These Things is Not Like the Other." While everybody else in the photo looks excited, Jeremy Sowers looks like he's upset that Valbuena's home run pulled him away from whatever book he's currently reading.
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This doesn’t look like one of those moments where the camera just caught him wrong, he appears to be legitimately unenthused. Maybe he was on the john.
I see a satisfied but limp little clap, oddly reminiscent of John Malkovich, or perhaps Montgomery Burns.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 24, 2009 8:47 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
There’s a hint of Emily Dickenson in him too.
“Guys, I can’t celebrate now, I’m writing. The deadline for submission to the Utne is tomorrow and these shenanigans are not in the schedule. Slant rhyme is a difficult craft to master, nearly as tough as pitching the fifth inning.”
by Seattle Tribe Fan on Aug 25, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, IIRC the few poems published in her lifetime were “improved” by the editorial staffs involved by making rhyme scheme more conventional. This didn’t go over too well with Miss Dickenson.
I see Jeremy as frail, pale, and irritable – classic material for a 19th century poet.
by Seattle Tribe Fan on Aug 25, 2009 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions
what a sowerpuss.
You are reading my signature.
by rolub on Aug 24, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions 6 recs
I find this hilarious.
Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?
by ClemsonGirl on Aug 24, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions
This is why he doesn’t smile very often.
by dgcambridge on Aug 24, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Gimenez’ feels forced to me. He just ran into a good celebration face here, Carroll stays late and arrives early to work on that.
That is mighty white of him.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 24, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
It’s totally forced. His performance has been poor, he is afraid of not making the club next year, so the best way to keep his spot is a completely overdone happy face while also being the first guy out of the dugout to greet Valbuena at home plate. If Wedge is the manager next year, this image will stick out in his mind, that Gimenez is a glue guy, all-around teammate.
I hope everyone is just being snarky about this. Gimenez has barely been in the big leagues a month, and this is probably his first walk-off moment. He’s not the kind of talent that could ever take for granted that he’d get this far. If I were him, I’d be grinning like an idiot every time I showed up to the ballpark or walked out onto the field.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 24, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yes, snark. I think he is aware this may be his one big shot to be part of a big league roster. I would be acting the exact same way. If anything, my jabbing is intended for Wedge.
I heard a guy at the Pearl & Denison Shell Food Mart & Carwash on Denison say that Gimenez is one of the most popular players on the team.
It looks like he’s starting a sarcastic slow clap or something. What an odd person.
Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?
by ClemsonGirl on Aug 24, 2009 1:12 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Inappropriate affect – 100 mg of Elavil qid oughtta straighten that out.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
TCA as 1st-line…man Chuck you are old.
by supermarioelia on Aug 24, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
So whattya gonna Rx? SSRIs? I shocked that a Canadian doc would perscribe a drug of questionable efficacy – check out the Cochrane Committee report on SSRIs – that costs ten times as much as generic TRAs. Newer ain’t always better, no matter what the drug detail guys tell you.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
“Questionable efficacy”? Talking out of your ass here pops. There’s no “Cochrane Committee report on SSRIs” that asserts that. Considering the patient population we’re dealing with here and the already high incidence of side effects, I’ll avoid the TCAs whenever possbile. Never met a “drug detail guy”, it’s the nice thing about being a med student, I get to evaluate things based on evidence and patient factors. And very few patients appreciate the anticholinergic effects.
by supermarioelia on Aug 24, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Couldn’t find the study since it’s subscription driven but here‘s a synopsis. Turns out that “active placebo” maybe as good as SSRIs or TCAs. Just wait, even in Canada you’ve get to meet the drug salesmen. I’m told they’re usin’ hotter babes now than back in the Stone Age.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
maybe
Yup, read that one. Along with plenty of others that show an effect. So let’s use your suggestion, give these patients placebos, and we’ll call it day.
by supermarioelia on Aug 24, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
You’ll find that you’ll make a lot fewer people sick that way. Here’s a little pearl for you: most patients get better despite what the physcian does..
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
Chuck, I appreciate your pearls of wisdom, but sometimes your oversimplifications and generalizations aren’t helpful in the least. The conversation unravels to a point that I have no idea where we started. So this one’s done.
by supermarioelia on Aug 24, 2009 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions
It ain’t over til I say it’s over. You need to come down south and meet our drug reps. Here’s a good article about their skills written by a prominent US doc.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
But Chuck, this conversation started by me mocking TCAs as 1st-line therapy, and somehow became about drug reps. It’s a conversation I really don’t care to have on here exchanging 2-sentence barbs back and forth.
by supermarioelia on Aug 25, 2009 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions
Here’s the connection: the drug companies have a strong financial interest in convincing doc’s that newer drugs – ones they still hold the patents on – are better than 1st-line drugs – drugs they can no longer charge premium prices for. The lengths that drug companies will go to in selling this hype is amazing. Originally it was free gifts – golf clubs, vacations disguised as seminars etc.. Now it’s pimping young, attractive women to push their wares.
Even in Canada there’s a strong profit motive in many aspects of medicine. Deriding a drug as a 1st line drug is, in a way, buying into the drug manufacturer’s hype. I would proscribe a healthy dose of skepticism here.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
Your fury would be better directed toward what the drug companies are doing pushing antipsychotics (Seroquel and Abilify primarily) to be marketed as tx for depression, considering the spurious to little evidence supporting such a move and of course those lovely side effects that these types of drugs carry. Akathisia is no barrel of monkeys, nor are the tics that i’ve seen in one too many of my pre-adolescent clients (which can lead me to another gripe about psychiatrists and burgeoning bipolar diagnosing going on in adolescent and pre-adolescent youth….but ah for another time).
Yeah a stroll through the psych ward shows the whole range of EPS.
by supermarioelia on Aug 25, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, let me speak up as an example of a patient whose life was literally saved by doctors. Not only that, I’m able to walk and bend my left elbow, my left knee, and my right hip because of what doctors have done for me.
by Buckeye Brad on Aug 25, 2009 8:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I’ll agree with Brad here. I’ve had a few medical problems, none of which would have gotten any better if not for a few good surgeons.
Look, you’re talking to a guy who’s life was saved by a surgeon 10 months ago. I fully understand how important a physcian can be in changing and prolonging life. I’ve also got a pretty good handle on how a doc can negatively impact a patient’s day-to-day existence.
Here’s a fact: doc’s save lives every day. But every now and then, even the best doc kill somebody. It’s not malpractice, it’s just practice.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
Here’s a fact: doc’s save lives every day. But every now and then, even the best doc kill somebody. It’s not malpractice, it’s just practice.
I can agree with that. But that statement is very different from saying that most patients get better despite what the doctor does.
by Buckeye Brad on Aug 25, 2009 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Wired has an interesting article this month about placebos
by cleveland teamer on Aug 25, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions
So you wanna reconsider your “Talking out of your ass here pops.” crack?
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
Not in the least. TCA as 1st-line therapy shows your age. Would never be done regardless of whether you think we’re being brainwashed by the drug companies. And questioning the efficacy of SSRIs is contrary to current guidelines in the field.
Gah, why do I keep responding.
by supermarioelia on Aug 25, 2009 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
And your know-it-all pose shows yours. Eventually, even in Canada, you’ll discover that many of the “New and Improved” drugs are only new.
Prostitution isn’t the oldest profession, selling snake oil is. Soon you’ll be one of its many practitioners.
Resident LGT results-oriented boob.
I can’t figure out which one of you is the violinist and which one is the cow.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on Aug 25, 2009 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
I saw this picture earlier and was trying to identify all the people. Is Gimenez the crazy bald looking guy?
That was the only guy I couldn’t name also.
by NickFantana on Aug 24, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Raffy P is tall. Is that Laffey behind Jhonny?
The once and future
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Aug 24, 2009 7:47 AM EDT reply actions
I see the confusion now.
(The running gag in the clubhouse is that the players don’t care about the win; they just want to get to the plate to be in the picture.)
The story references another similar photo which hangs outside the clubhouse. That one is from last year, but this one (above) is from a few nights ago.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The one that hangs in the clubhouse is the Shoppach run-off, I believe. Or at least it hangs in the tunnel outside the clubhouse.
Steel Nick
I don’t care how many of those players are no longer here, I still love that picture…if only for Peralta pointing at home plate.
by The DiaTriber on Aug 24, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Jhonny clearly has a solid grasp on the plate’s location and is downright gleeful to share that information with Kelly.
Everybody should get ice cream every day.
by Joel D on Aug 24, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
which is in contrast to his casual pointing to the base and the player to tag during asdrubal’s unassisted tripple play. possibly my all-time favorite jhonny moment.
I don’t know if I had forgotten about that, but it is fantastic, particularly the way that Peralta points down at the base immediately.
by The DiaTriber on Aug 24, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I had totally forgotten about that. He’s like, “By the way Asdrubal, that third out is right over here. There you go.”
Il faut d'abord durer.
He just didn’t want it to be completely unassisted.
This is Victor's home. Victor Jose, you too.
by westbrook on Aug 24, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think that’s actually pretty standard infielder behavior, just like signaling how many outs there are at the end of every play.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I always forget that it actually was a semi-spectacular diving stab. Can you imagine how many times we’d have seen that on ESPN by now had Jeter done it?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
It would be in every Yankees clip right after the Jeter randomly running toward home plate instead of being in the proper position cut-off position to nab Jeremy Giambi at home plate.
Jeter would never have had the range.
Il faut d'abord durer.
by CU Adam on Aug 24, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Entirely Incorrect. The reason Jeter will never complete an unassisted triple play is, being the ultimate team player, he would feel compelled to get his teammates involved on at least one of the outs.
Steel Nick
by nickjs21 on Aug 24, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
Awesome Cory Matthews hair on Grady there.
Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?
by ClemsonGirl on Aug 24, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m flattered that you’d compare Grady to me like that.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 24, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I told ya, he needs to grow that out!
Here Lies the Victor Martinez Era:
Sept. 10, 2002 - July 31, 2009
I’ve had that pic on my desktop for over a year. I love it.
by Buckeye Brad on Aug 24, 2009 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Never mind, different walk-off pic. The one on my computer is from a Victor walk-off homer. They’re strikingly similar, though — both in the blue tops and with Garko and Grady in the center.
by Buckeye Brad on Aug 24, 2009 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I bet when the guys go out for dinner on the road, they scramble to the table so as to not get stuck to Sowers… assuming he’s even invited.
You are reading my signature.
by rolub on Aug 24, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Maybe he hates Sowers. But, really. A lot of stories about a picture. At least he’s there. There are 12 or 13 players in the picture. Valbuena makes 13/14. Carmona is home resting. Eight guys in the pen. Who’s missing altogether?
Marte WAS in the picture in the paper edition of the PD. He’s blocked out in this one. He’s right between Shoppach and Perez. You can see his arm sticking out between the two of them.
http://photos.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/2009/08/s23tribeijpg.html
LaPorta’s next to Huff in that one. Marte’s leading the team in being excited.
The once and future
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Aug 24, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, but that’s in the media’s version of the photo. In the photo snapped by the official club photographer, Marte somehow is not pictured.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Stop giving Marte so much leeway. He’s had multiple opportunities to be in the middle of walkoff celebrations, and he just hasn’t performed. Look at how well Gimenez is doing in his first one. Hell, Francisco started a celebration basically as soon as he got to the big leagues. Those guys are gamers. Let’s face reality: Marte is just not as good at celebrating as he looked in Single-A.
The once and future
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Aug 24, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 11 recs
In this picture Sowers looks completely pissed. maybe it’s because I can only see half of his face, but I swear he wants to pound Valbuena.
Grady looks like he’s about to do the move the Japanese outfielder in Major League 2 always does when he was yelling at Cerano.
Il faut d'abord durer.
to me it looks like one of those old wwf prefight interviews.
“WaTCHA gonna DO, when the GRAdester unleashes his MArbles on YOU!!!!?…. Wooooahooo!”
So I just realized that at different times I thought Huff was the guy to the R of Baboo and the guy on the far right. The latter is correct I believe… so who’s the guy next to Baboo?
Also! Yeah, I noticed Raffy’s height too.
This is Victor's home. Victor Jose, you too.
Huff next to Carroll, Crowe on the far right.
by The DiaTriber on Aug 24, 2009 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I should have recognized
Crowe’s silly beadWendell’s silly bear tooth necklace
by gorilla_baller on Aug 24, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions
There is nothing SILLY about Turk Wendell.
Come to think of it, is www.turkwendellfacts.com taken?
"You just gotta roll with the ounches." - Clemson58YearOldMan
This is why the Huffstache is so necessary.
The once and future
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Aug 24, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Wait for it…
The once and future
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Aug 24, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
[Ed. Note: Let’s just take a moment to appreciate how amazingly slow this clap is starting out — almost 23 hours in between the first two claps!]
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
I noticed. I couldn’t believe I it.
-Erik
by drerikbrady on Aug 26, 2009 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Assuming the hands start 18 inches apart, I calculate the speed as 0.00005 MPH, or even slower than Garko.
by FredOx on Aug 26, 2009 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
The quality on this is dreadful, the content however…
by The DiaTriber on Aug 26, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Aren’t you too young to remember Jan Hooks on SNL Mariah?
-Erik
by drerikbrady on Aug 27, 2009 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
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