TWiB #6: May 8 - May 14

[Cartman 0]

LOL @ the best shortstop in baseball.

[mike546 0]

Yea because he didn't make a great play even getting to that ball?

[Cartman 0]

Most good SS's make that play

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Yea because he didn't make a great play even getting to that ball?

He didn't. That was a step and a dive.

[Hawk 34 0]

Most good SS's make that play

 

Most average SS's make that play.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Al, do you think Jeter would be better served playing 3B?

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Getting back to the Reds game, I must question the sanity of Frank Robinson of bringing in Cordero in a tied game and letting him throw nearly 50 pitches.

Why's that? Frankly, I applaud Robinson for using Cordero in a tied game rather than save him for a "save" situation. And now the Nats are in a position to win the game.

[Hawk 34 0]

I want to repeat this once again, fuck you Ross. Bronson had another shutout game sewn up and he drops the ball after a perfect throw from Kearns and now Washington will probably take this game and I think you can call it a game now as Washington tacks on another run.

 

Although, it's not like Cincy doesn't have the offense to throw out another pair of runs.

 

edit: nevermind, the shitty defense returns its ugly head for Cincy. A sure-fire win off an great start is not only blown by shitty defense by Ross but the entire infield in the 11th.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Al, do you think Jeter would be better served playing 3B?

I'm not sure. I know you'd like to see A-Rod back at short, but I am not sure even that is the best move. Many, many people have suggested Jeter would make a decent CF.

[Guest Princess Leena]

I guess it's too late now since they signed Damon.

 

But, CF would make sense for him.

[naiwf 0]

Yea because he didn't make a great play even getting to that ball?

 

Jeter likes to show off. As a Mets fan/Yankee hater I don't watch every inning of every Yankees game, but the guy dives for an awful lot of balls Reyes would glove cleanly, and because he dives he's then forced to makes that stupid throw from his knees, then there's his little aerial ballerina jump throw because he doesn't have the range to get around on a grounder. If the Juice-ambino was playing first there that ball would have been in the stands, so Cairo did him a favor by making the play closer than it should have been. All he had to do was eat it and keep the game tied. Jeter goes for the heroic play far too often. He just gets bailed out of errors at home as evidenced tonight. There's no way the run scores if he holds the ball, so it should have been a single and an E6, but Jeter gets "lucky" in the stat sheet once again.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Getting back to the Reds game, I must question the sanity of Frank Robinson of bringing in Cordero in a tied game and letting him throw nearly 50 pitches.

Why's that? Frankly, I applaud Robinson for using Cordero in a tied game rather than save him for a "save" situation. And now the Nats are in a position to win the game.

Not because of the situation; just the quantity of pitches he threw. You should use your best pitcher when you need him, not when it's just a save situation. I'm not complaining, either, since he's in line to win, which is good for me.

 

I want to repeat this once again, fuck you Ross. Bronson had another shutout game sewn up and he drops the ball after a perfect throw from Kearns and now Washington will probably take this game.

True, but the Reds had two golden opportunities to win it in the 9th and 10th. Frankly, there were lucky to be in that situation in the 10th because of Quinton McCrackhead's unpunished baserunning blunder, but they couldn't come through.

 

Yea because he didn't make a great play even getting to that ball?

But the throw was so terrible it almost negated him getting to the ball, which wasn't all that spectacular of a stop to begin with. Shortstops are expected to get to balls like that; a great one would've at least made a throw that wouldn't require Andre the Giant to catch it.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

P.S. Rick White shouldn't be pitching in games the Reds actually want to win.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Not because of the situation; just the quantity of pitches he threw. You should use your best pitcher when you need him, not when it's just a save situation. I'm not complaining, either, since he's in line to win, which is good for me.

 

Relievers throw many pitches more often than you'd think. If he runs Cordero out again tomorrow, then you have a problem.

[naiwf 0]

Timlin got squeezed right there on a pitch that carved the plate. These home plate umps are terrible all around the bigs. The "third strike to Kaz" in Mets/Phillies I was over his shoulders and then he had a postage stamp size zone for Heilman after Franco cursed him out. How hard is it to consistently call a strike a strike?

[Hawk 34 0]

Okay, take the entire bullpen and throw them into the river.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

A-Rod bashers, you're up...

[jwest27 0]

That "Fffffffooooouuuullllll" thing Berman does is annoying.

[mike546 0]

come onnnnn christ can't you just get a big hit against these guys once!?!?!?

 

AHH.

[naiwf 0]

A-Rod bashers, you're up...

 

It's no fun when you just KNOW he's going to strike out ahead of time, gets a chance to have 4 strikes and still fails to produce. Poor guy.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Wow, very Cubs-like baserunning from Freel.

[Hawk 34 0]

Wow, very Cubs-like baserunning from Freel.

 

I liked how he pratically took a head bump right into the dirt and flopped over for what was an obvious out situation. Freel must have taken Jeter's showboating pills. If Freel was more alert, he should have tried to force a run down and bring the runner in the process.

[therealworldschampion 0]

Nice show of continuity by CSN tonight, as they showed Kenny Lofton pulling up instead of going after a ball last year, then saying that he wasn't running into a wall to make a catch before showing the Rowand play.

[devo 0]

Damn, Mets game was called.

[Hawk 34 0]

Why do I get the sinking feeling that Dunn comes up as the winning run and hits a monster shot that falls inches from being a home run and that ends the game? Or strikes out. Bottom line, he won't score with RISP. They need Junior to get the job done or load it up for Kearns.

 

Ah, my favorite spot in baseball, the line coach getting drilled by the foul ball.

 

This is a good situation for the Reds, all they need Junior to do is spray the ball into the corner and with two fast runners in Lopez and Edwin, you easily tie the game up.

[Hawk 34 0]

OR HIT A MONSTER HOME RUN! JESUS! WHAT A SHOT BY JUNIOR TO WIN IT.

 

That is how you come back from a injury.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Unbelieveable finish in Cincy.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

The Nationals are hopeless.

 

I didn't even get to see the finish since the digital cable channels all went out.

[Hawk 34 0]

It's funny because some idiot local sports talk idiot was saying eariler that having Junior on the team again hurts them more then it helps and that the team is better off with Junior on the DL.

 

That shut him up.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Rick Suttcliffe SMASHED during the Padres/Brewers game.