Comments on: And That Happened: Sunday's Scores and Highlights

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:50:24 +0000

My bad! ;>p http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/jamie-moyer-becomes-oldest-pitcher-to-throw-a-shutout.html.php

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:46:16 +0000

Man there are three or more threads about the whipper snapper who got two less hits than Jamie did friday, and he isn’t 47 either. What a letdown. No Love for the old man here on HBT I see.

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:35:36 +0000

No, it has to do with the fact that it happened on Friday and this post recaps Sunday’s games.

By: Jonny5

Jonny5 — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:34:30 +0000

And not even a mention of Jamie Moyer becoming the oldest man to pitch a complete shutout???? It couldn’t have anything to do with the recipient of the shutout could it?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:47:14 +0000

Sorry it took me so long to get over here. I was up to my ass in alligator hunters over on another thread. Lesson: if you’re gonna wade in the Glades, watch out where the hell you step.
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Glad Craig is already steeped in synchronicity between Braden’s game, the strange life of J. Henry Waugh (which will resemble Craig’s life more and more as he forges ahead through it). and the Wikipedia article which begins with the perfect game that opens the novel. I know it has occurred to Craig that, given all my inside knowledge of Santeria and Vodoun and other occult matters, that this is all just too much to be merely coincidental. Heh, let him finish the book, and then I’m going to send him a Ouija Scrabble board.
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All that notwithstanding, Braden’s perfecto may have distracted from another potentially momentous event: Chris Coghlan went 3-for-4 in a puppyshit 3-2 loss to Those Pesky Gnats. Burke Badenhop chalks up another L for the boolpen, which one might think of as Scrooge McLoria’s Konsignment Korner. Anyway, last year’s surprise Rookie of the Year is now looking down at the Mendoza Line for the first time in about a month. Truth is he’s been swinging with more authority lately anyway and just seems to have had to clear that pesky zone of turbulence that always seems to intercede between a slump and the resurrection. You know, when after weeks of flailing like a tightrope walker who’s just fallen off his wire, a hitter starts smoking balls right at the infielders and the outfielders make one impossible diving or over-the-head catch after another on their sinking liners. Coghlan looks like he’s gonna be alright. Wish I could say the same for the boolpen.
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The Feesh head to Wrigley today for a date with that mysterious Indonesian brain disease die vloek van der geitbok. Hope they’re wearing their gauze masks, though how effection those are against a prion I’m not sure.

By: The Common Man

The Common Man — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:28:48 +0000

Hooray for J. Henry Waugh. I loved that book, so trippy and sad and perfectly encapsulating how easily our game can take over your life. Enjoy, Craig.
reCaptcha: sufficiently Mandy (I like that, she’s just Mandy enough. Not too much Mandy. Not too little.)

By: YankeesfanLen

YankeesfanLen — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:46:07 +0000

Can’t help but be happy about last week.6-1 works for me and we have (one of) AJ’s implosions out of the way. Hope some of the injuries as well (except Granderson and Johnson) cause there’s still 14 days in a row vs. some formidable competitors. Next weekend’s Twins series will see if we can still get around the M&M boys.
Melky’s leaving did more for Cano’s performance than anything else this year. Old retail maxim: “If you have one stockboy, you have one worker, if you have two stockboys you have no workers”.
Captcha: spookier 292, -Next perfect game pitcher will come from area code thatDOESN’T EXIST! (Probably be named Rod Sterling)

By: Route36West

Route36West — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:35:56 +0000

I was just messing around when I said this but because you didnt understand that I guess Ill defend it.
“Do strikeouts count for more outs than groundouts? How about flyball outs?
Do you also critique homeruns for not flying far enough over the fence for your liking?”
No they dont count more but you could say the samething about a perfect game. Pitching a perfect game doesnt count more then say giving up 5 runs and still getting the win. Your logic is an out is an out and a hr is a hr. So shouldnt you be saying a win is a win too?
A perfect game doesnt count anymore then any regular win. The reason why it is important and exciting because it is so rare. So if the next person who throws a perfect game strikes out say 15 batters wouldnt make it that much rarer and exciting?
I wasnt critiqueing or taking anything away from Bradens perfect game I was rooting for him the entire time he did it. What I said had nothing to do with Braden I was only using his game as an example that that qoute is wrong because yes some home runs are more impressive then others just like some perfect games are more impressive then others.
The arguement isnt if it would count more because if it was no one would even talk about perfect games they would just say its another win. The arguement is could it more impressive and my point is yes it could be.

By: crotch_jenkins

crotch_jenkins — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:14:48 +0000

There are a lot of stories about Melky’s nighttime shenanigans floating around NY. Occasionally they’re supported by photographic evidence, which always features the Melkman with either ugly white women or burly Latino men. I am not sure what conclusion to draw from this.

By: Route36West

Route36West — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:13:46 +0000

Booo to anyone who cant understand sarcasm

By: enough already

enough already — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:54:48 +0000

I’m waiting for A-rod’s grandma to challenge Braden’s grandma to fisticuffs behind the bleachers. Now that would be worth the price of admission. Nothing is settled till the grandmas have their say.

By: Moses Green

Moses Green — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:47:21 +0000

Ridiculous comment – crazy even. Do strikeouts count for more outs than groundouts? How about flyball outs?
Do you also critique homeruns for not flying far enough over the fence for your liking?
Boooo Route36West

By: Doug Porterfield

Doug Porterfield — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:39:02 +0000

Good book. Old book. Please give us a review when you are done.

By: Route36West

Route36West — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:38:58 +0000

“To do a thing so perfectly that, even if the damn world lasted forever, nobody could ever do it better, because you had done it as well as it could possibly be done”
Thats not true. You could throw 27 stikeouts with no hits and no walks.
Or atleast throw a perfect game and strikeout 1 more batter then Braden. I think that would constitute as doing it better.

By: Moses Green

Moses Green — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:23:20 +0000

Melky Cabrera’s nocturnal habits make him ill-suited to day games. I have it on reasonably good authority from a friend who is a Yankee fan that Melky rocks hard, and he was dragging Cano into the nightlife. The first time he told me this was in April 2008, when Cano opened with a .446 OPS for the first month. Then again in August that year, when the Yanks sent Melky down he told me that the partying was the real reason.
I’ve heard this a number of other places and from a commenter here most recently, but my original source has a longstanding habit of knowing things about the Yanks ahead of time, and he never gives up anything about his source.