Comments on: And That Happened: Monday’s scores and highlights

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:53:58 +0000

Seisenta y ocho, sometimes you make it too easy. Felt for the beaver?

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:28:22 +0000

I felt for Juan The Beaver Pierre. That was indeed a tough play and The Beaver is a decent dude. He shoulda got the benefit…

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:25:14 +0000

Gator; Ida used ‘hockey pucked’ but I’m trying to fit in with the zeitgeist; American themed foods.

By: feartherallythong

feartherallythong — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:04:10 +0000

Dear Mr. Calcaterra,
I object to the following statement in your article, “…the Rays asplode for 16…”
It is spelled ” ‘splode”. As in, “You’ve got some ‘splodin’ to do…”
Sincerely,
The Ghost of Desi Arnaz

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:38:28 +0000

Type a : and follow it with a ) or a P

Like this

By: Mike Luna

Mike Luna — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:21:31 +0000

Everything Craig just said is 100% accurate, except that he may not be considering how shaky the ‘pen actually is right now. They’ve got untested, old, and O’Day.

Taking Ogando and Feliz out would have been a very, very risky proposition to start the season, especially considering that there are more than enough starters waiting in the wings at the moment.

No doubt that Feliz deserves a shot to start and, if he doesn’t next year, I will raise Hell. I do understand the logic of management, though, because the make-up of the bullpen would make me just as uncomfortable.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:19:34 +0000

Kiss up. Why not give the minionmeister a shiny red apple while you’re at it?

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:17:30 +0000

Great restraint there, Ut. In the immortal words of Abe Lincoln (who built great cars) “Better to be quiet and thought the fool, than to open one’s mouth and leave no doubt”.
How do you make those smiley face little things? Is that the “hotmeal” app?

By: tribester

tribester — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:13:51 +0000

Papi got his annual triple out of the way early this season. This is 12 seasons in a row with a triple.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:12:47 +0000

I could say something here about requisite national broadcasts each and every time they play, leaving the rest of us baseball addicts no choice but to languish through those games with no recourse. But I won’t.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:59:42 +0000

They just want to give the fans their money’s worth. Quite considerate of them, I think. Do we complain when Bruce Springsteen blows his allotted time and just keeps playing songs that weren’t supposed to be in his set list?

By: tolbuck

tolbuck — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:55:24 +0000

Would make sense. The Tribe has a history of blowing leads late in the season. In fact, quite a few of them were against the Yankees.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:41:25 +0000

That error by Pierre was fairly tough, the wind had picked up and gusted, pushing the ball further to his right late in its flight. He had to make a late adjustment and missed it, clanking off his glove. He was never Ichiro out there, but this was a tough play. A lot of times on long runs you see an “H” from the official scorer, but this was 50-50. Too bad for Buerle who had incredible tilt on his breaking stuff.

Crain’s pitch was up and centered, a lot like the pitches Kinsler was getting opening day, an oddity in his pitching sequence, giving credence to Craig’s conspiracy theory. Kurt’s first homer of the year, giving the A’s 5 in 10 games. Willingham has 3. Braden’s game was typical Braden, lots of off-speed, lots of movement, the Jamie Moyer playbook, basically.

The A’s are now .500, and for the last 5 games, each starter has allowed 1 ER or less. And no errors during that period, after 9 in the first 3 games. This is how Beane drew it up. I’m not sure he actually expected it to work out.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:33:46 +0000

Pappy runs at a pretty clean 180 degree angle to the ground. Kruk runs at a slight rightward lean to compensate for the missing testicle.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:32:27 +0000

Cur68: never seen “bagle” used as a verb before, and not even as a synechdoche for “chewing hard.” You go beaver boy.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:30:07 +0000

Funny, and true.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:16:12 +0000

I didn’t see it. Describe it to me in terms of John Kruk.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:13:15 +0000

Or this (http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TBA/TBA201009130.shtml) game between Sabathia and Price, right at the height of people screaming that we had to ignore Felix being a better pitcher because he “didn’t know how to win.”

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:11:24 +0000

And those 18 games last as long as the other 144.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:09:34 +0000

Duh.

By: atribecalledtwolves

atribecalledtwolves — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:05:58 +0000

I can’t believe the Tribe has won 8 in a row. Without Sizemore, nonetheless. I’m sure they’ll come back down to the ground as the summer months come around and they have to play the Twins, White Sox, and Tigers more. But wow, good for the Royals and Tribe to get off to good starts.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:44:47 +0000

I was watching him for a signs of a heart attack. He runs like city bus accelerating to make a light.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:47:17 +0000

Yeah, or Jesse ‘Hagar’ Litsch. He bagled the Mariners for 5 innings then got to sit and watch how not to do it courtesy of his bullpen. I criticized that goofy red beard of his and now I hope he keeps it and the bullpen all grow red beards.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:41:45 +0000

I never saw Papi move that fast. Ever. I had a proud moment for the big lug.

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:31:22 +0000

Or Zack Greinke in this game:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200905090.shtml

Or Justin Verlander yesterday.

If they just knew how to WIN!

By: trevorb06

trevorb06 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:27:16 +0000

‘If this was the NBA Fuld would have stopped on first with that last double of his to get the cycle.’

Or maybe if he was bla… aming the media on the criticism of Manny for him retiring and wanted to get the cycle ‘for Manny’ being such an outstanding player, PEDs or not.

See what I did there?

By: clydeserra

clydeserra — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:18:20 +0000

he pitched well, but give it up for Dallas Braden and Tyson Ross, (and Fuentes) who kept the whitesox to 1. I think that is a better feat than shutting out the A’s.

By: bleedgreen

bleedgreen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:00:29 +0000

Sort of like when division rivals play each other in the NFL. Especially the NFC East. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad the teams are, the games are USUALLY pretty close, even if the favored teams win. The Redskins bring it to the Eagles every year, despite the Eagles usually being fairly good and the Redskins being fairly bad.

By: mplsjoe

mplsjoe — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:58:21 +0000

8 IP, 2 H, 0 R. If only Mark Buehrle knew how to win.

I will never tire of this joke.

By: easports82

easports82 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:57:49 +0000

Downside to being a Mariners fan on the East Coast.

Of course, there’s plenty of room to argue that being a Mariners fan in general is a bad idea.