There is a growing sense of concern about what is wrong with our man Masahiro, who was smacked around again last night. He’s been horseshit for too long now. Maybe it’s an extended slump but it has everyone’s attention now, Lord save us.
Drew Poweranz faired better but was just as horseshit, going to 3-2 on virtually every batter, throwing 498 pitches in 5 innings, and generally boring the bejesus out of the masses. Yanks had plenty of chances but did not cash in. Aaron Judge had two big whiffs late after a single, double and crashing defensive play in right.
5-4 was the Final and there was plenty to curse and moan about from where we’re sitting, right gang?
More tonight. The Big Fella. Not Jackie Bradley Jr.’s bud. You know him as C.C.
Never mind the creepers:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
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Let's try this again
Okay! Old Reliable CC.
Just a harmless single
Harmless double by Rutledge.
Big man looking good
Nice, Didi. Just another harmless single
Didi strikes first!
Oh, I go for a beverage and come back to this!
really not helpful when an ump gifts the sox a k with runners on 2nd and 3rd
Dammit
Good job, Gary
Keystone Sawx
Carter!
hello guys. tuneD in for the Carter shot.!
and who stole Hedley's body and gave us a guy who has gone 242?
during CC's latest run, has he gotten especially good run support?
Carter is really all or nothing, was that a real bomb?
[17] no doubter, but frankly it's like the ball found his bat. earlier in the ab he missed a ball by about 2 feet. and i don't mean he was early or late, he just missed it.
Harmless lead off triple, shutoutintact
[20] I'm a little worried about the harmless homers, though.
Ohhhh. That's reviewable, right?
that's the Hedley we've come to know.
Robbing Carter isn't nice
Sawx radio guys are really complimenting CC for his overall career, debating HOF credentials. Maybe he needs a couple more good crafty-lefty years?
I'm watching NESN, not YES. No choice: mlb.tv has blacked out my area...
[24] Interesting. The TV guys (Dave O'Brien and the sub-normal Jerry Remy) have been impressed by Didi.
Well, I am really hoping that asshole is ejected.
Nope.
Yeah, keep smiling, douche bag.
i really don't see how you can do anything but leave this as an out
In case you guys haven't heard: yesterday Jerry Remy said the Yankees shouldn't be permitted to bring an interpreter to the mound when a coach talks to Tanaka. Because Tanaka should just "learn the language of baseball."
Like I said, his IQ has never been praised. I honestly don't think he's a bad guy, just a dummy. But anyway, NESN apologized profusely today, so that was funny.
[26] Remy likes that Didi can speak English
[29][30] I can barely understand Remy, maybe he should go for elocution classes.
Oh, okay, so that story has traveled :-)
Also, Mike Schmidt, of course, same issue. Ex-players.
So what is YES saying about why there was no review of the apparent interference play?
I think Remy is just one of those "that's not how we did it in my day" guys rather than a bad guy. Same with Mike Schmidt.
I want the best baseball players in the world, translators aren't even an issue
wait did dice k not use an interpreter?
sloppy sawks
[33] Yeah, that's what it is. Well, and, he's just dumb as a stump.
Also, it's pretty clear now that O'Brien and Remy have absolutely no idea what the interference rule is.
Brett steals a base!
SB when up 5 0?
[36] To be fair, neither do I nor seemingly many of the umps..
[34] He did, for sure. Matsuhiro speaks much better English than Daisuke.
But maybe not on the mound? I don't remember.
[39] I'm pretty sure the umps know the rule!
And you and I probably know the relevant rules of our, you know, jobs.
[41] I certainly know that when drinking from larger beer bottles in a jazz bar, one pours slowly into your companions glass to avoid spill over...oh wait, you mean my 'job' job..
About ex-players though, it's funny because they often CAN provide great stuff. O'neil I generally don't like but he says really fascinating things about how hitters see the ball, make subtle adjustments, etc.
What up gang. I've got an eye on all these games and things are looking good tonight. Especially The Big Fella. I had my two year old saying Didi Gregoria's earlier. Lol...
ok. yank announcers are homers. but CCC in the all star game? give me a break
Oh, true. Yeah, I'd be sorry not to have Paulie, and of course Cone is pure gold.
But, there are a lot of muttonheads too. Baseball doesn't really select for brains. By which I mean, being dumb doesn't really hurt you as a player.
This is taking me back to when I read Ball Four as a kid! Jim Bouton remarks at one point, "You don't really hear people in the clubhouse saying, that's one intelligent sonofabitch..."
Brettsky!
Love it. Great play.
Cone I like, he's got good insight and has embraced sabermetrics.
Brett scores!
Hey, remember, I mentioned the other day: Brett has the best SABERmetrics for base running of all players over the past decade? That's an excellent example.
[49] Do you know when they started tracking 1st to 3rd stats? Seems fairly new.
When was the last time CC pitched into the eighth?
agree both that players tend not to be very smart with some exceptions (cone) and that they nonetheless can be insightful. o'neill doesn't seem to be particularly dumb in the booth, won't comment about his politics.
[50] Yeah, I don't know. But I do know they can recover it from existing data -- like, they can compute total runs added (or subtracted) by base running for guys who were playing in 1985.
Looks like CC WILL be out on the hill for the 9th.
if you go into retrosheet game logs the play by play shows where baserunners go on every play
Yeah, so they do it that way, you don't need to know where the ball was hit or anything to get the Runs Added by Base Running numbers.
(I am in the middle of Keith Law's book, Smart Baseball, but so far he hasn't said anything about base running stats.)
I can't imagine poring over that much information. Lol...
Yum!
Four rbi for Carter, love it.
Headley and Carter, whodathunkit?
I like it.
[57] How is that? Possible summer reading for me.
[58] They paid a lot of people to code all of the score sheets into a data base. Then they can extract anything instantly, all kinds of stuff. Win Expectancy Added, this base running stuff, everything.
cone definitely reads fangraphs every day
[62] It's pretty good.
Well, I'll admit it: the book is insufficiently nerdy for me. :-)
For me, The Book (Tom Tango's polemic) was just right.
So you decide whether that's good or bad, for you.
39 points for the Dubsin the 1Q in Cleveland..they're going hard for the sweep.
[64] Indeed.
I travel a lot, around the US, and I listen or watch baseball whenever it's in season. I don't think there's any color guy in baseball who's more sophisticated than Cone, nobody who's grasped and digested new concepts better.
Don't fuck up the shutout!
One down
Two down
[65] Not read the Book yet! Did read baseball by numbers from Prospectus.
[67] Cone likes a late night tipple as well..a guy to hang with after ditching Kay and Flaherty at the hotel.
3! nite all
Three down, shutout intact!
Night all
Thanks, RIYank. That's amazing. Agree on Cone. Great win. Cheers y'all.
Yay! Shutout intact. Or, as thelarmis would say, in tact.
Okay, well [71] for most people the Keith Law book is probably more 'readable', definitely more polemical and less scienc-y feeling. By the Numbers is much closer to the Tango book.
Ciao, all. See youse guys tomorrow, Big Pine for the series win.
[71] also maybe the most under appreciated player of the 90s dynasty. other than mendoza, of course
Inn tacked.