Thanks to Jose Guillen's Completely Horrible Glove, Royals Fall to Angels, Connection to Arod, Manny Ramirez, Not Immediately Clear
by Freneau on May 9, 2009 1:32 AM EDT
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PrintJose Guillen just won't let us stay positive on him for too long will he?
If you were banking on an inspired performance against Anaheim (the source of 90% of the "Jose Guillen really isn't a great guy" evidence), well... it didn't quite happen. Though dude did walk again tonight.
So, let us offer our sincerest congratulations to Howie Kendrick for his "home run". Sincerely.
And no, that wasn't an error. No, not at all. Not even a single + an error or even a double + error (all options). Nope, Howie, that was just a straight up "homer". Clearly. No Howie, you didn't benefit from one of the single worst fielding plays of 2009.
Meche appears to have had a fairly "meh" night: not great, not terrible. It doesn't help matters to have him pitching right after Banny, 'cuz we've just spent our time crediting St. Banny for his hit avoiding skills, which in turn means Meche needs to be questioned a little for allowing eight hits in less than six innings. He gave the Royals a chance to win, or at the very least, put them in a situation where they'd likely be tied, or within a run heading into the late innings.
Of course, a mostly impotent offense really made all of it more or less irrelevant, producing only one run against an unknown pitcher and a trio of generic relievers.
Oh, Farnsworth had two cleanings, also wasted.
Finally however... there was this weird cow milking thing hovering over the entire game, completely with Rusty Kuntz getting involved, as well as the really inappropriately cute cow handler girl. Just a weird scene all the way around.
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Horrible play, but did Guillen's 2-run error cause the Royals to lose that game?
You know, the Royals did score only one run. I mean, let’s call a spade a spade here. That was a huge screw up. But the offense rolling over is what lost us the game.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 1:59 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I think this one has to fall squarely on Meche
Greinke doesn’t give up runs but once every 4 games or so.
FIPs over 1 = fail
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:09 AM EDT up reply actions
WPA wise, it was the second most positive play of the game for the Angels
though probably that’s slightly deceptive without also factoring in what it SHOULD have been… if the ball is caught, its a small positive WPA play for the Royals
The team was down 2-1 at the time and never scored another run
So how did that play lose the game for the Royals? Because it broke the team’s spirit? You usually don’t engage in that kind sports psychology. There’s no question that it was a bad play that hurt the Royals. But I don’t see how that play lost the game for the Royals. Because we don’t like Guillen so it’s fun to blame him?
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:14 AM EDT up reply actions
the thing is
it was an awful 2-run play in the 6th inning of a game, it was the single worst play of the game for the royals by most measures.. we can speculate a lot about how a 2-1 game would or wouldn’t have been different from the 4-1 game that transpired, both from a usage and sports pysch perspective
i don’t see your argument as being different than someone saying a players hits all came after the team took the lead, so they meant nothing.. so maybe, directly, it did not cost the royals the game, it was , at the very least, the worst event of the game
I feel like you are being just as exaggerated in the other direction to prove YOUR point, but if you want to kill me for a headline, so be it
by Freneau on May 9, 2009 2:20 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
C'mon guys, I think in the effort to be right, we're all losing the big picture here
1) By having the play scored as an error, my fantasy team got a badly needed home run, and
2) If you don’t think about the context, that picture is hilarious — the expression on his face just really makes it all worthwhile.
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:22 AM EDT up reply actions
do, by
not having it scored as an error
not that it matters to the outcome (personally, I think “error” should just be removed from all official and unoffical scorekeeping. It’s subjective to begin with, and it all evens out in the end), but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pretty rare for any inside-the-parker to be ruled an error, although I could be wrong. And I’d guess most of them are the result of fielder horribleness at least bordering on an “error.”
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:27 AM EDT up reply actions
yea...
its hard to imagine any inside the park HR that’s truly legit, even in your standard play (OF dives, ball rolls to the wall) most of the time that should only be a triple
maybe if they brought back Astrodome-size parks
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:32 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm not killing you for it. I am just disagreeing with it.
I’m being “exaggerated in the other direction to prove [my] point”? What am I exaggerating? The team was down 2-1 and never scored another run. So how can one make ANY argument that an additional two runs lost the game? I’m not saying the play is meaningless. I’m saying it was not the game losing play by any stretch of the imagination. And your feeling about Guillen clearly plays into it. If this were a Butler misplay that lead to two runs in the same situation, would the headline have been “Thanks to Billy Butler…”? Of course not.
You enjoy criticizing the media for repeating and overblowing certain meme’s (PED use in baseball = destruction of our national innocence). One of them is the sports media acting like certain “good guys” can do no wrong and certain “bad guys” can do no right. Isn’t your writing on this blog about certain guys you don’t like very much like that? Guillen makes a misplay in the late innings of a game the Royals are already losing, and therefore he lost us the game. Does this not seem at all like overblowing something out of proportion with reality? Isn’t that what you ridicule about the mainstream media?
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:29 AM EDT up reply actions
fair enough
though part of what is at play here is that no less than 6 hours ago I tried to be posiitve about this same dude, which was sorta alluded to
I can’t imagine a worse play defensively, which is really all that should matter: the ball should have been caught, fairly easily, and guillen turned it into 2 runs for the other team
This we can agree on
I can’t imagine a worse play defensively, which is really all that should matter: the ball should have been caught, fairly easily, and guillen turned it into 2 runs for the other team
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:36 AM EDT up reply actions
making it the biggest play of the game for the angels
aka the msot detrimental to the royals
which = the play that contributed most to our loss
realistically speaking
Yeah, it wasn't the biggest play of the game
Both logic and WPA say it wasn’t the biggest play of the game.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:39 AM EDT up reply actions
well as I said...
I think WPA is also not quite accurate because the play was a double whammy, a non-out and two more runs
by logic what was th ebiggest play of the game? the last out?
By logic what lost the Royals the game was the fact that they only scored one run
What lost the Royals the game was not any one single play. It was the whole game. And, most importantly, it was the Royals not hitting.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:50 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yea, I'd argue the biggest play of the game
Was the out call on Teahen at 2nd.
I know some members of this board were vilifying the umpire for missing what was being called by some “An obvious call”, but I think it was a bang-bang play that could have gone either way. If he was called safe, Scoscia would have argued. It didn’t go our way, and that sucks, so instead of bases loaded none out, we had 1st & 3rd 1 out.
Of course, with our putrid stats with the bases loaded, that play may have actually helped us.
I do agree with NY though. Jose Guillen didn’t lose us the game. Quite frankly, if that play had been (not) made by Teahen or Dejesus, the headline would NEVER read “Mark Teahen’s (or DDJ’s) Completely Horrible Glove….”
BOOM! ROASTED!
I was at the game. I was 10 feet from Guillen when he BLEW that play. He lost the game.
Let me set the scene and then I’ll tell you why he lost thge game…
Balto's back
Are you the “balto” who was a member of Royals Review back before the site format conversion?
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:38 AM EDT up reply actions
I've been here. We've just missed each other.
I was posting from spring training and in a couple game threads. But been pretty busy trying not to get laid off so less so than in past.
Add: you've really stepped up your game.
You have some great reads. I’m a fan.
Thanks
Yeah, I avoid game threads. Not my cup of tea.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Understandable.
Hey, I’m sure we’ll but heads a few times as the season progresses but for what it’s worth I respect your opinion and your work on this site. Cool?
Definitely cool
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:51 AM EDT up reply actions
So I'm in right field with my buddy from work and our wives. He has Guillen on his fantasy team
and was stoked to be five rows from right field to see his guy play.
So the ball is hit and mind you all game long the Angels fans were mildly razzing Jose because well they hate him and how. But nothing serious. The Royals have just rallied and if not for home field umping would be tied at the least if not winning. Nonetheless, the momentum is shifting and it’s only 2-1. The crowd has lulled and the Royals have a little bit of that winning streak swagger. It’s palpable and you can tell they feel they can pull another come from behind win off.
The ball is hit towards the base line and Guillen starts over. Now I will give him this, it got LOUD and people were screaming at him. I’m 5 rows back and he’s about as far the opposite direction and even I was a bit rattled how loud and boisterous it got. He came towards the ball and everyone was yelling his name, cursing, etc. It rattled him a bit I could tell and I knew as the ball was coming he was going to miss it. (I thought at the time it was a foul ball though). So he blows it and then they score and this is why I say it cost us the game. I had what you on tv and radio didn’t have, an up close look at the body language of the other players. Coco Crisp looked both pissed and dejected as did the other players. But I was close enough to see Coco’s look of oh well too bad. The game was lost then and there. And you could tell as they had zero fight the rest of the way.
I play sports still, although it’s not football and baseball anymore it’s softball but emotion and team emotion especially is huge. I’ve seen one of our guys make a huge error in a tournament game and that’s all she wrote. The team just packs it in. That’s what happened tonight. I saw it, my friend saw it, we both said, there it goes. Game.
Jose Guillen lost that game and any chance of a comeback.
You know it cost the Royals the game because of your read of body language
This team has come back from some big deficits this season, but they suddenly found 3 runs in the 6th inning to insurmountable. I think that play may have destroyed our national innocence too. We once thought the Royals had a chance this season and now our hopes are dashed. You should see my body language right now.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I hope you're wearing pants
and on that note, good night
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:47 AM EDT up reply actions
Okay not getting into the hyperbole you're laying out
I’m just saying, that’s my opinion from my vantage point. It really was deflating. I certainly was deflated and so were the other Royals fans around me. And players are human too. That was a MAJOR error. I mean a HR on a relatively easy fly ball? It brought the crowd back and it really deflated the team which was already struggling on the night. I’m just saying, it certainly felt that way.
Anyway, cheers NY, good sparring with you. I have an all day softball tournament at some lame ass place that has replica stadiums or some such BS. Have a good night and tomorrow we beat those A-holes back into submission with a little dose of ZG.
Later all!
you know it didn't cost them the game from your vast coaching experience?
I’m sure your plethora of experience as a coach has shown you that teams have never let one play affect their intensity and focus for the remainder of the game.
by Fernando Vina School of Linguistics on May 9, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah but a no hitter last year caused a 12 game slide
One game or one play can be deflating….people make errors. He was also right on the line almost in foul territory. It really wasn’t all that different than Tori Hunter missing Butler’s play.
Daniel Murphy dropped a pop-up just standing there and was the only reason Santana lost the game because it was the only run of the game. He even called Murphy out in the post game and said, “he needs to make that play, its the reason we lost the game!”
The one thing that doesn’t make sense is you have Coco in CF, Guillen shouldn’t have to worry about right center at all
by GobbleforCyoung on May 9, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I've taken over this thread but I will say this.
I lost this game for us too. I think I’m just bad luck. Every year I trot out my Royals jersey and head down to Anaheim or over to Dodgers stadium to cheer on the team. I haven’t lived in KC for 17 years but they’re still my team and I do what I can including converting my wife from Red Sox fan to Royals fan no easy task.
Anyway this year was different we were getting major respect from the Angels fans. And there were a lot more of us than in the past. Major respect except from the jack-hole lady behind me who took every chance she could to lean over and heckle/yell/cheer/jeer in my ear after every play. Finally after she bumped me from behind yelling “HAHAHAHAH!” after the Guillen play I turned and said, “Show some class for goodness sakes” or something like that. For the rest of the game she wouldn’t shut up about it. Made for a bad game experience. Oh well.
I'm not killing you for it. I am just disagreeing with it.
I’m being “exaggerated in the other direction to prove [my] point”? What am I exaggerating? The team was down 2-1 and never scored another run. So how can one make ANY argument that an additional two runs lost the game? I’m not saying the play is meaningless. I’m saying it was not the game losing play by any stretch of the imagination. And your feeling about Guillen clearly plays into it. If this were a Butler misplay that lead to two runs in the same situation, would the headline have been “Thanks to Billy Butler…”? Of course not.
You enjoy criticizing the media for repeating and overblowing certain meme’s (PED use in baseball = destruction of our national innocence). One of them is the sports media acting like certain “good guys” can do no wrong and certain “bad guys” can do no right. Isn’t your writing on this blog about certain guys you don’t like very much like that? Guillen makes a misplay in the late innings of a game the Royals are already losing, and therefore he lost us the game. Does this not seem at all like overblowing something out of proportion with reality? Isn’t that what you ridicule about the mainstream media?
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:49 AM EDT up reply actions
what I was/am trying to get at...
is the enormity of the play
sure, my feelings for guillen are coloring this, andthe headline probably sucks, but I see a bright line difference between going nuts over this play, which is probably one of the absolute worst we’ll see all season, and, say, ripping guillen apart of an unclucth K or something that is a relatively mundane failure
NYRoyal as much as we don't get along I have to commend you for this!
I really do think many on this board berate Guillen because “they don’t like him.” Whether it be his baseball deficiencies (already known) or his lack of intangibles, cocky attitude, lack of hustle, supposed clubhouse cancer, steroid use, or dare I even say for being of Latino descent, many on this board just don’t like him.
Yes Guillen is fun to blame, hence his failure to run out bases (during the losing streak last year) when he was clearly hurt.
by GobbleforCyoung on May 9, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
As much as we don't get allong I commend you for this post as
And I think its another reason I overly defend Guillen on this board. Everyone loves to blame Guillen on this board. Not even counting Guillen’s flaws on the field, the steroid allegations, lack of hustle (even when hurt), supposed clubhouse cancer rumors, contract and even his Latino descent is a reason to berate him.
Sweeney missed 385 games over 6 years and has a similar contract. Its tough not to think race has something to do with it
by GobbleforCyoung on May 9, 2009 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it's pretty easy
to think that race has nothing to do with it. Are you serious? If you’re going to pull irrelevant personal characteristics, I would have went with the perceived morality difference between the two.
it's also tough not to think
that Sweeney’s superiority skills re: baseball playing has something to do with it
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
"superior skills"
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
or did you have it right the first time?
freudian slip. I knew you were a Sweeney hater.
There OPS wasn't much different Sweeney's last 5 years in KC
Actually Guillen’s might have been a bit better since Sweeney battled injuries since 2003. Am I missing something here? Was Sweeney a great first basemen?
by GobbleforCyoung on May 9, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions
if you conmpare their peaks of both their careers
I think Sweeney was clearly better than Guillen, despite being a crappy first baseman.
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
while we're playing the blame guillen game
His base-running is crap too. Maier would score on Butler’s double and then would have made the catch too. Yeah, yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but still Guillen dropped a big turd in this one.
by sal fasano on May 9, 2009 2:06 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
+ 1
Guillen baserunning plus Guillen defense cost the team 3 runs. So yes, Guillen actually was the reason we lost the game.
No way you can't say with certainty that Maier would have made it home
He’s not even THAT fast he’s not a base stealing threat. Guillen just turned the 3rd base corner and the ball hit the cut off man at 2nd one second later….
plus there was only one out you have to blame Jacobs just as much for his failure to hit in a sac fly with one out than for Guillen not being able to go from 1st to home
by GobbleforCyoung on May 9, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions
One other factor
is that I believe it was a full count, so Maier probably would have been running, whereas they don’t bother with the hit an run with Guillen – or so the announcers said at the time. You can’t blame Guillen for being in the game at that point… I thought it was too early to sub him out. Especially since we were playing from behind and needed his offense.
It is worth noting...
I know Willie Hustle is the hot hand and everything, but you know you’re in bad straits when the guy is pinch-hitting for you. Poor Lunchbox.
I can't wait to have Luis Hernandez and TPJ on the roster simultaneously
but seriously, Aviles has picked it up the lat couple weeks a bit
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:29 AM EDT up reply actions
this would not surprise me
we’ll see how many more chances he gets to get it going… to be fair though, he has looked awful at the plate. if he were hitting .250/.315 we wouldn’t be having this convo. But we’re 100 AB’s in and he hasn’t even come close to just looking average, which would be acceptable.
realistically speaking
although, over his last 10 games
.278/.316/.444
so I guess he might be righting the ship partially.
realistically speaking
yea...
don’t get me wrong, I don’t want him down, but I do think he’s one more bad week from it happening
as long as bloomy is swinging the hot bat, I'm not sure i would even blame trey
he’s in a sticky spot – aviles was great last year in 400 AB’s, but we’re trying to win now…. and if he’s not swinging worth a shit, and bloomquist is, what is he supposed to do?
realistically speaking
one would hope that the GM would back him up
i.e., they would both be smart enough to recognize the silliness of the “hot hand” and stuff, and just go with the guy who is reasonably expected to be better — Aviles.
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:38 AM EDT up reply actions
yeah, but they just gave the hot hand a 2 year deal
dot dot dot
realistically speaking
That doesn't mean they want him to be a starter
He hasn’t been starting at second base….even when Hillman had the opportunity to start him there when injuries moved him off 2B and Callaspo hadn’t proven to be “hot” yet.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:40 AM EDT up reply actions
i don't know man
gmdm was running his mouth a lot in ST about how willie had never gotten the chance to play every day.
realistically speaking
on the other hand, that's GM-speak
they were also talking about Jacobs as an everyday 1B…
I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.
by Matt Klaassen on May 9, 2009 2:43 AM EDT up reply actions
GM's talk up just about every player, especially new ones
Actions speak much, much louder than words.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't think Bloomy is the issue here
he;ll continue to get his reps all over the place
if aviles is hitting under 220 in late may, for better or worse and three days of data suggest he’s struggling, he may be sent down to
As long as there is an injury like Gordon's, Bloomy will still get PT
And you’re right that Bloomy isn’t the issue. He isn’t going to be pushing Aviles to AAA. If Aviles goes down it’s because he’s persistently not hitting.
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by Scott McKinney on May 9, 2009 2:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Guillen's play was terible, and just may have cost the game int erms of nebulous sports pyschology of whether 1-run vs 3-run games mean anything
But the disheartening part is “one run against an unknown pitcher and a trio of generic relievers.”
This is 2008 trash, Royals. I know you’ve been overperforming lately in terms of offense, but really why do the Royals always seem to be conquered by pitchers like this?
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
if it makes you feel any better, garbage time palmer did the same thing to the yankees in his last start
first run through the league
realistically speaking
Also infuriating was Jacobs' 3-pitch strikeout with 1 out and men on second and third.
But yeah, it’s one loss. But it’s after winning a whole bunch. It’s baseball, losses happen. I think I have this irrational fear that once the Royals lose once, they’ll somehow remember that they’re a .500 team and go on some awful losing streak. But luckily for us, we got Greinke going tomorrow.
Kansas City Royals: your 2006 and 2007 NL Central champions!
That play more than Guillens
Cost the team the Game. Peoples hatred for Guillen can’t get them to see past any mistake he makes. JoGui’s play turned out to be a complete nonfactor as KC would only have one more baserunner the rest of the night. I know Aviles is struggling but I don’t understand pinch hitting for him and not Jacobs versus a Lefty. It seems to me that Trey is setting him up to fail, yes I know he wouldn’t do that but Aviles killed lefties last year and to lift him and not play him versus lefties is bigtime FAIL.
I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.
What people don't realize sometimes
is that Jose has some of the most faith in this team. I don’t just say Jose brings Hope as a joke or gimmick. He really believes this team will go far. So I forgive Guillen, and that wasn’t the only play that cost us the game. Believe in Hope.
What's this day of rest sh@t? What's this bullsh!t? I don't f#ckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin' me, man. You might fool the f*cks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. This bush league psyche-out stuff. Laughable, man - ha ha! I would have f&cked you in the @ss Saturday. I f#ck you in the @ss next Wednesday instead. Wooo! You got a date Wednesday, baby! - Jesus Quintana
by ratherfantastic on May 9, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Guillen
Hey all I went to the games Wednesday and Thursday at the new K. I was hanging out at the party porch in right and man Guillen looked like someone put lead soles in his shoes. He’s either hurting or feeling really lazy.
Watching ESPN
Guillen’s gonna be on the Not-so-Top-10-Plays. Before the break saw just a glimpse of Hope’s dropped ball for the special little award he gets. Oh well, just turn the page and get on with it.
What's this day of rest sh@t? What's this bullsh!t? I don't f#ckin' care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin' me, man. You might fool the f*cks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. This bush league psyche-out stuff. Laughable, man - ha ha! I would have f&cked you in the @ss Saturday. I f#ck you in the @ss next Wednesday instead. Wooo! You got a date Wednesday, baby! - Jesus Quintana
by ratherfantastic on May 9, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions
It's obvious on the tape...
that Guillen is a liability in the field right now. It was all he could do to GET to the ball, let alone drop it when he got there. His hammies are killing him. I don’t know how many times over the last week that he stopped at third when almost any other player would have crossed the plate fairly easily.
Huh? I must have missed this
“Finally however… there was this weird cow milking thing hovering over the entire game, completely with Rusty Kuntz getting involved, as well as the really inappropriately cute cow handler girl. Just a weird scene all the way around.”
pre-game on Royals Live
A cow milking contest that Rusty Kuntz participated in…..Only in L.A. right? Wait……
by I need more Esteban on May 9, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions
I will say that I actually like JoGui
I don’t like his contract, but I want him in the lineup and on the team. I just think he probably needs to platoon with Jacobs at DH when Gordon returns – as NYRoyal fantasized – and if we’re carrying defensive replacements like Hernandez and TPJ, we need to be taking advantage of that more by giving more PH opportunities to Jacobs/Guillen when they’re not starting – since we have a sub that can take their spot after the AB.
I was at the game, and let's just say it wasn't pretty.
Gil labored all night, and never really looked “right” out there on the mound. Jacobs looked absolutely terrible at the plate, and his AB in the 6th was one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Guillen’s flyball mishap is an error I wouldn’t expect Little Leaguers to make, and it never felt like we were going to come back after that. Our entire team, really, couldn’t get anything going against a AAA lifer, besides the breaking-out-right-now Billy Butler (who also made 3 or 4 very good plays at 1B; clearly, the highlight of the game was the Baconater). I didn’t get to see any replays or anything (apparently, Angels Stadium doesn’t believe in replays, as I didn’t see one the entire game), but Mark Teahen looked like he had been on second base for a full second before the ball got there from my seat down the left field line.
But, that’s what great about contention. Every game like this, and there will be more to come (I promise), we spend 24 hours dissecting every aspect, getting all pissed off, engaging in largely pointless debates over semantics and thinking about everything that went wrong. Well, with how much went wrong, and how many ground balls the Angels got to go through the infield (while our linedrives couldn’t find any open holes in the outfield, save Billy Butler) and JoGui’s embarrassment and Gil not having his best stuff, we still only lost by 3 runs. 3. That’s all. On the road, against a pretty good team. They did win 100 games last year, albeit with an entirely different pitching staff.
I’m excited for months of the overthinking over summer. That’s what makes this stuff exciting.
I was wondering if you were going to make it any of these games
this the only one or are you going for 2?
by I need more Esteban on May 9, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Actually, the plan is to go to all 3.
I’m definitely going tonight, seeing Zack pitch was priorities number 1. Sunday is a so-so, still, but hopefully I can go.
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