Royal Pitching Collapses as Red Sox Earn Split
by Freneau on Sep 25, 2009 12:10 AM EDT
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PrintLooks like the bad old Royals may be creeping back into our lives.
- Errors are a problematic stat, no doubt. Still, when you make five in a game, you've had a terrible night defensively.
- Don't worry, we got Josh Anderson into the game. Has anyone ever been more preoccupied with late-game defensive adjustments that don't clearly do anything than Trey Hillman? Winning or losing, it doesn't matter. He's the Tony LaRussa of the subcategory.
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Anderson and Gathright were on the field at the same time. This somehow failed to yield interesting results, although Anderson’s at bat was one of the few things all night that transpired speedily.
Interesting results?
Like the world ending?
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
I was thinking more
along the lines of a complete mental breakdown by somebody in the Royals’ front office, during which he or she ran out onto the field screaming, “Speed makes the centerfielder!” or some other nonsense, and attempting to leap over each of the players in turn from a standing position. Eventually this person would be restrained by 8 security guards and taken off the field while chanting, “Pitching is the currency of baseball! With pitching you can get anything!!”
But I was sorely disappointed.
by 2X2L on Sep 25, 2009 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I was think more along the lines of a massive shift of the earth's tectonic plates
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
What we got was a 4-pitch strikeout of Anderson, so I’m guessing it was pretty much a bummer for you too.
By the way, I was in a stadium during a massive shift of the earth’s tectonic plates, two of them anyway, and I didn’t like it.
yeah, the least it could have done was wait until the game was over
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
On a serious note, in fact we were lucky it happened when it did, because with the game about to start traffic was relatively light in areas that were damaged.
Anyway, I’ve posted elsewhere on SBNation about my experience that day. 20th anniversary coming up; I’ll probably keep the TV off that day.
I was teaching a class in environmental geology that evening
and was totally oblivious to what was going on in the Bay area. After my class, I ran into a couple of the other geologists and I asked why they were up in the department so late and they told me about the Loma Prieta earthquake. I got cranky with them because I could have put the coverage on the big screen and it would have been a pretty teachable moment. I talk about that event a lot in my intro classes.
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
About 5 years afterward, my wife and I went hiking to the epicenter — really the point on the surface above the epicenter — in the Forest of Nisene Marks, with our first child in a baby backpack.
Nowadays we live somewhat farther north, not that far from the Rodgers Creek Fault, along which the most recent earthquake “occurred before local settlement and the beginning of livestock grazing”. Any geological words of wisdom for us here?
well.....
if you can, live in a house built on bedrock. as I’m sure you know, loose, unconsolidated sediment shakes more than solid rock (think of a bowl of jello). that abstract is not too comforting though. it looks statistically speaking (don’t tell GMDM) that you are at the recurrence time. However, the longer the recurrence interval, the more error on either side is involved. you probably have nothing to worry about. I go to an annual meeting every December, held in downtown SF and try not to think about earthquakes.
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
Yes, we’re situated squarely on the floor of Sonoma Valley — no bayside reclamation via landfill here. According to the USGS, we’re sitting on early to late Pleistocene alluvial deposits — sandy gravel, silt, and clay. Also we all go out twice a week in our clodhoppers and stomp around, for luck.
The Association of Bay Area Governments reports that there are no residential areas in our municipality that are either highly or very highly susceptible to liquefaction. Although about 10% of the residential land is moderately susceptible, their interactive hazard maps indicate that those areas are — well, those maps are totally broken. Anyway, not here.
Of Course, People
Went blithely about rebuilding on these areas shortly after the rubble was cleared.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF0/011.html
The Bootlegger Cove Clay receives its fame not from its use by potters, but because its existence beneath parts of the city of Anchorage caused great damage during the 1964 earthquake. Persistent ground shaking caused the clay to liquefy and thereby lose its strength. Subsequently, parts of Turnagain Heights, L Street, Fourth Avenue and Government Hill slid downward on a potter’s “slip” of Bootlegger Cove Clay.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Sep 26, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Your final tally on the 2X2L family homestead
Liquefaction susceptibility: very low
Shaking severity in major earthquake scenario: strong (for those of you scoring at home, that’s below very strong, violent, and very violent on the scale)
So, I’m tabling this subject and switching my browser over to the game.
Don't We All
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Sep 26, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
i’m unsure how Greg Gibson put it together long enough to put an ump’s mask on, he’s a special combo of a large ego and no common sense
Graduate with a B.S. from the Dayton Moore School of Stats Analysis
I had a really random and weird dream last night that Trey Hillman became furious with the home plate umpire and killed him on the field with his bare hands. I still have the image in my head of the umpire being taken off of the field while Hillman was being restrained. I forgot about it after I woke up, but as I was listening to the game on the radio (especially the 4th inning) I remembered the dream I had had. I’ve never had a dream involving Trey Hillman before, and I’m not saying that dreams mean anything or that Greg Gibson should be physically harmed, but it was an odd coincidence.
Yeah, I'm not sure posting that was really necessary
This isn’t a psychiatry blog
by KCBear on Sep 25, 2009 11:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
so, what, is it
psychoanalysis? which is the one were we sit on a couch and talk about the dark things that upset us and prevent us from being successful? ‘cause i’m pretty sure that’s what this place is.
"red bull is amaZing" -Coco Crisp
Audio of Zack
clearly audible in the ejection video:
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6829745
by swing and a miss on Sep 25, 2009 1:27 AM EDT reply actions
what did he say to him?
I couldn’t make it out.
What I heard from the broadcast was:
“You Suck”
That may be way off, but I thought that’s what he said. And it’s pretty funny.
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
what i hear
ZG: Hey Greg, what’s going with the strike zone? The balls were there.
Ump: What?
ZG: What are you calling a strike?
Ump: You know what, you’re out of there!
by swing and a miss on Sep 25, 2009 2:03 AM EDT up reply actions
lol I think I heard something diffrent...
first ZG quote sounds right…
the second sounds more like
You _ Suck..
I refuse to set up a signature....DAMMIT
For the record, Hillman didn't put Anderson in late as a defensive replacement
Gibbons did.
- W. Bloomquist homered to deep center
- P. Earth explodes
First of all, do NOT blame this game on the offense
When you commit 5 errors in one game, I don’t care who you play….high school, NCAA baseball, junior college, or another professional franchise….you’re gonna get it handed to you. We couldn’t do….diddly poo offensively. That was a disgraceful performance today. In my opinion, that sucked.
Ahhh... there's the Royals I know from the last few
…errr 15 years.
5 errors leading to 6 unearned runs.
Sigh…, can we please trade Teahen, Anderson, Bloomy, Betancourt, etc. For a bag of donut holes.
So in 41 Major League Seasons we’ve won our division 6 times… remind me why I follow this team?
1977 KC Royals - The best team to NOT win the WS. Yankees SUCK.
by Trey_has_no_pulse on Sep 25, 2009 8:42 AM EDT reply actions
The same reason
you let a large latex clad woman put a leash on you, make you bark like a dog and whip you all while shouting degrading insults…
…or is that just me
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan
by Royal Kingdom on Sep 25, 2009 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Proud of Zack
Standing up for the 26 yr old unknown (basically) rookie.
Pretty clear that Gibson was squeezing Lerew. Not saying on purpose -but umps are human and may be subject to doing shit like this subconciously.
Even more ridiculous, IMHO, was the warnings issued. The pitch was fricking off-speed! If Lerew really wanted to throw at Lowell, I’m sure he would have thrown a fastball.
Mr Glass, this is a pro sports team, not a retail store - run it like one!
but these are the Sauxxxxxx!
they must be revered and protected at all costs.
P.S. I agree, those were inside, off-speed pitches, not headhunters.
"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell
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