Comments on: Guillen’s heavy, but not heavy bad, Ichiro fallout, catchers bruised

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:57:07 +0000

I see…. :~

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:06:08 +0000

…besides it was Clement’s glove hand. He might be able to put the throwing hand behind his back but he’d have a lot of passed balls if he kept his glove hand behind his back.

My guess (not having seen it) is that it was probably a pitch a foot inside that Clement and Morse both reached for. Which probably says more about Morse’s hitting than about Clement’s catching.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:39:52 +0000

it wasn’t hit by a ball, he got clobbered by Morse:

“Jeff Clement, who was hit by the backswing of utility player Mike Morse. Morse hit Clement’s glove, stinging the left middle finger. Clement left the workout and later had a precautionary X-ray that was negative.”

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:34:04 +0000

About those two beat-up catchers of ours: You can’t do much of anything about a foul tip that bounces off the mask and caroms off the throat or neck (ouch!!!), but that injury Jeff Clement suffered was probably unnecessary and speaks to how much of a rookie catcher he must still be.

Whoever the catching instructor is should have already told him to put his frickin’ throwing hand behind his back until he’s ready to handle the ball…i.e., while he’s CATCHING, don’t leave it dangling alongside the leg or foot, it’ll get hurt that way. Obviously I didn’t see it happen, but I’ll bet that’s how.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:25:09 +0000

well, Ichiro might like to know what Lebron would make of his thoughts…

By: Slippery Elmer

Slippery Elmer — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:09:32 +0000

After reading #11 I was all, “Wow–I’m not the only one who’d like to know how a decade-younger, urban, pro basketball superstar interprets Ichiro’s comments!?” Then I realized it said “Lefton,” not “Lebron.” So I guess I am the only one.

By: 88fingerslukee

88fingerslukee — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:40:45 +0000

If only WFB could close.

By: PositivePaul

PositivePaul — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:14:17 +0000

…I remember a few years ago and I think it was PositivePaul doing every post on the PI thing in Haiku…

Wow — you have a great memory. That was my Senryu protest, inspired by the very musings of Peter and Jeff (when they ran Baseball Musings long before being assimilated into USSM), so you can pretty much blame them. I suppose it was so obnoxious that it was memorable. I was basically posting every comment in Senryu until the M’s won three games in a row. That was a loooong stretch of posting in Senryu, IIRC…

Man, it’s totally funny reading about Guardado’s ire towards Hargrove:

The Mariners manager said it was temporary, that Guardado would get his job back once he worked things out.

Uh, Eddie. Gotta tell you something. While I’m not exactly a Hagrove fan, I don’t think he’s lying. You still haven’t worked things out. I’d actually suspect that if you ever did — even partially — Hargrove would precisely love to have you back as the closer.

By: David J. Corcoran I

David J. Corcoran I — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:03:43 +0000

It makes me happy to see Guardado pissed at Hargrove, whether he is right or not.

By: CouchGM

CouchGM — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:37:23 +0000

Thatâ€™s a pretty good haiku. I note that it has exactly 17 syllables in 5-7-5 arrangement. “February 26th./ Mrs. Bloomquist. /Port Orchard Independent.”

I count 7-4-7 = 18 syllables….