Late game threadation
DMZ · March 31, 2007 at 2:21 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Aaaaaaaand sometimes they slip between authors, and we don’t notice until mid-game. Sorry.
Jeff Weaver goodness.
Aaaaaaaand sometimes they slip between authors, and we don’t notice until mid-game. Sorry.
Jeff Weaver goodness.
Jones leads off the 6th with a Double to RC about 360 feet (off the base of the wall.)
You want to move my game commants to this link DMZ?
I’m such a huge Jones fan. Goood job Gookie.
Dawkins RBI Double for the Lead!!!
Jones rocks.
Bloomy needs to atone for his error
Morrow got sick from a “club sandwich”. I know how he feels. I had a 12 pack of club sandwiches last night.
The Grit slowed his run to first though
Morse is showing a good eye today, even if the Ump isn’t
I think I’m giving up on Morse.
Yeah, I read once that a ridiculous number of food poisoning cases are just the flu, with the remainder largely hangovers.
at least morse didn’t give up on that ball…money catch…he better make it instead of ordonez…
I was just down in Peoria. Tried to tell my wife I ate something weird the nite before. She didn’t buy it either.
Nice catch MM
0-2 and the guy gets a hit. That drives me crazy.
I’ve only watced a couple innings. Have the Cubs been sent down 1-2-3 yet?
I hope that Broussard’s angst about being blocked by Jose Vidro at least helps him produce a great album. I’d buy it.
1-2-3 in the fourth by Weaver in his first inning…the M’s went 1-2-3 3 times in the first 4 innings
I tune in just to see Ordonez strike out.
I should have picked him up for my Hacking Mass team.
I coverred the first 5 innings at the end of yesterday’s game-post
I think last night it was the 7th before Cubs went down 123. That’s bad.
You didn’t get to see Ordonez fall flat on his face 10 feet after the 1B bag. It was great (Horrible)
That giant cartoon character with the cell phone in left field freaks me out.
but weaver looks good, and ramirez looked alright. that’s good…
21… was that when he was trying to go to second, or did he just keep going after tagging first?
24- he just stumbled running to first…thought it was going to be a close play and was lunging…comical stuff…
25… terrific. Maybe his song should be the theme from the Dick Van Dyke show.
damn, that was a nice grab by weaver…
Nice D by Weave. Should he be our 5th starter? I wasn’t exactly impressed by Batista or Ramirez.
i think he’s a good 5th because he is so up and down…batista and ramirez will probably be very average, but at least we’ll know what we have each night…
Sweet. That pitch looked high. But he’ll take it.
Pineiro was consistent too.
29. Probably doesn’t matter. All 3 bleed mediocrity.
31- lol…good point…scary point…
shoot…i’d rather have gookie than ordonez…lol…
Plus Gookie Monster is a better nickname than Saint Rey.
does gook steal?
looks like we’re about to find out…
With bloomy, he’s got to. No? If he’s out. Bloom can start off the next inning.
yep…he steals…
My thanks to the broadcast crew for reminding me that it’s time to switch to the Final Four.
weaver looks pretty good today…
when are they announcing the final, official 25 man roster? tomorrow at noon?
#40
College basketball?
thats more boring than spring ball
[plays Darth Vader music as Hargrove walks out of the dugout]
burke better be okay…having rivera flashbacks…
Clear the bench!
they should put willie behind the plate, so there is another article about him out tomorrow…lol…
I saw m’s/sox about 5 years ago in vegas. they threw out least 3 pitchers in that game. Classic.
43
Um what? I love the team and I love the sport but baseball is by far the most boring sport to watch.
49- you’d rather watch 18 holes of golf than baseball? or three hours of cousins chasing each other around a nascar track? plenty of worse things out there than relaxing with an MLB game…
Don’t forget Soccer. I just don’t get it, at all.
Soccer is The Beautiful Game. Rugby is probably the most fun game to watch, or Aussie Rules. Hockey is hard for me, because I can’t see the puck. Golf is the most boring of all. And I won’t watch any “college” sports on principle; I don’t care if it’s exciting or not.
At least have the decency to preface such statements with the words “in my opinion.”
SMASHCAR is actually kinda fun. It’s a 190mph soap opera. And everyone I’ve known who’s actually been to a race says it’s a million times better in person with the people and the smells.
Soccer I grew up playing, but it’s hard to get into anything other than my EPL team or the World Cup.
But college football… that’s where it’s at. The NFL is big, boring, and corporate. 31 nearly identical teams in talent and structure… and the Detroit Lions. College football is still all about the pagentry, the love of the game, and the under-the-table money.
I’m on Twitter now. This is the both the coolest and stupidest Web 2.0 idea ever. I spend a lot of time thinking it’s dumb, and then see how it’s really cool, then go back to thinking it dumb.
Prefacing my remarks with “in my opinion” is tantamount to saying that I think USSM readers are stupid and lack reading comprehension.
On principle?
What?
Well, I think big-time college athletics is an utterly corrupt enterprise that perverts the purpose of the university, and destroys the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men, predominantly impoverished minorities, with false promises of riches and glory that are only realized for a tiny number of them, and in the process steals from the real students. But that’s just my opinion!
I wish somebody around here showed Aussie Rules.
I think you can watch it on tape delay at Kangaroo and Kiwi, the Aussie and New Zealander pub on Aurora and about 73rd (near Beth’s). I think they show it a couple of days after. There’s an organized campaign to get Setanta to pick it up, but they’re not only not succeeding, they’re going backward; last year they dropped even the weekly highlight show. K&K show a lot of rugby too.
When we were in Australia last year, one of the highlights was going to see St. Kilda Saints v. Collingwood Magpies at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne, in the company of an Aussie who very patiently explained what was happening (without which I would have been lost). Great atmosphere, even for a preseason game. My wife appreciated the tiny little shorts — just about the last sport left that has them!
I remember back in the 80s, when I was in college, one of the cable channels would show Aussie rules really, really late at night (so it was probably live). I have no idea why they did it, but MTV was playing actual music videos in those days too, so everything on cable was a bit weird. Anyway, between the announcer’s thick accents, the unfamiliar terms, and our lack of sobriety, we had no idea what the hell was going on. This did not stop us from drunkenly hypothesizing, particularly when the baffling score with multiple numbers per side was shown. Our favorite theory was that the players were themselves allowed to make up new rules during the game so that you had one score for the creativity of the invented rules themselves and then another for the actual points scored according to those rules. And when the ref did that sharp little karate motion bringing his arms down with index fingers outstretched he was shouting, “That’s a good rule!”
Anyway, it kept us amused. Unlike cricket, which was far more baffling and just put us to sleep.
Oh, and count me among the “basketball is dull” camp. It’s even one of the sports I played a bit as a kid, and I can’t watch it. I’ll go out of my way to watch a baseball game; if I happen to go into a pub for food and football is on, I’ll pay attention; if it’s hocky, I might glance up now and again. If it’s basketball, I don’t even look up — it might as well be the Home Shopping Network or that country music channel. Or Nascar. Heck, I think those golf hilights where they show all the day’s best shots are more interesting than the Final Four.
Joser, you’re remembering ESPN in the early days, and the reason they showed Aussie Rules was because they didn’t have enough programming. I remember that too, and had about the same reaction. It was interesting to get the lowdown on what’s happening from an Aussie. It’s actually an interesting game; a bit like rugby with no line, i.e. a total free-for-all. The scoring is similar to our football, six points for a goal, a ball kicked between the taller center posts, and one point for a behind, which is between the outer posts.
A similar situation now brings us ESPN’s coverage of arena football.
No props for Gaelic football? (From which Aussie rules is derived)
I was so sad when Fox World decided to go All Soccer, All The Time.
How are you supposed to watch the footie grand final? To sing along with “Arise, Australia Fair” while clutching your “Arise, Australia Fair” teatowel? Find out who is the best and fairest?
Black puck. White ice. I don’t really see the problem.
Actually, the trick is to watch the players, not the puck. The puck is against the near boards half the time, anyway, so it’s not in your line of sight. Watch the players; that’s how you watch hockey.
I’ll take F1 over NASCAR any day.
Or even the WRC.