Bedard’s innings are as short as his interviews

Mike Snow · February 27, 2009 at 12:41 pm · Filed Under Mariners 

In case you want to talk about the game. Just as meaningless as any other spring game, other than figuring out whether Beltre will play for his country.

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22 Responses to “Bedard’s innings are as short as his interviews”

  1. drjeff on February 27th, 2009 12:50 pm

    Bedard, while no buddy of the media, is apparently becoming reacquainted with “The pitcher’s best friend.”

    Every time I look at Baker’s blog, I’m just stunned by the amount of content he cranks out. Is this becoming the norm for beat writers in the digital age, or is he a special case? It’s just nice to have so much to chew on. Those pictures of the field always make me salivate. 🙂

  2. wabbles on February 27th, 2009 1:01 pm

    Well, given that it’s February and he’s coming off an injury, 14 pitches isn’t a bad idea actually.
    As far as Baker’s blog, he is a special case now but he will have to become the norm if newspapers are to survive. The Rocky Mountain News, which printed the returning Iraq War coffin photos is going out of business. The P-I will too soon.

  3. joser on February 27th, 2009 1:18 pm

    I thought maybe that was a reference to how fast he was working. Dave was having trouble keeping up calling the pitches.

    Word is the PI is going on-line-only in some form. Art Thiel may be a blogger soon.

  4. coreyjro on February 27th, 2009 1:46 pm

    Off the field, Mike Morse was a late scratch with flu-like symptoms and Felix Hernandez became a second-time father with the birth of his first son, six-pound, 10-ounce Abraham.

    What’s the youngest age you can offer an international prospect a contract?? 😉

  5. NoStars on February 27th, 2009 1:50 pm

    We should pick up Kenny Powers.

    http://www.kennypowers.com/

  6. monty1077 on February 27th, 2009 1:50 pm

    [no chat speak, please]

  7. Mike Snow on February 27th, 2009 1:59 pm

    What’s the youngest age you can offer an international prospect a contract?

    If he was born in the U.S., is he still an international prospect? It wasn’t completely clear to me, but it sounded like Felix’s wife was with him in Arizona, not back in Venezuela.

  8. MattThompson on February 27th, 2009 2:49 pm

    18-0? Who are these guys?

  9. wabbles on February 27th, 2009 3:59 pm

    Well, some of those “Little League” World Series pitchers are practically 20 years old. Maybe we could get the same people to do King Abraham’s paperwork and get him into camp in…say 2019?

  10. shemberry on February 27th, 2009 4:02 pm

    I am getting very excited about Mike Carp. A home run, a double and 5 RBI today. Hopefully someday people in New York will talk about the Putz trade the way we talk about the Slocumb trade.

  11. AdamN on February 27th, 2009 4:12 pm

    Well, some of those “Little League” World Series pitchers are practically 20 years old. Maybe we could get the same people to do King Abraham’s paperwork and get him into camp in…say 2019?

    Heck maybe we can get his dad in the little world series like that elmonte guy from new york lieing about his age. On real subject, I thougt it was pretty sweet needing only 4 pitches to get out of the first inning for Bedard and 10 for the next. Wtih that average he would have been done with the game in 63 ptiches. Heck he could of qualified for a win today without exceding his pitch limitation of 35.

  12. Gustafson on February 27th, 2009 4:15 pm

    I am getting very excited about Mike Carp. A home run, a double and 5 RBI today. Hopefully someday people in New York will talk about the Putz trade the way we talk about the Slocumb trade.

    I am cautiously getting quite excited about him too… Isn’t the age 23 the year when guys sometimes make a leap power-wise? (He’s 22 currently). Drayer said it was the longest homerun she’s ever seen hit at that yard today and Neihaus described it as “an unbelievably long homer.”

    Now that’s just one swing, of course, but I think that’s cool nonetheless.

  13. cdowley on February 27th, 2009 4:27 pm

    I was listening to the game on the radio when he hit that, and bloody hell did that hit sound impressive. That sucker echoed like no other spring training super-echo-y hit I’ve heard.

    Yes, I know that sounds odd, but still…

    Also, Dave’s “swung on and BELTED” was in mid-season form on that swing 🙂

  14. rmac1973 on February 27th, 2009 5:24 pm

    “Heck maybe we can get his dad in the little world series like that elmonte guy from new york lieing about his age.”

    Oddly, Almonte is the pitcher on the Shady Oaks Retirement Community fast pitch team. I think he’s wearing a Greg Oden mask to look older.

  15. Breadbaker on February 27th, 2009 6:59 pm

    Also, Dave’s “swung on and BELTED” was in mid-season form on that swing

    They should have a neon sign at Safeco that says “Swung on and belted” whenever someone belts one. Of course, that hasn’t happened too often lately.

  16. joser on February 28th, 2009 8:21 am

    Maybe when Dave N retires they’ll put up a “Swung on and BELTED” sign, since we won’t be able to hear him do it. Heck, they should just film him doing it and put it up on the screen at the stadium — Funk Blast is getting old, and having a beloved avuncular disembodied presence sure beats some kind of stupid Rally Monkey. (Might get a little creepy when he’s no longer with us, however).

    Back to the game (I’d stopped listening when it hit 8-0 so I missed the Carp shot and call, darn it). Go read Drayer’s blog. It’s full of great stuff she got while talking to Wakamatsu — Wak praising Cedeno’s defense, wanting to see more plate discipline, and appreciating Beltre’s “Happy Dance” (there’s something they should use in a commercial — folks all over the Northwest doing their version of the Beltre Shuffle).

  17. msb on February 28th, 2009 8:25 am

    appreciating Beltre’s “Happy Dance”

    I started laughing when I heard that– that he’d been appreciating it for years, and that it was solely Beltre’s. Could you intercut it with Red?

  18. terry on February 28th, 2009 9:37 am

    Swinging at the first pitch is excellent effort (aggression baby!) but grounding into a double play is lazy baseball.

  19. joser on February 28th, 2009 2:35 pm

    I started laughing when I heard that– that he’d been appreciating it for years, and that it was solely Beltre’s. Could you intercut it with Red?

    Yeah, where was Wakamatsu that he was able to get himself so much Beltre? Is there some sort of video underground where these things get passed around by email like a humorous baseball samizdat?

  20. slescotts on March 1st, 2009 10:10 am

    For me, the paint has already peeled on ole’ Bedard. The guy pitches for his own stats and has benefited from a smaller sample size than other so-called ‘elite’ pitchers. I hope to be wrong, but I don’t think he’s somebody to rely upon. I don’t see this guy lasting a ‘real’ (i.e. ‘full’) season, much less into the playoffs. I hate to say it, but get ready for more of Bedard’s self-imposed pitch counts, a July/August injury sabbatical, followed by spotty starts… He’s like an old English sports car–awesome when it works but temperamental and too often up on blocks. If you were to only gauge when it ran, you’d get an entirely different picture than if you needed it everyday and quickly realized how unreliable it is.

  21. joser on March 1st, 2009 1:18 pm

    The guy pitches for his own stats

    Your evidence for this is what, exactly? Bedard seems to be a bit fragile, yes, but he’s hardly the first elite pitcher where that’s the case. He certainly doesn’t make life easy for the sportswriters, and they take their revenge in print. You shouldn’t let those writers (and the loudmouths on KJR) make you their sock puppet, taking their opinions as your own.

  22. slescotts on March 1st, 2009 9:46 pm

    [the P-I blog is that way —–>]

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