first pitch: 4:10 p.m., PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Jake Peavy (8-14, 4.31 ERA) vs Kyle Lohse (4-7, 5.35 ERA)
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Why are the Padres still blowing winnable games at this point in the season? Very annoying. Jason LaRue? He’s the Reds’ version of Mark Bellhorn, a guy who really shouldn’t be beating you.
I’ll be out at Taste of Downtown tonight, so carry on without me and I’ll catch up when I can. Go Padres!
Mets tie-up with Fish … 4-4 in bottom of 9th …
I’m minor-pissed that Blum batted … get Knott an AB! … then play Manny @ SS … simple!
Random: the morons on 105.7 were saying that Bellhorn has hit worse this year than guys who were “cut by this team.” Obviously they’re referring to EY and Castilla. Can these guys just not read a stat line? Bellhorn has sucked (worse than even Blum), but how stupid do you have to be to think a .262 wOBA is better than a .289?
I could be going out on a limb here, but maybe they weren’t looking at wOBA? I wasn’t listening, but it would surprise me if they were looking at that stat, and Bellhorn does have a lower average than the other two.
Leave it to the guys to pick a night when I’m out of the house (which is, like, never) to go crazy on offense. Guess I’ll be watching this one on TiVo tomorrow night. Sounds like good times…
Obviously they’re not looking at wOBA. They still have all of the components of it infront of them and if they can’t look at walks, hits and plate appearances and understand the what they mean, they have no business doing “analysis.” The assertion that they would choose to look at batting average and make a judgment based on that stat alone is no less of an insult to their intelligence than my calling them idiots.
Richard’s right. Bellhorn is a much greater offensive asset to the Padres than EY or Vinny would have been. He’s getting hits in clutch situations, and he never strikes out when runners only need to be advanced. C’mon… I think what the radio guys were saying is that Bellhorn sucks, which is true.
friarfan: I mentioned that Bellhorn sucks. My point is that the “radio guys” are idiots to think he’s been worse or even as bad as EY and Castilla were.