first pitch: 1:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Justin Germano (0-0, 1.50 ERA) vs Anthony Reyes (0-5, 5.03 ERA)
Happy Mothers’ Day! Padres need to win one for the madres…
first pitch: 1:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Justin Germano (0-0, 1.50 ERA) vs Anthony Reyes (0-5, 5.03 ERA)
Happy Mothers’ Day! Padres need to win one for the madres…
Wow, Tom, I didn’t think even you would stoop to cherry picking the worst year of Mark Sweeney’s career, when the guy had only been in the league since 1995 and had already demonstrated an aptitude for pinch hitting. He is a career .268 PH, which is freaking great. Same goes for Vander Wal. It goes up and down for even the best. For Cust, it has been consistently down, and well below major league average.
If you think that pinch hitting is not a special skill set, I would love to see you try to prove that. Your first task would be to explain away the 30-50 point yearly batting average difference between overall hitting and pinch hitting from 2001 to the present.
Funny also how you ignore all of the other admissions I have made to focus on the low-hanging fruit that is Geoff Blum. I said I’ve been wrong on several occasions – I’ll add a few more (1) the Giles re-signing; and (2) letting Hernandez and Olivo go. You still refuse to admit any error. Must be nice to be as perfect as you.
And if you could come up with pom-pom smilies, I would love to add them to my posts, particularly after I follow a dour wallowing in negativity courtesy of you. I am very proud of what the Padres have managed to accomplish in the last 12 years, despite being routinely outrevenued by $30-50 million dollars each year.
However, I can live with your sour and nasty ways, provided you can live with my relatively cheery optimism and willingness to give the team the benefit of the doubt.
51: “Consistently down” is incompatible with “23 major league at-bats.”
“It goes up and down for even the best.” Thank you for understanding the point, almost a full day late and more than a dollar short. If great pinch hitters have bad years, what sort of person would Cust definitely can’t do it after only 23 at-bats? Based on his major league record, which you’re hanging your hat on, he couldn’t possibly have hit 6 HR in 26 at-bats. Maybe we’re living in the Matrix and Cust is Neo. No way a guy with that major league record could do anything like hit 6 HR in 26 at-bats. And surely he couldn’t get on base or hit for power as a – gasp! – pinch-hitter.
Cherry picking? I listed 5 of 13 seasons to show that your own anointed great pinch hitter could have below-average, even terrible, seasons. 5 seasons out of 13 isn’t enough of a sample to show that randomness affects a hitter, but 23 at-bats is enough to prove that Cust can’t do the job?
You know what 30 points of batting average in 150 at-bats equals? 4 and a half hits. 4 and a half hits over a 6 month season. Smart people call that “nothing.”
I’m not refusing to list any error, I just don’t see why I need to follow your dictates. You’re neither my mom nor my dad. Despite your attempts, you’re not the Ducksnorts Behavior Police. Remember when you told me I was “killing conversation” here? In the middle of a HUGE thread that continued for days after I supposedly delivered the lethal blow? Don’t you get tired of saying what a bad influence I am……and being proven wrong day after day after day? You’re a fairly lonely voice bemoaning my sour and nasty ways.
If I was going to throw out a guess as to why you’re so proud of the Padres, who 8 years after swearing to develop a top-notch farm system have one of the worst in the game, and who promised that Petco would support a higher payroll but now rank in the bottom third, it would be a suspicion that you’re being paid by the Padres to feel that pride and to express it publicly. But that’s only a stab in the dark.
would Cust = would say Cust