Comments on: Kouz Da Man

By: The Fathers

The Fathers — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:45:36 +0000

Is it okay to want the defensive equivalent of Dave Kingman on your bench instead of the offensive equivalent of Enzo Hernandez or George Arias?

By: Surfin' Bird

Surfin' Bird — Fri, 18 May 2007 07:22:22 +0000

Craig Wilson’s mullet alone would be worth the price of admission.

Bur seriously, his value would be strictly as a right handed pinch-hitter since we is the defensive equivalent of Dave Kingman.

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:09:37 +0000

DavidB posted this interesting note at pdxbeavers.com (which has been *very* slow this season) …

Brian Sikorski-R- Player May. 17 – 5:40 pm et

Indians sold the contract of RHP Brian Sikorski to the Yakult Swallows of Japanâ€™s Central League.

Sikorski spent five years in Japan before giving MLB another try last season. Since things didn’t work out for him with the Padres and Indians, he’ll go back to Japan and get a couple of more nice paychecks before he hangs ‘em up.

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:32:13 +0000

Chase Headley and Nick Hundley with HRs tonight at AA San Antonio … http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2007_05_17_friaax_sanaax_1

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:37:48 +0000

OT … hey, this would be a fun game to see … http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=270517118 … battle of the little-big-men … vet vs rook … oswalt vs lincecum … round 1 … thru 6 …

Pitches-strikes – T Lincecum 87-55; R Oswalt 89-56.

Ground balls-fly balls – T Lincecum 3-5; R Oswalt 9-4.

Batters faced – T Lincecum 21; R Oswalt 21.

… Lincecum with 10 Ks … 0 ER’s in the game …

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:37:49 +0000

20 … what are you trying to say, Peter? that if you think of the strike zone as a 3-d box over the plate, that that pitch was high over that box but then drop’d fast into the catcher’s mitt? i don’t get it … it was a bad call, imo …

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:36:52 +0000

21: Yes, absolutely, the Padres should be interested, he’s a perfect fit with his right handed bat, it would mean getting rid of one of Robles or Blum which is not a hit at all (especially if it’s Blum, though it wouldn’t be), it sounds too good to be true, so it won’t happen. Gotta let Blum’s beautiful swing stay on the team.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:25:13 +0000

20: One of the articles I read about the Gameday system mentions how surprising it was to the researchers just how skewed the centerfield camera angle makes the pitches look. You’re looking at 60 feet of flight through a telephoto lens from 300+ feet away, it’s going to squeeze all the pitch movement into a very short visible flight path. If I remember right, Gameday measured the “break length” of that pitch at around 8 inches. 8 inches over 60 feet doesn’t leave much room for the pitch to drop during that last foot of flight.

It’s possible that earlier in the game the umpire might have called that a strike. Maybe he just wanted to avoid another extra inning game

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:14:33 +0000

DePo was on 1090 today, when Coach asked him about Wilson it sounded like the Padres weren’t really interested.

Coach asked him about Cust, DePo said the AL is the best fit for him, yada yada. The natural follow up would have been to ask about the PTBNL and whether Cust’s performance raises the return value. Since it was the natural follow up question, Coach didn’t ask it.

By: LynchMob

LynchMob — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:09:14 +0000

21 … yes, the padres should be interested … if nothing else than to take jack cust’s place at portland (oops, i wasn’t s’posed to mention his name …)