| time: | 7:05 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Jack Cassel (0-0, 6.00) vs David Wells (6-8, 5.46) |
| pre: | Padres.com, B-R.com |
Jack Cassel makes his first big-league start. Cassel’s brother is an NFL quarterback — he backs up the dreamy Tom Brady in New England. Who knew…
[Tip o' the Ducksnorts cap to Gaslamp Ball.]
Good evening all. A few propositions for discussion:
Over/under number of Tom Brady mentions by Matt & Mud: 4.5
Over/under number of mentions of Tom Brady’s illegitimate child by Matt & Mud: 1.5
Over/under length of Cassel’s start: 5 1/3 IP
Note: this is not an endorsement of gambling in any way. Our Ducksnorts overlords have nothing to do with this
Didn’t everyone know that about Cassel from his first trip up earlier this month?
OT (sort of) – ex-Charger Rodney Harrison gets a 4-game suspension for using HGH. From a Bolt fan’s perspective, this makes it a tiny bit easier to rebut jackarse Patriot fans who rip on Merriman.
2 – definitely (at least among those of us who spend time here on DS), but given that he’s starting and football season is imminent, I imagine the producers will make that the “storyline” for tonight.
The guy should be 1-0, had Claw not slipped in Cincy. Anyone remember that? Talk about a pitch to contact guy, look at his stats from PDX.
Does Bard ever get a rest?
6: Word on the street is that they DFA’s LaForest today. Whassup with that?
The Pads needed to make a 25-man roster move to get Cassel up. Barrett comes back tomorrow…maybe LaForest was the odd man out.
7 – I guess they needed to make space for Cassel somehow, although I’d rather see us with 3 catchers in September (especially since one of them is Barrett…).
Who else do we have at Portland…Luke Carlin???
Just checked in on today’s open thread to see that Keith Law stopped by. At least he had the balls to show up.
I would agree with a lot of what Tom said about having the conclusions before finding the data to fit them.
nice play by Cassel & KG to get the lead runner.
Wells just does not look right in a Dodger uniform. at all.
Yeah, the DFA of LaForest is a bit mystifying. I really liked him and I hope we can resign him to a minor league contract.
Crap. At least we got Kent at third, but crap.
They’re hitting Cassel hard.
14 – yes and yes. let’s see how he does in the 2nd.
the fifth starter woes continue…
We gotta take pitches tonite and wait for Boomer to get frustrated and/or make a mistake.
Good approach and good at-bats so far. Now, *score the runners*!!!
16, 17: It’s not going to matter if the umpire is going to give Wells that outside corner all night on the curve. Neither of those were strikes to Bradley. Of course it won’t matter either if Buddy keeps calling double steals.
wow, Adrian just saved Buddy from some serious second guessing
18: Agree with all points. Hopefully Boomer doesn’t feed Khalil nothing but breaking pitches.
Cheap knock by my boy!!! Juan Pierre, but CF ever!!!
21: That was supposed to read best CF ever!
that was an ugly inning with a good outcome. the second inning will tell us much more about which pitcher has good stuff tonight.
niiiiiiice DP
Crap, I just lost a long comment.. Okay, here’s my comment in much fewer words:
(1) Great exchange with Keith Law today;
(2) Ducksnorts clearly has thoughtful, creative, and perhaps sometimes emotional, contributors who are capable of clearly developing and articulating leading analyses; and
(3) I think baseball writers, particularly San Diego writers, are taking notice. Its ostensibly a daily occurrence now that something is posted in an IGD thread one evening and then run in print the next day. Could be that great minds think alike, and it could also be that ducksnorts contributors are really on-top of things…
All in all, great stuff and keep up the oustanding work (even Tom W.)…..
Nice inning Jack! Even though he gives up the hits, we get out of it.
That GIDP by Martin was seriously made to order.
I know that Cassel had a pretty lousy record in Portland, but what were his peripherals? I’m really curios about K/BB, WHIP, and BAA
25 – agreed on all points.
Is it just me, or is DS refreshing pretty slowly tonite?
28 – nope, it’s slow. the server must be getting tired this late in the season.
Milton with an Eric Byrnes impression in left
What’s going on with the air tonight. No wind, but the ball is going crazy far.
31: Well hopefully we can take advantage of that.
Geez, come on Blum.
I do not like Russell Martin. Liquid annoying, he is.
34: I really wish he was a Padre.
That run is on Blum. No way should that have been a run-scoring base hit right there.
thankfully the Dodgers are playing Shea Hillenbrand tonight.
35 – agreed. just so we’re clear; I hate playing against him, same as Jose Reyes and Matt Holliday and a few other Padre killers. But I’d be quite pleased to have them on my team.
37: I’m actually only that high on Martin, and maybe Holliday. I think Reyes is actually somewhat over-rated, especially his defense.
#28/29: Thanks, guys; I’ll see if I can clean stuff up a little this weekend…
25: Hey! “Even Tom W?”
39: Jeez Geoff. An ESPN writer stops by and you let all thought of decorum go to hell. I’m disapointed in you, young man.
Actually, you’ve got to feel pretty good about Law showing up, even if he’s a little deluded.
39 – no worries, Geoff – it’s running fine now. coulda been net congestion or something else network-related.
42: Yep, it’s cleared up quite a bit. I feel like a strung-out coke addict today, what with my rapidity of posting on both blogs.
Nice shovel pass to Adrian.
44: Great play on both ends there. Set down Pierre quietly Jack.
Uni Watch-esque comment – Adrian looks good in the high socks.
41: Yeah. It’s impressive that Mr. Law showed up. He seemed to confuse me with some knuckle-draggers, but I admit my knuckles aren’t that far above the floor.
42: The pipes of the internets were clogged.
47: I think you put his feet to the fire pretty well. Especially your point about him criticizing sample sizes for Bell and Liney, but blatantly abusing them for Antonelli. There’s really no way he can reconcile those two positions. Unless, as you suggest, he’s just lazy and only finds data that matches his conclusions.
#46: Stu, that sounded kinda Hillcrestish.
49: Hey, that’s nothing compared to my brilliant “Russel the Muscle” comments. Oy.