Padres (1-0) vs Astros (0-1)
Chris Young vs Brandon Backe
7:05 p.m. PT
Channel 4SD
AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 184
MLB, B-R
I’m getting in late on this, but big congratulations to Ducksnorts friend Ed Barnes on taking over as producer for Padres telecasts (h/t Friar Forecast) at Channel 4SD. Among many other things, Ed was instrumental in setting up my television debut on “Outta Left Field” back in ’05 and also in connecting me with Matt Vasgersian, who contributed the foreword to the Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual.
So, yeah, I’m biased when it comes to Ed. That, and I like to see good people rewarded. Here’s to continued success!
Brandon Backe? Really? Quite a drop off from Oswalt.
Re: 1 – further proof that Houston is not a good team.
Well, they just mentioned GY’s buddy Ed.
Just wondering…was anyone else experiencing refresh problems last night in here?
Anyone having problems with ‘Gameday’? I couldn’t get it to work last night either.
I’m interested to see if CY also uses the change up he’s been working on with Jake.
2: They have a pretty solid lineup, but yeah the rotation is lacking.
Well, my heart just stopped on that one.
Pence looks like a ‘toon’ out of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.’
9: Good call.
Follow the game here: http://www.fangraphs.com/livewins.aspx?gameid=280401125
Nice start. Be better to see CY keep the hits on the ground, though.
12: That wouldn’t be very CY-like, though…
12: That’s not really CY’s game.
At least Giles made him work for it.
Good approaches again to start the night.
Nice to see the Padres working the count so far this year..
That was a bit aggressive though.. :-/
Overly aggressive base running by Iguchi there.
seriously, has anyone gotten mlb gameday to work?? i can get mlb.tv to work, but i keep missing plays and I have no idea what happened… ugh!
20: It’s working fine for me.
iguchi looks a bit like chow yun fatt, and apparently runs a bit like him too
21: really? crap. I wonder if there is a interface issue. ugh.
Having Silent L on the opposing team’s side is akin to sending Frank Burns to the North Koreans.
CY is throwing a ton of pitches early.
Looking good CY.
Hate to make an out on the first pitch like that.
27: I don’t know, keeping Brandon Backe in the game might be a good thing.
25: CY only has to throw 44 pitches next inning to match Erik Bedard’s three inning pitch count yesterday.
If the forecast is correct, tommorow night’s game will probably be a rain out.
Too early to declare Hairston a bust and agitate for bringing up Headley?
Keystone cops…
30: After that 9 pitch AB, c’mon…
20: I head it working fine when I had it last season.
21 – re: MLB TV. I just downloaded a whole bunch o’ new plugins, and it’s working fine. Seems to be smoothest in Internet Explorer.
P-Mac sporting an unfortunate -.045 WPA after that AB.
Borne’s base running reminds me of Ricky Henderson.
34: Not having any issues with it in Firefox.
CY is looking really good tonight in spite of the high-ish pitch count.
I had terrible problems with the MLB.com Gamecast when I used Firefox, it would crash and close all the windows. However, it seems to work just fine with Internet Explorer. They did seem to add to much to it though, I liked it better last season. Too much information on it now.
Thank you CY and PMac.
39: Really? I haven’t had a single issue.
Are any of you guys using IE 7?
35:
I don’t really like the WPA stats. A single that wins the game 4-3 in the 9th inning is worth more then a 3 run HR in the first even though the HR is more valuable overall.
I guess that’s the problem with having McAnulty in LF — you are giving up some serious range.
43: It doesn’t measure how good a player is, only how valuable he was.
41:
Well, it’s happened at least twice where all the windows just closed. It just seems to work a little better with IE, which is odd since I thought it worked fine last year with Firefox. But this is on my laptop which is older and doesn’t have a lot of RAM (only 768MB).
This ump just doesn’t like to call the corners.
thank you Kouz.
44:
Actually I guess my main complaint is that people use it to measure the players value when it reality it’s called Win Probability Added, which isn’t exactly the same thing. It’s not a bad stat but it has more to due with circumstances and luck then anything else.
Doesn’t look like they are going to get 6 innings out of CY tonight.
THAT wasn’t a slider. It was a change up.
Nice to have the opposing pitcher up in that situation.