Game 10 Recap Reds WIN!
by justin007000 on Apr 12, 2011 4:04 AM EDT
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I didn't actually watch the game, well other than watching Joey take a walk in the late innings when the mlbnetwork gave us a live look in from the bar I was watching the game at. But....
Also Coco didn't blow the save, so go COCO! One run leads in the 9th are really scary with Coco so it was nice to see that Coco didn't create problems.
Joe Nuxhal player of the game: Joey Votto, only play I watched live and he took a walk. Plue he is Joey Fucking Votto so he should always be the player of the game simply for existing, Joey Fucking Votto. Although Drew Stubbs deserves an honorable mention for bailing Volquez out in the first, this could have gone the way of opening day and 5 days ago otherwise.
Anyway as long as a game doesn't go 15+ innings in this series I will consider it a success.
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no graph? psssh...
"i would’ve just been like. Votto rapes all, cubs suck and cards are WLBs." -- Big Stein
you really should write these after every game
i was particularly impressed with this part!
Plue he is Joey Fucking Votto so he should always be the player of the game simply for existing, Joey Fucking Votto. Although Drew Stubbs deserves an honorable mention for bailing Volquez out in the first, this could have gone the way of opening day and 5 days ago otherwise.
by 'tHan on Apr 12, 2011 8:53 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
also, i would have picked heisey for the player of the game award
he did make the catch in the first that absolutely saved the reds & volquez. also, he hit a pretty significant homerun later in the game.
Yes, it way Heisey who bailed out Volquez.
Justin, put on your jammies and get under your blankie and watch the Reds at home with a nice cup of hot chocolate. Doesn’t that sound like fun!
by Don, the Rebel without a Blog on Apr 12, 2011 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions
agree
Shoulda been Hi-Z. And he didn’t even get an honorable mention. Booo!
Though he was featured on ESPN, both that nice catch and the home run.
Paul Janish’s hitting streak ended. Though he did get on base via a walk.
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Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way...
@btcoop71
Damnit to hell
I don’t feel like looking it up again
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way...
@btcoop71
That prompted me to look up
this clip about “Pluie.” And holy hell! That there’s Ron Swanson!
by the finest muffins on Apr 12, 2011 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions
The mustache is still magnificent
Bart: "Dad, what's a Muppet?"
Homer: "Well, it's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then pauses) So, to answer you question, I don't know."
Favorite character ever.
Nick Overman should just change his name and actually live as Ron Swanson.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ~ Winston Churchill
by BigBabyBruce on Apr 12, 2011 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
Joey Fucking Votto! You guys could write game recaps for the rest of eternity and never come up with anything that great.
Joey Fucking Votto
Well then.
Time to start doing a lot of drinking and serious self-evaluation.
by Brendanukkah on Apr 12, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
These are the least informative recaps ever
But entertaining, so I’ll not complain.
Whoo! Joey Fucking Votto!
Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get. ~Homer Simpson
everybody guessed Pads (me) or went with a big score ...
wishfuldrifter picked the lowest score and got the point …
"And a high fly ball to center field. He hit it a ton. And the 2010 National League Central Division Champs are the Cincinnati Reds!"
It's true that EV didn't suck last night.
You can SEE the different in his arm action between the first few hitters and everyone past the 3rd inning. He snaps it off a lot more.
It’s fashionable for Reds fans to question his pregame ritual, but I’m starting to wonder if he should too.
"i would’ve just been like. Votto rapes all, cubs suck and cards are WLBs." -- Big Stein
maybe they should start simulating a 1st inning before he takes the mound
if that means he can only go 6 or 7 instead of 7 or 8, so be it …. i’ll take that over a 4 spot
"And a high fly ball to center field. He hit it a ton. And the 2010 National League Central Division Champs are the Cincinnati Reds!"
by joshuar9476 on Apr 12, 2011 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions
i mean.. it's worth a shot next time out???
"i would’ve just been like. Votto rapes all, cubs suck and cards are WLBs." -- Big Stein
Problem is Volquez is usually so inefficient
An extended warm-up sounds like a good idea based on what we’ve seen this year, but I don’t want it to come at the expense of him being able to go six innings (let alone seven or eight).
Also worth noting that the first inning has historically been his worst, though some (most?) of that is facing the team’s best hitters. Volquez might not be wired to throw lights-out at the beginning of the game.
Except in 2008, when he only gave up 8 runs in the first inning all year
He’s already given up 9 in the first this year.
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He only threw 88 pitches last night...
after throwing 30 in the first.
As the mlb.com article puts it, “A sore big right toe ended his night. Volquez jammed it in a hole near the rubber.”
Still not a candidate.
You mean he jellied it a hole near the rubber.
by andromache on Apr 12, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Raven Riley'd?
"At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day." Dusty Baker
My idea was to pitch Aroldis in the first inning then have Volquez come in for the nex 6/7 innings, then go to CoCo
#FreeChappie!
"I'm telling you, my other poo story is much better." -- btcoop71
So you DO want Chapman to be a starter!
I knew it!
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Can you really claim credit for this idea?
He fixes the cable?
by Colin Auscapee on Apr 12, 2011 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions
i love that he put a jump in there.
"i would’ve just been like. Votto rapes all, cubs suck and cards are WLBs." -- Big Stein
how much did you have to drink at said bar last night, justin?
oh wait, drunk justin typically gives us the most comprehensive and beautiful flowing prose with not a scent of grammatical error …
this is classic justin. well done!
"And a high fly ball to center field. He hit it a ton. And the 2010 National League Central Division Champs are the Cincinnati Reds!"
Enough that my head hurts alot right now
it was my final meeting as the President of our departments graduate student association, so we went out to the bar afterwards, and we have a lot of money to spend by the end of the year. So I bought a lot of pitchers with University money.
"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige
by justin007000 on Apr 12, 2011 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Using other people's money to buy beer is always a win, well done kid
"I'm telling you, my other poo story is much better." -- btcoop71
by jch24 on Apr 12, 2011 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
should have saw our christmas party
"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige
by justin007000 on Apr 12, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Wagon is a bit like my old VW
It ran terribly when I first started it up, but after a while it began to cruise like a champ.
Maybe we just need to keep him in the garage with the ignition on for about 20 minutes before the game starts.
make sure the door's open
or else someone will find Porky Lopez face down in the bullpen
Joey Votto on Colin Cowherd: "I don’t know who he is"
by UncleWeez on Apr 12, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Johnny Gomes
- Leads the NL with 12 walks.
- Has stolen 2 bases without being caught.
- Is hitting .231, and just .176 on balls in play.
- But he’s also got an OPS+ of 190. 190! It’ never been done with a sub-.250 average! I love April stats!
He'll need some triples to take the lead in the Raines quotient
Sorry for the unnecessary “h”, Jonny!
I'll take that
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by Slyde on Apr 12, 2011 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
i'ts been said before (by Brendan)
but his real, full, name is Jonny Johnson Gomes. This bears repeating as much as necessary.
Let's not kid ourselves. It's really, really, bad.
by Cy Schourek on Apr 12, 2011 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually, It's Jonathan Johnson Gomes
But still, it’d be Jonny Johnny Gomes.
Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get. ~Homer Simpson
by Hawkeyegirl96 on Apr 12, 2011 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually, sadly, Matt Kemp is leading currently in discipline-speed number.
Gomes is 8th. (Ichiro is leading in the AL)
And in "obvious statistic is obvious" news, Rickey Henderson leads for career discipline-speed by almost twice the second guy's numbers.
Tim Raines is only 5th!
Where is that listed?
I know bb-ref has a power/speed number but I don’t see the discipline/speed. In other news, work is slow today.
It's not something that actually exists. I did the calcs myself.
I just used the same formula for power-speed – "2xBBxSB/(BB+SB). Perhaps I will blog about it later.
You should
I actually chose Raines instead of the obvious choice because of Henderson’s lack of triples. Seems like a guy with those wheels should’ve had more than 66 in his career. Rock also has a better % on SBs.
But yeah, I’d be shocked if Henderson wasn’t at the top.
Hmm, I just changed the formulation a bit, which moves Gomes up to 6th. (Rickey Henderson still wins by a mile)
It’ll probably won’t go up on my site til this evening.
(Incidentally, including triples would probably help Raines, but it would weight everything more towards older era players. I haven’t figured out how I would include triples, but if I did, I’m pretty sure Cobb and Wagner (and Collins, and Speaker) would shoot to the top.)
When did you start writing your gig?
I didn’t know that. That’s awesome! I’ll have to add that to my Google reader.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Apr 12, 2011 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Really just started recently, although it's been in the works since before spring training.
I wrote a sonnet to Arthur Rhodes!
Yeah, there would need to be some sort of park/era coefficient for triples
Smaller parks and a lack of turf keep triples down considerably in the Selig era. It could be interesting to use the rate of doubles versus triples as part of the speed equation.
I gotta say, he's looked pretty good against righties so far.
Being that it’s only 6 games or so, I’m very confident he’ll regress to his shit-tastic ways against righties soon enough, but it’s fun for now!
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Why do you hate Jonny Gomes, and by extension, America?
"I'm telling you, my other poo story is much better." -- btcoop71
Why do you hate Jesus, and, by extension, America?
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Because his observed birthday is the same as mine and a gift giving holiday
Essentially robbing me of an extra gift day per year.
"I'm telling you, my other poo story is much better." -- btcoop71
you should have just changed your birthday on your birth certificate!
apparently it wouldn’t have mattered.
This was written at 4 am Eastern Time!
That’s dedication, holmes
Joey Votto on Colin Cowherd: "I don’t know who he is"
Far Eastern Time?
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i was wearing a coat and tie when i wrote this too.
"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige
by justin007000 on Apr 12, 2011 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Drunk at 4am in a suit and tie writing up a less than factual game recap.
Pure awesome Justin.
Justin for Mod 2011!
Let a man come in and do the Popcorn.
That play where BP deked the runner was awesome.
I think my favorite play where BP pulled something like that was against the Cardinals. The runner was going and the catcher made a bad throw that BP caught. Phillips acted like he missed it and started to run into CF. The runner broke for third, realized Phillips still had the ball, and dove back into second, only to be tagged out by BP.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
I adore that play by BP
it usually works 3 or 4 times a year, and fails about a dozen more. It’s worth it every time though.
I used it after I saw it.
It was awe-some.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Play of the game, JNM star of the game
Play of the game is Heisey’s catch. That’s easily two more runs otherwise and Volquez doesn’t last the inning.
After that, Volquez be da man. That he recovered and brutalized their hitters makes him the player of the game.
"Изтегляне на нов президент .. и този ангажимент и визията, който е прекарал седем континента, включително четирима служители."
you actually watched the game
i didn’t even look at a boxscore when i wrote this.
"Nobody hits Satchel." -Satchel Paige
by justin007000 on Apr 12, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions
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