Here’s Your Chance to Deliver, Bud
1-liner, Baseball November 19th. 2009, 5:30pmBud Selig: The clumsy MLB commish plans on “tightening” up baseball’s postseason schedule. Great! Then, he followed it up with, “it’s difficult.” This left Rob Neyer “guardedly optimistic” which might as well be code for, “not happening.” So Selig will whiff on this and instant replay. Outstanding. Changes in baseball come at a glacial pace. That’s sad. [AP, ESPN]
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November 19th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I thought I saw on ESPN yesterday that Selig had already decided that no changes to the post season schedule were going to happen.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Plus not to mention that some MLB teams lost money this year and if the economy doesnt pick up they can expect more and more.
But attendance records are up!
/baseball fan rationalized
November 19th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
the yanks had so much time off, they could have gone to disneyland and disneyworld between their series.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
/Fixed
//Struck by lightning
November 19th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
/Fixed again
November 19th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Big things going on with the Cy Young balloting (big defined as “I care about them”). Keith Law is going on our local idiot station to justify leaving Carpenter off his ballot in twenty minutes. This is going to be like Christmas.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
/Fixed again, Adam Sandler
November 19th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I noticed 2 writers left Carp off, wtf
November 19th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
This may be a stupid question, but how many places do you get to vote for? Three? Four?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
November 19th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
helluva rally by Villanova to win!
November 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Wheels-3
November 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Nicely done Taguchi
November 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Three spots wheels, Law voted for Vazquez second, Will Carroll voted for Dan Haren third. Only two times anybody else got named besides the big three. Hilariously, The Braves have to pay Javier Vazquez $70,000 for finishing fourth in the Cy Voting, which means Law just gave him $70,000 more or less.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Hmmm, no Gallardo on anyones ballot??? Brewers get fucked.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
The homer den of inequity Keith Law is about to walk in is currently talking about how stupid anyone who doesn’t think Kurt Warner should be in the Hall of Fame is. The poor bastard.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
t/j
here’s some good news: The Klan is gonna march at the LSU/Ole Miss game:
/wash your sheet, Jay!!
November 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Why do the klan have to “descend” on Oxford, Mississippi?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
how ’bout that big 10!
Penn State loses to UNC Wilmington.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
The klan’s a bunch of uneducated redneck hypocrits who will spit their racial bullshit for everyone to see and than turn around and hope jordan jefferson throws for 300 yards and 3 TD’s.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
here’s another weird one from SBB (I’m surfing)
anyone watch “Cathouse” on HBO? One of the blondes on there that Dennis dated (she just left the Ranch) was 1 of 5 people MURDERED by some MMA dude.
pics are kinda NSFW (SBB front page)
http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/college-wrestler-killed-hbos-cathouse-star-27045
November 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
tst, which station is he going on? i am out of the midwest tonight so i cant listen. keith law is an idiot. consistently does stuff like this so he can simply say he is smarter than everyone else
November 19th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Why do the klan have to “descend” on Oxford, Mississippi? Tags
Well, they are jumping out of airplanes onto midfield to for the pregame ceremonies. It is a tradition for their home games.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Can’t say I’m a huge Keith Law fan, but he got this one right.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
TSG or Rondoman, remember the post where we were talking about legalized weed and I spilt my guts? I wanna show someone.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I remember talkin about medical marijuana
November 19th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
101.1 With THE FASTLANE! I like Keith Law, but I know I’m in the minority. Hell, even Fetch hates him. And damn you JPQ, I just found my self looking at the body painted Godzilla biscuit pictures again, and I don’t even think they’re very good.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
oh god, thats the worst sports station in town, and thats saying something. he should have fun
November 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I remember talkin about medical marijuana
I know. Remember the post though? Can’t find it.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
And damn you JPQ, I just found my self looking at the body painted Godzilla biscuit pictures again, and I don’t even think they’re very good.
Godzilla Biscuits is in the Over-rated HOF
November 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Oh boy, here we go.
/ducks
November 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
I remember smoking medical marijuana
I know. Remember the post though? Can’t find it.
/Truth’d
November 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Law is getting angry already. This is great.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
TST: I like him in this capacity, but his prospect and draft evaluation is hi-lariously bad.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
“Do you have a background in analysis? I don’t think so? So how can you question my background in analysis?”
One of the St. Louis guys is arguing Carpenter could have struck out more people if he wanted to and he tried to get ground balls and Law should have taken that into account.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Yeah I cant remember. Damn.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
this is wrong. just saw the body paint pictures. holy shit.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Bottom line is Vasquez had a few extra starts and faced tougher offenses (770 to 705 runs on the year by non common opponents.) Doesn’t mean he made the right choice, but it isn’t crazy by any means. And the very fact that he is the only one sort of verifies that the right result occured. No way should it have been unanimous Carpenter over Vazquez.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
The baseball problem is incredibly simple to solve.
1. Instant replay.
2. Move post-season back to October.
3. Adopt Pro Thunderball rules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15m_i6QPAXE
November 19th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Zuh? What is this you speak of?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
“see that’s the kind of old school nonsense that has absolutely no place in modern baseball analysis. “Put your team on your back” is not how major league front offices are determining value.”
“The nonsense is when you stick your nose in a book and don’t pay attention to the players on the field.”
“Why’d you waste so much time traveling around the country when you came up with a nonsense vote like that.”
November 19th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Godzilla Biscuits is in the Over-rated HOF
this is wrong. just saw the body paint pictures. holy shit.
PL: I think it isn’t me ruining all your fantasies. It’s that you’re like tampa and would tap anything with a vajeen.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
s1r, here ya go. http://www.faniq.com/blog/Tim-Tebow-Photo-Girl-Erin-Drewes-Poses-In-Tim-Tebow-Bodypaint-Blog-32596
November 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Best Keith Law quote – Doing 3rd grade math makes you “smart” but doing 6th grade math makes you “dumb” re: stats
November 19th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I’m glad someone else shares my opinion of godzilla biscuits being overrated
November 19th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
yeah, saw that fetch. He also has a great tweet about Cardinals fans needing a pacifier.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I don’t think you can equate “anything with a vajeen” and those bodypaint pics. Those are some good s***
November 19th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
you wouldnt kick her out of bed
November 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Precisely
Whoever would needs their ass kicked
November 19th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
These fuckers were the same guys who said that Mark Reynolds doesn’t care about doing his job because of his strikeouts this year. I am viscerally angry right now. I feel like I just listened to Hannity for three hours.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Precisely
you wouldnt kick her out of bed
Whoever would needs their ass kicked
I’m not that stupid
November 19th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Law makes no secret of his disdain for the Cardinals organization. I get the feeling that he was turned down for a front office position at one time, and is still holding a grudge. Or maybe La Russa told him to go fuck himself once. Or maybe he was given a Melvin everyday at school when he was a kid. Who knows?
And if today’s announcement doesn’t scream for a specific set of guidelines to use in voting for these awards, then I don’t know what does. The problem is, though, the writers are the ones who created the awards back in the “old days”, and as the P-D’s Joe Strauss said a couple years back, “it’s our awards, so we’ll vote the way we want.”
November 20th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Does anyone know the voting system for Cy Young? If Law had just put Carpenter on his ballot, at say 3rd even, would that have been enough for him to win? Same question for other voter…
November 20th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Fatty – Cy Young coming later this AM.