Red Mosquito

philpritchard wrote:

spike wrote:haha pretty good brawl just broke out between the sox and royals.

So... Yordano Ventura fielded a ground ball and responded by running towards and yelling at the batter before throwing to first? That's... a bit weird.

eaton took forever to dig back in before the pitch. ventura definitely overreacted, but the sequence was noticeably awkward.

apparently, samardzija spends his off days chirping at the other team from the dugout, so he may've had the young pitcher on edge.

Kaius wrote:

I spent $56 on him!

Expecting cricket sounds @ Sox/Balt game tomorrow nite?

Tomorrow afternoon, you mean.

It's going to look like an Expos game. <2k

Why dont they just have the game at Tropicana Field?

Because then the white Sox have to travel twice.

Fuck You Jobu wrote:Expecting cricket sounds @ Sox/Balt game tomorrow nite?

Is this going to be nationally televised? B/c it would be surreal to watch.

Simple Torture wrote:

Fuck You Jobu wrote:Expecting cricket sounds @ Sox/Balt game tomorrow nite?

Is this going to be nationally televised? B/c it would be surreal to watch.

I'll be watching on mlb.tv.

I don't like it.

Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

I don't follow MLB really, but the Nationals / Braves game last night was pretty amazing.

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

This is true. I remember when the Sox and Yankees used to have 4-hour games that ended with scored like 3-2 because every at-bat was a battle and a chess match--now we're getting the same length because Buchholz didn't get his fucking methadone in the morning.

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

This is true. I remember when the Sox and Yankees used to have 4-hour games that ended with scored like 3-2 because every at-bat was a battle and a chess match--now we're getting the same length because Buchholz didn't get his fucking methadone in the morning.

I just randomly selected the 2010 season and looked at batter/pitcher pace. The Yankees and Red Sox combined for 7 of the 25 slowest hitters and 5 of the 7 slowest pitchers. It's not even just the back-and-forth battles that make the games so long, it's the "I'll throw the pitch/get in the batter's box when I'm damn well ready!" mentality.

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

This is true. I remember when the Sox and Yankees used to have 4-hour games that ended with scored like 3-2 because every at-bat was a battle and a chess match--now we're getting the same length because Buchholz didn't get his fucking methadone in the morning.

I've been saying the same thing about Buchholz for years, he is either hooked on scripts or is now on methodone.

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

This is true. I remember when the Sox and Yankees used to have 4-hour games that ended with scored like 3-2 because every at-bat was a battle and a chess match--now we're getting the same length because Buchholz didn't get his fucking methadone in the morning.

I just randomly selected the 2010 season and looked at batter/pitcher pace. The Yankees and Red Sox combined for 7 of the 25 slowest hitters and 5 of the 7 slowest pitchers. It's not even just the back-and-forth battles that make the games so long, it's the "I'll throw the pitch/get in the batter's box when I'm damn well ready!" mentality.

Don't forget the games umped by Joe West.

numbers wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Well this Jays/Sox game is going pretty much exactly the way you would expect a Jays/Sox game to go at this point.

Seriously. So much for quicker 9-inning games.

Well to be fair, it's hard get a game over with quickly when there are 30 hits and 13 walks.

This is true. I remember when the Sox and Yankees used to have 4-hour games that ended with scored like 3-2 because every at-bat was a battle and a chess match--now we're getting the same length because Buchholz didn't get his fucking methadone in the morning.

I've been saying the same thing about Buchholz for years, he is either hooked on scripts or is now on methodone.

I don't want to slander the guy. But he fucking looks like a meth-head.