All the awful mistakes at once

my neutrinos are better than yours

even involved the collider.

The physicists say that neutrinos sent 730 kilometers (453.6 miles) underground between laboratories in Switzerland and Italy arrived a fraction of a second sooner than they should have, according to the speed of light.

The LHC is on the Franco-Swiss border but I don’t think it goes through Italy. This was just some non-LHC experiment from what I can tell.

First, we have the VEB collective shoving a turtle in the GOB’s face, as if to say you can’t get us now, followed by azru posting overflow threads all willy nilly, and finished up by you speaking what I assume is the unspeakable ( I’m going to listen in a bit.) Then we all sit back and wonder why we have been smote. Well, not this guy. Suck it GOB’s, you bastard coated bastards.

puns-a-many.

I expected us to take two of three from the Mets and go 5-1 against the Cubs and Astros. After squandering last night’s game, now the Cards must win five or six of their remaining games…

I will continue to beat the “let’s allow both Schumaker and Theriot to not be on the team next year” drum. I will not go quietly into the night.

but in fairness to him, i think his true talent BABIP is higher than miles’.

you should try some!

I suspect not.

it’s pretty hard to ignore the fact that Furcal has been an above average SS for nearly a decade, and that his range is still far better than anyone else we could put at the position, save Tyler Greene. He’s always had issues with throwing accuracy, even in Atlanta. He’s always had a middling fielding percentage, but so did Ozzie in his prime — it’s just that he gets to a lot of balls that other SS don’t get to.

I think you have to respect his track record as an above average defensive player. I don’t disagree that he would be ripping Tyler Greene to shreds and benching him for a millennium for making the same mistake, and that’s one of Tony’s faults as a manager of personnel: He plays favorites, and his favorites are largely decided by his subjective analysis of them as players.

Are you saying Salas wasn’t “fresh” because he pitched an inning on Sunday?

I don’t know why Sunday night’s decisions in the 9th inning are relevant to a Thursday game…

and you can zeppo the other night up by 4

boggs or even dickson would lkiely have finished that one off too

Nice idea for a costume!

He really is the greatest actor of all time.

Dabney Coleman would play a great TLR though.

tony has said several times that carp was bumped forward a day for last sunday’s start so he could line ’em up for the last start of the year.

What we need is a double
Play, but he ball is juggled

Especially points 3 and 4.

Nicely done.

Motte’s mental toughness has little to do with anything, in my opinion. Motte has been called upon a lot in recent weeks by La Russa and has answered the bell. August 30, 31, and September 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, and 22. His use has become much more regular in recent weeks. Motte threw 24 pitches in a four-out save on the night before yesterday’s afternoon game. He didn’t have his best stuff yesterday and that was both something that could be reasonably anticipated before he even took the mound and should have been quickly apparent. Even so, if Furcal converts the routine double play ball, Motte likely toughs it through the inning and everyone is singing his praises after such a gritty performance.

As for Furcal, decline has not come early. Furcal posted a .360 wOBA last season. He is 32 years old this season and coming off a back injury. He is of an age when most middle infielders decline. That being said, this string of bad fielding is utterly bizzare. But, some have long advocated that a player has streaks in fielding just like hitting. This could be evidence of such a theory or it could be evidence of a player in decline that shouldn’t be playing shortstop. I tend to lean toward the former, a string of errors bunched together as a random occurrence, a fielding slump so to speak.

I don’t question Motte’s “mental toughness.” He just didn’t have good control yesterday, whether from overuse or happenstance or whatever. As a former pitcher (at a much lower level obviously), sometimes your arm feels great and sometimes it just doesn’t; sometimes you have great feel for your pitches and sometimes you just don’t. He wasn’t helped by his defense, and he probably shouldn’t have been put out there in the first place. And when he was out there, he walked too many hitters. He blew it, his defense blew it, and his manager probably blew it. All that being said – I’m in the “Lance Lynn for closer” camp for next year (and was before Motte blew it yesterday).

As for Furcal, he just blew an easy play. I don’t think you can draw much from it. I still think he’s the best SS on the team and I’d still sign him for next year, at least on a one-year deal. But, for sure, his error was a huge factor in the team losing yesterday.

Rzep is like Scott Downs to me – a good LH bullpen arm. Is that worth Ramsus? No, clearly not. But Rzep is not “all” we got in the Rasmus trade and I see no need to dismiss the value in the trade we got this year. Indeed, the games this year were and are the most valuable to the team, just like money today is worth more than money tomorrow.

I don’t put this out here as any kind od fact but..in the
phillies series on a slw-mo replay of a Furcal error on a ball
he failled to field going into the hole to his right,I noticed
that his glove was closed instead of open when he went to field it.

I noted at the time that the glove looked odd and said to myself is
that the glove he has been using, don’t look like it. later in the
game, he muffed a ball near the bag again but picked it up and stepped
on second for the out.

One of the commentators on the Phillies broadcast commented that Furcal
seemed to be having trouble holding onto the ball and getting it out of
his glove and the otherannouncer added that his glove old, worn and kind
floppy to him and wondered if that was having some effect.

Then reading the overflow post last night, I noticed that “Tewk” posted
that there had been comments that Furcal had been using an old ragged glove
that he had refuse to abandon. Don’t know where twek heard that but just
commenting on what I heard for what it’s worth.

Similarly, Bill Buckner was a Gold Glove winner multiple times, but all everyone remembers was his impression of wickets in the World Series when he was old and hobbled with bad knees.

Agree on all other points though, especially #4. Sometimes I just wish the Tony the lawyer would stay the fuck home and let Tony the Leader take some blame.

by King of the Hill

life used to be so unfair.

I always enjoy the swing breakdowns that you post – good stuff!

for tonights game, maybe a slight delay but they should be able to play.

I think it might be more of an issue with Dan doing more things for the network (football, basketball, etc.) so they need someone who can fill in for him during Cardinals broadcasts. Horton can’t do college football, so it makes sense to put him where he is.

Furcal dropped an easy ball. I’m not calling him bad player or blaming him for the season or anything else. But he sure fucked up an easy play that the team needed him to make. That’s not on TLR.

As for Motte, he walked three guys where the No. 1 priority was not to walk anyone. It’s not like the Mets teed off on him; he (and Furcal) put the Mets on base. TLR didn’t throw those pitches.

One of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard. TLR and his head games… What would he have said if it was Izzy or Franklin? Something like: “It’s just one of those games when they didn’t have it”?

Rasmus Ready To Start Fresh In 2012

The interview took place shortly after manager John Farrell said the Jays want Rasmus to stop trying to pull the ball on every swing. He needs to use the whole field and refine the timing of his leg kick, which serves as the trigger for his swing, Farrell said.

Even after a reporter told him what Farrell had said, Rasmus insisted he was "not working on anything."

Farrell originally said he planned to call Rasmus’s father to discuss techniques and terminology he and his son have found successful. On Thursday, Farrell said he decided not to make that call.

"In my frequent conversations with Colby, I didn’t feel like that was necessary … I also didn’t want Colby to think there was more of an issue, and didn’t want to force things, and didn’t want to go against his wishes as well," Farrell said.

Make the call Farrell. Tell Tony Rasmus to stick with coaching high school kids. Colby, stop listening to your dad’s advance. Listen to your coaches. He may be well meaning, but your dad isn’t doing you any favors here.

"There’s a lot of different things. The games are a lot slower. In St. Louis it was a packed house every night. A little different here. The team’s a little more laid-back, the coaches are a little more laid-back over here. In St. Louis, it was pretty tight-knit. They were worried about every little thing, every little detail, so it kind of got a little too much for me sometimes."

I love how my new team is laid back! But in St. Louis, things were tight-knit! But sometimes that was too much for me!

Colby needs to get his head straight, man.

This explains it all!

and then we take back three double agents at once? WTF