((HT: Washington Post/Steinberg))
The HQ is aware of the penchant for the Washington Nationals' Matt LeCroy to have banana and Mayo sandwiches before games this post-season. Beacuse of it, or independent of it, the Nats are 7-0 in games that he eats a sandwich before the first pitch.
So, the Post's Dan Steinberg decideed to put the sandwich to the test with fellow Post staffers...
Here's the results...
For the record, the HQ will NEVER have one of those things...
Showing posts with label MLB playoffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MLB playoffs. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Swung On And Belted: Giants Take Game 2 In 18
((HT: MLB.com))
The old record for an extra-inning game in the playoffs was 5:51- the Nationals and Giants blew right past that one... they went six hours, 23 minutes in length. For innings played, it matched the 18-inning Game 4 of the 2005 NL Division Series, when Houston beat Atlanta, 7-6.
If it hadn't been for Tanner Roark grooving a ball to Brandon Belt, they might still be at it.
The Giants are one win away from knocking off a pre-playoff favorite for the fall classic. The Reds were a win away once before in 2012, but gave up three straight to the Giants. And, at the same time, the Giants post-season win streak is now at a record ten games...
The old record for an extra-inning game in the playoffs was 5:51- the Nationals and Giants blew right past that one... they went six hours, 23 minutes in length. For innings played, it matched the 18-inning Game 4 of the 2005 NL Division Series, when Houston beat Atlanta, 7-6.
If it hadn't been for Tanner Roark grooving a ball to Brandon Belt, they might still be at it.
The Giants are one win away from knocking off a pre-playoff favorite for the fall classic. The Reds were a win away once before in 2012, but gave up three straight to the Giants. And, at the same time, the Giants post-season win streak is now at a record ten games...
Friday, October 3, 2014
Royals, Extras, No Problem...
((HT: MLB.com))
The HQ thinks that if the Kansas City Royals are allowed to hang around long enough, they'll come back and get you when you least expect it.
It happened for the second game in a row, but this time it was in the first game of the American League Division Series in Anaheim against the Angels in Anaheim.
Mike Moustakas did the damage in the 11th inning last night.
But to say it was just the Moustakas homer is a bit of a short sell to the defense of Lorenzo Cain and Nori Aoki
Four times in the game they saved Jason Vargas and Mark Davis
Four games on Friday getting in all their efforts before college football goes center stage- and the Angels have to be concerned about the possibility of having more than one game stolen from them.
The HQ thinks that if the Kansas City Royals are allowed to hang around long enough, they'll come back and get you when you least expect it.
It happened for the second game in a row, but this time it was in the first game of the American League Division Series in Anaheim against the Angels in Anaheim.
Mike Moustakas did the damage in the 11th inning last night.
But to say it was just the Moustakas homer is a bit of a short sell to the defense of Lorenzo Cain and Nori Aoki
Four times in the game they saved Jason Vargas and Mark Davis
Four games on Friday getting in all their efforts before college football goes center stage- and the Angels have to be concerned about the possibility of having more than one game stolen from them.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Oh No! TBS Baseball Guy's do a "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Parody
((ht: mlb.com))
For many of us in the world of TV Sports, this local TV sportscast by Brian Collins is arguably one of the most awkward segments in history.
In 2005, it was one of the early "Viral Videos" that now populate the Internets..
For some reason, which we guess the promo department at TBS Sports would have to explain, the folks doing the Major League Baseball playoffs decided they would spoof it with it's team of analysts including Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., Gary Sheffield and Pedro Martinez.
Granted it is pretty funny, but that's because we are familiar with the original. But many of you probably aren't. And if we have to qualify or explain the set-up to the joke to you, chances are it's not that funny or missing the intended audience.
And that's our TV marketing lecture for the day...
Here's the TBS Promo, it's certainly...um...different...
For many of us in the world of TV Sports, this local TV sportscast by Brian Collins is arguably one of the most awkward segments in history.
In 2005, it was one of the early "Viral Videos" that now populate the Internets..
For some reason, which we guess the promo department at TBS Sports would have to explain, the folks doing the Major League Baseball playoffs decided they would spoof it with it's team of analysts including Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., Gary Sheffield and Pedro Martinez.
Granted it is pretty funny, but that's because we are familiar with the original. But many of you probably aren't. And if we have to qualify or explain the set-up to the joke to you, chances are it's not that funny or missing the intended audience.
And that's our TV marketing lecture for the day...
Here's the TBS Promo, it's certainly...um...different...
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Royals Back In Post-Season For First Time Since '85
((HT: MLB.com))
The HQ just thought this was a cool happening last night...
The Kansas City Royals, with their win Friday night, clinched their first post-season bid in almost three decades.
Closer Greg Holland has been solid at the back all year long and, with a lot of blue in the crowd at Comiskey, the visotors got the win over the White Sox and made it to play one more game.
Here's Jeremy Guthrie firing up the other Royals once they clinched a spot in the post-season and got to bathe each other in the clubhouse.
MLB.com had some cool comparisons about the current roster with the last time the team was in:
In 1985, more than half of the Royals' current active roster had not yet been born. Yordano Ventura, DOB June 3, 1991, wasn't even a thought in his parents' minds. Lorde, the New Zealand songstress behind the team's somewhat unofficial anthem, wasn't born until 1996.
Wade Davis and Greg Holland were born in September and October of the Royals' last postseason year.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered. The first Nintendo system was released in America, on which you played Super Mario for the first time. You bought "We Are the World" because you liked Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. You read the inaugural strip of Calvin and Hobbes.
And that is just a small sample of it...
Congrats to y'all and whaddya want to bet the Braves might make the token play for their old assistant GM in the process...???
The HQ just thought this was a cool happening last night...
The Kansas City Royals, with their win Friday night, clinched their first post-season bid in almost three decades.
Closer Greg Holland has been solid at the back all year long and, with a lot of blue in the crowd at Comiskey, the visotors got the win over the White Sox and made it to play one more game.
Here's Jeremy Guthrie firing up the other Royals once they clinched a spot in the post-season and got to bathe each other in the clubhouse.
MLB.com had some cool comparisons about the current roster with the last time the team was in:
In 1985, more than half of the Royals' current active roster had not yet been born. Yordano Ventura, DOB June 3, 1991, wasn't even a thought in his parents' minds. Lorde, the New Zealand songstress behind the team's somewhat unofficial anthem, wasn't born until 1996.
Wade Davis and Greg Holland were born in September and October of the Royals' last postseason year.
The wreck of the Titanic was discovered. The first Nintendo system was released in America, on which you played Super Mario for the first time. You bought "We Are the World" because you liked Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. You read the inaugural strip of Calvin and Hobbes.
And that is just a small sample of it...
Congrats to y'all and whaddya want to bet the Braves might make the token play for their old assistant GM in the process...???
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Bryan Cranston's New Challenge: Baseball
((HT: Bleacher Report))
So, what's a man to do after "Breaking Bad?"
How about a one-man show for baseball's post-season...???
Evidence below...
So, what's a man to do after "Breaking Bad?"
How about a one-man show for baseball's post-season...???
Evidence below...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Raise The Jolly Roger: But We Missed A Lot...And Mat Latos' Wife Says She Got Attacked...
((HT: MLB.com))
Did you see this last night on the broadcast of the Pirates-Reds game...???
But, it was Andrew McCutchen's mom...???
Surely, it was worth television time...
How about Doug Drabek's first pitch strike...???
Nope...??? The video doesn't exist...
How about this...???
A fan jumping off the Clemente bridge after the win...???
((HT: Dafranchize412))
It HAS made the rounds and the cops are investigating. A guy by the name of Dean Pasztor jumped into the water and made it to shore. He is from Ohio, and posted on his Twitter page that he “doesn’t care if people know he jumped off the bridge to celebrate a Buccos win.”
But a lot of the pomp and circumstance was relegated to what Craig Sager did at the statue and tossing to taped pieces- not living in the moment inside the building where 7,660 days of pent up frustration were exorcised in the Wild Card win over Cincinnati.
Evidence here... in part...
PM UPDATE: The wife of Reds pitcher, Mat Latos, Dallas says she got attacked last night at PNC Park...
In a series of Tweets, here's what she says happened...
Got punched in the head at least 3 times by a pirates fan so this has been cool
Pittsburgh police can’t arrest anyone on assault accounts so I’m the one who spent the game talking to law enforcement after being attacked.
Look. Check the police report. I was ambushed in the Budweiser bar, grabbed by the hair, drug down & punched in the head multiple times.
Every opportunity was given to pirates security to deal with this before it happened. Unbelievable.
Thanks to the pirates fan who saw it happen & apologized. Not condemning you as a group at all. That was simply wild.
According to police this morning at a press conference, Latos was asked if she wanted medical treatment and she declined. All PNC Park policies were followed, and unless the Reds and Latos decide to pursue the issue, the matter is closed.
Did you see this last night on the broadcast of the Pirates-Reds game...???
But, it was Andrew McCutchen's mom...???
Surely, it was worth television time...
How about Doug Drabek's first pitch strike...???
Nope...??? The video doesn't exist...
How about this...???
A fan jumping off the Clemente bridge after the win...???
((HT: Dafranchize412))
It HAS made the rounds and the cops are investigating. A guy by the name of Dean Pasztor jumped into the water and made it to shore. He is from Ohio, and posted on his Twitter page that he “doesn’t care if people know he jumped off the bridge to celebrate a Buccos win.”
But a lot of the pomp and circumstance was relegated to what Craig Sager did at the statue and tossing to taped pieces- not living in the moment inside the building where 7,660 days of pent up frustration were exorcised in the Wild Card win over Cincinnati.
Evidence here... in part...
PM UPDATE: The wife of Reds pitcher, Mat Latos, Dallas says she got attacked last night at PNC Park...
In a series of Tweets, here's what she says happened...
Got punched in the head at least 3 times by a pirates fan so this has been cool
Pittsburgh police can’t arrest anyone on assault accounts so I’m the one who spent the game talking to law enforcement after being attacked.
Look. Check the police report. I was ambushed in the Budweiser bar, grabbed by the hair, drug down & punched in the head multiple times.
Every opportunity was given to pirates security to deal with this before it happened. Unbelievable.
Thanks to the pirates fan who saw it happen & apologized. Not condemning you as a group at all. That was simply wild.
According to police this morning at a press conference, Latos was asked if she wanted medical treatment and she declined. All PNC Park policies were followed, and unless the Reds and Latos decide to pursue the issue, the matter is closed.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Braves Lose On "Short Left Field Fly Rule" Vs. Cards (Among Other Things)
((HT: MLB on TBS))
The HQ figures that Brother Phil will wax a little more poetic on the rather ignominious (my, what a big word that means "ugly") end of the Atlanta Braves season (on a few different levels) last night against the St. Louis Cardinals...
But, we'll hit the high points...
1) Larry Wayne Jones, Junior admitted in his last post-game press conference that his throwing error on a double play ball into right field was responsible for the loss more than anything else...
2) You knew that, sooner or later, the ridiculous streak that starter Kris Medlin had would come to an end- at the worst time possible...
3) But, more than anything, the evidence below is what will stick with folks for quite some time... flying projectiles included on what one writer called the "short left field fly rule."
Executive VP for MLB, Joe Torre, said that he turned down the Braves protest because of the idea that the umpires made the call on the field and all agreed on it.
No matter how completely bogus it was... and that's the conventional wisdom on why Fredi Gonzalez didn't get tossed when he came out for his rant of the ages...
The HQ figures that Brother Phil will wax a little more poetic on the rather ignominious (my, what a big word that means "ugly") end of the Atlanta Braves season (on a few different levels) last night against the St. Louis Cardinals...
But, we'll hit the high points...
1) Larry Wayne Jones, Junior admitted in his last post-game press conference that his throwing error on a double play ball into right field was responsible for the loss more than anything else...
2) You knew that, sooner or later, the ridiculous streak that starter Kris Medlin had would come to an end- at the worst time possible...
3) But, more than anything, the evidence below is what will stick with folks for quite some time... flying projectiles included on what one writer called the "short left field fly rule."
Executive VP for MLB, Joe Torre, said that he turned down the Braves protest because of the idea that the umpires made the call on the field and all agreed on it.
No matter how completely bogus it was... and that's the conventional wisdom on why Fredi Gonzalez didn't get tossed when he came out for his rant of the ages...
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