Monday, May 30, 2005
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TAMPA BAY SERIES :
GAME 1
TAMPA BAY SERIES :
GAME 1
No word on the game's lineups as of 5:28 PM (VST). Still checking all of the media outlets.
Bobby Crosby has been activated and Keith Ginter sent down to Sacramento - an odd move and curiously without panache.
TAMPA BAY AVG OAKLAND AVG C. Crawford lf .268 J. Kendall c .241 J. Lugo ss .265 M. Kotsay cf .286 A. Huff rf .241 B. Kielty lf .284 T. Lee 1b .289 E. Chavez 3b .219 J. Phelps dh .279 E. Byrnes dh .240 J. Cantu 3b .283 D. Johnson 1b .111 D. Hollins cf .333 B. Crosby ss .500 T. Hall c .310 N. Swisher rf .198 N. Green 2b .312 M. Ellis 2b .288 TAMPA BAY ERA OAKLAND ERA S. Kazmir 4.13 J. Blanton 6.55
What's worse, having to listen to Glen Kuiper or Shooty Babbit? Having to listen to Shooty Babbit or Tim Roye? Or, still having to listen to Ray Fosse?
I am sick of Ray Fosse's homerism and his penchant for lack of respect for any sport but baseball.
TV and radio announcers have a duty to present the team, the sport and educate along the way. When they decry other sports or activities and "dangerous" they do a disservice to younger viewers and listeners. Whenever a fellow broadcaster will bring up the subject that an A's player or opposing player player football, basketball, skated, was in a band - Fosse will go with the phrase, "well, I think he made the right choice in baseball," usually adding that those other things are nice, but "distract from learning the game".
Something is still up with Joe Blanton's delivery. There's a hitch in his lower body. There's too long of a pause in the weight shift and Blanton is not dropping down far enough and is 'coasting' toward the plate.
If he keeps this up, he's going to be visiting Dr James Andrews in Alabama. If not pitching coach Rich Rodriguez in Sacramento.
Eric Byrnes now has one more walk (9) than Hit By Pitches (8).
From Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle:Exuberant outfielder Eric Byrnes has been wearing the letter "C", marked in masking tape, on his sweatshirt during pregame stretching.
"It's for 'Captain'," he said. "I appointed myself. It was unanimous: one vote."
Everyone now have an idea how clueless he is?
Ken Macha just yanked Joe Blanton after 4 2/3 and 86 pitches. On the one hand, fine - if the A's come out and say there is a problem with his delivery and there are erring on the side of caution. But, if they yanked him because Nick Swisher can't play RF, what are they saying to Blanton? "Hey, you have to get outs, regardless if you force hitters into routine flyballs - you should have anticipated Swisher would midread the ball."
Swisher broke in on Aubrey Huff's double and the ball sailed over his head. Anyone who has every played little league baseball knows that at the crack of the bat you take a step back rather than break in. It's easeir to run forward from a stationary postion than to turn and run to track a ball.
posted by ZACHARY D MANPRIN at 5:27 PM
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Macha gets to keep his job AND the backup he prefers.
Why don't we just buy him a year's supply of gum too!
# posted by
: 30 May, 2005 17:43
Everybody who's played little league knows that when you execute a slide into home, you always touch home plate just to make sure/
re: Eric Byrnes
Of course he has a clue that his GM doesn't want him on the team, that he is not respected by this ball club, that he would have been traded if Beane was not a greedy pig. What you see is Byrnes making the best of a bad situation. I believe all of the negativity from Beane and Macha have taken its toll on Byrnes play this year. I would hate to see him go, but for his sake, Byrnes needs to be traded; the team that gets him and treats him with respect will be rewarded with the enthusiastic and exciting player that the large group of Byrnes fans among the Athletics fans have grown to cherish.
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re: Eric Byrnes
Of course he has a clue that his GM doesn't want him on the team, that he is not respected by this ball club, that he would have been traded if Beane was not a greedy pig. What you see is Byrnes making the best of a bad situation. I believe all of the negativity from Beane and Macha have taken its toll on Byrnes play this year. I would hate to see him go, but for his sake, Byrnes needs to be traded; the team that gets him and treats him with respect will be rewarded with the enthusiastic and exciting player that the large group of Byrnes fans among the Athletics fans have grown to cherish.
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Yeah I can't wait to see his exciting misexecution of fly balls on ANOTHER teams roster:)
# posted by
Boo hoo! Poor Byrnes and his million dollar paycheck. He's a professional. If he gets any negativity from Beane or Macha he's brought it upon himself with that ego of his.
Maybe A's fans won't boo him when he misses a routine fly ball because he wanted to make webgems, but elsewhere other fans won't take that crap.
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