World Series Game 2: Giants@Royals
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In esperanto, Hunter Strickland translates to "Raging Landfill Fire". Playoff Bochy is good but Strickland must have pictures of the lab where Bruce manufactures his special blend of meth.
There's no reason for Strickland to be lurking around the third base line there. He was pissed and looking for trouble.
Paradigm said:
I had a roomie in college who LOVED hockey, but he was an idiot about it. He made me like hockey less. That's how I feel about HR in the booth.
Strickland had shit to say to Bryce Harper when he was rounding the bases too (or stared at him, or whatever punk-ass shit he did). And Harper didn't style it, either. Watched it to see if it was fair for a second or two, then took his trot.
I'm surprisingly enjoying Reynolds' work in this Series too.
I'm surprisingly enjoying Reynolds' work in this Series too.
My brother in law can't stand Verducci in the booth, I don't like HR. I've sort of built up an immunity to Joe Buck...
There was no 1 "other." Some are enjoying, some don't like. I was joining forces with the former.DrewDawg said:
Looked to me like he was at home when he saw it go over, and the started walking up the third baseline, yelling.DrewDawg said:
Remember when the sox had a reliever who could hit 100? Too bad Bard didn't stick around long enough to get a ring.
Sprowl said:Lugubrious and off-key GBA.
He ended a half-step above where he started, so... yeah.
Sprowl said:Lugubrious and off-key GBA.
Hey- respect the USA's military industrial complex, pal! My 3 nephews are finding out it isn't too pretty for the rank and file.
I've been listening to KBNR - the Giants broadcast - and it has been tremendous. They call the game straight up - showing emotion even when it is the Royals doing something good - and are easily my favorite radio crew in the majors. Doesn't hurt that I get to listen to Jon Miller for big chunks of the game.
Yost out-managed Bochy in this game. Bochy played this like he was fine with a split, while Yost managed as desperately as he needed to given the situation.
ThePrideofShiner said:
I'm going to have to start doing this. Wasn't able to get the stream on my computer...I'll have to fire up my old crystal radio to get AM. Ah, just like the good old days of getting 1080 WTIC Hartford from NJ, right next to 1050 WHN, NYC's only country station (ugh)
ThePrideofShiner said:
Giants are a great broadcast. Orioles, surprisingly, are, too. It's weird - I've been rooting for the Royals for the last two series, but in both cases, I've been listening to their opponents' broadcast pretty religiously.
Getting ahead of myself, but just poked around on B-Ref.
Tim Hudson is starting Game 3 on Friday. Hudson debuted in the majors in June 1999. Tim Raines started in the OF for the A's that day. Tim Raines is now 55 years old and played his first ML game in 1979.
Meaningless but interesting? Or just meaningless?
Tim Hudson is starting Game 3 on Friday. Hudson debuted in the majors in June 1999. Tim Raines started in the OF for the A's that day. Tim Raines is now 55 years old and played his first ML game in 1979.
Meaningless but interesting? Or just meaningless?
What decisions do you disagree with? The only one that I see as second guess worthy was letting Peavy start the sixth. An end of the bat hit and a walk, and that's where the game was lost. I would have lefty Peavy in there too. His pitch count was low. You had to lift him for Butler, who hits with an OPS around 1.200 against Peavy.Remagellan said:
I actually thought Yost made a blunder not bunting up one with first and second, no out in the sixth. Worked out for him though.
OK, last year I started watching all the WS games in my garage on my computer with a digital antenna after game 3, and it served me well. Today I watch on my computer and KC wins. Watching on my computer for the rest of the series.
This sucks. The FOX postgame is getting pre-empted by the local crew, so I don't get to hear Big Papi talk
E5 Yaz said:
I think Bochy even, in his subtle manner, blamed him. Hell, Strickland essentially took responsibility in his post-game comments saying he was frustrated with himself.
The truth is, he never should have been used in that spot - again, playoff Bochy has been pretty fantastic during each of their runs. He has a quick hook and generally makes decisions that, while they don't always work, make sense. His use of Strickland this offseason is perplexing. Anyone who has watched the kid against average or better ML hitters knows that he will, at one point during an AB, groove something. During these series, which typically feature hitters who are pretty locked-in, its only a matter of time until they get a straight fastball to drive. Harper was practically running up to the batters box to hit against him during the NLDS.
Either Bochy is desperate to bridge the sixth inning gap because of his reluctance to use Lincecum or save Machi (a guy who has had success but if you look at peripherals, is a bit scary) or Strickland really does have pictures of Bochy having sex with an underage Thai miniature goat.
Not In this postseason.Wingack said:
But if Bochy continues to do it, and Strickland continues to yield bombs, the unflagging defense of Bochy will be SSS.
"We did it this way in the regular season" is etched on a few tombstones.
dcmissle said:
I don't see Bochy going to him again in any game that is close. And there is no defense available - the kid is Fukushima without seawater.
Also, Strickland wasn't with the big club for much of the regular season. I also might add that the regular season in the NL West features more than a few games where the ball-dudes might put up better ABs than some of the regulars.
KNBR and the Giants announcing team is fantastic. There's no doubt they are pulling for the Giants, but they are also fully willing to call the Giants out on mistakes, be honest about what's going on in the game and express the right degree of excitement for what's happening in the game--on both sides. Plus, I personally find it amusing when they are clearly pissed at the Giants for doing something stupid (for example, Jon Miller's "that's the WORST baserunning in the history of the game!!" call*). I didn't listen tonight, but apparently Krukow wasn't pleased with Strickland and said he's "got to get over" his attitude after giving up runs.
If the Giants win the World Series, I suspect they'll do this again: After 2012, they ran all the World Series games again on the flagship, Comcast SportsNet, with the KNBR audio feed. It was glorious.
Bochy bringing in Strickland seems like a classic Bochy move. Showed confidence in him last night and he got the job done, so show the same confidence again tonight. I don't think Strickland will see the mound again unless he is literally the last person left to pitch... and that's after using Brandon Belt for an inning.
Ridiculous, all around. (At least for me.) Peavy was very good for the Giants since coming over. I am not liking what I'm seeing now. I am hoping that Hudson shows up big for his first Series start.
The Giants coming home with a split is a good thing for them. Just have to win three of the next five, and we now have home field advantage.
*In case you have no idea what I mean by that Miller call, here you go. It's hilarious, awful and makes me feel better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spx9ZeSYVTU
The Giants, by the way, went on to win the game on almost the exact same play, including another misplay in the outfield. Edit: I was sort of wrong. Grissom did get the game-winning hit on a triple hit to deep right field in the bottom of the 13th inning. If my memory is correct, it was hit to a very similar spot, but apparently off the bricks. Grissom really came through in that game. Rivera was released shortly after this game.
If the Giants win the World Series, I suspect they'll do this again: After 2012, they ran all the World Series games again on the flagship, Comcast SportsNet, with the KNBR audio feed. It was glorious.
Bochy bringing in Strickland seems like a classic Bochy move. Showed confidence in him last night and he got the job done, so show the same confidence again tonight. I don't think Strickland will see the mound again unless he is literally the last person left to pitch... and that's after using Brandon Belt for an inning.
Ridiculous, all around. (At least for me.) Peavy was very good for the Giants since coming over. I am not liking what I'm seeing now. I am hoping that Hudson shows up big for his first Series start.
The Giants coming home with a split is a good thing for them. Just have to win three of the next five, and we now have home field advantage.
*In case you have no idea what I mean by that Miller call, here you go. It's hilarious, awful and makes me feel better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spx9ZeSYVTU
The Giants, by the way, went on to win the game on almost the exact same play, including another misplay in the outfield. Edit: I was sort of wrong. Grissom did get the game-winning hit on a triple hit to deep right field in the bottom of the 13th inning. If my memory is correct, it was hit to a very similar spot, but apparently off the bricks. Grissom really came through in that game. Rivera was released shortly after this game.
Jon Miller is a national treasure. It was that kind of candor during a series of horrendous games that prompted Peter Angelos to fire him. He didn't "bleed enough orange and black." The Miller rants were forms of art because they were very funny and dead on accurate.
It's incredible how well he called that play, because it was madness. I was working late the night of this game and I remember that Miller did not let up for a while. He was incensed. Especially after he spotted on the replay that Rivera tried to run to third by cutting across the infield. Duane Kuiper on the TV call was basically reduced to a series of excited half-sentences, at one point saying that Rivera "forgot to go to third" rather than he forgot to touch second.
Not that he contributed much, but Daniel Bard did pitch for the Red Sox briefly in 2013, and got a ring.glasspusher said:
dcmissle said:
Miller is probably my favorite pbp guy of all time. God, the upgrade it'd be going from Buck to him on national games. You could sit my next door neighbor in the booth and I'd be fine.
No one in baseball can touch the Giants' broadcasting crew across TV/ radio IMHO. Exactly how it should be done--I'm definitely going to make sure to catch a couple games on KNBR now.
When I moved to DC 25+ yrs ago it was long before the Nats (and MLB.tv) and before Angelos fired Miller and it was a joy to listen to him on a nightly basis.
I remember one night during a random regular season game Miller was riffing on good nicknames for Joe Orsulak, a "dirt dog" type player for the O's in those days. He threw out a bunch of ideas and settled on "Scrap Iron Orsulak." Later in the game Miller said that the owner of the team at the time, Sargent Shriver, called and suggested "Jumpin' Joe, the Oriole." Miller said something like "hey, that's good too" but clearly thought it was stupid, and promptly ignored the owner's suggestion and went back to Scrap Iron Orsulak for the rest of the game.
I remember one night during a random regular season game Miller was riffing on good nicknames for Joe Orsulak, a "dirt dog" type player for the O's in those days. He threw out a bunch of ideas and settled on "Scrap Iron Orsulak." Later in the game Miller said that the owner of the team at the time, Sargent Shriver, called and suggested "Jumpin' Joe, the Oriole." Miller said something like "hey, that's good too" but clearly thought it was stupid, and promptly ignored the owner's suggestion and went back to Scrap Iron Orsulak for the rest of the game.
Was he loved and appreciated when he was in Boston? Were folks mizbul when he left?E5 Yaz said:
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kieckeredinthehead said:
Top of the 1st inning. Never change, SoSH.
ThePrideofShiner said:
The Giants broadcasters are the only ones I would certainly trade the Remy and Orsillo Show for. There might be others too, but Kuiper/Krukow are first rate. Jon Miller's a great PBP guy and you sometimes get him on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball or Wednesday Night Baseball. What he might be best at is not being noticeable - he's informative, he's low-key except when called for, and he seldom makes mistakes. I find Joe Buck a lot less offensive than some do here - he was never the bigger problem child between he and McCarver - but you can't deny that he kinda has a smarmy tone of voice in his delivery.
InsideTheParker said:
He wasn't really around long enough to make his mark. Plus he was second to Ken Coleman and only did 3 innings a game. I do remember one of his rants though, on a totally ineffective Bob Stanley who appeared to be throwing in the towel while getting shelled and then ejected.