10/24 World Series Game 2 vs Cardinals

[Brennan]

I don't know what the f*** that green s*** was in his glove, but it was not rosin. (a powder) Whatever it was, I want Wacha to have some too!

 

 

Incredible the ump never saw green s*** on the ball being that he inspects every single one of them. Maybe the green stuff has magical properties that shuts your team down but allows your opponent to freakin' light up your own over hyped, over rated pitcher as well. What other explanation could there be?

[Carter]

Morons? You're not happy with your team's level of success?

What has "level of success" have to do with Matheny and Mozielac? The farm system was in place long before they were.

[yankthis]

Since I play the violin, I can assure you that it was not ROSIN.

 

Errrrr...... guitar players and drummers use a brand called gorilla snot for better grip on picks/sticks. It is green.

[Brennan]

I don't know what the f*** that green s*** was in his glove, but it was not rosin. (a powder) Whatever it was, I want Wacha to have some too!

 

 

 

Just be prepared, don't get caught off guard like buck and mccarver will be tonight. You're not in Pittsburgh or Atlanta or whatever, Whaca Wahca whatever isn't shutting anyone down tonight.

[jung]

I am a bit surprised that Metheny has sort of tossed his SS under the bus here. What if he needs that guy later in the series and back here in Boston no less.

 

I actually think one of the things that is coming apart a bit for the Cards is their relative youth and inexperience combined with Metheny maybe not being the right kind of manager for this kind of team and situation. If you had a bunch of young kids, do you think Metheny looks like the kind of guy that they could look to when everything was going sideways? Would not instill much confidence in me. Now tonight it all falls on a rook. If Wacha does not go out there and dominate I think this Cards team is going to fold like a cheap suit.

Edited October 24, 2013 by jung

[Brennan]

And F$@" do I hate the term "Phenom", the yankmees organization always loved to tout losers like joba and hughes with that mis-used butchered word. It's a word that a guy like buck will use ad nauseum.

[Carter]

Just be prepared, don't get caught off guard like buck and mccarver will be tonight. You're not in Pittsburgh or Atlanta or whatever, Whaca Wahca whatever isn't shutting anyone down tonight.

I would appreciate it if you would not bad mouth Bucarver! They may suck, but they bleed Cardinal red. Who do you want to announce the game? Johnny Most!??

[Carter]

I am a bit surprised that Methany has sort of tossed his SS under the bus here. What if he needs that guy later in the series and back here in Boston no less.

 

I actually think one of the things that is coming apart a bit for the Cards is their relative youth and inexperience combined with Metheny maybe not being the right kind of manager for this kind of team and situation. If you had a bunch of young kids, do you think Metheny looks like the kind of guy that they could look to when everything was going sideways? Would not instill much confidence in me. Now tonight it all falls on a rook. If Wacha does not go out there and dominate I think this Cards team is going to fold like a cheap suit.

I have to agree there. On Kosma: Matheny does not know his ass from a hole in the ground. For a while he likes Kosma, then he likes Descalso. If Freese boots one, Descalso plays 3rd the next game. But since they are all mediocre talents at this point, I guess it don't matter WHO starts.

[kapsis21]

Anybody watching mlb network heidi watnys tongue color looks similar to what john had on his glove wait a second what am I saying here

[marklmw]

Just be prepared, don't get caught off guard like buck and mccarver will be tonight. You're not in Pittsburgh or Atlanta or whatever, Whaca Wahca whatever isn't shutting anyone down tonight.

 

Dam straight!

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Anybody watching mlb network heidi watnys tongue color looks similar to what john had on his glove wait a second what am I saying here

I don't understand. Lester had Jason Varitek's semen on his glove?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Yes ladies and gentlemen, more potty humor tonight from yours truly.

[jung]

Great explanation of Fenway RF by Vic on MLB network right now.

 

There are so many things that are difficult about Fenway RF but I always thought the toughest thing about it was something Vic explained and that I always understood only because you could see it so well from my season seats.

 

If the RFer looks left from his position in RF, he sees all of this room to his left that he has to cover all the way to the deep corner past Pesky Pole. However that turns out to have an illusory effect right behind him and to his right. As the RFer retreats directly behind and to his right, the wall is actually angling back toward the field, totally counterintuitive to everything in that RFer's past experience. So he is actually losing space or ground behind him and to his right. Running full speed, the warning track as big as it is in Fenway still does not give you much warning and if you are tall enough (like Beltran or Hunter) you either crash into that wall full speed with your shoulders over wall height, ribs totally exposed or like Hunter go right over the thing.

 

Best change they could make from a player safety perspective, use fencing and a topper so that you could still see though it but the taller guys can't get the shoulders over the wall completely exposing their ribs. Less HR's. So not sure we will ever see that. I cannot imagine, having run into walls I knew were coming, how much of a shock to the body it must be to have that wall come up on you about 5' before you expect it, hammering into it full bore. Like I said last night, Dewey was the best I ever saw at making plays at or over the wall without injuring himself. Can't imagine how many fly balls he took out there to get that good at it.

Edited October 24, 2013 by jung

[BornToRun]

Since I play the violin, I can assure you that it was not ROSIN. If that's all it was, why was Lester concealing it so slyly? I personally don't give a s*** what Matheny and the org. had to say about it. I don't have any faith in those morons anyhow!

 

Who the hell would bother to put Vaseline in their glove during the World Series with the entire planet watching him?

 

If he was cheating, something tells me that somebody who isn't a 25 y/o single A pitcher would've noticed.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Lester should use a lime green glove for game 5.

[RedSoxNC84]

Who the hell would bother to put Vaseline in their glove during the World Series with the entire planet watching him?

 

If he was cheating, something tells me that somebody who isn't a 25 y/o single A pitcher would've noticed.

 

Exactly.

[Carter]

Who the hell would bother to put Vaseline in their glove during the World Series with the entire planet watching him?

 

If he was cheating, something tells me that somebody who isn't a 25 y/o single A pitcher would've noticed.

Who said it was vaseline? Not me. It may have been smegma. But as I said, whatever it was, he was hiding it. Agreed?

[jung]

There is no controversy here just as there was none with Buch earlier this year. The dif is grip vs slip. Doctoring the ball is either using something to make the ball cut through the air differently, maybe by actually slicing into the skin of the ball or using something that makes the ball slip off your grip adding a different rotational dimension to the ball.

 

Pitchers have been using stuff to "improve" there grip for years and that is the difference. That is why there is no controversy here or with Buch months earlier.

[BornToRun]

Hey everybody, rumors are flying around that Johnny Damon might be part of the first pitch ceremonies with the other '04 guys tonight.

[BornToRun]

Who said it was vaseline? Not me. It may have been smegma. But as I said, whatever it was, he was hiding it. Agreed?

 

I don't really care to be quite honest. If he is cheating, I just hope he doesn't get caught during the game.

[BornToRun]

Lester should use a lime green glove for game 5.

I would laugh until I popped a testicle.

 

 

Edit: TRIPLE POST BITCHEZ

[Carter]

I don't really care to be quite honest. If he is cheating, I just hope he doesn't get caught during the game.

Now you're talking!

[Carter]

WTF??? Rivera being honored at Fenway? And they are cheering???!!!!

[BornToRun]

This Rivera thing would annoy me far more if it weren't for the fact that if any team had Mo's number, it was the Sox.

[Brennan]

I don't have a problem with the Mo thing tonight. What I do have a problem with is that every team we have beaten this offseason has found reason to act like bitches about it.

[jung]

Perhaps I should have been more specific. There is no way that Lester was throwing spitters. You can see the added spin dimension of the spitter vs anything else and I do mean anything. Well thrown splitters make hitters look more foolish than well thrown knuckle balls. There is just about no way to hit the well thrown splitter...there is almost no way to look like you ever even had a chance to hit the well thrown spitter.

[BornToRun]

Commence operation: make AJ Pierzynski and Harold Reynolds look like stupid *******s.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Commence operation: make AJ Pierzynski and Harold Reynolds look like stupid *******s.

 

Phase 1: Show them on TV for five seconds

Phase 2: Mission accomplished

[BornToRun]

Did I really hear James Taylor start the wrong song?

[Brennan]

I would think that the Cards would throw a steady diet of sliders where applicable after seeing how well it worked for Detroit.