Home is Where I Want to Be, Pick Me Up and Turn Me Round: Game 4, April 4, 2008 - Boston at Toronto
by hugo on Apr 4, 2008 7:08 PM EDT
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Today's title courtesy of one of my favourite all-time bands, the Talking Heads, and their tune "Naive Melody." After a tough 1-2 series loss to the Yankees, the Jays' schedule ain't getting any easier, but at least the confines are friendlier. Toronto heads home to play their home opener against the Boston Red Sox who have gotten off to a 3-1 start despite some jet lag from their Japan trip.
Tim Wakefield, who has given the Jays a ton of trouble over the past few years, pitches for Boston while Shaun Marcum makes his first 2008 for the Jays. No word yet on whether Marcum has acquired a monkey now that the team is up in T.O.
Boston Red Sox
2B Dustin Pedroia
1B Kevin Youkilis
DH David Ortiz
LF Manny Ramirez
3B Mike Lowell
RF J.D. Drew
SS Julio Lugo
CF Jacoby Ellsbury
C Kevin Cash
P Tim Wakefield
Toronto Blue Jays
SS David Eckstein
LF Matt Stairs
RF Alexis Rios
CF Vernon Wells
DH Frank Thomas
1B Lyle Overbay
2B Aaron Hill
3B Marco Scutaro
C Greg Zaun
P Shaun Marcum
There's some more big news today, but you'll find it on the post above.
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I dropped a few in the 'big news' thread. Force of habit: clicking on the comment link for the first post and chatting away.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
They're doing the US anthem in 4/4 time
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I've heard it that way
though it is the exception of course
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Pedroia lines out to short on the second pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
2 pitch grounder from Youkilis
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Did they set off fireworks?
Looks hazy from the center field camera
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
7 pitch grounder from Ortiz
11 pitch inning. 8 more of those would be dandy.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
mlb.tv cut from HD to SD
in time for x to get plunked.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs grounds to the right
x advances to second.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios hits a lazy fly to left
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wells draws a free pass
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Thomas gets to 3-0
then strikes out on three straight.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
least he didn't get tossed
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
He swung on the third one
so he couldn't really complain.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
First pitch fly from Manny
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
2 pitch fly from Lowell
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Drew strikes out on three pitches
6 outs with 17 pitches now.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wow
Marcum is really cruising through these Sox. I love it
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Overbay lines out into the left field fog
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill lines out at Lowell on 2-0
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
You seem to be ahead of my mlb.tv feed.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The 1.2M feed is even further behind
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
One of the few downsides of living in California
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Only when their Jays games are cheduled for the weekend.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
heh
I'm an east coaster, but Seattle is my team when the west coast games are on. mostly due to Ichiro, but I'm a Bedard fan too
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Seattle's schedule is bad for me this year too
Good for Vancouverites, since it covers Canada Day again, but it's midweek.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Not originally from California, btw
Brampton with a few years in Waterloo.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
out of curiousity, are you permanently in the US now?
or on some sort of free-trade visa?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
H1B
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
After Juan Pierre got benched
maybe I should add Scutaro to my roto team.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he is really running a lot early this season
wonder if it is an order from the team to do so, I don't remember him being this aggressive with Oakland
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yes
I just don't remember them identifying Scooter as someone they'd like to run more.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I like him too
and not just because my mom thinks he's italian
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
let's keep it going, Marcum!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
That took as many pitches as the second inning
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Breaking up the no-no
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
hopefully Eckstein
can get something started.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I'm Gone
I'm gonna get off, guys. My flight leaves for Orlando tomorrow morning at 11 so I'll posts some pictures of the house sometime in the afternoon or evening.
later dude travel safe!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
x loses the bat on strike 3
and can't outrun the throw on the dropped ball
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Stairs grounds to the right side again
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Rios grounds to Lowell
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Youkilis flies to center
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ortiz fouls out quickly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
gets manny swinging
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Manny strikes out on three straight
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
another very impressive inning
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Wells grounds out quickly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Thomas flies out to center pretty quickly
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
at least Lyle made him work
by singling
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Hill can earn that extension now
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Grounds to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
3-1 grounder
made a close play by a Scutaro stumble
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
got Lowell to roll over
good pitch
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
drew down on strikes
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Lugo strikes out on the full count
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
wow
5 Ks over 5 innings, no walks, and 1 hit
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Scutaro grounds out
reaching for an outside pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun grounds it right at Youkilis
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
wakefield is such a pain
he always seems to give us so much trouble
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I thought the closed dome was supposed to help knucklers
because there wouldn't be any wind. Or does wind help it knuckle?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
x pops to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Ellsbury grounds to Hill
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Glaus just popped up and did his bat smash thing
flipped to the Nats game between innings
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
with a runner on 2nd and no out, naturally
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
What a catch by Scoot!
I can tell why A's fans missed him.
he was a big fav there
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
All those game-winning hits?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he's not bad in the field either
though not really good enough to play SS everyday, and of course Rolen and Hill don't need defensive caddies
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
and Marcum breezes through another one
though Pedroia hit it well
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Stairs playing softball out there
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
by which I mean Wakefield serves up some slo-pitch
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Almost exactly like the Saturday game at Dodger Stadium
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Except Marcum has allowed fewer baserunners
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
whoo!
Stairs!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Rios better be running
because he can.
and because he's on my team in our fantasy league
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
at least you're not in last place
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I'm last in WHIP and ERA
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The ABCs of facing Wakefield
Always Be Çtealing
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
you called it
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Rios draws the walk
he's been quite good at that so far
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Wells strikes out flailing
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
shades of 07 for sure
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
but we will overlook it
b/c it happens with the knuckler to everyone
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Almost picked off Rios
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
the hurt
works the walk to bring up lyle
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Frank not a threat, sadly
No grounders plskthx
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
what
do you fellas think of the new layout/format of the site?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
a little wierd but better
it'll take some time to get used to.
Lyle
comes through with the big hit
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Nice bloop single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
we'll sure take it
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Another Jay has to sit down
to avoid getting beaned
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Runners advance!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Overbay didn't see Ellsbury drop the ball, maybe?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that's my guess too
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Frankly I thought it was gone
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Yeah probably not
can't blame him.
Scutaro with a hard single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
loading the bases for Gregg
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Ugh
wasted a run there. At least Marcum is pitching well...
saw that coming
I'm afraid, at least we got some runs first
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Hopefully the wait doesn't screw him up
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
particularly as he is facing the big fellas
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Zaun, no grounders plskthx
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
South By Southwest was terrific by the way, Chengy
you've gotta go next year. I think i'll be going every year
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Which bands did you see?
I may wait until I'm 21 which is another 2 years so I can see everything.
that makes sense
too many bands to mention, but the shackeltons, weakerthans, old 97s, spoon, fire flies, ingrid michaelson, hallelujah! the hills, tulsa, my morning jacket, talib kweli, okkervil river are a few that are coming to mind right now
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Cool
Heard quite a bit about most of the bands. Recently heard of tulsa but haven't tried listening to them yet. Too bad I have exams because I'm missing Okkervil River and the New pornos.
Tulsa was good
great songwriting, good musicians, pretty twangy
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
good luck on your exams by the way
are you in Orgo? Organic, Genetidcs and Calc III the same semester my sophomore year near killed me
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Yeah
Struggling a bit this year.. mostly Bs this year. Genetics I really like though, Biochemistry and Orgo = not cool.
Genetics was great
but hard. Biochem was okay, I had a good prof. Orgo was ridiculous. We had like a dozen nervous breakdowns in our class, literally
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
reactions are killing me
a bajillon reactions/reagents/mechanisms.. I'm surprised I haven't heard about more breakdowns.
you canadians must be made of sterner stuff
than we yanks
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Marcum gets Youk swinging
on pitch 5
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Steeles looks fine
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
ah
issues his first walk to Ortiz
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
forgivable
woot with the strikeout on ManRam.
woot is right
lowell follows with a cheap hit
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Lowell bloop single
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Tallet warming
with the 2-0 count on Drew
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
crap
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
gets lugo to end the inning
still has a chance to win if the Jays can score some runs, but I doubt Marcum will be out again for the 8th
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
That run hurt
the one we lost via the Zaun GIDP.
so far
we look like last season offensively - not capitalizing on opportunities and too many DPs, hopefully it's just a little glitch to start the season
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
So this Aardsma guy
are we going to crush him?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
if only
he was a lefty. Besides the change in speed will be hard to adjust to.
Well x is giving them a long look
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
I also
don't want to jynx it.
x is being gritty
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
LOL at the run
it's supposed to be a walk!
that was
a great at-bat
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Pulling Aardsma for a lefty
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
will we hit for stairs?
with stew?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Nice hit by Stew
although helped by Pedroia not keeping the ball in his glove
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
stew moves Eck over
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I kinda hate this part of baseball
pitching change after pitching change makes for boring TV.
true
the tension created by this kind of inning is pretty awesome though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
me too
it's why I can't watch nfl football
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Football preempted too many episodes of Futurama
for me to ever like it.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
what a great show
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Thanks to it we can rag on Farnsworth
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Another pitcher
to face the Golden Boy.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
C'mon Lexi!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
delcarmen
has a great arm
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
ugh
awful at-bat
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
what the hell?!
up to Frank now
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Frank takes it to the wall!
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
WOOT!!!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Mac to run for Thomas
a little strange it wasn't Coats.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
moot anyway as Overbay grounds out to end it
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
If they really need a defensive replacement for Stew?
Of course now they're in trouble if they need to replace Scutaro.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
could put J-mac in at 3rd and move scoot to left I guess
he played there enough with Oakland
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I mean if they had used coats and needed to replace stew
of course
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I would rather have seen Coats
if anything an infielder could play outfield.
and Coats is quite a bit faster than Mac, no?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Tallet in
gets Crisp
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Varitek hitting for cash
no surprise there
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Unaware of the splits?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
most likely
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Cash is...
not a great hitter, or else we would've kept him lol.
did you notice
Guillermo Quiroz is B-more's backup this season?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Doesn't seem like the kind of thing I'd notice
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he was once
Toronto's catcher of the future
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that probably needed quotes
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
What was the quote?
The road to third place is littered with catchers of the future.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
we're living proof of that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I thought it referred directly to us.
But Thigpen/Diaz/Jeroloman/Arencibia, they're for real, right?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Thigpen
seems like he might not get much of a chance, the Jays seem to like Diaz better, and I can't see them using two young catchers next season. Jeroloman supposedly won't hit enough to be a regular catcher but will be a great backup. Arencibia could be the real deal too though, and of course you never know. Another guy to watch is Joel Collins.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I thought Jeroloman had a ridiculous walk rate
which would be his ticket to the majors.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
it will be, definitely
if he can hit enough to keep pitchers honest
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
How good is good enough?
.250 with a .400 OBP?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not many singles hitters
can manage that b/c pitchers don't want to walk them. but it's definitely a great skill for Jeroloman
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yeah which suggests
that even if he doesn't ever hit, he can be a capable back up with his ability to get on base.
Oh right
I forgot about that. I didn't pay much attention to when he was being heralded but he looked decent at the times I saw him.
Tallet gets "C"
swinging
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
It's the 8th
why are two non-Accardo pitchers warming?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
w00t
Pedroia flies out. Tallet really seems to have Gibbons' trust, which is interesting considering the opposite seemed true last season
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I had a great Jason Frasor joke
which is relevant because he was warming. I figured there'd come a point in the season where he'd change his entrance music to the chorus of The Feeling's "Love It When You Call."
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
heh
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Or one of the verses
The one that goes, "Remember me? I used to be / Your best-time buddy that you couldn't wait to see."
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hill singles off two sox
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scoot bunts Hill to second
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not sure about the bunt there
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well Zaun
is good from the left side.
Yeah, if the bunt is neutral, the handedness advantage might swing it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
good point
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Campbell talking about the pin lady
without referring to the pins.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun got the lefty strike zone there
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
X gonna give it to ya!
They should really play some DMX when he comes up.
Xavier Nady
played that song with the mets when he came up
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Eck!
between his last two at-bats, he's winning me over
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
How's that bunt looking now?
Because results-based thinking never leads you astray.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
works for me
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Battery running out
I'm out. Good night and hopefully the game ends well.
Coats in for Stew
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Down looking
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
accardo time
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Facing 2-3-4
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
not an easy assignment
hope he uses the 3-run cushion and doesn't start walking folks
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Quick out to Youk
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
youk lines out
2 to go
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
gets ortiz with the count full
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Hill went a long way to field that
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Streakers or just the usual kind?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
let's just get lowell
please no more jd drew
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Is Fox showing ball tomorrow?
Hopefully I'm not blacked out.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yes
detroit - chicago
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I will have to listen on the radio
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
woot!
what a game by Marcum
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
our rotation looks fantastic
so far
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
If the scores hold up
we and the Yanks will be a mere half game back of the Royals.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Sorry, a full game
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Thomas (.255) and Stairs (.126) are the obvious JotD
Everyone else is under .100.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Marcum also deserves the honour
other than the Drew homer, he was spectacular. The Red Sox have a tough lineup and he just pitched great. And, of course, if the Jays hadn't completely blown their scoring chances in the previous half-inning, his WPA would've been a lot higher.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
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