SnakeBytes, 6/9: Overhyped Edition
by kishi on Jun 9, 2010 4:11 PM EDT
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PrintStrasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg. Strasburg Strasburg? Strasburg Strasburg- Strasburg!
And now I've summed up the baseball-sphere for the past 24 hours. But I think someone else played some games, too. Shall we check?
Recaps!
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[Talking Chop] The Braves Overcome 3 Home Runs to Beat The Diamondbacks 7-5 - Predictably, the Braves' bullpen proved to be stronger than the Diamondbacks'.
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[fanster.com] Walks, wild pitches doom Diamondbacks - We've seen home runs allowed doom the Diamondbacks in 2010. That wasn't the case on Tuesday night.
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[tsn.ca] Glaus leads the way as Braves rally past Diamondbacks - Troy Glaus doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, as the Atlanta Braves rallied late for a 7-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second of a four-game set.
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[examiner.com] Walks kill D-Backs in loss to Braves - The Diamondbacks pitching staff continued their best imitation of the Three Mile Island melt down.
Some more news, draft talk, and passing mention of some game back east yesterday, just after the jump.
DBacks News:
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[azcentral.com] Arizona Diamondbacks stock up on pitching in draft - By the time the Diamondbacks had made their third-round selection Tuesday on Day 2 of baseball's draft, trends were beginning to emerge.
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[FoxSportsArizona] D-Backs' draft is loaded with pitchers - "One thing we wanted to do as an organization was to get back to our checklist of what we think major league pitchers do – the good, the bad, the mental and the physical."
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[FanGraphs.com] Chad Qualls Escapes A Jam - A look at Qualls's performance so far this season.
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[FoxSportsArizona] Changes on the way - Writing for FSN Arizona, Jim takes a shot at try predicting who we might see move in the shake-ups we've been promised. Trading the Green Lantern? Not cool, Jim, not cool.
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[Beyond the Box Score] BtB Power Rankings: Week 9 - BtB has the DBacks listed at #20 on their power rankings. By some arcane means, they also estimate we've allowed 70+ more runs to score than our other stats would imply? Ick.
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[SBNation.com] MLB Power Rankings: The Angels Are Awake - SBNation.com - Meanwhile, SBN has us at a less-surprising #26.
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[FanGraphs.com] Top 10s Revisited: NL West | FanGraphs Baseball - FanGraphs takes a (very) brief look at the top ten prospects for each team in the NL West.
Around the Strasburg League:
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[deadspin.com] Bob Costas Feeds The Strasburg Hype Machine - I half expected to hear Costas camped out in Strasburg's parking space, hoping for an autograph. I was embarrassed for everyone involved.
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[SBNation.com] Stephen Strasburg's 'Strasmas' Gives America's Sportswriters A 'Strasgasm' - SBN offers an excellent collection of samples of the overhyping from around the country.
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[huffingtonpost.com] Armando Galarraga 'Perfect Game' Gear Going To Hall Of Fame - The Tigers will donate the ball, the base, and the spikes from what should have been the last out of the game. But it will be tragically destroyed in two weeks when Bob Costas bulldozes the whole site to replace it with a shrine to Stephen Strasburg.
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[FanGraphs.com] The Amateur Draft: Why Not Have Two? - Why not run an international draft during the off-season meetings? Seems like it could be a good move to me.
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[fanhouse.com] The Story of Pete Rose and a Corked Bat - Pete Rose wouldn't comment? Has that ever happened before?
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[freep.com] How Jim Joyce went from Toledo to the bigs to national scrutiny - "My mom didn't understand why it was so important or why it was so bad." Probably the best article I've read on the whole thing from Joyce's point of view. I gotta feel bad for the guy.
Well, that's all for now. Now, we settle back, and suffer the cold, empty, painful silence until Strasburg's next outi- wait, there's still baseball today? Huh, who knew?
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Wonderful story
about Jim Joyce from freep.com. Really gives insight into a humble and kindly man. I liked how the priest used Joyce’s umpiring error to teach a lesson to the school kids.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
Andy Seiler
Has a quick review of our draft picks up.
"It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand." -- Brian Stimpson
So that Vegas kid
that was hyped locally as a first-rounder went in the eighteenth to the Jays.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like mouth?
useless and hated
The local commentators
are super smart…
Letting our bullpen pitch is like playing Russian Roulette...
...with an automatic.
Thank You Strasburg
My fantasy team was needing some help…
Did you hear Eric Byrnes is writing a book?
It's going to be a pop-up book.
Oh, rudeness
on the part of Costas. — How about that, LaRoche? Did your dad ever throw a game like this?
Rude. Very tacky. Just in response to that, I may warm to Adam LaRoche just a little.
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
Yeah that pissed me off.
Its like wtf. That and he was bitching about how high up the press box was the whole game.
I am Angry and when BattleMoses is angry Mr. Bigglesworth is upset,and when Mr. Bigglesworth is upset people DIE!!!!!!!!!
Strasburg
THANK YOU! I made the comment to a friend at yesterday’s game that I thought he was overhyped…ESPN definitely has a total hard-on for him and Bryce Harper, but mainly for Strasburg. I am tired of hearing about him. Hopefully the hype will die down soon.
"Be more concerned w/ character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are." ~ John Wooden
I'm glad..
… That I was relatively young and naive in the 1997 World Series, which was called by 1/2 of the horsemen of the apocalypse: Bob Costas and Joe Morgan
Bad doormat! No stock options!
I actually
really like Costas. Usually.
Letting our bullpen pitch is like playing Russian Roulette...
...with an automatic.
Me too but that just really peeved me.
I am Angry and when BattleMoses is angry Mr. Bigglesworth is upset,and when Mr. Bigglesworth is upset people DIE!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, he's usually pretty good
But the Smithsonian/Cooperstown comment made me want to vomit.
"If it is one minute late, I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then on some dark cold night I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face."
No mention of Bickley's article on AZcentral?
Is just me or does it seem that whenever he rights an article about the Diamondbacks, it reinforces AZ as a fair-weather town? Then all the yahoo’s come out on the message boards that only watch when they are winning and call for Gracie to be the manager while saying that Hinch sucks for not having experience.
We suck right now. There’s no doubt about that, but there’s something shady about him. Like he’s a fan of a big-market team and was “unlucky” enough to land a gig in AZ. Seems like a jackass who brings their Chicago, NY, LA, etc culture to AZ, then talks only about how their hometown is better than AZ, yet they come here and date our women and drink our booze and take our jobs.
Just got done reading the AZCentral boards. Bunch of neanderthals.
Naw
Bickley is tacky and I hate him.
"If it is one minute late, I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then on some dark cold night I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face."
He's
worthless and I hate him.
Letting our bullpen pitch is like playing Russian Roulette...
...with an automatic.
Wasn't posted here,
but you’ll see it under the FanShots, along with our almost unanimous disapproval of anything Dan Bickley.
At least he didn’t drop a Cubs mention this time.
Letting our bullpen pitch is like playing Russian Roulette...
...with an automatic.
Everything he is doing is unacceptable to me
Who digests food like that? Come on!
"If it is one minute late, I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And then on some dark cold night I will steal away into your home and punch you in the face."
"I DISAGREE WITH SO MANY THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING!!"
Letting our bullpen pitch is like playing Russian Roulette...
...with an automatic.
looking at Seiler's draft review
I think our draft fell about average. C+ range. Played it safe on the early picks and took some gambles on some HS guys with lots of talent but signing issues. Overall it looks like by 2013 we’ll have a bevy of decent pitchers to try out in the majors.
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