Funny Stuff about Vizquel over at Lookout Landing!

by DCRanger on Aug 3, 2009 2:08 PM CDT

In the top of the fourth, Jose Lopez came up with one down and Ichiro on first. He hit a high pop-up behind second, but as the ball was coming down, Omar Vizquel pulled his hands back, let the ball drop, and threw to second to erase Ichiro by a mile. Who even thinks of these things? If Vizquel were some teenager in A-ball that split-second decision would've gotten him promoted. What a heads-up play, the likes of which you wouldn't see from many other infielders in the league.

Betancourt: Why would he do that?
Coach: To get Ichiro off the bases.
Betancourt: But that would've been easy to catch.
Coach: Yes, but because it was so easy to catch, Ichiro had to stay near first, making him an easy target at second.
Betancourt: But he just had to put his glove out there and the ball would've fallen into it for an out.
Coach: But then you have two out and Ichiro on instead of two out and Lopez on.
Betancourt: But why would you ever let a ball like that fall? It was a routine pop.
Coach: Ichiro is a great deal faster than Lopez.
Betancourt: But don't you want there to be two outs?
Coach: By dropping the ball and then throwing to second, you get the second out anyway, with the added bonus of having less speed on the bases.
Betancourt: So you're saying he let it drop on purpose...
Coach: Yes.
Betancourt: ...because he could get an out at second?
Coach: Correct.
Betancourt: Okay.
Coach: Got it?
Betancourt: I think.
Betancourt: But then why wouldn't he just catch the ball?

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Jeff >>>> Rev

I'm Ron Burgundy?

by Ryin A on Aug 3, 2009 2:14 PM CDT reply actions

Any day of the week and twice on sundays

You are obsessed with bodily wastes A turd being held under my nose, this team being a steaming pile, Jonny Donuts having a stinky diaper, the front office pissing themselves, the team crapping the bed…

I think you should seek counselling.

(AJM to Josey Donuts)

by Michael Cave on Aug 3, 2009 2:14 PM CDT up reply actions

After Adam, he's my 2nd favorite SBN blogger to read.

Him riling up the DMN Blog in that Q/A with Durrett was hilarious.

We can hate on the M’s and all, but you gotta give props where warranted.

"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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by Maximilian on Aug 3, 2009 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions

So much comic genius over there...

by bhudson on Aug 3, 2009 3:19 PM CDT up reply actions

Agreed

I hate the Mariners, but I do enjoy reading Jeff’s writing. Not only do I think he’s funny, but he backs his statements up with facts and stats. Unlike that idiot Rev that just says things like, “Without a doubt, the Angels are the class of the league,” and other such nonsense.

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by FuturePants on Aug 3, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions

I hate Rev

His writing is hard to follow and has no substance what so ever.

2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009

by boomer1 on Aug 3, 2009 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions

+1

J.P. can take Roy Halladay and shove him up his ass. I’ll take Derek Holland. - AJM

by LSJ on Aug 4, 2009 12:55 AM CDT up reply actions

by a mile.

Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.

by chrisR on Aug 3, 2009 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions

Fanshot

"Guys are visual creatures, that’s how we’ve been wired, for millennia…only fat and or ugly chicks use that word you just typed." - Rodney

by inactive lsb user on Aug 3, 2009 2:14 PM CDT reply actions

Huh?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

"My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"

by thedirkatron on Aug 3, 2009 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Really?

"Guys are visual creatures, that’s how we’ve been wired, for millennia…only fat and or ugly chicks use that word you just typed." - Rodney

by inactive lsb user on Aug 3, 2009 8:43 PM CDT up reply actions

I unrec this post.

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by FuturePants on Aug 3, 2009 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions

....and when all said and done

That’s probably why Betancourt is now a KC Royal!

by DCRanger on Aug 3, 2009 2:28 PM CDT reply actions

LL lit a cigar and became Club LL

When Yuni was traded. It’s likely that they still don’t believe it really happened. What robbery that was.

by bhudson on Aug 3, 2009 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions

That and also

because Dayton Moore doesn’t know what OBP is

Alma para conquistarte, corazón para quererte, y vida para vivirla junto a ti.

by chrisR on Aug 3, 2009 3:57 PM CDT up reply actions

Dayton Moore's never seen a defensive stat

he couldn’t ignore.

by bhudson on Aug 3, 2009 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions

Right after the trade

He said in some interview “I don’t really understand defensive stats”. This is paraphrasing, but I’ve taken precious little liberty with it.

by bhudson on Aug 3, 2009 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions

yeah i think there was a fanpost about that quote

what a really ridiculous thing a) to think and even more so, b) to say.

by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Aug 4, 2009 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions

Since the Mariners' season is officially over, Sullivan

goes in to well crafted humor mode to maintain the flow of traffic on his website. What else is there to do, and he has plenty of practice at doing it.

Mike Napoli speaks softly and carries a big stick.

by 44FAN on Aug 3, 2009 4:33 PM CDT reply actions

i see

that explains why halosheaven writing is just a bunch of dumbasses gizzing over themselves?

"I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the [MLB] for guys to fall in love with [the Rangers’s] sloppy seconds." (thanks cstorm)

by ab03 on Aug 3, 2009 4:42 PM CDT up reply actions

Judging from the comments I read on LSB, HH, AN, and LL

one could conclude that is the general definition of your average sports fan.

Hey la, hey, Halo...

by 44FAN on Aug 3, 2009 5:15 PM CDT up reply actions

The thing is, the heads of LL/LSB/AN seem to have a grasp on reality.

While I enjoy the comics at HH, other than that, there isn’t much reason to visit the site, barring a Rev meltdown after a Rangers sweep of the Halos, where he proclaims Bud Selig’s evil plan to take down the small market LA/OC team and hand the division to the giants of the league, the Texas Rangers.

Can’t pay for much better comedy than that.

"Look out, Itchy! He’s Irish!"
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by Maximilian on Aug 3, 2009 5:25 PM CDT up reply actions

Your last line made me think of this classic Simpsons exchange

Kent Brockman: I’m here with Rainier Wolfcastle, star of the McBain movies, telling me about his new film, Help, My Son Is A Nerd.
Rainier Wolfcastle: My teenage son returns from a fancy East Coast college, and I’m horrified to discover he’s a nerd.
Kent Brockman: I’m laughing already.
Rainier Wolfcastle: It’s not a comedy.

It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin

by txranger7 on Aug 3, 2009 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions