3/2/09 Game Day Thread: Rays @ Cardinals
by Tommy Rancel on Mar 2, 2009 11:00 AM EST
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PrintGame Time: 1:05 PM
No TV or Radio
Scheduled Pitchers:
RH Wade Davis, RH Julio DePaula, LH James Houser, LH Jason Cromer, RH Calvin Medlock, RH Dale Thayer
Lineup:
Adam Kennedy, 2B
Justin Ruggiano, CF
Evan Longoria, 3B
Ben Zobrist, SS
Gabe Gross, RF
Chris Richard, 1B
Morgan Ensberg, DH
Shawn Riggans, C
Jon Weber, LF
To Watch: Jim Hickey threw Wade Davis's name into the 5th starter hat last week. Another dominant start would have to put him near the top of the list if true.
Jason Cromer puts his 22.5 spring K/9 on display for the 2nd time.
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I'm calling 6 shutout innings today until Medlock comes in
We need an acronym for the pitcher that will blow up the game. SPOTD?
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That'll do just fine
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by Sandy Kazmir on Mar 2, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah saw that
Kenny Powers is as American as apple pie. Anyone know where I can order his audio book?
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by Sandy Kazmir on Mar 2, 2009 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
Are you "Sandy Kazmir"?
Nice alias.
Any update on the Bolts blog?
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
I looked into it a little bit and if I was going to do it I would be better off starting it in the offseason
with an eye towards migrating to SBN by next year. There are already a couple of really good ones such as
http://blogs.tampabay.com/lightning/
He seems very insightful and is a good writer so it might make sense for him to incorporate himself onto here. If that is an easy task.
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by Sandy Kazmir on Mar 2, 2009 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
I started my hockey blog up in July, and by the time the season got going, everything was going smooth.
If you need any help/tips/whatever, shoot me an e-mail.
by ReasonableDoubt on Mar 2, 2009 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
so none of our starting five has started a ST game yet.
is this quite normal?
there’s a story in the times today about how the staff wants to ease the guys into the season.
They have to let Kazmir recover from his arm surgery.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
Early start+late finish=Provide ample recovery time
I think it’s very progressive on our part.
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by Sandy Kazmir on Mar 2, 2009 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
Gameday Link
Hey after the inning, you can see what happened!
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
I like the part where Longo just turns it right on
Last season, his first playoff game and now Spring, hitting .429 so far
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
If he can keep up this rate
He’ll be the first guy to hit over .400 since Teddy Ballgame, and that puss only hit .406, Longo for the HOF
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by Sandy Kazmir on Mar 2, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
And Pecota has us hitting .255 this year
Boy is their face red
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Comments at Tampabay.com are awesome
This is just another example of Maddon not knowing what he is doing. Instead of helping the pitchers he is hurting them. Ask Bob Gibson if not throwing is good for you.
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Mar 2, 2009 12:45 PM EST reply actions
If the Rays don’t want to fall behind by at least 6 runs, they should dump Kazmir. Why is he touted as such an awesome SP? Every game he starts, the Rays struggle to get all the runs back that he so easily gives up. He ain’t all that…
Rays 2009 Slogan: "Come back with your shield or on it"
by PriceMultiCyYoungs on Mar 2, 2009 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
For those interested...
Longoria, Upton, Pena, Crawford, Garza, Kazmir, Price, Shields, Bartlett, Burrell, Wheeler, Nelson, Balfour, Howell, Sonnanstine, Iwamura, Kapler, Bradford, Joyce, Navarro, Percival, Cormier, Hammel, Rudolph, Zobrist, Hernandez, Gross, Rubio, Lovell, Niemann, Buscher, Perez, Birkins, Morales, Loaiza, Salas, Segui, Jung, Brignac, Talbot, Aybar, Dupre, Chavis, Abercrombie, Politte, Bocachica, Arroyo, Ruzicka, Walton, Springer, Cortez, Tomko, Riggans, Morgan, Perez, Fuentes, Arrojo, Jaso, Difelice, Fay, Carrasco, Canon, Hernandez, Bedard, Poice, Lumsden, Kramer, Johnson, Panozzo, Ruggiano, Burden, Moya, Villalobos, Kacziak, Samuel
The Rays 40-man roster in the Show.
I guess there's more than 40 players per team then.
Dunno, Normandin sent it to me.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
I play The Show and Madden.
Someone has to defend Brandon Fahey’s honor.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
Thank you Halo!
Halo is having their midnight launch tonight so I can go pick up my copy of The Show with all the Halo marks.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
I ordered my PS3 online
So I have to wait for it to get here. I’m buying The Show as soon as it arrives, but I got a $50 gift card when I bought it so I’m waiting for that to arrive as well.
Hello.
You will love it mate..
Great system and The Show is a very well made game. Good on details and excellent gameplay. Some other good games for it too.
I've always been a Playstation person
Have the first two consoles as well. They make all the games I enjoy (Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, etc.)
Hello.
I hope Sylar invites you to go with him on the Hawaiian vacation
that Gamestop will send him on for all his whoring.
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...
SK: Percy looks like a lumberjack.
JP: lol, the other day I wondered what it’d be like if he was coated in maple syrup all the time.
SK: lol, like all the time?
JP: yeah, lol. well I’m sure he’d probably shower off when he gets home, but like, if over the course of the day, sun exposure makes his pores ooze syrup.
SK: oh shit that’d be awesome. We could walk behind him with pancakes and scrape the syrup off his back.
JP: lol, yeah
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
On the radio?
MLB.com has the stream as unavailable and WDAE has Jim Rome. I guess no audio after all.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
At this moment I regret killing the TWSS meme.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
He did a lap around the field.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
Did he do it on a horse
Or is that only something Wade Boggs can pull off
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Davis just shut them down 1-2-3, one of em being Pujols
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
Gameday assumes each K is 3 pitches and each walk is 4 pitches.
I wouldn’t read too far into it.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
I know, but for now Gameday assumes that outs/hits = one pitch, and that Ks/walks = 3/4 pitches.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
That's even better than The Rookie
Is Wade Davis from some unknown league in Mexico?
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I'd still take Steve Nebraska
issues and all.
Where’s Toe Nash these days anyway?
Vogt early, Vogt often.
On three pitches?!
What, is he throwing a hand grenade? Why are they swinging at the first offering?
B Rad the Ray Fan
And Pujols is a .600 hitter!
That’s like two Adam Kennedy’s hitting at once. Gritty squared!
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
I hit ball with stick!
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2009_03_02_tbamlb_slnmlb_1
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
It'd have to have been alive to have died
Somewhere, Gameday still thinks it’s the 6th inning of the Reds game.
by ReasonableDoubt on Mar 2, 2009 1:36 PM EST up reply actions
Also, nice to see no Colby Rasmus in there
Once he’s into his FA year maybe he can get some playing time
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MAKE HIS BEARD GROW EVERYTIME HE DOES SOMETHING.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
What will he do when the beard outgrows the picture?
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 1:52 PM EST up reply actions
Bigger picture
Maybe just a sidebar on the main page, like the owner in Major League
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wonder if hes playing a little harder
considering hes playing the cardinals
ah damn
Davis just gave up his firs hit of the Spring :(
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
Send him to AAA now...
He’s not ready. Let Kennedy pitch.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
Briggy's not a lumberjack.
Having him pitch would be kinda silly now wouldn’t it?
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
but no runs
Scoreless streak is now at 4 innings. I am sure he will go at least 3, maybe 4 today.
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
As well it should be.
The Princess Bride >>>>>>>>>>>> Adam Kennedy
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
Greene's a fairly common last name
Graham Greene
Mark Greene
and Garland Greene
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
I actually assumed it was a mistake because when you click on his name there's no player page.
They have a Tyler Greene on the 40-man, so I guess that isn’t the case.
Zobie with 4 of our 7 LOB
Not what you expect out of your powerful cleanup hitter, I nominate AK to bat there tomorrow
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Too bad AK isn't number 47....
Like Andrei Kirilenko. That would be fairly bad ass, lumber jack style.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
wade's looking great out there
(well, i can’t see or hear the game but you get the idea.)
"No, not me personally
but a guy and a girl I know got it on! Wooooooooooh!"
“No they didn’t!”
Hello.
I just got home. That is in reply from earlier
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
With the "0-4 Girl" holding the camera.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
I once saw a story a long time ago
of a woman that claimed a dude impregnated her through cybersex, and demanded child support
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
Good I hope he gets the blame instead of me
I’m sick of her calling me about paternity tests and child support blah blah blah
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I wish they'd do the time to put in the pitch-by-pitch stuff, and not "just enough" for plays
Some of us want to see pitch count.
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
14 pitches thru 3?
Yah, that don’t sound accurate. Here I thought Wade was mowing… I guess he still is, eh?
by rays_world_champs on Mar 2, 2009 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, still mowing
Wish he had been allowed to do 4 IP, though. That was a letdown.
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14 batters 1H 1K 1 BB
Got Pujols twice, I’m thinking he is going to dominate AAA
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DePaulo
Please tell me Wade was on a pitch count. He left after 3 2/3.
by rays_world_champs on Mar 2, 2009 2:19 PM EST reply actions
Sounds about right for the first week of ST games
But without an accurate pitch-by-pitch read, no way of knowing without being there how many he threw.
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
He was actually saying
The power of Christ compels you to be out
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There's only one set of foot prints
because that is where Jesus is carrying him
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Trade sonny, keep wade.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Cmon poopy pants
I can’t believe you warned me, your mother is an astronaut.
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The only thing I hate is power-trippin
that and intolerance
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I hate all men with girls names.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
fuck I'm dutch motherfucker
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
won't somebody please think of the children!
by raysfaninminnesota on Mar 2, 2009 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
I only have one sister, and she's 4.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
So you fuck imaginary friends?
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
You're cheating on Karhl. :<
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
She doesn't mind
We’re pretty comfortable with ourselves
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It's called a strapon
duh
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
why would a post-op male to female tranny
want to use a strap-on? It just doesn’t make sense
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I thought it was funny :<
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Recommends 130 given / 96 received
You suck.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
I like my flags better
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
I'm not really a Dane
but sure, LIGHTNING BOLT, LIGHTNING BOLT, LIGHTNING BOLT, SLEEP, LIGHTNING BOLT SLEEP, DEATH
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It's a lot harder to find an image of a white screen than you would think.
by R.J. Anderson on Mar 2, 2009 2:36 PM EST up reply actions
They actually changed their name to the Edwin Jackson's
of Detroit Bitch
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This Depaula guy sucks.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Just for the Hell of it
I’d like to see Zobrist play one inning at each position during a ST game.
Then we cut him the next day.
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
Brignac:
“okay reid, you can do this, you did it in AAA, you can do it in the majors, just squeeze the bat and swing at the ball. hit that shit, we can do this.”
Briggy flies out to left
“D’aww, colon-lessthansign”
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
BTW for those interested
St. Pete times is reporting that they have now found 2 of the missing boaters alive
Shuyler and Cooper
Where is it?
Don’t see it on the site.
www.raysprospects.com
by Imperialism32 on Mar 2, 2009 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
I am drooling over our starting rotation next year
Kazmir, Shields, Price, Garza, Davis… that doesnt suck.
I just saw Trever Miller's name
and was like, uh, didn’t we not re-sign him. Then I remembered where he signed as a FA.
www.raysprospects.com
He just made mincemeat out of our lineup
K’d Johnson, Sadler, and Ensberg
www.raysprospects.com
by Imperialism32 on Mar 2, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Before Miller gave us that mindfuck...
Reid Brignac with an unassisted double play, caught a liner from Mather, doubled Ankiel off second.
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
Back after fun shoveling
I see Davis did awesome and DePaula was the weak link of the day
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
This weather sucks
I have pneumonia, so this will be the 4th straight day I’m stuck in the house
Vogt early, Vogt often.
At least you aren't going to work.
I had to wake up, get ready for work, and then spend 45 minutes getting my car ready so I could drive for a 1.5 hours (normally 20 mins). Bleh. I hate the cold.
The obvious does not need to be mentioned
And don’t speak that holy name ever again
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
He can catch, but can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
www.raysprospects.com
by Imperialism32 on Mar 2, 2009 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
Medlock says "fuck yo prospects"
Got Rasmus and Wallace real quick
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
HERE WE GO BRIGGY, GET A HIT OR I DISOWN YOU
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Dave Cameron is awesome
So now, the Nationals have to pick a new leader, a new direction, and try to right a ship that is honestly quite damanged. Despite a new park, fans haven’t responded by paying to watch a bad team, and the farm system isn’t brimming with young talent ready to lead the team into the future. The roster is a mix of underachieving outfielders, overachieving outfielders, correctly achieving outfielders, a couple of backup outfielders, and some role player-type outfielders in camp on minor league contracts. There’s also a couple of pitchers hanging around.
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Also a few outfielders pitching
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
It's a morph of Scotty Kaz and Sandy Koufax
Eerie how similar they look
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how did brignac get out this time
My money is on weak grounder to short
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sigh
I think its a lack of confidence at this point
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
he seems to get all his hits by being fast
but the power will come
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didnt mean to
Come on, we all know, including me that Beckham is awesome
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
TIMMY IS ALREADY BETTER THAN BRIGGY, FUCK
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
It won't help his OPS
It will hurt it. You don’t get credit for reaching base on a FC.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
Weber Suckfest. bottom of the ninth
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Ironically
DePaula is the pitcher of record; he’s the one that can get the win
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
In shocking news, game day froze
Anyone know what’s happening?
Evan Longoria and David Price - the fight for my heart
They don't update until the half-inning ends
Long half-innings are a bad thing
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
I mean like they did the top of the 9th after each batter in this game
but before then and now again it looks like we will have to wait until the half inning is over
It's from the chuck-e-cheese movie
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
Watch me
http://www.supernovatube.com/play.php?viewkey=88d6f2158f4d610d51e7
Why yes, I am this big of an asshole in person.
That reminds me
I need to get a new meme GIF for the new year
(BTW: I didn’t see the video, I can’t from work)
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
You're missing out...
East Bound and Down. OMFG so funny.
I want Baldelli to be healthy enough to play in 150 games, I just hope he sucks. Like Greg Vaughn suck.
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