Some Phillies Links For You, October 7, 2010: Roy Halladay and Some Other Boring Stuff
by WholeCamels on Oct 7, 2010 8:29 AM EDT
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Halladay a wolf among kittens - Neyer
Letting Roy Halladay loose against the National League this year was like locking a hungry wolf inside a garage full of kittens.
That's graphic. But I like it.
Roy Halladay is now the Sandy Koufax of his generation
Wait he's not retiring is he?
Historic performance had local fans captivated
I, for one, have a couch to clean.
Phillies 4, Reds 0: Halladay ho-hum about his gem
Really, in that post-game interview he seemed about as excited as someone who just completed a tough level in "Angry Birds."
Roy Halladay gives fans one surreal moment
"Surreal" is one of my least favorite misused words.
Halladay, Ruiz go hand-in-mitt for Phils
If you have a predisposition like my wife's, this is the cutest thing ever.
Phillies' Polanco plans Game 2 return
Two no-hitters, no Polanco. Sensing a pattern...
Braves deem Jurrjens unavailable for NLDS
Aw what a shame.
Tex, Grandy power Yanks to Game One win | River Avenue Blues
Yankees pound Twins starter for four runs in sixth inning en route to victory.
Lee outduels Price as Rangers beat Rays in Game 1
Never should have traded Cliff Lee.
Some thoughts on Rangers/Rays Game 1 - Lone Star Ball
Lone Star Ball breaks down the Rangers/Rays game a little further.
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View from the other side (a Cincinnati columnist)
What’s the encore for being no-hit in your first playoff game in 15 years? What’s the second act, after being the second no-no victim in postseason baseball history, as in ever? Maybe instead of champagne, the Reds can drink some hemlock.
Thank goodness for Jay Bruce’s walk in the 5th. Without it, Roy Halladay would have made Cincinnati’s humiliation perfect….
It’s one thing to lose to Halladay. Happens all the time, all over the league. The man’s going to be the National League’s Cy Young winner. It’s another to have your faced rubbed in a pile of national embarrassment.
Thank gawd Philly doesn’t have local media prone to knee-jerk overreactions, panic and hyperbole
We need a way to get surreal and funner on the same t-shirt.
by Boundforbeach on Oct 7, 2010 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
Haha. Seriously, I hate the misuse of the word irony and literally. Also, the confusion between the words “anxious” and “eager,” which happen way too often in sports interviews. The less/fewer is also a point of contention for me. I’ve got a lot of issues, though.
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‘Literally’ drives me nuts, in no small part because often when people use it, what they really mean is ‘figuratively’.
Also, ‘notorious’ is another bad one.
I’m a magazine editor, and less/fewer drives me nuts.
also people who spell weird “wierd.” GET A SPELLCHECKER.
by perfectdepth on Oct 7, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
How is it that ESPN doesn’t have editors that catch the less/fewer when it comes to writing script? And for the love of Pete Incaviglia, when did it become acceptable to modify verbs with adjectives?
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infamous also would fall into this category… oh and the difference between ‘then’ and ‘than’. hate that one the most. stupid facebook showing me how stupid my friends are.
by PHIGHTINPHILS on Oct 7, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions
insure/ensure
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
effect/affect
“should of” instead of “should have”
I should probably seek counseling, I’m starting to realize how curmudgeonly and nit-picky I am.
“Basically” and “ironically” are my GAH activators.
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 7, 2010 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Its ironic, because, basically, your right.
I’ll make your eyes bleed…
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I am guilty of saying ‘basically’ more than I probably should. ‘Essentially’ is a word that sucks terribly.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 7:37 PM EDT up reply actions
They do indeed convey meaning, but they also do get beaten into the ground.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Has any other pitcher ever had a career like Halladay?
Look at his 2000 season:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hallaro01.shtml
Then look at his next 10 years. It’s not like 2000 was his first year in the majors and he had pitched reasonably well the second year.
Does anyone have any other pitcher that followed a similar path – an awful year in one of his early years, followed by years of dominance?
Other than Sandy Koufax, I can’t think of others off the top of my head.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
coincidentally, Cliff Lee had a similar kind of “lost” season in 2007 due to injury, ineffectiveness, and a demotion to AAA. of course he returned in 2008 and was awesome and the rest is, as they say, history.
Are you talking about last season or his first season? Either way, his bad season was not as bad as Roy’s and his good seasons have not been as good as Roy’s.
It was tongue-in-cheek. Obviously Cole’s career isn’t Doc’s, but he had an excellent 2008, a bad 2009, and an excellent 2010 (and, we hope, many years after).
by Phrozen on Oct 7, 2010 11:40 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Surreal, in terms of origin, comes from the Surrealists, like Goya, who used dream-like imagery in their work. However, this generally depended on pretty weird and specific imagery — ants that meant death, graphic sex, melting clocks, etc. While last night’s game was like a dream, it wasn’t really hallucinatory, and, more importantly, it wasn’t filled with symbols that were reactions to the art scene of the 1930’s.
tut tut, there were melting faces.
"I remember being three and I wanted to be a baseball player, that's all I ever really wanted to be. That and Spider Man." -Raul Ibanez
by Jose and the Contrarians on Oct 7, 2010 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Fair point
I’m almost willing to concede the surreality of the night now.
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Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
"I remember being three and I wanted to be a baseball player, that's all I ever really wanted to be. That and Spider Man." -Raul Ibanez
by Jose and the Contrarians on Oct 7, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions
yes, I know all that… but the word (as distinct from the capital “S” term) enters the vocabulary and is divorced from its origin… I maintain the word is being used quite correctly.
If you use a word incorrectly enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to use it that way. The incorrect use can be maintained only for such time as the Blog Lord can keep the people from the linguistic, literary and/or etymologic use of the word. It thus becomes vitally important for the Blog Lord to use all his powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the Blog Lord.
Remember the Phitans
by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Surreal/Surrealistic
I have an old dictionary (1980’s) that defines surreal as related to the art movement Surrealism, but gives a secondary definition for surrealistic (as in the famous Jefferson Airplane album “Surrealistic Pillow”) as “having an oddly dreamlike or unreal quality.” I think in common usage today surreal has come to mean the same as surrealistic.
by phillyinportland on Oct 7, 2010 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I never knew that. Always figured the word “Surrealism” was based on “surreal” rather than the other way around.
I have, in the past, referred to the atmosphere at the first Phillies game post-9/11 as surreal. I suppose that was technically incorrect in some sense, but it could be argued that there was some “pretty weird … imagery” in that game. The absurdity of a simple game juxtaposed with and given extra significance by the events of a week prior… I don’t know any other word that captures the feeling.
this is amazing. Wow..
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ~Vince Lombardi
In this world, everything comes with a package: positive and negative. It is just a matter of how you see it.
Via dictionary.com
Definition #2:
“having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic”
So if the fans last night felt that Halladay pitching a no-hitter last night was a hallucination like a dream, unreal, and fantastic, the headline “Roy Halladay gives Fans One Surreal Moment” appears to be correct.
At the very least, it doesn’t seem to me to be obvious misuse, based on the dictionary definition.
%0.078
That is the percentage of postseason starts that have ended in no-hitters
by phanatic's phloozies on Oct 7, 2010 11:02 AM EDT reply actions
Oh this is great...
McCovey Chronicles has a list of the most annoying Braves in the last 20 years. http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/10/6/1735952/giants-braves-series-preview-preview#storyjump
1. David Justice
2. John Smoltz
3. Ryan Klesko
4. Javy Lopez
5. Tom Glavine’s Moving Strike Zone of Pure Nonsensical Tomfoolery
6. Kenny Lofton, though he was eventually redeemed
7. Melvin Nieves
8. Jeff Blauser
9. Mark Lemke
10. Otis Nixon, but only because of those times where you felt like he was watching you from a window as you showered. Or was that just me?
11. Deion Sanders. I mean, really.
12. Did you realize that the ‘93 Braves only used 13 pitchers for the entire regular season? What kind of they-have-the-technology crap was that?
13. Oh, man, the Braves are annoying.
14. Marcus Giles
15. Keith Lockhart
16. Quilvio Veras
17. Russ Ortiz. Though the multiple 20-win seasons provided by Damian Moss did help to lessen the sting.
18. Mike Hampton
19. Seriously, the Braves have been annoying for a long, long time.
20. Edgar Renteria. Still. It’s even worse that the Braves were able to flip him for Jair Jurrjens.
Anyone else? How about Sid Bream? Maybe not the most annoying, but certainly the ugliest.
Bream
My grandparents were friendly with his parents. He’s a Fundamentalist Christian. Make of that information what you will… but know that I have autographed Sid Bream memorabilia with biblical verses included!
http://www.thegoodphight.com
Small world. Biblical verse huh? Pretty damn unique. Makes for a waaaay better story than my Tug McGraw autographed baseball. Maybe you should have formally presented it to Bobby Cox on behalf of TGP for all his accomplishments and contributions to the world of baseball… gack
by Boundforbeach on Oct 7, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions
This is like something TGP would do and we would be excoriated for it. No doubt this has a few panties in wads today.
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Yes. And #5 too.
Javy Lopez always annoyed the hell out of me, for some reason. Like most of the list, the annoyances are irrational in nature.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Leo Mazzone’s constantly bobbing head kind of drove me nuts.
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 7, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Deion did dump ice water on Tim McCarver’s head. So he’s got that going for him.
by taco pal on Oct 7, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Mike Schmidt called into Mike and Mike this morning and sounded like a little kid. Games like this make even the oldest, most jaded sports fans revel in the wonderment.
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Should’a checked 700 Level—they have the audio of Mike’s call—check it out here. He called it the “greatest moment in Philadelphia sports history.”
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Yeah I caught this on my way in this morning. It was pretty cool to imagine that he was wearing the same grin that I was.
You were sharing a grin with Mike Schmidt? Do tell….
I always thought he resembled a cheesy porn star or one of the Village People.
Remember the Phitans
by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Annette Haven?
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I missed Mike Schmidt calling in. I got out of my car at about 6:50, before he went on. I will be sure to listen to the link you provided from the 700 Level.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s always kittens and never puppies.
Letting Roy Halladay loose against the National League this year was like locking a hungry lion inside a garage full of puppies.
I am trying my best not to make a Michael Vick joke here….But…I…can’t…help….myself….
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by WanderingMoses on Oct 7, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Somewhere, a Pat has a large, wooden bat.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Addition by subtraction — a receipt for de-Abreuing a team, on occasion.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 7, 2010 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Another link
From today’s NY Times, in the wake of Roy Halladay’s no-hitter, Freakonomics tackles “Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball.”
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/freakonomics-radio-who-stole-all-the-runs-in-major-league-baseball/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:FreakonomicsBlog(Freakonomics+Blog)
by phillyinportland on Oct 7, 2010 7:47 PM EDT reply actions
Yankees bats are tough man. They aren’t blowing many opportunities. Pettitte looked sharp today too.
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Thanks
I’d forgotten how much I love to read Roger Angell on baseball.
by phillyinportland on Oct 8, 2010 3:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Let’s send him, Fielder and Broxton to a fat farm. Anyone else?
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I would definitely be ok with Werth going there. I lived there for a few random years, and am still somewhat of a casual fan.
by FearTheTurtIe on Oct 7, 2010 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions
It finally came to me: Lincecum looks like the redhead from “How I Met Your Mother”!
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The kid from Dazed and Confused.
I noticed it the other day when I was watching the movie, and apparently it’s well documented.
by FearTheTurtIe on Oct 7, 2010 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Nah, he’s cute. Lincecum, as awesome as he is, is most definitely not cute.
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McC is a great blog. I like that they call the Braves “bourgeoisie swine.” There is also a lot of subtle poking fun at Talking Chop, I think. Or maybe that’s just me.
I’ve tried three times to get on there and each time bad shit – like have to clean out my temp files in Safe Mode bad shit happens.
So good to see Brooks Conrad has not learned to play defense at all in the past week.
Now that's what I call high quality H2O!
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