Pitchers do Field the Ball
More random thoughts on the world of sports. That’s really all I know how to do.
I meant to write about this earlier in the week. But during either game four or game five of the ALCS Garrett Anderson came up to the plate and hit a come backer to the mound and was thrown out by a large margin at first base. Tim McCarver (Fox’s resident genius), makes a comment along the lines that Anderson’s grounder couldn’t slip through the infield because the White Sox had put the Ted Williams shift on. Did he not just watch the same play that I did? The pitcher fielded the ball. I don’t claim to be a baseball genius, but I’m pretty sure that the pitcher has to be on the mound for every pitch. If I’m wrong, please correct me. Chalk up another one on McCarver’s board.
I thought that Lou Piniella was kind of annoying in the booth, but when McCarver is already there you really can’t go much farther. And it bothered me how every time Lou would make a comment that he would direct it towards “Timmy.” For one, this isn’t little league, there are no Timmys, and second I didn’t like the fact that it felt like he and McCarver were seeing how long they could freeze out Joe Buck before the producers got in their ears and told them to let him talk. It kind of reminded me of the job website commercials where the guy is working in the office with all of the chimps.
My favorite part of Lou being in the booth was that every time he spoke I imagined Endy Chavez sitting right next to him in the booth, each of them in a dead stare with each other. That stare down will never end.
Bill Simmons's article today was about him being ringside at the Contender rematch fight on Saturday. I could really care less, I didn’t watch the fight and only watched one episode of the show because the Simpsons weren’t on that week. But in the article he talks about his dogs and how they fight. I was laughing out loud. Dog’s play fighting is always funny.
There’s also an article on ESPN.com today about the Golden State Warriors and their playoff potential this season. Chris Mullin wants to be a run and gun team like the Suns were last year. Awesome, I wish that every team would disregard defense and just run the entire game. I really do. The Warriors have the point guard to do this in Baron Davis (if he stays healthy) and they have the ridiculously athletic swingman they need in Jason Richardson. They’ve got decent outside shooters in Mike Dunleavy, Michael Pietrus, Derek Fisher, and even throw in Troy Murphy. But to me the one thing they lack is that guy to fill the middle and finish in the half court. They’ve got Adonal Foyle, if that’s anything to be proud of. And while Murphy is a double-double machine, he’s not the dominating force that Amare was for the Suns last season. Now they did draft Ike Diogu who I really like, but he’s a rookie and who knows how he’ll adjust. Now as much as I’m all for running and gunning, I think it’s a little to early to be donning these guys “this year’s Suns”. I think they’ll be fun to watch and will be in the playoff hunt, but they’re in a tough conference. And when you toss the T-wolves and Lakers back into the mix this season, it’s going to be even tougher.
As I was reading this article and it mentioned Dunleavy and I wondered if there was someone else the Warriors could have drafted that would be helping them more. I think that Dunleavy is a nice player, but 13ppg from the #3 pick in the draft could be considered a little weak. So I looked at who else was taken in that draft and what I found was astounding. That 2002 draft could have the worst 2-8 picks in the history of the NBA. This was the draft that Yao Ming went #1.
#2 Jay Williams-motorcycle accident, is trying to make a comeback this year
#3 Mike Dunleavy-has been improving
#4 Drew Gooden-maddingly inconsistent, as a Cavs fan it drives me nuts. Plus the fact that he was with three teams in his first 2 seasons says something
#5 Nikoloz Tskitishvili-possibly the worst top 5 pick ever, but he was great in workouts
#6 Dajuan Wagner-I’ve covered my feelings for this pick in a previous post
#7 Nene-the lone exception in this group
#8 Chris Wilcox-all of his physical skills obviously don’t get him as many points or rebounds as they did at Maryland
You can’t really blame the GMs who took these guys because they all looked great on paper and in workouts. They’re just busts, there’s no way around it.
That’s it, I got nothin’.
I meant to write about this earlier in the week. But during either game four or game five of the ALCS Garrett Anderson came up to the plate and hit a come backer to the mound and was thrown out by a large margin at first base. Tim McCarver (Fox’s resident genius), makes a comment along the lines that Anderson’s grounder couldn’t slip through the infield because the White Sox had put the Ted Williams shift on. Did he not just watch the same play that I did? The pitcher fielded the ball. I don’t claim to be a baseball genius, but I’m pretty sure that the pitcher has to be on the mound for every pitch. If I’m wrong, please correct me. Chalk up another one on McCarver’s board.
I thought that Lou Piniella was kind of annoying in the booth, but when McCarver is already there you really can’t go much farther. And it bothered me how every time Lou would make a comment that he would direct it towards “Timmy.” For one, this isn’t little league, there are no Timmys, and second I didn’t like the fact that it felt like he and McCarver were seeing how long they could freeze out Joe Buck before the producers got in their ears and told them to let him talk. It kind of reminded me of the job website commercials where the guy is working in the office with all of the chimps.
My favorite part of Lou being in the booth was that every time he spoke I imagined Endy Chavez sitting right next to him in the booth, each of them in a dead stare with each other. That stare down will never end.
Bill Simmons's article today was about him being ringside at the Contender rematch fight on Saturday. I could really care less, I didn’t watch the fight and only watched one episode of the show because the Simpsons weren’t on that week. But in the article he talks about his dogs and how they fight. I was laughing out loud. Dog’s play fighting is always funny.
There’s also an article on ESPN.com today about the Golden State Warriors and their playoff potential this season. Chris Mullin wants to be a run and gun team like the Suns were last year. Awesome, I wish that every team would disregard defense and just run the entire game. I really do. The Warriors have the point guard to do this in Baron Davis (if he stays healthy) and they have the ridiculously athletic swingman they need in Jason Richardson. They’ve got decent outside shooters in Mike Dunleavy, Michael Pietrus, Derek Fisher, and even throw in Troy Murphy. But to me the one thing they lack is that guy to fill the middle and finish in the half court. They’ve got Adonal Foyle, if that’s anything to be proud of. And while Murphy is a double-double machine, he’s not the dominating force that Amare was for the Suns last season. Now they did draft Ike Diogu who I really like, but he’s a rookie and who knows how he’ll adjust. Now as much as I’m all for running and gunning, I think it’s a little to early to be donning these guys “this year’s Suns”. I think they’ll be fun to watch and will be in the playoff hunt, but they’re in a tough conference. And when you toss the T-wolves and Lakers back into the mix this season, it’s going to be even tougher.
As I was reading this article and it mentioned Dunleavy and I wondered if there was someone else the Warriors could have drafted that would be helping them more. I think that Dunleavy is a nice player, but 13ppg from the #3 pick in the draft could be considered a little weak. So I looked at who else was taken in that draft and what I found was astounding. That 2002 draft could have the worst 2-8 picks in the history of the NBA. This was the draft that Yao Ming went #1.
#2 Jay Williams-motorcycle accident, is trying to make a comeback this year
#3 Mike Dunleavy-has been improving
#4 Drew Gooden-maddingly inconsistent, as a Cavs fan it drives me nuts. Plus the fact that he was with three teams in his first 2 seasons says something
#5 Nikoloz Tskitishvili-possibly the worst top 5 pick ever, but he was great in workouts
#6 Dajuan Wagner-I’ve covered my feelings for this pick in a previous post
#7 Nene-the lone exception in this group
#8 Chris Wilcox-all of his physical skills obviously don’t get him as many points or rebounds as they did at Maryland
You can’t really blame the GMs who took these guys because they all looked great on paper and in workouts. They’re just busts, there’s no way around it.
That’s it, I got nothin’.
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