Eckstein grittily does-not-get-out-of-way-of-pitch to tie the game in the 9th!
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Eckstein loses the ball in the lights
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=4673921&c_id=sd
Heads up devious play by the Rudy of Baseball
My dear lord
Who are the hacks that announce for SD? If you watch the video of Eck losing it in the lights, listen to how the commentators describe the play and his abilities. I do believe I heard the phrase “one of the best players in the game.” Then, I fainted.
I believe it was "one of the greatest players to ever play the game of baseball."
That’s an exact quote.
We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!
by kingcritical on May 22, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
That's insane
I think I just vomited in my mouth a little bit.
"The definition of edge is going out there and getting a few wins, and then all of a sudden you don’t have to worry about anyone talking about edge anymore," Wright said. "That's a thing in the past. Go ask Omar about that."
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 22, 2009 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd say he's in the top 10000
St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008
by vivaelpujols on May 22, 2009 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions
That's actually the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Worse than Phillips.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
I actually thought
you were either joking or exaggerating. I watched the clip, and I just can’t believe he seriously said that. He must have been joking.
"I was so frustrated [Saturday], I [could have said] anything," ~Oliver Perez
by Lance Johnson on May 23, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Sweet Jesus, that's pathetic.
I haven’t seen anyone so unjustly lauded for such abject failure outside of politics in a long time.
by BobbyV_Incognito on May 23, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions
These are the ones listed on the padres website
Jerry Coleman, Ted Leitner, Andy Masur, Mark Neely, Mark Grant, Tony gwynn on the english side.
Grant and Gwynn do color.
Coleman and Lietner are in the booth.
Masur and Neely do play by play.
So to answer your question, I have no idea.
I thought there was a rule that
if the umpire feels that the hitter did not to a good enough job of getting out of the way of a pitch, he does NOT get rewarded first base. That is a rule, right, I am not taking crazy pills?
that used to be a rule
but it apparently doesn’t apply to gritty white guys who win World Series (see: Eckstein, David; see also Utley, Chase)
Jason Kendall doesn't win World Series.
But apparently his scraptacular abilities make up for that, and he gets those benefits too.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
Was this last night?
The vid’s not loading up, but I caught a bit of that game, Eckstein trying to catch a poppup and having absolutely no idea where it was. He didn’t even move, he just had his hands in the air, and the ball landed like 10 feet in front of him untouched.
I also flipped on SNY one point to a Mets Classic from 1986, John Kruk popping up against Jesse Orosco. It was satisfying.
"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet
What a fool I was to defy him"
-HST
by Mark Himmelstein on May 22, 2009 1:59 PM EDT reply actions
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