June 2010
Tweets from Last Night – 6/24/10
I finally just got to sit down yesterday and watch the Phillies. It’s basically the first time I’ve been able to do that in about a week, but it felt like forever of course.
I was also happy that the Nicolas Mahut/John Isner epic battle ended before the game started, because I wasn’t trying to miss that either.
Anyways, I sat down at 1:00, Pepsi in hand, ready to watch Big Joe turn it around.
Indians @ Phillies
Fausto Carmona v. Joe Blanton
“Phillies might have to get used to Carmona, I heard the Mets are interested.”
Not sure if this is true, and I’m not sure if the trade will even happen, either way, I was interested to see how we did against him.
“Jimmy getting the day off, better safe than sorry, not to mention, Wilson Valdez just got a knock to load the bases.”
Good timing, seeing as how he got the hit as I was writing the first part of this down. Seriously though, I don’t mind Jimmy being sat once and a while. We need him healthy.
“Just saw Sardinha in AAA, now, his first Phillies start and AB.”
Dane Sardinha, just here to bring some more Hawaiian flavor to the Phils.
“Nice error by the super prospect Carlos Santana, brings in two runs, and then Blanton gets hit by the next pitch thrown. Bases loaded, no outs, once again.”
Santana just flat out didn’t make the catch that would have made it bases loaded, one out. Instead, two runs score. Then, Carmona loses the next pitch and puts Blanton on for free.
“Boy, Shelley Duncan hasn’t changed a bit since his days with the Yankees, stills plays hard, and reckless.”
He took a hard slide into the concrete below the padding on the left field wall in foul territory. The only way to describe Shelley is bull in a china shop, without a doubt.
“And Charlie gets tossed again! Second ejection in three games this series.”
I guess he doesn’t want to see much of his old club. Or, he’s just sick and tired of the umps. Greg Gibson looks like he said something that really put him over the edge. Ah well, hot day, I wouldn’t want to be in that dugout either.
“Hopefully the 5 runs early can help get Joe back to his old self.”
Joe hasn’t been all that good thus far in 2010, but he’s looking better today.
“Branyan really just bunted to beat the shift, Ryan Howard, I hope you were watching.”
Seriously? I give Big Russ credit, most guys don’t go that, and they should.
“Nice to see former Phillie prospect Jason Donald, it’s a shame Lou Marson couldn’t be here too.”
I always liked Lou Marson, I was disappointed to see him go. As for Donald, it’s good he’s getting some big league action.
“That’s what happens when you drop easy pop-ups. Thanks Placido.”
After Polanco drops the ball in foul territory, Jason Donald decides to show the Phillies what they’re missing as he smacks a 2-run bomb.
“Some more runs here for the Phils, and that’ll call it a day for Fausto.”
It felt good to rough him up a little bit here today, although, his defense beat him worse than we did.
“How about Dane Sardinha!”
First major league homer, right here in ol’ Philadelphia. Nice to see.
“All is forgiven Placido. This is a fine game indeed, 12-2 going into the 7th.”
After this, I went searching around for other things to watch. It’s nice to be comfortable enough with a game to look elsewhere.
Well, I get to graduate from High School today, although, I have to miss Roy Halladay face his old club. Giveth and taketh away, how true it is.
Tweets from Last Night – 6/15/10 – Cody Ransom against the Fans
It’s almost as if I knew how it was going to go. While I wanted to see the Roy Halladay/CC Sabathia matchup, I decided I was going to take the chance and go see the hometown Bisons take on the AAA Phillies (the Lehigh Valley IronPigs of course). I hoped that going to the game might bring the real Phillies some luck. Clearly, I couldn’t have been more wrong. It was torture looking at the scoreboard in Coca-Cola Field seeing the Yankees continue to pile up runs. That’s about all I want to say about that. I’m on the verge of doing something drastic to change these Phillie ways.
IronPigs @ Bisons
Joe Savery v. Dylan Owen
“Hope to see some of Willy Taveras’ speed tonight.”
He’s batting about .261 in AAA for the Pigs, but you can really see the speed he has when you’re here live. He ended up beating out a grounder later in the game, and then stole a base.
“John Mayberry is here too, one of my favorite Phillie prospects.”
He truly is, I remember the power I saw from him in Spring of ’09. He has 9 homers with at .275 batting average in AAA, I hope to see him make a splash in the bigs someday soon.
“Mike Jacobs has taken of the role of main power threat for the Bisons now that Hess is on the DL.”
I can’t explain to you all how fun it was to watch Mike Hessman smash the baseball, it’s a shame he got injured. See you in a month Hess.
“Fernando Martinez is in the lineup too, I thought he was in the majors already!”
I don’t really mean that, I’m just laughing at the fact that he was basically a God last year in the eyes of the Mets, yet here he is in AAA. Batting about .270 as well.
“Jonathan Malo RBI triple in his first AAA at bat.”
Nice to see for the kid, he looked like he could really fly too, he was at third before I knew what happened.”
“Dylan Owen – the pitcher – with an RBI single to drive Melo in, good lord.”
It started getting ugly for Savery, who was just given the lead. His night only got worse. 6 runs in 5 innings, with another L in the column.
“Got some rowdy fans here getting on IronPigs shortstop Melvin Dorta and 3rd basemen Cody Ransom, a bunch of drunken simpletons.”
I don’t quite understand what they were trying to accomplish, get a few laughs out of the empty stadium I guess.
Things really began to heat up though, more so than I’ve ever seen at a live game. It’s the bottom of the 8th, Ransom was playing the field, the three rowdy fans from before are still chanting at him, like they have been all night. After the final out, Ransom looks up to them and tells them to meet him in the parking lot after the game! All the IronPigs players, while in the dugout, start looking back at the three guys. A minute or two later, the umpire, from home plate, throws out the fans like he would a manager or a player! Security starts walking towards the guys, and they talk for a while. Figuring the game was basically over, they were allowed to stay. Ransom ends up being the final out of the game, and the three guys start yelling again. After the out, he starts walking in their direction and he again tells them to meet him in the parking lot! The fans were escorted out by security, and all the IronPigs were getting a good look at the guys as they were leaving.
Wow, I had a perfect seat for all of that. The guys were about 7 rows below me, but I couldn’t hear all they were saying. Apparently, the guys started to say things about Ransom’s wife. As we were walking out there were a lot of different opinions from fans. Some said that Ransom should have been more professional, which may be true. Others said that when you start talking about a guys wife, it goes a little too far. I personally agree with the latter. When casual heckling turns into family matters, it goes a little too far. Not to mention, how much of that can a guy take? I side with Cody Ransom.
Tweets from Last Night – 6/14/10
Well, not a whole lot going on yesterday. One game at 7:00, three at 10:00. I was only home for the 7:00 game, so it’s the main event of this debut of Tweets from Last Night.
Mariners @ Cardinals
Luke French v. Adam Wainwright
“Nice swing by Ichiro, looks like he really can hit homers on command.”
Pretty incredible really, I’ve always heard that he puts on incredible shows during batting practice, and he does it here, for only his second big fly of the year.
“For some reason, I like any pitcher who wears the Pitchers Goggles”
Now that is what I call a good look for a pitcher. I’ve always had this thing for the glasses, it just makes one look better than they are.
“Well, he was tearing up AAA, he’d probably rather be back there right about now”
After getting a 2-run lead in the 1st, French gives up a 3-run bomb to Ryan Ludwick.
“I like to believe I know a whole lot about baseball, but who in the world is Mike Carp?”
Seriously. I think I’ve heard of him before, but clearly he didn’t stick in my mind.
“He took off the goggles to bat?”
He certainly did, I guess they wouldn’t help him hit.
“Niehaus just called that liner by Wainwright.”
Good call Dave Niehaus. He was laughing about how a guy batting .114 shouldn’t be hitting 8th. Then he further went on to joke and say “Watch him hit a rope.” Wainwright certainly did.
“Brendan Ryan, you are fashion. A justache and high striped socks.”
I remember he rocked the justache (moustache without any other facial hair) last year, but I thought that was something the team did for a little while. He belongs on that D-backs team from a few years ago.
“That is why Franklin Gutierrez is who he is, he almost beat Holliday.”
Certainly he is one of the most underrated defenders in the game. He made a normally easy run much closer than expected, I actually thought he was called out.
“Now a walk for Wainwright! Take that Hall of Famer Dave Niehaus!”
This never would have happened if nothing was said before his first at bat.
“I cannot believe how low these Mariner batting averages are.”
I haven’t seen many Mariner games this year, but it was amazing how low everyone is, after Ichiro of course.
“Remember When: Remember when Ian Snell was the Pirates ace?”
I know I do, althought that didn’t last very long, and look at where he is now, doing clean-up duty for Luke French.
“I am without a doubt a Colby Rasmus fan, he is a good young player.”
This comes after a homer was smashed by Rasmus to right-center, to put the game in the bag.
As a matter of fact, that was all I had from this game. After the homer, the score was 8-2, and, quite frankly, that isn’t much of a game anymore. I hope the new format is alright, because, as of right now, I’m liking it. We’ll see where this goes.
A New Direction for The Pitcher’s Duel
My old format has really done a lot for me.
It got a quote of mine featured on the mlb.com homepage.
It was featured on the homepage of mlblogs.com
It showed me that baseball writing was something I really want to do.
However, it is time for a change.
One could only go for so long doing what I was. My blogs weren’t exactly original or really what I had a passion for.
I was introduced to something by a dear friend, none other than Twitter.
When Twitter was first introduced to the masses, I really didn’t see the point to it. So I just put what I’m doing? I already do something along those lines on facebook, why would I need Twitter?
Well, there are a lot of very interesting people on Twitter. Sports writers, athletes, bands, movie stars, you name it. I figured that it was pretty alright.
One problem with it is, I’m just some random dude from Buffalo and nobody follows me.
I need the world to see my baseball-related tweets, and it just hit me that this would be the perfect place to show them.
I figured, I would watch the games, tweet numerous times during the game, like I usually do, and then, post them on here. That way, the world (or our little blogging world anyways) could see my thoughts.
I don’t know how well it’ll work, but I figured that this gives me direction, which I need when it comes to blogging.
It won’t just be on Phillies games either. I watch a whole lot of baseball, and I have a whole lot of thoughts on it.
I look forward to putting my comments on here, just to see how it goes.
It’s a light schedule tomorrow, so I don’t know if that would be a good or bad place to start. We’ll just have to see what happens.
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