The Poojer Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 i don't have a problem with that article by schilling, because I think he is slamming the 'experts' who keep talking about 3 days rest for pitchers....i think he is actually just trying to say that for the guys playing the game, they would be ready to pitch on zero days rest if the situation called for it.....the media made way too much out of it this year..... Oooops, one last thing... Yep it's always about you isn't it Schilling? D-bag. http://38pitches.weei.com/sports/boston/ba...s-the-big-deal/ He just won't go away will he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magox Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I must of saw over 150 of their games this year, and after about 15 games after the All Star break, you knew there was something special with this Yankees team. What an enjoyable year it was to be a Yankees Fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 One of the most anti-climactic season's ever for baseball. After spending ridiculous money to sign the top 2 FA's and probably 3 of the top 5 FA's this offseason, the overwhelming favorites won it all as they should have. Not that there is anything wrong with spending money, it's well within the rules of MLB. But this is the first year where I didn't watch the world series. I caught bits and pieces, but it just wasn't exciting for me. I went to the Sabres game last night and caught a little of last nights game, they put the baseball game on in the arena in between the 2nd and 3rd period, but that's about all I watched. I woke up this morning, put on sports center, and surprise surprise NY won. Congrats Yankee fans, but it was a snoozer for non NY/Philly fans... Then you weren't watching the games. Ridiculous numbers of extra-inning games, it'll take months to make up for the lost sleep, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Nice article on the series. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...cuts/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPR4444 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Apparently, this was the most-watched World Series in 5 years: "World Series television ratings in the United States are at their highest levels in five years. The New York Yankees' 8-5 win over Philadelphia on Saturday night in Game 3 received a 9.1 rating and an 18 share, Fox said Sunday. A rating reflects the percentage of the total U.S. population of televisions tuned to a particular program while share reflects the percentage of televisions actually in use." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chandler#81 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Nice article on the series. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writ...cuts/index.html Great read! First time I've read anything remotely dissing Manuel, and I thought all along that he's the reason Philly couldn't respond. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 As a Buffalo sports fan, hearing Yankees fans cry about how long they've had to suffer without a title is like a starving homeless person having to listen to someone complain about their prime rib and lobster dinner. PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted November 5, 2009 Author Share Posted November 5, 2009 As a Buffalo sports fan, hearing Yankees fans cry about how long they've had to suffer without a title is like a starving homeless person having to listen to someone complain about their prime rib and lobster dinner. PTR Well you do know that lobster can become quite tough if it's boiled instead of steamed. It's hard sometimes to get good lemons too. And butter, well you best not run out or your dinner could be a disaster. Now prime rib mind you, is a handsome meal in itself. Yes indeed, it's a tasty cut of meat. However, you'd better make certain the maître d' understands exactly how you want yours prepared, as there are few more disappointing meals than a prime rib that's over cooked. Even under cooked is bad. You have to waste time for it to be returned to the kitchen all the while making small talk when you only want to dive into your succulent rib roast. No, don't be fooled. Lobster and prime rib isn't a guaranteed slam-dunk. Oh, and don't forget the horseradish sauce and Bordeaux. That can make the difference between an average lobster and prime rib dinner and an evening of pure magic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullpen Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 i don't have a problem with that article by schilling, because I think he is slamming the 'experts' who keep talking about 3 days rest for pitchers....i think he is actually just trying to say that for the guys playing the game, they would be ready to pitch on zero days rest if the situation called for it.....the media made way too much out of it this year..... Pooj, you know I have what some might call an "unhealthy" disdain for anything Boston-centric or relating to "The Apostle" Curt Shilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 yeah i know you do.... Pooj, you know I have what some might call an "unhealthy" disdain for anything Boston-centric or relating to "The Apostle" Curt Shilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Just as well though, 'Hideki Fuggin' Matsui' just doesn't have the same impact. How about God fuggin' Zilla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushthePile Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Farthest thing from overrated. Ryan Howard is the best power hitter in baseball. His tears are legendary. So are his slumps. Howard utterly destroys RHP. That was why Marte started the 8th rather than Mo last nite. Howard's kryptonite is LHP. The only time Howard was able to hit LHP was 2006 after working with Tony Gwynn. He won MVP that year and hit .313 with 58 bombs. If Howard kept up the hot tear he was on, you would have likely seen a very different World Series. Ryan Howard has fantastic power and is a good run producer on a great hitting team. A player is not complete if he is so easily neutralized by lefthanded pitching. Especially when it comes to the postseason when teams are so willing to shuffle pitchers in and out. Ryan Howard has 679 strikeouts in 3 1/2 years, which averages out to 194 per season. No one else in baseball history has EVER averaged that at any point of their career. He is 25% of the way to the career record already. Strikeouts are killer to an offense. His "legendary slumps" had him batting .227 into September this year. He has never had a fielding average that surpassed the league medium. The man certainly has talent and power. He is sandwiched between to superior players, in Utley and Werth and enjoys the tremendous advantages of that. I like the guy and root for him alot. I just told someone yesterday that he is one of my favorite players but he has major holes in his game. If you just look at HRs and RBIs, he is completely dominant. The game is hardly that simple, though. Albert Pujols is by far and away the best power hitter in baseball. His career strikeouts is 570 over 9 seasons. Howard looks great in stretches but is not even close to a complete player. 2006 has been his only season of brilliance, since than he is basically Adam Dunn or Richie Sexson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 If you're a Yankees fan, how can you derive any satisfaction from winning the world series? Wow, great job--you just bought every possible superstar out there! Congrats at accomplishing such a difficult task. Baseball is such a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Ryan Howard has fantastic power and is a good run producer on a great hitting team. A player is not complete if he is so easily neutralized by lefthanded pitching. Especially when it comes to the postseason when teams are so willing to shuffle pitchers in and out. Ryan Howard has 679 strikeouts in 3 1/2 years, which averages out to 194 per season. No one else in baseball history has EVER had more than 190 strikeouts in a single season. He is 25% of the way to the career record already. Strikeouts are killer to an offense. His "legendary slumps" had him batting .227 into September this year. He has never had a fielding average that surpassed the league medium. The man certainly has talent and power. He is sandwiched between to superior players, in Utley and Werth and enjoys the tremendous advantages of that. I like the guy and root for him alot. I just told someone yesterday that he is one of my favorite players but he has major holes in his game. If you just look at HRs and RBIs, he is completely dominant. The game is hardly that simple, though. Albert Pujols is by far and away the best power hitter in baseball. His career strikeouts is 570 over 9 seasons. Howard looks great in stretches but is not even close to a complete player. No offense intended, but please look at the stats before making these comments. On Sept 1, 2009, Ryan Howard was hitting .275. Howard made MAJOR strides this season in his approach to hitting. His AVG by month... Apr .288 May .250 Jun .245 Jul .290 Aug .299 Sep .288 Howard also is quite predictable in terms of monthly trends. April is his worst moth, followed by June. He usually has a great May and a decent July. He goes nuclear in Aug and Sept. This year Howard has made major changes in his diet in an effort to become a more consistent player. This article provides some good insight on him as a player and a person. As for the strikeouts, Howard's 2009 does not even make the top 10. Yes, he strikes out, but please consult the stats before making claims regarding 190 strikeouts. The all time single season top 10... Player Strikeouts Year 1 Mark Reynolds 223 2009 2 Mark Reynolds 204 2008 3 Ryan Howard 199 2007 Ryan Howard 199 2008 5 Jack Cust 197 2008 6 Adam Dunn 195 2004 7 Adam Dunn 194 2006 8 Bobby Bonds 189 1970 9 José Hernández 188 2002 10 Bobby Bonds 187 1969 As for fielding, Howard has made excellent strides this year as well in order to try and become a complete player. Check this link out that discusses the strides Howard made this year in becoming a better fielder. He was not that far off from Texiera in fielding metrics this year. I read an article around spring training (can't find it right now) that discussed Howard's fielding approach and how hard he worked at it. Now, the only point you made that was on the money...vs. LHP. Howard's AVG has declined four consecutive years vs. LHP, barely over .200 this season. His power numbers have also declined 4 straight years vs. LHP. Given the articles I've read on Howard, I think he will address this area over the winter. He is a prideful person and was embarassed in the WS. Methinks he'll win his second NL MVP next year as he pulls his numbers vs. LHP from awful to at least barely respectable. No offense intended by this, and yes, he is one of my favorite players (the WS was the only time I ever rooted against him since I first saw him in AA). He wants to be like Pujols and is working like hell to get there. Is he complete yet? No, but I wouldn't bet against him next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricojes Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 yet here you are in a '...congratulations....yankee fan' thread....thanks for taking the time and trying to piss on the fan's parade.... The Yankee's were heavy favorites, sorry for not sugar coating it. It would have been a major upset had they not won. I'll give them credit for winning though, they did what they were supposed to do. Like a Yankee fan gives a rat's ass about my comments, please. They won the World Series and that's the bottom line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 If you're a Yankees fan, how can you derive any satisfaction from winning the world series? Wow, great job--you just bought every possible superstar out there! Congrats at accomplishing such a difficult task. Baseball is such a joke. Bitter much? I hope you've never called out Ralph for being cheap. Because any post like that would be logically inconsistent with this nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushthePile Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 No offense intended, but please look at the stats before making these comments. On Sept 1, 2009, Ryan Howard was hitting .275. Howard made MAJOR strides this season in his approach to hitting. His AVG by month... Apr .288 May .250 Jun .245 Jul .290 Aug .299 Sep .288 Howard also is quite predictable in terms of monthly trends. April is his worst moth, followed by June. He usually has a great May and a decent July. He goes nuclear in Aug and Sept. This year Howard has made major changes in his diet in an effort to become a more consistent player. This article provides some good insight on him as a player and a person. As for the strikeouts, Howard's 2009 does not even make the top 10. Yes, he strikes out, but please consult the stats before making claims regarding 190 strikeouts. The all time single season top 10... Player Strikeouts Year 1 Mark Reynolds 223 2009 2 Mark Reynolds 204 2008 3 Ryan Howard 199 2007 Ryan Howard 199 2008 5 Jack Cust 197 2008 6 Adam Dunn 195 2004 7 Adam Dunn 194 2006 8 Bobby Bonds 189 1970 9 José Hernández 188 2002 10 Bobby Bonds 187 1969 As for fielding, Howard has made excellent strides this year as well in order to try and become a complete player. Check this link out that discusses the strides Howard made this year in becoming a better fielder. He was not that far off from Texiera in fielding metrics this year. I read an article around spring training (can't find it right now) that discussed Howard's fielding approach and how hard he worked at it. Now, the only point you made that was on the money...vs. LHP. Howard's AVG has declined four consecutive years vs. LHP, barely over .200 this season. His power numbers have also declined 4 straight years vs. LHP. Given the articles I've read on Howard, I think he will address this area over the winter. He is a prideful person and was embarassed in the WS. Methinks he'll win his second NL MVP next year as he pulls his numbers vs. LHP from awful to at least barely respectable. No offense intended by this, and yes, he is one of my favorite players (the WS was the only time I ever rooted against him since I first saw him in AA). He wants to be like Pujols and is working like hell to get there. Is he complete yet? No, but I wouldn't bet against him next season. I apologize for the misrepresentation of the stats. I was thinking of his 2008 season in terms of his low batting averages. He did hit 279 this season which is better than his previous two seasons. As far as strikeouts go? Please! I was giving you stats that didn't include 2009. Again my error I was in kind of a hurry. If you include his 186 strikeouts from this season his problem is even more apparent. He was one strikeout away from having three of his four complete seasons in the top ten. That is pitiful. My point wasn't off the mark it was just my hasty research. He is on pace to obliterate the mark. His fielding is not even close to Texieras. He has finished 19th, 18th, 24th, and 22nd in fielding percentage over his four full seasons. He has also comitted 14, 12, 19, and 14 errors, which is always amongst the highest of his position. I trust that it's a work in progress but it's not average yet. It's interesting that you mention Mark Reynolds and Adam Dunn. These two players are very similar to Ryan Howard statistically and with their approach to the game. They are power hitters who stikeout at an alarming rate as well. I think it's kind of telling that the top 7 individual strikeout seasons of all time are found in the last five years and are shared by 4 different players. It provides alot of homeruns but it's bad baseball. Pujols, Utley, Jeter, and many more are true professional hitters. Howard is guy with alot of talent but a poor approach. He could be much more than Dunn and Reynolds but right now he's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I apologize for the misrepresentation of the stats. I was thinking of his 2008 season in terms of his low batting averages. He did hit 279 this season which is better than his previous two seasons. As far as strikeouts go? Please! I was giving you stats that didn't include 2009. Again my error I was in kind of a hurry. If you include his 186 strikeouts from this season his problem is even more apparent. He was one strikeout away from having three of his four complete seasons in the top ten. That is pitiful. My point wasn't off the mark it was just my hasty research. He is on pace to obliterate the mark. His fielding is not even close to Texieras. He has finished 19th, 18th, 24th, and 22nd in fielding percentage over his four full seasons. He has also comitted 14, 12, 19, and 14 errors, which is always amongst the highest of his position. I trust that it's a work in progress but it's not average yet. It's interesting that you mention Mark Reynolds and Adam Dunn. These two players are very similar to Ryan Howard statistically and with their approach to the game. They are power hitters who stikeout at an alarming rate as well. I think it's kind of telling that the top 7 individual strikeout seasons of all time are comprised of the last five years and are shared by 4 different players. It provides alot of homeruns but it's bad baseball. Pujols, Utley, Jeter, and many more are true professional hitters. Howard is guy with alot of talent but a poor approach. He could be much more than Dunn and Reynolds but right now he's not. You do realize that Howard won NLCS MVP right? I would not call him overrated in any sense. Howard hit .333 (5 for 15) with two homers, one double, one triple and eight RBIs in the series. He had at least one RBI in eight straight postseason games, tying the major league record first set by Lou Gehrig more than seven decades ago. Howard’s streak ended when he failed to knock in a run in the clincher. And, last I looked, the Dodgers had multiple LHPs in their bullpen, same as the Yankees. So, he obviously did something right in the postseason, bad WS notwithstanding. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-n...p&type=lgns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushthePile Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 You do realize that Howard won NLCS MVP right? I would not call him overrated in any sense. And, last I looked, the Dodgers had multiple LHPs in their bullpen, same as the Yankees. So, he obviously did something right in the postseason, bad WS notwithstanding. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-n...p&type=lgns I think most of us know he won the 2006 MVP. He deserved it and had a fantastic season. The award traditionally goes to power hitters and he was the best of the bunch. Chase Utley is a superior baseball player to Ryan Howard and it has nothing to do with the World Series. Ryan Howard is overrated in the sense that I don't think he is as valuable to his team as many other players are to theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills_fan Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I think most of us know he won the 2006 MVP. He deserved it and had a fantastic season. The award traditionally goes to power hitters and he was the best of the bunch. Chase Utley is a superior baseball player to Ryan Howard and it has nothing to do with the World Series. Ryan Howard is overrated in the sense that I don't think he is as valuable to his team as many other players are to theirs. Yes, he was 2006 MVP. But, he was also 2009 NLCS MVP. And I disagree with you regarding how valuable Howard is to the Phillies. You think Utley would see the same fat pitches to hit if you or I were hitting behind him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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