Game 19: Gamethread #3

Nothing of interest here tonite Hawk, time to talk about that FUCKING golf outing you had in the 80’s.

this place is dead anyways

or did Ozzie really screw up the pitching situation…Thorton should have been pitching to abreu.

would of given up the grand slam anyways.

that dreaded leadoff walk

I know of better ways to waste my time.

Its about time for the Fire Walker banner to go back up. We have a few guys walking that we picked up, outside of that we still have the same lift and pull swing for the dan ryan offense. Men on, a nice double would work. No swing for the ryan and pop it up or strike out. Good work Walk, the perfect storm is back.

one thing this game did make me realize is that all the hitters on our bench are essentially worthless. when uribe came up with the bases loaded my first reaction was “you can’t let him bat here,” and then i thought about it for a second, and realized that hall, anderson, and ramirez all would’ve been woefully overmatched (in all fairness, most bench hitters would be against chamberlain), and pablo might’ve been a better choice than uribe because he makes contact, but not so overwhelmingly that leaving juan in there was indefensible. not having a lefty isn’t great either.

i guess what i’m saying, crazy as it may sound, is that i miss rob mackowiak. he’s just rotting on the bench in washington, maybe we can get him back! sadly, i’m only half kidding. i’m sure someone will explain to me that even a great lefty bench hitter is only likely be worth 1 win over the course of the season, but i’d still feel better about it.