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Showing posts with label Havoc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Havoc. Show all posts
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Holy craap, Nederlands stuns Republica Dominicana!
Voltron gave up three runs to Nederlands today, which was enough for the loss in this gigantic, enormous, huge, massive upset in the first round of the World Baseball Classic. In the first inning alone, he threw 29 pitches. You only get 70 in this round.
Baby Red Alexander Smit did not fare very well, either, as he only pitched to three batters, giving up a sac fly, a single, and an intentional walk.
Havoc was caught stealing after getting a hit.
Team Dominicana is the overwhelming favorite to win the whole thing. Nederlands only needs to win one more game to advance to the second round. Upsets are fun! Woooo Nederlands!
Unfortunately, it was sooooooooooooooooooo beautiful today I missed the game. I'm sorry I did. Right now I have USA vs. Canada on inside, but I can't bear to go in to watch it except every now and then. Votto has had a monster day so far, getting a single and hitting a massive homer. Thom thinks he's going to have an incredible year. I'm inclined to agree.
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Baby Red Alexander Smit did not fare very well, either, as he only pitched to three batters, giving up a sac fly, a single, and an intentional walk.
Havoc was caught stealing after getting a hit.
Team Dominicana is the overwhelming favorite to win the whole thing. Nederlands only needs to win one more game to advance to the second round. Upsets are fun! Woooo Nederlands!
Unfortunately, it was sooooooooooooooooooo beautiful today I missed the game. I'm sorry I did. Right now I have USA vs. Canada on inside, but I can't bear to go in to watch it except every now and then. Votto has had a monster day so far, getting a single and hitting a massive homer. Thom thinks he's going to have an incredible year. I'm inclined to agree.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Think warm! (It's not working)
It's a bummer that more games aren't on the radio, television, or internet. You would think in this day and age of media orgies that it would be possible to televise every game, even if it just meant sticking a camera behind homeplate and letting it run with only the sounds of the game for audio. Just give us a streaming internet feed or a webcam or something. We're all freezing our butts off and a lot of us are buried under snow (not me thank god) and it would be a sort of mental medicine if we could just get a look at a baseball game and some palm trees.
I'm not feeling all that great today and I was thinking about how there was a case of whooping cough in my six-year old cousin's class and the county health department had to send out letters to the parents of all the kids in the schools warning them about it. I thought pertussis was pretty much a dead disease because of vaccines. Turns out though, that it's making a comeback because kids aren't getting vaccinated as a result of the cost of health care in this country. Some parents simply can't afford it. The pols are right when they say we don't have a health care system in this country; we have a sick care system.
No, I'm not gonna get whooping cough because I had my DTPs all those years ago when medical care was for people instead of profits. But I do start whooping every time the Reds make a baserunning blunder. They've been caught stealing six of ten times this spring and have gotten thrown out trying to take an extra bag several other times. That was already a problem last year when we were actually talking about how we have the worst third base coach in the history of base coaches but now that we have all of these guys who are supposedly fast, Toothpick wants to run even more, which just means we're gonna be running ourselves out of games. That's Havoc!™
With all of these baserunning blunders, maybe it's a good thing we can't see the games.
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I'm not feeling all that great today and I was thinking about how there was a case of whooping cough in my six-year old cousin's class and the county health department had to send out letters to the parents of all the kids in the schools warning them about it. I thought pertussis was pretty much a dead disease because of vaccines. Turns out though, that it's making a comeback because kids aren't getting vaccinated as a result of the cost of health care in this country. Some parents simply can't afford it. The pols are right when they say we don't have a health care system in this country; we have a sick care system.
No, I'm not gonna get whooping cough because I had my DTPs all those years ago when medical care was for people instead of profits. But I do start whooping every time the Reds make a baserunning blunder. They've been caught stealing six of ten times this spring and have gotten thrown out trying to take an extra bag several other times. That was already a problem last year when we were actually talking about how we have the worst third base coach in the history of base coaches but now that we have all of these guys who are supposedly fast, Toothpick wants to run even more, which just means we're gonna be running ourselves out of games. That's Havoc!™
With all of these baserunning blunders, maybe it's a good thing we can't see the games.
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