APRTW wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

You know what bothers me? Ryan Franklin. Ryan Theriot. Skip Schumaker. Miggy Batista. Albert Pujols's historically bad day. Forty-three degress on April 1.

What is bugging me today is having to have an off day after opening day.

Can I join in?

1. wasting a 7 inning, 2 ER effort from a starting pitcher. 

2. blowing a 9th inning lead.

3. losing in extra innings . . . at home.

4. Doing all those things on the same day.

tkihshbt wrote:

You know what bothers me? Ryan Franklin. Ryan Theriot. Skip Schumaker. Miggy Batista. Albert Pujols's historically bad day. Forty-three degress on April 1.

I thought it was a bit of a reach for Hrabosky to criticize Jay for throwing a 2-hopper to Theriot instead of reaching him in the air. You'd think a major league shortstop would be able to adapt to a baseball hitting the ground occasionally.

The three-men-in-the-booth thing doesn't work for Hrabosky. Horton said more insightful things yesterday than Hrabosky will say all season.

tkihshbt wrote:

It should be noted for those who were watching the FSMW broadcast that Jon Jay was at fault for that throw, and not the scrappalicious white guy who handled the ball like it was a live grenade then threw it into the upperdeck.

Let's pretend Brendan Ryan did the same thing. Al wouldn't have been able to hide his disgust.

I heard him say that and was going to back up the DVR and watch it again but I never did.  I find it hard to believe that the throw was at fault for the run.  All Theriot had to do was keep the ball in front of him.  Plus he got the error.

artie_fufkin wrote:

The three-men-in-the-booth thing doesn't work for Hrabosky. Horton said more insightful things yesterday than Hrabosky will say all season.

I just posted about the same thing and deleted it.  On this board you can keep from looking stupid from not reading ahead.  Unless of course you admitt to it like I just did.  But, Yeah, I agree the booth was bad.  The pregame was bad to.  I actually wanted to just watch the introductions but they first cut to Jim Hayes to interview Wainwright and then to commercial when Pujols was introduced.

Max wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

I wonder at what point they'll finally start criticizing the team for their sloppy play. I give it late August when they're 10 games behind the Reds and Brewers.

Dan and Al will have to get pretty creative in figuring out new ways to deflect blame for whatever piss poor mistake Schuriot makes.

The blame game.  Yesterday it might have been the young scrappy guy versus the veteran scrappy guy.  By mid-August, if this is still going on, my hunch is that someone will go back and revisit the "Brendan Ryan's clubhouse cancer was infecting the team, and Ryan Ludwick's spotty offense pushed it over the edge" hypothesis and look for larger reasons that the team played sloppy baseball for what will have been two seasons at that time.  Then the likely targets become:

1. Players TBN
2. Manager
3. GM

In most instances, it's manager, GM, then players. I haven't read the P-D, and I'm sure the players' mantra is "It's only one game ..." and Pujols will surely come around, but yesterday exposed their two most glaring deficiencies - defense in the middle of the infield and a bullpen littered with has-beens and never-wases. The third deficiency - the horribly diminished skills of the starting right fielder - didn't show on defense because Carpenter kept the ball out of right field yesterday.

Tk wrote:

Good news - Holliday taken in for appendectomy and he's out for 4-6 weeks

This blows.

Tk wrote:

Good news - Holliday taken in for appendectomy and he's out for 4-6 weeks

OK.  That does it.  From now on, November 1st, everyone with an appendix gets it taken out.

Well there is always next year.