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that’ll be great Sharpy, I look forward to that, whenever.
Oh I didn’t know that about the Leagues and the pitcher, it will take me some time to figure out who’s who in any case. I think if one pitched and batted I probably wouldn’t notice at this stage..lol…
I quite enjoyed the match tonight. I’m not too bothered who wins or even if I can remember who wins..lol…it’s just getting to grips with the formalities and following the action really, at the moment.
I tell you something I really do like though, is when the pitcher or catcher suddenly throws the ball to a base. It interrupts the rhythm and I find it quite startling and well…exciting dare I say it..lol…I wish they’d do that more often but I found tonight I’m watching the pitching techniques a lot more and trying to see if it’s going to be a strike or a ball.
Tell your wife that I’ve yet to see any hunks that have done anything for me…lol….some of them are a bit fat….but there is someone that does and I think the current term is ‘HOT’!…lol…it’s the Umpire.
Because I cannot see him he seems mysterious and a little sinister in that get up, dark shirt and grey trousers and wearing what looks like a gas mask…lol….it’s his body language really. Weird I know
and I don’t think this should be part of the quiz Sharpy…lol!!edit:
oh my god here’s my starter for 10…lol….give me some timeok Sharpy, I’ve done me best
:-1. A walk is: when the Count is 3-2 i.e. 3 balls and 2 strikes, if the next ball thrown is another ‘ball’ i.e. outside the strikezone, then the Hitter ‘walks’ to 1st base. If there’s already someone at 1st base they go to the 2nd. This is not good for the Pitcher or his team as it’s giving something away, so to speak.
2. The Pinstripes
3. 4
4. The Clean Up Spot.
5. Middle Relievers [relief pitchers]
6. An RBI is ‘Run Batted In’, which means if the hitter hits the ball fair and he has a team mate on one of the bases who can then reach home plate, then it’s credited to the hitter as an RBI.7. 30% or above
8. Centre field and Right field
9. 3-3
10. Count remains 2-2 [this foul is ignored]….tell me the worst
ok Sharpy, I’ve done me best
:-1. A walk is: when the Count is 3-2 i.e. 3 balls and 2 strikes, if the next ball thrown is another ‘ball’ i.e. outside the strikezone, then the Hitter ‘walks’ to 1st base. If there’s already someone at 1st base they go to the 2nd. This is not good for the Pitcher or his team as it’s giving something away, so to speak.
Correct, but the count doesn’t have to be 3-2. It could be 3-0 or 3-1.
So half a point is fair.
2. The Pinstripes – correct3. 4 – correct
4. The Clean Up Spot. – correct
5. Middle Relievers [relief pitchers] – correct. I called them the bullpen but you must have read up to come up with those other terms..lol
6. An RBI is ‘Run Batted In’, which means if the hitter hits the ball fair and he has a team mate on one of the bases who can then reach home plate, then it’s credited to the hitter as an RBI. – correct
7. 30% or above – correct
8. Centre field and Right field – No, its 2nd Base and 3rd Base….Jeter plays next to Arod who is on 3rd Base.
9. 3-3 – No, its 3-2. If its 3-3 the batter would be out already.10. Count remains 2-2 [this foul is ignored] -correct.
….tell me the worst
Strictly speaking 7.5 out of 10.
But maybe I didn’t explain questions 1, 8 and 9 properly. Q8 We never discussed the field positions of each player, so, it would have been a guess in your part. So the question was a bit unfair.
Q9 – ‘full count’ is a terminology, so I can see where you’re coming from.
My brother-in-law got 7 out of 10 and he’s been following the game for 2 years!!! lol……so 7.5 (on mean marking) out of 10 is excellent.
I was REALLY impressed with Q10….I thought, ‘this will catch her out’…and also Q5, as you must have read up on it….
Great stuff Maggs!!
EDIT – Just read up on how I described a walk, using 3-2 as an example, and I didn’t explain it fully, so 8 out of 10!!!!!
yeah, I should think so too…lol
Oh, not too bad, I’m quite pleased with that and I beat your brother in law. Tell him to keep up the good work – he’ll get there
To be fair on question 8 I did originally guess and it was a guess at 2nd and 3rd bases, but then I thought you meant field positions, so bit of confusion there on my part.
I thought 9 was wrong at 3-3, it didn’t seem right as I’d never seen that score come up, but I thought theoretically that would be the result as it made the hitter out.
As for 5, yes I did look that up as I wasn’t sure Bullpen was right and I thought you were tripping me up a bit there…lol…
Anyway Sharpy, I’ve just got one more thing to say to you for now until we talk again and that is:-
Seeeeeeeeeeeee Yaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!..
cheerio for now, and thanks
I was hoping you’d do well, it wouldn’t look good on me if you got 3 out of 10..lol….but you did great….and some of the questions weren’t so clear-cut and blurry anyway…
I asked my brother-in-law ‘Whats an RBI’? He replied ‘Somethin’ to do with stats innit’??? ….lol…Yeah, larrrrrvly mate…lol
Anyway, here’a a bit of bedtime, or daytime viewing for you…only a few teams have these updates but it keeps you in touch with whats going on:
Go to September 26. Nice little interview with Jeets….
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/vide … ?season=07
Go to July 6, 2005. This one’s a bit out-dated as some of the players have left….but here, you get a chance to hear from another legendary Yankees announcer, John Sterling (he mainly does the radio commentary)….his catchphrase is…….."ballgame over….Yankees win, theeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!!"…. I love it..lol…also, he has a different home run call for each player:
-If its Arod, he’ll say "An A-Bomb…..from A-Rod"…or "Alexander the Great conquers again"
– If its a Giambi home run "…the Giambino"…(the babe was called the Bambino, so play of words there) (see below clip)
-Jeter’s would be " A Jeterian swing", we used to have a player called Bernie Williams who was a lifetime Yankee and retired last year was "Burn baby Bern"….(see below clip)
– Johnny Damon’s " that was simply Damonic".or "positively damonic"….lol
– Jorge Posada’s is "Jorgie juiced one"
– If Joba Chamberlain does well, he’ll say "great joba….by joba" LOLHe appears on the bits:
May 15 – ‘Red-hot Tino’
May 16 – ‘Bernie slam tops Seattle’
June 8 – ‘A milestone for A-Rod’
June 15 – ‘Walk-off for Giambi’http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/vide … ?season=05
Also, here is a useful clip. It just helps you understand the scoring a bit and at the end, you see Damon out at 2nd base. He is also the 3rd out, but the run still counts because the runner touched home plate before Damon was out. Just as well we had a comfortable lead, otherwise, Damon would have got a right rolicking…lol. You also get to see a ‘squeeze play’ or ‘suicide squeeze’ (where do they come up with these terms?????..lol) its a dangerous play, bunting for a run…has a high failure rate. The first play, the pitcher (guess who it is, lol) walks in a run (bases were full, so everyone advances, therefore, a run is scored) note, that the count was at 3-0 and our fav pitcher threw another ‘ball’…Go to July 6, click on ‘Yanks six-run third’
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/multimed … &ym=200707
Anyway, I’m off to hopefully find a few winners for tomorrow, build up the bank so I can blow it all next week at Cheltenham….lol
‘deep to left, there it goes……..sssssssssssssee ya!!! (For now) lol
LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Go where? I would say to my buddies on the forum) lol
I enjoyed that interview with Derek. He comes across as more affable and happy go lucky than Alex does. A smiley, cheery person – I like that.
lol…those commentaries…I loved this one too, as you did ……"Theeeeeeeeee……..Yankees……………WIN!!!!!!!!!…"
John Sterling – brilliant!
"May 15 – ‘Red-hot Tino’ – seen nothing like it in 17 years?
May 16 – ‘Bernie slam tops Seattle’ – Bernie goes Boom!!….lolAlso in your final para about the last link, I can follow the bit about Damon being out and the run still counted but this part I don’t get:-
" The first play, the pitcher (guess who it is, lol) walks in a run (bases were full, so everyone advances, therefore, a run is scored) note, that the count was at 3-0 and our fav pitcher threw another ‘ball’…"don’t you mean…the hitter walks in a run?….who’s our favourite pitcher? I don’t recognise him but I note the score there and how he threw another ball.
we’ll have to come back to this one as I won’t rest till I know, I’ve gone wrong here somewhere.
It all happens a bit quick for me sometimes on those videos and I can’t always recognise the players so well and with rapid commentary all happens so fast.
Have to re watch that a few times, it’s bugging me. Maybe I’ll wake up later..lolI loved that squeeze play- like to see more, it’s these deviations that seem to appeal to me at lot at the moment.
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Sharpy I’ve watched that last bit several times and I still don’t get who the pitcher is and who ‘walks in a run’ there, maybe you could explain that to me later on. Thanks.Hi Maggs..
Yes, the hitter walks, the pitcher ‘walked in the run’ is just the way its called.
The pitcher is Bartolo Colon again, the guy we talked about before..lol…he must hate the Yanks as they keep smacking him around…lol.
Those 2 calls you mentioned were from John Sterling, the Arod 400th home run, and the ‘Giambino’.
I like those plays too and you mentioned you liked the catcher throwing to the bases to catch the runner by surprise. In that case you’ll like the ‘hit and run’, I’ll try and find a clip showing this…
this is why we invented rounders
An Irish invention (as cluiche corr), wasn’t it?
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Hi Maggs..
Yes, the hitter walks, the pitcher ‘walked in the run’ is just the way its called.
The pitcher is Bartolo Colon again, the guy we talked about before..lol…he must hate the Yanks as they keep smacking him around…lol.
Those 2 calls you mentioned were from John Sterling, the Arod 400th home run, and the ‘Giambino’.
I like those plays too and you mentioned you liked the catcher throwing to the bases to catch the runner by surprise. In that case you’ll like the ‘hit and run’, I’ll try and find a clip showing this…
Oi!!!…Sharpy, don’t try and confuse me…lol…I’m having enough problems as it is
so it was Colon again..lol..see I told you he wasn’t up to much
yeah, looking forward to some more clips of those in particular, anything that’s a bit odd or unusual.
I see we have some more company, that’s nice….anyone for Baseball??
ok, Maggs….will look for a few more clips…
Don’t you mean ‘anyone for tennis’??? Didn’t WE invent that?? lol
Probably, but look what’s happened to it since..lol.
I’ve just realised Sterling says ‘Burn baby Bern’ not Bernie goes Boom as I thought..lol..I’ll tune into it eventually.
Maggs…..he said ‘Bernie goes boom….burn, baby bern’…..lol
Yep, the tennis ain’t looking too clever…lol
lol…I got that wrong too!…dumb…
Maybe we should start talking about Cheltenham now Sharpy. I dare not go back into Horse Racing, I’ve lost my confidence, so maybe we make this the amateurs thread….for the less intense
What’s your fancy for the first race?
I’m doing Muirhead and Rippling Ring. I love the first event, all the atmosphere, get’s you going. You ever been to Cheltenham Sharpy?I like the way Muirhead won in Ireland last time, came with a right rattle and that RR might be anything. Lot more to come there I think.
I’m leaving out Cork AS and Captain CB he hasn’t run for a bit but who knows?
Are you famous gamble? I’m not expecting you to tell me, but I’d like to think that you are, even just a little bit, someone who I would have heard of in the media, television, whatever. It would do my ego a lot of good to know that I’m speaking to someone of that ilk and I’m in need of a boost right now.
Perhaps you could give me a little clue when next we speak
and I don’t think this should be part of the quiz Sharpy…lol!!
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