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Posted on Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 11:53:42 PM EST
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It was a pretty boring game with a electrical blackout early on, but it got better in the 8th and 9th innings.

The crowd is electrified right now. It's 2 out in the bottom of the 9th inning.

The Rockies win. This town will be crazy for the next week.

Congratulations, Rcckies. You came out of nowhere and put us on the map.

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    Congratulations, Rockies. (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 11:56:52 PM EST
    After they beat the Padres, I've predicted they will win the World Series.  

    But did Matt Holliday miss home plate? ;-) (none / 0) (#2)
    by robrecht on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 12:00:08 AM EST


    No doubt about it. (none / 0) (#3)
    by oculus on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 12:11:35 AM EST


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    But, too his credit (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by scribe on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 10:29:53 AM EST
    neither Holliday nor the Padres catcher, Barrett, questioned the umpire's call.

    Holliday said "I don't remember, but the umpire said I did" when asked whether he touched the plate.

    More surprisingly, Barrett said "I've never questioned that umpire's [I forget his name, but Barrett didn't] calls at home plate."  This, a bit surprising to me, since Barrett is quite a scrapper, evidenced by his brawls while with the Cubs - against a White Sox player, clocking him with a jab, and with the Cubs' star pitcher Zambrano, in the dugout.

    This time, everyone evinced good sportsmanship all around, and it deserves recognition and credit.

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    Actually, I think Holliday's superb acting (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 12:24:02 PM EST
    diverted Barrett's attention.  If Barrett had questioned the call (politely, of course), Buddy Black would have come out to home plate to back him up and perhaps the umpires would have reversed the call.  

    Barrett has been a model citizen since coming to the Padres.  Bradley too, until the attempt to charge the first plate umpire.  

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    The umpire was out of position (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:15 PM EST
    Holliday got hurt on the play, that's why he didn't react.  The umpire saw nothing, he was on the wrong side of the plate to make any kind of informed call.  The ump couldn't see the plate, nor the runner sliding past it, nor the catcher making the tag.  And his explanation made less sense -- he claime'd first of all that Barret had his leg in the air, coming down, and that Holliday slid his arm under it.  This is the exact OPPOSITE of what occured.  Barret was planted like a wall on the ground, blocking the plate, and Holliday's arm was jammed around the plate with such force it pounded the kid's face into the ground, which rendered him incapable of going back to touch the plate.  His delay, also, in meekly making the "safe" call, belies his explanation, since if he thinks Holliday really did slide under the tage, then whether Barret caught the ball or not is no factor whatsoever.  

    The ump's call was completely bogus, but that's the human factor.  Our bigger problem was our legendary closer's non-existent velocity.  His change-up is barely slower than his fastball, and late in the year it got worse, and good hitters don't miss bad cheese.

    The bigger irony is that the Pods were in Milwaukee on Saturday, day before the end of the season, one strike from clinching the wildcard spot, when who should win it for the Brewers with a clutch hit but...TONY GWYNN JR.

    Not that sucks.

    Go Rocks, but I can't see them going all the way.  Too young.  Not quite enough starting pitching.  Strangely, the Diamonbacks are the same way pretty much.  Whoever comes out of the Senior Circuit is going to be a very green squad.

    Peace, my friend.

    Best,
    Milton Bradley

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    A real comment about Milton Bradley (none / 0) (#8)
    by Dadler on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 01:12:39 PM EST
    If the Padres decide to resign him, they will be largely wasting their money if they don't find him a first-rate doctor and therapist who are well-schooled in psychosomatic medicine.  Both Bradely's outward bursts of destructive rage, and his nagging little recurrent injuries, are the products of his sub-cortex, where the subconscious mind resides, Milton's being very tormented.

    He's a great athlete with a terribly out of control subconscious.  And his feelings of inferiority were on full and desperate display in his post-game comments -- why does this happen to me?  Why is it always me?  He kept saying it over and over.  That little abused kid in him feels so inadequate, but the man in him is constantly trying to compensate, and the battle in his mind is a completely out of whack one at this point.  If he isn't going to snap and rage and get suspended, then he'll come up with an injury that defies real explanation in its persistence -- because it's a pain created by a brain that is suffering, not by a broken part at the sight of the pain.  Hell, when he was still on the DL with a "strained oblique", he came out and celbrated a game winning home-run with his teammates, both arms thrown in the air over and over, crowding and jumping around the Khalil Greene, who hit the blast.  Now, if you really have a damaged oblique musle you would not be able to throw your arms up and down like that.  In fact, with his physique, it would just rip the muscle more.  I remember sitting there looking at that celebration on TV and thinking, man, it's so obvious, he's not hurt, he's just suffering mentally and emotionally.

    Thus ends the wacky sports comment of the day.

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    Quasi Fristian! (none / 0) (#9)
    by oculus on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 01:43:59 PM EST
    In my view, Bradley isn't curable.  Re-sign him and resign yourself to some out of control behavior, or let him go.  

    as to your assessment of Trevor's last couple of games, I agree.  Has Tony Sr. sd. anything yet about his son's getting that hit against Trevor?  

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    Wrong blog? (none / 0) (#7)
    by Peter G on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 01:11:06 PM EST
    Hey, Merritt, why don't you take this trash-talk over to that other site you blog for, the one that's all numbers?  Of course, could just be my opinion, since I'm in Philadelphia ....

    Too funny! (none / 0) (#10)
    by robrecht on Sun Oct 07, 2007 at 09:43:05 PM EST
    "I made my arguments and went down in flames. History will prove me right." -- Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush after voting against realignment and a new wild-card system during a Major League Baseball owners meeting in September 1993. Bush was the lone dissenter in a 27-1 vote.

    ... You didn't have to stay up late Monday night to watch Colorado's 9-8 victory over San Diego for confirmation that baseball's wild-card system makes for compelling entertainment.

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    I must admit..... (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 02:20:05 PM EST
    I was against it too at the time, but have come around.

    Though I do miss the old NL East rivalries...Mets vs. Cubs, Mets vs. Cards, Mets vs. Pirates.  Now those are just another series.

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    George Bush Hates the Rockies (none / 0) (#12)
    by john horse on Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 04:13:44 PM EST
    If George Bush had his way, wildcard teams like the Rockies would not be in the playoffs.

    Per crooks and liars:

    "I made my arguments and went down in flames. History will prove me right," - Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush after voting against realignment and a new wild-card system during a Major League Baseball owners meeting in September 1993. Bush was the lone dissenter in a 27-1 vote.

    Bush later perfected the "history will prove me right" excuse after he invaded Iraq.

    If anyone ever needs (none / 0) (#13)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 08:43:09 AM EST
    a great example of the Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS)at work, the above is a perfect example.

    Wow, John.

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