WasWatching.com Water Cooler Talk 5/21/09
Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 21st, 2009 · Comments (24)
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Peavy to White Sox seems imminent. I wonder how he’ll do in the hitter-friendly ballpark in Chicago and in the AL.
I’m not impressed with Peavy in all the times I’ve seen him, granted its few and far between, but I feel like they woulda been better off keeping Javy at that point…I guess we’ll see
Steve, I could not find contact info, so I will just post it here. I am having a lot of trouble posting comments- I can post, but from the time I click submit, it takes anywhere from 45 seconds to 2 and a half minutes for the comment to actually submit. Is this problem on my end? have you heard of this before? This has been happening for about a month now, at least.
@ yagottagotomo1:
FWIW, commenting works fine for me
First off, congrats to my Yankee friends on the hot streak. Its certainly cause for concern on the other side when you play well AND luck has been on your side, too (not being derogatory, just observing that a streak like three walk-offs in a row has to involve a measure of luck). Got a question for you guys:
How disconcerting is it to realize that at the current homer pace, home runs hit would exceed the total number of home runs hit all of last year at Yankee Stadium II on July 18th? And that’s the date I read a day or two ago, before the latest “bombs” went out. Considering that hitters usually get hotter with the weather, and balls fly further in warmer weather, I can’t see how you avoid an increase in the homer rate going forward.
Are you confident enough in the pitching to believe the team will be successful in this home environment?
OnceIWasAYankeeFan wrote:
Two points. Firstly, the dimensions are fine in left and center, and the ball is leaving there at a normal pace. The problem is in right field, where the wall in some places is 9 feet shorter. It seems like it should not make a difference, but a look at hittracker.com will show that anywhere from 12 to 15 of the home runs hit to right may not have been out in the old park. They need to move the wall pack, even if it costs them two rows of seats.
The second point is, both teams have to play by those conditions. So why would I think it would hurt the Yankees more than the opposition?
Well for one thing, weak relievers will blow up games easier if they prove succeptible to the long ball at home.
It all comes back to pitching with these conditions. You’ll probably pound the weak rotations, but when you face the good pitching staffs, will you get the pitching to keep the ball in the yard if the other team is doing the same thing?
So many parks have been built with offense in mind in the last generation. How many have hosted a World Champion? Obviously the Phils last year, but is there anyone else? Pitching to large dimensions with good defense has been a better path to winning than playing in a bandbox. That’s why I think the Marlins are being smart, designing a new stadium with pitching in mind, not offense. And you might have noticed, the Marlins won a couple of championships without the prediliction for bombs at their stadium.
OnceIWasAYankeeFan wrote:
I think they need one more reliever to step up. Outside of that, yes, I do believe that the Yankees have good enough pitching to match-up.
Corey wrote:
I agree with Corey here.. Last year I did a look up on Peavy’s numbers against the AL.. Surprisingly, he has only one pitched well against the KC Royal.. As far as the mighty beast division the AL EAST.. Well, his only win came against the Jays at home.. He has never beaten the Yankees, Red Sox nor Baltimore… he never pitched against the Rays.. So, until his stats dictate other.. I will say he is more of a product of the WEAK NL West than a dominating pitcher like most think…
OnceIWasAYankeeFan wrote:
i’m not sure what ur point is, the World Champion in 4 out of the last 5 years has played in a hitters park…
OnceIWasAYankeeFan wrote:
Meanwhile, the Tigers haven’t been as successful…
steven – please write a post everyday about swisher’s numbers. every time you do, he goes downtown that night! on april 28th you wrote this post http://waswatching.com/2009/04/28/the-swisher-time-bomb-is-ready-to-blow/ and swisher went 2 for 3 with a jack (and 2 for 5 with 2 jacks the next night). then yesterday’s post followed by last night’s results. it should be a requirement of waswatching.com to post about swisher with negative overtones reminding us of your stand and how you’ve warned us everyday!
Raf wrote:
Nor have the Mariners, Giants or Padres, all of whom play in pitcher’s parks.
red sox have won 2 in last 5 years playing in a little league field. you can win in any type of park, and i don’t think any is better or worse for winning than another. could be wrong on that.
yagottagotomo1 wrote:
News to me. Anyone else having this issue?
Steve Lombardi wrote:
I haven’t had a problem, I’ve posted in IE, Firefox & Opera with no problem
I’m using Safari. I does not happen every time- it comes and goes. It is not my internet connection, which works just fine during those times, so I’m not sure what it might be.
it certainly could be safari…JavaScript does not have an industry standard like programming languages do, so each browser interprets things differently, depending on the company who wrote it. That’s why when your a web developer, you have to test your code on every browser (and many times, multiple versions of each browser) in order to get things right…this is why I became a programmer and not a web developer
does anyone else who uses Safari experience any problems?
h/t to LoHud, this is tonight’s lineup for the game I’m going to:
Derek Jeter SS
Robinson Cano 2B
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui DH
Nick Swisher RF
Melky Cabrera LF
Francisco Cervelli C
Brett Gardner CF
UGH! Melky AND Gardner in the same lineup? That’s what RLYW used to call “house-money” lineup. I gotta say, for the $150 I paid for tonight’s game, I’d rather not see this horrid 7-8-9…
Melky is far from horrid. He has a better OPS than Cano, Matsui, and Jeter. Right now, he is playing great. Let’s hope it lasts.
That “house-money” lineup broke it open early, and 9 is….just fine.
Just for Steve’s reference: Naughty Number Nine
Oh, got a reasonably not-that-expensive ticket for tomorrow’s 1st game of the Phillies’ series. Hope to have to use all my fingers to add up the streak by the end of it.