Running Baseball Thread XIV: AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!

Didn't it always used to be the hill?

 

I agree, and I'm a Yankees fan. Didn't want Damon either.

 

IIRC, I'm pretty sure it used to be "the bump" (although it's back en vogue now, even though it doesn't make sense anymore.) It came from back in the Dead Ball Era when pitcher's mounds weren't as, ahh, well-developed as they are today. Some of the shitty mounds really were just a bump of dirt, with a rubber "slab" implanted in the middle.

"The hill" is a more recent slang term.

 

It still is unless you're a fuckwit talking TV hairdo who's trying to be hip.

I blame Chip Caray for this. He's the first guy I heard use the term. Maybe Joe Carter taught it to him.

 

How did I keep Abreu out of the Yankee OF? What was I thinking?

I do not see Andruw coming to the Yanks. Not with the way Melky played this year. Re-sign Melky.

 

They don't have to "re-sign" Melky. He can't go anyware unless they release him. Hasn't even reached arbitration yet.

 

OK, thanks.

I just saw that he inked a one-year deal this year. Didn't think about releasing him.

 

Sorry, Bubbler:

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071003&content_id=2247917&vkey=news_mil&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil

 

I had already resigned myself to that fate.

What the Brewers (and Mets in Randolph's case) are doing is inviting angst, fear and loathing upon their organization. Faith has been lost in Yost, so the minute something goes wrong, the heat is on.

If a manager doesn't have built-in capital within an organization, and Yost has little despite the Brewers' improvement since he arrived, why not just cut ties and prevent the rancor from happening and the rot from taking hold? The Brewers are inviting the kind of dissension that can knock a young team off-kilter.

 

Personally I think this is a tremendous move on the Brewers' part.

 

Go get fucked with Will Ohman's dick.

 

God I can't wait for the Diamondbacks to stomp a mudhole in the Cubs' postseason. Enjoy stroking your billy goat or whatever it is you Cubs fans do.