Game 163: Padres v Rockies

I'm basically down with your prediction.

Wouldn't be too surprised if Peavy gets banged up early.

Is Peavy pitching on short rest?

full rest

extra playoff round - this is awesome

It goes in the books as regular season tho -- ie, if Tulo wins it with a HR, he can sccop up some ROY votes.

the YES dudes (don't start...) were going on about Hoffmang's fortitude never having saved 'A Big One' specifically citing the Brosius incident in '98. Can we confirm/deny any other examples of this?

like rockies, have a worthy mvp and (t)roy, but peavy = goodnight.

You may be misunderestimating them.

(of course I favor Braun for ROY b/c he is our great heeb hope)

i went to a rockies game once - there are trees in in the bullpen

and a rockpile beyond the fence

No ESPN2 or Extra Innings, I'm guessing. Anyone know any different?

On EI Game Mix, SD/COL/7:37 PM is listed at the bottom, but there is no listing for the game on any of the MLB channels.

No ESPN2

This is the TBS baptism.

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is it on TBS? the FX? ABC Family? anything?

TBS. Pregame starts at 7:00.

Orsillo/Simpson

hi dere, peavey on full rest in critical moment
wake up people

not that i wouldnt rather see the rockies in it

peavy > fogg

it's ok to say that i heart adrian gonzalez, yes?!?

Rockies take the WC.

Peavy is a .500 pitcher at Coors and a .500 pitcher against the Rockies. No Cameron and Bradley = bad OF defense in a pitcher's park and poor offense.

Anything Can Happen Day

save your groundless optimism for the mets thread...

Don't accuse me of optimism w/out proof.

i'm rooting for the rockies if only because when i worked for mlb i sat through many, many pointless and bad rockies games. nice to see them be good for a change.

the rockies are the only NL team left that i can root for. I hope they run the table!

I'm pulling for the Rockies. You have to love that Tony Gwynn Jr. helped to put the Padres into this situation.

It is too bad the Mets choked it yesterday so we couldn't get the amazing three day round robin.

it's on by the way.

i spy a cy young contender in v. early trouble...

ooooh pevey isnt looking too sharp here

Nice jacket, Sager.

YEEEEAAAAH BABY #1 WOOOOOOOOO !!!! is one of my least favorite type of things

i'm stoked for the rockies.

We're gonna get this Mellencamp shit again, thousands of times over.

i TOLD y'all that i heart adrian gonzalez!

completely unsurprising ... Fogg is garbage

Holliday's throw (across his body) to second was a laser.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

sigh young, amirite...balls gettin clocked 414 ft to dead center.

6 IP, 9 H (2 of each XBH), 3 BB.

also worth mentioning that cameron might well catch both of those triples.

not to dwell, but the mets couldve used keeping heath bell

Is Hoffman unavailable tonight?

And Mo-Berg pulls out his specialty: the walk.

good lord, WTF is jorge julio doing anywhere NEAR a pitching mound -- especially in a game like this?!?

haha .. holy shit can you say "controversy"

bahahaha
just road rash and he never touched the plate

woopsie

omg

lol

the ump just wanted to go home

"Well it looks like a touched plate in the box scores tomorrow"

that TBS dude needs a new wardrobe -- the lindsay nelson isn't working for him.

kernkraft 400 has been on loop for like the last ten minutes, hasn't it?

lindsay nelson LOOK

"can we end this? i want to go celebrate" and then the guy keeps asking me questions about Holliday

And that's for breaking Robbie Thompson's face, Mr. Hoffman.

HAR HAR HAR

That was excruciating. :(

wow, totally missed the plate.

good lord, WTF is jorge julio doing anywhere NEAR a pitching mound -- especially in a game like this?!?

That's what I wanted to know. Hurdle dodged one there. (and now I have to watch Kaz Matsui be good for another effing week or two)

Why didn't Barrett go ballistic? I guess he didn't know the plate was missed.

FUCK HUMAN NATURE, HAVE AN UMPIRE SITTING AT A MONITOR.

Still, I like to see Hoffman blow up.

Also hahaha at Jimmy Rollins being the likely MVP winner for exactly one day. (Holliday, of course, still didn't have the year Wright, Hanley, Pujols or Utley had when you normalize his Hitter's Paradise numbers.) It's pathetic how the media now wants to decide it on who had the best last day of the season.

"I've never, ever second-guessed Tim McClelland at home plate," Barrett said. "And when he told me he was safe, there was no argument in my mind."

Ditto Padres manager, Bud Black: "I couldn't tell. It was just Holliday and Barrett. It looked to me as though he did [touch it]."

If Barrett catches the ball (a skill that has eluded him for years) are they still playing?

I don't think Jimmy Rollins' chances are ruined, I think he just might deserve it after all. But I now think Tulowitzki is a better choice than Braun for ROY. You understand how it makes me feel to say that, right?

that's just overreacting to one game (or the last 15), I still say. Tulo may be the better all-around player going fwd (unless Braun moves to OF next year and hits like A-Rod every year) but Braun's contribution was greater this year.

Rockies win late after Peavy exits.

I didn't think THAT late!

Mmmmmaybe...but Braun also cost the Brewers some important games by not being able to get to stuff that anyone else could have gotten to. Also, shortstops are not really expected to hit and field, and 3Bs are. Don't get me wrong, I'd be thrilled if RB got it, he is a monster at the plate. I'm just not as sure now as I once was.

Joe Sheehan last night:

"This game is really NL baseball in a nutshell: entertaining, competitive, and really not very good."

Oh, that Joe Sheehan is so naughty! But that comment is pretty much him in a nutshell -- lots of know-it-all snark, very little substance, or heart.

What I'm saying is, he's just not very clutch; a season summary was on the line, and he failed to deliver.

If you want heart, read Buster Olney.

Morbs, a diseased spleen is not a heart.

FUCK HUMAN NATURE, HAVE AN UMPIRE SITTING AT A MONITOR.

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, October 2, 2007 9:26 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i am shocked Morbs is a replay advocate. i mean, maybe for foul balls, but the vagaries of umps calls is part of what keeps the game interesting.

September's Jose Reyes was "interesting" too, I'd rather have competence.

Joe Sheehan's idioticity is exactly why I hope the NL wins every world series ever.

SS, I think the Rockies might be better than the Yankess -- can you otherwise deny the other 3 NL teams are inferior to all the AL teams? No one is saying that has anything to do with the postseason outcome.

^all the AL playoff teams^

Are the Diamondbacks really worse than the Angels, especially with the injury situation?

(oh boy I can tell I'm gonna get clowned for that response)

Morbs, I think you're reading too much into my comment.

Basically my sentiment can be boiled down to the AL playoff teams spending over half of one billion dollars in salary, more than $200k more than the NL playoff teams.

Whatever Sheehan's criteria for "not very good" is, I just hope his precious Red Sox and their "good guy" spendaholism get a hearty trolloping by a "not very good" team.

I haven't noticed Sheehan treating the Red Sox preciously. He also said yesterday when asked to pick next year's NL East, "I couldn't pick this year's with a week to go."

(also, don't besmirch Lindsey Nelson by comparing the clown-striped TBS on-field guy with the hideous hairpiece to him)

I just hope his precious Red Sox and their "good guy" spendaholism get a hearty trolloping by a "not very good" team.

We all know that the best team doesn't necessarily win the WS. Sheehan and virtually everyone else on BP has said that many times. The real question is this: when did Steve Shasta get such a boner for the NL? Weren't you all over the "AL is far better than the NL" stuff?

The AL spends way more than the NL, I think that's my point.

This is not really the thread for it, but in Jim Baker talked about that in his BP chat last week. He argued that the Yankees and Red Sox are rich *and* smart, which makes it difficult for other teams to compete by being smarter than the rich teams (which is normally a possibility). Plus, the recent spending habits of the Mets, Cards, and even the Rockies weakens your point about the NL being worse because they spend less.

Jeff (NYC): Rob, I'm sure everyone's going to ask some version of this question so I'll get it over with quick. To instant replay or not to instant replay?

Rob Neyer: (12:06 PM ET ) Yes, and it will happen someday. Though I'm not sure if last night is a particularly good argument for it, as the replays were inconclusive on both questionable calls.

Did that Colorado "HR" really hit something besides the yellow line?

why the fuck do they make a fence that is even capable of doing something like that

If they could only come up with invisible fencing that extends a few inches foul of each foul pole...

I had not seen this Sheehan column when I made my 'competence' complaint:

Incompetent umpiring isn’t “the human element,” it’s just incompetence. As fans, we commit our time, energy, and money to watching baseball players decide games, and we’re cheated when we’re left with a sense that the game was decided by anyone else. The Rockies and Padres deserved better last night, and as happy as the 50,000 or so in attendance were last night with the end result, they deserved better, too. Baseball deserves better, and until it demands just that by starting over with its crew of umpires, we’re going to see the kinds of controversies that have cropped up with increasing frequency over the past few months.

Genetically-engineered superumps within three months or I'm boycotting baseball forever.

just play it with robots.

no, UMP it with robots!

The gripe is with INCOMPETENT UMPIRING, no one's proposing taking them all off the field. (For one thing, who'd get Milton Bradley to hurt himself?)

so his solution is to replace all the umps with scabs?

o... k

robo-scabs

Either do it all the way, including computerized strike zones, or don't do it at all.

After his error in the top of the 13th, I was imagining headlines like The Lonesome Death of Jamey Carroll.