At the New York Times, Pat Borzi goes into great detail on the Miller Park sausage race.
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At Amazin’ Avenue, an embarrassing GIFs of Shane Victorino compilation.
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Albert Pujols still going
Amid the joyous news that we will not have to stomach Larry Jones in the playoffs, we may have missed the important subtext that we will indeed get to watch Albert Pujols.
Pujols’ streak of batting .300 with 30 home runs and 100 RBI ended this year when he hit .299 and drove in 99 runs. Of course, the .300-30-100 thing is really just a statistical novelty, and falling an RBI single short of that mark doesn’t mean Pujols is much less awesome.
After a rough start to the season, Pujols finished with a 150 OPS+ — not quite up to his career standard of 170 but still good for eighth best in the league. From June 1 through the end of the regular season, Pujols posted a .997 OPS. He has a 1.009 OPS in the postseason because he’s Albert Pujols.
The Cardinals’ NLDS matchup with the Phillies provides the stage for a possible playoff rematch between Pujols and Brad Lidge. For some inexplicable reason I can’t find video of Pujols’ 2005 NLCS home run off Lidge, which should be like the main thing on the Internet.
Baseball Show with Mike Nickeas
I told Mike Nickeas about this article on Baseball Prospectus, then we talked about it.
One of the most interesting parts of the conversation actually came after we stopped filming. Jay, one of our video guys, asked Nickeas why an umpire wouldn’t just look at the ball (not the catcher’s movements). Nickeas said the ball’s often coming so fast that if you blink you miss the spot where it crossed the plate, so lots of movement from the catcher would be enough to sway the umpire’s judgment.
He also noted that umpires talk amongst themselves during games, so catchers need be careful about trying to pull balls back in the strike zone. If they’re too obvious with it, the second-base umpire will tell the home-plate guy and the catcher might lose some of the borderline calls. Plus, there’s a good chance said second-base umpire will be behind the plate later that series.
Baseball Show with Bobby O
Didn’t post this yesterday due to the computer issues. But good rant from Bob:
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I kind of hope that happens. I like watching Pujols enough that I’d gladly suffer through him destroying Mets pitching 18 times a year to get to see him more often, and to see him destroying Phillies pitching 18 times a year. A lineup with Pujols, Hanley Ramirez, Mike Stanton and Logan Morrison would be pretty nuts. Plus maybe the Marlins would move Gaby Sanchez to third to help maintain their tradition of awesome hitting and poor defense.
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