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Tag Archives: baseball
Tim Lincecum wins 2nd Cy Young Award
Timmy does it again. By one of the slimmest margins in the history of the award, Tim Lincecum nabs his second consecutive Cy Young Award.
Major League Baseball’s misleading camera angle
I’ve been curious as to why the default broadcasting angle for a pitcher-batter face-off is offset to left field. Slate has a quick history lesson on camera angles and why most broadcasts show the game at an angle rather than dead-on from centerfield. The video comparisons of breaking pitches and how they cross the plate is staggering.
Shunsuke Watanabe the submarine pitcher
I am completely mesmerized by his setup and delivery. The replays add an extra ‘wow’ when you can see his knuckles nearly scraping the mound.
Lost art of the complete game
Since I’ve been on a baseball rampage since the new season started, I’ve had a few baseball articles I’ve been geeking over. An interesting one is from the SF Chronicle contesting the micromanagement of high pitch counts in baseball.
New York Giants pitcher Joe McGinnity, known as “Iron Man,” didn’t start pitching in the major leagues until he was 28. Five times, he pitched both ends of a doubleheader. He worked an astounding 434 innings in the 1903 season, and over his 10-year career racked up 247 wins and 314 complete games. Get this, though: Wandering through the minors until he was 52, McGinnity collected 204 more wins.
It’s interesting how inflated payrolls and contracts changes the perception of stamina and the spirit of the game against the practicality of protecting your financial investment. Pitch count has been an issue, apparently, for major league umpires as well.
Vintage baseball in San Francisco
The San Francisco Pacifics played against the Fremont Aces in Golden Gate Park last Saturday in an old-school vintage showdown.
Citi Field offers fancy foods
From the man who brought you Shake Shack, Danny Meyer is now expanding to the New York Mets’ new Citi Field stadium. You can find a plethora of foods including a favorite of mine, the shack burger.
Some of the things he wants are pulled-pork sandwiches on brioche buns ($9), steamed corn on the cob with mayonnaise, cotija cheese and a dusting of cayenne ($3.50), “dog bites” (Kosher hot dogs coated in matzo meal with brown mustard for $11), spare ribs seasoned with Kansas City rub ($10) and shrimp rolls — using a Martin’s potato roll — with shoestring potatoes ($14).
I am always disappointed by the food experience at a ballpark but there’s something classic about it that makes it acceptable. A shack stack burger while enjoying a baseball game would make it immensely more enjoyable, though.
Via The New York Times.
Batting stance guy
His mannerisms are a bit over-the-top, but so dead on accurate that it’s scary. Batting stance guy has been getting a lot of press so maybe it’s not as useless of a skill as he originally thought.
1864 old time baseball
One of the best skits ever aired on Conan O’Brien’s Late Night Show. “What is that demonry!?!?!?”
“Pick that shit up you dumb motherfuckers!”