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- 11/07/09
| Name: | Holden O. |
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| Location: | Chicago |
| Member since: | February 11, 2002 |
| Last visit: | November 06, 2009 |
holden has posted 36 links and 1311 comments to SportsFilter and 8 links and 224 comments to the Locker Room.
US Striker Charlie Davies Injured, Woman Killed in Car Accident: Charlie Davies, a striker for the U.S. Men's soccer team, was injured at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday in a DC-area car accident in which one woman was killed and another person was injured. Davies has undergone surgery for "non-life threatening" injuries, according to the Washington Post. Ashley J. Roberta, 22, died at the scene.
posted by holden to soccer at 05:43 PM on October 13 - 5 comments
Steven Wells: a few memories of a unique and acerbic voice: Steven Wells, the Guardian columnist whose biting British-observer-of-U.S.-sports-culture pieces provided fodder for some lively SportsFilter threads (see, for example, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) and has to be the most-linked author in SportsFilter history, passed away on Tuesday after a battle with cancer (the treatment of which is chronicled here).
posted by holden to other at 03:21 PM on June 25 - 9 comments
Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow: The San Francisco Giants experiment with dynamic, demand-based pricing.
posted by holden to baseball at 01:25 PM on May 18 - 4 comments
The end of the line for America's most hated soccer commentator?: No more Champions League color commentary or "analysis" from the man referred to affectionately by some as "the biggest tit on the air."
posted by holden to soccer at 02:02 PM on April 15 - 8 comments
Working for Lenny Dykstra: An inside look at working for Nails -- Wild and wacky antics! Racism and homophobia! Shady business practices! Borderline lunacy!
Most meetings are simply extended hang-out sessions, with Lenny cracking up at his own jokes or asking us to watch the Real Sports segment over and over, especially the moment where Lenny points to his seat on his private plane and says, “This is where the Big Man sits.” He also seems to relish letting go a long, leisurely fart for the amusement of his employees or showing off his silk tie and saying, “You see this tie? I paid $500 for it” as he rubs it on his crotch and laughs at our embarrassed expressions.
posted by holden to baseball at 05:53 PM on March 18 - 7 comments
If Jeter (who is not one to GIDP in the 9th inning of a playoff game) had simply grounded out, there would have been a much bigger threat.
Jeter ranked 15th in the AL this year in GDP this year, so it should not be surprising that he grounded into a double play there -- here is DP-prone. And he is just as likely to ground into a DP in the 9th inning of a playoff game as he is to ground into a double play in the third inning of the 20th game of the season.
posted by holden at 08:11 AM on November 04
owlhouse -- I am not familiar with the way odds are described on horses in Australia. What does it mean that a horse is at $10 (or some other amount)? Anyone else who knows can chime in as well.
posted by holden at 07:48 AM on November 04
Especially impressive that 4 of the 5 homers have come off of lefties, considering that many left-handed hitters struggle against lefty pitching (I'm looking at you, Ryan Howard). Of course, Utley has actually performed better against lefties in his career, so it should not be too surprising to anyone who has been paying attention.
posted by holden at 02:08 PM on November 03
Girardi got away with Sabathia on short rest where he's always sucked. . .
Sabathia's regular season line with 3 days rest:
3-1 in 4 GS, 1.01 ERA, 0.825 WHIP, 26K/6BB in 26.2 IP, .413 OPS against.
So no, not always sucking. In fact, quite the opposite.
In the postseason (can't find an aggregated line and too lazy to do the math), he did poorly last year with Milwaukee against the Phillies in Game 2 of the NLDS (he had pitched the last day of the regular season) but did not too bad against the Angels in Game 4 of the ALCS this year.
posted by holden at 06:04 PM on November 02
Looks like Manuel made the mistake of taking a results-oriented view of Lidge's post-season performance to date and ignoring the much larger body of work Lidge built up over the season. Too bad, as I (as a neutral) was hoping for a 7 game series. Pretty good chance of it at least getting back to New York with Lee pitching tonight, though.
posted by holden at 10:21 AM on November 02
I heard on Deadspin that huddle is doing Telemanjaro.
posted by holden at 01:22 PM on October 30
Huddle is a straight prick whose only goal in life seems to be to get up the first post of the day.
posted by holden at 12:49 PM on October 30
How much has your day been ruined if you are a Cleveland Indians fan and get to watch your 2 former Cy Young winners start the World Series tonight. Possibly worse to be a Mets fan. As Jon Stewart put it:
I'm a Mets fan so for me last night was like coming home and catching your wife f****** the Yankees and the Phillies.
posted by holden at 05:35 PM on October 28
Yankees in 7
Derek Jeter
Under
3:35
posted by holden at 10:03 PM on October 27
So he is a money grubbing bastard after all, holden.
Typical me-first athlete. It's not like the university has made any money off him, and they gave him a scholarship to boot. Selfish, selfish, selfish.
posted by holden at 03:30 PM on October 27
It's too bad. I applaud the decision to come back for his senior year.
Actually, he came back for his junior year. He was a draft-eligible sophomore last year, on account of being redshirted as a freshman, but chose to come back for his junior year. So he actually has one more year of eligibility left and is skipping out on that.
posted by holden at 02:33 PM on October 27
Look what I started and then did not have the decency to stick around and debate. But at least now we know what incantations to chant to summon grum.
posted by holden at 11:17 AM on October 27
Based on overall career batting stats, McGwire is a huge step down from Hal McRae.
If by "career batting stats," you mean batting average, then yes, you are correct.
posted by holden at 02:45 PM on October 26
While it is not remotely close to the record of futility that Acta had with the Nationals, Terry Francona's record with the Phillies was pretty poor (285-363 for a .440 winning percentage) and he has turned out to be not-so-bad with the Red Sox. Perhaps Acta can have similar success with a halfway decent front office (although Boston has both an outstanding front office and a load of cash, the latter of which Cleveland is missing). I understand Acta is well-respected in baseball circles (particularly in developing young players and in being a good tactician) and, let's face it, he had no chance with Washington.
posted by holden at 12:44 PM on October 26
Phillies Force Game 6 with 8-6 Squeaker
Cliff Lee has never been started on three days' rest in his entire career. He has thrown 265 innings this year, which is only surpassed by four other pitchers this entire decade. Cole Hamels is a much stronger choice for the final game.
Good point. Not to mention the fact that if Lee pitched Game 7, he would be doing so on 2 days rest. Based on normal pitcher routines, Thursday (the day of Game 7) would be Lee's "throw day," so he could get some work. But to throw him out there expecting anything more than a couple innings is a highly suspect approach.
On edit -- the point about Gibson and Koufax is well-taken, but pitchers back then regularly pitched complete games, pitched in 4-man rotations, etc. In other words, their bodies were used to more stress. Today's pitchers just are not suited to that. To suggest that this is purely a mind-over-matter, mental type of thing ignores the fact that there are physical limitations based on players' routines, repetitions, etc. Gibson and Koufax each had multiple years of over 300 innings pitched and 20+ complete games. Today's pitchers don't even come close.