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  • Scottdau
    Banned
    • Feb 2003
    • 32580

    #676
    Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

    The ump does not have all the camera views we have. He figure he touched it.

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    • bkrich83
      Has Been
      • Jul 2002
      • 71582

      #677
      Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

      Originally posted by NYJets
      True, but there were 4 straight scoreless innings before that. It's not impossible. He's one of the greatest closers of all time, he should be able to give them a chance.
      It happens. His change doesn't move there like it does at a normal altitude, the gaps in that park are ridiculously big, and things snowball there.

      If Jake Peavy can give up 10 hits and 6 runs there, with the way he's pitched this year, one getting away from Hoffman isn't that surprising.

      Rivera is imo, the greatest closer ever. But to say he's never blown a game like that in a big game isn't really fair. He's never pitched a big game in Coors, where things are not the same as they are everywhere else. Hell with those gaps a flare or dying quail can turn in to a double or triple.
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      • BatsareBugs
        LVP
        • Feb 2003
        • 12553

        #678
        Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

        Originally posted by SPTO
        Hoffman is the least of the team's worries as you said so well here. Who's the hitting coach for the Padres? Whatever he's doing is clearly not working. I've never seen a team that's been in playoff contention blow so many opportunities with men on base.
        It's the personnel on offense more so than the hitting coach. I mean, look at the 2007 Padres offense

        Brian Giles
        Mike Cameron
        Adrian Gonzalez
        Khalil Greene
        Kevin Kouzmanoff
        Josh Bard
        Everyone else???

        The only players capable of hitting close to .300 are Giles, Gonzalez, and Bard. We'll see with Kouzmanoff, but when Cameron and Greene, .250 hitters with power but strike out a lot, are in the middle of the lineup, you are going to get on base, but not drive in a lot of runs.

        Greene would be perfect as the #6 hitter and Cameron would be more tolerable lower in the order. The only hitters I feel comfortable with runners on were Bard, Kouzmanoff (after June), and Gonzalez...

        Like the past several seasons, we need someone to hit either #3 or #4 (we did well with Bradley there when he wasn't injured), then have Gonzalez and Kouzmanoff hit in either the 3 spot or the 5 spot.

        We also need a #2 hitter that can at least hit .300... or even better pull off a Loretta-like 2004 season.

        But I don't see it happening because the Padres are too cheap to pay for quality.

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        • BatsareBugs
          LVP
          • Feb 2003
          • 12553

          #679
          Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

          Originally posted by Kelverin
          You must be new. San Diego has the worst sports teams in the Nation. Look it up.
          Or he could just see my sig.

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          • bkrich83
            Has Been
            • Jul 2002
            • 71582

            #680
            Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

            Padres window has closed. Too many older players past their prime, and the Rockies, Dodgers and DBacks all have a significantly deeper and more talented group of young players.

            Welcome to another decade of the cellar SD fans.
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            • poster
              All Star
              • Nov 2003
              • 7506

              #681
              Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

              What a game. The playoffs are going to be crazy.

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              • TheMatrix31
                RF
                • Jul 2002
                • 52920

                #682
                Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                Originally posted by NYJets
                I don't think he touched the plate, but if they had replay, and you needed indisputable evidence to overturn a call, I don't think it would have been overturned.
                Am I the only one who conclusively saw that he DIDNT come anywhere near the plate?

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                • SPTO
                  binging
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 68046

                  #683
                  Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                  Originally posted by bkrich83
                  Padres window has closed. Too many older players past their prime, and the Rockies, Dodgers and DBacks all have a significantly deeper and more talented group of young players.

                  Welcome to another decade of the cellar SD fans.
                  It's a good thing San Diego is heaven on earth or these losing seasons combined with choking when teams are good would kill anyone in the northeast.
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                  • Brandon13
                    All Star
                    • Oct 2005
                    • 8915

                    #684
                    Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                    Originally posted by TheMatrix31
                    Am I the only one who conclusively saw that he DIDNT come anywhere near the plate?
                    No, you aren't. He didn't touch the plate.

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                    • mgoblue
                      Go Wings!
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 25477

                      #685
                      Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                      Originally posted by SPTO
                      It's a good thing San Diego is heaven on earth or these losing seasons combined with choking when teams are good would kill anyone in the northeast.
                      SPTO, are you talking about Detroit Lion fans?

                      though at least there are other teams that don't always suck...eternal heartbreak would blow.
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                      • BatsareBugs
                        LVP
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 12553

                        #686
                        Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                        Originally posted by bkrich83
                        Padres window has closed. Too many older players past their prime, and the Rockies, Dodgers and DBacks all have a significantly deeper and more talented group of young players.

                        Welcome to another decade of the cellar SD fans.
                        2008 will be ugly, because they have no choice but to go with a patchwork outfield and second base, but 2009 should get them back in when Antonelli, Huffman, Headley (if he's not traded), LeBlanc, and Inman are ready.

                        IMO we're in better shape than the Dodgers... but the cellar will belong to the Giants... their farm system is worst than ours. They have potential in pitching, but their offense right is worse and will have to rely on patchwork again this year.

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                        • Kelverin
                          MVP
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 1479

                          #687
                          Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                          Originally posted by bkrich83
                          Padres window has closed. Too many older players past their prime, and the Rockies, Dodgers and DBacks all have a significantly deeper and more talented group of young players.

                          Welcome to another decade of the cellar SD fans.
                          Have to disagree. With our pitching, (if it stays intact) we will continue to be a force in the west. Now if only the owner would spend some of that cash on a bat or two........
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                          • SPTO
                            binging
                            • Feb 2003
                            • 68046

                            #688
                            Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                            Originally posted by mgoblue
                            SPTO, are you talking about Detroit Lion fans?

                            though at least there are other teams that don't always suck...eternal heartbreak would blow.
                            Lions, Leafs, Browns, Cavaliers and Indians fans.
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                            "Baseball is the most important thing that doesn't matter at all" - Robert B. Parker

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                            • BatsareBugs
                              LVP
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 12553

                              #689
                              Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                              Originally posted by Kelverin
                              Have to disagree. With our pitching, (if it stays intact) we will continue to be a force in the west. Now if only the owner would spend some of that cash on a bat or two........
                              And the chorus shouts "Not happening!"

                              To be objective, with their track history, Peavy is as good as gone after 2009 (His option year I think), Young needs to get his **** together, Maddux is old, we have no young starters ready and the market is full of mediocre pitching. Maybe we trade Headley for a young starting pitcher to a team that needs a third base prospect or for a bat in a package deal.

                              If the Rockies improve that pitching, they easily win 90 games next year. Arizona will be scary too. The Dodgers... not so much. Neither will the Giants.

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                              • yvesdereuter
                                Banned
                                • Jun 2007
                                • 1688

                                #690
                                Re: One Game Playoff: Padres at Rockies

                                Originally posted by TheMatrix31
                                Am I the only one who conclusively saw that he DIDNT come anywhere near the plate?
                                No one saw anything conclusively. The ground view has poor depth perception so its hard to know where his foot was when it gave way...because it did give way. You cant see if he touched it nor can you see that he didnt.

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