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Post by bob01 on Jun 29, 2019 17:22:24 GMT -5
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Post by TonyG on Jun 30, 2019 7:46:49 GMT -5
Bobo, I can't watch baseball on ESPN, Jessica Mendoza drives me crazy. Shows you how desperate the Mets are, signing her as a baseball advisor.
She has enough mouth for 40 Lips.
Can you imagine what she will be like today in London. I mute her every time she opens that MOTOR MOUTH.
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Post by bob01 on Jun 30, 2019 11:52:14 GMT -5
If I have no other choice I'll stream ESPN and mute it. It isn't as if the rest of them are that much better than she is. In fact, a lot of times it seems that their main function is to give her opportunities to run her fucking mouth.
What did the Muts do?
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Post by TonyG on Jul 1, 2019 7:21:50 GMT -5
If I have no other choice I'll stream ESPN and mute it. It isn't as if the rest of them are that much better than she is. In fact, a lot of times it seems that their main function is to give her opportunities to run her fucking mouth.
What did the Muts do?
They signed her in the front office. www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/sports/baseball/jessica-mendoza-mets.html |
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Post by bob01 on Jul 1, 2019 13:12:38 GMT -5
The Muts suck anyway. If they end up sucking a little more who will notice?
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Post by tolerance on Jul 4, 2019 11:26:55 GMT -5
Am not a fan of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball crew and Mendoza's annoying, but perhaps Mendoza was talking about the contact point of bat hitting ball. Did Bour hit a tough pitch? And barrel it up in such a way that the only way it could be put into play with authority is how it was hit and where it landed?
If there's video, and audio that would help.
And did the NY Post print the entirety of Mendoza's comments on that hit, or took it out of context?
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Post by tolerance on Jul 4, 2019 11:53:22 GMT -5
Bobo, I can't watch baseball on ESPN, Jessica Mendoza drives me crazy. Shows you how desperate the Mets are, signing her as a baseball advisor. She has enough mouth for 40 Lips. Can you imagine what she will be like today in London. I mute her every time she opens that MOTOR MOUTH. Mendoza is an on-air irritant as is the rest of the ESPN Sunday Night Broadcast team, but the Mets aren't desperate and Mendoza wasn't a desperation advisor signing.
The Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen signed a number of advisors, each for specific experiences and evaluative capacities. Mendoza is one of a number. Player evaluation and skill building is complex on many levels and includes capacity to evaluate how a player learns, how a player interacts, communicates, deals with pressure, evolves, etc. I have no problem with her hiring. Poor broadcaster, but otherwise well respected and knowledgeable including holding Master's Degrees in Social Sciences and Education.
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Post by bob01 on Jul 4, 2019 19:02:55 GMT -5
He should sign some ball players.
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Post by TonyG on Jul 5, 2019 17:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by bob01 on Jul 5, 2019 21:45:55 GMT -5
While we're on the subject, Michael Kay annoys the shit out of me, too. No one can do anything without him trotting out some useless stat. "Oh, analytics shows that he hits the ball to the right side 80% of the time." Then, after the guys singles to left because of the stupid fucking shift you can count on Kay to say "analytics show that he hits the ball to the right side 79% of the time," when the guy comes up again.
I miss Phil Rizzuto and Bill White.
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Post by TonyG on Jul 6, 2019 11:04:33 GMT -5
While we're on the subject, Michael Kay annoys the shit out of me, too. No one can do anything without him trotting out some useless stat. "Oh, analytics shows that he hits the ball to the right side 80% of the time." Then, after the guys singles to left because of the stupid fucking shift you can count on Kay to say "analytics show that he hits the ball to the right side 79% of the time," when the guy comes up again.
I miss Phil Rizzuto and Bill White.
I agree Bobo. When Kay, Cone, and O'Neil are in the booth, you would think they are in a bar, having a few beers,and Bull Shiting about everything else, except what's going on in the field of play. But I miss, the days of 1 man in the booth, and the days of Mel Allen, Red Barber and Vince Scully. When you never missed a pitch. Whitey is on the mound he picks up the rosin bag. Steps on the Rubber. He looks into Yogi for the sign. He winds, he fires, Strike 1 right over the outside corner of the plate. Yogi fires the ball back to Whitey.etc., etc. I remember the Yankees sponsors were Ballantine beer and white owl cigars. Mel would yell, That Ball is going, going, Gone, a Ballantine Blast. Or that ball,is foul, but the length of a white owl. Not, that ball left with an exit velocity, Of 115 miles. Who gives a shit, it would be the same if it went over the fence at 60 miles. Its still a HR. |
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Post by bob01 on Jul 7, 2019 12:22:19 GMT -5
All those guys you mention got their start in radio where description mattered and if the announcer wasn't talking all you had was dead air. I remember Mel and Red quite fondly along with Russ Hodges. But I was a Giant fan growing up so I had no use for Scully. In later years, he sounded like a doddering old man to me. I mean, who cares if Carl Furillo stubbed his toe in 1954?
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Post by TonyG on Jul 7, 2019 12:38:44 GMT -5
Oh yes Russ was great also.,
Yes the days of the Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field, and Yankee Stadium. Willie,,Mickey and the Duke.
I am not sure if I told you this Bobo, but she I was a kid playing baseball in the YMCA NYC baseball league, zI was lucky to be chosen with 2 of my friends and teammates, to play in Ebbets FIeld in Happy Felton's Knothole gang. (Do you remember that?)
That day they had Pitchers, Catchers and 3rd baseman, in a Throwing, Hitting, and batting contest. I played 3rd base.
And the Dodgers Great Carl Erskine, Pitched to me. At the time it was a big deal and fun. But I didn't think much about it like I do today. I was just a 14 or 15 yr old kid.
Now when I thing about it, I realize, I was playing 3rd base in Ebetts Field and standing in the same spot Jackie Robinson will be standing later when the Dodger Game Starts.
Those where the days my friend.
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Post by bob01 on Jul 8, 2019 16:28:10 GMT -5
I do vaguely remember the Knothole Gang.
We're getting old, Tony.
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Post by TonyG on Jul 8, 2019 16:33:00 GMT -5
I do vaguely remember the Knothole Gang.
We're getting old, Tony.
Yes Bobo, but I think we grew up in a great era. Time just doesn't stand still. |
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