Well, you all know Jeff, Matthew and I all think that fielding is the most underrated aspect of baseball today. But why take our word for it? Let's talk about the importance of good glovework with a friend of mine.
This is Stephen Strasburg. He's pretty awesome, I hear.
Do people really call you that?
I'll be sure to refer to you as such in the future. So, you're a pretty damn good pitcher. How important do you think fielding is when you're on the hill?
Really? Have you never appreciated anything one of your defenders has done?
Don't you think guys who get less strikeouts might find a good defence behind them useful? Carlos Silva, for example, struck out 7.4% of the batters he faced in 2007.
No. Seven-point-four.
Uh-oh. What's wrong?
OK.
It's a strikeout bonanza!
Talking about the Mariners pitching staff. Hey, since you don't seem to mind what your fielders do behind you, how about coming to Seattle? You'd look awesome in teal! And I think we have #37 free too.
Stephen? Still there? I was asking if you wanted to play for the Mariners.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Stephen 'Awesome' Strasburg doesn't care about his defence.
But I think he probably would if his K% ever dropped below like 80.
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SAS
Great nickname.
Llewdor - May 22, 2008
Super. Army. Soldiers.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - May 22, 2008
STEPHEN A. SMITH
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
Side Angle Side?
thats geometry and stuff.
Lovato - May 22, 2008
That was absolutely awesome!!!
laxtonto - May 22, 2008
More interviews!
Wilder. - May 22, 2008
I approve
Haha very funny
dbroncos31 - May 22, 2008
Does this have something to do with
the Tino/Bret Boone debate?
JI - May 22, 2008
*Tino/Bret Boone/Orlando Hudson debate
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - May 22, 2008
O-Dog for the HoF!
Llewdor - May 22, 2008
...before Tino anyway
JI - May 22, 2008
No I just wanted to post a fake interview
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Will a fake debate between Boone and Tino be next?
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - May 22, 2008
No
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
It's going to suck when we don't get SAS in next year's draft.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
It's going to suck when we don't get SARS in next year's draft.
Faux - May 22, 2008
It's going to suck when we DO get SARS in next year's draft.
Llewdor - May 22, 2008
Meh.
This team has already given me Lupus, Vasculitis, Huntington’s, Grave’s, Hashimoto’s, AIDS, Sarcoidosis, and some yet-to-be identified auto-immune disorder.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
damn, you have multiple AMDs?
get a marrow transplant son.
Matthew - May 22, 2008
He has sloppy lungs
won’t qualify.
JI - May 22, 2008
It's likely terminal.
Kick Washburn in the nuts for me after I die, would you?
BrianL - May 22, 2008
Do we have to wait that long?
Thingray - May 22, 2008
We can put Robert in a wig and use him as a Trojan-16-year-old
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
This is where Coach becomes useful.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Robert is more capable of looking like a woman.
JI - May 22, 2008
Coach has actually been seen in public?
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - May 22, 2008
He met Red.
There is picture evidence of at least that appearance.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
How do you not know about this?
JI - May 22, 2008
and there was the whole Felix myspace fiasco...
JI - May 22, 2008
Expound
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - May 22, 2008
wlad didn't accept his friend request
MFAN - May 22, 2008
Coach's file photo was not flattering
and he Corcobomed Wlad’s inbox with friend requests.
JI - May 22, 2008
Classic!
I forgot about the video proof.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
I also forgot about Red's Dr. Robotnik phase.
JI - May 22, 2008
Whenever I see rEd I think of the boss music from Sonic 2
Robert - May 22, 2008
hahaha that's perfect
OlSalty - May 22, 2008
How in the world did you get Coach to attend one of our patented Booze-fests?
BrianL - May 22, 2008
It was held at Safeco, and his parents were there.
I think they chained him up in the basement after the Red encounter.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Oi vey.
What were you thinking, Coach?
Oh well. For a long time I thought that Coach was some awesome fake-identity Jeff was using to smite us.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
Nope. Coach is the real deal.
Except he doesn’t coach anything, and his name isn’t Owens.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
If Coach is real
why does he keep coming back for more abuse from us? You’d think by now we would have permanently destroyed his psyche.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
He thinks we're cool and wants to be friends with us
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
We are cool.
But he’s not our friend, budday!
Thingray - May 22, 2008
standards of cool are going downhill
MFAN - May 22, 2008
Yeah, don't ask me
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
He crashed it
...even though he was invited.
i’m not quite sure how the story goes.
JI - May 22, 2008
Only Coach can crash an event in which he was invited.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
one of the related videos is a rickRoll
MFAN - May 22, 2008
Fuck you
The ladies say I have boyish good looks
Robert - May 22, 2008
I'm just saying
a flattering wig, some heals, a bit of lipstick and you could look like Dave Foley on KITH.
JI - May 22, 2008
As long as I get a nice rack
Robert - May 22, 2008
JI - May 22, 2008
I would greatly appreciate this.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
If I'm playing a sixteen year old girl does that mean I'm finally allowed to drink mikes without shame?
Robert - May 22, 2008
Washburn likes southern girls.
Go with Lynchburg Lemonade.
Llewdor - May 22, 2008
Cause this is only the bijillionth time somebody has compared me to butters
Robert - May 22, 2008
I have never done so.
JI - May 22, 2008
Do your own damn dirty work
it’s not like they’re going to prosecute someone who’s dying anyway
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
Is his K% seriously over 80?
How un-freakin-believable is that?
Thingray - May 22, 2008
No, that was hyperbole.
It’s 40%ish IIRC
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Whew!
I was about to ask what league he pitched in, and how much the tickets cost at the elementary schools he must be playing at.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
I can't the the link to work,
But the front page of the Seattle Times has a great picture of Reed losing his glove.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
How bout this?
Brian Floyd - May 22, 2008
That's the one!
I still haven’t had the time to figure out how to post pictures on the new SBN.
Thanks for picking up my slack.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Instructions
Click the last button on the right in the post comment box, insert URL.
The more you know
Brian Floyd - May 22, 2008
I tried that before and failed. I'll have to try again.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Cool.
I tried it in the Felix post and it worked. Maybe I had a faulty link before.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Great photo
and yet I’d still love to see Reed get significant playing time in left this year.
JoeyJoJoJuniorShabadoo - May 22, 2008
That took an awesome play by Reed to even get there
If anything, it’s a testament to the fact that he’s a really good fielder rather than a poor one, even if he didn’t manage to reel it in.
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Agreed.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
I think what he has is range
I haven’t seen it in a corner OF in a while.
Edgar for Pres - May 22, 2008
Not for the M's, that's for sure.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Isn't this the 2nd time this has happen to him?
Wasn’t there another time he would of caught the ball if his glove didn’t fall off?
Scruffy Lefty - May 22, 2008
Was Reed Punching something..
PhilKenSebben - May 22, 2008
Nope
Just dropping the glove over the fence. Can’t beat that
Brian Floyd - May 22, 2008
was he at least close to catching it?
PhilKenSebben - May 22, 2008
He caught it, over the wall
And then he hit the wall hard enough for his glove to fall off while on the other side.
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Man that would have been one hell of a catch.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
Close or not
it was a remarkable feat just to the wall in time.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
he had it caught, then his glove fell off
MFAN - May 22, 2008
I see this happen occasionally. My glove has a strap, so I can tighten it on my wrist to prevent this.
Do I have some uber-special model?
Thingray - May 22, 2008
You're saying that you're a fan of strap-ons?
Jordan of Boise - May 22, 2008
Sounds about masochistic enough for an M's fan at this point
SkipT - May 22, 2008
Great post Graham! Reminded me of The Dugout, which I sorely miss. Hope to see more of these. Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
thejew4u - May 22, 2008
Weird
Wouldn’t let me put in a subject for that comment.
thejew4u - May 22, 2008
Very strange.
I think you broke it. It doesn’t want to let me post now.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
I think we're in the Strasburg race to win it!
I think our “sweep” of the Tigers pushes them further out from contention.
Fin - May 22, 2008
When are we getting our Strasburg standings on the sidebar?
BrianL - May 22, 2008
Good idea
ASUBoyd - May 22, 2008
Wow.
ASUBoyd - May 22, 2008
Again...can we get a "Race for Strasburg" sidebar? This really needs to happen.
SethGrandpa - May 22, 2008
Ha ha, apparently I don't read comments directly above my own. My bad.
SethGrandpa - May 22, 2008
Dammit
I hate it when i sleep through day games.
PhilKenSebben - May 22, 2008
I would have slept through it, personally.
BrianL - May 22, 2008
Even if they suck it is still entertaining
PhilKenSebben - May 22, 2008
I dunno, since opening day I've regretted staying up to watch the games whenever I've had a chance
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Before I read the rest, I'd like to point out the incredible irony here
In that Stephen Strasburg made his first Sportscenter appearance the other night… giving a long fly ball on which his center fielder made a great catch for a Top 10 play.
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
*Giving up.
oops
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
You mean that whole thing might have been tongue in cheek?
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Yes, Graham, I know
I just found it amusing and ironic that a pitcher who struck out 23(right?) batters in a game ends up on Sportscenter for a great catch by his teammate.
You need more tea, I think. Either that or less Mariners.
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
I ran out of tea today
And the stores are closed because it’s past 10. This country is so retarded sometimes.
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
Yikes
I’ll tread carefully the rest of the day. No Bring Back Griffey! posts for me today.
seattlebruin - May 22, 2008
Don't worry, I'm so low on caffeine that I'll fall asleep in a couple minutes.
Graham MacAree - May 22, 2008
he's already on SC?
doomed are our chances of drafting him
Matthew - May 22, 2008
Well, only one thing left for the Mariners to do...
Keep Losing!
Fin - May 22, 2008
I wish my teams had normal goals
Robert - May 22, 2008
I don't. Abnormal goals are more fun.
Just ask Washburn.
Llewdor - May 22, 2008
Tapping 16 year old ass is not fun in my book.
He needs to uprgade his goals.
Thingray - May 22, 2008
Can't knock it before you try it
kentroyals5 - May 22, 2008
This Washburn/pedophilia meme has erupted
See what you did, Dave?
Jeff Sullivan - May 22, 2008
Cameron's site keeps the morons at bay
don’t draw his ire.
JI - May 22, 2008
We have the CorcoBomb now
Its mutually assured destruction.
Robert - May 22, 2008
It's just on loan
if they turn botht heir keys they can use it against us.
JI - May 22, 2008
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