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Fates aligning for Gotay
| Edgy DC Aug 06 2007 10:08 AM |
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Castillo reportedly left the game due to heat exaustion?
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| metirish Aug 06 2007 10:17 AM |
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Joe Morgan mentioned during the game that with Castillo having never played in the National League he wouldn't know about the heat at Wrigley during a night game.
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| soupcan Aug 06 2007 10:20 AM |
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Today's NY Post: SINGLETON’S YES NO-NO By PHIL MUSHNICK August 6, 2007 -- BASEBALL, as seen and spoken on TV, has become an exercise in suspended beliefs. First, you can’t believe what you just saw happen. And regardless of what you saw, you’re instead encouraged to only believe what you’re told. Royals-Yanks, Saturday, top of the third, Joey Gathright, lefty batter, at the plate. On YES, Ken Singleton notes that Gathright has great speed and was recently recalled from the minors, to replace Reggie Sanders, who is on the DL. Ah, opportunity knocks. Gathright slices one down the leftfield line. The ball hits the line then bounces around in the corner. Gathright should have easily made third but has to stop at second. Same old new-age stuff. Instead of running out of the box, this fellow who has great speed but has had trouble sticking in the majors and is now getting another shot, jogs out of the box, watching the ball. By the time he turns it on, it’s too late to reach third. Unbelievable. Singleton mentions that Gathright, with his great speed, is one base short of where he should be. Good catch. But he doesn’t say why. Top of the fifth, conversation and camera turn to Royals’ manager Buddy Bell, who has announced that he will resign at the end of the season. Bell is praised as a fellow who gets the most out of weak teams. “All these Royals,” Singleton declares, “they hustle down the line.” * WCBS-Radio, home of the Yankees, is running commercials soliciting advertisers to become part of the great “Yankee tradition,” to buy ads on Yankee radio broadcasts. And that’s terrifying. What’s left to be sold? Aside from the between half-innings ads, every happenstance and even non-happenstance (“And, had Hideki Matsui been playing tonight, he would have been brought to you by Benihana, now with sushi specials including the Pine Tar Roll and the Rain Delay Tarp Roll”) is attached to a commercial. What’s left? “And the second pitch to Jeter, here in the Wal-Mart Bottom of the Third, is brought to you by Snapple. Here’s the pitch from the Jell-O Puddings and Pie Fillings Pitching Mound. Ball one. And when Derek Jeter takes the second pitch, it’s time for your second ice cold Bud.” This commercial to buy commercials on Yankee radiocasts - the opportunity to become part of the great Yankee tradition - includes two John Sterling bites. Of course, it does. There’s his, “Thaaaaaaaaah Yankees win” and his “It is high ...” home run (sometimes) call. And there are no two noises more antithetical to the great Yankee tradition. * Joe Morgan remains relentless in providing expertly stated nonsense. Last night, during Mets-Cubs on ESPN, Luis Castillo stuck with a windblown popup, making a nice catch. But Morgan explained the play as the result of Castillo being unfamiliar with the winds in Wrigley Field because, “Castillo has played his entire career in the American League.” But Castillo played 10 years in the NL, all with the Marlins. In fact, it was Castillo who hit the infamous fly that spectator Steve Bartman caught - before Moises Alou could - in the 2003 NLCS at Wrigley. Last season, with the Twins, was his first in the AL. In the top of the fifth, Morgan’s partner, Jon Miller, noted that Castillo has played before in Wrigley. Morgan said nothing. * Now, back to ads. One that appeared during Fox’s Mets-Cubs, Saturday, was for Cablevision’s Optimum package. In it, the names of all nine New York pro teams are spoken - Jets, Giants, Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, Mets and Yanks - followed by the boast that they all appear in HD via Optimum. And you can’t live without your teams! But five of those teams - the Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Mets and Yanks - have, at some point in recent history, been removed, and at least once, from Cablevision’s systems once Cablevision lost their programming rights to competitors. * When Joe Buck doesn’t force it, he scores. Saturday, during Mets-Cubs, he promoted Fox’s first NFL preseason telecast, Colts-Cowboys. As he did, photos appeared of Peyton Manning and Tony Romo. “Here’s the matchups,” said Buck, “the two guys you’ll see for, oh, seven minutes.” * Horrifying Sportcaster Cliche of the Week goes to Gary Cohen. Wednesday on SNY, Cohen said he could see how the Brewers’ Manny Parra has enough good stuff “to have authored a perfect game in the minors.” Yeesh. While we’re on the subject, reader Jim Mulloy of Massapequa asks: “Considering that a wheelhouse is typically an enclosed area on a boat deck, how, exactly, do pitchers keep throwing baseballs there?” * Cheer up, Astros reliever Dave Borkowski! So what if Friday you allowed three hits and an earned run in your one inning pitched, you still got the hold! By the way, the Yanks’ leader in holds, with 11, is Kyle Farnsworth. Good stat, holds. phil.mushnick@nypost.com
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| Edgy DC Aug 06 2007 10:32 AM |
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There's some poorly worded stuff there. Why shouldn't the Yankees have a commercial trollig for people to book commercials? Good, I'm glad they have the available space.
Those are not "all" New York teams, nor are they all of New York's pro teams. Quick count of others: Red Bull Dragons Pride Liberty The Cyclones The Staten Island Yankees Ducks
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| Nymr83 Aug 06 2007 11:07 AM |
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| SteveJRogers Aug 06 2007 01:31 PM Re: Fates aligning for Gotay |
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Could also have been Saturday night as well. Spotted him and Gotay at the Mets hotel bar... Hey...wait a minute! Could a bench player be that nefarious? =;)
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| G-Fafif Aug 06 2007 01:50 PM |
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I heard that and winced, too. Also, in handicapping the N.L. Central race, did Jon Miller say something to the effect of the Brewers had improved this year thanks in part to the signing of Carlos Lee? I assumed he meant something like they got better despite (or maybe because of) letting Carlos Lee go, but I could swear he made it sound as if the Brewers had brought him in for 2007, not let him go in 2006.
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| G-Fafif Aug 06 2007 01:54 PM |
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Listening to the Brewers blowing it in extra innings yesterday, the Phillies broadcaster noted the names of two runners on based and the potential winning run stepping up to the plate... "He's going to say 'in the person of,'" I thought. ..."in the person of Johnny Estrada." Is "in the person of" used in any other context in the world of English?
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| Frayed Knot Aug 06 2007 02:12 PM |
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Mushnick's point - and it's been one he's been making for a while now - is that the NYY broadcasts (TV & radio) have been "billboarded" to within an inch of their lives, that it's come to the point where it sounds like a commercial occasionally interrupted by a baseball game. Yankee fans, in general, aren't too happy with the broadcasts of their games to start with, so when the ads per inning limit seems to already be bursting at the seems the thought of looking for ways to show-horn even more in there is not a pleasant thought to listeners.
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| Edgy DC Aug 06 2007 02:16 PM |
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I understand.
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| Frayed Knot Aug 06 2007 02:22 PM |
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Well, considering that covering sports media is his beat and has been for a long time I would think it's specifically the place to bring it up.
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