Rick Reuschel wrote:With the possible exception of Dye, the outfield arms are weak.

Bob Weston wrote:How do you pronounce Podsednik?

I always thought it was: pasednik

But now during the post season, the national announcers are really leaning on the "D" in pronouncing it poDsednik.

Am I high?

Am I high?

Bob Weston wrote:How do you pronounce Podsednik?

I always thought it was: pasednik

But now during the post season, the national announcers are really leaning on the "D" in pronouncing it poDsednik.

Am I high?

bob

Hosoi wrote:

Am I high?

No, they've really been into the D.

Fucking Joe Buck.

Tim McCarver is ridiculously terrible, so it's easy to forget how ridiculous Joe Buck is.

It used to be poe-SED-nik, but now that he's David Ortiz, I guess they've got to call him something else.

I wrote:podsednik has a good arm. rowand has an ok arm. dye has a _great_ arm.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Podsednik has a very good arm and Rowand's arm is good. Dye's arm is great.

Hosoi wrote:Tim McCarver is ridiculously terrible, so it's easy to forget how ridiculous Joe Buck is.

I’d say it’s painful, but it’s really worse than that. From the pregame show, where everyone looks and talks like a Xanaxed-out realtor, to the 2:30 breaks between every half inning, it’s been unwatchable, at least for me. I’ve missed a fair amount of the postseason simply because Fox has managed to take some truly great, dramatic, world-class sport, and turn it into some sort of horrific suburb fest. It’s kind of the TV equivalent of one of those vile exurb malls, with faux façade architecture, nine hundred different soulless, Bed Bath, and Beyondesque retailers, usually clustered with a SlavLaborMart or some sort. I’d feel worse about it, except that I’m amused by the convergence of the visages of Kevin Kennedy and the Plastic Burger King King we’re seeing all the time on commercials. Creepy.

tmidgett wrote:

Rick Reuschel wrote:

Angus Jung wrote:

Rick Reuschel wrote:If Pods makes the throw (which it looked like he should have) to home in the top of the 9th then the game is over. The homer is nice but some juice for his throwing arm might help, too.

Podsednik's throw was plenty strong enough, but just slightly too far up the line. It was very close to being a perfect throw.

And yes, "the homer is nice."

The homer is nice.

With the possible exception of Dye, the outfield arms are weak. The throw was offline regardless. If it is to the third base side instead of first the game is over at that point.

Redemption.

bah

you haven't watched this team much

podsednik has a good arm. rowand has an ok arm. dye has a _great_ arm.

it took a great slide to score on that play. pierzynski was two inches from tagging him out.

the throw was fine. not perfect, but fine. if podsednik had not hit that home run, and the sox had lost the game, you would have been the only person on the planet to blame it on him.