The RAB Radio Show – February 26, 2009 – Episode 16
ByBaseball is back, baby! After live blogging Hughes’s innings, Mike and I recorded this week’s RAB Radio Show. You’ll notice that we’re not as focused as we are most weeks. Blame it on us watching the game at the same time as we try to record the show. Oh well. It was beyond great to see some game action.
We start off by going over Phil’s performance. There’s not much you can ascertain from his very first start of the spring, but all in all it went well. He let a few pitches fly which grazed a couple of jerseys, but all in all he did a solid job. His only four-ball walk of the day came in an at bat where he threw all six or seven pitches to the outside edge. His fastball sat 91-92. I wonder if this means he’ll ramp it up as we get deeper into the spring.
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The real victim of today’s radio show?
Mathematics.
“We start off by going over Phil’s performance. There’s not much you can ascertain from his very first start of the spring…”
… except for the entirety of the rest of his baseball life, that is. It all adds up to one irrefutable truth:
Massive bust.
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Yeah… I like my picture of a massive bust better. Thanks for the input, though.
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BUT MINES SFW!!!!!!
You can’t drug yourself into incapacitation and flog the dolphin to a picture of Mount Rushmore.
(Although if you could, you’d be even more perverse than I thought you were…)
Joe had quite an outburst there around 28:10.
Haha yea I was thinking that. I wonder how joe feels about jeff maier?
Joe HATES Steve Bartman.
Haha totally. I snarfed a little beer on myself. I also love the brief silence and then Mike is like “oh.”
Mike – Were you unsure, for a moment there, if Joe was calling YOU an idiot?
Snarf.. Thundercats anyone? lol
Yeah, well, the game’s there for you to watch, not interfere with. Keep your damn hands out of the field of play.
Look, as an American, I have a God given right to do the following five things:
1.) Drink beer
2.) Boo things I don’t like without explaining myself
3.) Interfere with a baseball game for my own personal whimsy, selfish benefit, and self-aggrandizement
4.) Watch porn
5.) Hate Arabs
If you don’t like that, Joe, I suggest you go back to Russia.
You forgot to add: “Drive a Hummer even though I have no family to fit in it.”
Hummers are for French fairy-boys. I drive an International CXT, the largest street-legal vehicle in the nation.
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DAMN! every link ever posted is blocked at work…..i swear if they take my RAB….
I’m getting 403 forbidden.
Here, try this one:
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If you’re not hauling immense amount of cargo, what is the point of that vehicle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_CXT
Or “Drive a hybrid as a status symbol and snark at others killing the environment even though said hybrid does more damage than said Hummer.”
My 1996 Honda Accord with 24K+ miles on it will do fine, thank you very much.
…even though said hybrid does more damage than said Hummer.
I know we’re kinda joking around here, but where do you get the idea that a hybrid car does more damage to the environment than a Hummer?
I’m legitimately curious, not snarky.
ive heard that the environmental effect of creating said hybrid is equal to or worse than the emissions of a hummer.
of course i have no factual analysis to back this up. but i hoid it.
http://www.google.com
Had to do it.
But seriously, it’s due to production and transportation required of nickel to create the batteries. For the end user, of course the Prius is much more environment friendly, but counting in the production, studies show hybrids are worse.
I have no idea if it’s really true, one scientist says something, the other refutes it, who the hell knows which one is right.
let me just say, in my defense that this time i did go to googl to check.ut that most sites not rab or cnn are blocked at my job…and i hate it. although b-r isnt, im just too lazy to look up stats…still trying to embrace my stat-geek-hood (dont tell my spreadsheets)
Gotcha.
oh, yes, you rplied to him. YEAH TAKE THAT TJSC!
Although…
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oh, yes, you replied to him. YEAH TAKE THAT TJSC!
Revengance is mine.
He wasn’t in the field of play. He was catching a ball hit in the stands.
It’s not like he pulled a Jeffrey Meier.
Hughes is very average. We r going to regret not trading him
What is average about him?
He pitches with his right arm. That is pretty average, if you ask me.
He should be like that guy on the SI team–ambidextrous, bitch.
90 to 93% of the adult population is right handed. By definition, Phil Hughes is completely average. As is God. Give me average please.
Yeah, should have traded him for Santana, Mauer and Liriano when we had the chance.
WTF Cashman. Should of dealt him for Miggy, gave him a huge contract. Re-signed A-Rod and signed Tex this year anyways. Imagine that freaking lineup man!!!1!!!111!!!!! Miggy could be a DH!!!
cashman sucks. i hate that guy. worst gm ever. i hope thye fire him and get jim bowden once the nationals fire him.
Is Cam Bonifay still available?
dan duquette is just what this team needs. phil hughes for josh fogg
I would certainly take Duquette over Bowden. He deserves a lot of credit for the 04 Sox title, and he did a great job in Montreal before that. He’s just kind of a dick, but overall, he did a good job.
forgive me i meant jim duquette. got my duqyette’s mixed up
But his name is the dragon slayer!
The guy is 22, when healthy he commands his fastball great over the corners, and has a great curve. If that’s very average than sign me up.
Thanks for the distraction from my paper on irony in “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake.
Atleast you know what your paper is on…
I’m almost done, too!
I love Shelley “Slam” Duncan… nice to see him. That was a BOMB!
Just because YES had his fastball at 91-92, doesn’t mean that’s where it was. Their gun is very slow. And Kenny said he was in the mid-90s.
I don’t think Hughes can throw in the mid 90s. I’ve read frequently (here at RAB and elsewhere) that his FB sits at 91-92 and it touches 93. If anything the radar gun at YES would have it in the 94-95 range when it was actually 91-92.
The YES gun is notoriously slow. He sits in the low 90s but can touch in the mid 90s.
Really? I swear there are a TON of velocity readings from ’08 that have Hughes at 89-90. If he stays healthy then maybe your right. Hughes hasn’t shown that he could even keep his velocity in later innings.
His velocity was constant in the minors and in that Texas game where he hurt himself. He hasn’t been fully healthy since that game.
Just read the Johan Santana soreness blurb on Rotoworld. Should Mets fans be worried? Yeah. Will he win 15 more games than Phil Hughes in ’08? Yeah.
MEANT to write:
Will he win 15 more games than Phil Hughes in ’09? Yeah.
Unless, you know, he’s on and off the DL. Or on it all season because he needs elbow surgery.
I’m more inclined to believe that its simply soreness from training as he’s never had surgery before nor spent much time if ANY on the DL. I’m drafting Johan as my first pitcher in my fantasy league.
Um…his fastball velocity has been declining for a couple years and he started throwing his slider less over a year and a half ago to put less strain on his elbow. And he’s a 5’11″ pitcher who throws 93-94.
And now he’s shut down due to elbow soreness and you think it’s because of training?
Except he’s got a sick changeup for an out-pitch. That hasn’t changed. The FB velo is down. True. But that’s a harbinger of age, not injury. Santana truly sits in the low 90s and that’s fine. Yankee fans would love to see this guy go down, and that’s ridiculous. Face it. The Mets landed a guy who’s still a Cy candidate.
I bet less than 10% of Yankee fans would want to see him get hurt. I think that’s an bad broad brushed accusation there.
Um, Johan Santana has had elbow surgery before. Torn flexor something (muscle or tendon, I forget) with the Twins, 2002 I think.
I know it was a long time ago, but AJ Burnett hasn’t been under the knife since 2003 and people act like his elbow is a time bomb.