Padres lose 2-1. Bud Black and Adrian Gonzalez lose their tempers, shower early
by Dex on May 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT
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PrintSo we can't win them all. Home plate umpire, Rob Drake's strike zone was a little wacky fo' sho', but what're you gonna do? I mean, not a lot.
It was real weird seeing Adrian get tossed like that, mostly because you don't typically see him show much in the way of emotion. Instead, if Adrian gets mad at you, he usually will just keep his same straight faced demeanor and then talk in dismissive, only slightly annoyed tones. Like you were stray cat. Not surprisingly, that's how he ended up talking about the incident after the game.
Bud Black got run also, which is good. We are not a team of automatons! There is a soul!
Trevor Hoffman got a save against us. Nobody played the Madonna song I told them to play. This is what happens. You have to get in the other team's head!
I don't blame the fans at the game for clapping for Trevor. In the back of my head, I imagined a scenario where somehow, inexplicably, the entire crowd would all yell, "BONG... BONG..." And then one section, maybe Toyota Terrace, would start doing an imitation guitar riff, while the lower bowl kept going, "BONG... BONG..." Until finally, everybody in the stadium was singing Hell's Bells. That kind of crowd organized chorus is somehow totally doable in Europe at a soccer match, but the best any crowd has ever managed at an American baseball game is We Will Rock You. It's been 30 years, American baseball fans. Let's learn a new tune.
One more quick note: I don't get why Chase Headley felt the urge to leg it out and try to take second base on the play that Ryan Braum threw him out. It would've taken exactly one pitch to the very next batter and Chase would've been on second anyway. Just sayin'.
Padres get another shot at the series win tomorrow. Let's make it happen, boys!
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It was a shameful display of umpiring
and Drake should be ashamed of the effort he put in to this ballgame. His pay for this game should be rescinded. It was ridiculous how many pitches he flat-out missed. In his defense, he was terrible for both sides. If it was the Brewers who were trailing, you’d see Macha and the aggrieved party (probably Weeks, the ball he took for strike three in the 9th was at least four to five inches off the plate) get tossed too. Drake, to be fair, was consistent – consistently awful.
I think the call on weeks was
to satisfy the fans at the game who knew the padres were being thrown under the bus. seriously.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
He'd been calling that pitch all game
but only with fastballs. Breaking pitches that were at the same spot were called balls. I think that pissed off the coaching staff more than anything else.
I was at the bar for the 9th inning, people were pissed that Headley was called out. He was out, and Angel got that one right (how often can you say that, though? lol).
yeah, the Saviour was out.
I felt bad for him on that one, he was just trying to make something happen. I give him a free pass on that one.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
Close play
but in that situation (where he’s the tying run) he has to be 100% sure he can make it, and things like that don’t happen. You can see the ‘I f____d up’ look after he realized what happened. Can’t get thrown out in that situation. Stay at first and give Venable a chance to win it.
Btw, if Venable was to reach who was on deck? Who was going to hit for Stauffer?
I'm not upset that the Padres lost, but how they lost;
this has been one strange series. We can all agree on that, right? There has been some questionable strike calls made against the padres. Tonight the Umpire was taking the bat out of the padres’ hitters hands by calling strikes as if we were facing The Atlanta Braves rotation circa’ 1994, when Maddux, Glavine, and co. were getting nearly a foot off the outside corner. I know one thing, the guy pitching tonight was NO T.Glavine, and I could certainly vouch that the guy that was throwing on the mound for the brewers tonight could NEVER piss on a guy in the shower and get away with it the way Maddux did when he was in a padres Uniform. yeah, thats right, Maddux pees on people, ala R.Kelly circa… whenever it was that he peed on whoever it was he peed on.
http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2007/03/metstradamus-deep-thoughts.html
games like this piss me off. It just seems odd to me that the umpire was making the calls he was making. its like playing psychological warfare, making those calls completely takes the wind out of our players sails.
One thing that I can say: I was happy when Agone gave the Ump his perspective on his
interpretation of the strike zone. way to go Agone, you’re the man.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
second thought...
why dont they just make the Home plate wider? I mean, if they’re going to make those calls anyway, why not just widen home plate?
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
I've been RAILING all over Twitter tonight
There is a few of us in there just ranting and railing about how much this whole crew sucks eggs. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
yeah, it was obviously bad. anybody watching the game would have felt the same way.
not to say that some calls didnt end up in our favor, but it sure did seem like the Brewer pitchers were “taking advantage” of a strike zone that our pitchers were not “skilled” enough, or able, to. I think its quite odd.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
Holy sh!t, that has got to be the first time Agon was thrown out.
I just want to get paid to draw naked girls, is that so much to ask?
I like the new Adrian
aka Ragedrian
Easily the worst umpiring crew in recent memory. How are they all this bad?
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
So happy to see Trevor out there
He really needed a good inning and mission accomplished.
What's a signature?
Me too!
I mean this Padres team sucks eggs. Royally. Let’s just admit that now. They have no shot whatsoever this year, so why not let our main man, T-Money, shut us down so we can all have a feel good celebration at Petco. Makes perfect sense, no? I really hope Trevor gets another shot at accomplishing his mission tonight.
Padres History > Padres Present
I don’t care about winning, just individual achievements. Goooooo Trev!
No.
But I think we can all agree: Drake to AAA.
"It's a long season and you gotta trust. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball." - Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
Let him answer phones
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
I think we let Latos work out with bumps up here
Besides that awful outing against the Marlins, he’s pitched alright. He isn’t dominating but he’s only 22. He clearly has a home run problem, but outside of that, he seems good.
Also, I would like to see Mat pitch inside more. It seemed like whenever Mat got ahead in the count last night, he would throw some weak breaking stuff away and end up wasting his pitch count as well as letting the batter get back to a hitters count.
I’m pretty sure (correct me if I’m wrong, maybe Carrillo?) that Mat is our best young pitching prospect that is no where near his potential. For that reason, I say we stick with him while he learns a little.
Mat Latos is the real deal...Go Lakers, Pads, and Bolts
by mrbarneydangles on May 2, 2010 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
And just a thought
Any other team would be thrilled with a pitcher that kept the Brewer’s lineup toi 2 runs and kept their team in the game. It was a quality outing (even if there were some scary moments).
"It's a long season and you gotta trust. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball." - Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
eff
that
he needs to learn in Portland
obviously
California, what have you done to me?
by CurbEnthusiasm on May 2, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
The crowd was awesome last night
We were booing everything, even the vendors
twitter.com/matthewverygood
that was weird...
though, at the same time, refreshing.
"There are two great tragedies in life: One is not getting what one wants; the other is getting it."
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