You would think so.  And, if he can hit as well, DOUBLE BONUS!!

As there is nothing and nobody else here - What would be the correct term to describe what comes after "completely and totally bored out of my mind", but just before literaly "bored to death"?

I am always looking for help with that one, just so I can have a good term or phrase to use when someone at work asks me how I am doing.

And now, back to the sound of 1 hand clapping...............

doodle doodle dee, wubba wubba wubba..........

Then when I was 13 I sucked. At 14 I got drafted to Senior League and sucked again. When 15 I hit .291, not bad. At 16 I hit around .250. When 17 I got disgusted with myself and hung em up. Next time I will tell you about my illustrious softball career for giggles.

And I don't think even the most optimistic fan thinks the braves have a chance for the East.

HEY!!!!!

As hitting a baseball was always beyond me, and, as I could hide my lack of arm at 1B, I had a pretty good long run of competitive softball myself.  Until I really started to break down, around 40, and decided to quit before I became just average, or lesser than.

Talk about way under the radar good -

Last season Yusmeiro Petit missed throwing a perfect game by one batter. Last month he set the all-time record for consecutive batters retired with 46. And last night he threw an 84-pitch complete game.

Not bad for a 29-year-old former prospect bust turned journeyman turned rotation regular for the Giants, who’ve gotten a 3.61 ERA in 152 total innings from Petit.

In holding the Diamondbacks to one run on four hits last night he threw 68 of his 84 pitches for strikes while striking out nine and walking zero.

The last pitcher to throw a nine-inning complete game using fewer than 84 pitches was Aaron Cook of the Red Sox, who needed just 81 pitches to shut out the Mariners in June of 2012. And the last pitcher to throw a nine-inning complete game that wasn’t a shutout using fewer than 84 pitches was Luke Hochevar of the Royals in 2009.

Also, via Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com–who has a good write-up of the game, with quotes from everyone involved–Petit has now struck out 41 batters since issuing his last non-intentional walk.

The state of next year’s free agent class will be impacted by whether or not players with vesting options in their contracts achieve the necessary playing time to trigger those conditional options. As we near the end of the season, here’s a rundown of these players and their progress toward triggering their options …

•Nick Punto, Athletics: Punto has a $2.75MM club option that will automatically vest if he spends fewer than 30 days on the disabled list, assistant GM David Forst told reporters at the time of the signing. Though Forst did add that there are other ways for Punto’s option to vest, the health route is no longer available. Punto was only activated yesterday — ten days into the September active roster expansion — after going on the DL on August 3rd. If the option doesn’t vest, the A’s have the choice of picking him up at $2.75MM or buying him out for $250K.
•Rickie Weeks, Brewers: Weeks has an $11.5MM option that won’t be vesting, as he would have needed to total 600 PA in 2014 or 1,200 PA in 2013-14 and finish the season healthy. He has just 255 PAs on the season, so he’ll fall well shy of that mark. Weeks will also fall shy of reaching 400 PAs, which would have entitled him to a $1MM buyout of his option.
•Jimmy Rollins, Phillies: Rollins’ option vested earlier this year when he reached 1,100 plate appearances over 2013-14. (He has also made 600 trips to bat in 2014, an independent basis for triggering the provision.) That clause, however, also required that he not finish the year on the disabled list, and Rollins left yesterday’s game with a hamstring injury. Word is that Rollins should be able to return, but with just three weeks left even a minor setback could well end his season. Nevertheless, Philadelphia would need to go out of its way to place him on the DL at this point, with active rosters expanded. And, in any event, the option would still vest if a mutually agreed-upon doctor deemed Rollins ready to start the 2015 season.
•Dan Haren, Dodgers: Haren needs 180 innings to trigger a $10MM player option for the 2015 season. Heading into his scheduled outing this evening, he has already notched 162 frames. Haren should be in line for at least three more starts (including tonight’s) before the end of the month, and maybe another depending upon how the club approaches the last few games of the year. Having averaged 5.79 innings per start on the year, it will be incumbent on Haren to pitch his way to the option — especially in the midst of a playoff race and backed by a well-stocked bullpen.
•Mike Adams, Phillies: Adams’ $6MM club option for 2015 would have vested with 60 innings pitched in 2014, but he’s obviously not going to get there with just 17 2/3 innings in the tank. Adams has thrown just 42 2/3 innings in his season-and-a-half with the Phils, and it seems highly unlikely that the team will pick him up at $6MM given his injury troubles. He should, however, be an attractive buy-low candidate given his general success when on the field.
•Rafael Soriano, Nationals: Soriano’s $14MM club option vests with 120 games finished over 2013-14. While that always seemed a longshot, any realistic hope was snuffed out when Soriano lost his closing gig to Drew Storen, the man he replaced when he signed on with Washington. Whether or not Soriano makes it back into the 9th inning role over the next few weeks, he now sits at 104 games finished over the last two seasons, making it all but impossible for him to trigger the vesting provision. With the Nationals all but certain to decline their club option on Soriano, he should make for an interesting free agent to watch.
•Kyuji Fujikawa, Cubs: The Cubs hoped that Fujikawa, one of the best relievers in Japanese history, would help to fortify their bullpen when they signed him to a two-year, $9.5MM contract in the 2012-13 offseason. Instead, both player and team received a hefty dose of bad luck when Fujikawa needed Tommy John surgery after just 12 innings last season. He has a vesting option based on games finished, but the 33-year-old has made it back for only 10 1/3 innings in 2014 and surely won’t be crossing that (unreported) threshold.
•Sean Burnett, Angels: Burnett’s $4.5MM club option vests if he appears in a total of 110 games between 2013-14, but like Fujikawa, he’s been plagued by injury and has no chance of that happening. Burnett has appeared in just 16 games total over the past two seasons and underwent Tommy John surgery earlier this year. The Halos will certainly be paying the $500K buyout on his club option.
•Scott Downs, White Sox: Downs had a $4MM vesting option that would have vested with 55 appearances, as MLBTR’s Tim Dierkes reported in June (via Twitter). Though he appeared to be headed in that direction earlier in the year, the White Sox cut bait with Downs and his then-6.08 ERA. He owns a 3.55 mark over 12 2/3 innings with the Royals — who signed him to a separate, minor-league deal — and has now thrown in 53 games, but the vesting clause is now a moot point.

The boy has skills.......

Come on, baby, let's do the shift
Come on, baby, let's do the shift
Take me by my little hand and go like this

Seems like everyone is doing the shift. And, here is why.

online.wsj.com/articles/baseballs-shift-does-it-work-1410304648?ru=yahoo?mod=yahoo_itp

Panik has been a God send, even if he is just a singles hitter.

Petit has been crazy, it's either 1 run in 8 innings or 5 runs in 4 innings (as a starter anyway).

It's weird that the Giants are still "in it" considering that Lincecum and Cain are both out of the rotation. Lol,
Never would have guessed that.

Or,.....the people that poston this board daily and often could actually come and post here every so often.

I ask too much,......, I know....

Lol.  I think the shit throwing parade in the daily diverts posters like a fly to light.  

Related, I find myself constantly overestimating the amount of folks who just want to post on and about sports in any sort of serious way.

I know why too.

Most folks have friends that they maybe save their more serious sports discussions with.  As such, they just come here to have a good time, the wilder nd more politically uncorrect the better.

As I do not, I am looking for the serious stuff.  And, as such, I am often left wanting.


Oh well,..............  It sucks when you seeming "can't beat them", and based on personal preference, have no interest in "joining them".