Sunday, May 27, 2007

even fox's "b" team baseball announcers suck

yesterday i was watching the indians and tigers on fox. with "the gruesome twosome" (mccarver and buck... see what i did there?) working the cubs/dodgers game, i was treated to a whole new pair of idiots in the booth. in the 4 innings i watched they never introduced themselves. but i wish they had; the color guy should be identified on this site by name for this incredibly stupid comment:

(the situation: the indians have just scored 3 runs in the top of the 7th off the tigers' bullpen to turn a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead. verlander started for the tigers and gave up 2 ER in 6 innings.)

"you know, people are going to blame the tiger bullpen for this one. but the real problem is that justin verlander just threw too many pitches. he had 105 through 6 innings, so he had to come out, and thats just not going to get it done."

dude... if a pitcher goes 6 innings giving up 2 ER and youre not happy about it... i hope you never manage a baseball team. how do you get upset at this? last year there were less than 100 full time starting pitchers in all of baseball that averaged 6.0 innings per start or better. in other words, about 3 per team, meaning youre at very least slightly above average if you do this. the extra angle on verlander is that hes only 24. last year he admitted he was worn down by the time the tigers got to the world series. dumb as jim leyland is, i think keeping verlander in the high 90s/low 100s in pitches is a great idea. if your bullpen sucks, the solution is not to run your young starters out there for 120+ pitches a game. you get a better bullpen. you know who fox should hire to call their mlb games, who would be an improvement over almost everyone they have now? carrot top.

2 comments:

Chris W said...

i don't think prop-comedy would play well in the announcer booth.

how about dennis miller?

Derpsauce said...

Wouldn't it be awesome if everyone in the world thought like that? Being a relief pitcher in baseball would be like, the least stressful job in the world.

"People are going to blame Joe Borowski for giving up 4 runs in the 9th to lose a 4-1 lead, but the real problem is that C.C. Sabathia shouldn't have thrown 120 pitches already, so he had to come out, and that's just not going to get it done."

Seriously though, what a dumb attempt at creative analysis.