Azreous
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I'm the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Flagstaff, and I laugh in the face of the insanity it causes on a daily basis. On the side, I keep tabs on the Suns first and the Diamondbacks second, with all other sports falling somewhere after those main two. Unlike the majority of America these days, I don't care much for football, particularly the NFL, and I couldn't care less about NASCAR. I believe in no DH, Santa Claus, and a thing called love (just listen to the rhythm of the heart). At this point I'm just rambling, so we're done with this particular segue.
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Autopsy released for Gabrielle Schoeneweis
We are reporting the information for anyone who wants it, but out of respect to the family, that is all we will be doing.
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2009 Diamondbacks Pop Quiz Answers/Results
by Azreous on Oct 7, 2009 2:47 PM EDT
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I know, you've been chomping at the bit to know what the answers were. What's that? Some of you didn't take the quiz yet? Well, you're in luck; the link is still active and the answer key is after the jump. Quick, click here before you peek at the results. For the rest of the class, your grades are in red ink at the top of the next page...
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Diamondbacks 1, Giants 4: Penny For Your Naughts
by Azreous on Oct 1, 2009 12:44 AM EDT
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Record: 68-90. Pace. 69-93. Change on last season: -12.
For my final recap of the season, I had high hopes that the Diamondbacks would do something interesting that also qualified as "good." You know, scoring more than three runs, not having any baserunning gaffes, getting a dominating performance from the starting pitcher...that kind of stuff. Instead, I got another abysmal offensive performance, the pitcher caught in a rundown, and Kevin Mulvey on the mound. Thank you, baseball gods. Thanks a lot.
Meanwhile, a Diamondback from the days of yore (Brad Penny) licked his chops about the prospects of facing the mighty Arizona lineup, and the only positive that could be gleaned from this game was that its completion moved us one game closer to the end of the season. Good times.
Still, I hedged my bets that this game would be uninteresting and did something else on the side for the season finale. There's a trivia contest inside, although I'm unable to offer any prizes other than compliments about how smart you are. Maybe that'll take the edge off more than reading about another boring loss.
An actual recap, and details about the quiz, after the jump...
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Diamondbacks 5, Padres 6: J-Up in Smoke
by Azreous on Sep 16, 2009 7:33 PM EDT
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Record: 64-83. Pace: 71-91. Change on last season: -9
As a baseball fan, aren't these the kind of September games you root for? Afternoon baseball between two teams fighting for superiority in their division, with the road team going for a series sweep against the team with a one-game lead on them.
All right, all right. By superiority I mean "worst superiority," as the Diamondbacks and Padres battled each other in their race for the cellar. Today's matchup featured Doug Davis against little-known Edward Mujica. Davis was looking to overcome a terrible start his last time out, and Mujica was looking to maybe make it into the fifth inning or something. But it was a certain young outfielder who stole the show, at least until an epic collapse in the ninth inning when the D-backs were just two strikes from a victory. And then...some things happened. But those and other descriptions...
...are after the jump.
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Diamondbacks 4, Dodgers 3: Walk Like a Man
by Azreous on Sep 10, 2009 1:20 AM EDT
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Record: 62-79. Pace: 70-92. Change on last season: -9.
The Diamondbacks headed into tonight's matchup with the Dodgers looking for something, anything to take as a positive. Six straight losses (including a particularly bad one last night, with a three-run lead in the eighth) had the D-backs in sole possession of last place. Just to add to the confusion, their old buddy Jon Garland toed the rubber against Dan Haren in tonight's series finale. Neither starter ended up being a factor in the decision, and a closely contested game ended with perhaps the most anticlimactic way possible (unless you like waiting two seconds to see if an overweight guy raises his arm or not).
Dreadlocks and base knocks after the jump...
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Diamondbacks 4, Dodgers 1: ...And Then, the Deluge
by Azreous on Sep 3, 2009 1:15 AM EDT
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Max Scherzer took the mound against the Dodgers tonight, and the word of the day was consistency. In his past six starts, Max had a 6.47 ERA and only made it through the sixth inning once. Facing a potent offense on a team fighting for a postseason spot and the Dodgers' ace in Chad Billingsley, this had all the makings of a pitchers' duel...or a disaster. In a way, it ended up being both; the offense was missing for about eight innings, and the usual warning signs of a no decision for our starter were lit up in all their neon glory.
Sounds like the rest of the season, right? Except this one actually worked out in the Diamondbacks' favor. Stunning, I know.
Ten minutes of offense and another promising start from our young fireballer after the jump.
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Diamondbacks 3, Giants 4: Dir...er, Filthy Sanchez
by Azreous on Aug 27, 2009 3:18 AM EDT
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Record 55-72. Pace: 70-90. Change on last season: -12.
Tonight, the Diamondbacks faced a lofty task: finding a way to beat the best pitcher in major-league history. That's right, the D-backs were up against Jonathan Sanchez, a first-ballot hall-of-famer with a heart of gold, and had to rely on lowly Doug Davis to get the job done.
The word for the games I recap is usually "interesting." Granted, interesting is such a generic adjective that it's hard not to find a way for every game to fit it somehow, but this was a prime example of legitimate "interesting." As in, it's interesting how we managed to blow a three-run lead late and lose another one-run decision.
An attempt to differentiate this loss from all the others after the jump...
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Steve Nash on the B.S. Report
Nash talks to Bill Simmons for 50+ minutes of goodness, including some interesting tidbits about playing under Porter's system, the importance of PnR defense with all the good young PGs in the league, and which team from his tenure in Phoenix had the best chance to win a title. Good stuff. I think the link is correct, but if not, hopefully somebody can fix it.
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Diamondbacks 1, Phillies 8: Phil Your Hand
by Azreous on Aug 19, 2009 9:44 PM EDT
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Record: 54-67. Pace: 72-90. Change on last season: -8.
This was a dreadful performance. Sure, it was against the reigning AL Cy Young winner, who has been almost untouchable since switching to the NL last month (4-0, 0.82 ERA, 0.73 WHIP). And yes, it was after three other awful games this week -- getting shelled by the Dodgers, getting destroyed by six unearned runs against the Braves (although some of them certainly should have been earned), and then being rocked to sleep by a 95-year-old lefty out of the bullpen in the series opener. So maybe we shouldn't have been surprised. Maybe we should have seen this coming.
Still, after a pretty successful road trip (albeit against a pretty bad set of teams), there were a few reasons to be optimistic about this team. Those reasons are tough to remember now.
There may be more depressed writing and obscure John Wayne references after the jump.
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Diamondbacks 4, Dodgers 1: Red Haren
by Azreous on Aug 15, 2009 12:39 AM EDT
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Record: 53-63. Pace: 74-88. Change on last season: -6.
Before the season started, it would have been hard to believe that the Diamondbacks would be 17 games behind the Dodgers in the middle of August, but that's exactly where Arizona stood heading into this three-game set against L.A. So maybe this series doesn't have quite the impact we might have expected -- taking out the boys in blue (no, not Jerry Crawford) is always a worthy endeavor.
Dan Haren toed the rubber for the D-backs tonight against young phenom Clayton Kershaw, and it seemed an appropriate time for Haren to get rid of his usual second-half demons and put together a good start. In his last four outings, Haren wasn't quite up to his usual standards: a 6.26 ERA, less than six innings per start, and a K:BB ratio just over three. Meanwhile, Kershaw had been pulling a Jekyll/Hyde routine lately -- 15 shutout innings against the Cardinals and Braves, but a disastrous four-inning start (4 H, 3 ER, 6 BB against the Brewers) in between. Fortunately for the Diamondbacks, he was more mortal than monster on this night.
Haren's great outing and some shady shenanigans after the jump...
[Update] Andre Ethier calls Haren "afraid to pitch." Could be a couple of interesting games the rest of the series.
Audio courtesy of KTAR 620
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