SB Nation User Blog: phil333

Stanley Cup Final: Sens-Ducks

phil333 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:54:10 -0000

A place for all Cup finals discussion.

2007 STANLEY CUP FINAL SCHEDULE
(all start times 8 p.m., ET)

Game 1 Monday, May 28
Game 2 Wednesday, May 30
Game 3 Saturday, June 2
Game 4 Monday, June 4
*Game 5 Wednesday, June 6
*Game 6 Saturday, June 9
*Game 7 Monday, June 11

(Five days off before the Cup starts? Wow)

Sabres vs. Sens

phil333 — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:32 -0000

Wow this is going to be a great series. I'm obviously very upset that my Rangers didn't make it to the Eastern Conference Finals, but this will be a fun series to watch. These teams hate each other. Check out this video if you don't remember their fight from earlier in the year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49sqgSv5SE0

I guess this is an open thread on the series.

Week 2

phil333 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:06:05 -0000

USSM used to do a summary post of the week every Monday and I thought it was a great idea. I haven't seen it yet so I thought I would bang one out and if it's popular, do it every week.

Overall Record: 5-3 (1st AL West)
Week 2 Record: 3-2

Loss @ Boston, Win @ Boston, Loss vs. Texas, Win vs Texas, Win vs Texas

Week 2 Stats
Ichiro: .238/.304/.381/.685
Beltre: .300/.391/.700/.1.091
Turbo: .273/.304/.545/.850
Ibanez: .200/.227/.250/.477
Sexy: .176/.300/.353/.653
Guillen: .167/.211/.333/.544
Johjima: .750/.800/1.083/1.883 (WOW)
Lopez: .294/.333/.294/.627
Betancourt: .133/.125/.200/.325

Week 2 Team Stats
Hitting: .264/.323/.437/.760
Pitching: .228/.299/.389/.688

Overall Team Stats
Hitting: .236/.286/.399/.685
Pitching: .230/.305/.368/.673

Week 3: OFF, vs. Twins, vs. Twins, vs. Twins, @ LAA, @ LAA, @ LAA

Next week hopefully I'll have the time to include individual pitching stats.

Attention Hockey Fans

phil333 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:37:30 -0000

This is pretty OT but I know there's a lot of hockey fans on this blog. As many of you know, tonight is a win or go home game (basically) between the Habs and the Leafs. I imagine this game is going to be pretty crazy. For us American hockey fans, there would usually be no way to watch it. But NHL Center Ice is offering a free preview this weekend. I'm pretty excited to get to see this amazing Hockey Night in Canada matchup.

Extra Innings Off Cable!

phil333 — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:40:45 -0000

Sometimes, MLB just really pisses me off. The New York Times is reporting that MLB and DirectTV are about to enter an exclusive partnership for showing MLB Extra Innings. Now, a lot of people have been using MLB.tv and I agree, it's good, but MLB should not be restricting the number of people that can see games.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/sports/baseball/20base.html?em&ex=1169528400&en=25d4c0d927 362129&ei=5087%0A

Lede: Major League Baseball is close to announcing a deal that will place its Extra Innings package of out-of-market games exclusively on DirecTV, which will also become the only carrier of a long-planned 24-hour baseball channel.

Extra Innings has been available to 75 million cable households and the two satellite services, DirecTV and the Dish Network. But the new agreement will take it off cable and Dish because DirecTV has agreed to pay $700 million over seven years, according to three executives briefed on the details of the contract but not authorized to speak about them publicly.

InDemand, which has distributed Extra Innings to the cable television industry since 2002, made an estimated $70 million bid to renew its rights, more than triple what it has been paying. Part of its offer included the right to carry the new baseball channel, but not exclusively.

The baseball channel is scheduled to start in 2009.

May Numbers

phil333 — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:31:16 -0000

Just thought I would post how everyone's May was. In the order of the old/standard lineup.

Ichiro! .371/.418/.444 - 9SB, 0CS. - The Ichiro we all know and love.
Lopez - .289/.322/.474 - 4HR, 4BB, 11K
Ibanez - .237/.318/.421 - 5HR, 14BB, 16K
Big Sexy - .198/.252/.358 - OMG Ouch. 4HR 36!!K's
Dinoman - .291/.336/.388 - 3HR, 6BB, 18K
Beltre - .264/.302/.355 - 1HR, 4BB - I knew Beltre was still struggling but a .302OBP? That's only 18 points higher than April.
Kenji - .280/.320/.409 - 3HR, 5BB, 8K
Reed - .273/.286/.491 - 56AB
Mr. Hustle - .288/.362/.327 - As much as I rip on Bloomie, that's the best OBP for the month besides Ichiro. Not making outs is important, even though the SLG needs to be much higher.
Beta - .289/.303/.392 - 4SB, 2CS

Moyer - 5.06ERA, 1.47WHIP
Washburn - 4.23ERA, 1.23WHIP
Pineiro - 5.26ERA, 1.46WHIP
Meche - 4.93ERA, 1.33WHIP
Prince Felix - 6.31ERA, 1.49WHIP

So we always talk about the hitting needs work and it does, but look at the month of May for our starters. That is pathetic.

Going To Both Games of M's Series in Chicago

phil333 — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:49:09 -0000

Next week, got tickets to both games of the series. Night game, 2nd row out in right field (I can say hi to Ichiro :)) Day game, 4th row out in left (yay for seeing Ibanez make bad plays.) Only bad part is I'll be about 1/2 hour late to the day game, but I got a great deal. I'm posting this to see if anyone else is in Chicago and will be hitting up one or two games of this series. Go M's!

Felix Coming to Majors

phil333 — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:46:20 -0000

From the Guys At The U.S.S. Mariner: The News Tribune also is the only paper that made it public that Felix Hernandez is going to start for the Rainiers on Saturday, after working out of the bullpen in scheduled relief appearances since his return from his bout with "bursitis". Saturday is Bobby Livingston's turn in the rotation, but he was assigned to Everett's roster to make room for Jorge Campillo, who made his return to Tacoma yesterday.

Now, it may be a bit confusing as to why Livingston got sent to Everett, but its an on-paper move only, a way to clear a roster spot for a few days. A roster spot will reopen for Livingston this weekend when Felix Hernandez is recalled from Tacoma and joins the Mariner bulllpen. Saturday's start is Felix's last with Tacoma. He'll go back to pitching scheduled relief appearances for the M's during August, and then make several starts in September.

It will be cool to see him start for the M's but I still believe that for his development, he should spend the entire year at AAA before coming up to the show next year.

Looks Like Ichiro Might be Selected for Derby

phil333 — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:18:09 -0000

Major League Baseball is doing an international home run derby this year, to generate publicity for next year's World Cup. 6 players from 6 different countries have confirmed, with only the U.S. and Japan not having players yet. (D. Lee declined for the U.S. because of his injury) Japan needs someone, maybe we can finally see Ichiro? Full ESPN.com story below the fold.

The CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby (ESPN and ESPN Radio, Monday, July 11, 8 p.m. ET) will have an international flavor this year.

Hoping to kick off the countdown to next year's World Baseball Classic, the derby will feature players from different nations represented throughout Major League Baseball. Six out of eight participants have confirmed their spots, according to MLB.com.

According to the Web site Tuesday, the roster includes: Atlanta slugger and home run leader Andruw Jones, Philadelphia's Bobby Abreu, Milwaukee's Carlos Lee, Pittsburgh's Jason Bay, Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez and Boston's David Ortiz.

The Dominican Republic will be represented by Ortiz; Venezuela by Abreu, Puerto Rico by Rodriguez; Curacao by Jones; Panama by Lee; and Canada by Bay.

The only two countries not represented yet are the United States and Japan.

One player who won't represent the United States will be Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee, who declined an invitation because of a sore shoulder, MLB.com reported.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/allstar05/news/story?id=2101332