Is anyone watching? Is Ubaldo Jimenez as filthy as gameday suggests?

Game day just had Jimenez at 101. Wow.

I’m watching the unproduced feed. He looks good. No good contact and very strong sequence with Utley.

Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of the raw feeds.  It sucks that the TBS feeds are blacked-out.  It also sucks that the raw-feed is noticbly behind Gameday, so you can’t really use both at the same time.

I love this note:

All Live games on MLB.TV are subject to BLACKOUT RESTRICTIONS.  Your current physical location helps us determine the best subscription package for you.

And by “best for you” they mean “best for us”.

[4] I’m getting my raw feed ahead of gameday. I’m not a huge fan either, but I have it , so I’ll live with it. I only wish that they synced it with a radio feed rather than the TV feed. Radio voices do tend to talk about the game a bit more often. i.e. outs and the count.

He seems to be throwing his secondary pitches a fair amount. I thought this was the NL, where manly men exclusively challenged batters with their fastball. Is he a girly man?

Lee seems to have settled down. Looks like a good pitching game.

What’s your preferred camera arrangement?  I’ve been using the tight CF in the big picture and mid-HP as the small corner.

I thought the NL was were soft tossers threw change-ups and mid-80s fastballs on the outside corner, and got away with it due to getting calls a foot off the plate?

I’m using 4 screens. Centerfield, the two home plates and 3rd baseline.

I don’t there’s a difference between centerfield and tight center.

Ugh now all my feeds are falling out of sync. damnit!

I’m guessing you guys bought postseason.tv?

Yeah.  Ambivalent.  Thought I was getting the TV feed.

yeah…

there are…um…methods of watching the game online without paying. It’s not 100%, but it’s free.

there are…um…methods of watching the game online without paying. It’s not 100%, but it’s free.

TVU?

Yeah, or myp2p.

A ridiculous curve to get the K, then a high 99 MPH pitch for a swinging strike on Howard. Ubaldo is nasty.

They seem to want to get game 1 over with fast!

So basically, a guy who would be pitching teh ate in the AL, is the game one starter for a NL team.

Ubaldo is very, very good. TV voices saying he doesn’t use the curve in Coors. Get him out of there.

“Ubaldo is very, very good. TV voices saying he doesn’t use the curve in Coors. Get him out of there.”

After my apotheosis there will not be baseball in Denver or any other place where pitchers have to make such compromises.

Get him out of there.

Think Cashman and Theo know when he hits FA?

Can anyone tell me why Ryan Howard was trying to steal 2nd?  I mean, I know there were two outs, but still.  He’s not a fast man.

[15] - Yeah, I’m just worried about being on the school network.  They’ve already chased down one grad student who was doing things that he probably shouldn’t have been doing.

any other place where pitchers have to make such compromises.

Whew! Though all of Seattle fears your next apotheosis in defense of power hitters…

Was strike 2 to Werth an 85-MPH changeup?

Anyone else watching the TV broadcast?  Is anyone else getting muffled sound?  I’m hoping it’s just the feed coming from Philly and won’t affect the MIN-NYY game later.

Was strike 2 to Werth an 85-MPH changeup?

TV voices said it was a slider, in which case, I take it more as a bad sign as it seem like a hanging type.

[20] So you are saying Joba or Hughes or IPK could be the #1 starter for an NL team?

Is anyone else getting muffled sound?  I’m hoping it’s just the feed coming from Philly and won’t affect the MIN-NYY game later.

It was muffled for the Minn Det game too, so I’m assuming, and hoping, it’ll stay that way.  The ratio of things worth hearing to Carey blathering probably won’t favor crisp TV voice audio.

On a different note, I’m sure you’ve considered this already, now that you work in the Biz Jon, would a whole bunch of stuff you got, internet connection, cellphone, transportation, cable, certain food, etc, be deductible/expensible?  Hope I’m not getting too personal.

[29] Only if the team in question wanted to waste their talent.

Hawpe really is a terrible fielder.

Joe Beimel going with the Lawrence from “Office Space” look, I see.

Ubaldo isn’t very good at battle mode. He should talk to Andy.

[20] So you are saying Joba or Hughes or IPK could be the #1 starter for an NL team?

I could see that.

would a whole bunch of stuff you got, internet connection, cellphone, transportation, cable, certain food, etc, be deductible/expensible?

Yeah, some of it definitely is deductible.  My cousin is a CPA, and he said he would help me out with it next year.  I never took tax law so I’d probably end up in prison if I tried to do it myself.

the Phanatic apparently plays a mean tiny grand piano.

[36] Oops, I forgot the main point, save your receipts.

SG…you’re an absolute animal, a true master.  Every now and again I step back and admire the expanse of your contribution to my baseball life.

Lee - 72% strikes (and I have him at 80% first pitch strikes).

I’m looking forward to Lidge.  Adventure!

Wow. horrible play.

[41] He won’t be needed in this game if Lee keeps up his 103 pitch pace.

[43] Yeah, plus the Phils are blowing it open.  Boo!

Great job by Lee today.

Cliff Lee doesn’t seem to have broken a sweat.

If Hamels turns in a similar performance, I think it is practically game over for Colorado.

[45] Yup.  A CG to start off the division series definitely qualifies as a great job.  Let’s hope his former rotation-mate follows suit in a few.