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General Discussion => Talk Zone => Topic started by: Gizzmonic on September 18, 2011, 08:45:06 pm
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According to the Sunday Night Baseball guys, Pence told one of his Phillies teammates "I don't hit bloopers, I melt faces". I wasn't paying that much attention and I'm not watching on DVR...did anyone else hear this?
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I don't mind jumping the gun to call that the best trade of Wade's career.
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I find it facinating that our "crazy" is their "adorable". I still follow him on twitter, and his groupies are 100x what they were in Houston
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I used my awesome googling skills to find this quote (http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings110816/jim-thome-truly-real-caring-person) from earlier in the season. I guess he hasn't given up that WoW addiction, yet.
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I used my awesome googling skills to find this quote (http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings110816/jim-thome-truly-real-caring-person) from earlier in the season. I guess he hasn't given up that WoW addiction, yet.
Speaking of Pence, the Phillies continue to find nonstop amusement in the high-octane pace of their new right fielder. Manager Charlie Manuel told Rumblings Pence is one of the few players he has ever had who makes him think twice about high-fiving him after a home run. Why is that? "Stick out your arm," Manuel chuckled, "and he might break it."
And bench coach Pete Mackanin reports, after a week of watching Pence's ferocious hacks at the plate, he kiddingly told Pence he should try blooping in a hit once in a while. To which Pence replied: "Pete, I don't do that. I melt faces."
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It's all well and good when he's just some dope out in the outfield on a team with Rollins, Utley, Howard, Lee, Halladay, Oswalt, etc etc. That was not the situation in Houston.
Also, I saw on twitter the other day some baseball talking head touting Pence as hitting the only BP HRs to the upper deck in left in the (brief) history of that stadium, fwiw. I guess that's because Howard is a lefty.
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It's all well and good when he's just some dope out in the outfield on a team with Rollins, Utley, Howard, Lee, Halladay, Oswalt, etc etc. That was not the situation in Houston.
Also, I saw on twitter the other day some baseball talking head touting Pence as hitting the only BP HRs to the upper deck in left in the (brief) history of that stadium, fwiw. I guess that's because Howard is a lefty.
Pat Burrell could be described as having RH power. I'd be shocked if he couldn't reach the upper deck in BP.
What does "I melt faces" mean, anyway?
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What does "I melt faces" mean, anyway?
I instinctively looked for a "#winning" hashtag.
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Pat Burrell could be described as having RH power. I'd be shocked if he couldn't reach the upper deck in BP.
What does "I melt faces" mean, anyway?
Its from World of Warcraft. It means you melted your opponent's face.
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Its from World of Warcraft. It means you melted your opponent's face.
Do you do this by trotting around, bobbing your goofy head side to side?
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Do you do this by trotting around, bobbing your goofy head side to side?
More or less.
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Pence is an idiot.
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Pence is an idiot.
Cocker Spaniel with a bat.
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Cocker Spaniel with a bat.
SFN
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Pence is an idiot.
so nice that he's their idiot
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They'll learn.
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Do you do this by trotting around, bobbing your goofy head side to side?
No, you just refuse to blink and do the googly eyes on your opponent.
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They'll learn.
Meh. Dunno. As long as they have the likes of Halladay, Cliff Lee, Utley, Howard, Rollins, etc., Pence gets to be what he is, not what some Pam Gardner type wants him to be. Frankly, but for the FoF tag Pam put on him here, I would have really liked the kid. On a club where he does not have to be FoF, it would be easy to like the kid.
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Meh. Dunno. As long as they have the likes of Halladay, Cliff Lee, Utley, Howard, Rollins, etc., Pence gets to be what he is, not what some Pam Gardner type wants him to be. Frankly, but for the FoF tag Pam put on him here, I would have really liked the kid. On a club where he does not have to be FoF, it would be easy to like the kid.
He does, after all, melt faces.
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(http://www.spikesnstars.com/docs/wp-content/uploads/Pence_the_Hypnotist-300x248.jpg)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1165864/The-Young-One-Rik-Mayall-shows-middle-aged-paunch.html
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1165864/The-Young-One-Rik-Mayall-shows-middle-aged-paunch.html
are you implying pence is a cliff richard fan?
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are you implying pence is a cliff richard fan?
Tell me he doesn't look like Rik from the Young Ones?
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Tell me he doesn't look like Rik from the Young Ones?
no, he totally does
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I find it facinating that our "crazy" is their "adorable". I still follow him on twitter, and his groupies are 100x what they were in Houston
Win goggles.
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Tell me he doesn't look like Rik from the Young Ones? Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick.
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Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick.
Hey Hunter, you're supposed to toss the pick into the crowd AFTER the solo.
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Pence Video:
http://www.csnphilly.com/...Zjwme3_LKH2gTtwm64IsLg8qz
Says he never has felt fan support like the Philly fans. Of course, it was probably just an innocent agreement.
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This love affair between Pence and fans.... where have I seen this before? Oh yeah... right here in Houston, when the kid had a hot spring training and then was called up too early and proceeded to run around hitting homeruns, turning singles into doubles and making fans just go all gah-gah over him. Yeah.... now I remember, looked a lot like... well... what he's going through right now.
Until he started trying to pull everything, including sliders in the dirt and then decided he don't need no stinkin' cut off man. Yeah.... it's the fan's fault on that one!
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This love affair between Pence and fans.... where have I seen this before? Oh yeah... right here in Houston, when the kid had a hot spring training and then was called up too early and proceeded to run around hitting homeruns, turning singles into doubles and making fans just go all gah-gah over him. Yeah.... now I remember, looked a lot like... well... what he's going through right now.
Until he started trying to pull everything, including sliders in the dirt and then decided he don't need no stinkin' cut off man. Yeah.... it's the fan's fault on that one!
He'll do better in Philly over the long haul in a supporting role. He has no pressure to be anything more than a moron who can hit there.
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He'll do better in Philly over the long haul in a supporting role. He has no pressure to be anything more than a moron who can hit there.
Pence actually really impressed me the way he handled the pressure of being "The Guy" for the Astros this year. Perhaps he just lucked into a long hot streak for 3 1/2 months, but he stepped up and produced as the #3 hitter way better than I thought he would.
Not that I am saying he has any baseball sense whatsoever, or that I think the trade was anything but a brilliant and necessary move...
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Pence actually really impressed me the way he handled the pressure of being "The Guy" for the Astros this year. Perhaps he just lucked into a long hot streak for 3 1/2 months, but he stepped up and produced as the #3 hitter way better than I thought he would.
Not that I am saying he has any baseball sense whatsoever, or that I think the trade was anything but a brilliant and necessary move...
The problem I have with "the Guy" is it is a foreign concept in baseball unless you're the ACE pitcher (or stopper). Unlike the NBA, where it is one or two superstars and a bunch of guys who rebound, the idea in baseball is the *best team* wins. Pence never showed (to me) he understood *team* as much as he understood "play hard and all out and let the rest take care of itself". We often said that if you could place Bagwell intelligence, Biggio's intensity into Pence's skill set, you'd have the player who could lead this team forever. But somehow, somewhere Gunther got the idea is that all he had to do is play hard (and recklessly) and the *team* would benefit.
Well, yes and no.
A team benefits when a #3 hitter knows how to handle the situation beyond "grip it and rip it". A right fielder who plays balls to the wall will serve the team best when he hits a cut off man and takes correct routes to a flyball to make the job of a pitcher easier. A situational hitter knows that with less than two outs, a pitcher struggling out on the mound and the bases loaded, you don't swing at the first offering from the pitcher just because you're impatient and unable to be anything other than a cocker spaniel with a bat. I saw enough GIDP to end rallies from Pence to know he did not understand how to be a leader on a team that needed a team concept to win. Andy is right, Pence is about being around others who will lead and extend him the grace to be the crazy-eyed, aloof, but very talented goof-ball that makes himself a fan favorite (much like others who endear themselves because of their goofiness). Without the others doing the professional job of a team baseball player, Pence is way out of his element and will be what we saw in Houston.
Very frustrating as a waste of talent.
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He'll do better in Philly over the long haul in a supporting role. He has no pressure to be anything more than a moron who can hit there.
Which brings us articles like this one: Hunter Pence: Erratic Heartbeat Of The Phillies (http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/5265/hunter-pence-erratic-heartbeat-of-the-phillies)
"But the mid-season addition of Hunter Pence to the Phillies lineup and his wide-eyed, all-face-plants-all-the time, swinging-on-the-first-pitch (EVERY TIME) style of play made me anxious. And that made me calm."