Nows your chance geniuses

[pravata]

Dierker describes what happened in the 8th and 9th inning in Monday's game vs the Reds, then asks the question,

And so, after playing tough baseball for two and a half hours, the Astros lost the game in fifteen minutes, without really choking. Qualls didn't make that many bad pitches. No one made an error. There were no passed balls or wild pitches or missed calls by the umpire. It just happened.

If anyone can explain why this happened, please let me know.
The Link

[jbm]

Some might view blowing a three run lead as choking.  Some might view it as bad luck.  Others might view leaving a pitcher who had choked, or had just had some bad luck, in to give up three more hits as choking.  Or maybe that was just bad luck also.  

In my mind, if the team gives up four runs in a critical late inning, someone is accountable.  It's a losing mentality to act like it was just fate or something.

[pravata]

Quote:
Some might view blowing a three run lead as choking.  Some might view it as bad luck.  Others might view leaving a pitcher who had choked, or had just had some bad luck, in to give up three more hits as choking.  Or maybe that was just bad luck also.  

In my mind, if the team gives up four runs in a critical late inning, someone is accountable.  It's a losing mentality to act like it was just fate or something.

Those "some" people you're talking about, they're idiots.  The question wasn't who's accountable.  The question is why did it happen. Answers involving Zeus' daughters aren't likely to be accepted.

[Taras Bulba]

Quote:
Dierker describes what happened in the 8th and 9th inning in Monday's game vs the Reds, then asks the question,

And so, after playing tough baseball for two and a half hours, the Astros lost the game in fifteen minutes, without really choking. Qualls didn't make that many bad pitches. No one made an error. There were no passed balls or wild pitches or missed calls by the umpire. It just happened.

If anyone can explain why this happened, please let me know.
The Link

I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.  And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

[ybbodeus]

Probably carries loose change into combat, too.

[No? in Austin]

Quote:
Those "some" people you're talking about, they're idiots.  The question wasn't who's accountable.  The question is why did it happen. Answers involving Zeus' daughters aren't likely to be accepted.

In baseball, the old adage applies (as the reason for most things): They were better than you that game.  Tip your cap and move on.

(You cannot correct strategy, performance, luck or anything in that case, you just go out and play again another day... the breaks will come your way the next time or the time after that... but trying to explain it is a stupid exercise in huge futility)

[pravata]

Quote:

Quote:
Dierker describes what happened in the 8th and 9th inning in Monday's game vs the Reds, then asks the question,

And so, after playing tough baseball for two and a half hours, the Astros lost the game in fifteen minutes, without really choking. Qualls didn't make that many bad pitches. No one made an error. There were no passed balls or wild pitches or missed calls by the umpire. It just happened.

If anyone can explain why this happened, please let me know.
The Link

I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.  And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

Very, very, close.  I would also have accepted, "WAAAAAAA....HOOOOOO! WAAAA! HOOOO!" repeat.

[pravata]

Quote:

Quote:
Those "some" people you're talking about, they're idiots.  The question wasn't who's accountable.  The question is why did it happen. Answers involving Zeus' daughters aren't likely to be accepted.

In baseball, the old adage applies (as the reason for most things): They were better than you that game.  Tip your cap and move on.

(You cannot correct strategy, performance, luck or anything in that case, you just go out and play again another day... the breaks will come your way the next time or the time after that... but trying to explain it is a stupid exercise in huge futility)

Ding! Ding! Ding! Rich Aurilla wanted to win too.

[Limey]

Some might view scoring only three runs in hitter-friendly Tammy Faye Bakker Stadium as not enough against one of MLB's best offenses.

The game wasn't lost in the last 15 minutes, and it's only down to Pettitte's amazing Houdini act that the Astros were still in front at that point in the game.  They were a couple of hit away from a blowout, virtually the whole game.

[Navin R Johnson]

Quote:
didn't make that many bad pitches.

Maybe not ?many,? but the one to Rich sure was.   First pitch fastball, right over the heart of the plate, bellybutton high.  

To Rich's credit he knocked the cuking shit out of it.