Comments on: Weekend links with Jon Marthaler http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/ Exploring the soft underbelly of sports Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:41:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: UofM2010 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66569 UofM2010 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:48:20 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66569 @crainwreck I used to refer to him as The Pirate because of his uncanny ability to let in every inherited runner, not give up any earned runs of his own, and "pirate" the win when we scored thereafter. Never really cared for the guy. @crainwreck I used to refer to him as The Pirate because of his uncanny ability to let in every inherited runner, not give up any earned runs of his own, and “pirate” the win when we scored thereafter. Never really cared for the guy.

]]> By: Dave MN http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66568 Dave MN Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:23:18 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66568 <i>When Jesse Crain rose to prominence in the Twins bullpen in 2005, the 23-year-old right-hander had vultured 12 wins while maintaining a 2.71 ERA despite walking more than he struck out (29/25 BB/K) in 79.2 innings of work also finishing eighth on the AL Rookie of the Year ballot.</i> Exactly! He <b>vultured</b> 12 wins because he let any inherited runners he came in with score, and he got some offense in the next half-inning. Jesse Crain has been a big ball of suck all along. Maybe I was the only one who noticed. They really should have traded him after 2006 when some teams were deluded enough to think that he could ever be a closer. When Jesse Crain rose to prominence in the Twins bullpen in 2005, the 23-year-old right-hander had vultured 12 wins while maintaining a 2.71 ERA despite walking more than he struck out (29/25 BB/K) in 79.2 innings of work also finishing eighth on the AL Rookie of the Year ballot.

Exactly! He vultured 12 wins because he let any inherited runners he came in with score, and he got some offense in the next half-inning.

Jesse Crain has been a big ball of suck all along. Maybe I was the only one who noticed.

They really should have traded him after 2006 when some teams were deluded enough to think that he could ever be a closer.

]]> By: sconway55037 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66567 sconway55037 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:26:30 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66567 I would sneak up in the middle of the night to watch Benny Hill, my dad caught me once and instead of getting mad at me (like I thought he would) he sat and watched it with me. As far as sports from my dad, he told me great stories of seeing Willie Mays, Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski play for the Minneapolis Millers and Roy Campanella playing for the hated St Paul Saints. He would also tell me the Millers and Saints would play a doubleheader on the Fourth of July, one game in Minneapolis and one in St Paul. I would sneak up in the middle of the night to watch Benny Hill, my dad caught me once and instead of getting mad at me (like I thought he would) he sat and watched it with me.

As far as sports from my dad, he told me great stories of seeing Willie Mays, Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski play for the Minneapolis Millers and Roy Campanella playing for the hated St Paul Saints. He would also tell me the Millers and Saints would play a doubleheader on the Fourth of July, one game in Minneapolis and one in St Paul.

]]> By: Clarence Swamptown http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66566 Clarence Swamptown Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:28:14 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66566 I love you dad. I love you dad.

]]> By: Stu http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66565 Stu Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:23:35 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66565 As featured in the Slapshot credits, Today's Unimpeachably Great Song: "Right Back Where We Started From," Maxine Nightingale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCwBAhz4oc&feature=PlayList&p=1555763F94D30308&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16 As featured in the Slapshot credits, Today’s Unimpeachably Great Song: “Right Back Where We Started From,” Maxine Nightingale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCwBAhz4oc&feature=PlayList&p=1555763F94D30308&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16

]]> By: AZGopherGirl http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66564 AZGopherGirl Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:18:43 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66564 Dads schmads. Dads schmads.

]]> By: Stu http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66563 Stu Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:13:28 +0000 http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/randball/2009/06/20/weekend-links-with-jon-marthaler-73/#comment-66563 <i>Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals drew hockey’s best rating in nearly four decades. Suck on that, haters.</i> Dude, I'm standing right here. Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals drew hockey’s best rating in nearly four decades. Suck on that, haters.

Dude, I’m standing right here.

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