Bobby Jenks is Unhittable

[prohornblower]

Jenks gives up hit to first batter he faces tonight, capping his streak at 41, tied for longest all-time.

I had to get out of bed to bump this thread because Steve Phillips just said perhaps the dumbest thing ever. He was talking about "H/OP", or as he called it hits/outs percentage relative to a count.

Jenks started out Laird 0-0, and he said Jenks has retired like 74% of batters this year when starting 0-0 (in other words, all batters he's faced). Then he got Laird 0-1 and the percentage went up to like 85%, then he got Laird 0-2 and the graphic showed that Jenks has retired 100% of the hitters he's faced this season when getting them into an 0-2 count. OK, small sample size, but whatever, I follow...

Phillips basically said this is a good thing. Then Laird fouled off a couple curveballs or something, keeping the count 0-2, Phillips re-iterated that this was a good thing. Jenks' advantage was still 100%. Then Jenks made a catastrophic mistake by throwing a 94mph fastball up-and-in for ball 1. Phillips showed the graphic went down to like 86% on a 1-2 count, and sure enough next pitch was a hanging curveball for a single to left. Phillips basically (me paraphrasing) said "You see, his percentage went down to 86% here after he threw that ball up-and-in. Although still very good, he no longer had a 100% advantage. That is where he went wrong tonight."

WOWOWOWOOWOWOWOWWOWWW. So getting a guy 0-2, and throwing two more curves over the plate for foul balls, then trying a heater up and in, to presumably set up the backdoor curve on the next pitch (or double-up with another high heater..point is..get the hitter thinking), is a bad idea. Just keep throwing curves over the plate. Wow. I need an FSP blog.

[Russ M.]

Steve Phillips said something dumb? NO WAI

[SuperUberBob]

This guy was actually the Mets GM before this.

What an embarassment. Omar Minaya is where it's at.

[prohornblower]

I can't have been the only one who saw him say that. It was horrible. I mean, ghastly.

[Russ M.]

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I can't have been the only one who saw him say that. It was horrible. I mean, ghastly.

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Earlier in the Yanks/Angels game Rick Sutcliffe said that he was anticipating the day when they could make the call for A-Rod's historical 757th home run.

Think about THAT.

[vhawk01]

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I can't have been the only one who saw him say that. It was horrible. I mean, ghastly.

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Earlier in the Yanks/Angels game Rick Sutcliffe said that he was anticipating the day when they could make the call for A-Rod's historical 757th home run.

Think about THAT.

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If he had said 756th it would have been insightful. Retarded and lame, but insightful.

[rjoefish]

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This is the biggest thing a fat white guy has done in the midwest since Travis Szyzmerski opened and closed the Golden Corral buffet on May 28th, 2002 in Davenport, IA.

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I'm from Davenport and I know of the Golden Corral there and this statement has me wondering what this is all about, or if you made something crazy up. I'm still curious, either way.

[prohornblower]

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This is the biggest thing a fat white guy has done in the midwest since Travis Szyzmerski opened and closed the Golden Corral buffet on May 28th, 2002 in Davenport, IA.

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I'm from Davenport and I know of the Golden Corral there and this statement has me wondering what this is all about, or if you made something crazy up. I'm still curious, either way.

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haha, as far as I know, it's a joke. But hey, maybe it did happen.

[wisehandpoker]

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This is the biggest thing a fat white guy has done in the midwest since Travis Szyzmerski opened and closed the Golden Corral buffet on May 28th, 2002 in Davenport, IA.

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I'm from Davenport and I know of the Golden Corral there and this statement has me wondering what this is all about, or if you made something crazy up. I'm still curious, either way.

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No! Joey Jo-Jo!