33 thoughts on “August 3, 2019: Ol’ Twitchy”

  1. Ordonez lining into a double play in game 163 and Nathan doing two windmill fist pumps

    1. Yeah, that's the one specific memory that came to my mind, as well.

      Honestly, when I think about Nathan, though, I mostly just think of his tics on the mound. Dude looked like he was going to fall to pieces before every pitch.

    2. I went and watched that inning earlier*. Then I had to watch the end. Man that was a fun one.

      *I was reminded of how terrible Chip Caray is, though.

      1. Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play.

  2. I also used to have one of Batgirl's Santana/Nathan 04 t-shirts that said, "Sit down, bitch!"

    Got a lot of compliments at the Dome

  3. Probably going to be a crazy day at work today, so I am going to put a very early pick in for Cruz.

  4. Successful book hunting trip at the annual book fair: found McDevitt's "Thunderbird" and Mrs Runner found a stack of her crappy historical romance novels. Now it's time for sushi (for her - spicy chicken for me)

    1. There are certain plays in baseball that I just love seeing executed well. The hit and run. The suicide squeeze. A double (or triple!) play. The wheel play on bunted balls. And throwing a perfect strike from the outfield to nail the runner coming home. I really like that one a lot.

      1. As a RF rover in softball, my favorite play was the one- or two-bounce strike to get the runner heading to third - something about watching the ball passing by the advancing runner. Unfortunately more often than not the 3B muffed the catch/tag.

        1. As a centerfielder in baseball and fast pitch softball (80 lbs ago), I was always fond of the gunning a runner down at the plate. My least favorite play? When the infielder would cut off a damn good throw to the plate. I may have been heard to shout "you obviously don't know how strong my arm is!" to my teammates a few times.

          1. During my year in Dublin, I played short for a softball team. I was always the cutoff guy, no matter where it went in the outfield. Everyone knew to get it in to me, and had free reign to roam wherever I needed to.

            One game, the opposing player/manager was from Memphis(? Little Rock? Somewhere in that neck of the woods). I liked the cut of his jib - he always had his team taking extra bases, which is great strategy in Dublin city beer league. Defenses were not very sharp. I ended up throwing out a guy at third and another at home.

            IN the last inning, I threw out a third base runner, this one at home again and this was from fairly deep in the outfield. Credit to the batter, he crushed it. It probably took a top-3 throw of my life to get him, but I did (and props to the catcher for getting the tag down too.)

            The player/manager literally threw his hat on the ground and started yelling "WE WENT OVER THIS! I TOLD Y'ALL NOT TO RUN ON HIM!" in a thick West Tennessee/Arkansan accent. I tried, and probably failed, to hide the massive smirk on my face.

      2. On my phone so hopefully the link works, but one of my top 5 favorite plays from the last 10 years is when Aaron Hicks nailed Vernon Wells at 3rd base

  6. Finished season 3 of Stranger Things. I tell my friends that if the X-Files and the Goonies hooked up and had a love child it would be called Stranger Things. As a 86 high school graduate, the nostalgia of the show and all the shout outs they slip in to my high school days is just so enjoyable. Just a fun ride of a show.

    So the next binge watching decision was made to revisit Letterkenny.

  7. Merry go round continues.

    Thorpe down. Buxton and Pineda to IL.

    Cron back. Littell and Cave up.

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