Rizzo is pretty much MVP at this point.
Four in a Row
Josh is the greatest living writer you've never heard of. Also, he likes bugs.
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Obstructed View Forum- TV Dramas vs Movie Dramas May 21, 2013 BVS
- Closer by Committee May 19, 2013 BVS
- Mish is probably quite happy with the 24 news May 13, 2013 dmick89
- Cast iron cookware May 12, 2013 uncle dave
- televisions May 2, 2013 EnricoPallazzo
- Hope Monster, comics. April 22, 2013 josh
- Hannibal April 19, 2013 dmick89
- Veronica Mars movie April 15, 2013 dmick89
- The Borgias April 11, 2013 dmick89
- fucking shriners April 10, 2013 uncle dave
I like that you gave Hope Monster warp capability.
Berselius wrote:
Was every single one of F7′s K’s on the splitter? That thing looked nasty, but I didn’t see the game. Hopefully his other pitches were good too.
Suburban kid wrote:
Fair dues, mate.
Rice Cube wrote:
Is the big one his nose, or his middle eye?
Regarding the convo a couple threads back, I don’t watch the ASG either MB, but I did when I was a kid. And I loved watching great defenders make great plays in those game.
I’d love to see Darwin barney slicking up the infield for the NL, if I was a little kid. Now, I don’t want anyone from my team diving for balls in a meaningless game. (dying laughing)
Which means the Cubs should stop trying for the rest of the season. (dying laughing)
@ Recalcitrant Blogger Nate:
Strikeouts:
1: 86 mph splitter
2: 87 mph splitter
3: 86 mph splitter
4: 84 mph splitter (foul bunt)
5: 86 mph splitter
6: 86 mph splitter
7: 82 mph slider
8: 84 mph slider
9: 86 mph splitter
10: 85 mph changeup
11: 85 mph splitter
I noted that the slider, changeup and splitter had about the same trajectory so Gameday might be calling the same pitch three different ways. You’d probably have to ask Harry about that one. It seemed like F7 just got to two strikes with his fastball and then unleashed the split/slider/whatever, which you’d think would be predictable but even if the Braves knew what was coming they couldn’t do anything about it.
Here’s a recap of F7′s Ks…
http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=22784785&c_id=mlb&topic_id=vtp_jiffy_lube
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/clip-board/201207/kid-catches-fly-ball-popcorn-bucket
1. Kudos for that kid’s MacGyverism.
2. Those home plate seats look really comfortable.
Josh’s bio is not nearly as cool as dj’s.
Free, on Castro/Rizzo: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17557
Berselius wrote:
I bet you could sell this T-shirt at rival stadiums.
@ Suburban kid:
I thought it was an eye.
@ Mish:
You’re jealous of my caterpillars. It’s okay. I understand.
Do you raise caterpillars or do you raise butterflies/moths?
He’s got five eyes because odd numbers are more terrifying. He has no nose, his tentacles are capable of manipulation, taste, chemoreception, and vibration reception due to the fractal nature of their surface when viewed under a microscope. Since he is a four dimensional monster, he is capable of moving freely through time and can appear to “warp into” any given situation, though spatially he has to be present at that location, even if temporally he is elsewhere. He has to take a bus to Cincinati like everyone else, but he gets to go into the future and use high-speed rail thanks to Obama. Also, what you’re seeing is a 2D representation of the 3D projection of his true self — really more of a tentacle of his body than an actual body, except in 4D. Similar to how a sphere passing through a plane appears to be a circle that grows from a point, then shrinks back down to nothing. If you saw more of his true self, even a glimpse would render you completely insane. He makes Cthulhu look like a kangaroo in a jumpsuit. His true name is unspeakable by human tongues and he was brought here accidentally on a comet that collided with the Earth in the time Before, when the ancient civilization ruled. They failed to survive and all trace of them was wiped from the Earth except a few lingering, mysterious fragments visible only to artists and madmen, all because they failed to invent baseball. He was awakened eons later, not by the crashing feet of the dinosaurs or the sweet melodies of the ephemeral tree people of ancient Gondwana, but by the rousing cheers and then utter humiliation of the Cubs losing the World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1910.
“Ph’nglui mglw Herper’mo’ter R’gley wgah’nagl fhtagn” (In the house of Wrigley, the Hope Monster lies dreaming)
@ WaLi:
Well, right now caterpillars (cecropia moths). This is my first attempt. I haven’t gotten any to adult stage, so while technically a caterpillar is a moth in larval form, I guess it depends on how technical we’re being as to the correct answer.
EDIT: my guess as to why we even have the word “Caterpillar” is because it took our ancestors entirely too long to realize that caterpillars turned into to butterflies (spontaneous generation and all that). I mean, you look at a larval fly or a larval beetle and you wouldn’t think “I bet that’s a fly and/or beetle!” Of course, occasionally an insect gets more well-known for its larval form than it’s adult form, such as in the case of the corn rootworm, which is actually a beetle.
josh wrote:
What is this I don’t even
@ Mish:
Just trying to anticipate other questions that may arise.
I miss JG’s memes. Where has that asshole been?
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17557
This was a great piece.
@ Berselius:
Clearly you don’t read every word on this blog. (dying laughing)
@ Mish:
I blame having to convert the comments to metric, or something.
@ jtsunami:
He quit on us. No, he was just done. He’s not even a Cubs fan anymore so I was always surprised by how long he stuck around ACB and then later here at OV. I miss his comments too.
@ Berselius:
This is clearly grounds for a paddlin’.
Hey josh, Repoz picked up your Rizzomania cartoon and posted at Baseball Think Factory. Pretty cool.
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/obstructed_view_rizzomania
Votto’s knee is wonky, so there’s a real possibility Bryan LaHair starts the ASG. (dying laughing)
Dontrelle Willis ————–> Retired/Wal-Mart Greeter with funky delivery
josh wrote:
I was always fond of “GLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR LARBUDDY” (dying laughing)
@ Mish:
They squished it.
@ Rice Cube:
Can I not be allowed the occasional Call of Chtulhu reference?
@ Mish:
Actually, that’s cool, but I’ve never heard of the site.
@ josh:
They’re huge. I can’t think of a bigger baseball blog. Congrats on getting linked there, Josh. That’s almost as impressive as ESPN. Seriously.
@ josh:
I actually have been visiting that site for ages, before I stumbled upon other saber-y sites. The commenters/writers have a SABR bent, but the main draw is people posting (usually dumb) articles from the mainstream press and skewering them.
@ Mish:
I like how the Astros fan threw down a challenge for the #1 pick in the comments.
It’s too bad berselius can’t win the OV over/under contest because he’s kicking ass right now. I’ve only tallied the mid-season totals for the batters and I’m not including Jackson or Rizzo as we didn’t expect them to get much PT before the midway point. ACT and Mark Ammer are next highest after berselius. Still have all the pitchers to total. I’ll make a post with these totals later today.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-i-learned-at-the-largest-christian-music-fe
@ mb21:
I’m interested to see what I picked, considering I don’t even remember this contest (dying laughing). No wonder all the other blogs continuously blast this one for being complete shit
I’ll also say that we didn’t think much of Paul Maholm entering this season and we were very high on Darwin Barney. Both turned out to be accurate. We’re smrt.
@ Berselius:
http://www.obstructedview.net/projections/an-obstructed-view-contest.html
You nailed the hitters, but you’ve whiffed so far on the pitchers. I sucked on the hitters and have nailed the pitchers. (dying laughing)
@ mb21:
With our powers combined, we could have sucked on both the hitters and the pitchers
mb21 wrote:
Kinky.
From what I remember, I think I took the under on just about everyone (dying laughing)
@ Berselius:
Well you’re the math whiz, you explain! (dying laughing)
My first thought was that the hypotenuse of the largest triangle wasn’t in line with the smaller triangle but that’s probably not right.
@ Berselius:
Slope’s are different?
@ Mish:
haha, that was fast. Yes, the answer is that it’s not actually a triangle
@ Berselius:
You’re thinking of MO. Overall though, we were a very optimistic bunch.
@ Berselius:
I just took a guess but it looked slightly different to me. Very subtle.
@ Mish:
One triangle has slope 2/5, the other is 3/8
Shawn did the best on the pitchers. Snyds01 and I were next. Corms was last.
@ Berselius:
You should make OV Gold Stars for us now.
@ Rice Cube:
You and Mish only get partial credit for guessing without justification, and you thought yours was wrong anyway (dying laughing)
@ Berselius:
Bronze stars then?
@ Rice Cube:
Your guesses were not particularly valorious
@ Berselius:
Clever. The angles are close because the triangle is long, which fools the ole eyeball.
@ Berselius:
But lead stars are so heavy…
@ mb21:
I’m hoping that I’m still in the running for Most Optimistic.
Is there a Rizzo game today?
new shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/projections/ov-contest-mid-season-update.html