-Q: You had Bowker in the on-deck circle, for Molina’s spot, which didn’t come up in the eighth. You weren’t thinking of Posey there?
-BOCHY: Well, they had a right-hander up there. I had a guy on deck who got a big pinch-hit yesterday. And we couldn’t get him in. I’m looking to score more runs. If I’m going to take Bengie out and I hit Posey, I’m not going to catch him. Now I’m down to one catcher. He’s our insurance policy right now.
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Bochy basically doesn't view Posey as a "catcher" yet
In the same transcript I quoted from, he said “We all want to see him play a little bit… [b]ut I’m going to go with my two catchers,” i.e. Whiteside and Molina.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
“Play a little bit” = catch bullpen.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Sep 8, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
One more thing
The reason I posted this fanshot was the matter-of-fact nature of Bochy’s pronouncement, “I’m not going to catch him.” That just amazed me. Like it’s a given that you would NEVER put a prospect in at that position at the tail end of a blowout.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
YEAH WELL
Just THINK what would have happened if Bochy had let Buster hit there, put Whiteside into catch and then, with three outs to go in a blowout game, Whiteside had gotten injured. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY SCREWED!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Pablan Garkoval to the rescue!
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Sounds like a Chechnyan warlord.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Sep 8, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
guys, you just don’t get it. he was looking to score more runs, obviously bowker is a ton more likely to knock those runs in than buster, and the more runs they score the longer he can leave hinshaw in the game!
by TimLincecumIsGod on Sep 8, 2009 11:49 AM PDT reply actions
I’m not going to catch him
But he would use him if he had to? Wouldn’t he rather use him in a low pressure situation to “get his feet wet”?
Insanity is just a state of mind.
No way
A low pressure situation only causes high pressure situations to move into the area more rapidly (it’s just physics), so putting Posey in during those situations only increases the chances that he would be thrust into a veritable high-pressure maelstrom.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Sep 8, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s what makes good managers who do things to win ballgames.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Sep 8, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I still don't know
From whence the “bork” meme?
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Bochy looks like the Swedish chef from Muppets.
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Swedish Chef muppet sketch
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Now that you mention it...
…Velez bears a certain resemblance. Can we have yet another nickname for him?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
Buster Pos-e-Surance.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Sep 8, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we want him to make his debut in the field.
It would be a silly concept, but I wouldn’t put it past our org.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Sep 8, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochy: I want Frandsen back! Sabean: You’ll get Posey! Frandsen! Posey! Frandsen! Posey! Alright fine….Bumgardner then!
by MoreroidsforZito on Sep 8, 2009 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s no d.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Sep 9, 2009 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Can’t wait until next year if Bochy is back. If he doesn’t think he can catch now, I don’t see what will change between now and spring training. I’m going to go out on a limb and say Bochy doesn’t consider AFL a good place to learn to catch.
I hope Grant is right and this forms a rift between the FO and Bochy, leading to Bochy being gone.
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