“SAN FRANCISCO — A single, clear thought came to mind while watching Tim Lincecum on a cool Monday night at AT&T Park: helpless.”

“Helpless” is certainly not the thought (or the word) that came into my mind while watching Lincecum.  Perhaps Mr Renck meant to say “while watching the Rockies try to hit Tim Lincecum”  

Mr Renck a tiny bit of proof reading would catch stuff like this and possibly bring your articles up to the level of the merely worthless.  A little proof reading might prevent you from writing “Eugenio Velez’s sacrifice lead widened the bulge to 3-0.” or Houston Street “will throw the bull pen”

From fellow SABR member, and marathon expert extraordinaire Phil Lowry…

The long long search in the wilderness for Colorado’s needle in a
haystack
has finally produced Colorado’s    FIRST game lasting 20 or more
innings.

If anyone has access to Denver newspapers of Monday, June 8, 1936, or
Monday, June 1 or Monday, May 25, we are very interested in knowing what
ballfield this game was played at.

According to the Wednesday, June 10, 1936 Gastonia (North Carolina)
Gazette, this game was played on a recent Sunday. So it could have been
played  on June 7, or perhaps May 31 or May 24.

22 innings - at Denver, Colorado - 6/7/1936 - Amateur - Felix 16 Daly
13.

That is if the beat writer had a marginal interest in and knowledge of the game.

Interesting questions about Wednesday’s 5-2 victory over the Mets.

1)Why was David Wright not in the lineup? Lingering effects of his injury; the platoon situation, or something else.

2)Why didn’t Manuel bring in K-Rod to start the 8th when the game was still tied, rather than waiting utnil it was lost?

3) Why did he waste outs trying to sacrifice runners to second, given how easy it was to run on Jimenez?

4) Why didn’t Tracy pinch run for Giambi immediately after his hit, rather than waiting until he reached third, possibly costing the team a run?

Clearly none of this was as interesting to Mr Renck as Jason Giambi’s biceps. (not that there is anything wrong with that)

By the way, Mr Renck, when will you criticize Rockies fans for cheering for a guy linked to PEDs, in the same way you criticized Dodger fans for cheering for Manny?

Greetings,

Happy September! Good to be out of the dog days of August and very much looking forward to the September stretch run. What a great time to be a fan! Now if the Rockies can somehow instantly learn how to run the bases intelligently and not break for home on contact when the infield is drawn in tight (Brad Hawpe and/or Rich Dauer are you listening?!), we can preserve some outs and maybe produce some more runs, whadya think, guys??  PTP

MR RENCK STATES, IN A DISCUSSION OF THE PROSPECTS OF TYLER MATZEK: “THE IDEA THAT HE COULD PITCH IN THE BIG LEAGUES AT AGE 21 IS NOT FAR-FETCHED, GIVEN EVERYONE I HAVE TALKED TO ABOUT HIM”

TROY: ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT MATZEK’S LIKELIHOOD OF REACHING THE BIG LEAGUES CAN BE PREDICTED BY KNOWING WHO YOU SPOKE TO?

I  SUSPECT YOU MEANT TO SAY “THE OPINIONS OF EVERYONE I HAVE TALKED TO”; AND THAT YOU WOULD HAVE SAID THAT IF YOU SPENT 30 SECONDS PROOF READING YOUR OWN STUFF.

INCIDENTALLY, WHILE YANKEE STADIUM DOES APPEAR TO FAVOR HOME RUNS; IT DISFAVORS OTHER OFFENSIVE EVENTS WITH THE RESULT THAT THERE ARE 10.3 RUNS SCORED PER YANKEE HOME GAME AND 10.4 PER YANKEE ROAD GAME.  THE COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR ROCKIES GAMES ARE 10.7 AT HOME AND 8.25 ON THE ROAD!

“They blew the save, but preserved a tie when Casey Blake flew out with bases loaded.”

I believe Blake was intentionally walked and Russel Martin flew out to end the inning.

In the first edition of the Saturday sports section, Woody Page stated that the Giants won Friday night. It was corrected later but without any acknowledgment that the original article was erroneous; at least I couldn’t find one.

By the way, two of the geniuses have blamed Jorge De La Rosa for continuing to throw his change up last week against Philadelphia when it was clear he didn’t have control of it. I was not aware that Rockies pitchers call their own pitches.

COOK

They don’t pay Renck enough to proofread.

Monday he stated: “Jim Traccy has adopted a centerfield (Fowler against righties, Carlos Gonzalez against lefties)”. Today he stated “Jim Tracy is employing a platoon of rookies in center field with Carlos Gonzalez facing right-handers and Dexter Fowler starting against left handers”. That’s quite an interesting platoon.

A special award to Patrick Saunders for profoundly missing the point of everything. He said that the Rockies high run total (second in the league) “masks their disappointing .257 batting average.” Sir, scoring runs is the goal; amassing batting average is not.

By S cook

It’s not too late to make nominations for the elections this year for your RM SABR officers and board of directors. All 4 offices are up for election as well as 4 of our 7 board seats. Please contact the chapter secretary, Matt Mitchell, via e-mail at mitchiapet@yahoo.com to submit a nomination. Nominations are due by August 15.

“TEAM DEFIANCE HAD BECOME A STRANGER TO THE GRIMACE”

I WISH I COULD WRITE LIKE THAT.

S COOK