Sunday, May 16, 2004 |
Angels 7, Orioles 4
Underperformance by one person is poor performance. Underperformance by a whole team is poor management.Well, yes, and that's why you have to wonder about how the Angels are doing. Richard has started blasting Mike for his in-game moves. Yes, I'll give you his running game is an absolute puzzler sometimes, but what about the successful double-steal the other day? Without comprehensive data to hand, I'm not going to go far with this one quantitatively. While this game was going on, we were at Petco watching the Cubs beat -- beat? No, pound -- the Padres. (We're going to a second game tonight at Petco, so neither have I got the time -- wish me luck on the traffic. Expect a mess of photo essays up in the next few days, including, hopefully, our Spring Training adventures.)
Back to the Halos. I'm starting to think I might like Wash, just a little. For one thing, I hate flyball pitchers, and for another, I hate extreme flyball pitchers. With sufficient run support, any hack on the mound can be made to look good, although to take it to the extremes the boys in St. Louis do is just crazy. Yet, eight innings and two earned runs? And now he's sporting a sub-5.00 ERA? Wowzers. If he gets below 4.00 I'll do handstands. And no, Richard, I'm not taking back anything I said about Halter. I'll agree that his rotten glovework has cost the team dearly from time to time, but he does -- sometimes -- do things that redeem him. Hey, at least he's not Eric Owens, or worse yet, Scott Spiezio -- who is now 1-42 in the clutch for the M's. So much for "clutch hitting" as an ability.
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