Werthless wrote:I think he was pissed his nap got interrupted.

bleh wrote:Ricky Bo sounds so retarded in that

Grotewold wrote:

Rococo4 wrote:daulton seemed really fired up

Lost the ball in the Hale-Bopp comet

According to Manuel, the sequence of events went like this: During Rollins' at-bat, Manuel looked over to the visiting dugout and locked eyes with Dodgers slugger Jim Thome, a long-time friend whom he managed in Cleveland. Manuel says he then pointed to right field, indicating where Rollins was going to hit the ball.

"Thome is standing over in the other dugout, and Thome looks at me, and I motion like that," Manuel said, holding out his arm. "I told Thome, he is going to hit one. I go like this (points finger) and point to the right field stands. I did, but I had a good feeling about it. It wasn't like I was joking or kidding or nothing.

"He was looking at me, and I went like that, and he's shaking his head like no, he's not, or something like that. You can ask him. I had a real good feeling. I was talking to (bench coach Pete) Mackanin the whole time. With Jimmy up there, I liked that moment. I liked the guy hitting."

bleh wrote:Ricky Bo sounds so retarded in that

slugsrbad wrote:

bleh wrote:Ricky Bo sounds so retarded in that

Awkward high five

Squire wrote:I just wanted to say that I was only disappointed in one fan at the park last night. It was the woman who had the pro Ron Darling sign. Seriously. How pathetic is that?

SQUIRE

dajafi wrote:Sounded like Kermit the Frog having multiple orgasms.

mozartpc27 wrote:I was thinking about this on the way into work as well. I think sometimes "volume" gets mistaken for "excitedness." It's natural for human beings to assume - even if it isn't exactly true - that if they are trying to say something and there is a lot of noise going on around them as they are trying to say it, they have to speak more loudly; in other words, when people speak, what usually determines the volume of their voice is their judgment about how loudly they need to speak in order to be heard over any other noise in the environment in which they find themselves. A broadcaster, of course, could probably always be heard over the crowd, because he has a microphone and the crowd doesn't, but nevertheless the natural instinct is to yell in an attempt to overcome the ambient noise takes over in some situations. So, for example - and perhaps I will upload this later for everyone to listen and hear my point - if you listen to Harry Kalas's call of Joe Carter's home run in the 1993 World Series, he sounds kind of "excited," like he's T-Mac calling an ultimate GS by David Wright against the Phillies, but that's because really what he is doing is trying to make himself heard over the din in Toronto as that ball left the yard. Harry was not a happy camper, I'm sure, but he sounds more excited than you would otherwise think plausible - knowing what we know of Harry - because he has to say what he is saying so loudly in order to be heard. Conversely, there is a game from 2002 that I taped the replay of that took place in Montreal, in which the Phillies scored 8 times in the top of the ninth to turn an 8-3 loss into an 11-8 win. The big blow is a Pat Burrell 3-run home run to make it 9-8, and Harry's call on it sounds unusually subdued; but again, I think that's not because he isn't excited, but rather because, with only a few thousand people in the stands at Stade Olympique who were also suddenly quieted by the turn of events, Harry instinctively used his "inside voice" to call the home run.

How this relates to Franzke: as we all know, the crowd was sort of dead until the big moment arrived. At the beginning of that play, he was speaking at a volume level that had been required all game to make himself heard over the ambient noise. But as it unfolds, and he becomes unconsciously aware of how much ambient noise there is all of a sudden, he keeps adjusting that volume level up, up, up. Some of it, no doubt, is also pure excitedness, but I think the best way to explain why he doesn't sound excited at the beginning of the play is because he isn't loud yet, and he isn't loud yet because he hasn't had to be for most of the game to that point.

My point is: I think Franzke was plenty excited right from the beginning, but he got louder as the play went on in part to adjust for the rising level of noise in Citizens Bank Park; inasmuch as we associate "loud" with "excited," then, we interpret what we hear of last night's call as Franzke somehow not understanding at the beginning what a big deal this was. I think he understood all along, it just took him some time to get his voice adjusted to a level loud enough that he felt he would be heard over the suddenly-much-louder crowd.

jerseyhoya wrote:A fuller bit of the story from Murphy

According to Manuel, the sequence of events went like this: During Rollins' at-bat, Manuel looked over to the visiting dugout and locked eyes with Dodgers slugger Jim Thome, a long-time friend whom he managed in Cleveland. Manuel says he then pointed to right field, indicating where Rollins was going to hit the ball.

"Thome is standing over in the other dugout, and Thome looks at me, and I motion like that," Manuel said, holding out his arm. "I told Thome, he is going to hit one. I go like this (points finger) and point to the right field stands. I did, but I had a good feeling about it. It wasn't like I was joking or kidding or nothing.

"He was looking at me, and I went like that, and he's shaking his head like no, he's not, or something like that. You can ask him. I had a real good feeling. I was talking to (bench coach Pete) Mackanin the whole time. With Jimmy up there, I liked that moment. I liked the guy hitting."

jerseyhoya wrote:A fuller bit of the story from Murphy

According to Manuel, the sequence of events went like this: During Rollins' at-bat, Manuel looked over to the visiting dugout and locked eyes with Dodgers slugger Jim Thome, a long-time friend whom he managed in Cleveland. Manuel says he then pointed to right field, indicating where Rollins was going to hit the ball.

"Thome is standing over in the other dugout, and Thome looks at me, and I motion like that," Manuel said, holding out his arm. "I told Thome, he is going to hit one. I go like this (points finger) and point to the right field stands. I did, but I had a good feeling about it. It wasn't like I was joking or kidding or nothing.

"He was looking at me, and I went like that, and he's shaking his head like no, he's not, or something like that. You can ask him. I had a real good feeling. I was talking to (bench coach Pete) Mackanin the whole time. With Jimmy up there, I liked that moment. I liked the guy hitting."

jerseyhoya wrote:For as much as TJ Simers enjoys calling us angry, he's one bitter old man.

kimbatiste wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

bleh wrote:Ricky Bo sounds so retarded in that

Awkward high five

I feel pretty confident that's more on Barkann than Rick Bo.

slugsrbad wrote:"Here's the <del>throw to the plate</del> one hopper to the cut off man!"