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For those who don't know who Curt Schilling is, he is a famous Red Sox pitcher.
This woman seem intent on insulting Mass citizens.
Posted on 01/15/2010 6:36:18 PM PST by WaterBoard
On the talk radio show, "Nightside With Dan Rea," Coakley labels Rudy Giuliani as a Yankee fan, then goes on to bizarrely describe Brown supporter Curt Schilling, the great former Red Sox pitcher, as a Yankee fan as well.
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For those who don't know who Curt Schilling is, he is a famous Red Sox pitcher.
This woman seem intent on insulting Mass citizens.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2597461/martha_coakley_curt_schilling_a_yankees.html?cat=14
Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in the special election in Massachusetts, added to her long list of gaffes and missteps when she attested that Boston Red Sox’s great Curt Schilling was a “Yankees fan.”
I'm not sure which closer for Schilling's teams pitched worse in the World Series...Mitch Williams or Byung-Hyun Kim.Williams, by a considerable distance. The home runs distort each pitcher's shakeout, but if you took them away from each you'd find Kim had far out-pitched Williams. Kim walked only one batter and struck out six in the 2001 Series; Williams struck out one and walked four.
What people don't remember about Byung-Hyun Kim: He actually shook off that 2001 World Series disaster and put up a 2002 that would have given any other pitcher a lot of props---including having led the majors in what came to be called the tough saves, meaning saves of more than one inning and/or beginning by entering the game with men on base. Kim had six such saves, not to mention a 1.07 walks and hits per inning pitched average, a 2.04 ERA, 36 saves, a 3.54 strikeout-to-walk ratio, and an 8-3 won-lost record in the bargain.
It was his best season. And it still didn't convince anyone else that he had what it took. I think what happened to him afterward was a combination of these factors:
a) Sooner or later, the fact that people couldn't or wouldn't shake off the 2001 World Series as well as he actually did had to affect him somewhere and give him pause no matter how hard he tried to push it out of his thinking. That image of him sinking into a squat on the Yankee Stadium mound after the second night's disaster, his face buried in his glove, was just too indelible to too many people, even if to a man his teammates (including Curt Schilling, who was actually very fond of him in those days, as most of the Snakes were) had his back.
b) He was foolish enough to think he was better suited to a starting role; he might have been an effective spot starter as well as a reliever if the Diamondbacks had thought about it, but he was probably best suited as a relief pitcher.
c) He suffered an ankle injury in early 2003 and pitched through it, when the Diamondbacks gave him a shot at the starting rotation and he made it, and it took a lot of edge off his unique pitching motion.
d) He actually pitched well for the Red Sox when they acquired him in mid-2003, including in the postseason---at least, he was pitching well until Grady Little panicked after he started the ninth inning of the first division series game with the Red Sox up 4-3. Kim started with a fly out to center (Ramon Hernandez), a walk to pinch-hitter Billy McMillon, and a hit batsman (Chris Singleton), before striking out Mark Ellis. Kim had first and second and two outs with a lefthanded hitter coming up when Little lifted him for Alan Embree, playing the obvious enough percentage . . . but forgetting that Kim was usually very effective against lefthanded hitters; the hit batsman was a lefthanded hitter, and Kim was trying to work him inside and low, working for a ground out or a strikeout---his breaking pitches, especially, were good to throw inside for such results; his fastball, which was nasty at its best, was likely to get him a fly out working the lefthanded hitter inside. No matter. Embree's first batter, Erubiel Durazo, swatted the RBI single that tied the game, before Embree got the inning-ending ground out (Eric Chavez) that sent the game to extra innings for Derek Lowe to lose, 5-4.
d) Kim couldn't get out of his own way, and this may be the biggest flaw he had. Trained from youth to keep throwing no matter what, Kim became an object lesson in how a stubborn work ethic can kill you on the mound. He threw constantly between appearances; behind the bullpen, in the clubhouse under the stadium, between games, you name it, Kim would be there throwing. Especially after a tough or bad outing. It was only a matter of time before he would burn himself out completely (the Diamondbacks subsequently admitted that this was one of the reasons why they were willing to listen when the Red Sox came looking to make a deal for him); his constant working first drained his relationships with his teammates (several Red Sox complained that it was impossible to convince Kim to ease up, relax, and join up on the road), then drained the talent. And it was a shame, because he should have been able to forge a fine career no matter what happened in the 2001 Series. The 2002 season showed there really was something there, and for Kim to have pitched that well while having the 2001 Series constantly thrown in his face was probably nothing short of a miracle.
Which was more than you could say for Mitch Williams, a pitcher who seemed to thrive on living dangerously even before the 2003 Series. He went from there to two nondescript seasons in Houston and Anaheim, tried a comeback in Kansas City two years after that, got hammered in six and two thirds innings total work, and was gone.
Coakley is typical of Dem women like Pelosi, Boxer, etc...
Stupid, uninformed, yet the MSM gives her a free pass and ignores the ridiculous and idiotic statements that come out of her mouth.
Compare that to how the MSM treats the likes of a Sarah Palin.
The MSM resorts to lies and half-truths in order to smear and slander her, yet Coakley and other Dems get a free pass.
Coakley is a laughingstock, yet the MSM does their best to hide her incompetence.
He's for whoever is playing the Patriots...like me. He opened the phone lines to people who wanted to call in and make fun of them after the Ravens game...LOLOL! It was hysterical!
B Knotts wrote: When is she going to insult Bruins fans? I imagine they feel left out.
She already did insult Bruins fans. In a Globe interview published last Sunday, she was asked if she was being too passive by not reaching out to the public. Her answer was
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?”, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that prior to the NHL Winter Classic Flyers/Bruins game.
Coakley’s a GOP mole; she’s just gotta be.
Best explanation I have heard yet!
Exactly.
The crimes, in order of perp for those not steeped in Red Sox baseball:
--the high throw enabling Enos Slaughter's mad dash and leaving Johnny Pesky with a misleading image of holding the ball;
--starting Denny Galehouse instead of Mel Parnell, not to mention lifting Ellis Kinder in Yankee Stadium;
--the stumble rounding third that helped kill a rally and possibly cost a Red Sox pennant;
--the eephus pitch Tony Perez drilled into the ether;
--lifting Jim Willoughby a hitter or three too prematurely;
--starting Bobby (This Kid Has Ice Water In His Veins) Sprowl over Luis Tiant, enabling the finish of the Boston Massacre;
--throwing the pitch that had B.F. Dent's name on it;
--committing the passed ball that was ruled, wrongly, a wild pitch, allowing the tying run to score ahead of
--Mookie Wilson and the croquet shot heard 'round the world; and,
--committing to Pedro Martinez's heart without bothering to check whether the arm had equal life left.
Good thing Dame Coakley isn't running in Illinois. She'd probably try to make a case that Charley Root (he threw the three pitches Babe Ruth bombed out of Wrigley Field, including the alleged called shot), Jolly Cholly Grimm (he was fool enough to let Hank Borowy---still the last known Cub to win a World Series game---start Game Seven, 1945, on one day's rest, rather than let a well-rested Hy Vandenburg out of his doghouse with a real shot at winning the Series), Leo Durocher (who mismanaged the 1969 Cubs out of a National League East they could have won just as the Miracle Mets began reheating in earnest), Leon Durham (he telegraphed poor Bill Buckner in the 1984 National League Championship Series), Don Zimmer, Steve Bartman, and Alex Gonzalez (he let the double play ball bounce off his chest, the real opening to the Marlins' feeding frenzy in 2003) were White Sox fans.
He isn’t.
But Bobby Orr is...:)
I thought former Governor Jane Swift was the dumbest politician I’ve ever seen here in Massachusetts. That is, before Martha Coakley came along.
This woman reminds me of Kathleen Kennedy Townshed in Maryland.
Also I’m holding my head straining painfully to imagine what on earth is going to happen if Coakley is elected?
Boston stations are running commercials for both candidates 24/7 and without exception run Coalkley’s ads last in hopes Bay Staters’ memories are as short as a carp.
ACORN and SIEU are blasting away in the state.
But is obvious that Bay Staters are pissed and they’ll be really pissed if Coakley wins.
If Coakley wins? Well, the Mexicans won at the Alamo.
or Caroline Kennedy in NY. You know? :)
I just hope Croakley is dumb enough to say something bad about Carl Yastrzemski.
If she says something bad about Yaz then it is all over.
I am confused? SEIU members for Scott Brown? Huh?
They won California, too.
There are a number of FR threads about it and some links.
The man featured in the youtube is in the lower left side of a couple of pictures here. He is in a wheelchair.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/15/purple-for-brown-seiu-member-s
http://mainstreetradical.com/2010/01/16/some-seiu-members-support-brown/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HbcxXvvf_s&feature=youtu.be
http://redmassgroup.com/diary/6658/wow-purple-shirted-seiu-members-holding-signs-at-standout
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/13/seiu-affiliated-union-endorses-scott-brown/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2429972/posts?page=159#159
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