Part-Timers Sports Podcast: Episode 23: What Are We Celebrating for Again?

Recorded Thursday September 25, 2014

On #BUCTOBER, Derek Jeter’s last stand, and some NFL odds & ends.

Giancarlo Stanton is Beast

Stanton hits home runs like a fully-grown man.

This might be the hardest hit ball I’ve ever seen.  What it lacks in length it makes up for in smashfulness.

If you listen closely, you can actually hear the ball say, “Ouch.”

The ball never started to come down.  If the stupid Marlins Stadium didn’t get in the way, it would still be in orbit travelling around the earth as we speak.

Giancarlo Stanton has been a full-time Major since 2010 when he was just 20-years old and already has 138 home runs and counting.  He makes $6.5M in 2014, his first arbitration eligible season.  Unless the Marlins do something intelligent, like sign him to an extension now before he gets close to FA status (ala Tampa and Longoria or LA and Trout) , he’ ll look great in Pinstripes in 2017.

OH NO HE DIDN’T! (Cespedes Does It Again)

A wise-ish man once said, “Fool me once, shame on… shame on you?  Fool me, you can’t get fooled again!”  Confused?  Good, so am i because I have no idea why the Angels continue to challenge the arm of A’s LF Yoenis Cespedes.  You would think after this, and this, that they would have learned their lesson by now, but, as the below video illustrates, they have not and that boggles my mind.   This time it’s Albert Pujols turn to look foolish.

Are we all in agreement that now Cespedes is just messing with the Angels’ heads by misplaying balls on purpose so he can throw them out trying to take an extra base?  Seems that way to me.

Yoenis Cespedes leads all MLB outfielders with 9 assists and 4 of them have come against LA.  My favorite definition of the word insanity is, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  By that standard the Angels are bat-shit crazy.

Oakland would go on to win the game 7-1.  At the plate Cespedes went 3-5 with 2 RBI.  Their 40-26 record leads the AL.

Cespedes would have been 4-5 and had his 13th home run of the season if it had not been for this bit of thievery courtesy of Mike Trout.

 

You Don’t Run on Yoenis Cespedes!

Apparently Angels 2B Howie Kendrick did not get the memo.  If he had, this might not have happened:

I love the look Cespedes gives toward home after muffing the ball but before retrieving it.  It was one of supreme confidence as if to say, “I got this.”

 

Here is a GIF from another angle:

 

On the fly!

Yoenis Cespedes has a missile for a right arm and should have to register his ownership of it with local authorities.  That way at least opposing base runners might stand a chance.

 

You’d think Anaheim woulda’ learned their lesson by now.