The Bobby Abreu Tracker Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

April 5th vs. St. Louis - Game #2

1st AB
Score: 0-0
Runner on 3rd w/ 1 out
Pitcher: Mark Mulder (LHP)
Sacrifice Fly to LF

2nd AB
Score: 1-1
Runner on 2nd w/ 2 outs
Pitcher: Mulder
Ground out to 1B

3rd AB
Score: 3-1 STL
0 runners on base w/ 2 outs
Pitcher: Mulder
Ground out to 2B

4th AB
Score: 4-3 STL
0 runners on base w/ 0 outs
Pitcher: Jason Isringhausen (RHP)
Ground out to SS

Totals: 0-3 0 HR 1 RBI 0 R 0 BB 0 K - minor impact

[Rome]

Did you even see the play?

It was a short pop fly just over Utley's head, Jay.  I'm not saying he had to lay himself out flat to make the catch either.  All he had to do was hustle a bit and slide to make it.  He didn't even do that.

I told you before I'm not a crazy basher like some of the other fools out there.  But that play could have and should have been made.  Had he made a better break on the ball and gave it an all-out effort, he could have made the catch and if he jumped up immediately, with the gun he has, he could have held the runner at third.

Of course, we'll never know that now, will we?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yep, I saw it. And I saw him calling "I got it" on the replay. Then he realized he couldn't get to it and played it on the hop. I had no beef with it falling in because if he dives, the runs still scores.

This is what bothers me about the Abreu stuff. He makes a play that you see happen a lot in the course of a day in the bigs and people act like he is just this lazy bum out there who doesn't care about shtein. That ain't the case. And the whole Bobby hate thing (not on this MB necessarily) has gone to the point where people incessantly bash him for stupid shtein like he's just out there collecting a paycheck and doesn't give two shteins about winning.

[Rome]

Calm down and realize that I simply said that I was disappointed in his effort on that play.  He could have and should have made the catch there.  That's how I saw it.  If you think that's me bashing him irrationally then you're wrong, amigo.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Sorry.

I got 14 messages from my boys at work saying "ooooh, your boy is a bum" and then I log on and see the hate on the Phils MBs too.

[MDS]

are people really blaming this game on bobby? not the pitching, not loserthal, not the offense as a whole accounting for 3 runs? damn this town and their stupidity.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yes. Because if Bobby makes that catch and holds the runner and doesn't ground out with a runner on 2nd and draws a walk in the 9th we win. At least thats the way some of the nitwits see it, including my ignorant boys.

[MDS]

I could make the obligatory joke about who your "boys" are, but you know, it's too easy.

Bobby still rules!!

[PhillyPhreak54]

My boys = friends.

Something you don't have, jerky.

[Rome]

MDS has to solicit friends with offers of fellatio apparently.

Also - Loserthal handed that game to the Cruds tonight.  His throwing error started it and his stillupfronty weak ass ground out to end the game sealed the deal.

I'm all for pitching his ass over the side on the next space shuttle mission.

[MDS]

this is why im depressed. my self-esteem is so low. 

[Geowhizzer]

I don't mind Abreu not getting the catch.  What I mind is seeing him ease up on the ball rather than diving for it.

$13.5M should buy you more than that guy.

I'm sorry but that's how I feel.  If that makes me a "hater" then so be it.

Hater. 

I wasn't pleased with that effort, either.  To me, it was indecision or uncertainty about making the catch after calling for it.

That being said, that is a play that happens with a fair amount of regularity in MLB.  The ball was hit in just the right spot.  There isn't an RF that's played regularly that hasn't muffed a play like that several times in the course of a season.  Abreu has the Philly spotlight, though, so he gets railed for it more.

[Rome]

Maybe he gets railed for it because he rarely, if ever, gets his fricken uniform dirty playing the position?

I mean, really, how many times have you seen Abreu give up himself to try and make a catch?

Like I said, Geo, for the kind of dough the motherfarger makes, it would be nice to see him play balls-out just once.  But you get what you get with him so pulling one's hair out over it is pointless.

[SunMo]

while Bobby didn't do much to help them win, he most certainly wasn't at fault for the loss. 

[PhillyGirl]

while Bobby didn't do much to help them win, he most certainly wasn't at fault for the loss. 

exactly.

Holy shtein, I can't even believe what I am reading? lmfao.

Pathetic.