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Seahawk Keys to the Game, Nosebleed Section

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If you want scary-good, and scarier-intense, analysis, you of course head to Field Gulls.  There are times when we wonder about whether we take hardball a leeeetle too seriously.  Then we head to a football blog and... everything's going to be okay.  ;- )  Field Gulls had an impossible task, replacing that John guy who moved on to bigger and better, but they've done the impossible.  It is as data-rich a cyber environment as it ever was.

If you don't want scary-good analysis, but just a chat sitting in the top row of C-Link, you can get that at SSI this year.  Here's what I'll be watching tonight.  The mainframe spit out one vintage SSI 1977-era computer-code dorky subhead.  That'll be all we'll need today.

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=== Matt Flynn ===

It isn't yet established that Flynn won't be a superstar.  Sky's the limit, at least for a few more games, and that's a delicious situation.  Where hope exists in sports, I'm grabbing the opportunity.  Dr. D is wayyyy too old for routine 4-2 baseball games pitched by Miguel Batista and Jeff Suppan.  He lives for that which is special.

Stefen Romero Scouting Report 4 - Is Jose Lopez a Good Comp?

Q.  Cool Papa Bell asked whether you thought that Stefen Romero would become "the next Jose Lopez?"

A.  Having studied Romero's swing for a half hour, that turns out to be an uncanny suggestion.  Either Cool Papa was sandbagging us, or he got REALLLLLY lucky :- ) or his intuition paid off in silver dollars.

Jose Lopez was (1) a big, strong second baseman / third baseman with (2) an uncommonly fast bat who (3) had a world-class gliding problem.  Jose was, ah, "mobile" in the batter's box, as Romero tends to be right now.  

Cross-Check: Vinnie Catricala's Glove (the Grades)

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=== Keep One Point, Dept. ===

In a single game watching Catricala, you can oooooh and aaaaah at the aiki-esque way in which he absorbs the baseball into his one point, his CG, his belly button.

This goes far beyond "using two hands."  It is the right way to organize your entire body correctly --- > around the incoming energy.  It's the right way to glue your perception to the unpredictable things that the baseball will often do.  Using your CG in sports is the right way to glue your mind to the action, and the right way to deliver power to the unpredictable moment.  

Catricala, when playing defense, is not fighting the game.  He wants the ball to be hit his way, or is at least expecting it to be hit his way.  Keep One Point is the single most important principle in baseball defense.

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=== Pattern Recognition ===

Sorry to say, the weakness in Catricala's game looks like it's going to be "lack of instincts."  

You put Omar Vizquel and Jack Wilson at the other end of this scale.  Not only do they see each in-between hop as the batter swings, they seem to be able to choose between three different humorous ways to take each hop.  And if they have to make something up, as Wilson's stupid kick-the-bag DP last year from 2B, they enjoy doing it.

Without a doubt, it is the stiff mechanical way in which Catricala reads the hops, that had scouts writing him off.

POTD Tim Tebow, QB - Mobile Passers

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=== Tebow's Game Style:  the Mobile QB === 

And yet here we are, Tim Tebow is heading to the divisional round of the playoffs because of what?  Poise?  Moxie?  Leadership ability?  Character?  Unique Physical Gifts?  Divine intervention?

Tebow is in that class of quarterbacks whose biggest positive, in their first five years, is that they get more time to throw than other quarterbacks do.  Michael Vick, Randall Cunningham, Steve Young, Vince Young, Bobby Douglass, Fran Tarkenton...

You know who was the 1980's prototype of this?  John Elway!

Most of you amigos weren't around when John Elway was beating the Seahawks with .... moronic downfield decisions, stupefyingly inconsistent passing, (what seemed like) outrageous luck, and .... great mobility combined with eternal optimism and confidence.

Real Estate Investment Strategies in The Sims 3

Once your Sims have accumulated a certain amount of money, it starts to seem a bit silly. It's just sitting there in an imaginary bucket, slowly accruing. (This is all assuming that you're playing without using any of the money-related cheats, of course!) You can plaster your walls with the most expensive paintings and buy a fighter jet for your lawn, but then what? 
 

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San Francisco 33 ...

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We pos-i-tron the Mariners from the 3rd deck; from the Seahawks it's more like the 7th deck, if not from the space station.  That's okay.  Sometimes the experts are a little too close to the situation.  

How about a naive take on the day's action?

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=== Context ===

Seahawks lose game one, which is a divisional road game.  The operative word being "road."  Also, we can write off game two in Pittsburgh.

These dubious NFC West teams seem to swap home-and-home games, and here's a division where .500 would probably keep you in the hunt.  

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