I was going to jump in and correct you that the guy’s name is actually Jayson and proceed to make fun of his idiotic name but then I remembered that my name is Chuck so I decided to tap the brakes on that whole deal.
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As an old white guy who has opinions on everything that the world needs to here, I object to this wholeheartedly.
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This prompts me to post something that has been simmering since the 5th inning. Did anyone else notice or take offense at the constant yammering about the no-hitter? It was almost like they were trying to jinx it. I thought at the time that it would be poetic justice for the jinx to fail, but was afraid to say it out loud.
Then I had to go to bed sick after the 7th and watch the end on delay. Nice way to wake up.
Harold Reynolds also went on and on about Javier being pulled and how it was bad for baseball during the MLB Tonight postgame show.
Especially by the schmuck with Smoltz, but I figured destiny was going to do what destiny was going to do.
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Says the host with 15 years and no ring
Good. Lord.
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I like Harold Reynolds, but how the hell would he know anything about playing in the Postseason?
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I’ve muted the entire WS, so no.
I did want to throw something at the TV with the idiotic no hitter alert/countdown on the screen.
Not they, Joe Davis, it was every other sentance. John Smoltz never uttered the word until it was complete
They also might want to look at his pitch count. There was no way he was completing the game with 97 pitches through six innings. And, if he had, they would be the first to write articles or go on television saying Baker’s handling of Javier was reckless after the game.
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They’ve been doing it for a few years now, anytime a no-no goes into the 6th inning. I remember seeing it for Alex Wood in 2017 WS G4.
To be fair, Todd Kalas and Robert Ford are pretty forthright about not being superstitious about no-hitters, and in fact believe it’s part of their job to communicate it. Probably just a new school of broadcasting. I know Bill Brown tapdanced around Fiers’ no-hitter until it was over.
Smoltz said during the postgame that it was the first no hitter he’d ever been a part of on the TV side of things…calling it. You could tell it meant something to him to have been a part of it by the way he said it.
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I can forgive Ford because being on radio it probably IS part of his job to say what is happening. If you’re a TV guy though, we can see what is happening. I don’t like when Kalas does it either. It’s not a huge thing for me either way but wanted it to be noted that Smoltz didn’t say no hitter.
Didn’t think he was sharp (or, sharp as he’d been) in his last frame last night. Also, Jim’s point.
I seem to remember them showing the scoreboard a lot during the first combo no-hitter in Yankee Stadium (that’s fun to type, because it means there’s more than one), but never mentioning the no. of hits.
If you know, you know. If you didn’t know, you weren’t paying attention so it didn’t matter.
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Gene Elston always talked about no hitters. He did not believe in the old school superstition.
TY for this link, @Dickntx , really enjoying an (somewhat) unscripted Blummer who knows how to let you know what he means w/o exactly saying the words…
That was fun!
I agree. They hit two ground balls solidly in the 6th but right at fielders.
So it would have been good for baseball if he hurt his arm throwing 130+ pitches trying for a no hitter?
I like Reynolds too, but fuck that.
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