October 5, 2014
countdouglas
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Several notable things happened on this date in baseball history.
"He is moving like a tremendous machine!"
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Billy Freaking Butler stole a base. Aybar did his best to hang tough, bless his heart, but I laugh no matter how many times I watch him bail out at the end as "Country Breakfast", aka, the "Billdozer" comes roaring in there with a full head of steam!
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And then Bill-Dawg got up, looked towards the dugout and his fellow speedsters, and revved it up! 'Cuz that's what speed do!
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Then, just a short time later, with runners on and the Angels desperately trying to save their season, Lorenzo Cain ripped the heart out of the Angels team with two unbelievable 5-star catches coming off the bats of back to back hitters.
The first occurred as he was running towards a sinking line drive in left field.
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The next ball was another sinking line drive, this time into short right field. That pretty much ended whatever fight the Angels were going to put up on this night.
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The third, and probably most notable thing that occurred in that game, was the very last postseason at bat of Mike Trout's career. It ended just like you'd imagine, with explosions and sparks going off at the end, a la "The Natural". Of course, there wasn't a homerun trot for Trout. Rather, another swing and a miss for strike 3 to end the game for the second night in a row, causing the Royals to pour out of the dugout as fireworks lit up the sky. Mike got a good look at the rocket show as he took his walk of shame back to the dugout.
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Ahhhh...the memories...
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😂😂😂😂 That look on Trout's face is priceless.
I just knew there was going to be a part of that post devoted to Trout. I just knew it!
Had to wait for it, and the Count delivers in the clutch like Brett hammering a Gossage fastball!
My favorite part is, "the very last postseason at bat of Mike Trout's career". LOL.
Love the post!
It was a wonderful run, ruined by that Bumgarner bully.
Seems like it was yesterday. We went to game six of the WS. Game 7 wasn't ruined by the Bumgarner bully. It was the 3 base coach not sending Gordon home.
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@Darin
Another year, same ol' Trouty!
Well, he has the size to play outside linebacker. of course, after the very first hit, he would be out on the PUP list waiting for next season.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
And in related news, the Angels have just placed Trouty on the 810 day disabled list. The move from angels management is thought to be an indication of confidence that they can count on their IL star to continue to miss games at an historic pace.
“We would like to see Trout set the record for most time on IL and also go down in history as the greatest player to play approximately 18-20%
of the time.”
When asked for a comment Trouty whined, ‘I have another boo boo’ 😥
I'm not waiting until after midnight to bring this baby back! It's been 10 years since Bill-Dawg stole his base while Trouty pouted in the outfield. Then Cain ripped out what little heart Trouty and the Angels had left with back to back web gems. By the time the 9th inning rolled around, Trouty had already checked out and was in a hurry to get back to the clubhouse and watch the highlights from the Philadelphia Eagles win, and pretty much just gave in to Holland's fastball with half-hearted waves of the bat while HOFer Denny Matthews punked Trouty for his efforts in the radio call.
Trouty was then, and still is, the biggest fraud in sports!
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Count I didn’t know HOF’er Denny punked the troutster for his efforts. I’ll have to try to look that up this evening and listen to it.
@Darin
I hope this post finds you well. I haven't seen you participate on the forum in some time.
It's now been 11 years since Bill-Dawg stole his base and Trouty pouted about it in the outfield and eventually quit on his team.
To commemorate the fact that Billy Butler will forever have more postseason stolen bases than Trouty, the Royals issued a season ticket member exclusive bobblehead of him standing on second base, attempting to rev it up. Lol
I don't know if I've shared it with you before.
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The forum is still the same old same old. The "pretentiously cerebral" Trouty fans still gather in the various threads to do the metaphorical circle jerk. They throw out all kinds of garbage trying to justify whatever their premises are, meanwhile, the other members stroke their
Egos by praising them for how right they are, all while complimenting each other on their big
Baseball minds. That usually works when they're discussing those long ago players like Arky Vaughan or Tungsten Arm O'Doyle, but when they do it while discussing Trouty, it just makes them look like, well, I shouldn't use that word, I guess. Anyway, they seem to forget that there are game logs and play by play logs and archived games on MLB.TV where all of their nonsense can easily be disproved. I mean, if you're just going to make stuff up, make it up for a guy that it's hard to fact check for, not a modern day guy, one that I personally have literally watched all but a handful of his career at bats.
You likely knew this, but Trouty was once again this year one of the worst hitters in baseball in late and close situations. I mean, Yahoo.com had an article about it on July 25. Here's an excerpt, in case you didn't see it.
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Shortly after that, on August 6, Trouty hit his 398th career homerun. I, of course, figured that Trouty would quickly get #399 before the pressure would get to him and he would choke all over himself, like he always does.
But no, the choking started immediately. The notorious "$5 blackjack player" suddenly found himself in high limit and the nerves made him forget how to play the game. He went 28 games and 126 plate appearances, each one with a little bit of vomit in his mouth, before he was finally able to get off the snide. I'm happy for him, as you know, that he was eventually able to get to 400 and beyond.
As you remember, many forum members were upset with me when I joined in 2017, because from the start, I would state what was plainly obvious to anyone that actually watched Trouty play. He doesn't have that extra gear, that competitive attitude, that winning gene. Most of all, Trouty lacks that clutch ability. Well, I don't have to tell you that, you already know.
Well guess what? Here we are, 9 seasons later since I joined the forum, and Trouty still hasn't won anything and still chokes all over himself on a regular basis and forum members still lose their minds over that and twist themselves in a pretzel to explain it away. They don't seem to understand, or able to admit, that I've been right from day one. When are they ever going to accept that this is just who Trouty is?
Well, all the forum members except one. Remember Dallas? He finally realized the errors of his ways, but for some reason, rarely finds his way onto the forum anymore. He asked me as a favor to send him one of my hats. I told him that I usually sell them for $27.27, but I would absolutely love to send it to him for free because just the mental image of Dallas wearing my hat is worth millions to me. He supposedly wears it everywhere he goes, including to bed. Lol
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Anyway, I still have the 1975 uncut sheet with the Brett rookie, and while I currently have no plans to part with it, you're still the guy with first refusal rights if I do ever decide to sell.
Take care, and all the best to you.
Your fellow Royals fan,
Count