2013 MLB Season Game Thread: August

[emkayseven]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUnRNrIocbg[/ame]

[MiamiHomer]

The bouquet of flowers is the best part.

[HUGG]

Wlad's team is 25 games under .500

[HUGG]

According to a source with access to the detailed Nielsen figures, the Astros game drew an average of 1,000 viewers locally over the three-plus hour broadcast. A Sky-Lynx WNBA game on NBA TV, which went head-to-head with the Astros game for more than two hours, was seen by an average of 1,500 viewers in the Houston market.

It's as painful as it is empirical: More Houstonians watched a women's basketball game between Chicago and Minnesota than watched the Houston Astros.

http://deadspin.com/an-astros-game-h...653071@barryap

[Fritz]

People in Houston love fundamentals.

[MiamiHomer]

I just got super mad for no reason because the Reds got Billy Hamilton on base with no outs and didn't score. He stole 2nd base with Choo ab and even then Dusty has Choo try to bunt him over to 3rd. Choo walks and then he has Phillips try to bunt them to 2nd and 3rd. Phillips bunts it but the ball hit him while running to first and he was out of the basepath so it was an automatic out. Then Hamilton finally attempts to steal 3rd but Votto swings and pops out. Reds still manage to get bases loaded with 2 outs and Ryan Ludwick strikes out looking!
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It should also be noted that all three guys got on base via walk.

[HUGG]

Reds still manage to get bases loaded with 2 outs and Ryan Ludwick strikes out looking!

The Damion Easley

[Bobbob1313]

I'm not sure if Billy Hamilton's good, but he sure is fun.

[dim]

I'm not sure if Billy Hamilton's good, but he sure is fun.

The perfect description of Billy Hamilton.

Just get him on base and enjoy the show.

[HUGG]

The Texans’ loss at Baltimore was seen by an average audience of 23 percent of Houston’s 2.28 million TV households, or about 526,553 households, on KHOU (Channel 11).

And the Astros’ noon game at Cleveland on Comcast SportsNet Houston?

0.00 Nielsen rating, with an average audience of zero households.

For the first time in the Astros’ history as one of the first Major League Baseball teams to distribute their games over cable, they played a game Sunday afternoon and, according to Nielsen, nobody watched.

There are a couple of asterisks involved here, of course. For one thing, Nielsen persists with the statistically supportable but still head-shaking concept that it can measure what millions of television viewers are watching by monitoring the behavior of hundreds.

On Sunday, for example, Nielsen had reports from 581 meters in Greater Houston. In any given quarter-hour between noon and 3 p.m. Sunday, anywhere from 47.6 to 52.6 percent of those meters (roughly 270 to 300) were in use by viewers watching television.

But none of them – not a single, solitary Nielsen household – tuned in to watch the Astros lose to the Indians for their ninth consecutive loss and their 105th defeat of the year.

http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2...ay/?cmpid=hpbn

[MiamiHomer]

They did it.
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[HUGG]

Manny Machado's knee is destroyed


http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=30871619 (it's not pretty)

[MiamiHomer]

The Pirates did it!

[MiamiHomer]

Manny Machado's knee is destroyed


http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=30871619 (it's not pretty)

Out 6-8 weeks, no torn ACL.

[HUGG]

wow, that's good news