One Scoreless IP For Hill

JayBee:

I once asked the question to my former college coach who was the Indians' and Rockies' minor league field coordinator after he quit college coaching. Big league coaches and the manager have zero input on who does the instruction on the minor league level. The GM controls that with input from the farm director. Major league organizations are surprisingly segmented in that respect. Maybe the Nats are different, but I doubt it.

I will say though that Spin Williams has a pretty good rep, I think, as an instructor.

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Oh, wait. You said "Broken Cheese" is on the mound for the bottom of the second. I can figure cheese having to do with Wisconsin, but can't otherwise figure out the reference.

3 up, 3 down for NN.

1 flyball out, 2 strikeouts.

And a scoreless inning for Zimmerman - 2 strike outs. Sweet!

allow me:

the broken part is from Jordan Zimmerman's broken face when he got hit with a line drive back in the day.

Newposted:

Broken Cheese is aka The Zimm Reaper. Somebody called him the Broken Face of the Franchise in here awhile back (due to his attempt to catch a line drive with his face while pitching for the Wisconsin-Stevens Point "Pointers"), and we've been toying with calling him "Cheese" due to the Wisconsin connection (and because it would be fun to yell at games).

Speaking of the Grim Cheeser, he followed Hill's script and sent them down in order in the second with two Ks to boot.

Posted by: BobLHead | March 16, 2009 1:40 PM

Hooray for Chico! Hooray for 138! Hooray for Patty (and anyone else who posts updates) My heroes!

Now that all six of us have all updated each other ....

Carrying over my follow-up for BobL, we could also shout "blessed are the cheesemakers."

BTW, Baseball Insider has a Duaner Sanchez-Nats related post.

"due to his attempt to catch a line drive with his face..."

LOL!

Nats up 2-0. Why did Citron hit for Guzman? He's OK, I hope?

Let's keep up with the Broken Cheese and Grim Cheeser. We certainly need good nicknames.

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Casto and Patterson with some hits and runs - Nats up 2-0.

I like the Grim Cheeser.

Snark o' the day: Which is higher - number of pitches thrown by Hill today or number of days he's now out until his next baseball-like activity?

Kidding, Kidding - I share Barry's love of the sinker, and just wish i saw more of it.

Can anyone tell me what happened to Alberto Gonzalez (the SS, not the erstwhile AG)? While I may have been out of it for a while, it seems to me that he just dropped off the face of the earth.

Zimm Reaper is much better.

Any word on Guzman? Is he okay? I saw that he was pinch hit for in the 3rd inning. A little wierd.

Traveler8: He played yesterday, starting. Got two slap singles if I remember correctly.

J. Zimm appears to be dealing today...again. 6 up 6 down..3ks

Wait sorry. That was Henandez yesterday. Gonzalez started on Friday I know. Can't remember what he did...

Yes sir, Coke... NN is certainly dealing.

another 3 up, 3 down. 1 strikeout, 1 flyball, 1 ground out. I wish we had a pitch count.

Another scoreless IP for the Zimm Cheddar.

Also, AK with a walk and a hit today, now batting .385 in ST. Hope springs eternal.

Gee, a fellow moves over the weekend, does not have internet access, and misses the big discussion over the player whose now obsolete jersey he has (Milledge #44), the signing of an Ex Sox, a Shawn Hill comeback, and "Broken Cheese."

Julian Tavarez - complete flake, Manny Ramirez's buddy, known to roll fielded balls to first to keep his first baseman awake. I can't do this search at work, but if you google Julian Tavarez Corn Actor Boston Globe, only mispell corn, you'll come across what he told the Boston Globe his preferred alternate career path out of the the Dominican had he not made it off the island through his pitching. And by alternate . . .

Broken Cheese - sorry, too many mixed allusions for it to catch on. No gouda.

jca, huh? corne? curn?

"Julian Tavarez - complete flake,:

But a good guy, and highly entertaining, as evidenced by his J-Lo comments when he got here :)

Try pron, NatsNut.

Three more scoreless for Zimm Reaper. This kid is making it hard to send him down for arbitration reasons.

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"jca, huh? corne? curn?"

Think Ron Jeremy...

well, I didn't find your link, but I did find this gem

"Popping corn in bacon fat is a sure-fire way to add rich flavor to the homey snack"

drool...

Welcome back, JCA. You don't think Broken Cheese will stick?

How about these: Adam Dunn, in the outfield with Lastings and Dukes, is The Big Honkey.

Collin Balester = Space Junk.

Think Ron Jeremy...

Posted by: skippy1999 | March 16, 2009 2:17 PM

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Ohhhhhhh....(blushes)

Ah, man. NN gave up two hits.

:SIGH:

He faced 11 batters over 3 innings. 2 hits. 4 strikeouts. 2 groundball outs. 2 flyball outs.

Are they gonna stretch him to 4+ innings today?

Any word on Guzman?

Big Honkey is hilarious for being so completely dated. I love it.

I guess one more inning for the Cheese?

+1/2St.

Obviously, jca was inferring the word "born" be substituted. He is just too much the gentleman to have snarked so explicitly.

I like NN for Zimmermann, but isn't that NatsNut's moniker?

Unless he threw an unexpectedly high number of pitches (not evident from the box score), I would think that the Cheese should indeed be aged for one more inning.

My goodness. Six strikeouts in 4 scoreless innings. Nice.

+1/2St.

Nationals shortstop Cristian Guzman left Monday's game in the top of the third inning against the Marlins because of cut on his right pinky toe. He is listed as day-to-day.
therocket.mlblogs.com/

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So NN (who no doubt has a No-No in his future) appears destined for the big league rotation. I wonder if they would consider pairing him with Nieves as his own personal cracker?

Wow, I missed some, uh, interesting discussions while I was working this afternoon.

I agree that use of NN is confusing. Personally, I like the Zimm Reaper, but I realize that it's long to type during game action. I'd probably default to JZ myself.

I also liked no gouda, jca.