Sep
29
2009
The Most Animated Balk Call In The History Of Baseball
Posted by meech.one at 4:07 pm ET
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During last night’s laugher of a home game, one of the few bright spots came when Shane Victorino scored from 3rd on a Yorman Bazardo balk in the bottom of the sixth to bring the Fightins back to within a run. As soon as it happened, Shane pointed at the pitcher as to say, “hefuckingbalkednoquestionsasked.” Then, that Bazardo fella looked confused as to why he was called for the balk, so homeplate umpire Tim Tschida did a demonstration that combined a little bit of Leslie Nielsen from Naked Gun with some sort of two-step. I think.
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OH MY! What a goofy dance that was, huh?
/Sarge&Wheeler’d
lmao
Not a balk. Sorry Sarge. He lifted his right foot backwards off the mound first.
When is Tug gonna make a GIF of the Tischida Dance?
This was the cherry on my shit sundae last night.
fuck the hustle, I’m doin the balk from now on
Looks like some Tae Chi thing going on there with the arm sweep.
If Tug makes a .gif of the Tschida Dance, it will make me sad. Because you cannot put a .gif on a t-shirt.
Clearly a balk, he stepped towards home plate and then towards third
Oh I see what you mean. If I recall though it’s clearer from the side angle that his right foot going backwards isn’t the first thing that happens.
P.S. Chooch is back tonight
Phylan, I see his right foot moving first. Did they even show a side angle? The broadcasts have been awful this month.
I swear to god I saw an angle from behind Victorino but then again maybe I had already started drinking with the recognition that Bazardo was going to shut the lineup down
without a side angle, i would be furious with that balk call too. from this angle his right foot steps back off the rubber first. after that point he could do a kung-fu kick towards home if he wanted. odd movement? yes. balk from this angle? not a chance. but whatever. fuck the astros
According to Tschida, he DID do a kung-fu kick.
@MaxL: shit sundae, is that the new ben&jerry flavor? i’ll have to look for it right next to turkey hill’s graham slam…
yes, anyone at last night’s game could see that it was more than just Dollar Dog night. PHils phans were served shit sundaes, too.
I’ve watched this about 50 times and I get a kick out of it every time.
Shit sundae? Like from 2 Girls 1 Cup?
Oh my! That umpire will do a DANCE, then LET YOU SCORE.
Enrico Pallazzo?
I can’t be sure, but that may have been Soulja Boy behind home plate. Superman that hoooooooooooe
I just watched it about 7 more times. I think I may love Tim Tschida just the tiniest, little bit now. That was 27 kinds of awesome.
oh yeh and….hahahahahahaha my fave part is the slow mo…
Anyone see the commercials before the 3rd inning started? It was in slo mo and Pedro was talking in the background. There was a shot of a fan in a Birdland Tshirt.
lu kang wiins
does happy pete get a t-shirt now, you fucks?
Boom goes the dynamite.
/Feliz’d
LMFAO! I love it! We will be seeing this dance at weddings in the near future! Classic!
Whoa, Madson. Easy big feller.
Hang in there. You can do it.
Now THAT was close to superb. Nice work, Mad dog.
Why no game recap yet?
you fucker
Thank fucking god
Kevin Millwood.
wildthing the game recap is the highway. you have to lay down to see it
Magic Number is ONE. WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Magic Number=1…Can you feel it?
YEAH thats right Gonzo…Braves can tomahawk my cock (and balls). Let’s go baby!
i was hoping moyer would come out of the pen for the clincher and make his annual appearence
Miles, I truly believed that the Marlins would lose just to fuck us up. I guess I was wrong.
By the way, you may want to reword that.
I feel like there is no reason why Cholly should not name Ryan Madson as his closer for the postseason. Your thoughts.
JFE, this topic has been done a thousand times over the past month. THere seems to be no consensus.
I know everyone’s going to want to kill me but, I want Brad Lidge to be the closer. It’s really just a feeling and I can’t explain it. I’m going to go hide under a rock now.
No Gonzo, I’m fine with it. I meant every word I said.
In honor of the Braves being big tomahawk wielding vaginas, I’m going to drink 20 Natty Lights in honor of how many fans they had in Atlanta tonight.
HEY LOOK! IT’S ENRICO PALLAZZO
@Gonzo…perhaps, however, the new information coming in suggests to me that Madson should be the closer. I also think that the longer Manuel delays naming a closer, the shorter amount of time Madson can get used to it.
And Maria, you can have your opinion. I just think you’re wrong.
@maria, don’t be ashamed, Dodgers fans are allowed to post here too
Perhaps Maria was saying “I want Brad Lidge to be good enough to be the closer”. I feel that way as well.
I expected this.
To say that after two solid games, Ryan Madson is the sure-fire closer is as crazy as me saying Brad Lidge should the closer in the postseason. Everyone in that bullpen has been incosistent and shaky in the 9th. One game doesn’t make a closer. There really is no right answer and it’s much easier as a fan to criticize Charlie’s decisions then to make them. I’m not really confident in either one so at this point, it’s a coin flip.
@Gonzo, I wish he was half as good as he was last year. I just hope we clinch tomorrow night and then maybe Charlie can allow Brad Lidge to pitch in the rest of the games of the season.
@maria, Madson hasn’t had “two solid games,” he’s been the best reliever in the bullpen all year. Lidge’s 2008 was not the norm for his career. I loved it, but recall he had just come off of two pretty bad seasons, and his “saves” past about July were full of baserunners and stress. Having a 48/48 closer has demented a fair chunk of the Phillies fan base to be obsessed with the save. Lidge will not return to form. I think you’ll get your wish though; Charlie will continue to try and run him out there, thinking that mere time off will correct his obvious mechanical and location problems, and it will cost the Phillies the chance to go deep in the playoffs.
I mean, think about it, Manuel has given Lidge some time off and tried to return him to the closer role several times this season, and when has it worked?
He’s been streaky but so has Madson. It’s hard to say that you have confidence in either one.
I have full confidence in Madson and I have no difficulty saying it. Madson hasn’t been streaky, he’s been reliable. You’re focusing on save outcomes and ignoring just how effective he has been in a pretty weak bullpen. Then again, we already did this last week and got nowhere.
Maria is right. Madson has been been very streaky. How quickly we forget that the tying run came to the plate tonight with one out and a 3 run lead.
I didn’t forget. The Phillies win probability was still around 80% at that point, and the second runner got on on the graces of a bleeder through an infield that was shifted way to far to pull for Berkman.
And I guess if you go by saves Madson has been “streaky,” but I don’t go by saves, because it ignores so much of what a pitcher actually does, good and bad. And Lidge, for his part, hasn’t been streaky, he’s been goddamned bad, all year long.
Phylan, you dismiss bleeders as if they were errors and not his fault. Bottom line, I am not sold on Madson.
Well, they aren’t his fault. Besides inducing ground balls vs. line drives or flyballs, a pitcher doesn’t control what happens to a ball after the batter puts it into play, with the exception of home runs. That’s why BABIP is so important in considering a pitcher’s stats. This isn’t a new notion either.
I can’t express how hysterical it is to me that people still talk about Lidge and Madson as if they’re anywhere near on the same playing field at this point.
If he throws a fat pitch and it gets crushed to the upper deck, it’s not his fault? I understand the theory, I just don’t entirely agree with it.
“with the exception of home runs”
Phylan, I think the argument is just that many of us aren’t confident in Madson either. I’m in that camp. But obviously, blatantly, he is a far superior option to LOL. That doesn’t take away from the fact that I will be sweating like Tyler Walker if he comes into a one run game in the playoffs.
It would be silly for me to say Lidge is even close to as good as Madson. But Madson hasn’t been some lockdown pitcher this year. 77 games pitched: only 23 appearances with no base runners (18 before the AS Break). Since the break, 23 games pitched and gave up runs in 9 of them.
74 1/3 IP, 3.27 ERA, 3.30 FIP, 8.96 K/9, 2.54 BB/9, .85 HR/9, sorry but that’s all I need to know. You’re all entitled to your opinion of course but I think Phils fans are drastically underrating Madson this year because of a few blown saves and I think it’s a damned shame. He has my complete confidence.
i want an animated gif now
he was doing the dance to Thriller, 2009 version.
Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting…..their fists were fast as lightning…..
Madson put two men on..as usual it seems, but what I noticed was his mound presence. He seemed OK with it and went back to throwing his best stuff. The confidence was there…that’s key.
Hey….it’s Enrico Polazzo!
Okay so I’m currently in my dorm and my roommate is asleep. i watch this video and i almost pass out trying not to laugh so damn hard at this video. I feel so fortunate that sites like this are here so i can get the crucial highlights while im away at college. One more look…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA im fucked
NO BALK. I do however think we have a new member of the “so you think you can dance out takes” A balk must be an act to deceive the runner. By stepping back and off the pitchers plate first, he has not balked the runner. But I think the UMPIRE balked him home for sure.
It’s Enrico Palazzo!