Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – September 14, 2014

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It is Sunday and time for The Sunday Request on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.

What movie would I want to see?

Maybe a colorful and complicated brawling manager… or a woman who ran a powerful Negro League team… or a pitcher who could have been brilliant and insane… or the least likely World Series clincher of all time.

I put on my movie producer hat on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.

 

 Mike Trout, Jeremy Guthrie, Zack Greinke, Ian Desmond, Felix Hernandez, Julio Teheran, Russel Martin and Trevor Plouffe all added to their totals for Who Owns Baseball?

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I watched Spider-Man instead of the A’s and it worked!

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I saw the A’s were in another tight back and forth game. I saw that it was low scoring. I saw it was going to, inevitably, go down to the final pitch. And I know when I watch A’s games like that recently, THE F—ING LOSE!

So I decided to mix it up.

When it was tied in the 8th inning, I popped in Spider-Man to the DVD player (kids, ask your parents what that is.)

My kids, my wife and I watched the first hour of Spider-Man

The one with Toby Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi. By the time Green Goblin attacked the Times Square celebration and Spidey saved Mary Jane, it was bed time for my kids.

I had no clue what was happening in the A’s game.

My wife and I tucked them in, I checked my phone… and the A’s had won and Sean Doolittle got the save.

As I type this, I still don’t know how they won. They won. It is Binary. You win or you lose.

So I guess for the rest of the pennant race, whenever it gets tight, I need to pop in a Marvel Super Hero movie instead of watching the game. Maybe that is why they made so many!

With great power in a pennant race comes great responsibility.

I guess I should update the Dodged Bullet/Teeth Grinder tally.

An explanation of what this is all about can be found HERE.

 

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GIANTS DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

54 Dodged Bullets 48 Teeth Grinders

TOTAL: +5

 

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A’S DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

Josh Donaldson tied the game off of Felix Hernandez with a homer. It went into extras but the A’s survived for the 3-2 win. DODGED BULLET

51 Dodged Bullets 53 Teeth Grinders

TOTAL: -2

 

 

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RED SOX DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally

Dodged Bullets 62 Teeth Grinders 74

TOTAL: -12

 

Can the A’s hold on for 14 more games?

I don’t know but the second Spider-Man film is with Doc Ock and it is awesome!