Scott Mathieon’s first few pitches hit 99 and in a moment made from the movie Major League.. he hit 100mph with his last pitch for a strikeout to end the game.
100 mph and the Pigs win a one run game against the Scranton Yankees a day after they clinched the North division.
It was friendly at the park tonight. The opposing players were interactive and friendly. Just a real light feel about the place.
Good stuff.
OinK!
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100 MPH was the first strikeout. Ground-out ended the game 😉
I must have missed the first one. I only saw it on the last pitch. I have to be honest I was watching the radar display! 🙂 Thanks for letting me know
yes, yes they were 😉
Lol of course Laura thinks the players were nice and interactive…she got invited back to Gorecki’s hotel room, ahahahahaha
She didn’t go did she?
No…I wouldn’t go over to the hotel with her and she’s too much of a chicken to go by herself
The only real bad part about the game last night was that a lot of parents with kids were complaining about the slow pace of the game as they were leaving early since after two hours the game wasn’t even done with five innings.
Mazone and Duckworth could have used GPS to help them find the plate. What was it, nine or ten walks between the two of them and three ball counts to everybody else?
Mazone looked injured to me. He never seemed comfortable and was always shaking his arm and playing with his jersey around his rotator cuff and shoulder area. According to the stadium gun his velocity was off a good 4-5 MPH by the fourth inning as opposed to the first.
It really was dragging along last night.
In the last of the 7th dad called me on the cell wondering when we would get home… he hardly watches TV2, but even he knows games don’t usually get this long…
There were 14 walks in the game last night between the pitchers from both teams!
That was a long game last night.
I wonder if Mazone will be retiring after this season too. He’s getting up there.
A guy in section 108 said he would be registering a complaint with the front office over the “cold beer” shout backs Monday night during the “roast beef” chants. Unfortunately I wasn’t there to see who he was.
just more complaining from people that just look to find things to complain about. I am waiting for some parent to complain when there kid is announcing the players names during Tike on the Mike and they have to say Bocock.
File a complaint over the “Cold Beer” response to “Roast Beef” chant…
Complain about what?
Seriously.
Complain about what?
The problem with America today is, people will not confront jerk-offs like Mr. “Cold Beer” complaint. Too busy being politically correct.
And, Mr. Jerk-off will end up getting his way, too, with the Jellyfish-for-Spine IronPigs, too…
No, people will instead look at a guy like me and say, “shut the hell up, you are rocking the boat”.
Really?
What the hell is Mr. Cold Beer Complaint doing?
I was always under the impression people had lots of fun with the Roast Beef – Cold Beer thing…
Must be wrong again, as usual…
You’re right that the Pigs won’t deal with it anyway.
The section ushers are too busy trying to shoo people out of the isles during the “action”.
My section usher who I’ll call “J”, has been confronted by me this year twice due to people being loudly profane around my kids and other peoples kids.
In the first instance the people figured out that I was annoyed and stopped.
In the second instance the three people would not stop and “J” wouldn’t do anything because he didn’t want to cause a bigger scene and he said that I should move back a few rows if I didn’t want to be around them. After I pushed and asked for his supervisor, they offered to move me about 15 rows back and keep the a-holes where they were.
I proceeded to remind the supervisor that I’ve spent several thousand dollars on tickets, parking, food, and various things since 2008 and that I can’t understand why I’m being told that the only resolution is to have me move while the people causing the problem stay where they are.
He wouldn’t budge in his decision. He then called a large person from the front office that I’ll keep nameless, he’s towards the top of the pictures of the staff photos in Pork Illustrated, and he offered me no satisfaction either.
He explained that to keep everything family friendly they look to resolve all situations with the least amount of conflict possible. And since the a-holes were still in their seats and my family and I were already in the concourse and out of our seats it was just cleaner and easier to move us.
We immediately left.
I’ve written to Kurt Landes about this and I have never gotten a response. So to me if this is how the Pigs handle situations where they go against their own policies listed in Pork Illustrated about handling profane fans and treat a season ticket holder like this then they don’t need my money
The incident is a large reason why I’m so negative towards the Pigs organization and why I’m 99% certain that I’m done after this year.
They are indeed spineless, and gutless.
That is absolutely ridiculous. I can see why you are not happy with them. I would not be happy with them either. That is so wrong on more then one level. You are trying to enjoy the game with your family and these people ruin it for you by yelling obsenities. That’s just a disgrace.
Wow, Lefty. You and I haven’t seen eye-to-eye about stuff this year, but in this case I’m with you 100%.
If they are going to respond to 5 people who don’t go to games who are bothered by fireworks, and they’re going to respond to one guy who is offended by the mascot’s name, why can’t they stand up for the good and loyal fans?
I can understand the usher not wanting to cause a scene by himself, but they have radios. Just gather a group of security personel and quietly ask the group to “come with us”– or to tone it down a bit–and if they don’t, be prepared to remove them. Or stop them when they get up to go to the restroom. Golly, they need to be prepared for this stuff–especially given the proximity to Philadelphia. I think Matt had a similar encounter with a Red Sox group; they come with all teams I suppose.
At this juncture, I think the team (meaning the organization, not the players, obviously) needs to stop responding to every little external complaint and take care of the business within. Only make public annoucements that are accurate (“rain or shine”), if five people complain about fireworks, say “tough” and tell them you’ll change it only if city council enacts an ordinance specific to firworks, and if season ticket holders (particularly multi-season ticket holders) have an issue, it needs to be resolved in some way.
Look, are they gonna draw 600k this year? They need to realize that they’re the 800lb gorilla in this and that they can mostly do what they want. Some people will find that the games just aren’t for them and have been there for curiosity. Some folks will come when there’s winning. But, some of us just love it and will support it as long as we don’t feel like we’re getting, ahem, taken advantage of.
Good luck with whatever you decide,
Mark
An appropriate response to the fireworks could have been, “We are well within established city ordinances.”
Allentown would have to make changes that would impact ALL fireworks and not just Ironpig fireworks.
Thanks Mark for the nice response.
I’m not going to be renewing for 2011 as I’ve attempted to contact the Pigs via Mr. Landes again and have gotten no response about it so to me the answer clearly is that apparently the organization doesn’t care about season ticket holders or about upholding their own code of conduct.
While not suprising, it is disappointing.
So I’ll make a few more of my pithy comments from now until the end of the season on Monday but after that I’m done with Pigs baseball as the combination of endless losing and the lack of respect for a fans ability to enjoy games via my section usher and Mr. Landes has finished me off.
I hope they play better for you when you go next year,
Steve