Still Hate You, Cody Ross
by Bill Baer on Monday, March 26th, 2012Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 4 Comments »
Via Scott Lewis over at Getting Blanked: That was what Cody Ross did after hitting a home run off of Joe Blanton in the fifth inning of today's spring training game at Bright House Field. That immediately drew the ire of ...
Tutorial: Making an Animated .gif
by Bill Baer on Monday, March 19th, 2012Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 2 Comments »
Per a request on Twitter, I'm going to put together a simple tutorial on creating an animated .gif. You need two programs: A program to record your screen area A program to convert the video into a .gif I use HyperCam and Adobe ImageReady, ...
Phillippe Aumont Impressive in Win Over Pirates
by Bill Baer on Thursday, March 8th, 2012Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 12 Comments »
The Phillies took Thursday afternoon's affair against the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 in ten innings. Bullpen candidate Phillippe Aumont, the prize from Seattle in the Cliff Lee trade, looked sharp in one inning of work, featuring these beauties: The 6'7" right-hander posted ...
Your Annual “Dom Brown Patience” Post
by Bill Baer on Monday, March 5th, 2012Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 36 Comments »
We are three games into the Phillies' 2012 spring training campaign and former top prospect Domonic Brown has already received some criticism. He is 2-for-6 with a triple and one failed stolen base attempt, but it is Brown's defense that ...
Cole Hamels’ Cutter, Graphically
by Bill Baer on Monday, February 27th, 2012Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 6 Comments »
Friend of the blog and fellow esports enthusiast Dan Brooks (@BrooksBaseball) has owned and operated the go-to site for Pitch F/X data for quite some time. Over this off-season, he somehow managed to make some significant improvements to his site. ...
Cliff Lee and BABIP
by Bill Baer on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 44 Comments »
Cliff Lee left the seventh inning of Game Two down 5-4 with runners on first and second, no outs. It was quite a disappointing start for the Phillies' second ace as the lefty allowed 12 hits and forked over a ...
Ryan Howard Swagger
by Bill Baer on Saturday, October 1st, 2011Posted in .gifs, 2011 Playoffs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 10 Comments »
There was never a doubt.
.gifs at TheScore.com
by Bill Baer on Saturday, September 10th, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB | 2 Comments »
I've been recruited by theScore.com to do some .gif work on the weekends with the Getting Blanked blog. I've already got quite a few posts up, some of them Phillies-related, so here's a run-down of what's been posted so far: Reds ...
Sarge Is Awesome [.gifs]
by Bill Baer on Thursday, August 25th, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB, NL East Whining, Philadelphia Phillies | 24 Comments »
Just a warning to you low-bandwidth, slow-computer people: there will be many .gifs after the jump, so don't click through if you can't handle it. Staked to a four-run lead, the New York Mets wanted to get Mike Pelfrey through the ...
Michael Schwimer Makes His MLB Debut
by Bill Baer on Monday, August 22nd, 2011Posted in .gifs, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 4 Comments »
After several days of anticipation, Phillies fans finally got to see highly-touted relief prospect Michael Schwimer make his MLB debut yesterday against the Washington Nationals. The right-hander averaged nearly 12 strikeouts per nine innings with Triple-A Lehigh Valley, helping him ...
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