MLB 2013 Thread

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Garza is known for being bad at fielding bunts, so he gets mad at the other team for doing the smart thing and targeting his weakness? MAKES SENSE.</font>

[RoXer]

Also, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver did an A's game.

Now I've seen it all.

[parkmania]

lol wtf watching Nats/Brewers game in the background and the stadium announcers just went "Now pinch hitting, Chris Davis" and in my semi-drunken state I was like WHAT THE HECK

Guess they have some jobber named Khris (yes, Khris) Davis on their team. Baseball is such a funny sport.

There were two guys who were breaking into the majors at the same time back around 89-90 that not only shared the same name, including middle name, but also the same birthdate. I'm pretty sure the name was Greg Smith.

[RoXer]

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[Frank Drebin]

Greg Olson maybe? One was an OF for the Braves and the other a RP for the O's. Maybe.

[The Fraze]

I need a stream of the Giants feed asap.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

The nice thing about the Reds getting obliterated by the Cardinals this weekend is I can finally let go of any hopes I had about the Reds making a deep postseason run this year. So much more relaxing this way.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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[Skippord]

the Rockies are bad and I feel bad

[parkmania]

Greg Olson maybe? One was an OF for the Braves and the other a RP for the O's. Maybe.

Just found it. I remembered this occurrence was mentioned on the back of a Score baseball card. I even remembered they got known by the state they were born in. Took some searching but I finally got it:

http://tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/144/144-635Bk.jpg

[road doggy dogg]

I fucking love going to baseball games.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Love knowing that even if A-Rod is out for 200+ games and the Yankees will get 2014 to spend more money, he'll just come back in 2015 at age 39 and still have 3 years and $61 million remaining on his deal.

By that point I wonder if the Yanks would just swallow the (very expensive) bitter pill and buy out the rest of his contract.</font>

[road doggy dogg]

Well, assuming they get under the luxury cap for 2014, I don't think the money issue will even matter for them anymore. At least that's my understanding.

[Frank Drebin]

I fucking love going to baseball games.

Nothing like a lazy summer day at the ballpark. I have to admit now that the intensity is gone at Wrigley and empty seats are all over the place, the easy going atmosphere is quite pleasant. Just sitting around listening to the sounds of the game without goofy cartoons and sound effects after every pitch. Lost in my own thoughts. Yeah.

[road doggy dogg]

Never been to Wrigley. To be entirely honest, I've only ever been to 2 cities for baseball, Toronto and Detroit. Need to start a cross-country journey to visit them all.

The masonry veneer my company manufactures is all over PNC Park though, so that's kind of cool. Would be nice to see it in person I guess.

[Frank Drebin]

For all my bitching about how the cubs treated me, its one of the few places where you can watch a pure game and aren't beat over the head with all the goofyness a lot of modern parks have. At least for now.

[Frank Drebin]

No one seems to talk about Comerica. How's that park?

[Boomer]

I've been to Turner (and Fulton Co. before it), Nationals Park, and Camden. All nice parks. Turner has terrible concession lines though; I had no problem getting in line for food at Camden a week or so ago.

[DaveWadding]

My list is Chase Field, Wrigley and Rangers Ballpark. Loved all 3. When I get a full time job, I'm going to do one of these tours during the summer:

http://www.jaybuckley.com/

[The Condor]

Indeed, Camden is a truly awesome venue and has a great lay out.

[road doggy dogg]

No one seems to talk about Comerica. How's that park?

Comerica is a great park. Obviously I have little to compare to as I haven't been to many other parks, but I've always had good times there. Typical day is like today, drive over to Detroit and park on Gratiot street, walk to the park and scalp tickets (or just buy at the box office, standing room is only $17) and just get wastey off $5 beers while shouting for Andy Dirks to do something. BASEBALL!

[Vastardikai]

Greg Olson maybe? One was an OF for the Braves and the other a RP for the O's. Maybe.

The Braves Greg Olson was a Catcher. I want to say Gregg Olson (the O's reliever) did play for Atlanta at one point. He may have even caught for him at one point, I can't remember.

[road doggy dogg]

Actually going to check out "U.S. Cellular Field" (fucking hate corporate names) next month when I'm in Chicago for Riot Fest. Cubs are on a road trip that weekend or I'd hit up Wrigley too.

[screech]

I've been to Citizens Bank (and the Vet :(), Fenway, and Camden. Enjoyed them all. Been trying to get to Nationals Park since my cousins live kinda close. One day...

[screech]

Also took a tour of Camden Yards (and M&T Bank Stadium) a few years ago, which was neat.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Citi Field is a gorgeous park, able to walk around the entire stadium so you can check the game out from any angle. PNC Park is really awesome as well, if I lived in Pittsburgh I'd go out of my way to go to a shitload of games.

In terms of other active stadiums I've only been to New Yankee Stadium and Citizen's Bank Park once each, both seemed nice. Also only went to Fenway Park once but it was in the late '90s so I don't remember a whole lot about it, have to go again.</font>

[DaveBrawl]

I've been to Coors Field, Nats Park, Camden and Fenway. Nats Park and Coors were great, Fenway on the other hand felt so cramped (this and the Coors visit were in the mid 90s so Coors was fairly new at that point) and Camden was in Baltimore. Camden is a nice stadium, but you have to deduct points for that town.

[Innovator]

Yankees are happy to get away from the juggernaut team of the Padres.

[Innovator]

Girardi has "penciled in" A-Rod for the game tonight in Chicago. MLB having a press conference around noon.

[The Condor]

Over the last month or so I had begrudgingly built up some sympathy for Phil Hughes getting no run support but he threw it all away yesterday. Such a cockhat

[The Condor]

I've been to Citizens Bank (and the Vet :(), Fenway, and Camden. Enjoyed them all. Been trying to get to Nationals Park since my cousins live kinda close. One day...

My brothers were just in DC for a game (The Harper walk-off HR) and were not impressed with the stadium for whatever reason. Personally, I love PNC in PBurgh.

[road doggy dogg]

Girardi has "penciled in" A-Rod for the game tonight in Chicago. MLB having a press conference around noon.

As tired as I am of this entire PED thing, I might have to tune into the game just to see the crowd reaction. Should be one for the ages.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

No one seems to talk about Comerica. How's that park?

I liked it. Parking was a problem because your options are pay a bunch to park close or pay a little to get murdered, but the park itself is nice. They've got this green steel and brick scheme going on that's pretty cool. And they have memorabilia and historical stuff scattered everywhere inside the park which I appreciate. It's not as great as PNC or AT&T Parks but it can hold its own.

[RoXer]

Really the only teams that need new stadiums because they're so shitty are Tampa Bay and Oakland (unfortunately).

Everyone else has a brand new state of the art palace, a place that's kind of old but has been renovated to something comfortable, or a(n) historic landmark if ballpark where people would riot if anything happened to it.

[Innovator]

WE HAVE NAMES for 12 players who will agree to serve the suspension without appealing:

• Nelson Cruz (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/6242/nelson-cruz), Texas Rangers (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/tex/texas-rangers) outfielder.
• Everth Cabrera (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30155/everth-cabrera), San Diego Padres (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/sd/san-diego-padres) shortstop.
• Jhonny Peralta (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/5527/jhonny-peralta), Detroit Tigers (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/det/detroit-tigers) shortstop.
• Antonio Bastardo (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30105/antonio-bastardo), Philadelphia Phillies (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/phi/philadelphia-phillies) reliever.
• Jordany Valdespin (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30907/jordany-valdespin), New York Mets (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/nym/new-york-mets) outfielder.
• Francisco Cervelli (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29273/francisco-cervelli), Yankees catcher.
• Jesus Montero (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29448/jesus-montero), Seattle Mariners (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/sea/seattle-mariners) catcher.
• Cesar Puello, New York Mets outfield prospect.
• Fautino De Los Santos (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29481/fautino-de-los-santos), San Diego Padres pitching prospect.
• Sergio Escalona (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30073/sergio-escalona), Houston Astros (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/hou/houston-astros) pitching prospect.
• Fernando Martinez (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30141/fernando-martinez), New York Yankees (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/nyy/new-york-yankees) outfield prospect.
• Jordan Norberto (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30406/jordan-norberto), free-agent pitcher.

[screech]

How long are the suspensions? Rest of the season?

[Innovator]

Just the 1st offense 50 gamer

[Evil Vito]

Fucking Valdespin. He's already serving a ban now for hot dogging a home run trot and instigating a brawl. He called Terry Collins a cocksucker a month ago. He show boated while down 10 runs and got pissy when his team didn't stick up for him. He hit below the Mendoza line.

He's a cancer. Release him.

[ClockShot]

WE HAVE NAMES for 12 players who will agree to serve the suspension without appealing:

• Nelson Cruz (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/6242/nelson-cruz), Texas Rangers (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/tex/texas-rangers) outfielder.
• Everth Cabrera (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30155/everth-cabrera), San Diego Padres (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/sd/san-diego-padres) shortstop.
• Jhonny Peralta (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/5527/jhonny-peralta), Detroit Tigers (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/det/detroit-tigers) shortstop.
• Antonio Bastardo (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30105/antonio-bastardo), Philadelphia Phillies (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/phi/philadelphia-phillies) reliever.
• Jordany Valdespin (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30907/jordany-valdespin), New York Mets (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/nym/new-york-mets) outfielder.
• Francisco Cervelli (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29273/francisco-cervelli), Yankees catcher.
• Jesus Montero (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29448/jesus-montero), Seattle Mariners (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/sea/seattle-mariners) catcher.
• Cesar Puello, New York Mets outfield prospect.
• Fautino De Los Santos (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29481/fautino-de-los-santos), San Diego Padres pitching prospect.
• Sergio Escalona (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30073/sergio-escalona), Houston Astros (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/hou/houston-astros) pitching prospect.
• Fernando Martinez (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30141/fernando-martinez), New York Yankees (http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/_/name/nyy/new-york-yankees) outfield prospect.
• Jordan Norberto (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30406/jordan-norberto), free-agent pitcher.



BUT.......BUT..........What about A-Ro(i)d? He's gonna play? Right?!

[Emperor Smeat]

Supposed to be announced later today.

Edit: Turns out it was a lot sooner than later. Officially suspend till end of 2014 but can play while appealing since MLB dropped that part of the demands.

Yankees will owe him an extra $6 million if he ties Willie Mays in HRs (13 away).

[Innovator]

Suspension doesn't go into affect for A-Rod until Thursday, so he's in the lineup tonight apparently.

BIOGENESIS HOT FUCKING STOVE

[Frank Drebin]

Anyone memba when people were marveling over the Pineda/Montero swap?

As far as the suspensions go. Tigers look smart for shoring up SS at the deadline. Wonder if Texas will be looking for a temp bat or if they'l just bite the bullet and platoon Jeff Baker and David Murphy in right since they sound averse to putting Profar out there.

[The Condor]

Pineda has been pitching in Triple A for a month and a half. Feels like that 1 season 2 years ago was a fluke and they're afraid to pull the trigger and put him in the big boy rotation over Pettitte or Hughes.

[Frank Drebin]

6 starts 23.1 innings. FIP of 3.11 and 10 k per 9. Decent numbers but it looks like they're being very careful with him. This late in the season would be shocked if he does anything other than start a 2nd game of a double header or come up as a reliever in September.

[road doggy dogg]

I liked it. Parking was a problem because your options are pay a bunch to park close or pay a little to get murdered, but the park itself is nice. They've got this green steel and brick scheme going on that's pretty cool. And they have memorabilia and historical stuff scattered everywhere inside the park which I appreciate. It's not as great as PNC or AT&T Parks but it can hold its own.

There's tons of places to park close (~3-4 block walk) to the park "if you know where to go", but that's true of any city really.


Coming from the Canadian side is great too, because if you don't want to drive you can take the tunnel bus over that basically drops you off at the front door.

[road doggy dogg]

Anyone memba when people were marveling over the Pineda/Montero swap?

As far as the suspensions go. Tigers look smart for shoring up SS at the deadline. Wonder if Texas will be looking for a temp bat or if they'l just bite the bullet and platoon Jeff Baker and David Murphy in right since they sound averse to putting Profar out there.

Thing I love about the Iglesias pickup is that even if Peralta wasn't being suspended, he's a FA after this season anyway and most likely gone from all reports I've been hearing, so it was an inevitability regardless. Loving the kid so far.

[Splaya]

Thing I love about the Iglesias pickup is that even if Peralta wasn't being suspended, he's a FA after this season anyway and most likely gone from all reports I've been hearing, so it was an inevitability regardless. Loving the kid so far.

You know you can park at Greektown casino for free and walk over. Figured I'd tell you. Also Tony, we talk about this every year, but when are we going to a game?

[Innovator]

Alex speaking now

[McLegend]

Lol I love A-Rod.

[road doggy dogg]

You know you can park at Greektown casino for free and walk over. Figured I'd tell you. Also Tony, we talk about this every year, but when are we going to a game?

90% of the time I go I end up parking on Gratiot and Antietam, but lately I've been seeing a lot of broken glass and cars being broken into ETC so I'm a bit wary. But it's a good way to beat the traffic rush and not pay for shit.


I'm down anytime I'm in town. I live up in Cambridge ON now so I don't go to as many games as I'd like to, but I come down to Windsor on weekends often. I always try to hit up the Sunday afternoon game if I'm in town and Tigers are at home. I think the next time I'm going to be down is the last weekend of August, so "in theory" the Sept 1 game I would go to... but I have like 3 fantasy football drafts that day so I don't think I'll end up going. :o

I don't know when my next venture down will be. I'll try to remember to hit you up on FB next time I for sure have plans to go. This weekend was kind of impromptu (decided Sat. night that we'd go to the game Sunday) so it was kind of hard to plan around.

[Dragon]

Pineda has been pitching in Triple A for a month and a half. Feels like that 1 season 2 years ago was a fluke and they're afraid to pull the trigger and put him in the big boy rotation over Pettitte or Hughes.

He came out of the game the other day because of shoulder tightness or something and is going for MRIs. He's coming back from serious shoulder surgery that a lot of pitchers don't come back from the same player, I don't think they're gonna rush him at all.

[The Condor]

I understand Pineda's ordeal but it just seems like a wash with 2 lost years and probably at least one more year of "feeling out." The trade was not good for either side, I guess was my point.

[road doggy dogg]

As tired as I am of this entire PED thing, I might have to tune into the game just to see the crowd reaction. Should be one for the ages.

NVM forgot Tigers starting a series against the Tribe tonight. These Indians need to start fading any time now.

[Frank Drebin]

I understand Pineda's ordeal but it just seems like a wash with 2 lost years and probably at least one more year of "feeling out." The trade was not good for either side, I guess was my point.

Mine as well. :)

[road doggy dogg]

So is Drew Stubbs ever gonna "get it together" ? Seems even his vaunted defense has been lacking this season.

[Boomer]

Braves win 11 straight, media cares little.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Never expected the Braves to run away with the division like this.

My Nationals/Angels World Series prediction is sure looking great.</font> :(

[The Condor]

Looks like Howard Kendrick just fucked up a "lower extremity." Maybe he'll be OK

[Boomer]

Never expected the Braves to run away with the division like this.

My Nationals/Angels World Series prediction is sure looking great. :(


I didn't either, but I thought they would certainly make the playoffs. Still, the offense has under-performed for a good portion of this year, and the Braves don't really have a shutdown starter, so I don't know what the playoffs will bring. Bullpen has been unreal considering they lost Venters and O'Flaherty, so if the offense can hand the game to them late, we could make a run. But I don't think the Braves could handle the Tigers (just from the way they dominated the interleague series).

And yeah, I do believe the Braves have the easiest remaining schedule in the league, so they should get top seed.

[The Condor]

Braves-Pirates NLCS rematch 21 years in the making

[DaveWadding]

Fucking hate hearing people cry about the Yankees playing A-Rod. The dude has the right to an appeal, and even the fucking Yankees have a right to a dude who will post better than a 557 OPS at 3rd.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>I wanna see the reaction at Yankee Stadium on Friday.</font>

[The Condor]

I'll be there Saturday, kinda bummed Ill miss the reaction on Friday

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>The hell? Adam Ottavino wears number 0? I thought I had read that 0 and 00 were both banned from being used.</font>

[Emperor Smeat]

Think only the NFL has them banned because of positional reasons.

[Jordan1]

I didn't either, but I thought they would certainly make the playoffs. Still, the offense has under-performed for a good portion of this year, and the Braves don't really have a shutdown starter, so I don't know what the playoffs will bring. Bullpen has been unreal considering they lost Venters and O'Flaherty, so if the offense can hand the game to them late, we could make a run. But I don't think the Braves could handle the Tigers (just from the way they dominated the interleague series).

And yeah, I do believe the Braves have the easiest remaining schedule in the league, so they should get top seed.The offense under-performed part of the year? Everyone knew it'd be a streaky offense. But they're second in the league in runs and OPS. I say they're doing fine.

As far as not having a shutdown starter, I disagree. Mike Minor has been fantastic. He may not be in the Kershaw, Felix, Harvey tier of dominance, but he's in that next group. He's our #1 come playoff time. 2.76 era, 1.04 WHIP, 8.2k/9. He's an ace at this point, and has been since the middle of last year (though that was overshadowed by Medlen). And Tehran might even be better. If you take away his first couple of starts this year, he was a 2.38 era with a 1.09 WHIP. Then, you need to figure out the next two. Medlen, Beachy, and Maholm are all capable of being very good, and even dominant at times. Hopefully they find it in the next two months. And Wood has been pretty good the last two times out.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Totes got on the kiss cam tonight

[RoXer]

u can kiss my DIIIIIIIIIICCCCKKKKKKKKKKK

[Supreme Olajuwon]

How come all the white guys on the A's look like huge nerds


Love the A's

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Hey RoXer, what's Fonzy's favorite team?

The A's!!!!

[RoXer]

Love A.J. Griffin for no real reason other than a sick curveball that was very curvy one day so I decided I would like him. Love him and Jerry Blevins because Blevins sounds like a Jerry Lewis/Professor Frink thing to say.

[RoXer]

Arizona Diamondbacks upcoming games:

Just finished 3 games against 1st place Boston
2 games against 2nd place Tampa Bay
3 games against 3rd place Baltimore trying to climb back into the 1st
3 games against 1st place (what?) Pittsburgh
4 games against 3rd place Cincinatti trying to climb back into 1st
An entire month of a season deciding fracas against divisional opponents

And they end it against Washington which may or may not be important games when the time comes

[RoXer]

Oh yeah and they play the Mets during sometime too lol

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Fucking love Eric Young, Jr.</font>

[The Condor]

I'm convinced that 40 percent of the Braves lead could be attributed to incompetent divisional opponents.

[road doggy dogg]

Didn't they start their streak by sweeping the Cardinals?

[road doggy dogg]

Dunno if you meant current streak or just in general, whatever. It's not like they're the Reds and haven't beaten any good teams this year

[The Condor]

Talking about their divisional lead

[The Condor]

Was watching Kuroda pitch tonight and thought to myself, "holy shit, Hideki Irabu hung himself."

[Boomer]

The Braves played the hard part of their schedule first. The easiest games have yet to come, a good deal against these crappy divisional opponents.

[The Condor]

The second place team is 4(?) games under .500... Quite an advantage for the Squaws

[RoXer]

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18w8nevacs25wgif/ku-xlarge.gif

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18w8nha3nty7vgif/ku-xlarge.gif

[Boomer]

The offense under-performed part of the year? Everyone knew it'd be a streaky offense. But they're second in the league in runs and OPS. I say they're doing fine.

As far as not having a shutdown starter, I disagree. Mike Minor has been fantastic. He may not be in the Kershaw, Felix, Harvey tier of dominance, but he's in that next group. He's our #1 come playoff time. 2.76 era, 1.04 WHIP, 8.2k/9. He's an ace at this point, and has been since the middle of last year (though that was overshadowed by Medlen). And Tehran might even be better. If you take away his first couple of starts this year, he was a 2.38 era with a 1.09 WHIP. Then, you need to figure out the next two. Medlen, Beachy, and Maholm are all capable of being very good, and even dominant at times. Hopefully they find it in the next two months. And Wood has been pretty good the last two times out.

I'm not denying that the Braves haven't been playing well offensively, but they have still been underperforming (in my opinion) until recently. Actually, its basically gone as Justin Upton has gone, for the most part. Uggla and BJ are huge holes in the lineup (even with Uggla's HRs and walks, which are the only things that make him passable), and Simmons wasn't doing amazingly well offensively until recently. Even Gattis' power has disappeared. But having Heyward and Justin playing well means the Braves are scary. If Heyward can stay healthy for more than a week, that is.


Minor has been great, but I say the Braves lose on paper to a ton of other playoff teams if he's the best we can put up in Game 1. And I'm not putting any stock in Teheran in the playoffs, considering how untested he is.

[RoXer]

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18w8nevacs25wgif/ku-xlarge.gif

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18w8nha3nty7vgif/ku-xlarge.gif
that was from tonight btw

thats not the old one

[Boomer]

But to wrap up my ramblings, as a Braves fan and an Atlanta sports fan, I am allowed to be skeptical about the success of my team in the playoffs. One championship in all sports combined isn't so great, guys.

[RoXer]

no kidding

[RoXer]

oh wait, the mercury

nvm i guess

[DaveWadding]

That's not a real sport.

[Frank Drebin]

So tired of the shaving cream pie, the big jump pile at the plate on a walkoff as well as the helmet flip halfway down the 3B line I'm the case of a homer.

Thing I hate more than both is throwing the ball back after an opposing team homers at Wrigley. So fn stupid.

[RoXer]

I'm with you on the shaving cream.

Big celebrations of walkoff HR are only acceptable in MEANINGFUL games. Let's try and tone that down when the Twins play the Astros and what have you.

Throwing back the ball is whatever.

Waving during anything less than a 4 run lead is a big no no. Wave all you want if the lead is 4 or more.

[Boomer]

I seriously refuse to do The Wave anymore. I mean it's there for the kids to have fun, so I don't know why I care, but I think it just makes people stop paying attention to the game. And Braves fans aren't the most vocal most of the time (that one-game playoff debacle popoff was crazy), so I want them focused on the game!

[DaveWadding]

Joey RoXer loves the Wave.

[parkmania]

Braves-Pirates NLCS rematch 21 years in the making

SID BREAM WAS OUT!!!! FUCK JERRY MEALS!!!!

Thing I hate more than both is throwing the ball back after an opposing team homers at Wrigley. So fn stupid.

What's even worse was when people in other stadiums do it. Yeah, it's a thing in Chicago, but that doesn't mean you get to do it in COLORADO, even IF the Cubs are visiting.

I seriously refuse to do The Wave anymore. I mean it's there for the kids to have fun, so I don't know why I care, but I think it just makes people stop paying attention to the game.

Hey Wave, 1986 called. They don't want you back.



So the Pirates have left:
2 vs Marlins
3 @ Rockies
3 @ Cards
3 vs Dbacks
3 @ Padres
4 @ Giants
3 vs Brewers
3 vs Cards
3 @ Brewers
3 more @ Cards
3 @ Rangers (BAN THE DH!)
4 vs Cubs
4 vs Padres
3 vs Reds
3 @ Cubs
3 @ Reds


Still feels like a LOT of baseball to determine NL Central champs.

[screech]

Hate that throwing the ball back after an opposing HR has become a thing around the league. So dumb.

[Frank Drebin]

Here's the thing about the hr ball:

As soon as it happens everyone starts yelling to throw it back. What if I just caught a future HOFers homer? The crowd will boo the poor soul who caught it and they eventually cave. If you were to ask the crowd why should I throw it back they would yell that "its tradition". Yes. Let's keep up tradition with a team that hasn't won a championship in 104 years. Whatever you've been doing for good luck has worked wonders.

[Frank Drebin]

And yes....fuck the wave. Again, when I see if at Wrigley I cringe. 1984 playoffs for gods sake.

[The Condor]

I used to work with a 55 year old closeted homosexual. He was very open with me but he hated the way he was, like a self loathing gay guy. He would insult and rip apart gay people and make fun of lesbians and the on going issue of gay marriage all the while carrying on a cyber relationship with a guy in Brazil named Luis. Frank Drebin in striking me the same way right now, a brooding and self-loathing Cubs Fan.

[Frank Drebin]

Two things:

1) You know why

2) People who go to Wrigley and Cubs fans can be two different groups of fans.

[screech]

It's dumb because when the ball hits the field, what does the ball girl do with it? She gives it to another fan in the crowd which defeats the entire purpose of throwing it back.

[screech]

Also I know it ain't over til it's over, but Phillies :'(

(though they did win last night! :y:)

[Frank Drebin]

They usually give the team the dinger ball at wrigley.

[Frank Drebin]

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[Skippord]

Fucking love Eric Young, Jr.
somehow he remains the most infuriating Rockies player in history even when he's gone

[Evil Vito]

Young very much seemed like he wanted to deliver a crotch chop in the Rockies' general direction.

[Skippord]

seriously I'm pretty sure could've played a better outfield than he did when he was here, and he's making incredible catches and actually running the bases competently for the Mets

[RoXer]

Here's the thing about the hr ball:

As soon as it happens everyone starts yelling to throw it back. What if I just caught a future HOFers homer? The crowd will boo the poor soul who caught it and they eventually cave. If you were to ask the crowd why should I throw it back they would yell that "its tradition". Yes. Let's keep up tradition with a team that hasn't won a championship in 104 years. Whatever you've been doing for good luck has worked wonders.
That's why if you know you'll be sitting in the bleachers you bring an extra ball to switch out. You throw the extra ball and that way you've appeased the clamoring fans around you while still hanging on to the HR ball.
And yes....fuck the wave.

Fuck the wave *to an extent

[road doggy dogg]

Stadiums sell a bunch of those balls too. My biggest baseball-related regret in my life is not buying a Ryan Raburn HBP ball from Comerica park last summer for $30. My buddy was at the game when it happened, and Raburn got beaned by Dylan Axelrod. After the non-buy, same buddy was at a Sox/Tigers game that Axelrod was again pitching at, and by a cruel Twist of Fate (© Matt Hardy) actually ran into Axelrod at the game. Would've been a perfect moment, having Axelrod sign the ball. Alas.

PS fuck Ryan Raburn.

[Frank Drebin]

That's why if you know you'll be sitting in the bleachers you bring an extra ball to switch out. You throw the extra ball and that way you've appeased the clamoring fans around you while still hanging on to the HR ball.

I've seen it before. Tried looking for a video to no avail. Smart thing to do.

[Frank Drebin]

Young very much seemed like he wanted to deliver a crotch chop in the Rockies' general direction.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/191754/alfonso-soriano-o.gif

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Dunno if you meant current streak or just in general, whatever. It's not like they're the Reds and haven't beaten any good teams this year

your mom is a good team

[Innovator]

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[road doggy dogg]

At least I won't have to worry about her losing a series to the Reds :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Matt Harvey: He's Very Good</font>

[Skippord]

The Rockies: They're breaking my heart on a nightly basis

[road doggy dogg]

Just saw Jeremy Bonderman pitch to Ryan Raburn. In 2013. What the heck is going on with baseball.

[The Condor]

Watching the Yankees game and hearing Paul Konerko come to the plate while "Harvester of Sorrow" blares through the stadium. Pretty sweet.

[The Fraze]

Yeah, this Giants game.

http://i.imgur.com/n7J0mo4.gif

[ClockShot]

Yankees are 1 away from becoming a .500 team.

[Innovator]

As they should be

[road doggy dogg]

I'm still pretty marveled at just how well the Tribe is doing this season. 6 games back on the Tigers, and Detroit is 12-3 head-to-head this season against them. Couple games the other way and things would be a lot more interesting.

[The Condor]

Yankees game was a heartbreaker last night. As Warren came out I said to a friend, ,"I like this guy, if we need a starter to replace Hughes or Pettite later this year he could be the guy." Almost Immediately tried to punch myself in the face.

[road doggy dogg]

I had kind of the opposite happen. When Bonderman came out in the 11th I thought he was going to give up a walk-off HR or something. Instead he pitched 3 REALLY solid innings for the Tigers and ended up with the W. Kind of marked out a bit (as evidenced by post #2617).

[The Condor]

RDD, how about Ryan Rayburn and his contract extension...

[road doggy dogg]

I don't know if it's become BLATANTLY OBVIOUS or not but Ryan Raburn is my absolute favourite player EVER. Next to Brandon Inge, of course.

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/707696/raburnd_o_gifsoup.com_.gif

Worth every penny.

[Corndad]

9th Walk-off winner of the year for the Buccos. 28th comeback win. This team is so fun to watch this year. So fun.

[road doggy dogg]

Guys Ryan Raburn is warming up in the Indians' pen right now. Baseball is just taunting me at this point, I can't make this shit up.

[screech]

Have Ryan Raburn on my team in the show. Not this year's, like 09 or 10 via fantasy draft. Think he's played every position at some point. Also hit some clutch homeruns.

[screech]

That's what I think of when Ryan Raburn is mentioned.

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Max Scherzer is the first pitcher to start 17-1 since Roger Clemens in 2001.</p>&mdash; Numbers Never Lie (@ESPN_Numbers) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPN_Numbers/statuses/365656362761457665">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Clemens finished that year at 20-3

[DaveWadding]

Fucking hate whatever mongoloid was calling the Dodgers game tonight with Steve Lyons. "Kenley Jansen has recorded 27 outs in a row. That means he pitched a perfect game. Huh huh huh"

[Frank Drebin]

If the Cubs were to shop Starlin Castro, I wonder what they could still get in return.

White Sox don't need to reshape, they need a full on rebuild.

[DaveWadding]

3 bags of balls and 2 Low A changeup artists. Selling at the top of the market.

[Frank Drebin]

God....last year they had intro talks of a Castro for Upton swap with the dbacks. Never went anywhere but both sides thought about it.

[ClockShot]

A-Rod's return to the Stadium tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should be good. Or bad. Maybe for him.

[The Condor]

Awful

[road doggy dogg]

Can't wait to watch the game. MOSTLY because Detroit is playing but the A-Rod story is exciting in its own right.

[Damian Rey]

Love A-Rod. He's going to get the John Cena reaction tonight, until he does something meaningful, which will then be cheered.

[road doggy dogg]

I think you might be one of the only A-Rod apologists left. Rare company.

[Frank Drebin]

Wonder if Texas will be looking for a temp bat or if they'l just bite the bullet and platoon Jeff Baker and David Murphy in right since they sound averse to putting Profar out there.

Rangers wind up with Alex Rios after everyone said a deal was unlikely. Rios and cash to Ranger for PTBNL (probably Leury Garcia #20 prospect in the Rangers system at the start of the season)

[road doggy dogg]

Jurickson Profar is the most fun player ever to see at a baseball game because every time he comes up to bat you can yell JURASSIC PARK and it gets funnier the more drunk you are.

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rays playing Dodgers in LA for 1st time this weekend. Leaves only 1 team that has never hosted another: Padres never played game in Toronto</p>&mdash; ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/statuses/365910785609834497">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[Frank Drebin]

huh. Ill be damned.

[ClockShot]

Rangers wind up with Alex Rios after everyone said a deal was unlikely. Rios and cash to Ranger for PTBNL (probably Leury Garcia #20 prospect in the Rangers system at the start of the season)

A PTBNL was all it took to pry Rios away from the southside?

Kenny Williams must be losing it.

[Damian Rey]

I'm no apologist. I think that, if he did indeed lie and continue to cheat, he's an asshole who cheated everyone, and even more so, himself, out of being arguably the greatest player of all time. He could have been the guy to defeat the evil Bonds career HR mark, but instead, he's essentially the current mega heel Bonds.

With that said, I do love him as a player. Juice or no juice, he's an extremely talented, devoted player who would have been one of the greats regardless of drug use. He's a son of bitch of a person, but I still enjoy watching A-Rod the player.

[road doggy dogg]

Miguel Cabrera is the best. What a clutch hit. Wow.
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[Frank Drebin]

A PTBNL was all it took to pry Rios away from the southside?

Kenny Williams must be losing it.

I think thats about all he could have done with Rios right now. Kenny Williams is one of the worst GMs out there. Many reasons for them being another version of the Huston Astros - just without Mark Appel and Carlos Correa.

Kenny got promoted just before the wheels fell off the wagon. Must be nice.

[Hanso Amore]

I'm no apologist. I think that, if he did indeed lie and continue to cheat, he's an asshole who cheated everyone, and even more so, himself, out of being arguably the greatest player of all time. He could have been the guy to defeat the evil Bonds career HR mark, but instead, he's essentially the current mega heel Bonds.

With that said, I do love him as a player. Juice or no juice, he's an extremely talented, devoted player who would have been one of the greats regardless of drug use. He's a son of bitch of a person, but I still enjoy watching A-Rod the player.

You have no idea when he started juicing, His whole career could be a sham,

Im a yankees fan and I have no tolerance so why are you backing him?

[Skippord]

the Rockies scored almost as many runs tonight as they have the whole month

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Tampa Bay Blows it and the Red Sox still have a 2 game lead!

[road doggy dogg]

Miguel Cabrera is the best. What a clutch hit. Wow.
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Still lost the game but man Miggy is just a beast.
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[The Fraze]

If anyone was wondering how well issuing an intentional walk TO PITCH TO Chris Davis works, the Giants found out tonight. :(

[DAMN iNATOR]

OF COURSE Detroits 12-game win streak comes to an end v. the New York Yankees @ "new" Yankee Stadium in A-Frauds 1st home game this year, in a walk-off in the 10th fucking inning. :nono:

[The Fraze]

If not wins, at least I get some good photo opportunities with all my time at AT&T Park.

https://sphotos-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/q84/s720x720/994915_10151516535176254_226649257_n.jpg

[road doggy dogg]

*oddamn Giants. Those rings make me angry
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[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>I'm sure this ring makes both of us angry, RDD :(</font>

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/222/967/Cards2006_display_image.jpg?1273595532

[The Condor]

If the devil himself scheduled a train to hell Phil Hughes would be the conductor.

[The Condor]

Lyle Overbay with a jack in this lost cause of a game.

[road doggy dogg]

Austin Jacckson is raking this serie. 5 extra-base hits and we're halfway through the second game.
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[The Condor]

Fuck Joba, fuck that fat fucking fuck!

[road doggy dogg]

TORIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
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[The Condor]

Got good seats for this game and Im just feeling profoundly ripped off save for seeing future HOFers like Miggy, Tori, And maybe Fielder too.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Remember when Joba was supposed to be Mo's successor?</font>

[ClockShot]

1 AWAY!!!!!!

[Damian Rey]

You have no idea when he started juicing, His whole career could be a sham,

Im a yankees fan and I have no tolerance so why are you backing him?

If you're ignorant enough to even consider thinking that Alex Rodriguez wouldn't be great with or without drugs, I don't know what to tell you.

Roids do not make a player better. Baseball is a skill driven sport. PEDs do not teach plate discipline, approach, swing path, swing mechanics, etc. Nor do they influence hand eye coordination, pitch recognition, and all of the other skills that go along with baseball. All roids did was either/both help him recover from workouts/injury faster and maintain strength and health. He still had/has to have well developed skills built up and around God given talent in order to excel.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>The Pirates are just 12 wins away from breaking The Streak.</font>

[Emperor Smeat]

Assuming A-Rod was telling the truth previously about 2001 being the start of his roids, then based on his 1994-2000 stats, he would have been a good to great type player. Probably not MVP or Hall of Fame caliber like Griffey was during that period or Bonds for his pre-roids career.

If he did them while at Seattle, then somewhere in the 1998-2000 period would be the likeliest spot in terms of certain stats.

[The Condor]

A cheat is a cheat. And Joba Chamberlain left a slime trail on the field this afternoon.

[Hanso Amore]

If you're ignorant enough to even consider thinking that Alex Rodriguez wouldn't be great with or without drugs, I don't know what to tell you.

Roids do not make a player better. Baseball is a skill driven sport. PEDs do not teach plate discipline, approach, swing path, swing mechanics, etc. Nor do they influence hand eye coordination, pitch recognition, and all of the other skills that go along with baseball. All roids did was either/both help him recover from workouts/injury faster and maintain strength and health. He still had/has to have well developed skills built up and around God given talent in order to excel.

LOL yeah PEDs dont make you at all better. They dont heal you faster, extend your peak, and allow you to play everyday in top form.

Brady Anderson was not better because of roids, right?

Arod may have been an all time great without them but we will never know. All we can say is hes a fucking cheater that should be exiled like Bonds and Sosa

[road doggy dogg]

TBF A-Rod was very very highly touted coming into the league, people expected him to be great.

Without the PEDs he would have still been a great player. Don't think anybody is disputing that.

In order to "stay on the top" though, the PEDs obviously helped that. Like Damian Rey said, a lot of times in a sport like baseball the PEDs don't make them "better", but they help them with their consistency and help them maintain what they already have. Lotta people joke that baseball is such a super lazy sport (not a lot of running etc) but being able to perform at the peak of your ability for 162 games is no easy task. The PEDs defs helped him do what he does for as long as he has.

That being said, the whole saga of him trying to deny it etc etc is mostly what people are getting uppity about, I guess. IDK. Tired of hearing the letters P E and D come up any time anyone mentions baseball. Just ban him so we can move on.
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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

There's no moving on from this. Baseball is forever tainted. You can ban Arod, but what Bonds did and got away with will never be forgotten. Bonds got of scot free and that is the biggest crime in the history of this sport. Arod is the sacrificial lamb for Bonds.

MLB isn't blameless. They probably let Arod get away with some of the PED so he could have a shot of taking the record since he's not really Bonds level of a cocksucker even though he's pretty close.

[The Condor]

People thought Dallas MacPherson was going to be stellar. Todd Van Popple too. Roids probably would've helped them.

[Emperor Smeat]

Remember Eric Gagne getting ridiculed for how bad he stunk when he wasn't using roids around the time of the trade to Boston and later with Milwaukee.

[Hanso Amore]

I don't live in a world of what ifs

I don't care if he could have been great without them. A rod DID use then and in negates every achievement he had on the field.

I cannot believe Pete rose is banned for life and these roiders aren't.

I would rather my kids have rose as a role model than anyone else. He was the hardest working player of all time, and the most competitive. Guy played his heart out every day. Gambling is against the rules but his acts effected less games than arod cheating for 10 years and winning a ring.

Disgusting.

[Hanso Amore]

For anyone who thinks peds don't increase every bit of performance a player has, look at melky Cabrera. Below average started in NY and ATL then an all star in KC and SF.

But yeah Damian ray, it doesn't make bad players good.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>At this point I think baseball just needs to acknowledge that the steroid era happened. Put up a wing in the HOF specifically for the 90s/00s and just be like "yeah, this was an era of baseball and a lot of people cheated during this time...draw your own conclusions".

But the writers will probably continue to refuse voting for anybody they even remotely think might have cheated. Even guys like Bagwell and Piazza who have never been officially implicated aside from like one rogue writer accusing them of doing it for no reason other than they hit a lot of HR in the steroid era. Leaving out known roiders like McGwire is one thing, but I guarantee at least one clean guy who is clearly HOF worthy will be left out unjustly.</font>

[Evil Vito]

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<font color=goldenrod>Anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.</font>

[Hanso Amore]

<font color=goldenrod>At this point I think baseball just needs to acknowledge that the steroid era happened. Put up a wing in the HOF specifically for the 90s/00s and just be like "yeah, this was an era of baseball and a lot of people cheated during this time...draw your own conclusions".

But the writers will probably continue to refuse voting for anybody they even remotely think might have cheated. Even guys like Bagwell and Piazza who have never been officially implicated aside from like one rogue writer accusing them of doing it for no reason other than they hit a lot of HR in the steroid era. Leaving out known roiders like McGwire is one thing, but I guarantee at least one clean guy who is clearly HOF worthy will be left out unjustly.</font>

I dont think its hurt anyone that hasnt popped.

Frank Thomas is going to WALTZ into the Hall this year. Not one person will hold him back.

I think the only clean guys not making wont be because of doubt, but numbers.

Fred McGriff belongs in the Hall, but because of Juicers skewing numbers in his era he falls short.

[Hanso Amore]

Fucking Crime Dawg for HOF 2014 lets make this happen TPWW

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>I hope you're right about Frank Thomas. No question he deserves it. But the Bagwell and Piazza snubs have me concerned that these old fogey voters have decided that the entire era is tainted and all power hitters should be questioned. It's not right. Even Craig fucking Biggio got left off and he wasn't even a power hitter. 3,000 hits is normally a lock.

Actually Bagwell and Piazza could be in deep shit if they don't make it this year since this is the last year before locks like Glavine and Maddux enter the ballot, Smoltz the following year, etc.</font>

[The Condor]

Do you assume pitchers wont be tainted by PEDs? Guys like Thomas and Griffey are fine because they never had even a whiff of suspicion. Bagwell and Piazza and Biggio will make it with time. This was a "statement year" by the writers.

[The Condor]

Not to say those pitchers used PEds, but it would be naive to think that during the steroid era there were good pitchers that declined to be great by avoiding the stuff.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Pitchers most certainly roided, but most of them get overlooked since everybody associates PEDs with dingers. Lone exception being Clemens and that's just because he got caught.</font>

[Hanso Amore]

Biggie is a class act and a hell of a player. But he never won anything, barely sniffed being top 5 at his position many years of his career. A lot of writers want years of dominance where biggio was always just good.

Big Hurt was a multiple time MVP and the most feared hitter in te mid 90s.

Maddux will be first ballot.

I think they also have their own code on first ballot players where they will hold a guy back a year saving first ballot status for guys who are on their own level. Like I remember gammons saying piazza is a sure fire hall of gamer but not a first ballot guy...which blows my mind. Baseball voters have that stupid code.

[road doggy dogg]

Soriano gets his 2000th career hit via a home run off JV. Dangit.
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[DaveWadding]

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<font color=goldenrod>Anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.</font>

The Mets announcers are retarded. That was like the first 2 seconds of Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue. It's a motorcycle revving up.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Sounds a lot more like a 500 foot cow invading than a motorcycle.

Not really surprised they didn't know it was from seeing as Motley Crue suck.</font>

[DaveWadding]

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[DaveWadding]

<font color=goldenrod>Sounds a lot more like a 500 foot cow invading than a motorcycle.

Not really surprised they didn't know it was from seeing as Motley Crue suck.</font>

Reporting you to Sixx for a permaban.

[road doggy dogg]

what, Motley Crue is fucking terrible
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[ClockShot]

BRETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/kid in the tunnel.

*Bret Hart's music plays*

[Bad News Gertner]

So yeah, I'm done watching the Jays for the season. Good-bye baseball thread.

[RoXer]

Can't wait for Grant Balfour to get busted mid-game for whatever the fuck is on his hat

We all know it's coming

[screech]

Bartolo Colon is 14-4 in 2013.

[weather vane]

Motley Crue is mint. You guys are brtl.

Fucking brtl. Fags. Fuck you.

[screech]

Saw motley crue live last year. Was awesome.

[weather vane]

Tell em Hawk!

[Bad News Gertner]

The last time Motley Crue were good the Jays were relevant.

[Innovator]

I believe in Hiroki Kuroda

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Juan Lagares just struck out looking on a ball nowhere near the zone.

Opposite thing happened earlier today with Yu Darvish getting fucked out of a clear strike while he had a perfect game going.

WOOOOOO HUMAN ERROR!!!</font>

[Hanso Amore]

Baseball Umps have way too much leeway and attittude.

Ed Hochuli blows a call and his career is on the line and he accepts responsibility.

Baseball umps blow a call and toss the player for "showing them up".

Hate umps

[Innovator]

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18wtapueymak8gif/ku-xlarge.gif

Wow.

[Evil Vito]

Baseball would be better with cyborgs.

[The Condor]

I believe in Hiroki Kuroda

The "King Felix Did It 2 Years Ago" Cy Young campaign has begun.

[screech]

Got to watch that gif in slow motion while it loaded. Even if you go by where the ball was caught, it was still a strike.

[screech]

I remember in one Sega game, MLBPA baseball in 1994, once in a while two umpires would meet at home plate and overturn a called strike or ball.

1994. Come on, Bud, get with it.

[ClockShot]

Rangers release Manny Ramirez.

Just give it up, dude.

[The Condor]

Vintage clusterfuck in NY-LAA game tonight.

[ClockShot]

Now, why can't we beat the Angels like this when we're out west?

[Innovator]

I wish they saved some of those runs for future games

[Frank Drebin]

The 2014 Futures Game?

[Emperor Smeat]

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3057429/worstinsidetheparkHRever.gif

:|

[road doggy dogg]

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLL that is their season in a nutshell. gonan steal that and post on FB
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[road doggy dogg]

Ah damn nvm thought that happened AGAINST the Jays
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[Innovator]

Soriano, I missed you so so much.

[The Condor]

Soriano, I missed you so so much.

:y: :y: :y: :y: :y:

[Skippord]

Jon Gray threw 101 miles in his start tonight

:heart:

[Bad News Gertner]

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3057429/worstinsidetheparkHRever.gif

:|

Rajah Davis is awesome lol

[Bad News Gertner]

Today was a great day. Bonifacio's ass got dealt....and guess who got recalled...



KKKKKKKKAAAAAAAWWWWAASSSSSSSSAAAAKKKKKKKKIIIIII!

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>The Dodgers appear to have <s>bought</s> formed an unbeatable baseball team.

Dropped the Mets back down to 10 under .500 :( when they were 7 out I felt like climbing up to .500 was a real possibility</font>

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>MLB to expand video review in 2014 to include manager challenges, pending owner vote. Plays will be reviewed by crew at MLB headquarters.</p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/statuses/368051957329453057">August 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[Frank Drebin]

Great news indeed. About damn time.

[The Condor]

Batting practice in the Bronx today.

[ClockShot]

God, I can't believe Phil Hughes is 4-12 this season.

I know, i know.

[screech]

I like the video review-ness. All about getting the call right.

[screech]

Though will it lead to a drop off in managers arguing so not every "visit" counts as a challenge?

If so, it's good Pinella and Cox have retired.

[The Condor]

Did some driving at work today, listened to some ESPN radio. A lot of the guys bitching about how MLB needed replay are now picking out the things wrong with the replay proposal that hasn't even been voted on. ESPN's relation with baseball is like the IWC with the current WWE product.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLL that is their season in a nutshell. gonan steal that and post on FB
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Still in first.

[ClockShot]

Brian Cashman's journey into the bargain bin continues.

Yankees sign Mark Reynolds.

[screech]

Still in first.

He thought the gif was a Blue Jays blunder.

[road doggy dogg]

yeah it is less hilar to me after mine realization :'(
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[The Condor]

Brian Cashman's journey into the bargain bin continues.

Yankees sign Mark Reynolds.

We all knew it was only a matter of time.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

He thought the gif was a Blue Jays blunder.

how? :wtf:

[road doggy dogg]

Maybe the giant BLUE JAYS logo on the field (wasn't paying attention to players really)

[The Condor]

Just a simple mistake, no need to get like an affronted teenager. Directed to STD

[Frank Drebin]

Where's Screech?

Charlie Manuel out, Ryne Sandberg in.

Hall of fame players who become managers never do well. Sandberg is a dick anyway. He was butthurt when the Cubs didn't want him to manage the big league club.

[Evil Vito]

The Phillies are dummies. Manuel is a good manager. He's not the reason for the struggling. How about firing the guy who gave Ryan Howard 5 years and $125 million?

[road doggy dogg]

Kirk Gibson isn't doing so terrible. (not HoFer but w/e)
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[Hanso Amore]

Just realized Ichiro is coming up on 4000 hits a pro.

Think that will factor in his career when hes up for the hall? Dude could make 3000 in the US if he can plunk together another full season and a half. So it might not matter.

If anyone talks about him catching Pete rose, its BS.

[The Condor]

The Japanese hits do not count. Japan is essentially a slightly higher version of AAA. 3000 is almost a given, though.

[screech]

Charlie Manuel out, Ryne Sandberg in.
.

Hate this. Nothing against Sandberg personally, but Charlie was not the reason the team had been playing poorly. You can only do so much with so many injured and underachieving players.

Fuck.

[ClockShot]

Agreed. Charlie Manuel had no reason to get canned. Ruben Amaro should have traded away half the roster since they're the ones who all flipped the off switch.

Not sure who's contracts are up when it comes to managers (I know Girardi's is), but I'd be calling him the second the season is over if I was an owner/gm.

[McLegend]

Thanks Charlie, it was a great run.

[Evil Vito]

Agreed. Charlie Manuel had no reason to get canned. Ruben Amaro should have traded away half the roster since they're the ones who all flipped the off switch.

Not sure who's contracts are up when it comes to managers (I know Girardi's is), but I'd be calling him the second the season is over if I was an owner/gm.

<font color=goldenrod>To be fair, Manuel will be 70 before next season. He might be content to just hang 'em up at this point.

I'm still baffled by this. Amaro drove Pat Gillick's well-built team into the ground and spent twice as much money doing it.</font>

[ClockShot]

So what's the deal with Jerry Remy up in Boston. Big news of out of there is that his kid got indicted for murder of his girlfriend. He pleaded not guilty today.

NESN and/or Red Sox front office might make him step aside from broadcasting until it all settles so they avoid bad press?

[Emperor Smeat]

Either that or for him to have some time off to deal with recent family issues and not become too stressed that it affects his health again.

Been having some health problems in recent years where Eckersley would fill in during long road trips or just whenever he did too many games in a row.

[road doggy dogg]

Sigh. After the big win streak, lose series to Yanks and White Sox, losing to Royals now. What the heck bros.
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[The Condor]

Joba coming in, this lead is not safe.

[The Fraze]

Sometimes the Giants score 14 runs in a game. But they make sure to do it when their pitcher doesn't put together a quality start to waste.

[Frank Drebin]

Fuck Ryan Brain. Just saying that.

Also that Felix Doubront pitch that soriano hit out.....can't believe a major league starter threw that.

Soriano always has a two week stretch where he goes nuts. When everyone stops throwing low fastballs, he will stop hitting dingers. Still, Hell of a comeback to ny.

[ClockShot]

AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FONZIE!