<font color=goldenrod>Supposedly Crisp's afro is only gonna be temporary. That's a shame. I'd love to see him keep it all season.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Francesa said that today will be the last day he talks about the Mets unless they improve or something major happens. Direct quote: "They are awful and their season is over."

Good. Hope that fat fuck sticks to his promise since any discussion he has on the Mets turns into mindless drivel anyway. Shame that station didn't stick a Pro-Mets voice alongside him.</font>

I'm actually thinking of starting Jair Jurgens in one of my fantasy teams vs. the Mets tomorrow since he's coming off the DL.

Go Red Sox :mad:

Yankees put Phil Hughes on the DL. Got a case of the dead arm.

Bartolo Colon will step in to take his place.

Interesting. I wonder how Colon is going to fair. As a long/mop up reliever, he's serviceable. I have concerns for his stamina, and most importantly, his stuff. He's a fastball first type of pitcher, and sitting in the high 80s/low 90s, he's going to really have to command the zone. We shall see...

The Orioles are back to being complete sacks of garbage..oh well.

<font color=goldenrod>Mets to play a double-header tomorrow despite playing one on Thursday and traveling to Atlanta 2 more times this season. What a bunch of crap.</font>

Jon Rauch to close for the Jays up 7-6 in the 9th.

JAAAAAAAAAYS WIN!!!!! Blow me Boston!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!!!!! Padres beat the 'Stros 4 to 2. Aaron Harang goes 6 full to clinch his 3rd consequtive victory, as well as his 3rd straight start of allowing just one earned run.

Ryan Ludwick knocked in what ended up being the game winning runs with a 2 run single in the 7th. That has to feel good considering his struggles thus far. I'm hoping that wakes him up and gets him going.

<font color=goldenrod>Wonder if Theo held onto the receipt for Crawford.</font>

:lol: I'm sure Crawford will be fine. I think he's feeling pressure to perform to lofty standards. Just needs to go out there and play his game. Things will turn up.

It will take about a year for Crawford to figure out how to play balls off the Green Monster defensive-wise like how Manny became an expert at placement and predicting where the balls would hit and land.

He's struggling hitting wise but the bigger problem is half the lineup is struggling (bottom half barely is over .200 for most hitters) while the bullpen is wasting the slow improvement of the starters.

Can the Cubs just pitch Zambrano every game until he blows up or his.arm blows up

Jo Jo Reyes is so terrible. The sooner Morrow gets back the better.

How about those Cincinnati Redlegs?

Freddy Garcia chalks up his first win in pinstripes. Gardner must have been half asleep while on the basees today. Got picked off and gunned down.

<font color=goldenrod>Down 3-0 with no outs, Daniel Murphy (not a fast runner) is thrown out trying to steal 3rd. What the fuck.

The dumbfuck baserunning mistakes are back. The terrible fielding is back. The inability to throw strikes is back. The uncertainty of injuries and failure to communicate them is back (Chris Young randomly gets his start pushed back by 2 days for a minor injury. Every Mets fan in the world says "watch he'll be on the DL soon". Well whaddya know, he's DL'ed within 24 hours).

Just awful. They are playing like a 100 loss team. And with the Wilpons at the helm ready to make rash decisions to appease the fan base now instead of allowing for a badly-needed rebuild, the worst is yet to come.</font>

Yea...the Mets ARE a 100 loss team. Well, maybe not 100. But pretty close. I feel for you, man. Chris Young was a huge injury risk. He's great wjhen he's not on the DL eating payroll.

Also, Latos decided to unravel in the 7tth, giving up some walks after punching out Brett Wallace to start the inning. Game was tied at 3-3 to start the 7th, and the 'Stros put up two more in that same inning to take the lead and put the game away.

Chase Headley hit a hanging curve ball 430 plus feet to center, for a stand up, 2 run double.

I could get all riled up about this loss, but at least they're starting to score, squaring up on pitches, and getting some hits. The game could have looked completely different had Hunter Pence's goody self not made a spectacular catch to start the 9th. He robbed Nick Hundley of a for sure leadoff double, possibly a triple. Back to bakc hits ensued, which would have meant at least a 5-4 game with two on and no one out.

So yea, positives are, they are putting the bat on the ball and creating scoring chances. Just a matter of putting it all together. If the Padres score 4 runs a game, I guarentee you they will win no less than 60% of the time. Pitching staff is far too good to lose games with that sort of run support.

Starlin castro mvp

Word to your mother.

I don't know what's gotten into Soriano, but I hope it don't get out.

The Braves doing a squeeze play with the bases loaded is hilarious.

It took a little over 2 weeks but the Red Sox finally managed to win 2 games in a row.

Tomorrow is going to be tough because its Dice-K vs Blue Jays #1 or #2 starter.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah Fredi managed the game pretty shittily today.

Feels good to finally win. Speaks volumes about the Mets' bullpen that rotation members Chris Capuano and R.A. Dickey were used in relief.

Homestand against the Astros and Diamondbacks next week, going to Wednesday's game. If they want any hope of climbing into relevance they need to win both of those series.</font>

Padres put some runs on the board, and actually kept coming up with big hits to beat the 'Stros 8 to 6 and split the series. I hope the offense carries over to Wrigley tomorrow.

was going to find a picture of Jonathan Herrera with a caption of "haunting your nightmares" but apparently google images doesn't yet know who Jonathan Herrera is

I didn't want to use that one, dick

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haunting your nightmares


actually it works, dick

:eek: Dice-K pitched great today. Just 1 hit allowed to the Blue Jays.

For some strange reason he only pitches great when its against the Blue Jays even though he struggles against teams who can hit HRs very well.

Back to track a bit here... let's keep it going.

Three in row bitch. Thanks for your team being such shit we are out of our funk. Winning streak!

Happy Patriots Day!

Zambrano was unreal tonight. Wish he would of gotten the win.

Great win for the cubbies. Wish o was at that game.

Zambrano hasn't loss since june 25 last year

Well that series was just shit.

Mike Leake got arrested for stealing $60 worth of t-shirts from a Macy's. What a loser.



Jokes:
I wonder if Leake will get sent to the pen.
This is Leake's first career caught stealing.

Guy stole six shirts worth a total of less than $60.

Looks like the fashion police should have caught him first. :lol:

<font color=goldenrod>Leake now leads the league in steals by pitchers</font>

The Braves have yet to register a pinch-hit or a hit from anyone in the 9 hole. So bad right now.

<font color=goldenrod>Welp, the Brad Emaus experiment didn't last long. DFA'ed, Justin Turner brought up.</font>

I knew Leake would be a steal this year, I just thought it would be for my fantasy team.

GOT HEEEEEEM

I feel bad for Twins fans right now..they're awful offensively

Joe Nathan is done. Just gave up a 3 run hr to Vlad on a 3-1 pitch in the 9th to make it 11-0. Vlad still hasn't drawn a walk this year either.

The robot can be programmed to pitch like a MLB pitcher in both speeds and types of pitches but the Phillies made sure he only threw 30 mph or else people would want to do trades or put it in the Phillies rotation.

Futurama also said this is how the Robot Leagues started for baseball and then Blernsball.

<font color=goldenrod>Looks like holding onto Nathan hoping he'd soon recover the closing duties was a bad idea</font> :(

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Mariano who? Heh.

Just came over the wire the MLB is taking over operations for the Dodgers. The McCourts can't coexist with each other and the team is strapped for cash. Frank McCourt took a $30 mil. loan from Fox to keep the team afloat.

Holy shit, and I thought the Mets had it bad with money.

MLB set to take over daily operation and activities of the LA Dodgers after the current owners are currently in a financial mess due to the divorce.

Unlike the time the MLB took over the Expos, MLB is only taking over the day-to-day activities of the team and won't be spending their own money for potential trades or signings. When they owned the Expos, the MLB had to fight off owners complaining MLB was spending their money on another team and MLB didn't want to give the Expos special status.

Did you guys hear about the Dodgers

MLB taking over operations

the MLB is taking over the Dodgers operations, guys

I'm gonna wait for some confirmation on this rumor before I give my opinion on the matter.

Guys....mlb took over the Dodgers

Weren't they owned by Rupert Murdock self-named billionaire tyrant?

Im pretty sure Ben Maller is really upset about the dodgers.. unless he isn't

Os factoids of the night:

With a 2 run HR tonight with a runner at 2nd, Matt Wieters is 6 for 6 with RISP. I cant find any records dealing with RISP though.

Mark Reynolds is 0 for his last 26 with the bases loaded with 18ks...CHOKER

Like 10 years ago.

Rupert Murdoch killed the Kennedys :bleh:

Starlin Castro is KILLING me in Fantasy tonight.

9 at bats and only ONE hit.

Indians vs Royals had the Royals up 2-0 and a potential no hitter going until the 6th when a hit was given up. After that it was all down hill for the Royals pitcher with 2 balks and 4 runs given up in the 6th.

<font color=goldenrod>I need to have my head examined for actually going to tonight's Mets game, especially since I've been sick as hell lately.

Was actually a fun game. But between Pagan getting thrown out at the plate and Thole popping up a crucial bunt on the first pitch causing a double play in the 9th, it really feels like they are inventing new ways to lose. Thole popped up a bunt. Dickey popped up a bunt. Willie Harris failed to bunt so he gave up and promptly struck out. 3 fucked up attempts at bunting in one game may be some kind of record. Last Thursday to tonight may legitimately have been the worst week of baseball ever played by a team.

They have found a way to lock up 100 losses in April. I'll always watch the games but at least with the 2009 Mets I didn't become basically apathetic about the results until like July. This year I'll be feeling that way on April 21st.</font>

Now you know what it's like to be a Cubs fan.

Bartolo Colon has to have performed some kind of skill stealing voodoo, because he's pitching the way Phil Hughes should be and Hughes has thrown like an out of shape 37 year old man. Amazing.

As an Os fan the last week was brutal, 8 game losing streak was tough but the bats have come back alive and hopefully things have stabled out somewhat. With Boston in this weekend they could put together a decent little strech of games to get back on course even more.

...them fightin' Showalters.

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why is this making me laugh?

BAH GAWD! 'CAUSE YOU'VE GOT NO SOUL! DAMMIT!

You mean New York right? Because the Yankees are the team coming to Camden this weekend. The Red Sox are still gonna be on their west coast series.

Nice, Big Vito's on suicide watch even earlier this year.

Ugh, Brett Cecil sent to the minors. This mean probably that Scott Richmond or Brad Mills will start. The Jays seems to be fixated on keeping Jo Jo Reyes even though he sucks, always has and always will, but because Litsch and Cecil have options Reyes stays. Stewart, McGuire, Alvarez, Synngarrd and Sanchez can't develop soon enough. 3/5 of the Jays rotation has been garbage. Drabek has been amazing though.

Cecil will be alright

I hope so, because he's been really off. Jays are in a good position where they aren't expected to compete so they can afford to send guys to AAA to work on stuff, but Vegas is such a friggen hitters park though.

Brewers give Ryan Braun a 5-year, $105 mil. extension.

Along with the 7-year deal he signed back in '08. He's now in Milwaukee until 2020 and gets a grand total of $145.5 mil.

That's crazy, imo.

I wonder if Prince goes on the market if the Brewers are out of contention.

Cubs vs Dodgers

Big series. Reds and Cards are beating each other up this week. We need a sweep.

Brewers pretty much have to deal Fielder

That's what I figure and I truly believe the Cubs could get him or Puljos. I just hope they don't have to ship Colvin.

They definitely could, if the Brewers traded within the division. Normally that probably wouldn't happen but it might because it just happens that a lot of the big market teams are all set at the postion.

Same goes for Pujols. The Yankees having Texiera and the Red Sox having A-Gon shakes things up

Dodgers owner wants to sue MLB for what he calls a "hostile takeover" of his team and to add to the :lol:, the guy MLB promoted to help take charge of the Dodgers after 2 days decided to side with the owner.

MLB got upset when it learned McCourt tried to take a $200 million loan from Fox out of the next tv contract and when that failed asked for $30 million to cover team costs.

Also revealed was the owner's family managed to spend $50 million in a few years on just themselves with loaned team money and another $20 million each year in "rent" from the team. Altogether the McCourts hid $145 million from MLB and the IRS due to not paying taxes.

Baseball ownership can and has been a real joke at times.

but god forbid Mark Cuban should be allowed to have a team

that would be awful

this is going to be a very confusing no hitter

I don't know that Yankee fans are allowed to call long term contracts of any sort "crazy", especially ones that make sense on the surface.

Jose Bautista up to bat to start the 10th a single shy of the cycle.

<font color=goldenrod>2 wins in a row!</font>

lol Johnny McDonald with a walk off home run in the 11th of all people.

I'm going to Cubs vs Reds on May 17th. Are there good bars near Great American Ballpark? Any boobie bars near by?

The Great American Titty Bar

Hopefully it's Amerature night.

I don't know but the Cubs are a bunch of boobs.

(Rim shot)

Seriously?

Bautista with 2 home runs in his firs two at bats against David Price. He also has the Jays only two hits so far.

Dempster gives it up in the sixth. Just as scheduled. Worst number one starter, perhaps every.

Bases loaded, come on cubs

Fuck yes Castro!!!!