Playing out of his mind this year

Tie game.

Cubs lead!!!! What a 8th inning!

Cubs lead!!!! What a 8th inning!

Close this shit Marmol!

Cubs win !!!!!!!!!

In case you missed it, Ryan Dempster still sucks ass. and Starlin Castro is the GOAT.

Starlin could fuck my mom in my bed and I would high five him for it.

...Michael Pineda is making me very happy in Fantasy.

Starlin Castro is the best shortstop in baseball right now.

I am like ready to fucking stab someone right now. 15-3 after they cut it to 6-3. UGH

Total domination.

...Robinson Cano is THE DUDE.

Red Sox win!!!! They move from 5th to 3rd with that one! Moving on up bitches!

It'd be nice if the fucking Jays had anybody on base Bautista comes to bat. He's hitting .371 with 7 home runs and only 10 run batted it. He hasn't gotten out in two games and only has 3 rbi's on 3 solo home runs. He also has a triple and double which cashe in nobody because Escobar and Patterson can't get on base to save their lives.

lol I noticed that. pretty incredible statistic

To be fair though, Bautista's getting some decent pitches because there's nobody on base to be worried about. If there was, I'd much rather just pitch around Bautista and try my luck with Adam Lind's .630 OPS.

So happy I don't have to worry about Yunel anymore.

This reminds me (and this is the ONLY similarity between the two) of Barry Bonds after his 73 season. His homer and rbi totals the next 3 years were 46 and 110, 45 and 90, and 45 and 101. There was just no reason to pitch to him when someone was on base.

In 2003, 35 of his 45 homers were solo.


Although Bautista's current pace for 54 homers and 77 rbi destroys those numbers.

Covington just outlawed their nudie bars so that kinda killed that business. Gotta go to Dayton or Florence for that now. Lotta good bars though.

Bautista is second is walks, it's pretty much anything on the inside of the plate he crushes. He's in his zone where if a pitcher misses he makes you pay. He's got half of the Jays 14 home runs.

Bautista's first at bat today was a four pitch walks with nothing remotely close to being a strike from James Shelids, nobody on base, and Adam Lind proceeds to strike out for the third out. Fantastic.

Fucking Jays

Mike Stanton is an animal

I knew it was only a matter of time. The Red Sox still got a way to go but they have a good team this year.

Bautista with another solo home run. Haha 8 home runs and 11 RBI's.

Adam Lind was a monster game so far. 3 for 4, 2 homers 5 rbi's. Somebody other than Bautista for once.

Bucholz would have probably given up 12 runs tonight if he was facing anyone other than the Os offense which consisted primarily of a bunch of singles and some sac flys for 3 of the 4 runs and the 1st run scoring on a ball that rolled down the 1st base line and bounced up in the air of the bag instead of going foul. The Os could probably end up still losing this game and it wouldnt surprise me up 4-1 in the 9th with Gregg in..ugh.

Wow, RF for the White Sox with two great plays to end the game.

If he missed either of those they would have at the very least lost the lead and most likely the game.

Yankees have had a knack for losing to teams in horrible slumps. The Boston series where they hadn't won a game and now against the White Sox who were terrible coming into the series.

Don't sleep on Kosuke!!!!

Bartolo Colon is EL HOMBRE!

I never thought I'd say this, but thank god for Bartolo Colon.

<font color=goldenrod>Marvin Hudson is an idiot. Robs Reyes of a triple, saying he slid off the bag despite multiple replays showing otherwise. Reyes and Collins both flip an absolute shit and neither get ejected, suggesting the ump knew he fucked up.

Wonder what Selig's excuse will be this offseason when he inevitably balks at expanded replay again.</font>

And the E5 error count is up to 5.

Orioles are going to have a hard time getting the 3 game sweep of the Red Sox tonight facing Jon Lester who is 13-0 in 16 starts vs the Os with a 2.33 ERA. Brad Berggesen is pitching for the Os and hes not been that sharp so far.

Well not with that attitude mister.

If Kosuke goes 3-5 or better tonight, I'm getting a Kosuke jersey

The Mets owe Bobby Bonilla 1.2 million for the next 25 years.

That is fantastic.

Also Roy Oswalt left the Phillies to be with his parents who lost their house in the tornadoes in Mississippi.

Very sad.

It's the greatest thing ever. They passed on buying him out for $5.9 million and now with interest owe him $30 million.

Are you serious right now? That happened?

OMG!!! it did actually happen that way. I'm reading more about it now.

I love it

:rofl: He is going to end up making more money with the deferred deal than he did while playing for the Mets (more years though compared to 4-5 with the Mets).

They also still have Bret Saberhagen on the team payroll and he only played 3 years for them ($250,000 for 25 years starting in 2004).

2011 All Star Ballot

tad early..

Only Orioles player I can see making it is Zach Britton as long as he keeps up being awesome, and thats even a stretch. If not him it'll probably be Brian Roberts.

American League:

• 1B - Cabrera, Miguel
• 2B - Roberts, Brian
• SS - Andrus, Elvis
• 3B - Beltre, Adrian
• C - Wieters, Matt
• DH - Guerrero, Vladimir
• OF - Cruz, Nelson
• OF - Francoeur, Jeff
• OF - Granderson, Curtis
• Write-in - N/A

National League:

• 1B - Howard, Ryan
• 2B - Phillips, Brandon
• SS - Tulowitzki, Troy
• 3B - Jones, Chipper
• C - McCann, Brian
• OF - Braun, Ryan
• OF - Ethier, Andre
• OF - Heyward, Jason
• Write-in - N/A

Ryan Howard? Seriously? Come on. Thought you were better than that.

On his best day, Ryan Howard is the 4th best 1st baseman in the National League.

It's that time of year again.

Of all the people I get flack for, Ryan Howard?

Yes, because it's the stupidest pick.

I expect a bunch of homer picks because that's what people do, so all the O's are fine.
Elvis Andrus doesn't deserve to be an All Star but there are literally 0 AL shortstops having a good season.
Beltre is a weak pick but I don't expect you to vote for A-Rod so it's understandable.

But voting for Ryan Howard is just atrocious.

If you're just some fair weather retard who only cares about the glamor stats then you love Ryan Howard. If you like baseball, you know Howard is garbage. End of discussion.

<font color=goldenrod>Anybody who does their votes this early is retarded.</font>

Only other player at 1B having a better year than Howard at 1B is Votto..

I dont see how Howard is garbage.

Fielder and Pujols wipe their asses with Howard. He's a vanity player who gets free rbis by batting in a stacked lineup.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xhgOIkbqY-.../s1600/JED.jpg

We'll see.

They shouldn't even be doing the All Star ballots this early anyway. I mean, Brad Emaus is listed as the Mets 2B and he's on the Rockies now. These should be released in mid May at the earliest.

Oh nice, Dempster gives up a grand slam in the first inning.


This season is over

Hey great job Demspter. Almost made it out of the first inning. So close.

...it's gonna be a long season for us Cubs fans.

HOLY COW!

What has gotten into Lance Berkman?

...dude's playing like an MVP.

Nothing like wanting to commit suicide in the bleachers at Chase Field. Does anyone fucking think this guy is actually any good anymore? Was he ever any good in the first fucking place? Jesus.

...it would've been a little easier to go thorugh the agony that will be the 2011 Cubs season, if we would've had Ryno as Manager.

<table class="yspwhitebg" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr class="ysptblthbody2" align="right"><td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">IP</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">H</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">R</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">ER</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">BB</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">K</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">HR</td> <td class="yspdetailttl" width="7%">WHIP</td> <td colspan="2" class="yspdetailttl" width="19%">Season ERA </td> </tr> <tr class="ysprow1" align="right"> <td align="left"> R. Dempster (L, 1-3)</td> <td>0.1</td> <td>4</td> <td>7</td> <td>7</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>1.87</td> <td>9.58</td> <td width="25">
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LOL one out.

Sam Fuld is looking pretty good for the Rays

He's making me very happy in Fantasy, as is Lance Berkman.

Too bad the Cubs traded him to get Garza.


I expect Dempster to be on the 15 day dl or something. Not because he's injured, but because he s been so bad that at this point, you have to make up a reason for his horribleness

Lol no Jose Bautista?

That was the strangest two runs that the Jays scored in the 9th that I've ever seen lol.

Rivera hit a ground ball to Beltre who made an error, and the run scored, which left Rivera on first, Bautista on second and Patterson on Third. Beltre then lobbed the ball to the pitcher Oliver and all of a sudden Bautista breaks for third, stops halfway when he realizes Patterson is standing on third and halfway down starts running back to second. Oliver tries to throw him out at second and end sup throwing the ball out to center field and Patterson scores.

There is one good thing on the Cubs front.... Kosuke is hitting .460!!!!!!!

Kosuke avatar time

Travis Snider sent to AAA. Fuck sakes.

See, I told you Howard is terrible.

Robinson Cano is going to be this year's AL MVP...

...he's a fucking STUD.

JOSEEEEE! JOSE! JOSE JOSE!....JOSE!....JOSE!

...Woo woo woo you Cano it.

...I don't...

ESPN just called a Jose Bautista's homerun a Bautista Bomb.

Lol, alot of people are looking stupid in the media for saying Bautista was a one year wonder. Guy looks like he's gonna hit 50 again.

The White Sox are horrible..

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah, gotta give credit where its due. Definitely thought Bautista was a fluke, purposely nominated him early in fantasy leagues too. :o Oops.</font>

Alfonso Soriano has 10 homers. 4 in the last 3 games.

how many errors?

Jesse Litsch pitching against the Yankees today. Lefties hit Litsch HARD. This could get ugly.

haha and as soon as I finish typing that Litsch serves up a home run to Tex Mex in the first.

Wakefield got his 1st start of the season and managed to out-duel Felix Hernandez for today's game.

The Os are gonna get a 4 game sweep of the White Sox tonight. They're that bad!

I wouldnt be surprised if Ozzie Guillen gets the boot shortly.

I'm surprised Ozzie Guillen has had such a long leash in Chicago.

Yeah, he helped take them back to the World Series and win the whole thing in 2005, but his act has gotten old, and the team hasn't exactly performed that great, to compensate for keeping him.

Vlad Guerrerro has 110 ABs without a walk so far, the record since 1900 is 148.

The way he swings at everything, short of him getting plunked or intentionally walked I could see him go the whole year without one.

:lol:

No Bautista for this series against the Rays. Ouch.

I love watching Bartolo Colon pitch.

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Wow Jo Jo Reyes isn't pitching like complete ass tonight.

vlad took a walk on #116

dammit

Liariano has a no hitter in the ninth

Is it too much to ask of Ryan Dempster to get out of the first inning

I'm ready to chuck Dempsters dead corpse in the sea.

<font color=goldenrod>Liriano got it. My fantasy team is happy.</font>

Liriano just pitched a no hitter