Author Topic: Offical MLB Thread! (Read 340752 times)

daigong · « **Reply #1480 on:** June 05, 2010, 10:44:10 AM »

^ What an era of baseball. Him and Frank Thomas my faves.

What a week in the majors, and I missed this story. RIP José Lima. Here he was in my town:

LIMA TIME! BELIEVE IT!

(September 30, 1972 – May 23, 2010)

Saburo · « **Reply #1481 on:** June 09, 2010, 08:32:08 PM »

I pimp Joe Sheehan whenever I can. Here's his tempered look at Jesus Strasburg's debut last night in The District.

Saburo · « **Reply #1482 on:** June 11, 2010, 12:40:56 AM »

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-psychic-20100610,0,5226932,full.story

Story about the McCourt's hiring of some crackpot in Russia for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dodger fan money, mind you.

Sheesh, how did these people become so rich? And how brilliant is it that people can still be taken advantage of...

Saburo · « **Reply #1483 on:** June 13, 2010, 11:48:38 PM »

Dang, long weekend away from the teevee. Missed most of Interleague play.

BTW now it looks like Emperor Bud is going to table replay for as long as his tar-black heart is pumping whatever substitutes for blood in his veins. The man needs to go. Soon.

Saburo · « **Reply #1484 on:** June 14, 2010, 06:17:35 PM »

OOoof...

Saburo · « **Reply #1485 on:** June 17, 2010, 04:15:43 AM »

Jamie Moyer, who has been playing Major League Baseball longer than a lotta people on this li'l message board have been ALIVE, beat the New York Effin' World Champ Yankees tonight.

How about that?!!

Saburo · « **Reply #1486 on:** June 25, 2010, 12:45:50 AM »

FINALLY... someone shares my pain about the "30 For 30" series on ESPN; notices the slight, at least.

Where's the love for BASEBALL?!! Didn't The Sports Guy (who I blame any time baseball/MLB gets knocked about) remember James Earl Jones's speech in "Field of Dreams?"

Aw, fuck...

daigong · « **Reply #1487 on:** June 25, 2010, 12:48:44 AM »

They're too busy drooling over Strasburg??

if anything, do one on Ken Griffey Jr!!

Saburo · « **Reply #1488 on:** June 25, 2010, 12:54:22 AM »

Quote from: daigong on June 25, 2010, 12:48:44 AM

if anything, do one on Ken Griffey Jr!!

Exactly: I'd LOVE to see a piece on the '95 Mariners, one of the great comeback teams of the last 20 years.

But Simmons would rather invest his time in the NBA (#1 love), the NFL (VERY close 2nd), soccer (isn't ESPN going to air EPL games?) and curling (speaks for itself).

Bitch, bitch, bitch... OK I'll shaddap now.

Shin Asuka · « **Reply #1489 on:** June 25, 2010, 12:55:16 AM »

I love the 30 For 30 series on ESPN, that last one about the Two Escobars was pretty interesting after I thought it was going to be lame because it was about soccer and half in Spanish.

I saw one good ESPN baseball documentary years ago, it was called The Zen of Bobby V. Matter of facyt I'm still looking for a copy thats not on XBOX 360.

Saburo · « **Reply #1490 on:** June 26, 2010, 04:37:29 AM »

Edwin Jackson: no-hitter in the Trop: eight walks, 149 pitches thrown. They should give him not one but two weeks off.

Yanks playing the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine right now. Vin Scully doing the call for Prime Ticket. What a pleasure it is to experience this.

Posada RBI single to right, plating A-Rod. Tie game, 1-1.

Saburo · « **Reply #1491 on:** July 01, 2010, 10:54:06 PM »

I think finally we're going to see how and why Chase Utley has been the REAL MVP of the Phillies all these years. Five to six weeks kaput?!! Two games-plus behind the Braves?!!

And it's a long shot but what IF the Mets somehow are able to deal for Cliff Lee. Great time to be a baseball blogger covering the NL East.

kuro808 · « **Reply #1492 on:** July 01, 2010, 11:05:18 PM »

^ Cliff Lee going back to batting

well utley is very important but we may never know what will happen (put a right hander there

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Saburo · « **Reply #1493 on:** July 02, 2010, 12:04:08 AM »

The general wisdom (as manifested in NL MVP voting) has placed Rollins and Howard higher on the Philly pecking order than Utley. Heck, didn't Brad Lidge place higher in the MVP voting in 2008?

(goes to Google...)

YES! In 2008, Lidge got two (!) FIRST-place votes and 104 points. Utley, providing league-leading offensive at a key defensive position, pointed only 30.

Philly is in deep doo-doo. Can they trade for the ghost of Jeff Kent or Joe Morgan?

Saburo · « **Reply #1494 on:** July 07, 2010, 08:31:38 AM »

I'll just come out and say it: "Bud" Selig is a bad, BAD man. I'd laugh when Charley Finley called Bowie Kuhn "The Village Idiot." Meanwhile Kuhn is enshrined in Cooperstown, Marvin Miller is given the shaft and "Bud" collects $18 million-plus to make the tough calls like this.

Fuck you, "Bud" Selig.

Saburo · « **Reply #1495 on:** July 07, 2010, 06:18:11 PM »

Love this line about the Red Sox (via Baseball Musings):

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT, EVERYONE IS NOW INJURED *EXCEPT* JD DREW?

Mugen · « **Reply #1496 on:** July 12, 2010, 07:46:44 AM »

this is halarious!!!

daigong · « **Reply #1497 on:** July 12, 2010, 07:49:41 AM »

^ lol and I bet he tapped dat after the game

No doubt Selig. let them fight for home field advantage for the World Series!

Dope to see Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed relief pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo get a nod on the All-Star roster. Go Asians!

And though I never been to a Yankees game, I'm sure this voice is familiar to many:

RIP Bob Sheppard

kuro808 · « **Reply #1498 on:** July 13, 2010, 04:58:42 AM »

BIG PAPI! WINS THE HR DERBY OVER HANLEY RAMIREZ

Saburo · « **Reply #1499 on:** July 13, 2010, 06:25:44 PM »

King George Steinbrenner is dead. I don't even need to link to anything...

Famous and influential, a domineering force. Also a very mixed legacy (TWO separate bans from MLB) so be leery of New Yorkers/Yankee fans you meet today who claim "Mister Steinbrenner" merits enshrinement in Cooperstown.