Author Topic: Offical MLB Thread! (Read 339814 times)

Saburo · « **Reply #1600 on:** December 23, 2010, 11:43:11 PM »

Great line from Keith Law's chat on ESPN.com today:

Anyone else think this apparent surge in support for Jack Morris is a bunch of dinosaur voters angry that Felix Hernandez and Zack Greinke won Cy Young Awards with historically low win totals? "They say pitcher wins don't count? I'll show them!" I imagine the majority of Morris voters write his name in ALL CAPS. In crayon.

Saburo · « **Reply #1601 on:** December 28, 2010, 10:49:47 PM »

The more I read stuff about crap like this, the more I am convinced that the BBWAA, in general, is not worthy of the honor of selecting MLB's greatest honor for its players.

Saburo · « **Reply #1602 on:** December 30, 2010, 05:31:59 PM »

Baseball HOF voting (the BBWAA Hall, anyway) ends this week. And now we've gone from "Morris over Blyleven" to "Stop Bagwell The 'Roider!"

Really: Jeff Bagwell. It's scary, really. And my man Craig Calcaterra nails it: it's McCarthyism. A chickenshit movement that is intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt.

Worst of all, I get the impression that this will make casual fans of baseball love the game LESS, not more. These BBWAA morons think they're doing something righteous and CORRECT. They're doing neither. They're waiting to vote in Batman and Superman in their fantasy world.

Saburo · « **Reply #1603 on:** December 30, 2010, 05:47:19 PM »

. . . but there is good in this world. Keep Hope Alive!

Joe Posnanski, for one. Follow MLB online? Yep, you've heard of him. He's been posting thousands of words on the HOF subject all week. His series of articles culminates in his ballot of eight (yep, he's a voting Member).

He speaks for the rest of us. For myself. Joe P. is ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS. And makes me happy that his talents and brain power are being used in the service of making at least one reader smarter about BASEBALL.

Saburo · « **Reply #1604 on:** January 05, 2011, 09:29:04 PM »

If you follow MLB like me then you've already heard The News: Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven are IN!

Damn, never had so much fun following Twitter for the last few hours...

daigong · « **Reply #1605 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:57:43 AM »

Finally!! The Best Second Basemen North of the Border!

Get Rafael Palmeiro in there too! C'mon MAN!

WHERE'S JULIO FRANCO!! Jeff Bagwell? wow these HOF ballots get the debates going huh? But shit Alomar was well deserved, shoulda been a first ballot.

Saburo · « **Reply #1606 on:** January 07, 2011, 03:37:01 AM »

^^ Alomar will be wearing a Blue Jays cap on the plaque. Be proud of your 1992-93 World Series champs!

Saburo · « **Reply #1607 on:** January 14, 2011, 03:58:47 AM »

Rafael Soriano signed by the damn Yanks for... $35 million/3 years?

Sounds way over the top. Someone said it's only a good deal IF it moves Joba back to the rotation. Haaaaar!

Yoshino · « **Reply #1608 on:** January 14, 2011, 04:43:51 AM »

^^ For that kind of money, doesn't make too much sense,

NY papers said Cashman had to do something drastic to shore up the staff but he'll only be a setup man, just resigned Rivera for 2 more years.

Saburo · « **Reply #1609 on:** January 22, 2011, 01:20:23 AM »

It's all over my Twitter feed. Angels trade Mike Napoli to Blue Jays for... Vernon Wells?!!

Ken Rosenthal just reported: Wells and ca$h to Angels for Napoli and Juan Rivera. Amazing!

Saburo · « **Reply #1610 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:18:05 AM »

More hot stove news: Manny Ramirez AND Johnny Damon sign with the Tampa Bay Rays!

Damn... the AL East gets more interesting!

kuro808 · « **Reply #1611 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:26:06 AM »

I guess the Rays have two over the hill people to play with, maybe they might have a chance, slight that is

Saburo · « **Reply #1612 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:41:12 AM »

What this probably means is that one of their hotshot AAA outfielders (Desmond Jennings?) will not be starting the season in St. Pete. On the other hand, they got MANNY for "only" $2 million and change. That's a GREAT deal: he can still hit.

Saburo · « **Reply #1613 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:41:55 AM »

Gonna be an entertaining season in the AL East, for sure. Also can you imagine how BAD Tampa's outfield defense is going to be?!!

kuro808 · « **Reply #1614 on:** January 22, 2011, 03:16:02 AM »

Quote from: Saburo on January 22, 2011, 02:41:55 AM

Gonna be an entertaining season in the AL East, for sure. Also can you imagine how BAD Tampa's outfield defense is going to be?!!

The walkers in the outfield

Saburo · « **Reply #1615 on:** January 22, 2011, 03:26:39 AM »

Love this mashup from Jon Weisman.

Saburo · « **Reply #1616 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:12:17 PM »

Utterly brutal feature by Yahoo's Jeff Passan about Voros McCracken and the fame/fortune that appears to have eluded him.

I first read about McCracken and DIPS in "The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers." When Bill James brought something to your attention, you paid attention. That was years ago and yeah, I would have known if this Voros dude was still around writing for SOMEBODY (did he not even have friggin' Twitter?).

Saburo · « **Reply #1617 on:** January 25, 2011, 05:24:07 PM »

Peeps in my Twitter feed are already beginning to chime in about the just-released nominations for the Academy Awards, an "honor" that lost relevancy for me years ago. If only this worked for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum...

Saburo · « **Reply #1618 on:** January 31, 2011, 09:30:57 PM »

If you are like me and consume baseball on the same level as oxygen and water then you'll certainly have gotten wind of the news: Rob Neyer is leaving ESPN-dot com.

Posted my thoughts here, instead of working.

Saburo · « **Reply #1619 on:** February 01, 2011, 07:54:16 PM »

And the day after... Rob Neyer is up and running at SB Nation, a site I have NEVER been to.

Until now.