Author Topic: Offical MLB Thread! (Read 418876 times)

Saburo · « **Reply #300 on:** April 19, 2006, 12:15:08 AM »

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2412654

Jim Bowden, GM of the Washington Nats, was busted for DUI.

Someone on a blog made a good point: this incident will not get a tenth of the coverage of Barry "Steroid Nazi" Bonds being the target of fan debris. All Barry ever did was hit a lot of home runs and create zits on his back.

Bowden, on the other hand, could have killed someone while driving.

You decide what's worse.

daigong · « **Reply #301 on:** April 19, 2006, 09:48:47 AM »

Yeah. Dude pleaded guilty already. Bonds could go to jail for what??

and hey Junior, Junior is on the DL again :p

Thimas X · « **Reply #302 on:** April 19, 2006, 01:20:20 PM »

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and hey Junior, Junior is on the DL again :p

DAMMIT!!!! Such bad luck...

Mugen · « **Reply #303 on:** April 20, 2006, 03:31:13 AM »

Jays pwned the Yankees yesterday...but today they lost 3 - 1

Saburo · « **Reply #304 on:** April 21, 2006, 06:16:14 AM »

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060420&content_id=1409827&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Derrek Lee has broken bones in his right wrist. Cast for six weeks. Maybe out for up to three months.

Wrist injuries are nasty and could affect his hitting when he returns in the summer.

Damn, my condolences to Cub fans, and I know a few of 'em.

Saburo · « **Reply #305 on:** April 22, 2006, 12:35:01 AM »

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260420125

Julio Franco, who began his pro baseball career before some members of this bbs were born, became the oldest player to hit a home run in MLB. Forty-seven years young. Remarkable.

daigong · « **Reply #306 on:** April 22, 2006, 08:14:02 AM »

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Forty-seven years young. Remarkable.

And that wasn't just some line drive. It was a fuckin clutch BOMB!! Props to him. Hope he never retires.

Rickey. Hope you're taking notes!!!

Thimas X · « **Reply #307 on:** April 22, 2006, 09:22:34 PM »

Alfonso hit 3 HRs !!!

Cubs fans get bad luck every year...

Mugen · « **Reply #308 on:** April 23, 2006, 02:18:09 AM »

Jays owned Sox even with Halladay only playing 5 innings!

Thimas X · « **Reply #309 on:** April 24, 2006, 03:36:08 AM »

Barry hits first HR of the season.

SHHHHH he says

Saburo · « **Reply #310 on:** April 28, 2006, 12:43:38 AM »

Anyone here following the saga of Omar Vizquel vs. Jose Mesa?

Vizquel wrote some trash about Mesa about choking in the '97 Series and Mesa stated publically that he would bean Omar every time he faced him. Well, Mesa is three-for-three and the last one precepitated a beanball war last Saturday.

What a colossal asshole Mesa must be. I say suspend him for 30-50 games and a hefty (six figures+) fine.

Thimas X · « **Reply #311 on:** April 28, 2006, 01:20:35 PM »

what a long feud

How bout my boy Mench hitting 6 HRs in a row? It's the shoes!!!

Saburo · « **Reply #312 on:** April 29, 2006, 01:04:40 AM »

Gotta be the shoes!

Actually... how the HELL can something like that happen? I heard that it was only one (1) shoe that was mis-sized. How the hell can that kind of thing go unchecked for... eight years, was it?!

daigong · « **Reply #313 on:** April 29, 2006, 02:28:30 AM »

haha Mesa only got 4 games.

RIP Steve Howe.

Former major league pitcher Steve Howe killed in truck accident

NEW YORK (AP) -- Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died Friday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif. He was 48.

Howe was killed at 5:55 a.m. PDT, said Dalyn Backes of the Riverside County coroner's office. The accident occurred about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.

Howe was the 1980 NL Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and helped them win the World Series the next year.

But for all of Howe's success on the field, the hard-throwing lefty was constantly troubled by addictions -- he was suspended seven times and became a symbol of the rampant cocaine problem that plagued baseball in the 1980s.

Saburo · « **Reply #314 on:** April 29, 2006, 11:05:29 PM »

Just caught the news of Howe's death this morning...

Hmm, it would be tempting to gleem meaning from the passing of a guy whose record of substance abuse is on par with Robert Downey Jr. I haven't heard any news about him since the late 90s so I assume he found some amount of peace.

I do remember his struggles with drugs back in the 80s and it's instructive to focus on the number of times that Howe was suspended by MLB for drug use: seven.

That's right: seven. Seems like a joke, no? What with all the tough talk coming out these days about "three strikes and yer out" and 100-game suspensions, etal. (Delmon Young probably picked the wrong time to throw a bat at an umpire.) Clearly, Howe was someone who was busted again and again and again... Jeez, I thought he'd be dead before the mid-90s.

How/why'd he get so many chances? Me thinks: for the same reason that Jesse Orosco, a NON-hall-of-fame pitcher if there ever was one, was able to set a record for most games pitched in MLB. Left-handed relievers were and still are a valuable commodity. They're probably an OVERRATED commodity and too many roster spots are wasted on guys who pitch a few innings a month, but that's what's important to those guys.

Howe WAS a good pitcher, which brings up another instructive point. If you're going to break a bunch of rules, make sure you've got talent. If he couldn't get batters out, MLB would have thrown him to the feds long ago. The double standard of star player treatment lives on to this day.

Saburo · « **Reply #315 on:** April 29, 2006, 11:27:57 PM »

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haha Mesa only got 4 games.

You know what drives me batty? Inconsistency.

People of authority yammer on about teaching the youth of America what's right and wrong, and then do a 180 and confuse them even further.

Delmon Young IS going to have the book thrown at him. Thirty games, sixty games... something very symbolic to match the severity of the crime and the outcry from fans and media.

Know what? Jose Mesa did almost the same exact thing: assault another person on a baseball field. I'm not sure I want gangland wars fought out on baseball fields and Mesa pretty much admitted guilt by SAYING that he's GOING to bean Vizquel EVERY TIME he faces him.

Duhh... Maybe Mesa can live with himself but I don't, as a baseball fan, want the pleasure of seeing him play a "kids" game if he's going to waste my time with his adult dramatics.

And again: what's worse? shooting up steroids or throwing a baseball 90mph+ at another guy. I guess we got our answer, per the Bud Selig School of Morality.

Ah, fuck all this. Play ball!

Thimas X · « **Reply #316 on:** April 30, 2006, 04:56:37 AM »

man...Delmon Young hit that umpire pretty hard...that clip was scary.

Mench ends his streak..but Rangers win!

daigong · « **Reply #317 on:** May 04, 2006, 06:18:44 AM »

...your take on most underrated/overrated list voted on by players. See the media suck Jeter's dick, but yeah Jeter deserves his accolades. Sports Illustrated anonymous poll among baseball players. I'm looking for the list/article. But underrated they have Michael Young.

Thimas X · « **Reply #318 on:** May 04, 2006, 06:37:18 AM »

michael young..lol....hes ok

Saburo · « **Reply #319 on:** May 05, 2006, 05:33:15 AM »

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...your take on most underrated/overrated list voted on by players.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spjeter0504,0,1665310,print.story

I'll say this: Jeter is probably the most overrated DEFENSIVE PLAYER in the major leagues. His range is shitty on ground balls and his arm is only fair.

I wouldn't put too much stock in the collected votes of guys who are lucky to be in MLB right now. It's not like they know all the players, analyze all the statistics, see all the games. Their collective opinion wouldn't be much different from that of a random selection of 470 general purpose baseball fans from North America.