Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:38pm
Nellcote wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm:
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Title: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:03am
They may be at the top of the football world, but could Pittsburgh suck any worse?
---------- Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:55 pm EDT Manatee Community College forces Pirates to walk the plank By David Brown Yeeeargh! Shiver me timbers and fly the Jolly Roger at half staff, mateys! The Pirates, who have averaged 89 losses since 1993, sank to the deepest part of Pittsburgh's Three Rivers on Thursday after one of its split squads lost to Manatee (Fla.) Community College during a fundraising exhibition game. In some ways, the top of the box score says it all: Manatee C.C. 6, Pittsburgh 4. The Sarasota Herald-Review, however, ran a very detailed story — almost 1,000 words, for your Bucco masochists — about how the Lancers did the unlikely at McKechnie Field in Bradenton. It's only fair to point out that the Pirates lineup was filled out by guys who missed the cut in spring training. Several of the team's best players, including Nate McLouth, Ryan Doumit, the LaRoches and Stewcast guest Freddy Sanchez, did not play in the game. Yet several guys who have logged big league minutes — like Mets' killer Steve Pearce, Brian Bixler and Robinzon Diaz — were in the no-win situation lineup, as was prized prospect Jose Tabata. Virgil Vazquez, who contended for Pittsburgh's fifth starter spot this spring, started the game for Pittsburgh on the mound. OK, so your aunt was in contention for that fifth spot, too, but that's not the point. These were real, live Triple-A (perhaps even Class 4A) players. And these junior college Manatees managed to beat ‘em! Whatever excuse you want to drum up for the Pirates — spring training's almost over, the scrubs played the final five innings, the juco players wanted it more — we still say it's not good enough. Get ready Pirates, we'd like for you to take on our office softball team. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:08am
opening day is just a few days away. anyone have any predictions? besides the twins taking the pennant this year, of course?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Joey on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:46am
" opening day is just a few days away. anyone have any predictions? "
' ShittyBank Field ' ( the Mets new Stadium ) will be THE Premier Sports Facility in the WORLD !!!!!!!!!! http://www.stadiumpage.com/ 'kins |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 10:48am
GO PHILS!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 10:54am
Great thread Buckmeister.
As usual, good pitching will be good hitting everytime. Thank you for your continued support & cooperation. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 11:49am
the team with the best pitching staff will win it all...
the Red Sox |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Lazy Bones on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 11:52am Starbuck wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:08am:
...higher beer prices! Been looking forward to regular season to begin. I have tickets for Jays/Tigers Monday night. A pitching duo with Halladay and Verlander starting... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 12:10pm Lazy Bones wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 11:52am:
verlander is a washed up has been! dontrelle is the next carl pavano, except with psychological problems. the tigers will be lucky to make 70 wins. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 12:49pm
Is it football season yet? :boring
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 3:15pm Mutts signed Sheff. Expect his rumblings of dissent to commence post haste... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 5:04pm
mike francessa was recording live from the new mets stadium today and let me tell you something people..if you ain't impressed with this building or the yankees new stadium, you must be hating life. these new stadiums are FUCKING amazing state of the art. unbelieveable. the mets are to play an exibition game tonight and the yankees tomorrow night.
have you seen up close color pictures of these new building scl? i tell you what. i understand you may not be a fan of either team but just from a structure point of view....OMG. bring on baseball. :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:37pm wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 5:04pm:
but the history that was flushed down the toilet with the moves makes it sickening. as a yankee hater, i still will admit them to be the most historic franchise in baseball. now it is a farce. and with the dome in its last season, the site of all of baseball's magic moments will be gone forever! fenway, however, is finishing renovations that will add forty or fifty years to its life, according to yahoo sports. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:58pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:37pm:
ok what do you think of the mets and the yankees new digs? we'll get to you and fenway soon enough. :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 7:25pm wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 5:04pm:
Yanks - Cubs are on the Francesa channel right now... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 7:35pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 7:25pm:
i thought this was to be a live show from the hard rock cafe in times square tomorrow morning. hey...........works for me. :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Steel Wheels on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:07pm
My town is buzzing over Sunday night's game. I got my tickets. Play ball!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Apr 4th, 2009 at 10:45am Starbuck wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 9:08am:
I predict the Cubs will choke in the play offs....if not before that. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Apr 4th, 2009 at 1:35pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Joey on Apr 4th, 2009 at 2:21pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:37pm:
The phrase "the site of all of baseball's magic moments" as contained within the above statement, is criminal. Thank you for your continued cooperation & support. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:38pm Nellcote wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:39pm
Those who express fascination with the "history" of those older parks have obviously never had to sit in those dumps....I'm a die-hard Red Sox fan and I've seen baseball history there aplenty--some 200 games since 1974, inlcuding many playoffs and Games 4 and 5 of the 2004 ALCS--but I'd be the first to press the plunger and rebuild out in the suburbs....even with the renovations, Fenway is a dump and the newer parks have shows that new parks, properly done, can easily outdo the old ones.....hey Bucky, when was the last time that you had to pay $40 to park for a Twins game?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:49pm lotsajizz wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:39pm:
you can park outside the crap-trodome for about ten bucks. better yet, you can park in south minneapolis (near where i live) and take the train downtown for $1.50. that's what most people do. same train will lead straight to target field when its done next year. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:52pm Nellcote wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm:
nellie? hello? does the following mean nothing to you? oh, that's right...if it didn't happen on the east coast, it isn't baseball history.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 4th, 2009 at 7:03pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 6:37pm:
No more hefty bag. :boring |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 4th, 2009 at 7:59pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 3:52pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 4th, 2009 at 10:26pm
Go Giants :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Criss Cross Mind on Apr 5th, 2009 at 3:49pm
Twinkie Lover it's wake up time ... they finish behind Cleveland, Detroit & Chicago this year barely holding off the KC Bombers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :perverted
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 5th, 2009 at 3:53pm Tigers are gonna be awful. Jim Leyland will be the first manager to take a ride on 'The Stugots'... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 5th, 2009 at 3:57pm
i can't help but wonder if the stones are thinking about playing the new mets stadium and the new yankee stadium and the soon to be new giant stadium...which shoud be open soon.
:wtf3 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Criss Cross Mind on Apr 5th, 2009 at 3:57pm
I hope yer right ... being a White sox fan ... but stranger things have happened ... :pullanolte
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by parmeda on Apr 5th, 2009 at 4:07pm Ten Thousand Motels wrote on Apr 4th, 2009 at 10:45am:
:whydontcha How dare you.... (*cue in raised eyebrow and evil-eyed glare*) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:23pm wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 3:57pm:
They can think about it all they want. They would have serious trouble filling any of those venues. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:31pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:23pm:
maybe i'm having a bad day, but you are the second person i have to disagree with today. both new ball park stadiums hold just a bit over 40 large, now you're telling me if the stones decide to play these builings they ain't going to filll seats? DUDE i think it is prime territory for the stones to christian these buildings, its obvious. :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:36pm wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:31pm:
People are going to pay what surely will be some obscene price for tickets.Just because it's a new stadium.....Uhh,isn't that what the sports teams are for? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:51pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:36pm:
i wasn't talking about excessive ticket prices....which i know they will be. i was just saying it would be the time and place for stones to make history....again. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:51pm wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:31pm:
I'm hoping the Mets play like Christians this year... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:52pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:51pm:
They're gonna need a few prayers this year Lefty. :howefun |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 5th, 2009 at 6:01pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:52pm:
not with santana on the mound owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww the best pitcher :whydontcha |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 5th, 2009 at 6:03pm If Santana goes undefeated he wins 30 games. The other four might not win that many between 'em... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 5th, 2009 at 6:09pm
love big papi
the red sox and the yankees baby owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :areyoufuckingserious |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 8:35pm wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 6:01pm:
You must be joking. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Criss Cross Mind on Apr 5th, 2009 at 10:15pm
Stones play three Stadiums in a New York minute .... only charge $25 a ticket & post Sold Out signs all over the place ... :aimama
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Apr 6th, 2009 at 9:47am
MLB to Start Steroid Hall of Fame
Posted April 5, 2009 Huffington Post David Henry Sterry In an attempt to generate more income in the face of the current relentless economic downturn, Major League Baseball has decided to start a Steroid Hall of Fame. They have not yet convinced a city to host what one high-ranking official from MLB described as, "A great way to capitalize on a glorious time in baseball history that has been unfortunately and unfairly tarred and feathered!" But they are confident they will not have to accept the only offer currently on the table, which is to share space with the Anchovy Museum outside Dead Horse, Alaska. According to a reliable source near the top of Major League Baseball, the Steroids Hall of Fame will be modeled after the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. There will be mementos, memorabilia, and busts of players. "Only we're going to super-size the whole thing, with these enormous statues of all the guys, their massive magnificent muscles rippling, those titanic gunboats fully loaded, I swear to God, it gives me chills just think about it. Plus, we have actual needles players used, we've got samples of the clear and the cream that customers can rub on themselves, and we even have the shriveled testicle of one very famous ballplayer, whose name I'm not at liberty to mention." A top official at Major League Baseball has leaked an internal memo revealing those players who are believed to be certain first-time ballot inductees. 1B: Mark McGwire. There's some stiff competition at this position, but you have to go with Big Mac. He got so gianormous, and then to watch him whimper like a neutered dog in front of Congress -- priceless! 2B: Gary Sheffield. True, he never really played second base, but he was a middle infielder, and he's such a horse's patoot, it didn't seem fair to leave him off the starting nine. SS: Alex Rodriguez. No-brainer. A-Rod went from skinny kid to Terminator Middle Infielder in like, 15 minutes. And he was such a weasel on TV lying right through his teeth, that's Hall of Fame stuff. 3B: Ken Caminiti. It's sad, but the truth is, when this guy was 'roiding up, he was a monster. And let's face it, we need a cautionary tale thrown in here for the kids. That's how we'll spin it anyway. CF: Lenny Dykstra. It was hysterical how Nails ended one season looking like a son of a toothpick, and came to spring training the next year with his neck, chest and shoulders so pumped up you could barely see his tiny little pin head. RF: José Canseco. Hey, if it weren't for him, the Steroid Hall of Fame would not be possible. He's the juicer's juicer, you have to give the devil his due. LF: Barry Bonds. Poster boy. We have these fantastic busts of his head over the years, and they just keep getting bigger, the last one looks like it could float in the Macy's Day Parade. And we have some spectacular "backne" shots, it looks like Orion's belt in pimples. DH: Rafael Palmiero. When he got up in front of Congress and started waving that steroid-bloated finger around, we were laughing our *sses off. (SIDEBAR: We need to start a smear campaign against Congress, get their nose out of our business, I mean come on, why aren't they tracking down Osama bin Laden? don't they have a broken health care system to fix? shouldn't they be getting the economy out of the crapper?) PITCHER: Roger Clemens. The worst liar in the history of liars. When he was testifying, his eyes kept shifting all around, he couldn't stop tugging at his collar, licking his lips. If it wasn't so funny, it would've been pitiful. Critics claim that Major League Baseball willfully turned a blind eye to the use of steroids, because of the unprecedented growth in popularity and profits due to suddenly gigantic ballplayers hitting ridiculous amounts of home runs. "We couldn't kill the goose that was laying all those golden eggs," one high-ranking Major League Baseball official said, "and now we've found a sure-fire way of turning that goose into a cash cow. And steroid wise, at this point mostly we've gone after journeyman, minor leaguers, and Latinos, for obvious reasons, but we're very close to revealing some very big names. Big, big, big! Trust me, we've only seen the tip of the iceberg here, but instead of going down like the Titanic, we're setting course for a brave new world, and we want to keep doing the most important thing there is, what Major League Baseball is really all about: making money." |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Maxmeister on Apr 6th, 2009 at 10:15am wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:31pm:
For the record, new Yankee stadium's capacity is approx.51,000 and Citi Field is approx.45,000. They'd have no problem filling these venues as long as they did no more than 2 gigs. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:35am wrote on Apr 5th, 2009 at 5:31pm:
come on, people! i didn't 'christian' this thread "baseball 09" so we could talk about the stones! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:43am Starbuck wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:35am:
Yes, God forbid we hijack a thread on a Rolling Stones message board to actually talk about the Rolling Stones. We should be fed to the Lions for that. :necrophillicpost GO GIANTS....is that better? >:( |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 6th, 2009 at 1:44pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:35am:
How'd the Rocks Off Fantasy Baseball draft go?? are all 3 teams feeling positive about who they drafted? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:06pm Saint Sway wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 1:44pm:
3,you mean Bucky and 2 of his aliases. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:11pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:06pm:
I'm guessing its the only Fantasy League where Michael Cuddeyer went in the 1st Round |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:22pm
Is Rusty Staub still available?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:28pm gimmekeef wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:22pm:
not necessarily available but definitely open for office |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 6th, 2009 at 4:07pm Saint Sway wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:28pm:
Joey? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Glimmer Twin on Apr 6th, 2009 at 7:23pm
Orioles beat the Yankees on openinng day!!! Yeah!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 6th, 2009 at 7:27pm Cheeseburger Cheeseburger got smacked around like a piñata... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 8:42pm
CC Fatassia
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Lazy Bones on Apr 7th, 2009 at 7:49am Nellcote wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 8:42pm:
:aimama And in other news... Adam Lind 6; Tigers 5! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Apr 7th, 2009 at 7:50am
I know its early..but my Nats are only one game back!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Throwaway on Apr 7th, 2009 at 10:50am Glimmer Twin wrote on Apr 6th, 2009 at 7:23pm:
Not mathematically eliminated yet!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 7th, 2009 at 6:31pm
Bosox open up a one game lead.... :smile
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 7th, 2009 at 8:20pm
Who says the Giants can't score runs...They put up a 10 spot today against the Brew crew. Timmy didn't look too good. But his first opening day start. We'll give him a mulligan.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 7th, 2009 at 8:44pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Apr 7th, 2009 at 9:02pm
Chi Sox win :)
See my signature for the reason. I predict nothing, just happy to be the only team in the division who won on their opening day[smiley=beer.gif] |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Apr 9th, 2009 at 10:48am
Good luck this year guys..My Nats are already done and Im packing it in....On to the NFL draft!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 9th, 2009 at 11:25am zooeyglass wrote on Apr 7th, 2009 at 9:02pm:
zoey, you and i are going to have a lot of fun this season.... did you happen to see denard span's game winner the other night? twins down by two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and come back to win it....the magic is back! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 9th, 2009 at 12:20pm
How does Randy Johnson give up a 2 out 2 strike 3 run bomb to the fucking pitcher....Other than that the unit looked good. :-[
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 9th, 2009 at 12:52pm
[quote author=sweetcharmedlife link=1238767392/50#65 date=1239297632]How does Randy Johnson give up a 2 out 2 strike 3 run bomb to the fucking pitcher....Other than that the unit looked good. :-[/quote]
might have something to do with the fact that he's 783 years old. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by glencar on Apr 9th, 2009 at 2:54pm
Some pitcher for the Angels got killed last night whilst making a booty call.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 9th, 2009 at 2:54pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 9th, 2009 at 12:52pm:
The best sports team in Minnesota is the Bemidji St. Beavers :paristhong |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 9th, 2009 at 6:04pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 9th, 2009 at 2:54pm:
whaaaaat??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD8PPjiCz8s&feature=related |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 9th, 2009 at 6:06pm
3 games on last night all at the same time....very cool
boston lost mets won yankees lost but the yankees won today against balt. get down :areyoufuckingserious |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 9th, 2009 at 6:13pm
will this thread ever best the happy birthday JB thread in views?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 9th, 2009 at 7:03pm wrote on Apr 9th, 2009 at 2:54pm:
Easy there, glencar. Nick Adenhart was killed by a drunk driver hours after pitching in last night's game. Two passengers were also killed, and a third critically injured. The drunk, of course, was relatively uninjured and fled the scene on foot... RIP to his victims. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 9th, 2009 at 7:10pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 9th, 2009 at 7:03pm:
Yes,very sad news. Tragic. Tonight's Angels game was postponed. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 9th, 2009 at 7:17pm
that is not good.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:37am
And the kid was just 22, a baby, it's a damn shame :(
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/california.pitcher.killed/index.html |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Apr 10th, 2009 at 12:42am Starbuck wrote on Apr 9th, 2009 at 11:25am:
I've hated teams in the AL at various times -- Detroit, Cleveland, the A's. But not the Twinkies for some reason, sorry! Just lost two to Kansas City -- KANSAS CITY! WTF?!? Be gentle, Bucky :willya |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 13th, 2009 at 8:58am
The Indians are off to such an awful start
makes one wonder what the f#ck this dude is smiling about?? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 13th, 2009 at 11:51am Saint Sway wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 8:58am:
you gotta admit...in today's PC world, it's a wonder chief wahoo is still around. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 13th, 2009 at 1:04pm
RIP Harry Kalas
this just came over the wire... supposedly the legendary broadcaster passed out in the booth today and later passed away. Very sad news. at least he got to see his Phillies win another World Series |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:14pm
WASHINGTON -- Longtime Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas, who punctuated innumerable home runs with his "Outta here!" call, died Monday after being found passed out in the broadcast booth before a game against the Washington Nationals. He was 73.
"We lost our voice today," team president David Montgomery said, his voice cracking. "He has loved our game and made just a tremendous contribution to our sport and certainly to our organization." Kalas was discovered by the Phillies director of broadcasting about 12:30 p.m. and taken to a local hospital, Montgomery said. Soundtrack to Kalas' career Over time, Harry Kalas evolved into one of Philadelphia's beloved sports figures. Some of the more memorable notes in his illustrious broadcasting career: • Six no-hitters • Mike Schmidt's 500th home run on April 18, 1987 • Every one of Steve Carlton's starts from 1972-86 • Pete Rose's 3,631st career hit on Aug. 10, 1981 (which broke Stan Musial's NL record) • First game at the Houston Astrodome, April 12, 1965 • First game at Veterans Stadium, April 10, 1971 • First game at Citizens Bank Park, April 12, 2004 • Was in his 43rd year as a MLB broadcaster • Phillies broadcaster since 1971; member of original Astros broadcast team in 1965 • Inducted into the broadcaster's wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002 • Named Pennsylvania Sportscaster of the year 18 times Kalas had surgery earlier this year for an undisclosed ailment that the team characterized as minor. He looked somewhat drawn last week as the Phillies opened the season at home. Kalas joined the Phillies in 1971. Before that, he was a member of the Houston Astros' broadcast team from 1965-70. In 2002, he received the Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for his contributions to the game. "Players come and go, but 'Outta here!' -- that's forever," said Scott Franzke, a Phillies radio broadcaster. Kalas lent his sonorous voice to everything from puppies to soup. He did work for NFL Films, was the voice for Chunky Soup commercials and Animal Planet's annual tongue-in-cheek Super Bowl competitor, the Puppy Bowl. Kalas joined the Phillies radio and TV broadcast team the year the club moved into its former home, Veterans Stadium, replacing fan favorite Bill Campbell. He wasn't immediately embraced by Phillies fans, despite being paired with Richie Ashburn, a Hall of Famer as a player, and longtime announcer. But Kalas evolved into a beloved sports figure in Philadelphia. He and Ashburn grew into a popular team, and shared the booth until Ashburn's death in 1997. "Major League Baseball has lost one of the great voices of our generation," commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. "Baseball announcers have a special bond with their audience, and Harry represented the best of baseball not only to the fans of the Phillies, but to fans everywhere." Kalas fell in love with baseball at a young age, when his father took him to Comiskey Park to see the Chicago White Sox play the Washington Senators. It was a rainy night, and Kalas sat with his dad behind the Washington dugout. "Because of the rains, the field was covered," he told The Associated Press. "There was no batting practice, so the players really didn't have anything to do. Mickey Vernon popped out of the dugout, saw this wide-eyed kid -- me -- picked me up, took me in the dugout, gave me a baseball, introduced me to his teammates, and thus began my love of baseball and the Washington Senators." He maintained that enthusiasm for the game throughout his career. The son of a Methodist minister, the Naperville, Ill., native graduated from the University of Iowa in 1959 with a degree in speech, radio and television. He was drafted into the Army soon after he graduated. In 1961, he became sports director at Hawaii radio station KGU and also broadcast games for the Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League and the University of Hawaii. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:20pm Saint Sway wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 8:58am:
He isnt playing for the Nats? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:46pm
more sad news..... just came across the wire....
Mark "The Bird" Fidrych died. supposedly he was working on his truck at his home in MA and the truck collapsed on him |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:50pm Sad news. Harry Kalas is the Phillies. RIP. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:02pm
go mets tonight... home opener in the new digs.
everybody say ow :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:26pm
Shea was the absolute worst place to watch a baseball game. Just the pits.
but man did it rock when the Stones played there! :keithpunky The place seriously shook hard during Satisfaction. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:36pm
have they levelled those two stadiums yet?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:37pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:36pm:
no not yet they will level them probably during the winter months....yankee stadium anyway :whydontcha |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:42pm wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:37pm:
Demolition of Shea Stadium was completed a couple of months ago... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:46pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:14pm:
how can they write a bio about Harry Kalas and NOT mention that he was THE VOICE of NFL Films???? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:56pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:42pm:
wow...i wasn't aware of that. some mets fan i am eh. :wtf3 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:56pm Saint Sway wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:46pm:
John Facenda must've been the proofreader... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 13th, 2009 at 9:32pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 5:56pm:
Man,between the kid from the Angels getting killed,Harry Callas and the Bird. Tough start for MLB. That's one ominous triple play. Also,sad to report. Their was another mass killing in the U.S. today. Sadly,the entire San Francisco Giants team layed down and died against the Dodgers in LA in their home opener today....Oh,the horror....the horror. :aimama |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by robpop on Apr 14th, 2009 at 2:45am left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:50pm:
Sorry Lefty, I disagree...Harry is more than the Phillies. The best damn voice in all of sports. A sad day. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by robpop on Apr 14th, 2009 at 2:49am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Apr 13th, 2009 at 9:32pm:
Hey a week into the season and baseball season still means something here in the 'Burgh!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Steel Wheels on Apr 14th, 2009 at 6:27am
My town is pretty much in shock. Harry the K was the best. He's called every game I've ever watched or listened to on AM radio. I'm sure everyone will be wearing Phillies gear today. I got tickets to the first home game without the K in the booth this Friday. I'm sure the organization will be doing something special for him.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 14th, 2009 at 6:12pm Phils have announced a memorial service for Harry Saturday @ CBP. www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/Harry_Kalas_tributes_set.html |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Apr 15th, 2009 at 3:51pm
My Nats go for 8 in a row tonight. I'm sure their down to the task!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 15th, 2009 at 4:23pm
i will be tuning into the yankees home opener tomorrow. pre game starts at 11:30am. 1st pitch at 1:05.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 15th, 2009 at 4:51pm gimmekeef wrote on Apr 15th, 2009 at 3:51pm:
A victory for the Nats - tonight's game postponed. Lastings Milledge got sent down to the minors. Only 24 more guys to go... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 16th, 2009 at 4:41pm
marlins shipping cabrerra and willis to detriot.....biggest steal/rape/plunder pilliage in MLB history.
debate. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Apr 16th, 2009 at 5:01pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 16th, 2009 at 4:41pm:
Nah. Sure Cabrera's a stud, but Willis is Done-trelle. And the Marlins got a buncha kids, which fits their MO. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 22nd, 2009 at 9:41pm
Hey Bucky, why can't The Twinks come to Fenway more often?
Can you say doubleheadah sweep? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 23rd, 2009 at 4:50am
Yes. I had tiks for the Tuesday game, went up there, and had to come back for game one yesterday. But seeing the twinkies' get swept was well worth the rain postponements!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 24th, 2009 at 9:38am
Big series this weekend in Fenway. Yanks vs Bosox
Yukalis says he's ready to face Joba |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 10:00am Saint Sway wrote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 9:38am:
Who's Joba? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Apr 24th, 2009 at 3:46pm
sports in the North East doesn't get much better than this this weekend. the weather is going to be absolutly steller. the rangers play at 7pm tonight, the yankees play the red sox all weekend and the mets are playing too. and you have the nfl draft to listen to.
:wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 4:38pm wrote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 3:46pm:
Of course, you have forgotten The Celtics move thru the NBA playoffs..... How are those HABS working for you, just wondering.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 25th, 2009 at 5:45am
Jobba's name is actually Justin. And Youk feeds off cheap beer, red meat, and the blood of his victims (Damaso Marte last night!). Spankees go DOWN!! choke
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 25th, 2009 at 8:41am
"Deep to left & she is outta here!"
Dave O'Brien's call at the bottom of the 11th last night of Youks game winning homah against the Yanks 8 straight for Sox As someone once would say...."Mercy"... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Apr 25th, 2009 at 9:55am Nellcote wrote on Apr 22nd, 2009 at 9:41pm:
i'm putting you and sean on my "ignore" list until October. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 25th, 2009 at 10:54pm Starbuck wrote on Apr 25th, 2009 at 9:55am:
:whydontcha Thank you for your continued support & cooperation. In other news, Sox make it 9 straight with a 16-11 thrashing of the Yanks! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Apr 26th, 2009 at 8:03pm Nellcote wrote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 4:38pm:
Celts 2-2 :boring....My Sharkies are staying alive. :-[ |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by robpop on Apr 26th, 2009 at 9:22pm
I rushed home today to watch a Pirate game. The first time in years.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Apr 27th, 2009 at 10:49am
ten in a row for the Bosox! :wow
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Apr 27th, 2009 at 9:35pm
11 straight wins for Red Sox-Wicked Pissah!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Apr 28th, 2009 at 10:33am
I found where the Twins are keeping their payroll...
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 4th, 2009 at 8:37pm Saint Sway wrote on Apr 24th, 2009 at 9:38am:
he won't be facing joba's mom. she's otherwise occupied.... http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AhmcV.JZ22.kZllRJUw18JQRvLYF?slug=ap-jobasmomarrested&prov=ap&type=lgns |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on May 4th, 2009 at 9:38pm
what a surprise...spankee ho's and hooligans
again NYC |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 7th, 2009 at 11:10am
Manroid gets busted:
Major League Baseball is expected to announce Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended for 50 games, The Los Angeles Times is reporting. Ramirez's test result and suspension are expected to be announced Thursday, The Times said. Citing a source familiar with the matter, The Times reported Ramirez is expected to say the positive test results were a result of medication received from a doctor for a personal medical issue. If his suspension begins Thursday, Ramirez would be eligible to return to the Dodgers' lineup for their July 3 game against San Diego. Triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul has been told by the Dodgers that he will be promoted later today, according to The Times. In his first full season as a Dodger, Ramirez is batting .348 with six home runs and 20 RBIs. Los Angeles has bolted to a 21-8 record -- best in the majors -- and a 13-0 record at home that set the modern major league record for home winning streak to start a season. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 7th, 2009 at 12:29pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on May 7th, 2009 at 11:10am:
yes indeed....that, and the twins sent down alexi casilla. big baseball day! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 7th, 2009 at 12:53pm
This just keeps getting better and better:
A source close to Manny Ramirez said Thursday that the illegal substance for which the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger tested positive was not “an agent customarily used for performance enhancing.” At least not on the baseball diamond. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the substance is supposed to boost sex drive. It is not Viagra, but a substance that treats the cause rather providing a temporary boost in sexual performance, the source said. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on May 7th, 2009 at 1:04pm
all pales next to the Rem-Dawg news...get well, Jerry!!! PLEASE
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on May 12th, 2009 at 6:20pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 13th, 2009 at 4:36am
sean? nellie?
big papi returning to his twins era production i see? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Arygzd9sEPok7lzW0MkWy_05nYcB?slug=ge-fullcount051209&prov=yhoo&type=lgns he's done! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on May 13th, 2009 at 5:30am
Flavah of the month for the media to bash.
We should just trade him, right? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 13th, 2009 at 10:26am Nellcote wrote on May 13th, 2009 at 5:30am:
Maybe he should go see Manny's doctor for a little pick me up. ;D Meanwhile,my Giants are En Fuego... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 13th, 2009 at 9:44pm
someone please say a prayer for the twins' bullpen.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 15th, 2009 at 6:40am
anyone see who's back atop the central?
if crede hadn't spent his entire career up to this year in the white sux organization, i might nominate him for beatification. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on May 15th, 2009 at 3:18pm If Crede hadn't spent his entire career with the White Sox he'd have missed more games as a Twin... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on May 26th, 2009 at 2:25pm
Mr. T in da house!
Further proof that head bands and American Flag attire are all the rage with the 'Big & Tall' men in Chicago.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOlJo3nnsM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhulkhatetimetravel%2Ecom%2F2009%2F05%2F26%2Fmr%2Dt%2Dthrows%2Dout%2Dfirst%2Dpitch%2Dand%2Dsings%2Dat%2Dwrigley%2Dfield%2F&feature=player_embedded |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on May 26th, 2009 at 3:03pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 26th, 2009 at 3:39pm
da pugs.
that right there is the essence of rock n roll. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on May 27th, 2009 at 1:23pm Starbuck wrote on May 26th, 2009 at 3:39pm:
so true. Their tale reads like one of those classic VH1 Behind The Music episodes well... actually.... lets say just the part at the obligatory end of the episode where the band is broke, bloated, and playing kids parties at pizzerias. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 27th, 2009 at 9:16pm
howe long before the sox dump big papi? one homer all season......batting a buck ninety seven as we speak....i'm sorry, but you need better production from your DH....nellie...quid agatis?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on May 27th, 2009 at 9:29pm Big Papi is channeling Mo Vaughn - Mets version. He's signed through next year, so the Sox aren't likely to dump him anytime soon. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 27th, 2009 at 9:35pm
(05-27) 19:29 PDT Santa Ana, Calif. (AP) --
A grand jury has indicted the man accused of killing Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others when a minivan smashed into their car last month. Orange County prosecutors say Andrew Gallo was indicted Wednesday on three counts of murder and three other felonies for the April 9 crash. Gallo already faced similar charges, but prosecutors say the indictment will help expedite the case by skipping the preliminary hearing. Police say Gallo had nearly triple the legal blood-alcohol level when his minivan ran a red light and crashed in Fullerton. Adenhart died hours after he made his season debut by pitching six scoreless innings. Two others were also killed and a third was critically injured |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on May 28th, 2009 at 6:27am Starbuck wrote on May 27th, 2009 at 9:16pm:
Evryting Arie Mon. A. He will not be released B. Easy to dump on Papi from afar C. He is still seeing the ball as evidenced by his walks D. There are 31 other teams who would take him in a minute. What's your cure Bucky? You stay with him. Papi single handedly delivered more walk off wins than the Twins combined in their lifetime. While he did go 0-4 last night he did hit a ball 400ft to deep center. He's not going to be comatose for ever. You stay with him no matter what. You just better do something with your binky Mauer or he might be a Red Sox next year. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 28th, 2009 at 8:56am Nellcote wrote on May 28th, 2009 at 6:27am:
Send him to Manny's doctor....Speaking of which. How the hell is he 4th in the all star voting....and their are no rules against him playing if voted in. :smoking |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on May 28th, 2009 at 9:17am Starbuck wrote on May 27th, 2009 at 9:16pm:
how long before the yanks dump joe girardi? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on May 29th, 2009 at 8:34am sweetcharmedlife wrote on May 28th, 2009 at 8:56am:
Criminal that Manny is still on the ballot. Talk to anyone in La La Land & he's a god. How 'bout the Sox taking the season series in the baggie-dome! That ump yesterday should be taken to the woodshed, what a putz! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on May 29th, 2009 at 5:34pm
nellie, you'll never have to complain about the craptrodome again. unless we meet in the playoffs, of course.
joe mauer will not leave the twins....at least not now. he's more popular here than any athlete since kirby puckett...and that includes AP....his MN roots are deep, having grown up in st paul. he also happens to be the best catcher in the majors. and with the new stadium...he and moreau ain't going nowhere. the twins would be crazy to let him go. mauer makes the twins brass look like nostradamus for picking him over mark prior in the 2001 draft.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Edith Grove on May 31st, 2009 at 5:30pm
Any Red Sox fans here?
I found one way down here in New Orleans. Check her out: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/IMG_0065.jpg?t=1243808814 Close-up: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/leepullen/IMG_0064.jpg?t=1243808947 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on May 31st, 2009 at 6:33pm
Trust me EG. Their are Red Sox fans everywhere. They don't call it the nation for nothing. Just ask Nelly. When they come to Oakland every year their are more Red Sox fans than A's fans....Of course the A's suck. But that's beside the point. :hilarious
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:01pm mojoman wrote on May 28th, 2009 at 9:17am:
not too many managers get fired with their team in 1st Place I'm not sure when or if Ortiz will bounce back - but it might be time for him to tone back the whole spitting and smacking the hands thing ya know it was cool when he was crushing the ball, but right now Julio Lugo is more intimidating in the batters box than Pappi. So it just looks kinda silly |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:13pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:01pm:
papi has cut back on "the juice" and has since returned to his twins era numbers. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:16pm
now would be a good time to test Mauer
dudes already eclipsed his season HR average by my calculations, he's on pace to hit 112 HRs this year a good guy. a great hitter. I'm just sayin...... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:26pm
test joe to be safe, but i'd be surprised. the man can flat out hit. he's the tony gwynn of this era IMO. staying healthy is his biggest problem, which is why twins brass out to move him to 3rd. (we have another good young prospect at triple A who could take over behind the plate and get his body abused).
as for the recent power surge, everyone has always thought he was capable of hitting for power as well as average, but we have been waiting for those skills to develop. now they're here! dude needs to catch some respectable veteran pitching however....we got the closer and a few decent starters, but sheesh...baker and liriano are tanking worse than motels's last six threads. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:37pm
Tony Gwynn never jacked 11 HRs in one month
Mauer's power surge is coming off of recent surgery. Its common for athletes to turn to HGH to rebound quicker from an injury. And MLB doesnt test for HGH again. I'm just sayin.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:49pm
the twins have never had a juiced player before!
well...besides chad allen, of course. i don't think mauer would do it...he just has the natural ability that is finally coming together. of course, talk to me again if it's late august and he's chasing aaron...or should i say bonds*.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:55pm Starbuck wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:49pm:
then how do you explain the swollen size of Gary Gaetti's cranium?? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:06pm
Harmon Killebrew popped greenies like they were tic tacs
and several players have testified that Rod Carew asked them to inject him in the buttocks. Oddly though, there was no mention of steroids with those allegations. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:09pm Starbuck wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 2:49pm:
RonDL White. 'Course he lived up to his name so he's easy to forget... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:12pm
Kirby Puckett beat his wife.
How do Twins fans explain that one..... Roid rage? Or just an asshole? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:20pm
Who cares what Mauer's on. Between him and Morneau,their the only thing keeping my fantasy team alive. :funny
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:23pm
this is great story on the demise of Ortiz
brings up an interesting point.... the lying by Latino players about their age. Dude may actually be older than El Duque http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4223584 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:34pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 3:23pm:
i was going to say....wasn't his first career Homer off pud galvin? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 9:04pm
joe mauer tonight: 3/3 so far...two singles and a two run dinger. seriously....i believe the word is , "god damn!"
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 9:36pm Starbuck wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 9:04pm:
God bless you Joe. :paristhong |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 11:54am Starbuck wrote on Jun 2nd, 2009 at 9:04pm:
"god damn!" being what Twins fans will be saying when he's dealt away during in his last contract year |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 12:03pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 11:54am:
he won't be. mauer will indeed enter the hall as a twin. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 12:07pm
settle down on the HOF
its early..... in the pantheon of things, we may wind up remembering him as just another Butch Wynegar |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 1:18pm
how many batting titles did butch wynegar have by age 25?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 3:44pm
The Big Unit goes for 300 tonight. Good luck and Go Giants :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 9:06pm
I'm sittin here an Expo/Nats fan since 1969 on the Steven Strasburg watch. First pick in the draft and the kid throws 102 mph.Two weeks after signing him he'll blow out his arm.Where's Coco Laboy when we need him?..CARRY ON GUYS!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 4th, 2009 at 11:46am Starbuck wrote on Jun 3rd, 2009 at 1:18pm:
two words: roy smalley |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 4th, 2009 at 12:44pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 11:46am:
fascinating. you know the names of two former twins. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 4th, 2009 at 3:55pm Starbuck wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 12:44pm:
half the league is made up of ex-Twins. Twinkies are just an expanded farm team for all of MLB to pluck from |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 4:00pm
Bosox sweep Tigers.
Another Central Division yawn team. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by CrissCrossMind on Jun 4th, 2009 at 4:04pm
the Twinkies are done ... stick the fork in ... weak weak team ... :wow
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 4th, 2009 at 4:22pm
speaking of teams unloading players....
trade talks are going to heat up early this year Indians are going to unload a ton of talent... Carmona, maybe even Lee some other good pitchers will hit the market. Namely Oswalt and Penny |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 4th, 2009 at 5:26pm
Braves just grabbed Nate McCloud from the Bucs.
great talent. Underated. One of the better CF in either league. plus his name sounds like a cool detective from a 70's cop show |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jun 4th, 2009 at 5:33pm Nellcote wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 4:00pm:
Dontrelle Willis might've punched his ticket to Palookaville with today's performance. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:46pm
Congratulations to the Big Unit. Picked up win # 300 today :keithpunky
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Edith Grove on Jun 4th, 2009 at 7:43pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 6:46pm:
Thanks, SCL ! But how would you know ? :smile |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 4th, 2009 at 10:55pm Edith Grove wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 7:43pm:
No offense Grover. But as you might have noticed,we take our sports pretty serious around here. Randy Johnson winning his 300th game in a Giants uniform is a pretty cool thing. So that's how I know. :) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jun 4th, 2009 at 10:59pm Coincidentally 300 was the announced attendance in Washington today... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 4th, 2009 at 11:06pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Jun 4th, 2009 at 10:59pm:
But on the things come full circle angle....Randy started his career with the Montreal Expos...now attempting to do business as the Washington Nationals. Randy was born in the bay area which makes it a semi-big deal for us - Nothing to root for northern california sports fans. :wtf1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 5th, 2009 at 11:47am
its time for contraction.
if a city and ownership cant support a club then off they go bye bye Washington :solongsucker bye bye Pittsburgh :solongsucker bye bye Marlins :solongsucker bye bye Twinkies :solongsucker |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:19pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 5th, 2009 at 11:47am:
dude what are you talking about? Minnesota loves the twins....hell, we just built them a new ballpark fer chrissakes....and we're thinking about giving the senate seat to kent hrbek. the pirates are too historic to axe. why, however, there are two teams in florida is beyond me. the nats could go too perhaps.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:21pm
btw, did anyone notice mauer going 3-4 yesterday? he's hitting .420...and sandwiched in the order by span at .307 and morneau at .348...and kubel next at .322.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:27pm
Twins pocket the Revenue Sharing $$$$ and don't reinvest any of it back into their club.
imagine how good they'd be right now if they had resigned and still had Santana and Hunter. What about Jason Bartlett? How'd they let him go?? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:40pm
not resigning hunter and especially santana was, of course, a huge mistake. but bartlett didn't hit all that well when he was here....but him and garza for delmon young was about as big as us getting nathan, liriano and boof for AJ.
normally, the twins trade well. that one, however, was one big assed "D'oh!" |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:42pm
I cant imagine anyone wanting to face a staff anchored by Johan and Garza in the post season
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 5th, 2009 at 1:13pm
[quote author=Starbuck link=1238767392/175#182 date=1244223631]getting nathan, liriano and boof for AJ.
quote] You had to bring that up didn't you. :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 8th, 2009 at 3:22pm
The other night Ortiz barely hooked a HR into the very bottom of the Pesky Pole. Only his 2nd dinger of the season and he takes a curtain call ::)
:blankfriggingstare1 :blankfriggingstare1 unbelievable I guess if his batting average ever manages to creep over the Mendoza line, they'll stop play and let him do a Ripken type victory lap around the stadium |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 8th, 2009 at 3:36pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 8th, 2009 at 3:22pm:
Which would take him two days to complete. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 8th, 2009 at 3:38pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 8th, 2009 at 3:36pm:
LOL! ^ Thats postin over The Green Monster! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Jun 8th, 2009 at 8:56pm
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....only about 64 days till NFL pre-season starts.................Contraction in MLB? yes of course drop 10 teams who never have a legit chance.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 8th, 2009 at 9:16pm gimmekeef wrote on Jun 8th, 2009 at 8:56pm:
Same could be said for the NFL. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Jun 11th, 2009 at 10:16pm
Thanks for the memories Yankmees!
CC Fatassia-NOT! Sox are 8-0 Baby vs the Stankees!! John Sterling could not have said it bettah "See Ya".... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 12th, 2009 at 3:29pm Nellcote wrote on Jun 11th, 2009 at 10:16pm:
nellie, i'll give you that....it has been a spanking of biblical proportions! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Jun 12th, 2009 at 3:49pm
so don't beset our path, Bucky! we're battling evil--for the good of the game!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 13th, 2009 at 3:22pm
why....o why.....can't the twins be in the NL?!? we'd win the pennant every year. 5-0 against NL teams this year...46-13 against NL teams the last three years.
anthony swarzak blanked the cubbies today! go anthony swarzak! whover the hell you are! (sorry pammy!) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by robpop on Jun 14th, 2009 at 2:26am Starbuck wrote on Jun 5th, 2009 at 12:19pm:
I must chime in here. The Pirates are finally on the right track. It will be a few years though. Besides, they will be around for at least 25 years. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:06am
is ichiro the best hitter of this generation? by my calculations, had he played in the majors since he was 20 or 21, he would easily have reached 4000 hits and could have eclipsed pete rose as the all time hits king.
just some food for thought as i find myself browsing through MLB.com historical stats instead of getting any work done. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:07am robpop wrote on Jun 14th, 2009 at 2:26am:
starting tuesday, rob, your pie rats will collide with joe "chasing .400" mauer. 3 for 5 yesterday! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:09am Starbuck wrote on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:07am:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:13am
dude....mauer's hits were not 500 ft dingers.
HGH doesn't help with hand eye coordination. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:17am
nellie?
___________________ MLB Adjusts Drug Policy To Allow David Ortiz To Take Steroids NEW YORK—Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced a new policy on performance-enhancing substances Wednesday that is expected to help former slugger David Ortiz, currently batting a dismal .203, to come out of his slump and return as a league-leading batter. "We have amended the rules of the game to allow David [Ortiz] to use any performance enhancer he can find, as baseball is pretty boring when he's not hitting home runs," said Selig, who added that Ortiz could be suspended for 50 games under the new policy if drug tests show he is not taking any previously banned substances. "What David is doing right now is wrong, and this season could damage his reputation forever. The game of baseball needs him to do the responsible thing and superhumanly whack balls over the fence whenever possible." Moments after the announcement, Ortiz smashed through the conference doors with needles hanging from several different areas of his body and crushed Selig with a brutal thank-you hug, killing him instantly. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 15th, 2009 at 11:22am
Don't look now kiddies. But MY SF Giants are En Fuego. Break out the brooms. Swept the A's this weekend. It's official,Matt Caine is a stud.....And the Gigantes are leading the NL Wild Card race. :booze
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:06pm
I'm so glad the Twins farm system doesn't stress fundamentals
!!!!!!!!!!!! Luis Castillo's drop has Mets feeling glove-sick after loss to Yankees http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/06/13/2009-06-13_luis_castillos_drop.html |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:10pm
luis castillo is sorely missed. decent glove and a decent hitter. just what the twins need at second base.
that being said, he was not a product of the twins' stellar farm system. got his start with the marlins. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:14pm
Bucks,
I was at Yankee Stadium on saturday. You'll be pleased to know that your boy Castillo got a HUGE ovation from the crowd. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:40pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:14pm:
howe much was the second mortgage you had to take out so you could afford the game? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:46pm Starbuck wrote on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:40pm:
the prices at The Stadium are just redunkulous and the new amenities aren't even all that of the new Parks, Pitt & Philly are my favorites |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jun 15th, 2009 at 12:53pm
i just checked the spankee ticket website. between $575-$2500 for a lower reserved seat behind the dugout.
my good lord in heaven. the only people that could afford those seats in the whole stadium will be the guys out on the field. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jun 15th, 2009 at 1:01pm
both games I went to this year, Cohl was sitting behind homeplate
Of course I cant complain seeing how I helped finance his tickets |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jun 15th, 2009 at 1:12pm Saint Sway wrote on Jun 15th, 2009 at 1:01pm:
You mean he wasn't there negotiating to have the Stones play Yankee stadium and was just there as a fan.Who'd a thunk it. :boring |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 10th, 2009 at 11:43pm
Congrats to Jonathan Sanchez of my beloved San Francisco Giants tonight, for throwing a nasty No-NO....Whoo hoo. LOook out babies....My Gigantes are En Fuego. YEAH!!!!!!! :willya :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Jul 11th, 2009 at 4:06pm
...could be a Giant year....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:43am
Twinkies will be sellers in the 2nd half
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:45am Saint Sway wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:43am:
as long as mauer gets signed to a long term deal, i don't care what happens in the second half. anyone interested in delmon young? perhaps tampa would take him and brian buscher for garza and bartlett. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:46am
The HR Contest will screw up Mauer's swing
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:53am
I think I speak for most fans when I say I wish one of the 'festvities' during the All-Star Break was a public steroid test of Albert Pooh Holes
No way this guys clean. Call it an educated hunch. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:08pm Starbuck wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:45am:
Sounds fair. Be nice having Young poision our dug out again. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:13pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 11:46am:
no shit. that scares me. he might strain a groin or something. he is signed up for the singles contest, isn't he? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:13pm
Anyone care to predict who wins the Doc Halladay Sweepstakes
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:17pm
anyone care to tell me what idiot picked the AL home run derby contestants?
brandon inge will take it all, no doubt. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:18pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:13pm:
Philly. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:44pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:54pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:13pm:
Phillies were rumored to be the favorites, but it looks like they're gonna sign Pedro Martinez and keep their young arms. Frankly I dunno if Petey has anything left, and pitching at the Bank could end him up on the DL with whiplash... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 3:19pm Starbuck wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:17pm:
word. Apparently BJ Upton was available for the HR Derby ::) ::) I don't know what they're thinking. None of those guys are HR hitters. The NL got it absolutely right. Thats the crew you wanna watch go yard. I guess they should do what the NBA does with the Slam Dunk and let players NOT in the AllStar Game compete. I'd love to see Hamilton go for it again. Or get some roiders in there... A-Rod... Thome... and even though the NL HR lineup is stacked. Who wouldnt want to see Manny in this?? He's the perfect guy for this! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 13th, 2009 at 3:28pm
manny needs to stay as far away from the all star game this year as possible.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 13th, 2009 at 3:40pm
Buckles,
How was the Basilica Fest? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 14th, 2009 at 1:06pm
Poo Holes is definitely on Roids. All the signs are there:
• He looks like one the Rams linemen suited up to play ball for the Cards. • His hair fell out. • His head is huge. (and Joey tells me his nuts are like raisins) • He hits check swings that go 500 ft |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 14th, 2009 at 1:53pm
Anybody tested Prince Fielder lately?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:55pm
American League and Under....Daddy needs some cabbage....Whoo hooo ;D
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 15th, 2009 at 12:16am Saint Sway wrote on Jul 14th, 2009 at 1:06pm:
ah, bullshit! he just has faith in jesus and a strong work ethic. just ask jeff passan! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AldEtM437fxH0FbA7rDRBFMRvLYF?slug=jp-pujols071409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 15th, 2009 at 6:23am |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Jul 15th, 2009 at 8:41am
Only regret from last night is Maddon could not get
Wakefield or Beckett into the game, two of the best pitchers in the AL. Otherwise, Youk & Bay got hits, Pap got the win thanks to Crawford. Upward & Onward! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Jul 15th, 2009 at 10:35am
OK!! Red Sox have home field advantage this October!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 15th, 2009 at 12:05pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Jul 13th, 2009 at 1:54pm:
Yesterday Pedro signed a million dollar deal for half a season and immediately went on the 15 Day DL!!! ^ you can't make this shit up! Unbelievable!!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 15th, 2009 at 8:04pm lotsajizz wrote on Jul 15th, 2009 at 10:35am:
Rays are going to make a run. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 15th, 2009 at 9:31pm StPeteStone wrote on Jul 15th, 2009 at 8:04pm:
Yeah, towards the golf course. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by platter on Jul 15th, 2009 at 9:37pm
where the heck is mick francessa....still on vacation? it will be good when he returns...he needs a good vacation and will take us thru the post season and bring us into the football season.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 15th, 2009 at 9:45pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jul 15th, 2009 at 9:31pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:03pm
Starbuck has sadly allowed this thread to fall apart worse than a 10-run Twins lead
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:06pm
the phillies are rockin!!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:08pm You're a day late on that one, mojo... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:11pm mojoman wrote on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:06pm:
and appear to be front runners on Roy Halladay too as good as the Philly Blunts look again this year, they might need Doc to get past the arms out West on the LA & SF |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:13pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 4:08pm:
:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey ten game streak is still awesome though!!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 5:03pm
Have NFL training camps opened yet? :-/
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 23rd, 2009 at 3:22pm
Mark Buerhle just pitched a perfect game!
thanks in large part to a dramatic over the wall catch in the 9th |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 23rd, 2009 at 3:25pm Hella catch by CF Dewayne Wise for the 1st out in the 9th. Ozzie inserting him for defense sure paid off... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:28pm
Cliff Lee traded to the Phils.
You can definitely argue that theres better 1-2 pitcher combos than Lee and Cole Hamels.... but is there a staff with 2 better lefties at the top of their staff? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:56pm Phils have 4 lefties - Hamels, Lee, Happ and Methuselah, er, Moyer. Hamels had a good outing last night, but Happ's arguably the better pitcher this year. And Joe Blanton has been money lately. Reloading for a repeat... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:59pm
On a much smaller note. the Giants are on the verge of acquiring Freddy Sanchez from the Pirates....Hey their just happy to be here.....Their just happy to be anywhere.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:30pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 23rd, 2009 at 3:22pm:
Thanks for not mentioning what team he got it off of. We just lost 2 of 3 at home to the Yankees. Second half of the season is not really going in the direction I was hoping for. A little something for the effort. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 10:59am
Cleveland traded away Cy Young winners in consecutive seasons and are now on the verge of trading Victor Martinez
WTF?? their division is so weak. They cant hold on to these guys and compete?? lame |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:14am
so....what...you're an indians fan?
they haven't won anything since the polk administration. meanwhile, the twins just swept the chisux. eat that, obama! or, as riffy would say, eat that, obama! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:38am Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on 2003 Doping List By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Published: July 30, 2009 Jim Davis/The Boston Globe Some of baseball’s most cherished storylines of the past decade have been tainted by performance-enhancing drugs, including the accomplishments of record-setting home run hitters and dominating pitchers. Now, players with Boston’s championship teams of 2004 and 2007 have also been linked to doping. Baseball first tested for steroids in 2003, and the results from that season were supposed to remain anonymous. But for reasons that have never been made clear, the results were never destroyed and the first batch of positives has come to be known among fans and people in baseball as “the list.” The information was later seized by federal agents investigating the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes, and the test results remain the subject of litigation between the baseball players union and the government. Five others have been tied to positive tests from that year: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley and David Segui. Bonds, baseball’s career home runs leader, was not on the original list, although federal agents seized his 2003 sample and had it retested. Those results showed the presence of steroids, according to court documents. The information about Ramirez and Ortiz emerged through interviews with multiple lawyers and others connected to the pending litigation. The lawyers spoke anonymously because the testing information is under seal by a court order. The lawyers did not identify which drugs were detected. Unlike Ramirez, who recently served a 50-game suspension for violating baseball’s drug policy, Ortiz had not previously been linked to performance-enhancing substances. Scott Boras, the agent for Ramirez, would not comment Thursday. Asked about the 2003 drug test on Thursday in Boston, Ortiz shrugged. “I’m not talking about that anymore,” he said. “I have no comment.” The union has argued that the government illegally seized the 2003 test results, and judges at various levels of the federal court system have weighed whether the government can keep them. The government hopes to question every player on the list to determine where the drugs came from. An appeals court is deliberating the matter, and the losing side is likely to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. A spokesman for the United States attorney’s office for the Northern District of California, which seized the tests, declined to comment on Thursday. Michael Weiner, the general counsel for the players union, also declined to comment. One by one, the names of elite players tied to performance-enhancing drugs have surfaced this year. In February, it was Rodriguez and Bonds. In May, it was Ramirez — for the first time. In June, it was Sosa. Rodriguez had been viewed by some as a clean player who could eventually overtake the career home run record established by Bonds, who had been linked to possible drug use through the federal investigation. Rodriguez subsequently admitted that he used a performance-enhancing substance from 2001 to 2003. The Times reported in June that Sosa was among those who tested positive in 2003, the first time he had been publicly tied to performance-enhancing drugs. Sosa became a national figure with the Chicago Cubs in 1998, when he and Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals engaged in a celebrated race to overtake Roger Maris’s single-season home run record of 61. McGwire’s image suffered tremendously when, at a Congressional hearing in 2005, he refused to answer questions about steroid use. By 2003, Ramirez had long since established himself as one of baseball’s best hitters. Ortiz, however, was less known. In 2002, the Minnesota Twins effectively cut him after failing to trade him. He signed a bargain contract with the Red Sox and began the 2003 season as a backup. Ortiz quickly blossomed, setting personal highs in home runs (31) and runs batted in (101). He surpassed those numbers in each of the next four seasons. Ramirez, with his dreadlocks and quirky behavior, and Ortiz, with his gregarious personality and portly build, formed a dynamic tandem on and off the field. They seemed to feed off each other — not to mention demoralize opponents — by hitting back-to-back in the heart of the lineup. In 2004, they helped the Red Sox overcome a 3-0 series deficit against the Yankees in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox then swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series to end decades of heartbreak in Boston. Ortiz had a game-winning home run and a game-winning hit against the Yankees and was named the most valuable player of that series. Ramirez was named the World Series M.V.P. after going 7 for 17 at the plate with a home run. Three years after winning that first title, Ramirez and Ortiz returned Boston to another World Series, where they defeated the Colorado Rockies. The pairing was split last season when the Red Sox traded Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers after team officials grew concerned that he was not playing hard in response to a contract dispute. In Los Angeles, Ramirez took off again, becoming popular among the fans and leading the Dodgers to the playoffs. But Ramirez’s hero status in Los Angeles took a hit in May when he was suspended after baseball officials learned that he had been prescribed a fertility drug often used by bodybuilders after they stopped using steroids. When Ramirez was suspended, he issued a statement that appeared to maneuver around his 2003 test results. “I do want to say one other thing,” Ramirez said. “I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons.” That five-year period extended back to 2004, which excludes the 2003 test. Since returning from his suspension, Ramirez has been widely accepted by the home fans. In 48 games this season, he has compiled a .327 average and has hit 11 home runs. Ortiz, meanwhile, has been in a sharp decline. He had an operation on his wrist last year and missed nearly a third of the season. He started this year in a slump and did not hit his first home run until a month and a half into the season. Since June 1, however, he has hit 12 more home runs. In 2007, Ortiz said that he used to buy a protein shake in the Dominican Republic when he was younger and did not know if it contained a performance-enhancing drug. “I don’t do that anymore because they don’t have the approval for that here, so I know that, so I’m off buying things at the GNC back in the Dominican Republic,” Ortiz told The Boston Herald. He added: “I don’t know if I drank something in my youth, not knowing it.” In February, he said that players who tested positive for steroids should be suspended for an entire season — about 100 games more than the current policy requires for a first offense. www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/sports/baseball/31doping.html |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:50am
"Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on 2003 Doping List "
^ I am shocked!! :blankfriggingstare1 :blankfriggingstare1 :blankfriggingstare1 I think we all can reasonably name the rest of the players on that list starting with Poo Holes |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:54am Saint Sway wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:50am:
Doubtful. Did anybody think - or care - about David Segui or Jason Grimsley? There's prolly more marginal players than bold type names on that list. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:59am
I guarantee theres a ton of the big names - of all the ones we already suspect on it
its not just ARod, Manny & Ortiz all the other usual supects are on that thing. Guaranteed. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:01pm
Btw, on the 1st day of Spring Training, David Ortiz told reporters, in response to ARod name being leaked off the list, that any player on that list that has failed a steroid test should be banned from baseball
his words. Not mine. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:04pm
here ya go... from this Spring
TAMPA - David Ortiz is fed up with his sport being sullied by one steroids story after another. His solution: more testing and more severe punishments. "I think you clean up the game by the testing," Ortiz said at Red Sox camp in Fort Myers, Fla. "I test you, you test positive, you're going to be out. Period. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_david_big_papi_ortiz_wants_tougher_penal.html#ixzz0MlNRAXNX FEB 16, 2009 http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_david_big_papi_ortiz_wants_tougher_penal.html TAMPA - David Ortiz is fed up with his sport being sullied by one steroids story after another. His solution: more testing and more severe punishments. "I think you clean up the game by the testing," Ortiz said at Red Sox camp in Fort Myers, Fla. "I test you, you test positive, you're going to be out. Period. Ortiz, who emerged as one of the premier sluggers in the game in 2003 with Boston after spending six largely forgettable years in Minnesota, believes all players on all teams should be tested three or four times a year, and any players testing positive should be banned for the rest of that season. "If I test positive by using any kind of banned substance, I'm going to disrespect my family, the game, the fans and everybody," Ortiz said. "And I don't want to be put in that situation. So what I will do, I won't use it. I'm pretty sure everybody is on the same page." Ortiz is good friends with Alex Rodriguez, who attended Ortiz's charity golf tournament in the Dominican Republic in December. It was difficult for Big Papi to hear that his buddy had tested positive for steroids in 2003, but he commended A-Rod for admitting his sins on ESPN last Monday. "The A-Rod situation was a little tough for the game because you're talking about the best player all the way around," Ortiz said. "At the same time, people have to give the guy credit because he came out and said what he said at the point of his career where he had done it all. On top of that, that was what, six years ago? The guy has put up numbers his whole career." Ortiz said one comment stood out to him above the rest during A-Rod's interview on ESPN. "One thing that he said that caught my attention a lot was that he was young and at the time, that was (happening) all around the league," Ortiz said. "When you're young and somebody comes to you with an idea of improving your production and things like that, sometimes you make a wrong decision like he did. But he's been playing clean and still producing, and he's still been the best player in the game. "If I'm a fan and I had to judge a guy, I would put that in the past and move forward," Ortiz continued. "The guy, he works hard, man. He's still doing his thing. He still has nine more years on his contract and he's definitely going to do some damage. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_david_big_papi_ortiz_wants_tougher_penal.html#ixzz0MlNG9CNX l |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:08pm Reread the last sentence of that Times article. Big Papi said a season long suspension, not for life, as "banned" might imply. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:17pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:08pm:
Ok. Cool. So then lets suspend him for a year. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:30pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:17pm:
His games gone to shit, might not be able to get a job in a year. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:35pm
Interesting to also note that while investing the "Mitchell Report", former Senator Mitchell was employed in the Red Sox front office and somehow Manny and Ortiz' names never made it onto his report.
Oh and I'll tell you right now that Curt Schilling failed that 2003 test |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:20pm
again, it's too bad big papi wasn't doping when he was with the twins.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:44pm Saint Sway wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 12:35pm:
I also hate the Red Sox. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Saint Sway on Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:54pm Starbuck wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:20pm:
6 seasons with Twins (pre doping) = 55 HRs 7 seasons since (on the juice) = 255 HRs Then again, if he had been juicing on the Twins and bashing HRs the Twinkies would of traded him to a playoff contender. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Jul 30th, 2009 at 7:34pm
Check the dates again---June 2003 when tested, Ortiz still nominally sucked, done nothing--sitting behind Jeremy Giambi of all lunkheads!!
finally in starting line-up a month later, after the Hillenbrand trade...catches fire since then, like all others, Ortiz has been tested---Ortiz has tested negative---Ortiz has been Godlike penis envy here from fans of loser teams btw, Pujols is clean always has been |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Aug 9th, 2009 at 11:48pm
sox score two runs in the final three games against the spankees....what gives?
could the wild card come from a division besides the east this year??? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Aug 11th, 2009 at 2:09pm
interesting interview from the best player in baseball history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzkEphQAi7U |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:14pm
We would like to thank the San Francisco Giants for their particpation in the 2009 MLB season. We have a lovely parting gift for you on the way to ISUCKLAND. :nanker
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:27pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:14pm:
you sure you are not talking about the twins' pitching staff? tonight they gave up 14 runs to the team feej calls "the best triple A club in the majors". |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Aug 12th, 2009 at 9:48am Starbuck wrote on Aug 11th, 2009 at 11:27pm:
We beat Boston twice in a two game series to get back in contention and then go west and get our asses kicked every night. Last season was alot more fun. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Aug 12th, 2009 at 11:35am lotsajizz wrote on Jul 30th, 2009 at 7:34pm:
tee2hee indeed! sean, do you still believe in santa claus? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Aug 12th, 2009 at 6:46pm
Can you say walkoff baybee. Gigantes are right back in it...Oh and MLB umpires suck :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Ten Thousand Motels on Aug 17th, 2009 at 9:11am Merlyn Mantle, Who Was Married to Yankees Great for 43 Years, Dies at 77 By DENNIS HEVESI Published: August 11, 2009 NYT Merlyn Mantle, who for 43 years lived through the glory and the tumult of being married to the New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle, died Monday in Plano, Tex., a suburb of Dallas. She was 77. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said Marty Appel, a family spokesman. Merlyn and Mickey Mantle met in 1949 when he was a star player at Commerce (Okla.) High School and she was a cheerleader at archrival Picher High School. “I developed an instant crush on Mickey Mantle, and by our second or third date, I was in love with him and always would be,” Mrs. Mantle wrote in a 1996 memoir, “A Hero All His Life.” The Mantles married in 1951, after Mickey’s rookie year with the Yankees. For 18 seasons, Mantle symbolized athletic brilliance as perhaps the greatest switch-hitter in baseball history. With a .298 career batting average, 536 homers and 1,509 runs batted in, he led the Yankees to seven World Series championships. He was an All-Star for 16 of those 18 years and in 1974 was inducted into Hall of Fame. His injuries, and the pain he played through, only enhanced his heroic stature. It was only after Mantle’s career ended that the world learned of his drinking and womanizing. The drinking escalated in retirement as he struggled with what to do with himself. “It took me a long time to admit Mick was an alcoholic,” Mrs. Mantle told The New York Times in 2001. She, too, became an alcoholic. Cancer took its toll on the family. One of the Mantles’ four sons, Billy, had Hodgkin’s lymphoma for half his life and died of a heart attack in 1994 at age 36. Another son, Mickey Jr., died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2000, at 47. Mickey Mantle died of cancer on Aug. 13, 1995, two months after receiving a liver transplant. Merlyn Louise Johnson was born in Cardin, Okla., on Jan. 28, 1932, one of two daughters of Giles and Reba Johnson. She is survived by two sons, David of McKinney, Tex., and Danny of Plano, Tex.; her sister, Pat LaFalier of Miami, Okla.; and four grandchildren. Merlyn and Mickey Mantle were separated for the last six years of their marriage. Mrs. Mantle lived in a condominium in Dallas that remained something of a shrine to her husband. Its walls were lined with photographs of him and magazine covers. A display case held three most valuable player trophies; the silver bat for his 1956 Triple Crown; and the balls he hit for, among others, his 512th and 535th home runs and for his record-breaking 16th World Series homer. Asked why she never divorced him, Mrs. Mantle said: “I adored Mick. I thought I couldn’t live without him. In many ways, he was very good to me, very generous. I never wanted a divorce, and he never asked for one.” |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:46am
twins are done.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Aug 26th, 2009 at 10:33pm Mr. Met has been placed on the DL and will miss the rest of the season... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Aug 28th, 2009 at 9:56am
Go Chula Vista :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Rambler on Aug 28th, 2009 at 3:35pm
my baseball items on ecrater.
I am accepting only currency exchange and U.S postal money orders: http://uniquities.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=5165524 http://uniquities.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=5144223 There are baseball cards as well. :paristhong |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Aug 30th, 2009 at 8:11pm
Gigantes with the sweep. Wild card all tied up. :keithpunky
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Aug 31st, 2009 at 11:35am
my Nats are already 4.5 games out..for 2010!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Sep 1st, 2009 at 8:40am
We are 5 games out of the wildcard and starting a 3 game series with Boston today. I'll go out on a limb and say if we don't win this series we are fucked.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Sep 1st, 2009 at 10:58am StPeteStone wrote on Sep 1st, 2009 at 8:40am:
can we have barlett back please? twins win again last night....we may just take this thing! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Sep 1st, 2009 at 3:25pm Starbuck wrote on Sep 1st, 2009 at 10:58am:
No. We're going to go ahead and keep Garza too. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Sep 2nd, 2009 at 5:38pm
sean? nellie? any truth to this rumor?
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AhxOHVtJ5THvDeAJ.MgqmcM5nYcB?slug=ap-kennedy-successor-schilling&prov=ap&type=lgns |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Sep 2nd, 2009 at 7:35pm
Schill made some comments on his blog.
By 5P. newscrews had caught up with him during the day, he did not want to talk. I think his wife had muzzled him. We shall see. He probably would get smoked. Article updated two hours ago.. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20090902reluctant_schilling_mulls_run_for_senate/srvc=home&position=1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Sep 2nd, 2009 at 9:36pm
It would take a pretty big muzzle to keep Schilling quiet...Meanwhile on the field. Brad "Money" Penny gets it done for the Gigantes. Mowing down the Phills. :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Sep 7th, 2009 at 2:52pm Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Today's loss clinched their MLB record 17th consecutive losing season. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Sep 15th, 2009 at 9:19pm
Dice-K has re-entered the building.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Sep 15th, 2009 at 9:57pm
The Gigantes are not dead yet :areyoufuckingserious
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Sep 15th, 2009 at 10:37pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 15th, 2009 at 9:57pm:
i think the twins are, however. next year...outside...is looking pretty good. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Sep 17th, 2009 at 6:56pm StPeteStone wrote on Sep 1st, 2009 at 8:40am:
We've gone 2 for 15 since I wrote this. That Kazmir trade has not started paying off yet. WTF!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Sep 17th, 2009 at 8:22pm
Oh what the hell.....Baseball huh? I know the game but no diddly squat about the players
The Indians and the Reds suck.. I have a soft spot for the old Tigers since my childhood years in Toledo. My son is a season ticket holder and he would kill me, if I didn't support his team. ( Bucky-they play your guys this weekend ;)) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Sep 17th, 2009 at 10:35pm
Rubbing eyes....making sure I'm seeing right.....Meg....On the baseball thread....slow night in columbus huh....What am I saying...Thier all slow nights in Columbus....At least OSU should win this weekend. :booze
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Sep 18th, 2009 at 5:07am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 17th, 2009 at 10:35pm:
Nope.. I am of the firm belief you guys need a little female perspective from time to time.. With OSU one can never bet safely! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Sep 18th, 2009 at 9:33am PartyDoll MEG wrote on Sep 18th, 2009 at 5:07am:
Of that I have no doubt Meg. ;) Go Giants :willya |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 1st, 2009 at 3:46pm Twins hanging in there... Tuesday afternoon play-in game at the Heftydome, Starbuck? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 1st, 2009 at 4:10pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 1st, 2009 at 3:46pm:
Damn those Twins are getting in the way....And now three Sucks games- oh it is sox sorry |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 1st, 2009 at 4:27pm
wild night last night at citizens bank, my son said it was the best night of his life(he's nine). it didnt start off promising but halfway through it became a dance. well the astros aint exactly a great team but they could be challenging as they were recently. there were about 7 kids in front of us about 5-8 years old with dads buying just rounds of cotton candy, ice cream, fries, soda. somebody was gonna get sick in the car. we hung out for some of the celebration but it was a school night. onward and upward!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 1st, 2009 at 4:50pm mojoman wrote on Oct 1st, 2009 at 4:27pm:
Did they blow up the chicken man in Philly last night. ;) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 2nd, 2009 at 8:29pm Man, Peavy was dealing against the Tigers tonight. And the Twins beat Lenny DiNardo like a piñata. Greinke looms... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 3:59pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 2nd, 2009 at 8:29pm:
shoey...my god... we're in the fourth inning already...greinke is pitching a no hitter. and blackburn has a perfect game. can't you just feel the tension???? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:15pm
Bucky, you jinxed it :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey
I'm rooting for a one-game showdown like last year! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:55pm zooeyglass wrote on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:15pm:
zooey! i'm wit ya, brother....thankfully, the one game showdown this year would take place at the right ball park...the one that wasn't determined by a coin toss. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:56pm
go Twins...a team with major balls!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:57pm lotsajizz wrote on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 5:56pm:
sean.... i see a twins/sox ALCS this year...and you? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 8:18pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 3:59pm:
Missed it. I was watching Cole (10-11) Hamels struggle against the Marlins. Phils gotta be worried about their arms. Did get to see Ryan Howard smoke #45 offa the second deck, but an L is still an L. Looks like they'll need to rely on the O to carry 'em, as usual. And Brad Lidge has to be kept faaaar away from any closing sitch... Tigers are losing - AGAIN - so the epic tank job is nearly complete. Jack Morris wants the ball on Tuesday. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 8:36pm
Bucky, I won't be "seeing" any ALCS this year--I leave for Finland for two weeks on October 16th---I'll bring my laptop to check in on gameday!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 9:41pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 8:18pm:
National League is wide open. Rocks look like the choice to lose to the Yanks. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 10:13pm
the Spankees? that's so last century.......
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 4th, 2009 at 9:39am
i have tickets to today's game.
they will bring me home either drunk or on a stretcher. or both. ladies and gents, meet the new mr. october! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 4th, 2009 at 10:33am
Big weekend in Minny. Twinkies making a last ditch playoff run and the Favre bowl tomorrow night. Oh yeah you betcha. :wtf3
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 11:01am Pavano on three day's rest, Verlander for the Tigers. No play-in game on Tuesday. Twins win the AL Central today. Enjoy it, Starbuck. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 4th, 2009 at 12:08pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 11:01am:
Hey it isn't over yet...... >:( |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm Exhale, Meg... ;) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 4th, 2009 at 2:36pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 2:34pm:
Just did!!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:16pm
When 162 games just aren't enough. One game playoff tomorrow at the hefty bag.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:21pm
meg...MEG...please....please tell me you're not a tigers fan....
five home runs today....amazin'! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:44pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:21pm:
Tuesday in the Metrodome.... I've always loved Tigers.... and the voice of baseball... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:49pm Thanks for the Ernie reminder. Sending nothing but good juju his way... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:56pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:16pm:
Tuesday. Vikes - Pack tomorrow. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:56pm
i don't like the looks of this.
meg, i'll have to send you some ton loc in your next package. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:58pm Funky Cold Medina (MN)?? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 4th, 2009 at 6:13pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:58pm:
that's just sick. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 4th, 2009 at 6:33pm Wait, you mean you didn't buy that Tone Lōc CD because he gives Minnesota a holla? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 4th, 2009 at 6:37pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 4th, 2009 at 5:56pm:
Right. Tuesdee. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:21pm
Good Luck tomorrow, Bucky!
Here's hoping the Tigers come roaring into the Metrodome!!(maybe they'll be singing Motown, Bucky ;)) I promise if we lose- it will be the Twins for me even if Jeter is a stud! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:23pm
tomorrow and tonight, meg. i don't know which one is bigger...sadly, i have to correct papers all night and will miss the reahlly beeg sheeeeww.....
i can't believe you like the tigers. this is like finding out a good friend keeps an eagles CD hidden behind the toilet. oh well...at least you don't like the white sox...that would be like finding out that a good friend has a meth addiction. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:33pm PartyDoll MEG wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:21pm:
FYI Meg....Jeter's ghey. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:41pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:23pm:
When you grow up in Toledo-sorta goes with the territory. Cleveland was too far away to get the games on the AM Radio. But AM 800 always came thru loud and clear with Ernie announcing.. P.S. no Eagles- but I do have ABBA |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:42pm StPeteStone wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:33pm:
nice try Tampa- but me not buying it |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:50pm PartyDoll MEG wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:42pm:
come on meg...everyone knows it... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:51pm Think Jim Leyland gave Miguel Cabrera a curfew tonight? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:57pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:51pm:
hope not! the tigers are staying at the hilton downtown...i sent up a stripper and and a bottle of grey goose. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:03pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 7:51pm:
Maybe he is having a sleep over at his Manager's house? what would big league sports be like if we didn't have these "class acts" who make lots of moola to talk about, huh?!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:15pm Wotta dink. Might still be on the Tigers next year, though. The Hanshin Tigers... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:23pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:15pm:
cabrera? heck no...he's the best they got. is chet lemon still on the 40 man roster? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:44pm He was the best the Marlins had, too. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:03pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 5th, 2009 at 8:44pm:
yes, but didn't the fish get cameron maybin and about 16 other prospects? for drunk boy and d train? pretty good trade for the marlins, no? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 5th, 2009 at 10:10pm Sure. Point is that getting rid of the problem isn't unprecedented. Smacking the missus around and then blowing a .26 twelve hours before a game is a problem... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 6th, 2009 at 4:30pm
Go Twinkies....Sorry Meg, their is cabbage on the line :smilestu
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 6th, 2009 at 4:57pm
Cabrera has something to prove...... 8-)
But it's early.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 6th, 2009 at 5:48pm
I could make a really bad joke that Miggy hit that homerun almost as hard as he hit his....Nahh,I won't go there. :-X
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:34pm
let's hear it for cabrera!!!
ORLANDO cabrera!! hoo hoo!!! lemme hear you say ow |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:41pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:34pm:
Platter? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:41pm Bust out the Homer Hankies! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:44pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:41pm:
dude! they were handing them out at the game on sunday, and they did today too. man...seeing 55K drooling, rabid twins fans waving those things just brings a tear to your eye... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY0GlYFzK4Y |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:46pm
seems like other things going on are bringing the tears to the eyes of the twinkie fans today!
What happened to that Metrodome Advantage??? At least it's a nail biter! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 6:47pm
hold everything....
tie game.... #@!$ |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:17pm
fuck.
Well they slammed my head & broke my heart So goodbye booze its time we part |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:22pm
Hang in there, Bucky, it ain't over yet
:aimama :aimama :aimama :aimama :aimama |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:29pm zooeyglass wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:22pm:
zooey....i need some air. hold me. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:34pm
Could Starbuck handle extra innings?? :blankfriggingstare1
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:40pm
I hate Aubrey Huff.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:45pm
fuck
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:51pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:45pm:
FUCK!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:57pm
!!!!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:59pm
DAN GLADDEN AND I ARE ABOUT TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:01pm
Now there's a fuck for ya! :forfucksake
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:01pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 7:59pm:
Crazy! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:03pm
I can't take this shit..
maybe I'll take a bath... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:07pm
mayhay is in...i'm officially nervous. not mike trombley nervous, but nervous.
that being said, who do the tigers have left in the pen?? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:14pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:15pm
hang in there....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:21pm Nellcote wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:15pm:
my GOD nellie...if this game doesn't prove that baseball is the greatest game on the planet, nothing can. well...except for game 7 in 91 of course. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:23pm PartyDoll MEG wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:03pm:
Meg??? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:40pm
damn it....
make it stop...... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:41pm
liriano is warming up....we better do it now or we never will.
gomez base hit..gomez bose hit! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:41pm Fire up the charter. Twins win it here... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:42pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:41pm:
i like your thinking! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:45pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:42pm:
The Delvin Young trade seems to also have worked out for you guys too. Great game! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:46pm Hella game! Now who gets the ball tomorrow - Blyleven or Frankie V? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:49pm
i'd just like to thank all of you for standing by "america's team".....
savor the moment! "go crazy folks! go crazy!!!" |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:51pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:49pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:54pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:49pm:
What??!? A Jack Buck Cardinals reference??!!? No Herb Carneal call? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:56pm
17-4 in the last 21 games.
amazing. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:57pm
Orlando Cabrera has it. he was part of the '04 Sox World Series.
Just handle the Yanks now Buckobrera..... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:59pm StPeteStone wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:45pm:
not even close. we still need a good hitting shortstop and pitching. terrible trade for us. although delvin has been playing well lately.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:03pm Nellcote wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 8:57pm:
nellpoof we will need your full cooperation and support. especially with brian duensing going against sabathia, in the bronx. lord help us! bobby keppel gets his FIRST major league win! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:03pm
sorry just finished a relaxing bath..
hard fought battle... nail biter to the end.. now please make sure your team makes mincemeat out of the Yanks!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:06pm
all of my facebook updates from friends are twins related.
god bless this little team that could. down an all star first baseman....pitchers all tired as hell...and we take one of the best regular season games ever played. amazing. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:15pm
game for the ages...savor it Bucky, well-deserved!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:39pm lotsajizz wrote on Oct 6th, 2009 at 9:15pm:
thanks sean! i think i will! http://mobilevideo.mlb.com.edgesuite.net/2009/open/mlbam/2009/10/06/rth_detmin_7016879_iphone_900k.3gp |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:43pm
congrats to all the voters in the poll for this thread....three of you were spot on!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by zooeyglass on Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:52pm
Congratulations, Buckeroo :)
(And sorry, Meg :-[) Not to take away from a great victory -- I'd like to see the Twins hand the Yankees their collective ass on a plate, but I'm fearing twill be the other way around -- Bucky, how will you make it through the next few days without achieving total meltdown status :weed :booze |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 7th, 2009 at 9:14am
One of the best baseball games I've ever seen. Congrats to the Twinkies. They now get to play 3 more games before they call it a season.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 9:30am
Not so fast SCL. Twinks have got jomentum. Yanks may seem to be best, however, there's something to be said for a team on a high. CC Fatassia is not Cy Young in the playoffs. Burnett has never been there. Texeria was a wallflower last year. Payrod is Payrod. Posada is griping over being benched for Molina. Wind will be blowing out to right tonight, which could make this a homer fest. If Twinks win one in NY, it's there's to lose in the Homerdome. Cabbage time.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:11am Nellcote wrote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 9:30am:
Hmm,you would'nt happen to be a Red Sox fan now would ya Nellie :blankfriggingstare1.....Cmon,you know the fix is in. Twinkies are a nice little story. Now it's time for them to go away. The Angels are the Sox Bitch. They should just skip to a Yankees/Red Sox ALCS right now. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 11:15am
As far as the Red Sox are concerned....
We are facing a tough team in the Angels. They are well coached, are very balanced, have a strong bench. They can do things one thru nine. They have a lot of ways to make you think. We need to make more plays & score more runs than the Angels to win. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 7th, 2009 at 1:48pm
I might as well go ahead and give my SCL's now for the palyoffs. It will be:
Yankees in 3 Red Sox in 4 Rockies in 5 Cardinals in 4 (duck the fodgers) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 7th, 2009 at 3:47pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 1:48pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 7th, 2009 at 3:54pm
"We need to make more plays & score more runs than the Angels to win."
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 7th, 2009 at 4:41pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 7th, 2009 at 3:47pm:
Bucky? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvte1qOgKVY |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Oct 7th, 2009 at 4:48pm
I'm hopin my Nats can be within 25 games next year...but it is a stretch...Oh for the days of Rusty Staub
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 9th, 2009 at 4:06pm
I would like to thank Matt "Hands of Stone" Holliday for costing me a considerable piece of Cabbage last night. A blind one armed man could have caught that fucking ball. :forfucksake
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 9th, 2009 at 8:32pm
fuck me.
arod has to pick this series to not suck...WTF??!!!!!!!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 9th, 2009 at 9:30pm
Yankees win,Yankees win.....Daaaaaa YANKEES WIN :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 9th, 2009 at 9:36pm
Sorry Bucky!
They keep hanging in there..... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 10th, 2009 at 8:02am
meg, i don't think i'll be getting out of bed today.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 10th, 2009 at 8:13am
I know the feeling.....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 10th, 2009 at 8:54am
I think Nelly is probably in the same state as the two of you....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 10th, 2009 at 10:14am
well kids...i think there is just one thing left to do....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 10th, 2009 at 10:31am lotsajizz wrote on Oct 10th, 2009 at 8:13am:
my god sean...has it come to the end? at least we can console ourselves in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VIXnTL6O0&feature=related |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 10th, 2009 at 10:45am |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 10th, 2009 at 1:03pm
Fuk the Angels...And the Dodgers....No baseball in Denver tonight. Evidently 20 degrees and snow flurries makes good football weather. Not so much for baseball.
Hey I'm a 3000 man. :nanker |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 10th, 2009 at 4:54pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 10th, 2009 at 10:31am:
NO! My uncle and I will be at Fenway tomorrow to see the start of the Comeback. We were at game 4 and 5 of the '04 ALCS when all seemed dark---the forces of Light WILL prevail....ONWARD!!!!! We got a date with the ALCS next weekend (although I'll be in Finland then!) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 11th, 2009 at 7:45am
Phillies got a huge break by not having to start Martinez last night. Happ will dominate tonight. Go Fightens!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 11th, 2009 at 4:17pm
my god sean....i don't know who is weeping louder...you or FOX executives.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 11th, 2009 at 4:23pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 11th, 2009 at 4:17pm:
Well they're going to have an LA/New York series. 2 biggest TV markets in the country. I don't think they're that upset. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 11th, 2009 at 4:36pm
...awful...like a giant shitmist moved over Fenway......PapelBUM!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 12th, 2009 at 4:51am
The usual suspects must be in mourning....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:15am
GO PHILS!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:28am mojoman wrote on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:15am:
Who would of thought Brad Lidge would be the only closer not to choke yesterday. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 12th, 2009 at 12:38pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:28am:
I'm glad I didn't stay up long enough to see him. Lidge and a one-run lead. Pass the Maalox. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:25pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 12th, 2009 at 12:38pm:
you will not be greeted.......... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:31pm mojoman wrote on Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:25pm:
I say that with affection. Well, not affection. As a Phillies fan, at least. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by steel driving hammer on Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:46pm
Chicago's been corrupt since Al Capone.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091012/ap_on_sp_ot/us_cubs_bankruptcy |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 12th, 2009 at 9:48pm
Brad Lidge snags a crucial out again. I don't need Maalox anymore. I need a pacemaker.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:41pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 13th, 2009 at 6:01pm Pdog wrote on Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:41pm: I agree. Fuck the Dodgers....While we're at it. Fuck the Angels too. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 13th, 2009 at 7:43pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 13th, 2009 at 6:01pm:
anyone trying to oust the yankees needs our support and complete cooperation. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 13th, 2009 at 8:04pm Starbuck wrote on Oct 13th, 2009 at 7:43pm:
Amen, Johnny Cakes! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 13th, 2009 at 9:35pm PartyDoll MEG wrote on Oct 13th, 2009 at 8:04pm:
Go Halos! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 14th, 2009 at 8:23am
Nellie,I realize how you feel about the Yankees. But I live in the great state of Northern California. We do not greet or support anything from the southern part of this area......Plus I'm still a tad bit bitter about the Giants losing to the Angels in the World Series.....Never forget. >:(
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Oct 14th, 2009 at 9:12pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Oct 14th, 2009 at 9:32pm
go Angels---they earned it.... :sad
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 14th, 2009 at 9:36pm
Allright,I'm going to attempt to make this rounds SCL's. Granted I didn't do too good in the first round. Only 1-4...But hey that's 1 more than the Twinkies won right. Allright here goes. Yanks in 5,Phills in 6. :whatapostronnie.....No I don't really care. It's baseball. Almost as exciting as Cricket.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by fuman on Oct 15th, 2009 at 12:27pm
I'm going with Angels in 6, Phillies in 7.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 16th, 2009 at 12:10am fuman wrote on Oct 15th, 2009 at 12:27pm:
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Oct 16th, 2009 at 8:07am
taking game 1 in LA was huge, Phillies are a grear road team... even the weak relief might not hold em back...
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by fuman on Oct 16th, 2009 at 10:39am mojoman wrote on Oct 16th, 2009 at 12:10am:
I suppose I should get some credit for this win. At least a little. When I tuned in to the game, Philly was up 5-1. Watched LA get 3 runs, and quickly turned the game off. Glad to see Philly held on. You're welcome Philly fans . . . |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Steel Wheels on Oct 16th, 2009 at 11:26am
I'll be at the game Sunday night. Let's Go Phils!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 16th, 2009 at 12:42pm
What's the weather like in New York. They gonna get the Yanks game in tonight?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 16th, 2009 at 1:06pm
I felt pretty good after Game 1 against Colorado -- then the Phils came up short the next day. Here's hoping they keep their edge. A 2-0 lead going into a three-game homestand would be *huge*, obviously.
I hate Manny Ramirez. Doesn't everybody, including, deep down, his teammates? Seriously. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 16th, 2009 at 6:54pm
And there you have it: the Phillies have something against a 2-0 series lead, again!
That was painful. Two runs scored on a fielding error and a bases-loaded walk. And Martinez taken out with just two hits on 87 pitches. Painful, painful. That should be a long transcontinental plane ride home. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:09pm Pedro was sublime. And Utley has suddenly turned into Chuck Knoblauch... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:12pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 16th, 2009 at 6:54pm:
So Grady Little was not around to keep Pedro in? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:18pm :) Petey threw like 130 pitches a few weeks ago against the Mets. He was due up third in the eighth, so Manuel must've wanted to try to push across another run or two. Can't blame him. Park was money last night. Tonight, not so much... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:21pm
Pulling Martinez was the wrong move in retrospect, but it wasn't irrational. Chan Ho Park was magnificent last night. I think the Phillies still come out of that inning with the lead if Utley had turned that double play.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:24pm
It was good to see Mannywood pop out.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:26pm Guy's still a killer. Smote one last night, and now they move to the HR haven in South Philly. Dread the dreads... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 16th, 2009 at 8:43pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:26pm:
Well the jerry curl was pretty good today. Shoulda kept him in Go Yankees.(and under) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 17th, 2009 at 11:01pm
I almost forgot. It was 20 years ago today. The bay bridge world series.Everybody was so excited. Even though the Giants were down 2-0 in the series. They were coming to Candlestick and we were going to get even. I was on my way home after picking up a friend downtown and going back to her house for a world series party. Then at 5:04 everything changed..... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/17/MNUU1A3RPF.DTL&tsp=1
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by fuman on Oct 18th, 2009 at 3:27pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 17th, 2009 at 11:01pm:
They had a special "look back" show on (KRON ?) yesterday. Enough archive footage and commentary to scare the crap out of everybody. Main thrust of the commentary was "we haven't seen the big one yet, it will make '89 look like a bump in the road". |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 19th, 2009 at 10:09am
Eight runs in game 1, one run in game 2, 11 in game 3: What does that mean for the Phils' offense tonight? A feast-or-famine pattern? I sure would've liked a 3-0 series lead going into tonight, but I guess I can't be too greedy.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:05am
I wish I could say I knew it all along. But with all the bullpen troubles, I was sure the Phillies were going to stagger into the playoffs and meet Elimination in the first round. I've never been happier to be wrong. ... I like our chances with Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez on the mound. Go Fightins!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:23am
I called Phills in 6. Underestimated the Dodgers ability to suck. Phills get it done in 5. Yanks take care of business tonight. Go on to win the WS in 6.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:43am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:23am:
My heart hopes you are wrong, my head knows you are right. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:50am
YES!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:01am Mel Belli wrote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:05am:
Charlie Manuel needs to start Pedro in Game 2. Hamels 09 is nowhere near Hamels 08. Still like their chances to repeat. Phils in 6. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:38am Nellcote wrote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:43am:
I know what you mean Nellie. I despise SoCal sports teams and I don't have any vendetta against the Yanks. But still with Abomb going off and Sabathia using Clemens old locker. Yanks look Too Tough. :smilestu |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:52am left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 11:01am:
Pedro continues to impress more than ever. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:14pm
F dem yanks.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Jesus Christ on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:25pm Howe can the Phils lose? JESUS is rooting for them!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 1:31pm
Bucky
It is time to change the poll, please!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Steel Wheels on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 2:05pm
I have tickets to game 4 of the World Series. I cannot wait to go.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 25th, 2009 at 11:14pm Jesus Christ wrote on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 12:25pm:
jesus, i think i speak for most of america when i say... and before STPstone beats me to it: |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 26th, 2009 at 11:29am |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Oct 26th, 2009 at 3:26pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by monkey_man on Oct 26th, 2009 at 3:29pm
I just hope the World Series is over before Thanksgiving. . .
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 28th, 2009 at 3:28pm monkey_man wrote on Oct 26th, 2009 at 3:29pm:
It's gonna be close. Espicially if they get any more rainouts.....What's that. Oh sure. GO YANKEES :willya :booze |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:22pm
So what would you trade for a coupla World Series tickets?
Several hundred bucks? Your dog? Your first-born? How about creative serial sex? Step right up, Susan Finkelstein, 43, a rabid fan who really loves her Phillies. Married with children, current Penn grad student in liberal arts and onetime assistant PR director at the University of Pennsylvania, she posted an ad on Craigslist.com: "DESPERATE BLONDE NEEDS WS TIX (Philadelphia) "Diehard Phillies fan - gorgeous tall buxom blonde - in desperate need of two World Series Tickets. Price negotiable - I'm the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!" Bensalem police were scouring Craigslist looking for illegal activities, like pornography, drug deals and child molesters, when they saw the ad from "Desperate." Posing as a ticketholder, an undercover cop called Finkelstein in Philadelphia and asked if they could meet in a Bensalem bar Monday night. At the bar, Finkelstein was willing to engage in various sexual acts in return for a ticket, said Bensalem Public Safety Director Fred Harran. Then, she asked if the ticketholder had two tickets, and he claimed he did and she was willing to up the sexcapades, according to Harran. After all, she posted on Facebook that she was "very, very liberal." "She was overcome with Phillies fever," said her attorney William J. Brennan. Well, Finkelstein got herself a ticket, but not for the World Series. She will be receiving a summons via mail at her home on St. Barnards Place near Springfield Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia to appear in Bensalem court on charges of soliciting prostitution and related misdemeanors. No court date is set. No one answered Daily News calls to her home. So how long did this sweettalking last? "It was quick," said Harran. "About as long as it takes Chase Utley to throw somebody out at second base." And what did the ticketholder look like? "Probably a cute guy if I was a woman," replied Harran. But when the cute cop clamped handcuffs on Finkelstein, Harran said, "I guess she realized she's not going to the World Series." Her Facebook comment after the arrest: "Susan Finkelstein is wondering about the integrity of the police." |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:34pm
So how long did this sweettalking last?
"It was quick," "About as long as it takes Chase Utley to throw somebody out at second base." In other words about a half an hour. ;D |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:52pm
I imagine the Yankees haven't forgotten this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DU-JiyyP_M&feature=related |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 28th, 2009 at 5:29pm Oh yeah, the Daddys remember Number 45 alright. Besides the Zimmer incident, Pedro used to plunk their hitters regularly. He even threatened to drill Babe Ruth in the ass. Tomorrow promises to be a fun night in The Boogie Down. But first, CC and Cliff Lee in Game One... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Oct 28th, 2009 at 5:29pm mojoman wrote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 4:22pm:
I read she is being given free tix now by fellow Phillies fans!!! haha... AWESOME. Stay classy Philly has gone viral.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 28th, 2009 at 9:40pm
somebody quick....gimme some of that lube that chase utley's got in his hair.
damn, people! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 28th, 2009 at 9:50pm That's your return post? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:08pm
Great job of over managing by Joe Giradi.
I can't wait for Pedro, although I wish he was held over 'till Philly. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:18pm
Cliff Lee can't pitch every game right? :'(
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:19pm
Those situational pitching matchups are the most overrated tactic in baseball, in my opinion...
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:36pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:18pm:
if MLB had their way, the playoffs might last long enough to make that happen. seriously....that was the best i have seen a pitcher pitch in years. amazing. loved the curve to posada to end it too.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 28th, 2009 at 11:09pm Nellcote wrote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:08pm:
Girardi managed like his team was already down 3 games. Meanwhile ol' Charles Fuqua had a smile on his face all night. Starting Pedro tomorrow is the right move, imo. He's pitched in the eye of the hurricane many times. Hamels had a very uneven year, and only won three games on the road. Manuel knows he'll have the support of the home crowd, and is counting on him to come up big. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 28th, 2009 at 11:23pm
The yankees looked like they were hanging out with Andre Agassi and Keith the last couple of days.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 28th, 2009 at 11:26pm
A-who?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 5:41am
A Fraud. Watching him whiff three times=priceless.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:37am Bingo wrote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 11:23pm:
:pullanolte :wtf1 That's allright,the Yanks will take care of petey curl tonight. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:18am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 28th, 2009 at 10:18pm:
AnalysisPhillies May Be Tempted to Pitch Lee on Short Rest The Yankees have not announced their rotation past Game 3 of the World Series, but their plan is fairly obvious. Their quest for a 27th championship has revolved around maximizing how many times their hulking ace, C. C. Sabathia, can pitch. They were smitten by how Sabathia volunteered to pitch on short rest for Milwaukee last season, and enriched him with $161 million so he could bring the same accountability to the Bronx. He is on schedule to start Game 4 on short rest and, if necessary, Game 7, too. The potential pitfall for the Yankees is that the Philadelphia Phillies are considering the same program for Cliff Lee, who outdueled Sabathia in Game 1 on Wednesday and dissected the Yankees in a 6-1 victory. Everyone on the Phillies was willing to praise Lee for his best outing in a postseason loaded with them. He has now gone 18 1/3 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run. But no one — at least those with input on the matter — was eager to discuss whether it was tempting to send him out Sunday night for Game 4. “We’re not worried about Game 4,” said Rich Dubee, the Phillies’ pitching coach. “That’s a ways down the road.” The Phillies have two days to decide, and it is possible that the outcome of Game 2, when Pedro Martinez opposes A. J. Burnett, will play a role along with Lee’s pitch count in Game 1, which was 122. But they have been batting around the idea for about a week, ever since clinching the National League Championship Series in five games allowed them to align their rotation as they desired. Manager Charlie Manuel, who was noncommittal Wednesday night, acknowledged the possibility last week. Lee has never pitched on short rest, but that would hardly prove a deterrent. Just as Chase Utley would never admit to playing hurt — even if bones were protruding from his leg — Lee is not the type to shy from a challenge. In his mind, he is physically capable of anything and everything, as his 3-0 record and 0.54 earned run average this postseason suggest. “This is the same game I’ve been playing my whole life, and this is the stage that I’ve wanted to get to from a little kid,” Lee said. “Now that I’m here, I’ve already put all the work in. There’s no sense being nervous and worried. It’s time to go out there and let my talents and skills take over and execute pitches.” The Phillies are happy with their rotation depth and would have no qualms sending out J. A. Happ or Joe Blanton, who is 0-3 with an 8.18 E.R.A. against the Yankees, to start Game 4, and then Lee on normal rest in Game 5. They are also cognizant of Lee’s mounting workload — 265 innings and rising — and must balance the risk and reward of setting him up for two more starts, not one. “You know, you always are tempted to do something like that,” Brad Lidge said, adding later: “We kind of have to see things play out. I don’t know. He’s doing so well with whatever he’s doing, I’d just let it go.” In each of the Yankees’ two previous World Series appearances, in 2001 and 2003, their opponent gambled — and won — by bringing back its overpowering ace on short rest. Bob Brenly, a rookie manager with Arizona in 2001, made the aggressive move of starting Curt Schilling on three days’ rest for Game 4 with the Diamondbacks ahead in the series. Schilling pitched well in an extra-inning loss and was available to come back in Game 7, which Arizona won. Florida Manager Jack McKeon employed a similar strategy for Game 6 in 2003, turning to Josh Beckett with the Marlins leading, 3-2. With the series back at Yankee Stadium, McKeon prevented the Yankees from potentially gaining momentum against a lesser pitcher, and Beckett clinched the title with a five-hit shutout. Both Brenly and McKeon were managing underdogs and, as such, might have felt even more emboldened to use cutthroat tactics. Manuel feels no such pressure: his team is the defending champion. Unless the Phillies were to sweep the Yankees, they would need a fourth starter at some point, anyway, because pushing Martinez to start on short rest is unfeasible. They would follow the blueprint set by Arizona, when its fourth starter, Miguel Batista, pitched Game 5, before giving way to Randy Johnson and Schilling. The Yankees are prepared to go with a three-man rotation in this series, especially because their primary No. 4 starter candidate, Chad Gaudin, has thrown one inning over the last four weeks. Even though Burnett and Andy Pettitte did not pitch at all on short rest this season, they were refreshed by time off in September. Sabathia, who stymied the Angels over eight innings in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, welcomes another opportunity. “I’ve pitched a lot with three days’ rest and figured out how to do it,” said Sabathia, who is 3-1 with a 1.01 E.R.A. in four regular-season starts on short rest. “I’m pretty confident I can do it again.” He did not pitch poorly in Game 1, as the Phillies, aside from Utley, who homered twice, were 2 for 23 against him. But Lee upstaged him, mixing five types of pitches for strikes in a nine-inning masterpiece that prompted Yankees Manager Joe Girardi to search hard for a sliver of positive news. “One thing,” Girardi said, “is he can’t pitch every day.” Maybe not. But he can pitch in Game 4. The question now is, will he? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:56am
Several years ago, while with the Red Sox, Pedro had the famous line before
facing the Yanks..."Wake up the damn Bambino, I'll drill him in the ass". Here's hoping he's on tonight.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 29th, 2009 at 1:13pm Nellcote wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:56am:
+1 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 29th, 2009 at 2:35pm
This time, Charlie, let Pedro finish the 8th!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 29th, 2009 at 3:52pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 2:35pm:
He'll be lucky to start the 7th. Yankee bats come alive tonight. :willya |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 29th, 2009 at 4:11pm
If he gives up four runs or fewer, Phils win. My prediction: 8-5, Philly.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 29th, 2009 at 6:26pm
Bingo sez....NY 5 philly 2
Although in my heart, I feel a yankee collapse. Maybe it's because I despise trost,levine and the steinbrenners? They are equivilent to allen klein or any used scumbag you'll find on the street. :wtf3 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 7:49pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 2:35pm:
No, No, a thousand times NO! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:36pm
Pedro did all right. Phils' bats fall asleep.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:42pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:36pm:
Yeah Petey did pitch well. But the Yanks finally got some big hits. If they hold on,this could turn out to be a real good series. I can see it going 7. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:58pm
I would've sent AJ out for the 8th. I'm not even an AJ fan, but he pitched a hellava game tonight. I think Joe G is over using Mariano.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 29th, 2009 at 10:52pm Bingo wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:58pm:
Look up overmanageing in the dictionary you'll see a pic of Joe G....Think he's feelin the pressure? :o |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:40pm
Tell me about it...I'm surprised I still have a TV without a brick through it. I'd like to take his "book" and shove it up.....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Oct 29th, 2009 at 11:54pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:36pm:
:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Oct 30th, 2009 at 10:49am
It felt wierd rooting for Pedro, we hate his ass down here. Dirty MFer.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 30th, 2009 at 1:24pm StPeteStone wrote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 10:49am:
I had never really followed him closely (as a general rule I don't pay much attention to the AL -- infernal DH, and all that). I liked what Charlie Manuel said in a postgame gaggle in the summer: along the lines of, "I've always thought he was cocky ... and he *is* cocky, but in a really good way." The guy is a gamer, no doubt about it. To do what he's done this postseason at his age is really impressive. The homer he gave up to Matsui last night was not his mistake; the short porch in right field just swallowed up what in other yards is a flyout. (The same goes for Utley's first homer in Game 1.) Too bad the Phillies' run production dried up not once but twice behind him. Yet they score 11 and 6 runs, respectively, for Cliff Lee's last two starts. They're bipolar. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 30th, 2009 at 1:47pm Pedro's all guile. In, out, up, down - think he hit 90 twice last night. He did say that the pitch to Matsui was a mistake. Tex crushed a good one. Hope it's not the last time we'll see him. Hamels better have been taking notes the last two nights... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:20pm
I will add to what has been said, to go from being inactive at the
start of the season to starting Game 2 at the opponents park is really remarkable at the age of 40. He is sly & deceptive. If he gets another chance at a start this series he will not lose it. 1st ballot HOF Pedro is, no doubt with a Red Sox hat. A Fraud in this round resembles the A Fraud of previous years playoffs. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:26pm Charlie Manuel announced that Joe Blanton is the Game 4 starter. Cliff Lee will obviously go in Game 5. Gotta think Petey gets the ball if it goes 6. BTW, Nellie - he just turned 38. But as is the case with a lot of Latin American players, he very well may be older than that... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:30pm
If you had told me that the Phillies would hold the Yankees to just three earned runs in two games, I would've assumed the Phillies won both. Pedro did everything he needed to do ... Phillies had chances against both Burnett and Rivera and didn't produce. Simple as that.
I expect them to win 2 of three at the Bank. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:31pm
Don't forget in '99 he came out of the bullpen in the ALCS to
shutdown the Indians for five innings. He can be an enigma. The drama last night was palpable to all of the Sox-Yanks series he participated in for so many years. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:34pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:30pm:
Jimmy Rollins thinks they'll win all three... ;) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 30th, 2009 at 7:30pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:34pm:
From his mouth to God's ears. The almighty bleeds Philly red. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 30th, 2009 at 8:11pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 7:30pm:
The Almighty might take offense to the small "a" and capital "P" |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 30th, 2009 at 8:21pm
Punctuational piety!
Wasn't there an ancient church in (Greek) Philadelphia? In the Book of Revelation? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 31st, 2009 at 1:50pm Mel Belli wrote on Oct 30th, 2009 at 2:30pm:
With Hamels and Blanton going against Pettite and Sabathia? As the great Lee Corso would say....Not so fast my friend. 8-) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Oct 31st, 2009 at 2:25pm
Petitte ain't what he used to be; I'm not scared of Sabathia on short rest.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 31st, 2009 at 10:41pm
The ABomb strikes back. We've even had a Nick Swisher sighting tonight. Go Yanks :wow
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Oct 31st, 2009 at 10:58pm
The homeplate umpire is atrocious.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Oct 31st, 2009 at 11:59pm
We would like to thank the Philadelphia Phillies for their participation in the 2009 World Series. We have some lovely parting gifts for them on their way out. :sad
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:16am
:paristhong
sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 31st, 2009 at 11:59pm:
A-Roid homers, Hamels falls to pieces. What a disappointment. Even that scrub Nick Swisher gets in on the action. Congrats to the best team George Steinbrenner can buy, but it ain't over yet. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 8:43pm
Clueless joe is reaping what he sowed. If he pitched Chad Gaudin tonight...then he would've had AJ on proper rest for game 6. Andy would have been on proper rest for Game 7 with CC ready if Andy faultered.
Now your fucked with Andy and CC on short rest. You have to think long term against a good philly team. I'm not even going to go into the weak line-up in there tonight. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 10:53pm
As Bob Dylan sang: It's not dark yet!
Words cannot express how much I hate the Yankees organization and everything it stands for: glitz, greed, arrogance. Go Phillies. Save baseball from the Death Star. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 10:58pm
I pulled a Joe Torre and saw Springsteen tonight. I think it helped the Phils hang on. At the very least, it was a great benefit to my blood pressure.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bingo on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 11:29pm Mel Belli wrote on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 10:53pm:
I grew up 10 blocks from yankee stadium, in the 60's and early 70's. I use to bleed pinstripes. I loved the yankees growing up.... now I love them, the players, but agree with you 100%. I hate that fuckin' organization. steinbrenner, levine and trost...fuck them all. They treat their non wealthy fans like garbage. So half of me wants the actual yankees to win, but I find joy in losing because of the cocksuckers running the team. The fucked the Bronx people every chance they get. They preached about having cheap standing room seats before completing the new stadium. Once the stadium opened, did they sell one fuckin standing room seat??? NO. They waited until the playoff to sell them and sold them for $50. I can type for hours telling of all the scumbag things they have done and continue to do. I refuse to give them one dime of my money. I live in a sick and twisted world of being a yankee fan. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 6:12am Bingo wrote on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 11:29pm:
I'm sorry to hear that. You can't ever shake a love that's in your bones ... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by PartyDoll MEG on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 6:18am Mel Belli wrote on Nov 2nd, 2009 at 10:53pm:
Amen, Hans Solo! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 7:05am
Jankee fans today are understanding the full spectrum of feelings today, from cocky to "ah-scared".
The Phils winning last night was not luck. It would appear more advantage to the Phils with the different pitching options available to them. I'm not sure CC Fatassia on three days rest is the same pitcher. Yanks are home, which is a big plus for them. Strategy will be on the top shelf tomorrow night. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:09am
Ryan Howard needs to get hot. It's time.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:27am Mel Belli wrote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:09am:
ditto!!! |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:28am Nellcote wrote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 7:05am:
Sigh......Did I not say Yankees in 6?......It's over on Wed. Thank goodness. I don't want to say it's been a long season. But I think pitchers and catchers report next week. :boring |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:43am Mel Belli wrote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:09am:
He'd better. Yanks will pitch around Utley to get to him. Hope Pedro has a few bullets left. And if it does go 7, do not give the ball to Hamels. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:58am left shoe shuffle wrote on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 9:43am:
Talk about meltown, Hamels is the winner of this prize. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 10:21am From MVP to LVP... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 3rd, 2009 at 12:17pm
I really think Pettitte will be on his heels tomorrow night. And then all bets are off for Game 7. Both teams will throw the proverbial kitchen sink. Great series...
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:10pm
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:43pm
Take the yankees and over tonight. Neither petey or pettite will get far in this game. Then it becomes a game of bullpens. Or lack thereof. I think gerardi might bring mariano in,in the 5th inning. :thatwassmart
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Steel Wheels on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:01pm
I live in Philadelphia. We are in the midst of a transit strike. Getting to work in the morning and going home after a long day are two things that are really difficult to do these days. Everyone is cranky and miserable. With that said, the Phillies are what is on everyone's mind. The Phillies MUST win. I wish it so. I enjoy these blue-collar guys and their single-mindedness
If they do drop this game, be prepared for a torrid 2010 season. They will win over 105 games. I'm off to wait in long lines for the train. I hope to make it home in by 8PM. It's almost 5PM as a write this. GO PHILS! Steel Wheels |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:12pm Steel Wheels wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:01pm:
Won't matter if they win all 162. It's how you finish that counts. Hope you make it home in time tonight and tomorrow... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:29pm sweetcharmedlife wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 3:43pm:
Betting against Pedro is not a wise bet. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:44pm Steel Wheels wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:01pm:
They could've had a record as good as or better than the Yankees if you flip half, not all, of Madson and Lidge's blown saves. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 4th, 2009 at 7:03pm Nellcote wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 4:29pm:
Got my game face on Nellie :pullanolte |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:25pm
Somewhere, Stonesalot weeps.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38741490 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:38pm Starbuck wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:25pm:
:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Nov 5th, 2009 at 6:33am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Nov 4th, 2009 at 7:03pm:
How could I ever doubt you? Obi Wan from the left coast. Back to football for moi.... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Mel Belli on Nov 5th, 2009 at 7:03am
What can you say? Sometimes evil prevails. I'm relieved to be able to resume a normal life. ... The N-superimposed-on-the-Y symbol was starting to look like a swastika lately.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Pdog on Nov 5th, 2009 at 8:23am
Everytime the Yankees win a world series, Steinbrenner kills a kitten!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bitch on Nov 5th, 2009 at 8:26am
YANKEE'S RULE YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by mojoman on Nov 5th, 2009 at 9:06am Bitch wrote on Nov 5th, 2009 at 8:26am:
you will not be greeted |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 5th, 2009 at 9:22am Nellcote wrote on Nov 5th, 2009 at 6:33am:
Even a blind squirrel gets his nut once in a while. 8-) |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:17pm Bitch wrote on Nov 5th, 2009 at 8:26am:
my god bitch...they haven't gotten to you too, have they??? "step back from the dark side"...... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:40pm
Thank God this namby pamby silly baseball stuff is over and we can concentrate all of our energies on the greatest sport of all. FOOTBALL. No rain delays,complaining it's too cold. Complaining because somebody got hit with a little baseball. The manly sport of football where they play in any kind of weather,in a blizzard and get knocked around by 300 lb men......OHHHHHHHH,can you smell the testosterone. :wtf2
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Bitch on Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:44pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 6th, 2009 at 12:14pm
I heard Tim Lincecum was pulled over for speeding and cited for having 3 grams of pot on him in Washington state last week. No comment from Giants management yet. The reaction from the fans. Go Timmay!! :weed :pullanolte
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Maxmeister on Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:58pm Bitch wrote on Nov 5th, 2009 at 10:44pm: Now that is the best alternative Stones tongue ever. The combination of my 2 fanatic passions in my life for many decades. Life is truly great! Rick |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Nov 7th, 2009 at 6:40am Maxmeister wrote on Nov 6th, 2009 at 7:58pm:
maxmeister....say it ain't so!....not you too!! the "evil empire" has you as well? shouldn't you be an astros fan or something? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by GotToRollMe on Nov 7th, 2009 at 2:01pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Nov 8th, 2009 at 10:06pm
i'm liking jeff passan more and more each day.
--------- Yankees widen baseball’s chasm Jeff Passan By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports Nov 6, 10:52 am EST Less than 24 hours after the richest team in baseball won the World Series, its biggest foe began reloading for next year by making a trade. The Boston Red Sox are among baseball’s most affluent as well, so giving up a couple of prospects to the Florida Marlins for high-ceiling outfielder Jeremy Hermida(notes) amounted to a no-brainer. Never mind that Hermida will cost around $4 million this season and, depending on Boston’s other maneuvers, might play a fourth-outfielder role. The Red Sox, just like the recently crowned New York Yankees and another handful of teams with payroll flexibility, can afford such luxuries. In a market that could see an overload of young, arbitration-eligible players deemed unaffordable by small-market teams, those high-revenue teams could be in an even more dominant position than before. In other words: Get used to seeing the Yankees and their ilk in the World Series. How that can happen when Major League Baseball so proudly trumpets its sport as a more real testament to parity than the NFL is the collision of two combustible factors: the depression of the free-agent market and the increase in salaries for arbitration-eligible players. Free agency is supposed to be a player’s nirvana. In many cases, the automatic raises given to players in their fourth, fifth and sixth seasons can make them more. More From Jeff Passan * The Empire strikes back Nov 5, 2009 * Pedro locked in on his legacy Nov 3, 2009 ADVERTISEMENT So the trade of Hermida from low-revenue Florida to big-bucks Boston, just like the rumored deal of Mark Teahen(notes) from the Kansas City Royals to the Chicago White Sox, may be the start of an offseason as packed with activity as any in recent memory. With a Dec. 12 deadline to tender a contract to players, general managers will be in overdrive during the Dec. 7-10 winter meetings, trying to get some return on players they plan to nontender – or, more simply, dump. “Get ready,” one small-market American League team official said, “for a lot more.” The first stops in the selling GMs’ contact lists, of course, will be the numbers for executives with nine-figure payrolls. Nine teams cracked $100 million on opening day last year; five of them made the postseason. And if baseball’s equality argument didn’t die with that reality, perhaps it will when the have/have-not divide becomes even greater until the 2011 collective-bargaining talks aim for a solution. The disparity is greatest at the top, where the Yankees bathe in money while some teams can draw a tub only half full. Yeah, yeah. Grass is green, sky is blue, etc. Everyone knows the Yankees are the last living embodiment of Wall Street in American sports, and yet the figures still stagger: New York made $100 million more in revenue than any other team, according to calculations from Forbes. And the Yankees brought in twice the revenue of 18 teams. Granted, the majority of those teams receive money from MLB’s revenue-sharing program, to which the Yankees are the greatest donor. It doesn’t lessen New York’s ability to spend preposterous money, whether it’s the billion-plus dollars over the past half-decade or the $300 million lavished on Alex Rodriguez(notes), the $180 million given to Mark Teixeira(notes) or the $161 million bestowed upon CC Sabathia(notes). Those contracts, along with that of A.J. Burnett(notes), give the Yankees a commitment toward 2013 of $92.9 million. Which is bigger than the 2009 payrolls of all but a dozen teams. For the next few years, at least, they also put the Yankees in proper position to keep winning. Yes, A-Rod’s hip remains a concern, even after his transcendent October; Jorge Posada(notes) looks more like a DH/catcher than an everyday backstop; and Derek Jeter’s(notes) contract becomes an issue for the first time in a decade after 2010. Plus, Yankees GM Brian Cashman must determine whether to re-sign Johnny Damon(notes) or World Series MVP Hideki Matsui(notes) (or both – or neither), how long to extend Mariano Rivera(notes) (who said he wants to play five more years) and which, if any, of the big-name free agents this offseason appeal to him. The Yankees, almost without fail, appeal to them. Be it Matt Holliday(notes), Jason Bay(notes) or John Lackey(notes), the Yankees can offer more than anyone and can do so with the backing of a big, fat, knuckle-to-knuckle ring. Should they particularly fancy a nontender, they can pay him more – or give up a prospect to ensure he doesn’t hit the open market, as the Red Sox did with Hermida. Cash in baseball yields more than talent. It buys the freedom to take risks and the leeway to make mistakes. It gives players the knowledge that, come June and July, if a team needs to improve, that club can purchase reinforcements. It allows for peace of mind with the Yankees, who watched their plan to build around pitching from the farm system (Joba Chamberlain(notes), Phil Hughes(notes), Ian Kennedy(notes)) implode, only to find rescue with a quarter-billion-dollar bailout from Goldman Steinbrenner. Now, let it be said: Money does not equal a World Series championship. It never did and it never will. It does drastically increase the chances that a team will make the postseason, at which point it isn’t chalk, per se, but generally leans toward the most talented teams … which are often the most moneyed. There is some sort of equation to explain this from the perspective outside of New York, and it goes like this: $$$$$$$$Yankees$$$$$$$$ = suck. That equation won’t change anytime soon. Unlike the low- and mid-revenue teams freezing or paring payrolls, the Yankees should stay in the neighborhood of $200 million, if not in excess. The YES Network is a cash cow. Merchandise sales are going to be bonkers. Seats – even the champagne-and-caviar ones – will sell next year. A championship whets the appetite of every Yankees fan and leaves the lingering feeling that makes you hungry for more. The rest of the baseball world, meanwhile, wretches at the prospect of continued Yankees dominance. There is no equalizer, like a salary cap, to reel in New York’s spending – only the team’s weighing of bottom line vs. success, a scale that tips toward the latter year in and year out. Philadelphia was more than a sacrificial lamb, certainly, but the Phillies ran into a hotter, more talented Yankees team, and that’s a bad combination. It’s frightening to think the Yankees’ payroll was about $85 million more than the Phillies’ – the biggest disparity since the Yankees outspent the Marlins in 2003 by more than $100 million and lost – but it’s a truth that isn’t worth fighting because it’s changing no time soon. “The Yankees won the World Series,” team president Randy Levine said, “and all is right with the world again.” Although he could’ve chosen words a little less, well, embarrassingly obnoxious, Levine’s point rang true because it’s surprising that a team so endowed (with revenue, with fans, with history and, most of all, with talent) could go nine years between World Series victories and six years between appearances. That’s not happening again, not anytime soon. The landscape is shifting, the chasm widening, baseball beginning its descent toward a place it can’t afford to go long term. The consequences are playing themselves out, and right into the hands of the New York Yankees, who are poised to start the next decade just as they did this one: with a championship. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 9th, 2009 at 9:32am
i'm liking jeff passan more and more each day. :interestingstuffronnie
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 20th, 2009 at 9:29am
Timmy.....2 for 2 in Cy Youngs :willya
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Nellcote on Nov 20th, 2009 at 9:32am sweetcharmedlife wrote on Nov 20th, 2009 at 9:29am:
This guy is cool, we do not get to see enough of him. He reminds me of Pedro in the 90's |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Nov 20th, 2009 at 6:26pm Nellcote wrote on Nov 20th, 2009 at 9:32am:
Yeah Nellie. Lincecum smoked the competition. :weed |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Nov 27th, 2009 at 6:55pm
so who, if anyone, is going to the hall this year? looks like slim pickings....could this be blyleven's year?
Roberto Alomar, Kevin Appier, Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Ellis Burks, Andre Dawson, Andres Galarraga, Pat Hentgen, Mike Jackson, Eric Karros, Ray Lankford, Barry Larkin, Edgar Martinez, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Mark McGwire, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Tim Raines, Shane Reynolds, David Segui, Lee Smith, Alan Trammell, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Nov 28th, 2009 at 5:42am
Edgar, Mattingly, Trammel, Lee Smith
IMHO |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Nov 28th, 2009 at 1:16pm
I'd love yo see the "Crime Dog", "The Hawk" and Harold Baines to get in.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jan 6th, 2010 at 5:00pm
so dawson it is, and blyleven is forced to wait in agony for another year.
is robbie alomar even a second ballot HOFer? what...no love for pat hentgen? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Jan 6th, 2010 at 5:18pm
Happy retirement to the Big Unit. he SHOULD be a first ballot HOF.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Jan 6th, 2010 at 7:54pm
I hated the Big Ugly but no one ever even hinted about PED's with him...yeah, first ballot....
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Jan 7th, 2010 at 2:20pm
The Hawk is in and thats great as I loved the Expos. Whose next...Rusty Staub, Coco LaBoy, Mack Jones, Boots Day?
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jan 7th, 2010 at 3:26pm
johnson is a first ballot HOFer no doubt.
i am still wondering what the voters/writers will do when the roid class comes up for enshrinement. clemens, bonds, etc were all clear HOFers without the steriods....what will the voters do? say, anyone know if bonds's asterisk ball ever made it to cooperstown? |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jan 7th, 2010 at 3:36pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jan 11th, 2010 at 2:11pm |
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Title: Re: Baseball (nsc) Post by Starbuck on Jan 12th, 2010 at 3:10pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Jan 11th, 2010 at 2:11pm:
well, you know, big mac would have hit 70 had he not taken any steroids. he only took them to help his body recover. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jan 28th, 2010 at 6:04pm
I read today that the Hawk wanted to go into Cooperstown as a Cub but the hall is making him go in as an Expo. That doesn't sound right. I always thought the player had the choice. Is football the same way?
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/hallfame/2010-01-27-dawson-expos-hall-of-fame_N.htm?csp=34 |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by gimmekeef on Jan 29th, 2010 at 7:43am StPeteStone wrote on Jan 28th, 2010 at 6:04pm:
The hall has the choice apparently because some teams were bribing players to use their hats. Hawk had the majority of his hits etc as a Spo and think they got it right. Hawk still feels the Spos screwed him money wise so he wanted Cubs. Glad he's in though. Imagine the choice for the Big Unit? Which team wins that one?? Football seems easier because there are so few trades or major player moves compared to baseball plus the careers are much shorter. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jan 29th, 2010 at 8:42am Exactly. Wade Boggs reportedly wanted to sport a (Devil) Rays hat for that very reason. The TB organization even retired his number. He played all of two seasons there... |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by StPeteStone on Jan 29th, 2010 at 9:06am left shoe shuffle wrote on Jan 29th, 2010 at 8:42am:
Seems like I remember that when we signed Cansenco there was an agreement in place that if he made the hall he would go in as a Devil Ray. I think that's stupid too, but I think the Hawk had a good arguement for wanting to go in as a Cub. He put up some big numbers there, won his MVP and made more all star appearances. The player should have some say at least and from what I read there wasn't even a discussion. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by left shoe shuffle on Jan 29th, 2010 at 9:12am Players used to have the choice. The HOF took it away a few years ago. |
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by sweetcharmedlife on Feb 3rd, 2010 at 10:05am
Congratulations to Jon Miller on being elected to the Hall of Fame. Class act and the best announcer in the business.
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Title: Re: Baseball 09 (nsc) Post by lotsajizz on Feb 3rd, 2010 at 11:49am
just puttin' up with Joe Morgan (great player/shit announcer) makes him eligible!
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