I’ll admit it. I don’t like looking at my fucking avatar.
Cool, Giants have home field advantage for the WS again.
Yea, yea, I can dream can’t I?
Good pitching will always beat good hitting! It must have been fun to be in the NL bullpen hanging out with Heath Bell and Brian Wilson. Those guys have some personalities!
Milwaukee just picked up K-Rod
Hahahha I was reading through the all-star posts thinking “wonder why raj changed his avatar after that whole stink about not changing it”… then I read the new AS-game bet… then I actually noticed what his avatar was. Classic.
Nice find DBCoop.
It annoys the shit out of me that AS game winner gets home field in the WS
[quote]therajraj wrote:
I’ll admit it. I don’t like looking at my fucking avatar.[/quote]
It looks good on you! Stop Complaining.
I thought the game was pretty good. Sure, there were some pitchers, on both sides, that I would have liked to see. But I don’t give a shit that there were some players who skipped out on the game, specifically Jeter, Sabathia and Rivera. If they don’t want to even attend the game then I don’t even want to watch them anyways. I’d rather see Hunter Pence enjoying himself instead of Sabathia reluctantly sitting in the dugout getting fat.
What didn’t surprise me at all about the game was Bochy out-managing Washington again. Sure, Bochy had all the right pieces, but when all was said and done Bochy made pitching changes that resulted in the end of AL rallies. He just knows how and when to make changes in this respect and for whatever reason they seem to work every time. Same thing happened in the Series last year. Washington should have had someone warming up as soon as CJ Wilson went in the game. That guy’s not a fucking All-Star and Washington should have been ready to yank him when that fraud showed his true colors, but he wasn’t.
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
Does anyone else think the fan who returned Jeter’s 3000th looks kinda like Jeter if he gained 100+lbs?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
Awesome for him. I wonder if he really “volunteered” to give it back, or if they asked him to do it in exchange for all the stuff he got. Doesn’t matter, obviously, because he could’ve kept it and sold it, and he didn’t. Cool to see that he’s getting rewarded a ton for choosing not to be a dick.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
I would have been like Matt Murphy, who caught the Barry Bonds HR record breaking ball, and sold it. I’m not a Yankee fan, so it would have been easy for me.
[quote]fnf wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
I would have been like Matt Murphy, who caught the Barry Bonds HR record breaking ball, and sold it. I’m not a Yankee fan, so it would have been easy for me.[/quote]
After seeing all of this shit the Yankees fan is getting, if I ever caught a historic ball like that I’d just offer it to the player who hit it or whatever for a chance to play catch with him before a game. The team will end up giving me a bunch of cool shit for being unselfish about it anyways and I’d end up looking like a really cool guy instead of the monster that I really am.
^^Fuck that.
The ball has been estimated to be worth as much as $1,000,000. I am no Yankee fan, so I couldn’t care less if the Yankee brass think I am a POS.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]fnf wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
I would have been like Matt Murphy, who caught the Barry Bonds HR record breaking ball, and sold it. I’m not a Yankee fan, so it would have been easy for me.[/quote]
After seeing all of this shit the Yankees fan is getting, if I ever caught a historic ball like that I’d just offer it to the player who hit it or whatever for a chance to play catch with him before a game. The team will end up giving me a bunch of cool shit for being unselfish about it anyways and I’d end up looking like a really cool guy instead of the monster that I really am.[/quote]
There’s no guarantee a team would give you everything Lopez received. I’d want to get rid of my debt.
Hey DB, you see the Gs making a big trade, or are they just going to call up some players later (like Brandon Belt)?
[quote]fnf wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]fnf wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Holy Crap!
The fan who returned Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit has received a 2009 World Series ring!
I would have been like Matt Murphy, who caught the Barry Bonds HR record breaking ball, and sold it. I’m not a Yankee fan, so it would have been easy for me.[/quote]
After seeing all of this shit the Yankees fan is getting, if I ever caught a historic ball like that I’d just offer it to the player who hit it or whatever for a chance to play catch with him before a game. The team will end up giving me a bunch of cool shit for being unselfish about it anyways and I’d end up looking like a really cool guy instead of the monster that I really am.[/quote]
There’s no guarantee a team would give you everything Lopez received. I’d want to get rid of my debt.
Hey DB, you see the Gs making a big trade, or are they just going to call up some players later (like Brandon Belt)?[/quote]
I don’t see them making a huge trade, but I expect them to address the middle of the infield and catcher. Beltran is a name that has been floated around, but with Schierholtz playing really well right field isn’t a huge priority compared to 2b/ss and catcher.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I don’t see them making a huge trade, but I expect them to address the middle of the infield and catcher. Beltran is a name that has been floated around, but with Schierholtz playing really well right field isn’t a huge priority compared to 2b/ss and catcher.[/quote]
Seriously, the Nats will give you Pudge for a bag of potato chips when he comes off the DL. We have no use for him anymore with Flores back. Whether you should want him is a different story (batting .214/.276/.325 avg/obp/slg in a little over 100 at-bats this year). Please take him.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I don’t see them making a huge trade, but I expect them to address the middle of the infield and catcher. Beltran is a name that has been floated around, but with Schierholtz playing really well right field isn’t a huge priority compared to 2b/ss and catcher.[/quote]
Seriously, the Nats will give you Pudge for a bag of potato chips when he comes off the DL. We have no use for him anymore with Flores back. Whether you should want him is a different story (batting .214/.276/.325 avg/obp/slg in a little over 100 at-bats this year). Please take him.[/quote]
That’s one of the names the Giants are connected to, but I think Ramon Hernandez is on their radar as well and he’d be a better fit. As long as Pudge can still throw runners out he might make a good fit in SF since it’s really their catchers’ defense that is becoming an issue. Their starters for the most part don’t hold runners really well. The way the Giants play, not giving up that extra 90’ is more important to their chances of success than getting a catcher who can .215 instead of .200.
The other thing is that the Giants aren’t going to trade for a backup catcher since both their catchers are barely-capable backups anyways. They don’t need a 3rd one, so unless Pudge can play 4 days a week I don’t see him going to the Giants.
Any way they can get rid of Tejada would be fine with me. It’s probably not going to happen, but a possible player the Giants will move for a big impact bat is Jonathan Sanchez. I think he’d fetch something pretty good in return, but I think the Giants would be fools to part with him simply because you just can’t rely on a guy like Zito at all anymore and I’m still not totally convinced Vogelsong can keep this shit up all year.
Talk more about baseball! I love it but I don’t know anybody who is really in to it in real life.
Anybody else watch the whole Rays-Red Sox game? I guess a lot of people think baseball is more boring when it’s low-scoring, but I personally like a game like last night’s every once in a while. and I really like listening to Dan Shulman call a baseball game, even if he is Canadian.
[quote]eeu743 wrote:
Talk more about baseball! I love it but I don’t know anybody who is really in to it in real life.
Anybody else watch the whole Rays-Red Sox game? I guess a lot of people think baseball is more boring when it’s low-scoring, but I personally like a game like last night’s every once in a while. and I really like listening to Dan Shulman call a baseball game, even if he is Canadian.[/quote]
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Rays and Yankees were playing each other today.
Yeah, I miss Dan Shulman, he use to be the Play-by-Play guy for the Jays. He is my favourite baseball commentator for nationally broadcasted games, I’m not a fan of Joe Buck.
Hey, what do you guys think about a possible rule change? Don’t you think it’s fucked that sometimes a runner who is on base isn’t allowed to score on a ground-rule double? Now, I don’t support a whole lot of rules changes in general and I certainly don’t support replay, but this rule is fucked and has to change.
Why punish a hitter for hitting the ball hard enough to get past the outfielders and out of the field of play? I know sometimes that a slow runner who maybe didn’t get a good jump will not be allowed to score at the ump’s discretion, but it seems like they don’t let a lot of runners who look like they would have scored score. A good way to just eliminate the whole judgment call portion of the play from the ump’s perspective is to give a runner on first the run scored if he is going on contact. That’s it. The ump at first base can be responsible for making the call. It’s an easy one for him to make from where he’ll be, right behind 1st base.
You’re not going to see a lot of runners just going on contact with less than two outs, so when a team is aggressive enough to do that with less than two outs (hit-and-run or maybe a straight steal and a hit or he just gets a good read on the ball off the crack of the bat) they get rewarded. They should. And with two outs the umps will always allow them to score anyways because with two outs the runners are going on contact anyways. In the Giants/Dodgers game tonight I just saw a Dodger hit a ground-rule 2b with 2 outs and they didn’t allow the runner to score.
That’s fucked. They should reward the hitter and/or the aggressive play w/ less than 2 outs.