MLB Baseball 2009 Season Thread

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:55 pm

I agree with you guys. Do it once, GONE.

THAT would clean the game up but fast.

And I don't think testing should be random. Every player should be tested every week. Its not like they don't have the cash to afford it. Hell, I had to go through it in the Navy, these overpaid little leaguers can do it too.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:23 pm

Gurantsu wrote:I agree with you guys. Do it once, GONE.

THAT would clean the game up but fast.

And I don't think testing should be random. Every player should be tested every week. Its not like they don't have the cash to afford it. Hell, I had to go through it in the Navy, these overpaid little leaguers can do it too.

'Once and gone' would turn the MLB into nothing but appeals, lawsuits, and fans getting pissed their favorite player just got banned for life.

The game will never be clean as long as the cheaters are one step ahead of the testers.

Gurantsu · Post by **Gurantsu** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:12 pm

greggsand wrote:'Once and gone' would turn the MLB into nothing but appeals, lawsuits, and fans getting pissed their favorite player just got banned for life.

Hell, it's getting close to that already!

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:50 pm

What they have now isnt so bad...Its just 10-20 years late.

Thank you Bud Selig, Don Fehr and ESPN/Fox.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:29 am

Cards pick up DeRosa for Perez and a player to be named. I love this trade!

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:24 am

sportdan30 wrote:Cards pick up DeRosa for Perez and a player to be named. I love this trade!

Just wait til Larussa calls in some favors & gets Holiday from the A's...

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:17 pm

sportdan30 wrote:Cards pick up DeRosa for Perez and a player to be named. I love this trade!

Me too!

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:20 am

MizzouRah wrote:
sportdan30 wrote:Cards pick up DeRosa for Perez and a player to be named. I love this trade!
Me too!

Funny how DeRosa was in the Cards' lineup Sunday but Perez was nowhere to be found in Cleveland.

Can you blame the guy?

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:48 pm

lexbur wrote:
MizzouRah wrote:
sportdan30 wrote:Cards pick up DeRosa for Perez and a player to be named. I love this trade!
Me too!
Funny how DeRosa was in the Cards' lineup Sunday but Perez was nowhere to be found in Cleveland.

Can you blame the guy?

Cleveland kept him out of the lineup the day before.. I'm not so sure the Cardinals did that with Perez. I wish Perez the best of luck though! I hope he does well in Cleveland.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:53 am

What a debut by Perez last night. 4 runs in 2/3 of an inning. He plunked the first two batters he faced, walked the next guy, threw a wild pitch that allowed a run in, and two of the runs scored after he FORGOT to cover first base on what should have been an inning-ending double play.

He'll fit right in on this team.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:03 am

lexbur wrote:What a debut by Perez last night. 4 runs in 2/3 of an inning. He plunked the first two batters he faced, walked the next guy, threw a wild pitch that allowed a run in, and two of the runs scored after he FORGOT to cover first base on what should have been an inning-ending double play.

He'll fit right in on this team.

DeRosa hasn't gotten a hit yet.......but I hear his wife is really hot!

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:34 am

sportdan30 wrote:
DeRosa hasn't gotten a hit yet.......but I hear his wife is really hot!

LOL!

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:12 pm

Nobody on the Cardinals is getting hits except for Pujols.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:46 pm

At this time of the year and for the past few years the Jays usually find themselves just above .500 and wondering whether they should be buyers or sellers. The team started oh so well, well beyond my expectations and the pitching staff started to run into injury troubles including our ace R. Halladay. At one point all five starting pitchers were on the DL and not coincidentally, that's when the team started to tumble.

But now, the unthinkable is being thrown around. Is the Doc available? So it seems, according to P. Ricciardi if the offer is sweet. Halladay is a winner and will get a lot of interest around the league. Although I would missed him dearly, he deserves to be playing with a team that can do some noise during the playoffs and not float around like the Jays are now.

Interesting times for the Doc and the Jays, I just hope Ricciardi doesn't trade him for the sake of just moving him around which for the record, he does not want to leave TO if it was up to him.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:28 pm

lexbur wrote:
sportdan30 wrote:
DeRosa hasn't gotten a hit yet.......but I hear his wife is really hot!
LOL!

He still hasn't gotten a hit, his wife is still hot, and now he's on the DL with a small tear in his wrist.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:11 am

Pujols/Musial photo shoot and article. Two of the greatest baseball players.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports ... mentAnchor

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:31 am

Much respect for Stan The Man.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:39 pm

OK Philly fans, with a week to go before trading deadline, do you want R. Halladay or not?

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:06 pm

10spro wrote:OK Philly fans, with a week to go before trading deadline, do you want R. Halladay or not?

Or they might want Lee. There was a group of scouts from the Phillies, Dodgers, Brewers and Red Sox in Toronto last night. They came Sunday to watch Halladay but stuck around to watch Lee pitch last night.

Great.

Could you imagine dealing away the reigning Cy Young award winner two years in a row? Whether it's the right thing to do or not, what a PR nightmare that would be.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:14 pm

Well C. Lee had another complete game last night, not too shabby but if you want consistency you can't get anyone better than the Doc. Sure Lee comes cheaper though.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:37 am

Wow, what a night for Manny last night. He hit a pinch-hit grand slam into Mannywood on his own bobblehead night! You couldn't write a script like that.

Thanks to the free preview of Extra Innings I watched it. Vin Scully went nuts. He said it was the loudest roar from the crowd he had heard at Dodger Stadium since Gibson's homer in the '88 Series.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:38 am

lexbur wrote:Wow, what a night for Manny last night. He hit a pinch-hit grand slam into Mannywood on his own bobblehead night! You couldn't write a script like that.

Thanks to the free preview of Extra Innings I watched it. Vin Scully went nuts. He said it was the loudest roar from the crowd he had heard at Dodger Stadium since Gibson's homer in the '88 Series.

Cheater.

Anyway, it's suddenly the early '90's in Mets-land. Embarassing.

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:00 pm

lexbur wrote:Wow, what a night for Manny last night. He hit a pinch-hit grand slam into Mannywood on his own bobblehead night! You couldn't write a script like that.

Thanks to the free preview of Extra Innings I watched it. Vin Scully went nuts. He said it was the loudest roar from the crowd he had heard at Dodger Stadium since Gibson's homer in the '88 Series.

How anyone can cheer for him is beyond me. He cheat the game. Any records he breaks is a joke.

TheGamer · Post by **TheGamer** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:28 pm

Former White Sox pitcher Jim Parque confessed to HGH usage in today's Chicago Sun-times. Says he used to try to make a comeback to support his family the only way he knows how. I'm wondering if this makes him any less of a cheat.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:08 pm

sportdan30 wrote:How anyone can cheer for him is beyond me. He cheat the game. Any records he breaks is a joke.

Unfortunate nature of the business. If he was to play for the Cards, would you be surprised if he was more cheered than jeered?