MLB Season discussion

sportdan30 · Post by **sportdan30** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:46 pm

The Pirates.....not too good.

AJColossal · Post by **AJColossal** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:06 pm

Inuyasha wrote:You're probably right about that. I think even a place like Wrigley field today doesn't feel like how it use to feel years ago. I went to a game last year there and it seemed like nobody there cared about the ballgame. It was just the place to be.

Trust me, a game at Wrigley feels better now than it used to. In the 70s they would be lucky to fill half the park.

There is an element at Wrigley that is there to not necessarily pay attention to every pitch (when a Tuesday day game against the Pirates has 40,000 people, not every person in attendance is a genius sports fan), but that is such a false generalization that everyone is there to hang out mindlessly. There are plenty of better things to do in Chicago than pay $8 for beers at a sporting event you care nothing about.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:45 am

sportdan30 wrote:The Pirates.....not too good.

Well, 2 from Houston isn't bad.

As long as you win the games in front of you, I'm happy with that. Beating a division opponent is key, imho.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:36 pm

The injury bug is starting to bite the Jays. Closer B.J Ryan who blew two saves last week is gone for six weeks with an elbow problem, leadoff hitter R. Johnson will have back surgery and is gone until mid July while T. Glaus is on a DL for two more weeks.

I hope J. Frasor can step up the closing duties that Ryan did so well last season.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:36 pm

10spro wrote:The injury bug is starting to bite the Jays. Closer B.J Ryan who blew two saves last week is gone for six weeks with an elbow problem, leadoff hitter R. Johnson will have back surgery and is gone until mid July while T. Glaus is on a DL for two more weeks.

I hope J. Frasor can step up the closing duties that Ryan did so well last season.

I'm not a big AL fan but it doesn't seem like the jays can survive that type of a hit injury wise when they are playing in the same division as the yanks and sox. Luckily though the yankees are struggling with their starters (pavano, mussina, wang are all out right now right?) so that'll help some. Losing Glaus really sucks.

I managed to head out to Dodger stadium saturday night and watched a gem of a game (if you're a Peavy fan) for the Padres (after getting killed the night before). Schmidt only lasted 2 innings and gave up a ton of runs, shortest outing since 2001. Then of course the dodgers, all decked out in the #42 jerseys came back sunday and knocked Chris Young out early on and killed the pads. Tough to watch considering young has been so great lately. Now it's off to Wrigley! Keep the faith!

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:45 pm

The Devil Rays lead baseball with 19 team home runs? Whoa. All they need now is some pitching and maybe they could actually compete for the pennant. Interestingly enough though I was listening to home plate on XM the other day and they were saying the money wise you need to trade at least $1.75 in hitting to get $1.00 worth of pitching from a monetary perspective. I'm sure that there are teams out there that are interested in Baldelli or Crawford but the rays probably don't want to give them up for a second rate starter...

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:11 pm

macsomjrr wrote:
10spro wrote:The injury bug is starting to bite the Jays. Closer B.J Ryan who blew two saves last week is gone for six weeks with an elbow problem, leadoff hitter R. Johnson will have back surgery and is gone until mid July while T. Glaus is on a DL for two more weeks.

I hope J. Frasor can step up the closing duties that Ryan did so well last season.
I'm not a big AL fan but it doesn't seem like the jays can survive that type of a hit injury wise when they are playing in the same division as the yanks and sox. Luckily though the yankees are struggling with their starters (pavano, mussina, wang are all out right now right?) so that'll help some. Losing Glaus really sucks.

Actually of the three injuries the one that the Jays can't really afford is B.J Ryan. They have enough offensive power to go without Glaus for the next two weeks but their bullpen is suspect. As you said, the Yankees are also struggling with injuries and of the three teams, the Bosox seem to be in cruise control so far.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:22 am

The Yankees' starters in the three-game series with the Tribe starting tonight... Chase Wright, Kei Igawa and Darrell Rasner?!?! After spending $200 million that's the best they can come up with?

But the Tribe usually struggles against pitchers nobody's ever heard of.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:37 pm

Damn, Mark Buehrle with the no-no tonight.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:22 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Damn, Mark Buehrle with the no-no tonight.

Awesome performance!!!

Only faced the minimum. Allowed a walk to Sosa and promptly picked off the sleep walking HGHer...

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:52 am

Oh yeah...and the Phillies are awesome! It's bad when the team to beat is looking UP at the Nationals.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:01 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:Oh yeah...and the Phillies are awesome! It's bad when the team to beat is looking UP at the Nationals.

Yeah, but their manager can beat up your team's manager.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:05 am

lexbur wrote:
dbdynsty25 wrote:Oh yeah...and the Phillies are awesome! It's bad when the team to beat is looking UP at the Nationals.
Yeah, but their manager can beat up your team's manager.

I wouldn't f*ck with Bobby Cox...Charlie can try...but my money is on Bobby.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:10 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:
lexbur wrote:
dbdynsty25 wrote:Oh yeah...and the Phillies are awesome! It's bad when the team to beat is looking UP at the Nationals.
Yeah, but their manager can beat up your team's manager.
I wouldn't f*ck with Bobby Cox...Charlie can try...but my money is on Bobby.

That's funny, db. Bobby Cox always seemed like an ornery son of a gun to me. Not someone you would want to mess around with.

Great manager too.

lexbur · Post by **lexbur** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:52 pm

F***in' A-Rod!

AJColossal · Post by **AJColossal** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:18 pm

He's having an unreal season so far.

spooky157 · Post by **spooky157** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:23 pm

Being a Yankee fan, I'm happy that he's gotten off to such a great start. It could've been a disaster given all the talk in spring training about his opt out clause. But the pessimist in me is saying, "let's just see this guy do this in October. Let's see him at least drive in his first postseason run since Game 3 in 2004."

We Yankee fans are a strange breed.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:33 am

lexbur wrote:F***in' A-Rod!

Mister April. He has certainly earned that title this year.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:46 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:Damn, Mark Buehrle with the no-no tonight.

Just watched the shortened video of the game on MLB.com... Buerhle really owes a ton to his defense for getting that no hitter, he epitomizes the ground ball pitcher. Not to take anything away from that performance as he is definitely one of the best pitchers in baseball. It's crazy how intense it gets the closer he gets to the no-no. I saw him pitch at petco once in one of the shortest baseball games I've ever been too. Game started at 7:05pm and ended just after 9.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes ... 6110.shtml

Just FYI I heard that was the first time in history a no-hitter, grand slam HR and 2 HR's by the same player have ever happened in the same game.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:24 am

A-Rod is red hot. Twelve dingers already. Good game between the Yankees & Bosox today.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:36 am

macsomjrr wrote:Mister April. He has certainly earned that title this year.

This is simply not true--why does the media (and fans) have to make up stuff about A-Rod? Check out his stats, there has been one year in the past seven where his April and/or May stats were clearly superior to his season-ending efforts. His by-month splits are insanely consistent with his overall performance.

You'd think the guy has beaten everyone's puppies and kittens instead of just being a walking PR goof with the way he gets treated.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:39 pm

Just look at October...that's all that counts in NY.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:05 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Just look at October...that's all that counts in NY.

The thing is, he was far from the only player who didn't show up last October--Cano, Giambi, Sheffield, and A-Rod all hit under .150 against in the Tigers, but yes he stunk up the joint. In 2005 he had the second highest OBP in the ALDS (yes, I'm reaching here). He led the Yankees in all rate stats against the Twins in 2004 and his OPS against the Red Sox was higher than his regular season OPS. And he was far from a slouch in 1997 and 2000 with the Mariners (killed the Yankees in 2000's ALCS).

But the media likes to act like he's the reason the Yankees haven't won anything since he's been there. The playoffs are a complete crap shoot full of small sample sizes, that's why the Yankees haven't won the WS in a while.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:54 am

Dave wrote:The playoffs are a complete crap shoot full of small sample sizes, that's why the Yankees haven't won the WS in a while.

Trust me, I know all about it.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:58 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:Just look at October...that's all that counts in NY.

I am getting sick of the ESPN hype that how this is such a big series even though its April. They're covering it like it's the playoffs. Too much overkill.