Luis Ayala stole Ethier's glove, it appears.Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
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Luis Ayala stole Ethier's glove, it appears.Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
Ping Pong at the airport is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/ar...s_mlb&c_id=mlb
real heartwarming story about the Indians ballclub laying it all out for Jack Hannahan.
Yeah, because he's not that good, the Giants should make no effort to avoid injury in the name of possibly deriving minuscule benefit for the team. After the AB, they should have him lift all the heavy boxes in the clubhouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
I can also play the "take opinion to the extreme to make it sound dumb" game.
You and Bochy both sounded dumb enough when you suggested that a major league pitcher couldn't stand in the box and at least give the appearance of possibly swinging the bat without facing an unacceptable risk of injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by haveacigar
But, dude drew a walk, so whatever
Had a nice chuckle or two reading the comments section on the Jeff Francoeur extension. Which 90% seems in favor of.
The next response was awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoyalStud11
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Originally Posted by daruz19043
Someone who glosses themself as "royalstud" is talking out their ass? SHOCKING!
I love the line about not seeing a Dayton Moore trade he hasn't liked. Nunez/Jacobs anyone? Dominant closer for a guy that was released?
You know pitchers have actually injured themselves batting, right? This isn't some ridiculous scenario that got invented. He wouldn't even have to be swinging really hard, dude could just get clocked in the head or hand with a pitch. It's risk/reward and while the risk is low, the reward is non-existent. There's nothing dumb about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
I don't recall anyone saying that the risk was "unacceptable."
Both Alex White and Drew Pomeranz looked stellar in their Class AA debuts in Tulsa. White is expected to make trip to Denver and join Rockies rotation as early as next week. Rockies beat writer Troy Renck tweeted that he expects White's next start to be as a Rockie.
#WhoBaldo
The reward isn't non existent. Dude could have blasted a home run. I can't imagine that pitcher home runs are that much less common than pitcher injuries as the result of swinging the bat.Quote:
Originally Posted by haveacigar
The risk must have been unacceptable, if the team would not accept the risk of Casilla swinging the bat.
****. Rest your caseQuote:
Originally Posted by filihok
Colby Rasmus starting to get going in Toronto it appears.
JOHN JAY 4 LIFE right Jeffy?
That blast last night was what they call "easy power". Everything he does looks effortless. He is the polar opposite of Brett "Full Tilt" Lawrie who will injure someone on the Jays in a celebration this year or next year. Book it.Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
Off topic and apropos of nothing: Some punks stole a little girl's lemonade stand cooler in Hamilton (just outside of Toronto) last night. How much of a pathetic low life do you have to be to pull s*** like that? Ugh.
Nice OF D by the Cards today
The Nats finally get through the top of the first inning versus the Phillies tonight. And knocked out Roy Oswalt in the process.
...Or the rain did. I like my version better thought...
Mike Carp, almost a third of the way to Joe DiMaggio's hit streak
Any time a guy is walked home, it should count as 2 runs
That is all
Has anyone ever heard of this Ryan Zimmerman guy? He may turn out to be somebody some day.
Tigers trying to lock up the ALC race early by ramming their boot up Cleveland's ass.
8.5
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Originally Posted by oregonduck1989
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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
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Originally Posted by Jeffy25
So the Mariners can score 15 runs off of James Shields in two games but can barely score against mediocre pitchers? Baseball is weird
WRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYQuote:
Originally Posted by asianinvasion
God, James Shields is on my points league team ,which has multiple pitchers that have randomly gotten absolutely hammered by mediocre or worse teams. Ugh.
Ubaldo got blown up today. Don't want to see the guy fail, but now O'Dowd looks kinda smart.
Of course, small sample size.
He just doesn't look right anyway
I read an interesting article about the development of the Ubaldo trade. OD you probably already know it, but as a non-Rockies fan it was a good read for me. Helped make it more understandable tfor me.
Was it by the Post? Yeah, that was a good article.
President has reason to be happy with that Weaver deal. Pretty cheap for a guy like that.
Jered Weaver is one of my favorite players, but **** doesn't make up for Wells. **** Reagins. Probably could have gotten Weaver cheaper if he signed him last year
Bet you won't see a triple play like this one again for quite some timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Mizerak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQedk...layer_embedded
haha, yeah, i literally just saw that
Valverde's 37 saves in a row might be the worst performance ever to have reached 37 saves in a row.
I know he is horrible in non-save situations, but he hasn't even been that good in his save situations either.
Rocks to be 8.5 back after they finish the clobbering of Houston tonight.
WATCH OUT ARIZONA
+1 Rockies and Oregonduck sucksQuote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
rage I hope one day the A's shock the world, win 104 games, tear up the ALDS and ALCS and storm into the World Series heavy favorites. I hope they win the first game 11-2, the second 12-0, and the third 19-4.
Then I hope they lose 4 straight games on replicants of Jeter's flip play at home plate.
Oregonduck I hope that the Rockies continue to not win World Championships.Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
**** you Tony
Prior to tonight:
Carpenter - 46.0 GB%, only reason for poor success this season - .323 babip and no run support. He has pitched great.
Guy gets on first base on a whoops pitch (I understand the concern, but ****)
So then let's bring in Salas to get that double play ball, right?
Because Salas gets a ground ball 10% less frequently than Carpenter, so that makes sense, right? 35.5 GB% and an unsustainable .221 babip.
Tony, you need a sabr-metric analysts to cut off your balls and manage in game decisions for you.
(also, Rhodes not any better than Salas)
Carpenter was at 99 pitches. 99 pitches is the 6th least pitches he has thrown all season in 27 starts. Has thrown a total of 132 pitches in a start this season and came back fine in next start.
The only thing that made sense is that Ethier was 0 for 7 in his career against Rhodes. But Rhodes also had Miles 0 for 2 in their careers and Miles is a neutral hitter (lefty or rightie is the same from both sides) and Rhodes just pitched perfectly to Ethier, so why bring in Salas?
Oh that's right, because a statistic that is massively over-rated (saves) is more important than winning the ball game.
Can we get a new ****ing manager already?
Brewers are currently 17-3 in August
Cards are 10-9 before tonight's game.
Brewers are 7 games over their pythagorean record
Cards are 2 under theirs.
Brewers are 27-15 in one run games
Cardinals are 17-19 in one run games
So maybe I can't blame TLR totally for that (and honestly he probably gets out of the team on paper what any other manager could do, it's his media, and internal decisions that piss me off because of how stupid they are) and I can't give Roenicke total credit (although I think he is a pretty decent manager overall). But you have to actually win those one run games with good managing. Those are the games the separate the men from the boys IMO.