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    Re: MLB Talk

    Quote Originally Posted by OldFatGuy View Post
    Guess it's a good day to be a Nats fan today.

    No way they lose today.
    Except you have to walk around in this crappy weather

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    Quote Originally Posted by KowboyKoop View Post
    Tough way to lose for the Royals. Down by two runs in the 8th, mark teahen leads off with a single, but tried to stretch it to a double for no reason and is out by a mile.

    Next batter, Mike Jacobs hits an absolute dreamshot for the solo HR....and we end up losing by one.

    Losses happen, whatever, but man, I bet Teahen feels a little silly on that one. Oh well. Offense is coming around and the starting pitching has been amazing...even Sir Ponson has (gulp!) actually looked kinda decent. I don't think he'll last...but at least he hasnt' completely blown up yet.
    Its ok kk, maybe if teahen stayed at first Jacobs might have went to the plate with a different approach and got out or worse a DP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ragecage View Post
    Its ok kk, maybe if teahen stayed at first Jacobs might have went to the plate with a different approach and got out or worse a DP.
    I don't know...Jacobs is pretty much always swinging for the fences. He'll be a hitter who is fun to watch when hot, terrible when cold. He's off to a good start so far.
    My runs created per 27 posts (RC/27p) was 12.4 last year. I should've been MVP.

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    RRS to the DL and Chris Jakubauskas to pitch instead!!!!!!!!!!

    So happy RRS went to the DL, as weird as that is to say. I really wanna know what Jakubauskas can do. He has a sick curve, but I'm sure I'm just setting myself up for failure

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    Re: MLB Talk

    Quote Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP View Post
    I don't know anybody that really pays attention to the standings until at least mid-May or so.
    I do, I always do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeffy25 View Post
    I do, I always do
    Do you put a lot of meaning into them, though?

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    As an A's fan I grow accustomed to paying attention at the trading deadline, when they catch on fire after a slow start like every friggen season. Ugh.
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    I love Jackie Robinson, and what he did for baseball.

    But I gotta admit, at least for an old fart, it gets pretty confusing watching baseball games where all the players are running around with number 42 on their back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldFatGuy View Post
    I love Jackie Robinson, and what he did for baseball.

    But I gotta admit, at least for an old fart, it gets pretty confusing watching baseball games where all the players are running around with number 42 on their back.
    Yeah, requiring players to wear 42 is going overboard now.

    http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sweetspot...html?post=true
    Never underestimate the ability of the commissioner to take a pretty sweet idea and just drive it into the ground until it's dead.
    Maybe that's too harsh. But every single player in every single game, wearing the same number?

    You know what really bothers me about all this? Major League Baseball is apparently bound and determined to turn Jackie Robinson from a man -- a man with all his glorious virtues and oh-so-human flaws -- into some sort of god, and gods are incredibly less interesting than men. Gods are infallible. Or if they're not, it's still considered poor form to discuss their fallibility. Which makes us all the poorer.

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    If anyone deserves praise its Branch Rickey who had the cahones to think outside of tradition and break the color barrier by recruiting Jackie and bringing him up to play. But nobody ever talks about him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonGM View Post
    Do you put a lot of meaning into them, though?
    nope, but I pay attention....it's so much easier to win early in the year and try to maintain a lead then it is to catch up. I know that my cards have at least a one game lead on everyone in the division. One game on the Cubs, game and a half on a few, and like 4.5 on the Astros....I pay attention, but it doesn't mean a whole lot until June, then it starts to get a little more interesting...and of course gets more and more as the season goes

    Branch Rickey was awesome, and not just for his color barrier....he did a lot for baseball, and deserves better recognition

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    Quote Originally Posted by filihok View Post
    The Padres look like a beer league softball team today
    hey, my beer team is pretty freaking good....two of our guys hit homers over 380 tonight down the left field line....those were shots!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeffy25 View Post
    Branch Rickey was awesome, and not just for his color barrier....he did a lot for baseball, and deserves better recognition
    THT is doing a series of articles on him.

    Here's the 4th of 5 (I think...haven't been readin)

    http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-5-1953-1954/

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