bighairdiscs wrote:Luis Castillo fucking sucks balls....... Nice win for the Sox in the 13th, what's up with Ramon Ramirez this week???.........that's all I got at this second.
I feel awful for Castillo. Mets fans hate him to begin with... he's pretty much damned himself from here on out.
A Rod and Girardi owe him blow jobs for life after tonight.
The celebration the Yankees had after winning a game they should have lost was a bit over the top though. Arod hits a weak fly ball to shallow left, then is mobbed like hit a home run? I didn't look at the replays very closely, but I wonder if Jeter took part, or if he stayed back and thought to himself, "Who the fuck am I playing with, these assholes don't even know how to win right." By the way they acted, one would think they just beat the Sox or something.
I was watching the 13inning Philly game, so I didn't see it. It's not surprising though. This is the team that does a fucking curtain call after every homerun.
JakeYonkel wrote:C'mon kill, Boston's faithful were lining up to fellate Ortiz just for making contact the other night.
I thought that when I was typing out my response.
The difference IMO is it was a loveable player they were standing behind. As opposed to a curtain call for every homerun/every player. I just think it's tacky.
Of course after Oritz's mini-streak. If the fans at Fenway ( or the bandwagon fans at other stadiums ) continue to jackoff for every little hit. I'll feel the same way.
Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox.
And by my calculations, Marlins SPs for the MFY series will be young Sean West on Friday, JJ on Saturday, and Volstad on Sunday. Oh my. Will we have the AJ vs. JJ Show on Saturday? Orgasmic!
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox. !
I'll be at the first game of that series..... should be ShakeyWakey vs. Volstad - should be fun!
BlairSurfInvasion wrote:The lesson here is that if you listen to hair metal in 2007 you are going to have to pay a price, and the currency is ridicule.
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox.
And by my calculations, Marlins SPs for the MFY series will be young Sean West on Friday, JJ on Saturday, and Volstad on Sunday. Oh my. Will we have the AJ vs. JJ Show on Saturday? Orgasmic!
Philadelphia Phillies 36 25 .590 --
New York Mets 32 29 .525 4.0 Florida Marlins 32 33 .492 6.0
HeavyMetalZombie666 wrote:Of course your asshole is going to be sore when you volunteer for an asspounding and not set any boundaries at all.
killeverything wrote:
The celebration the Yankees had after winning a game they should have lost was a bit over the top though. Arod hits a weak fly ball to shallow left, then is mobbed like hit a home run? I didn't look at the replays very closely, but I wonder if Jeter took part, or if he stayed back and thought to himself, "Who the fuck am I playing with, these assholes don't even know how to win right." By the way they acted, one would think they just beat the Sox or something.
Can you exaggerate a bit more? A curtain call for "every home" run. Stretch the truth a bit more. This topic is funny. Yankee haters are reaching for gossip.
The way the team celebrated on Friday night was what any other team would have done when a 3 time gold glover drops a pop up in the bottom of the 9th.
I had never seen that before.
I watched the games on Sat & Sun, the announcers each said they had never seen that either.
I saw the replay over and over and even played the video in slow motion. Appears to me that at the very last second, he took his eyes off the ball and that's when it was dropped.
That being said, USE 2 FUCKING HANDS!!!!
killeverything wrote:
The celebration the Yankees had after winning a game they should have lost was a bit over the top though. Arod hits a weak fly ball to shallow left, then is mobbed like hit a home run? I didn't look at the replays very closely, but I wonder if Jeter took part, or if he stayed back and thought to himself, "Who the fuck am I playing with, these assholes don't even know how to win right." By the way they acted, one would think they just beat the Sox or something.
Can you exaggerate a bit more? A curtain call for "every home" run. Stretch the truth a bit more. This topic is funny. Yankee haters are reaching for gossip.
The way the team celebrated on Friday night was what any other team would have done when a 3 time gold glover drops a pop up in the bottom of the 9th.
I had never seen that before.
I watched the games on Sat & Sun, the announcers each said they had never seen that either.
Funny how it's only a problem when your team is on the losing end, huh fanboy ?
killeverything wrote:
The celebration the Yankees had after winning a game they should have lost was a bit over the top though. Arod hits a weak fly ball to shallow left, then is mobbed like hit a home run? I didn't look at the replays very closely, but I wonder if Jeter took part, or if he stayed back and thought to himself, "Who the fuck am I playing with, these assholes don't even know how to win right." By the way they acted, one would think they just beat the Sox or something.
Can you exaggerate a bit more? A curtain call for "every home" run. Stretch the truth a bit more. This topic is funny. Yankee haters are reaching for gossip.
The way the team celebrated on Friday night was what any other team would have done when a 3 time gold glover drops a pop up in the bottom of the 9th.
I had never seen that before.
I watched the games on Sat & Sun, the announcers each said they had never seen that either.
Funny how it's only a problem when your team is on the losing end, huh fanboy ?
False!
Any team in MLB would have celebrated the victory is the same fashion.
thejuggernaut wrote:
Funny how it's only a problem when your team is on the losing end, huh fanboy ?
False!
Any team in MLB would have celebrated the victory is the same fashion.
False ? It must have been the OTHER Machado who started a post to complain about how "unsportsmanlike" the big evil Florida Gators were when they beat Oklahoma, even though anyone with functioning eyes and not stricken with fanboyism could see Oklahoma was the instigator of virtually every single skirmish.
Machado wrote:Who else saw what I saw last night? I know you will think I am typing as a result of sour grapes, but that's not true.......
On 1 occasion a gator player was penalized for excessive celebration after getting a 1st down...WTF is that celebration all about? ................
Finale, the alleged best player in college football was given an unsportsman-like conduct penalty for churping at the Sooners defense, motioning his hands like a gator chomping on something.
WTF is that all about? .............
No class at all.
Win like you have been there before.
FUCKING THUGS!!
So these guys not only were retaliating against Oklahoma, but they were doing "what any football player would do to celebrate a first down or a victory"
Yet, it's fine for your baseball team when it wins, but it's wrong for the opponent to do it to your football when it loses.
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox.
And by my calculations, Marlins SPs for the MFY series will be young Sean West on Friday, JJ on Saturday, and Volstad on Sunday. Oh my. Will we have the AJ vs. JJ Show on Saturday? Orgasmic!
Philadelphia Phillies 36 25 .590 --
New York Mets 32 29 .525 4.0 Florida Marlins 32 33 .492 6.0
LA Dodgers 42 22 .656
Hope ta see ya in the playoffs Phanatic!
poizond13 wrote:I have been very bummed out, sad and shocked for most of the night
Artemis2085 wrote:so I blurt out "I love you Paul!
Atomicpunk18 wrote:You see Black Crowes music has gotten me laid multiple times.
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox.
And by my calculations, Marlins SPs for the MFY series will be young Sean West on Friday, JJ on Saturday, and Volstad on Sunday. Oh my. Will we have the AJ vs. JJ Show on Saturday? Orgasmic!
Philadelphia Phillies 36 25 .590 --
New York Mets 32 29 .525 4.0 Florida Marlins 32 33 .492 6.0
LA Dodgers 42 22 .656
Hope ta see ya in the playoffs Phanatic!
I was hanging out with some LA cats last nite. The discussions eventually turned to baseball. I was talking about the Philly/Boston series, and how I feel the Phils could very well win the East again ( possibly the whole damn thing ). The competition for a WS berth is LA.
Could you imagine a Boston/LA World Series? The thought of Manny back in Fenway is terrifying. I hope that they IBB him every at bat. Even if the bases are loaded. Walk that motherfucker.
killeverything wrote:I was hanging out with some LA cats last nite. The discussions eventually turned to baseball. I was talking about the Philly/Boston series, and how I feel the Phils could very well win the East again ( possibly the whole damn thing ). The competition for a WS berth is LA.
Could you imagine a Boston/LA World Series? The thought of Manny back in Fenway is terrifying. I hope that they IBB him every at bat. Even if the bases are loaded. Walk that motherfucker.
The reception in beantown would be worth every "brad" penny.
I may bleed Dodger blue but I still can't bring myself to like Manny, hell I'm a secondary Boston fan so it wouldn't matter if Manny got beaned or belted one over the monster...Either way I'm cheering.
In all fairness I might give the edge to Philly, LA needs Manny and another starter to step up. Then again Philly's rotation wouldn't scare the Nationals at this point so who knows.
poizond13 wrote:I have been very bummed out, sad and shocked for most of the night
Artemis2085 wrote:so I blurt out "I love you Paul!
Atomicpunk18 wrote:You see Black Crowes music has gotten me laid multiple times.
killeverything wrote:I was hanging out with some LA cats last nite. The discussions eventually turned to baseball. I was talking about the Philly/Boston series, and how I feel the Phils could very well win the East again ( possibly the whole damn thing ). The competition for a WS berth is LA.
Could you imagine a Boston/LA World Series? The thought of Manny back in Fenway is terrifying. I hope that they IBB him every at bat. Even if the bases are loaded. Walk that motherfucker.
The reception in beantown would be worth every "brad" penny.
I may bleed Dodger blue but I still can't bring myself to like Manny, hell I'm a secondary Boston fan so it wouldn't matter if Manny got beaned or belted one over the monster...Either way I'm cheering.
In all fairness I might give the edge to Philly, LA needs Manny and another starter to step up. Then again Philly's rotation wouldn't scare the Nationals at this point so who knows.
I never thought that LA had the pitching. They've been playing pretty well without Manny though.
Oh and Jake Peavy is hurt again.
Jake Peavy will be out at least through the All-Star break and could miss up to 12 weeks with a torn tendon in his right ankle, Padres trainer Todd Hutcheson said.
Peavy underwent an MRI on Friday morning at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla that showed longitudinal tearing in the posterior tibialis tendon in his right ankle. The ankle has bothered him since he injured it running the bases against the Chicago Cubs on May 22.
Peavy's right foot was immediately placed in a solid, mid-calf high cast that will remain on for at least two weeks and possibly longer than a month.
After the solid cast is removed, Peavy will be placed in a walking cast for an undetermined amount of time.
The posterior tibialis is the tendon and muscle on the inside of the right ankle that supports the foot.
Well I wonder what that does to his trade value now?
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Pitching matchups for MFY vs. Marlins are as follows:
Fri-Pettite vs. West
Sat-AJ vs. JJ (i just came)
Sun-CC vs. Volstad
I'll be there for all 3 games. Have bail money ready, especially on Friday, as it's my husband's birthday. Beer+MFY fans=
Consider the series payback for 2003. How do you like the pitching match-ups? I'm fine with the 3 Yankee starters.
I'm happy with it. West is a rookie, and he's made some mistakes, but he's kept us in games better than any other of our call up spot starters. I hope he can hang in there. What I like about him is that he doesn't get rattled, he keeps his poise, and he usually gets out of jams because of it.
AJ/JJ...again, orgasmic. I can't fucking wait, and it will be interesting to see what kind of reception AJ will get.
CC/Volstad...should be a good one. Volstad's last start was shitty, so hopefully he got that out of his system and he does his thang.
Regardless, it's gonna be a fun series. I'll be sporting my Yankee Hater cap.
Here's an interesting little tidbit I came across from fangraphs. Using Pitchf/x we can see who has the best ( or most effective ) fastball. The results will certainly surprise you.
Well, it went under the radar a bit, but David has updated the
leaderboards to include this data, so you can now sort by pitch types
and see which pitchers are having the most or least success with
various pitch types. Not surprisingly, Justin Verlander
has gotten the most value out of his fastball this year, as he's
dialing up his four seamer and racking up the strikeouts with it. His
power fastball, thrown up in the zone, is a true out pitch.
However, did you know Verlander does not rank number one in value
per 100 fastball thrown? If you haven't already checked out the
leaderboard, you will never guess who is at the top of the list.
Tim Wakefield.
No, I'm not kidding. The knuckleballer is getting better results
from his fastball, on a per pitch basis, than any other pitcher in
baseball this year. His fastball averages 72 MPH, or about what you'd
face in a small private high school league, and he's getting more value
his heater than guys who throw 100.
You will never need more evidence than this that pitching really is
all about disrupting a hitters timing. Wakefield's fastball, on it's
own, is not a major league quality pitch. He doesn't throw it with
velocity or a ton of movement, but because he's set it up with
knuckleballs, an offering that should be a total meatball is acting
like a true out pitch.
This is great because it takes advantage of linear weights on a per pitch basis. Just goes to show you how valuable it is to keep hitters off balance and change speeds, even if that change is up to a blazing 72mph.
For comparison, the top 5 in FB Value per 100:
1. T Wakefield = 2.28
2. D. Haren = 1.99
3. R. Porcello = 1.84
4. J. Verlander = 1.67
5. Z. Greinke = 1.64
Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball’s single-season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.
At a March 2005 hearing called by the House Government Reform Committee, Sammy Sosa denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
The disclosure that Sosa tested positive makes him the latest baseball star of the last two decades to be linked to performance-enhancers, a group that now includes McGwire, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro.
Sosa, who is sixth on Major League Baseball’s career home run list and last played in 2007, had long been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs but until now had never been publicly linked to a positive test.
Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball’s single-season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.
At a March 2005 hearing called by the House Government Reform Committee, Sammy Sosa denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
The disclosure that Sosa tested positive makes him the latest baseball star of the last two decades to be linked to performance-enhancers, a group that now includes McGwire, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro.
Sosa, who is sixth on Major League Baseball’s career home run list and last played in 2007, had long been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs but until now had never been publicly linked to a positive test.
I thought it was because he didn't speak english.
That list from 2003 will come out completely eventually. Manny testing positive bummed me out, because he was one of the 25. Still it's Arod I'm mad at. Even people that hate him ( which is everyone apparently ), were pulling for him to break the record clean. Until the PED shit, he would've retired as the greatest player of all time.
Fuck all these assholes. I love how the BBWAA has so far kept them out of the Hall.
Pete Rose should be in the hall. That player and this player only should be the priority to get into the hall.
What he did was very wrong, but as a player his numbers were certainly worthy of the Hall.
Don't you agree?
The time has come where players in the 21st century might need additional verbage on their respective HOF plaque that mentions how the player broke the rules.
Who the fuck cares?
Machado wrote:Pete Rose should be in the hall. That player and this player only should be the priority to get into the hall.
What he did was very wrong, but as a player his numbers were certainly worthy of the Hall.
Don't you agree?
Exactly.
The hall of fame enters people as managers, so they quite obviously have a separate category.
It's ridiculous that his actions as a manager are preventing him from being entered as a player.
Machado wrote:Pete Rose should be in the hall. That player and this player only should be the priority to get into the hall.
What he did was very wrong, but as a player his numbers were certainly worthy of the Hall.
Don't you agree?
Exactly.
The hall of fame enters people as managers, so they quite obviously have a separate category.
It's ridiculous that his actions as a manager are preventing him from being entered as a player.
The people with all the power are somewhat out of touch and hypocrites themselves.
They want to give the public an impression that they know exactly what is right for the game, when it's the opposite.
Put Pete Rose in the Hall before he passes away.
All I need to know is this: Did Pete bet on baseball as a player? If he did, then there is a case to keep him out. If the answer is no, then allow him in the hall, along with his over 4,000 career hits.
CHARLIE HUSTLE
Machado wrote:Pete Rose should be in the hall. That player and this player only should be the priority to get into the hall.
What he did was very wrong, but as a player his numbers were certainly worthy of the Hall.
Don't you agree?
Exactly.
The hall of fame enters people as managers, so they quite obviously have a separate category.
It's ridiculous that his actions as a manager are preventing him from being entered as a player.
The people with all the power are somewhat out of touch and hypocrites themselves.
They want to give the public an impression that they know exactly what is right for the game, when it's the opposite.
Put Pete Rose in the Hall before he passes away.
All I need to know is this: Did Pete bet on baseball as a player? If he did, then there is a case to keep him out. If the answer is no, then allow him in the hall, along with his over 4,000 career hits.
CHARLIE HUSTLE
I have long been an advocate of Pete Rose in the Hall Of Fame. He belongs there, it was built for fucking players like him.
With the fallout still in effect from the 1919 Black Sox, and Kenesaw Landis bullshit lifetime suspension for Buck Weaver. It was the biggest black-eye for baseball. Now we have a worse Commisoner than Landis and bigger "black eye".
I think this all comes down to proof. Did Rose gamble? Yes he did. He finally admitted it later.
Did Rose gamble on his team when he was manager? Yes he did. That much has been proven.
Did Rose set his team up to lose to win a bet? No. There is no evidence what so ever of that taking place. So while gambling is wrong and all that. Rose never "fixed a game" so to speak, which is where the "dishonesty" or "conduct unbecoming of a player" would come from.
Rose belongs in the HOF. Keep in mind the assholes keeping him out are the same ones that didn't nominate Ted Williams for MVP, because they personally didn't like him. They are the same ones that left Pedro off the 1999 MVP tally, because he didn't give interviews.
I think having sportwriters decide awards or lifetime achievements is fucking stupid.
TawnyVonJagger wrote:It's a fucking travesty. Ty Fucking Cobb was a grade A Asshole and he KILLED A MAN, and yet he's in the HOF. It's bullshit.
Not only is the system flawed, but the people who have the power to select a player for the HOF are basically not doing their jobs. Plain n simple.
These writers are out of touch and are not doing the game any favors by keeping Rose out of the HOF, as a player.
Do you think the fans in the 21st century will care if a Rose plaque mentions that he was banned for life as a manager? FUCK NO! So be it. Write that shit down in stone,
Remember when the 50 greatest players were honored in Atlanta all those years ago? Rose was given the loudest and longest standing ovation that night. Why? Because the fans respected how he played the game, as a player.
Of course Pete messed up terribly by betting on Baseball. Made matters worse by lying about his involvement.
TawnyVonJagger wrote:Fightin' Fish are 3-0 vs. the AL East so far. Bring on the Mighty Fuckin' Red Sox.
Nice start to the series for the Sox.... I was there last night at Fenway... I was out in left field, so i couldn't get the greatest shots.....
Wake started....
Ortiz hit his fifth bomb......
Ells stole two more bags....
Bard finished it out with 100 MPH heat.....
good time!
BlairSurfInvasion wrote:The lesson here is that if you listen to hair metal in 2007 you are going to have to pay a price, and the currency is ridicule.
By SCHUYLER DIXON, Associated Press Writer 53 minutes ago
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)—Former major league outfielder Mel Hall was sentenced to 45 years in prison Wednesday after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and sexually abusing or inappropriately touching three girls.
Hall, 48, looked skyward and swayed back and forth as the verdict was read. One of his two daughters who testified on his behalf during the punishment phase sobbed as the reality of the sentence set in.
Jurors reached the verdict on the punishment after about an hour of deliberating. They took about 90 minutes Tuesday to convict Hall on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. He must serve about 22 1/2 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.
After the verdict was announced, prosecutor Kim D’Avignon read a brief statement on behalf of the 12-year-old victim and other of Hall’s accusers.
“We believe that the verdict does on some level show that the jury understood,” D’Avignon said. “They looked in these girls’ eyes and said this is worth 40 years and we agree with them.”
The defense had argued in the sentencing phase of the trial that Hall was a good man who mentored a lot of athletes and had a lot of good still to do.
“For all the good this man has done in his life, it seems like this was an excessive verdict,” defense attorney Brady Wyatt said after the verdict.
The prosecution’s final witness during the punishment phase testified that she was 14 when Hall touched her inappropriately and told her he wanted to have sex with her. Late Tuesday, two women testified Hall sexually assaulted them when they were underage.
On Wednesday, a woman testified that Hall was her softball coach when, during an end-of-season pool party, he made lewd noises and grabbed her around the waist.
“He just grabbed me how I thought was inappropriate,” said the woman, now 19. She said Hall also would watch her take batting practice and make crude comments and tell her he wanted to have sex with her.
Hall’s ex-wife and two daughters testified on his behalf.
“My dad would not do that,” said his daughter, Bianca Hall, who had to stop to compose herself throughout her emotional testimony.
Hall, who had been stoic and unemotional throughout most of the trial that began Monday, smiled and nodded as his daughter spoke of their relationship. When she become emotional while describing how much she loved and trusted him, Hall bit his lip and looked away.
During the trial this week, witnesses testified that Hall was impressed with the 12-year-old girl’s talent and wanted to start a basketball team. The woman testified that Hall exposed himself to her and her younger brother at home, when their parents were away. The boy testified that he thought they were playing a game and never told his parents.
“I trusted him,” the woman testified. “I honestly had no idea anything was inappropriate at the time. I looked up to him. I just thought this is how normal people act.”
Hall’s interaction with the girl progressed to inappropriate touching and him showing her how to perform oral sex, she testified. She said he also showed her pornographic movies at an apartment Hall shared with his girlfriend and their infant son.
The two women who testified Tuesday told similar stories of how he won their parents’ trust and then charmed the young girls.
One said she was 15 and Hall was in his first season with the New York Yankees when the abuse began in 1989. The other testified that she was a 14-year-old basketball teammate of the 12-year-old victim when she was raped in 1999. Hall has been charged in that case.
Hall’s 13-year major league career ended in 1996. He hit .276 with 134 home runs and 620 RBIs in a career that included stints with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Yankees and San Francisco Giants. He also played four years in Japan.
HeavyMetalZombie666 wrote:Of course your asshole is going to be sore when you volunteer for an asspounding and not set any boundaries at all.
