Killeverything's (New)NeverEndingBaseballThread

[UtahRatt]

Cardinals Ranked MLB's Best-Looking Team, No. 1 Uniforms in All Sports Leagues

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyr ... s_espn.php

I like their uni's, the Card's looks slick, one uniform I hate is the Miami Marlins. I still can't get over the fucking name change, that team can forever be fucked since changing from Florida.

[killeverything]

Someone explain Wild Card...

Two teams make it, they play one game and the winner goes to the playoffs?

What about end of season ties and shit?

Yep basically. Bud decided he hadn't fucked baseball enough since his upcoming post 2014 retirement, hence the second wild card.

As for season ties and shit, I believe it goes by which of the two eligible teams won the season series. The most recent example ( but still pre second wild card ) is in 2005 both the MFY and Boston finished with identical 95 - 67 records. Instead of a one game playoff, NY won their 21 game season series 11 - 10 hence they got the AL East. Have to agree with that format.

[UtahRatt]

Noticed the Red Sox have built up a 5.5 lead in the east while leaving the Wankees several teams to leapfrog for a wild card shot. Still don't think my Dodgers are the team to beat in the NL but the feeling of a post season shot while the Wankees are watching from home is double the fun.

Love it.

[killeverything]

Noticed the Red Sox have built up a 5.5 lead in the east while leaving the Wankees several teams to leapfrog for a wild card shot. Still don't think my Dodgers are the team to beat in the NL but the feeling of a post season shot while the Wankees are watching from home is double the fun.

Love it.

Totally. I think they're more concerned with trying to get out of paying Arod his money. Especially concerning their upcoming free agents. Cano, Kuroda, Granderson think about how much just Cano will get on the market.

They gave Rodriguez that contract. They fucking pay it.

[UtahRatt]

What's the current status on Rodriguez? Still arbitration "November ish" then reduced to a 100 game or a fuck you see ya in a couple years? Part of the reason I don't want the Wankees to make the post season it's less chance of him actually doing something....He's needs 200 games off just for being a dick.

[killeverything]

What's the current status on Rodriguez? Still arbitration "November ish" then reduced to a 100 game or a fuck you see ya in a couple years? Part of the reason I don't want the Wankees to make the post season it's less chance of him actually doing something....He's needs 200 games off just for being a dick.

The problem is that's what the union agreed to. Bud can't pick and choose because Arod made him look even more foolish. Don't like it, renegotiate the contract. Part of me believe's Selig's longer suspension for Rodriguez is to spare the Yankees the full amount owed.

They are an extremely big market team. MLB salivates at them being competitive it's a ratings boost. I can't believe Selig's "integrity" on this one.

[Machado]

What's the current status on Rodriguez? Still arbitration "November ish" then reduced to a 100 game or a fuck you see ya in a couple years? Part of the reason I don't want the Wankees to make the post season it's less chance of him actually doing something....He's needs 200 games off just for being a dick.

No progress on the suspension.
If anything, ARod is not getting nearly as many "boos" from the Yankees fans in The Bronx. Very noticeable over the weekend.
Winning cures all???

So many of the MLB Players that were outspoken against ARod last month and
questioned why he was still on the field are fools.
The union negotiated this contract and the players agreed to it.
End of story!!!

[Machado]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/ne ... interview/

Tom Verducci's exclusive interview with Bud Selig

[UtahRatt]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/ne ... interview/

Tom Verducci's exclusive interview with Bud Selig

"Selig: Well, I'm a history buff and I will teach some courses when I'm done with all this. I've often said I'll let historians make that judgment. It's hard for somebody to say about themselves, "Well, this is what I hope people remember." But I would say this to you: if you look at where we were in 1992 in terms of attendance, revenue, popularity, game itself, competitive balance, labor peace, go on and on, I think the last 21, 22 years of baseball have been really remarkably good. But I've got to let others draw those conclusions."

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So according to Bud since 1992 baseball have been really remarkably good?
Was he asleep during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike or the Congressional hearing about steroids in 2005....Rafael Palmeiro "Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids, period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never! Then a few months later Palmeiro was suspended for testing positive for steroids.

Those was two of the lowest points in my baseball life.

[WhiteHouseSubsAC]

A special fan writes a letter to Chase Utley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU4w9FaS ... e=youtu.be

..and Chase responds:

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=30 ... d=19224580

[killeverything]

A special fan writes a letter to Chase Utley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU4w9FaS ... e=youtu.be

..and Chase responds:

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=30 ... d=19224580

That episode was hilarious.

[WOLF]

God bless Keith Olbermann!

http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2012/ ... -proposal/


The Marlins: A Modest Proposal
So. Time to take Marlins Park and: A) Disassemble it; B) Crate it; C) Sell It; D) Ship it to San Jose (or Oakland, or Portland, or San Bernardino, Austin/San Antonio/Round Rock, or – wherever).

Now that the Miami experiment is over (as forecast here a year ago next week, and reiterated here last June) and Hanley Ramirez, Heath Bell, Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, and the merely arbitration-eligible Emilio Bonifacio have either been offloaded in A Going-Out-Of-Business-Sale (or are about to be), the Marlins are officially the Montreal Expos of the 2010′s and baseball is unofficially dead in Florida.

Notice I did not write South Florida. All of it. Rays’ owner Stu Sternberg was already less than sanguine about getting significant scratch from the state and local governments for a new ballpark that is absolutely essential to his survival in Tampa/St. Petersburg. If he had any hopes left after the disastrously low crowds for the free ballpark the good burghers of Florida gave Jeffrey Loria, they have to be gone now and he has to be looking elsewhere.

There are all sorts of other implications if the Reyes/Buehrle/Johnson deal to Toronto is completed as advertised. Obviously, this revivifies a Toronto franchise that was already showing signs of being on the upswing last year and as far back as 2010-11. It sure knocks the price down for whoever is the Jays’ first choice for the manager’s job. It might make John Farrell a little remorseful. And it buries the Yankees in the American League East; there would now be at least three other teams in the division with more talent than New York. The prospects of Alex Rodriguez going to the lame duck Miami franchise (first reported blah blah blah here and blah blah blah ) might actually have increased, on the premise that Loria and MLB have to do something to make it at least look like they’re trying to field a product worthy of 2013 big league ticket prices).

But the biggest long-term implications are fairly simple: the franchise carousel, all but quiet since the upheaval of the 1953-72 era, will begin to spin again.

Miami has a slight chance of survival (that stadium is standing, and a mess of prospects can suddenly win a division – ask the Oakland A’s about that) but Tampa Bay is gone. One would assume that at the latest the season of 2020 opens without a Florida team in the majors.

Where do the Rays (and probably the Marlins) move?

Here are the top U.S. Metropolitan Areas without MLB teams ranked by population, on 2011 estimates drawn from the Official 2010 United States Census:

12. Riverside/San Bernardino/Ontario CA 4,304,997

23. Portland OR/Vancouver WA 2,262,605

24. San Antonio/New Braunfels TX 2,194,927

25. Sacramento/Roseville CA 2,176,235

26. Orlando/Daytona Beach FL 2,171,360

30. Las Vegas 1,969,975

31. San Jose 1,865,450

32. Columbus OH 1,858,464

33. Charlotte/Gastonia NC 1,795,472

34. Austin/Round Rock TX 1,783,519

35. Indianapolis 1,778,568

36. Virginia Beach/Norfolk 1,679,894

37. Nashville 1,617,142

Nashville you say? Virginia Beach? Hahahahahahaha?

Not so fast. Every metropolitan area on this list is larger than Milwaukee and Riverside, Portland, San Antonio and Sacramento are bigger than Cincinnati. There are certain practacalities here. All of Southern California is Dodger/Angel territory and the Magic Johnson group that just spent Eleventy Billion on the Dodgers isn’t going to give up claim on anything. Though Texas is a big place don’t tell that to the Rangers and Astros, who claim both the San Antonio and Austin zones. Columbus is Cleveland’s territory (unless it’s Cincinnati’s), Orlando would have at least some of the same problems as Tampa/St. Pete, and the Giants and Athletics are in their fifth different decade of arguing over San Jose.

So the Rays go to Portland and the Marlins to Sacramento? Not so fast.

You know who’d be 15th on the list – right between Phoenix and Seattle – if we made it of not American metropolitan areas but North American?

Right.

15. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Regional population: 3,824,221.

But wait, didn’t things go very badly in Montreal before? They certainly did, but not because of the city nor its love of baseball. Corrupt government and underfunded ownership and a betrayed fan base – all of them saddled with the greatest white elephant in the history of North American sports construction, Olympic Stadium. In every full season between 1979 and 1983 – even in that XXL Airplane Hangar - Les Expos drew at least 2,102,173 fans a year.

The peak total – 2,320,651 in 1983 – edged out the Cardinals for second place in National League attendance, and was just about a million more than the Mets drew in New York. It was about then that stuff started falling from the roof of the tribute to provincial graft, and star players started falling off the Expos’ roster. But make no mistake about it: Montreal supported baseball. As late as 1997 the Expos still brought in a million-and-a-half fans (more than the Mets or the Giants).

If all that could not be done in the ’90s and ’00s could be put together – a downtown stadium with government support, plus a well-run franchise making a long-term commitment – baseball’s second try in Montreal could be a triumph. And consider if it were the Rays fleeing north. Not only would Montreal get that well-run franchise, but it would suddenly find itself in a division with rivals from hated cities like Boston and New York…

…and Toronto.

Montreal and Toronto in the same division. Genius, I tells ya. Genius.

It’s a win-win. Unless you’re one of those few Florida baseball fans.

Oh yeah, I left out a fifth thing to do about the Marlins and Marlins Park: E) Ship Giancarlo Stanton separately. And while you’re at it, you might as well start wrapping uber-prospect Christian Yelich too.

[Facedown]

Cubs claim Daniel Bard off of waivers.
Good luck with that and I mean it.
Hopefully someone can bring this kid back to what he once was.

[killeverything]

Cubs claim Daniel Bard off of waivers.
Good luck with that and I mean it.
Hopefully someone can bring this kid back to what he once was.

It's possible. His problem seems to stem from confidence. He lost all of his when he got it into his head he wanted to be a starter. It's not like he had a massive drop in velocity. I think the transition, + being pounded at the MLB level, + being pounded at the MiL level, + no Farrell did him in.

If Epstein assembles a strong pitching/player development core I could see him turnaround. I hope he does, he's a strong talent.

[yeahbuddy]

Dodgers have won 6 straight.
I'm just saying.

[johnk5150]

Do you know how many times I've heard the word "who the fuck is this guy?" At Wrigley field the last month ? They have outfielders with numbers in the 50s and 60s.

[WOLF]

Do you know how many times I've heard the word "who the fuck is this guy?" At Wrigley field the last month ? They have outfielders with numbers in the 50s and 60s.

Sounds kind of similar to what Houston Astros fans have been living this year!

[UtahRatt]

Dodgers have won 6 straight.
I'm just saying.

But I heard they called up Dee Gordon so all that could change quickly. Not to mention we're tossing Volquez on the mound so we'll be feeding the lions tonight.....

"Volquez has not enjoyed much success in his career at Coors Field, where he is 1-4 with an 8.39 ERA. In three starts at the ballpark this season, Volquez is 0-2 with a 14.92 ERA and has allowed 29 hits, including two home runs, in 12 2/3 innings. The right-hander is 0-4 with a 13.08 ERA against Colorado this year."

If Volquez and Dee are on the line up the Rockies could put up 3 TD's by the 3rd inning. I'm saying it now, barring a bolt of lightning Volquez wont get past the 4th.
I'm surprised we won with our line up last night even tho we've been doing it all year.....I've seen over a dozen Dodger games at Coors Field and they always seem to fuck with our streak's. Leaving Denver we'll have a few weeks to recover while playing .500 ball.

[UtahRatt]

God bless Keith Olbermann!

http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2012/ ... -proposal/

I raffed...

[UtahRatt]

Dodgers have won 6 straight.
I'm just saying.

Just seen the line up, Puig, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier are out of the line up. I understand why he's resting players but it's gonna be a long shot to make it 7 straight.

[UtahRatt]

I'm saying it now, barring a bolt of lightning Volquez wont get past the 4th.

Well, at the end of 4 Volquez has given up 4.....They just said if Volquez was taken out now it would still lower his era. I hate the fact we picked him up, sure honeycutt has worked his magic on pitchers mechanics with good success this year but this isn't a time for Volquez, we should be starting Stephen Fife or some young call up.


**EDIT** They did pull Volquez after 4: 4.0 innings, 6 hits, 4 runs, 3 earned, 0 balls, 4 strike outs, 1 HR, 5.99

At least he had zero balls.

[UtahRatt]

Holy shit, end of the 8th and Boston almost has 3 td's.

20 - 4 over Detroit

[NeverSurrender]

Dodgers have won 6 straight.
I'm just saying.

Just seen the line up, Puig, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier are out of the line up. I understand why he's resting players but it's gonna be a long shot to make it 7 straight.

I hate to bitch about one loss in this great season, but why does he rest everybody in the same game?

Then pinch hits all of them in that same game.

[UtahRatt]

I hate to bitch about one loss in this great season, but why does he rest everybody in the same game?

Then pinch hits all of them in that same game.

HAHAHA, I was totally shaking my fucking head and it's not like it's the first time.

I have an idea! I'll act like I'm giving you guys rest, we'll toss out a shitty pitcher and give the other team a head start then I'll sneak you guys in and see if we can still win!!!!!!

Fucking Mattingly. That kind of shit, no compute.

[killeverything]

I hate to bitch about one loss in this great season, but why does he rest everybody in the same game?

Then pinch hits all of them in that same game.

HAHAHA, I was totally shaking my fucking head and it's not like it's the first time.

I have an idea! I'll act like I'm giving you guys rest, we'll toss out a shitty pitcher and give the other team a head start then I'll sneak you guys in and see if we can still win!!!!!!

Fucking Mattingly. That kind of shit, no compute.

It makes total sense to me. The Dodgers OWN the West and with playoffs right around the corner, it's the perfect time to give some guys a day off.

[Machado]

I hate to bitch about one loss in this great season, but why does he rest everybody in the same game?

Then pinch hits all of them in that same game.

HAHAHA, I was totally shaking my fucking head and it's not like it's the first time.

I have an idea! I'll act like I'm giving you guys rest, we'll toss out a shitty pitcher and give the other team a head start then I'll sneak you guys in and see if we can still win!!!!!!

Fucking Mattingly. That kind of shit, no compute.

It makes total sense to me. The Dodgers OWN the West and with playoffs right around the corner, it's the perfect time to give some guys a day off.

I agree with Kill.
Look that up in the Baseball for Dummies handbook!!!

Dodger fans are already ordering their WS tickets and sizing
their fingers for WS rings.

[killeverything]

There's a very good article on Bleacher Report about who is more deserving of the AL Cy Young Scherzer or the King. Both sides discussed are valid, check it out.

My stance is the King, but Scherzer's having a helluva year.

http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/17 ... l-cy-young

[NeverSurrender]

I hate to bitch about one loss in this great season, but why does he rest everybody in the same game?

Then pinch hits all of them in that same game.

HAHAHA, I was totally shaking my fucking head and it's not like it's the first time.

I have an idea! I'll act like I'm giving you guys rest, we'll toss out a shitty pitcher and give the other team a head start then I'll sneak you guys in and see if we can still win!!!!!!

Fucking Mattingly. That kind of shit, no compute.

It makes total sense to me. The Dodgers OWN the West and with playoffs right around the corner, it's the perfect time to give some guys a day off.

None of them ended up with a day off.

[killeverything]

None of them ended up with a day off.

Heh. Reading comprehension.......or lack there of.

Triumph called me out on that a little bit ago actually.

[NeverSurrender]

Don't care. If I want to bitch about Donnie Foosball, I will.