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Postby iladelph53 » Wed Aug 02, 2017 00:45:01

Warszawa wrote:There doesn't seem to be any teams i want to root for in the playoffs


I kinda like the diamondbacks
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Postby Titlehungry » Wed Aug 02, 2017 00:48:57

I'm ok with Houston and whoever wins the ARIZ/COL wild card game
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Postby iladelph53 » Wed Aug 02, 2017 00:58:34

Titlehungry wrote:I'm ok with Houston and whoever wins the ARIZ/COL wild card game


same. Houston is a pretty cool team imho. Springer and Altuve, especially. George Springer is a person who stutters. He does great things for the stuttering community by promoting acceptance of self instead of seeing oneself as flawed or needing to be fixed.
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Postby Wolfgang622 » Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:13:33

Hey hey hey KC holds the second wild card in the AL right now and I'll be damned if I ever root for an Astros team to win anything after 2005.
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Postby ReadingPhilly » Thu Aug 03, 2017 12:27:24

si on the life and death of hideki irabu

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Postby swishnicholson » Thu Aug 03, 2017 14:05:35

Warszawa wrote:There doesn't seem to be any teams i want to root for in the playoffs


Ex-hometown Indians are in , the Orioles still have a bit of a a shot and there's always "whoever is playing the Yankees," so the AL is not really a problem. NL all I got is the Los Angeles Utleys. Once he retires I'll go back to hating them again.
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Postby iladelph53 » Thu Aug 03, 2017 15:05:58

Seriously. No Cardinals (knock on wood) or Giants already make these playoffs more likeable.

D-backs, Astros, Indians, AL wildcard, and Rockies. Then of course, whether you like them or not, Yankees and Red Sox tend to make things a little more exciting.
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Postby Wolfgang622 » Fri Aug 04, 2017 13:49:07



If I knew that he was dead, and by suicide, I'd forgotten. Touching piece.
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Postby pacino » Mon Aug 07, 2017 09:56:25

when it rains it pours, Don Baylor, 68, passed away from multiple myeloma

former 1979 AL MVP and Cubs/Rockies manager
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Postby ReadingPhilly » Mon Aug 07, 2017 21:01:42

harper hit his 150th career hr tonight at 24 years 295 days old. trout hit his #150th career hr last may at 24 years 295 days old.

think that means they'll both be phils at some point.

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Postby Wolfgang622 » Mon Aug 07, 2017 22:49:30

I was looking at the 2017 hall of fame balloting and besides seeing that old friends Pat Burrell and Matt Stairs got bounced without a single vote in their first years of eligibility (sad but unsurprising), Jorge Posada was eliminated after only one year of eligibility, albeit with 17 votes.

I surely would have thought New York bias alone would have kept him on the ballot, but am I missing something? 17 years, all with the Yankees (a rarity for any player in this day and age), a 121 career OPS+, 42.7 career WAR, and all for a catcher. Looking at b-r's HOF monitor stuff it does look like he would have clocked in below average for hall of famers at that position in most respects, but not exactly out of the argument either. You'd think all the WS rings would have given him the intangible thing.

Just kinda stunned he didn't get enough votes to stay on the ballot a couple of years. I can't think of a better catcher for the "oughts" decade, at least from an offensive point of view, and he stayed clear of the steroid thing.
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Postby Bucky » Tue Aug 08, 2017 15:44:32

did anybody watch the cubs/giants game last night? It was on at the Watering Hole (no sound). I'm specifically liking one play- a routine fly ball clunked off the cub RF's glove, and the batter was running hard all the way and got to second. The clunk didn't go far, but if he had half-hearted it he would've been on first instead. Just wanted to throw out some props to the Unknown Hitter.

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Postby blah » Tue Aug 08, 2017 18:50:25

Bucky wrote:did anybody watch the cubs/giants game last night? It was on at the Watering Hole (no sound). I'm specifically liking one play- a routine fly ball clunked off the cub RF's glove, and the batter was running hard all the way and got to second. The clunk didn't go far, but if he had half-hearted it he would've been on first instead. Just wanted to throw out some props to the Unknown Hitter.


The unknown hitter was Denard Span on a Jason Heyward error
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Postby Bill McNeal » Tue Aug 08, 2017 21:21:13

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Joe West suspended 3 games after calling Adrian Beltre game's biggest complainer in USA Today, per WUA. Union strongly opposes suspension.
8:13 PM · Aug 8, 2017
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Postby WheelsFellOff » Wed Aug 09, 2017 01:39:31

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Postby swishnicholson » Wed Aug 09, 2017 02:08:21

Bill McNeal wrote:
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Joe West suspended 3 games after calling Adrian Beltre game's biggest complainer in USA Today, per WUA. Union strongly opposes suspension.
8:13 PM · Aug 8, 2017


I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of Beltre as a personality (whiny and short-tempered being part of that), though I love him as a player. Joe West I'm neither a fan of his personality or performance.

That said, I can't see anything he said that merits a suspension. And Beltre's reaction is admirable.
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Re: World Champion Cubs?!?! and Other Random MLB Thoughts

Postby pacino » Wed Aug 09, 2017 06:46:01

swishnicholson wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:
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Joe West suspended 3 games after calling Adrian Beltre game's biggest complainer in USA Today, per WUA. Union strongly opposes suspension.
8:13 PM · Aug 8, 2017


I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of Beltre as a personality (whiny and short-tempered being part of that), though I love him as a player. Joe West I'm neither a fan of his personality or performance.

That said, I can't see anything he said that merits a suspension. And Beltre's reaction is admirable.

bad look for the guy that calls strikes and balls to say a certain player is a whiner
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Postby stevelxa476 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 07:34:04

pacino wrote:
swishnicholson wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:
Bill Shaikin @BillShaikin
Joe West suspended 3 games after calling Adrian Beltre game's biggest complainer in USA Today, per WUA. Union strongly opposes suspension.
8:13 PM · Aug 8, 2017


I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of Beltre as a personality (whiny and short-tempered being part of that), though I love him as a player. Joe West I'm neither a fan of his personality or performance.

That said, I can't see anything he said that merits a suspension. And Beltre's reaction is admirable.

bad look for the guy that calls strikes and balls to say a certain player is a whiner


And Beltre probably would have been fined if he had said West was the worst umpire in the league so you have to keep things somewhat fair.
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Postby stevelxa476 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 08:42:27

Our old friend Ernesto Frieri was sold by the Rangers to the M's for $1.
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Postby BigEd76 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 12:16:07

former ump Ken Kaiser passed away at 72. He worked two World Series but was one of 13 umps that wasn't rehired when they were locked out in 1999

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