I never thought much of Valentine as a manager. His Texas teams were run very poorly. Throwing to the wrong base every single game. Poor baserunning and defense. Not getting much from the talent on hand. All that kinda stuff.

i wasn't much of an every day baseball fan during his mets days, so i've pretty much gone on what mlb on xm has told me coupled with that incident with the sunglasses and mustache. but this was downright moronic. it'd be one thing if it was a player with perceived bad character, like manny or alex rios, etc. but what's he got against freaking kevin youkilis?

apparently he apologized this morning before the game. what's funny is the soundbite i heard of BV addressing the reporters had the tone of "these things happen" and somehow he had no control over what happened. whatta jackass. he's also got a scheduled weekly gig on an NY radio show.

fenway's gonna be in ashes by the ASG

Curtis Granderson wearing special cleats and a wrist band today in memory of one of the VT shooting victims, Brian Bluhm, who was a huge Tigers fan.

Bumgarner extended for five years

Phillies daily trivia calendar continuing its reign of awfulness. Today's:

Who is the only Phillies player to serve as designated hitter in a regular season Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park?

woulda been from that Toronto series, right? Dobbs?

apparently it was Howard for the first two games and Ibanez for the third

hey we were there

Barry Jive wrote:woulda been from that Toronto series, right? Dobbs?

apparently it was Howard for the first two games and Ibanez for the third

Yes, I was at the first one. Their answer was "Ryan Howard, June 25 2010" and that's it

The B1G Piece wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:

The B1G Piece wrote:LOL Valentine already losing the Red Sox.

Didn't even make it to Marathon Day.

No idea what he's doing with Youkilis. I mean, I HATE Youkilis, but ffs that was unnecessary.

“Maybe that works in Japan,” Pedroia said.

Awesome.

I loved that. Bobby has always seemed like a scumbag to me. I hate the BoSox as much as the next guy, but I hope these guys run him out of town.

centerfielders are off to an unbelievable start

Chris Young .419/.500/.897
Matt Kemp .465/.500/.977
Austin Jackson .366/.469/.634
Josh Hamilton .413/.404/.804

too bad young got injured.

Somehow, we have more runs than the Reds. That doesn't make any sense.

Ivan Rodriguez will sign a 1-day deal and retire as a Ranger

only man with a bigger head than kevin mench?

pacino wrote:only man with a bigger head than kevin mench?

Bruce Bochy

RHP Bartolo Colon threw 38 consecutive strikes from the second pitch of the fifth inning to the seventh pitch of the eighth inning on Wednesday, the longest string of strikes in at least 24 years, which is as far back as the data available Wednesday night went. Colon worked eight scoreless innings at Angel Stadium to improve to 3-1; he allowed four hits and he struck out five.
(Yahoo! Sports)

They need to hook up Utley with Barolo's stem cell doctor.

kruker wrote:RHP Bartolo Colon threw 38 consecutive strikes from the second pitch of the fifth inning to the seventh pitch of the eighth inning on Wednesday, the longest string of strikes in at least 24 years, which is as far back as the data available Wednesday night went. Colon worked eight scoreless innings at Angel Stadium to improve to 3-1; he allowed four hits and he struck out five.
(Yahoo! Sports)

I saw on BBTF that that's the greatest number of consecutive strikes going back to at least 1988, the first year for which STATS has data, by eight.

Tim Wakefield of all people previously had the record, from 1998.

The Reds' next win will be their 10,000th

Per realken, Pineda threw 15 pitches before feeling pain in the back of his shoulder. Back to the doctor monday.