MLB 2011!!

[SlowwHand]

The Rangers will leave them in the dust - FACT.

[Stuie]

What's really funny is how they can suck so hard and still be in first place.

Well - it was fun while it lasted. The Phils offense sucks so hard that you have to pitch a perfect game and hope for an unearned run to get the win. And for the record, Maybin should have caught that. I'm mean, c'mon!!

[Ben Kenobi]

NL Cy Young--Ubaldo Jiminez continues to be the second coming of Bob Gibson, while pitching half of his games in Coors Field! Roy Halladay, who just pitched a perfect game and has an ERA under 2, hasn't a prayer at this point.

He's been lucky so far. He'll get hit up as Halladay was a few games ago.

[OzzyKP]

It is looking like I may be attending Strasburg's first start.

[SlowwHand]

That should be memorable.

Like this:

[ColdWizard]

I saw that. Ventura wishes he only got a noogie.

[SlowwHand]

From start to finish, he looked stupid. From charging an older pitcher, to older pitcher waxing him in front of millions, for evermore.

[rah]

Nothing an Advil wouldn't cure

[OzzyKP]

Strasburg's first three outs (from Ozzy's vantage point):



And his first at bat:

[Imran Siddiqui]

14Ks and 0 BBs, in 97 pitches (7 innings). 4 hits, and responded very well from that 2 run homer.

Amazing debut for Strasburg

[Stuie]

Amazing debut for Strasburg

Against the Pirates. They're a AAA team, not a Major League team. His first four starts are all against lousy teams:

Pirates
Indians
White Sox
Orioles

Wake me up when he faces a team that's above .500

[-Jrabbit]

Still an impressive debut, especially considering the microscope he was under.

Next Roger Clemens? Or next Mark Prior?

[ColdWizard]

Are 'roids and injury the only two choices?

[-Jrabbit]

I was thinking "multi-Cy" and "epic fail"...

[rah]

Are 'roids and injury the only two choices?

classic. But I was thinking along those lines also.

But considering the attention, I think he did fine. And I don't care if he does it against crappy teams as long as he's consistently good. You know they arranged it this way to help his confidence. (which I think was reasonably smart)

[Stuie]

Phillies on the road against the Blue Jays in Philly this weekend.

[OzzyKP]

Because of the earthquake?

[Berzerker]

Edwin Jackson - no hitter with 8 walks

I'll call that wildly effective

[Stuie]

Because of the earthquake?

Nope - G20.

[-Jrabbit]

Any takers for Zambrano? I suspect he can be had for a bag of balls and a fungo bat...

[rah]

and I'm sure the cubs would throw in all sorts of money.

[-Jrabbit]

He's being put on the restricted list and sent to anger management class. Nearest return will be after the All-Star break.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com...uspension.html

[rah]

It's decisions like this that just verify how wussie a sport baseball is. Yes I understand the limitations placed on teams, but let's be real here. OVERPAID PROTECTED BRATS. No offense intended to the small handful of exceptions to the rule.

[OzzyKP]

I'm not sure what your point is.

[-Jrabbit]

It's not the wuss factor; what bothers me is the fact that guys like Zambrano and Milton Bradley can be total tools, to the detriment of their teams, and still collect every penny of those guaranteed contracts.

We've heard the Zambrano "I'm so sorry" act enough times now to know it means nothing. Sure, the Cubs were idiots for signing him to a long-term $$$$$$$ deal ($95MM iirc), but when the player treats goes rogue and still gets full payment, like an entitlement program, there should be some recourse.

[I assume there is no recourse or the Cubs would have dumped him immediately.]

[Berzerker]

Denard Span, 3 triples tonite

thats gotta at least tie a record

[OzzyKP]

Record is 4. But over 100 years ago.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_trip1.shtml

Damn impressive in any event.

[OzzyKP]

It's not the wuss factor; what bothers me is the fact that guys like Zambrano and Milton Bradley can be total tools, to the detriment of their teams, and still collect every penny of those guaranteed contracts.

We've heard the Zambrano "I'm so sorry" act enough times now to know it means nothing. Sure, the Cubs were idiots for signing him to a long-term $$$$$$$ deal ($95MM iirc), but when the player treats goes rogue and still gets full payment, like an entitlement program, there should be some recourse.

[I assume there is no recourse or the Cubs would have dumped him immediately.]

Baseball isn't the only sport with total tools and prima donnas.

[-Jrabbit]

I know. those hockey guys are a bunch of douches. [/troll]

[SlowwHand]

I was watching this game last night on TV. The home plate umpire saw it happen, spun on his heel and started walking in the other direction. Players and fans were freaked out, too.

Rangers spectator hurt after fall from 2nd deck
Man fell while reaching for foul ball, taken to hospital


updated 10:31 p.m. CT, Tues., July 6, 2010

ARLINGTON, Texas - A male spectator fell from the second deck onto the field level seats while leaning to catch a foul ball at Rangers Ballpark during the fifth inning of Tuesday night’s game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers.

Rangers executive vice president/communications John Blake said the spectator was “able to move all his extremities and was responsive to paramedics.”

Texas’ Nelson Cruz fouled a ball into the first row of seats in the club level along the first-base line, and the fan attempted to snag the ball before losing his balance and tumbling about 30 feet onto the seats below.

Paramedics were on the scene quickly to attend to the fan, who was strapped to a stretcher and taken by ambulance to John Peter Smith Hospital.

The game was stopped for 16 minutes and several players on the field looked shaken.

Four people in the lower deck were struck when the spectator fell and were treated at the ballpark for minor injuries.