MLB - 2008 Season

[snoopy369]

I hope not... he's gone through a lot and each time he comes back he risks worse damage in the long run. He would be better off coming back as a pitching coach - I could see both he and Maddux as the next great pitching coaches.

[Berzerker]

well, that aint good about Smoltz. But... I did just trade him in another league for Kershaw But... I got Smoltz on 3-4 teams

Hope it doesn't mess up his golf game

[Arrian]

The last Rays-Sox game sure was wierd. Coco charges the mound and starts a major brawl, Ellsbury hurts his wrist, Manny and Youklis get into some **** in the dugout, Manny reinjures his hamstring... and the Sox win 7-1. Crazy. Speaking of which...

2-run walkoff HR for Giambi on an 0-2 pitch from BJ Ryan. Phew. That was a really ugly game for the Yanks, but they won it in the end. Wang continues to be mechanically out of whack. The sinker isn't sinking and he's got no command. It's ugly. Big problem for the Yanks.

Royal in town - I'll be annoyed if the Yanks don't sweep. They need to take advantage.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

Poor Tampa .

And Crisp is an ass. He was completely trying to hurt Iwamura on the late slide on Wednesday and now gets mad when its time to pay the piper?

[Arrian]

Coco was out of line, yes. I didn't like the whole "block the base" move that originally set him off (I think the runner has the right to the base, and am against the blocking of ANY base, as per the rules), but his take-out of Imawura was a bit much*, and then he should have taken the pitch off his leg like a man.

-Arrian

* - poor Imawura. Wasn't he the guy Shelley Duncan took out when the Yanks wanted payback for Cervelli?

[Will9]

I just noticed, the Cards are one 3 teams with a winning road record. The Angels and Phillies are the other two.

[-Jrabbit]

The Cards are doing it with mirrors, I swear. They gave LaRussa a crate full of lemons and he's doing his magic "making lemonade" thing again.

[snoopy369]

White Sox ... I think we need to schedule these rants. Every second Thursday in the month or something. Give him an ESPN Radio show. Let him rant. All the way to the world series

[-Jrabbit]

Home cooking also coincided with the onset of this streak. I've never seen the Twins come here with such weak pitching.
That's SO refreshing.

The Chisox are among the league leaders in road games played, which really bodes well.

[EPW]

The A's pulled out one from the Angels at least, they aren't out of the race yet. Bob Geren(teh manager) has a nasty habit of replacing the A's best hitters late in the game for pinch runners. He pulled out Crosby, Chavez and Cust today. Sometimes it works out, but the teams usually stuck with 9 ****ty poor hitters for the rest of the game

[SlowwHand]

All can stop the questions on Soriano for a while.

[Guynemer]

For the record, whoever it was that I laughed at for predicted the ChiSox would take the AL Central... mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

[snoopy369]

No problem Your Tigers are trying their best to help out, but you just don't have enough pitchers anymore

Unless Rodney can start, anyway...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Just spent a weekend in Tampa and caught the Rays/Marlins game on 6/14 (Saturday), which was Latin night.

Never been to a Rays game before and I'd been prepared to hear about it as a horrid stadium, no fans, etc, etc.

First things first was traffic. Just not a very smart way to go about things. It could have been done far smarter had there been more bodies on the route. But it wasn't too, too horrid.

Secondly, it was Latin Night, so there was a concert afterwards, and I dunno how much that impacted things, but there was a very nice crowd. They said it was 31,000 reported and that sounds about right. Now, I'm used to a Braves audience that is, let's face it, lackadaisical. Sometimes it seems they could care less. Tampa's crowd was PHENOMINAL. They were loud, raucous, smart, and really put up some noise. It was the most fun I had a ballpark in quite some time.

Before, I got ahead of myself, the inside of the ballpark... wasn't that bad actually. Our seats were all the way down, left field side, by the poll, and had GREAT sightlines. In fact it seemed that most of the seats had really good sightlines. The stadium had a TON of food options. 3 big food courts, lots of different options for beer. I felt a bit spoiled after going to Turner Field all this time.

And the game was a good one (for the Rays) as well. 4-1 Tampa. I've been looking for an AL team to follow, and I think I've found one.

Let's just say if I had to choose between going to a Rays game and going to a Braves game (putting aside any anti-Braves feeling I have as a Mets fan, and any expense), I'd take a Rays game anytime... well, at least when they were winning (and perhaps when it was Latin night ).

Oh, and they were also passing out flyers of the proposed new stadium on the St. Pete waterway and , it looks like a beaut. When done (if done), it'll be the prettiest stadium in the majors, easy. It's right on the bay, has an interesting dome, which allows any seat to have a view of the bay even when its closed, and right in the middle of downtown St. Pete.

[Imran Siddiqui]

If anyone cares about this sport anymore... Willie Randolph got fired by the Mets. About time, but the way they went about it was just moronic. Omar Minaya needs to go next.

I have no idea why Rick Peterson was fired though.