The 2008 Major League Baseball Thread

[Me!]

No Hitta!

Bummed I was at work and didn\'t get to see this.  But great fuckin news.  2 Sox rookies in 2 seasons.

Way to go Lester!!

[bezerker]

also congrats to varitek, first cather to ever catch 4 no hitters

[derickw]

i was at the game. i bought standing room only seats and ended up walking in and sitting at the lower box a couple rows back from the KC dugout. good times

[booztravlr]

As stunning as the news was, Jake Peavy’s placement on the disabled list with an inflamed flexor mass near his right elbow was not the biggest explosion in the Padres’ clubhouse Monday.

After the Padres lost for the 23rd time in their last 31 games, general manager Kevin Towers went off.

“We’re bad, no question about it,” Towers said. “And I’ve seen no signs to tell us or our fans that we’re going to turn it around.

“I’m not going to watch this for another four months. Other than our starting pitching and the back end of the bullpen… it’s all negatives except for (Brian) Giles and (Adrian Gonzalez).

“We’re not running the bases. The defense is shabby. Our 0-23 record when behind after seven innings shows we’re not able to come back. The morale shouldn’t be good. If the morale is good, we have major problems. If the morale is good, they have no expectations of being better. Morale should be horrible."

This is about 2 weeks overdue. The team should have been told they are garbage weeks ago, before the 16 out of 19 game road trip, in order to try and restore some fire in their game. This season is lost and has been since the start of May. To think, they were 8-6 at one point. Now, they\'re 16-30. I\'m still going to watch as many games as I can but for Towers to put all the blame on the players, after signing the carcas of Jim Edmonds in CF, not signing a LF and spending money on Mark Prior\'s chicken wing of an arm (who hasn\'t even pitched yet), Towers really didn\'t give them much of a chance to win. He relied way too much on pitchers to carry this team again.[/vent]

go Padres

[Klout]

Don\'t you wish you were a Red Sox fan too?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NO.

[Wolfman]

Don\'t you wish you were a Red Sox fan too?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NO.

Haha, well, it sounds like booztravlr sure does!  Hey Booz, I\'d like to extend to you a personal invitation to join Red Sox Nation.  With you being a fan of an NL West team you couldn\'t possibly have less of a conflict.  We have the greatest clutch hitter of our lifetime, a hall-of-famer about to reach 500 home runs, the best clutch pitcher in the game, two second-year starters who have both thrown no hitters, the best young outfielder in the game who steals second and third on back-to-back pitches, 2 titles in the last 4 years, and the chances of postseason play are over 50% each year.  Stop rooting for that awful team in that ho-hum yawnball division and come play with the big boys.  We\'d love to have you my man.

[booztravlr]

No thanks. I\'d rather sit through an 0-162 Padres season than be caught wearing a Red Sox hat.

[davepeck]

Don\'t you wish you were a Red Sox fan too?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NO.

Haha, well, it sounds like booztravlr sure does!  Hey Booz, I\'d like to extend to you a personal invitation to join Red Sox Nation.  With you being a fan of an NL West team you couldn\'t possibly have less of a conflict.  We have the greatest clutch hitter of our lifetime, a hall-of-famer about to reach 500 home runs, the best clutch pitcher in the game, two second-year starters who have both thrown no hitters, the best young outfielder in the game who steals second and third on back-to-back pitches, 2 titles in the last 4 years, and the chances of postseason play are over 50% each year.  Stop rooting for that awful team in that ho-hum yawnball division and come play with the big boys.  We\'d love to have you my man.

ahh, yes. there\'s the word i was looking for to describe your post: yawnball! thanks, wolf!

[tyzack]

i was at the game. i bought standing room only seats and ended up walking in and sitting at the lower box a couple rows back from the KC dugout. good times

As was I...field box behind red sox dugout.

I felt like a total dick for rocking my royals gear.

[Wolfman]

Don\'t you wish you were a Red Sox fan too?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NO.

Haha, well, it sounds like booztravlr sure does!  Hey Booz, I\'d like to extend to you a personal invitation to join Red Sox Nation.  With you being a fan of an NL West team you couldn\'t possibly have less of a conflict.  We have the greatest clutch hitter of our lifetime, a hall-of-famer about to reach 500 home runs, the best clutch pitcher in the game, two second-year starters who have both thrown no hitters, the best young outfielder in the game who steals second and third on back-to-back pitches, 2 titles in the last 4 years, and the chances of postseason play are over 50% each year.  Stop rooting for that awful team in that ho-hum yawnball division and come play with the big boys.  We\'d love to have you my man.

ahh, yes. there\'s the word i was looking for to describe your post: yawnball! thanks, wolf!

Sorry Chip, but if you were that bored with it then you wouldn\'t have read it.  I do apologize if it seemed exclusionary, it was not meant just for Booz.  You, of course, will be welcomed into Red Sox Nation with open arms as well!  Thanks for the props on the good made-up word, I kinda like it too.  Describes about 80% of the NL and about half the AL perfectly.

Hmmm...which would piss you off more?  Rooting for a team that\'s in last place and 6.5 games out, or tuning in to watch your team only to find that they\'re down 9-0 after two innings to a crappy team?  Yankee fans don\'t need to answer...you\'ve got both!  rotfl rotfl rotfl

[davepeck]

obviously jon lester isn\'t quite the writing coach that tom brady was. "yawnball" indeed.

[Wolfman]

obviously jon lester isn\'t quite the writing coach that tom brady was. "yawnball" indeed.

[Me!]

I honestly kinda feel bad for the Yankees, they get A-Rod back and lose Jeter in the same game.  tough break man.

[tyzack]

I honestly kinda feel bad for the Yankees, they get A-Rod back and lose Jeter in the same game.  tough break man.

I have come to the conclusion that in terms of teams that have rivals in Boston, the Yankees are not the worst to go play. They were annoying with all the 1918 stuff for the last, well, 90 some-odd years, but they were in no way as bad as the habs and their gay OLE chant.

Ohio state sucks too, while I\'m at it.

[FrankZappa]

The Celtics resorted to some old-fashioned Sox-Yankees rivalry to get the crowd pumped coming out of the last timeout.

The Jumbotron first showed the score of tonight\'s Sox game: "Red Sox 2, Royals 1," then switched to, "Orioles 12, NY Yankees 2" with a note below that read, "Yankees remain in last place."