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2008 MLB Season

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Congrats to the Soxs for winning the World Championship! I am going to go kinda of that subject of that divison...I am very interested in the Philadelphia Phillies. Did you see some of the players they got in the draft this year. Their batting nd fielding is going to be stacked this year. Spring training from what I have noticed has been a very funny time with changes and comedy in all the games. Many teams that you wouldn't expect to win in Spring Training are lol. I think that once we get officially into the season we will see the good teams from all the divisons. Some teams that were not so good last season have come back to look pretty sharp. The Detriot Tigers from what I could pick up on Comcast Sportnet have been looking pretty sharp. The past couple months ever since football has reached the end everything has been going in a slump. Well with open game just a couple weaks away for most teams I wish everyones team good luck in the regular season and I hope your team does well:) Go Phillies!
 
MacNut said:
So the big exhibition game between the Dodgers and Red Sox at the coliseum is Saturday, anyone planning to go. While I was looking for pics I found this site that lists all the field dimensions.
http://www.ballparktour.com/Diagrams.html
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Not sure what the dimensions will be for this weekend. Are they keeping the fences the same?
For comparison,
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If you think 425 to dead center is bad.
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OMG!!
Did everyone hear the great news happy with the Dodgers... They are coming back opening day to ply at the Melenium Collosium. That should be a very memoral game for the team playing there and the Dodgers...From my conversing I have been a little late with realizing this about them going back to the old stadium, but I am happy to hear what is going on
 
Hasn't the Tigers bullpen fallen apart, they are showing a lot of injuries as of late.
 
Yankees' Matsui Gets Married, Wins Bet

:DTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hideki Matsui chuckled Thursday while recounting his big week. Yes, the Yankees slugger really did get married and win a bet with teammates Derek Jeter and Bobby Abreu at the same time.

Matsui made the wager at the start of spring training about who would wed first, then flew to New York on his off day Wednesday to get married.

Matsui said Jeter, who claimed not to have a girlfriend, has one year to get married to win the bet. Yankees outfielder Bobby Abreu, who said he has a girlfriend, has six months to win the bet.

Since Matsui said he knew six months ago he was going to get married, he was able to pull a fast one on his teammates, who both said Thursday they would play off their losses immediately.

"He won," Jeter said. "I'm going to give him the money today."
The amount of wager was not disclosed.

"I'm happy for him," Abreu said. "I'll have to send him a check."
Jeter didn't believe reporters at first when told about the marriage. He went to Matsui's locker to confirm it.

"Yeah, I'm surprised," Jeter said. "Good for him."
Even Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who was informed about Matsui's wedding this week, got a good laugh out of it.

"Sometimes you should get all the information before you make a bet," Girardi said.

When asked if he got married just to win the bet, Matsui laughed and said "Maybe.":D
 
Now that's what I would call a packed house:
The Dodgers said Friday that the full allotment of 115,300 tickets—with all the proceeds going to ThinkCure, the Dodgers’ official charity—have been sold, including about 25,000 for standing-room only behind the lower fence in right and center fields. Two big-screen TVs will make it possible to watch the action.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjvZVSu2KmNsFPOlprvk950RvLYF?slug=ap-coliseumexhibition&prov=ap&type=lgns

Can't imagine the traffic getting in and out of there :eek:
 
That is one short left field, it looks like little league depth. How did the Dodgers play on that field. Wakefield is going to have fun tonight I can see. Camera angles suck, can't even make out the strike zone. This is one strange way to watch a game.
 
MacNut said:
That is one short left field, it looks like little league depth. How did the Dodgers play on that field. Wakefield is going to have fun tonight I can see. Camera angles suck, can't even make out the strike zone. This is one strange way to watch a game.
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The entire National League played on that field for four seasons, but left was deeper in 1958-61. Crazy game, a real nostalgia trip for the old-timers. I don't suppose you got Vin Scully's play-by-play. I didn't watch the entire game myself, but he told a lot of Coliseum stories during the parts I watched. It's amazing to think he was there 50 years ago and is still calling 'em. Hats off to the remarkable Vin Scully.

And yeah, the camera angles were terrible.
 
No I got the announcer tools from Boston. Kinda surprised that ESPN didn't show the game. They said what 58 years for Vin.
 
That sounds about right. He started broadcasting in Brooklyn. Of all the things I could say about Vin Scully and his amazing career as a sports broadcaster, I think probably the best one is that he has always kept himself out of the spotlight. He could be a major celebrity, but he's always carefully avoided that. His work has always been about the game, and the history of the game, which is why he's developed such a special relationship with the fans in LA.
 
me thinks it's prediction time.

nl

east: braves
central: cubs
west: padres
wc: phillies

al

east: red sox
central: tigers
west: angels
wc: indians

ws: tigers over braves in 5
 
Do the Tigers have the pitching depth.

AL:
east/wild card, Yankees/Red Sox, gonna be to close to call.
central, Indians
west, Mariners

NL:
east, Mets
central, Cubs
west, D-Backs
wild card, Rockies.

Indians over Rockies in 5

But I think there are 6 other teams that have a viable shot. Yankees, Red Sox, Mariners, Mets, D-Backs, and the long shot Cubs.
 
So there has been a lot of discussion about Dodgertown closing but there is another park with a lot of history that is also closed.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2008/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3317204
On Friday afternoon, at the historic corner of Bayshore Drive and First Avenue South, the Reds and Rays trotted out to play a baseball game.

Except this one wasn't just any baseball game.
This one was goodbye.
Goodbye to a place known as Al Lang Field, even though -- thanks to the dubious corporate forces that overpower our lives these days -- that isn't even its name anymore.

Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg hosted more than 2,000 spring-training games, more than any site in the United States.
Goodbye to a place that, for some reason, has inspired about a million fewer tears and a billion fewer verses of poetry than Dodgertown this spring, even though the history of this site is even deeper, even longer, even richer.
Goodbye to a place that has hosted more spring training games -- more than 2,000 of them -- than any site on the American baseball landscape....
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Lou Gehrig trained here. Stan Musial trained here. Grover Cleveland Alexander and Tom Seaver trained here.
Joe DiMaggio got four hits in his first spring training game as a Yankee here. Don Zimmer hit the first Grapefruit League triple in the history of the Mets here.
Babe Ruth once launched home runs here that traveled across First Avenue into the balconies of the now-defunct West Coast Inn.
Mickey Mantle once smoked a mammoth, game-winning, opposite-field home run here that high-hopped off the asphalt beyond the left-field fence and plunked into the turquoise waters of Tampa Bay.
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The Cardinals trained here for 60 years. The Yankees trained here for 36 years. The Mets trained here for the first 26 years of their existence. The Braves, Orioles, Giants and Rays also can say they called this home, at least for an idyllic month and a half. For nearly 70 years, it was the home for two teams every spring.
So simply to call this place a ballpark doesn't seem to do it justice.
"It's like a museum to me," said legendary Cardinals instructor George Kissell, the man who undoubtedly has been a part of more baseball games at Al Lang over the last half-century or so than any living American. "It's a museum of baseball."
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fotografica said:
Great article there..I remember Scully with Garagiola on NBC..Nothing like hearing him call the Game of the Week on Saturdays..That was when they used to do playoff games in the afternoons,on weekdays..Can't believe he's 80...T
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Vin is starting to show his age a bit. He makes mistakes here and there, like missing the count or mixing up a player's name. No big deal, and we certainly forgive him some slips-ups. He still quotes the classics and throws in an outrageous pun or two nearly every game. And if you remember this one, he still does "deuces are wild."
 
IJ Reilly said:
Vin is starting to show his age a bit. He makes mistakes here and there, like missing the count or mixing up a player's name.
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McCarver does that all the time and he's almost 15 years younger. Vin gets the pass on that one..It's amazing what he's seen in terms of baseball history.. And l'll never forget his call of game 6 in the 86 Series. I also remember his call of "The Catch" (Dwight Clark of the 49ers)...Vin is one guy I would love to sit down and talk to.....

And if you remember this one, he still does "deuces are wild."
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I do..And I'm most certainly showing my age :eek:
 
fotografica said:
McCarver does that all the time and he's almost 15 years younger. Vin gets the pass on that one..It's amazing what he's seen in terms of baseball history.. And l'll never forget his call of game 6 in the 86 Series. I also remember his call of "The Catch" (Dwight Clark of the 49ers)...Vin is one guy I would love to sit down and talk to.....
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I know somebody who was working on a biography of Vin, which he started maybe 15 years ago and never finished. Apparently Vin is not the most cooperative subject, not because he's unfriendly but I think because he's quite private and doesn't like a fuss being made over him. I hope he relents before he gets much older -- Vin has more baseball history in his little finger than anybody else has in their head.
 
The new Nationals Stadium looks amazing.

edit: thrown out at second, that was awesome.
 
IJ Reilly said:
I know somebody who was working on a biography of Vin, which he started maybe 15 years ago and never finished. Apparently Vin is not the most cooperative subject, not because he's unfriendly but I think because he's quite private and doesn't like a fuss being made over him. I hope he relents before he gets much older -- Vin has more baseball history in his little finger than anybody else has in their head.
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Yes,I hope he gives in and writes that one..I would buy that in a minute. I love the history of the game and reading about it..Especially from his perspective.
 
ryan zimmerman walk off! great game to open up that new ballpark.
 
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