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2008 MLB Season

tWoSour said:
so now he pitched good? I thought he "fell apart in the middle". Next time Hughes goes 6 IP and gives up 1 ER, just remember that he "fell apart in the middle" while your slobbering all over him.
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🙄 Depends if he leaves the bases loaded when he leaves. The point was that it was not a duel if one pitcher has a 1 hitter and the other has 5. I still don't hear you praising Wang's great performance.
 
MacNut said:
Do you think he will get to 300 wins or will his body not let him.
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Tough call, between his back and his knee he may have to dial it down a bit and depend more on his team to help him out with the wins.

If he pushes himself like he tends to do, his body may not hold out.
 
I don't remember if I asked this last season, so I'll ask again.

Has anyone (everyone) seen the HBO special "The Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush?"

I finally DVRed it and watched it for about the 5th time. It's just so damn good. If you haven't seen I highly recommend it. It is a fantastic piece of baseball lure/history.
 
MacNut said:
The point was that it was not a duel if one pitcher has a 1 hitter and the other has 5. I still don't hear you praising Wang's great performance.
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So what constitutes a pitchers duel than? Both having a no hitter? Clay gave up 5 hits, just remember that next time Hughes has a similar pitching line. I keep thinking you can't say anything dumber, but you continue to show how little you actually know about baseball (just keep you Yankees blinders on, and pretend everything will be ok). It kinda goes without saying that a guy who gives up 2 hits pitched a good game.

Your opinion on everything baseball is officially null-in-void to me from now on.
 
Teh Don Ditty said:
I don't remember if I asked this last season, so I'll ask again.

Has anyone (everyone) seen the HBO special "The Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush?"

I finally DVRed it and watched it for about the 5th time. It's just so damn good. If you haven't seen I highly recommend it. It is a fantastic piece of baseball lure/history.
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Is that on DVD yet, as I don't have the HBO.😱
 
"sour"

It suits you.

I haven't been around here long, and I know my share of what you're describing as "typical Yankees fans," but you're exaggerating a lot just so you can bitch and moan. Your board warrioring makes your opinion considerably closer to null and void than anything MacNut has said.

On to more pertinent things...

Thanks for the note on the The Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush. My baseball tradition is to watch at least three or four good baseball movies during Spring Training although I'm late this year. The Natural, Sandlot, Major League, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own (ya, I said it!), 61*, The Pride of the Yankees, Bull Durham (man I love going to games in Durham)... hell, you could even slide Brewster's Millions in there.
 
benmrii said:
Thanks for the note on the The Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush. My baseball tradition is to watch at least three or four good baseball movies during Spring Training although I'm late this year. The Natural, Sandlot, Major League, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own (ya, I said it!), 61*, The Pride of the Yankees, Bull Durham (man I love going to games in Durham)... hell, you could even slide Brewster's Millions in there.
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You're very welcome. I've been trying to spread the word that documentary, it's like some people saw it and some people never heard of it. HBO didn't do much to promote it. I was honestly moved by this piece.

Hey, there's nothing wrong with A League of Their Own. That's another piece of baseball history (albeit a bit stylized). THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!! I have no shame saying I like that movie. I saw Field of Dreams for the first time last year if I'm not mistaken, that almost made me cry. The Sandlot is epic. It truly captures the game in it's purest form, innocence. YOU'RE KILLING ME SMALLS! 61* was insane, did you know it was filmed in the old Tigers Stadium before it was torn down?
 
All mighty Wiki says September 2008.
On June 7, 2007 the DEGC approved a plan to demolish the stadium after a memorabilia auction. The plan will go to the City Council for approval in July 2007[7]. The June 2007 announcement from DEGC seemed to settle the longstanding matter of what would happen to the old and abandoned stadium. It followed several other proposed plans and even some official announcements about the stadium's fate, some of which appeared contradictory or speculative. Items were auctioned via the Internet by Schneider Industries.[8]
In the years before Mayor Kilpactrick's 2006 announcement about demolition, the city rejected several proposals for developing the site. Among the proposals were plans to convert Tiger Stadium into condominiums, a jail, and a Wal-Mart shopping center[9]. Another rejected plan involved converting parts of the stadium into residential lofts. Still another apparently rejected plan, floated by a Detroit area financier, would have reconfigured the stadium to its Navin Field size and layout, as part of a development which would also have included a museum, shops, and conference space[10]. Along with this plan was included the potential to bring a minor-league baseball team to Detroit.
On July 27, 2007, Detroit City Council approved a plan to demolish Tiger Stadium by September 2008. They did not vote to give control of the project to the DEGC[11]. In October, 2007, commensurate with the removal and sale of seats and other memorabilia, the neon lettering "TIGER STADIUM" on the offices at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull were removed, as were the tiles above the office entrance on Trumbull Ave. which contained the Tigers' logo. These items were not auctioned, but were reportedly removed and donated to the Detroit Historical Society.


In November 2007, the DEGC issued a request for proposals from potential demolition companies who will demolish most of Tiger Stadium. The preliminary plans included in the DEGC's request for proposals show that the lower deck of the stadium will remain from just beyond the first base dugout to just beyond the third base dugout. The upper deck in that section, along with the upper and lower decks for the remainder of the stadium, will be demolished. The elevator tower at the corner of Michigan and Cochrane is to remain, as will the broadcast booth behind home plate. The seats have all been removed from the portion of the park which will be saved, with new seats installed at a later date[12].
In November 2007, most of the lower deck seating was removed and sold as part of the October 2007 auction of memorabilia, many seats in the upper deck remain. Those seats will be discarded after the Stadium is demolished. The "TIGER STADIUM" lettering has been removed from the roof behind home plate and that the scoreboards on the base of the left field fence and on the facade of the upper deck along the first and third base lines have been removed.
The DEGC was scheduled to award a contract for the Stadium's demolition in January 2008 but there has been no recent word from the DEGC that a contract has been awarded.
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Teh Don Ditty said:
The Sandlot is epic. It truly captures the game in it's purest form, innocence. YOU'RE KILLING ME SMALLS!
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I actually have a cousin named Benjamin Rodriguez. 😀

And yes, some of us are trying to call him "The Jet". 🙂


"You play ball like a GURL!"
"FOR-EV-ER"



Oh yeah, Pedroia ties it, Manny wins it in the 9th.
 
I love Field of Dreams.

Terrence Mann said:
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. In fact, will be again as soon as the Mets win the World Series. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
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... or something like that. 😉
 
Counterfit said:
I actually have a cousin named Benjamin Rodriguez. 😀

And yes, some of us are trying to call him "The Jet". 🙂


"You play ball like a GURL!"
"FOR-EV-ER"



Oh yeah, Pedroia ties it, Manny wins it in the 9th.
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I would totally be calling him "The Jet"

"It was signed by some girl, Baby Ruth" "BABE RUTH?!?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!??!"

Epic.

benmrii said:
I love Field of Dreams.



... or something like that. 😉
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Words of pure beauty, with the exception of the Mets winning it all. 😛
 
I was going to post the "I believe" quote from Bull Durham, but I'd forgotten that there are parts of it that might not be appropriate for the kiddies.

So instead, a favorite from Major League:

Cerrano: "Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straightball, I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come."

Harris: "You know you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff."

Cerrano: "Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball."

Harris: "You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?"
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benmrii said:
I was going to post the "I believe" quote from Bull Durham, but I'd forgotten that there are parts of it that might not be appropriate for the kiddies.

So instead, a favorite from Major League:
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The trajectory of the ball was too high, not too high too hard, who gives a s*** it's gone. 😀

benmrii said:
How dare you question James Earl Jones!
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That was his 2006 prediction and the Mets best shot at winning it all.
 
mlb.com crashes safari!!! ahh!!! i wanted to see the big unit on my computer!!!

looks like mlb.com won't be seeing any of my money for the time being.
 
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