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2013 MLB Season Thread

63dot said:
The San Francisco Giants are probably out of it for 2013 but it's nice to see at least Bumgarner and Lincecum pitching well. I guess we will have to have Timmy's no-hitter be our sportscaster's highlight of the Bay Area baseball season unless the American League's fourth best A's do something this year. NFL.com predicts the coming Super Bowl will be the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos after 50,000 computer simulations. With Kap penciled in for whole season and Manning having thrown one of his best, this is a likely scenario and at least something to help us forget how baseball let us down this year. Though I have given up on Giants in 2013, what could happen and what would be nice is for the A's to go against the Dodgers in the World Series and have the A's sweep them. LA's Kershaw is a vicious pitcher and if our long history of mutually stealing each others' people (Brian Wilson, Dusty Baker) holds up, I would love to see him in a Giants uniform one day. Every single pitcher we have in our Giants' rotation is a proven winner but we just can't get all the cylinders firing at the same time. Our hitters here can scrape something together so I think it's our pitching that has left the team and the Bay Area down.

This season is more like what the Giants are usually like historically and certain streaks and some amazing come from behind games gave us two WS but neither in 2010 nor 2012 did any sane person think San Francisco stood a chance in the postseason.
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love to see the Niners beat the broncos again.

i'm pulling for the orioles or the pirates now.
 
pachyderm said:
love to see the Niners beat the broncos again.

i'm pulling for the orioles or the pirates now.
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After the Giants, I will go with A's, then San Diego, then LA Angels, and then LA Dodgers to keep it in state. Other than that I like Red Sox, Rays, Texas, or Detroit. The team I least want to see is NYY and more than any team, of course, you can't count them out.
 
63dot said:
After the Giants, I will go with A's, then San Diego, then LA Angels, and then LA Dodgers to keep it in state. Other than that I like Red Sox, Rays, Texas, or Detroit. The team I least want to see is NYY and more than any team, of course, you can't count them out.
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agreed on A's & Angels no to the rest of that list ... ;)
 
MacNut said:
Why, our season is over and he is retiring anyways. He had a great career plus he is going against the Tigers.
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Not about our season. But, it would be nice for him to get 650 saves. I don't like when great players like Mo go out by sucking....

Anyway.... Gardner to the rescue.
 

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My prediction is the Braves and the Tigers in the World Series. I really don't see any competition for the Tigers but the Braves have a tougher road with either the Pirates or the Dodgers.
 
sk1wbw said:
My prediction is the Braves and the Tigers in the World Series. I really don't see any competition for the Tigers but the Braves have a tougher road with either the Pirates or the Dodgers.
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That would be a great one. If not the Tigers, then the Texas Rangers. Either way, both the Tigers and Rangers are HUNGRY for a World Series win for obvious reasons.

The Braves certainly need to get there and show that they are more than the 1990s pitching dynasty (and perhaps greatest pitching dynasty) of old. Your three guys won 7 out of 10 Cy Youngs that decade. I don't think baseball will ever see a three pitcher Cy Young rotation like what Atlanta had. You currently have the #2 saves pitcher and #2 batting average hitter.

When San Francisco's Matt Cain was so close to a Cy Young, we would have had him if he won, two time winner Tim Lincecum, and former A's Cy Young winner Barry Zito at the same time. The only problem is that we can never get all three firing on all cylinders like you guys had in the 90s with three pitchers simultaneously being on their A games. In 2010 WS we had Lincecum and Cain hot, but in the 2012 WS Lincecum was off the rotation and was able to only be in the bullpen. Cain and Zito did deliver for that World Series. This year none of our three aces are on top other than a lone no-hitter from Lincecum in an otherwise mediocre year. Zito's huge win streak ended this year. We did have good years with Chad Gaudin and Madison Bumgarner and I hope Ryan Vogelsong gets back to form after injury/DL.

If you guys make it I will root for you. I had only wished you had won more WS in that great window of opportunity in the 1990s. I always liked your city's baseball team even though I detested your football team (that is until you gifted us with Deion Sanders who went from zero to hero with us). Somehow it wasn't bad to see his gaudy grandstanding in a 49ers uniform. It was a double bonus to see your former Atlanta Braves two sport star don a San Francisco Giants uniform, too. Even in fiction, former Atlanta Braves hitter (Wesley Snipes) became a San Francisco Giant. To me, that kind of made us like sister cities in sports. Now all we need to do to keep up with your is host an Olympics!

The only way I will not root for you is if the Angels (unlikely) or the A's (likely) show up representing the American League.
 
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Instant replay is coming in 2014.
Managers will be allowed one challenge over the first six innings of a game and two from the seventh inning until the completion of the game. Calls that are challenged will be reviewed by a crew in MLB headquarters in New York City, which will make a final ruling.

A manager who sees a call he feels is incorrect can file a challenge with the crew chief or home plate umpire. Only reviewable plays can be challenged. Non-reviewable plays can still be argued by managers, who can request that the umpires discuss it to see if another member of the crew saw the play differently. Reviewable plays cannot be argued by the manager.

Challenges not used in the first six innings will not carry over, and a manager who wins a challenge will retain it.

The home run replay rules currently in use will be grandfathered in to the new system, Schuerholz said.
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As the Yankees head into Fenway, I am really thanking the baseball gods we "lost" out on A-Rod. The Yankees are probably the one franchise that can bounce back from him in a reasonable amount of time, I don't think the Red Sox would have been able to.

I can't believe how out of their minds the Dodgers are playing right now. Really not looking forward to the series with them next week.
 
What a ****ing joke this game is. Dumpster throws at A-Rod twice and Girardi is the one that gets ejected?
 
MacNut said:
What a ****ing joke this game is. Dumpster throws at A-Rod twice and Girardi is the one that gets ejected?
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Sad part is tomorrow we'll hear from ARod's lawyer that Girardi only went to argue with the umpire because Levine told him to go out there to make it seem like the Yankees didn't want to see ARod get hurt. ;) :p
 
quagmire said:
Sad part is tomorrow we'll hear from ARod's lawyer that Girardi only went to argue with the umpire because Levine told him to go out there to make it seem like the Yankees didn't want to see ARod get hurt. ;) :p
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I would not be surprised is there is some collusion between the Yankees and MLB.
 
MacNut said:
I would not be surprised is there is some collusion between the Yankees and MLB.
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I don't blame them. I would want ARod off my team if he used PED's and now the circus he has created. I want language in the next CBA to allow teams to void players contracts that test positive for PED use or the league has sufficient evidence of use( as seen with the Biogenesis case).

There should be no reason why teams have to keep on paying players millions of dollars if it is confirmed the player cheated.
 
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quagmire said:
I don't blame them. I would want ARod off my team if he used PED's and now the circus he has created. I want language in the next CBA to allow teams to void players contracts that test positive for PED use or the league has sufficient evidence of use( as seen with the Biogenesis case).

There should be no reason why teams have to keep on paying players millions of dollars if it is confirmed the player cheated.
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Why pay them millions of dollars to begin with, it just pushes these players to juice more.
 
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