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2014 MLB Season thread
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Well that's just mean. No need to punish us all for the actions of a few!
Blame your brethren! Get them in line or look away.
Oh trust me Braun is a dick for his throwing everyone under the bus, I think Melky gave the whole Blue Jays the juice seeing their performance this year so far
p), can't stand Peralta got a payday, etc. ARod got my forgiveness once when he was caught the first time. Era he was in, etc. Just like how you don't say Thomas Jefferson sucks because he had slaves despite harping on freedom. But now the era has changed and steroid and other PED use is frowned upon, using again is completely stupid. Damn that person last year that convinced him to fight it vs just retiring......
Don't blame him, he wants him money. Blame the Yankees for giving it to him. If he retires he forfeits that 60 million.Oh trust me Braun is a dick for his throwing everyone under the bus, I think Melky gave the whole Blue Jays the juice seeing their performance this year so far
ARod got my forgiveness once when he was caught the first time. Era he was in, etc. Just like how you don't say Thomas Jefferson sucks because he had slaves despite harping on freedom. But now the era has changed and steroid and other PED use is frowned upon, using again is completely stupid. Damn that person last year that convinced him to fight it vs just retiring......
Oh trust me Braun is a dick for his throwing everyone under the bus, I think Melky gave the whole Blue Jays the juice seeing their performance this year so far
ARod got my forgiveness once when he was caught the first time. Era he was in, etc. Just like how you don't say Thomas Jefferson sucks because he had slaves despite harping on freedom. But now the era has changed and steroid and other PED use is frowned upon, using again is completely stupid. Damn that person last year that convinced him to fight it vs just retiring......
I agree re: Braun, I think he's a huge douche, but he's still cheered in Milwaukee. And I think in a few years no one will care, particularly if he puts up big numbers again.
No one said a thing when Peralta was tearing it up in the postseason last year, same with Melky. I think people care when it suits them. A player on a rival team? Horrible cheat, all victories they were involved in tainted, etc. If it's a player they like, the reaction is far more muted.
Actually it was his aspirations to be an agent I believe according the article I read. Apparently that wouldn't have been possible if he admitted to it and retired.
Oh I agree. Doesn't change my opinion on them. They can come back and prove they can perform clean and earn the fans trust again.
I think the drug system should be a two strike system. Can be stupid to do it once, be stupid again, you should be gone from the game. And as I have been saying, after getting caught once, the team should have the right to void the contract they have with the player. Maximum amount of money after resigning is league minimum for the first year then a max of $5 million for a max of 4 years( for a total of 5 year contract). Disqualifies them from the HOF, any records voided, etc. I don't care if they never failed a drug test. If there is evidence like what happened in Biogenesis case, it's fair game. That won't get past the union, but that is what I would set up.
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Ay. The only games the Cards win were the ones won on errors, or by strange (but right) calls. If anything the Cards were lucky.... To not have been swept. And this is from a Cards fan here.
Cards had plenty of opportunities to bury both Clay and Jake...but just couldn't come up with the big hits that the Red Sox lineup could come up with in similar situations.
We have concluded that the Braves suck. They can't even beat a team that lost 10 straight.My Atlanta Braves are beating up on the Boston Red Sox
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametr...d-sox-lose-10th-straight-brawl-with-tampa-bay
Just want to point something out.....
Despite the call for a spending caps, etc in MLB, our postseasons lately have featured more teams, etc and the World Series have had different mix ups and different winners.
Now look at the NBA where they do have caps. And look who are in the finals again for the 4th time in a row..... The Miami Heat....
Despite the call for a spending caps, etc in MLB, our postseasons lately have featured more teams, etc and the World Series have had different mix ups and different winners.
Now look at the NBA where they do have caps. And look who are in the finals again for the 4th time in a row..... The Miami Heat....
Giants still rolling despite a litany of injuries, great and small (Belt, Cain, Casilla, Posey, and now Morse. And can't forget about Scutaro, either). Guys just come in and, for the most part, step up.
Was Tim Hudson the best free agent signing in all of baseball this past offseason? It was a signing I was in favor of all along, but he has far surpassed my expectations for him so far.
A baseball player who's head and shoulders above his peers can't dominate a game in the way LeBron James can on the basketball court. A baseball GM has to make many more good personnel decisions to create a successful team.
Was Tim Hudson the best free agent signing in all of baseball this past offseason? It was a signing I was in favor of all along, but he has far surpassed my expectations for him so far.
A baseball player who's head and shoulders above his peers can't dominate a game in the way LeBron James can on the basketball court. A baseball GM has to make many more good personnel decisions to create a successful team.
Masahiro Tanaka would like to have a word with you....
2.06 ERA, 88 SO's, 12 walks, .218 AVG, etc. If he keeps this up, he could win ROY, the CY Young Award, and MVP if the Yanks make the postseason. Ok maybe a bit head of myself with the MVP, but ROY and CY Young could easily be his if he maintains this performance. His worst performance so far this season when he lost his first regular season game since 2012, he only gave up 3 ER, still struck out 7, and walked 1 after 6 innings.
The lone bright spot so far for our season so far. McCann is sucking it, Ellsbury is slumping hard, etc.
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The Rockies went 2-7 on a 9 game road trip. Back down to .500.
You guys still scare Giants fans. If it's not LA's pitching that can make them take the West, it's Colorado's sometimes amazing hitting.
I fear that SF's real time in the sun as a scary Bosox, Braves,
Reds, Rangers, or NYY type team with perennial runs to the postseason, or at least that caliber of player, may come to an end this year. Cain is not one of the top NL pitchers anymore. Lincecum is no longer Cy Young material. I don't hold for the Panda to keep up any sort of Bonds-like hitting. Pence can be good for some time but I don't expect him to stay up there with Buster Posey year after year.
We first became a team to contend with when Dusty Baker shored up all parts of our play and kept on with Bochy. I should be happy with two WS wins, and 2002 run as well as Bonds years, but I want more but we are simply not the 90s/2000s Yankees.
I think all the years in the doghouse have made Giants players, coaches, and fans very cautious and never let up. When my Bosox or NYY friends win one, they think that not only will they repeat, but must win even three or four in a row. That may be the case as the NYY went four for five and Boston can definitely become a mini dynasty, but Giants fans I see are cautious. We are the type of fans, if we win back to back, won't take a run for a third WS in a row for granted. We have seen great players in great years falter the very next year and it's the common Giants legacy. We have been to the WS so many times but possess a terrible winning percentage.
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Masahiro Tanaka would like to have a word with you....
2.06 ERA, 88 SO's, 12 walks, .218 AVG, etc. If he keeps this up, he could win ROY, the CY Young Award, and MVP if the Yanks make the postseason. Ok maybe a bit head of myself with the MVP, but ROY and CY Young could easily be his if he maintains this performance. His worst performance so far this season when he lost his first regular season game since 2012, he only gave up 3 ER, still struck out 7, and walked 1 after 6 innings.
Tim Hudson: 1.75 ERA, 50 K, 8 BB, .209 BAA. Not bad for an old guy!
The article is to long to fit here. So here is an excerpt.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb...md=20140604&content_id=78227886&vkey=news_mlb
I hope he keeps it up. I have seen where a Giants pitcher not named Tim Lincecum have a good start and look like a candidate for the Cy Young only to lose their momentum late in the season. The Giants more than a third of the way through the season is looking to collide with the A's which would be a really great World Series. But so early in the season and with Milwaukee and Toronto having impressive seasons so far, we could have a different picture at mid-season.
Anyway I am just happy to be tops in NL West and 8 ahead of the second place Dodgers. But last year at this time they were last in the division and then went all the way to the NLCS. I never rest and feel content until the season is over and we went further than the Dodgers.
Yeah, doesn't matter how good the hitting is when you give up 11 runs in the 8th & 9th innings like we did last night, you are going to lose the game. The Rockies have lost 5 in a row and are 2-8 in the last 10 games.
The Rockies will end a distant 4th or in last place again.
I think it's too early to tell for anybody.
Because of my respect for you and LA, what I would want would be for the two of you to finish 3rd or lower. If you or LA get the wild card yet not win the NL West, I still consider either team a major threat to SF. But first SF has to hold onto their lead and it's a long season. For all we know now, it could be San Diego and Arizona being at the top at the end of the season.
I tell you, I'm not sure I'll survive the season. We went 2-7 on a road trip in late May and played crappy at home after that. Then we go to San Francisco and sweep the Giants getting the winning runs in the 8th & 9th innings in all 3 games.
It has been quite the roller coaster in the past few weeks.
This is what makes baseball interesting. I think for now it looks like a close three way race in the NL West. It's more than just the numbers on any given day. Your sweep puts you on the map for the NL West lead later this season if you keep things up.
It could be the Giants this year as a team that peaked too early. All this talk about the Giants as a "dynasty" and having to win because it's an even year is premature. Let the Giants be like the Red Sox in the last ten years with three championships or the NYY before that with four out of five and then we can talk. Let the Giants win this year but also do it leading the NL West most of the year with stiff competition and then we can talk. Even postseason 2014 is still a long ways off for San Francisco. I would feel more cocky if the NL West was easy but it isn't. Besides SF, there's no surprise if LA or Colorado goes all the way this year and wins the World Series. Your late hitting is the type of thing I have seen in the past a few months into a season lifting a mediocre team into one with contention. Look at the Oakland A's on many different years with their unmatched habit of a productive later season and many late inning wins in nailbiting fashion.