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2014 MLB Season thread
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I can't believe he said that. I mean we're not in the 1950s at this point.
I loved the comment of recommending a C-Section just so he can be there at opening day - what a dope.
And we are talking about a sorry team like the Mets, not somebody good like Boston or the Yankees ...OK
...just kidding on the whole c-section thing which should not be done for any team, including in October.The rules allow for a 3 day paternity leave so Boomer or any baseball fans should just let that be.
I'm sorry but the whole the team comes first mentality doesn't jive with me. I think family first, but maybe I'm wired differently.
Boomer even saying he needs to do this as the breadwinner, come on. Major League players don't have to live check to check and are very well off
He was trying to make a point and relate to the rest of us who are check to check but that didn't go well. I suspect in a few days Boomer will give a full apology.
Some players make more in a day than many of us do all year and I don't think his bills for basics should take up more than half a week of baseball which he can do starting tomorrow. I don't feel sorry for MLB players and with so much money, who really cares if he takes three days off? I don't think he will notice the cut in pay if there's even a cut in pay for missing those three days. I am glad in this case that this baseball player put his family first and was there for the birth of his child.
But I am sure some players out there missed this moment and may have thought the game was more important and are in complete agreement with Boomer. At the end of the day these men are players of a game which has no direct effect on us and it's not as if they are politicians. Who out there thinks that a baseball player, or football player, or any similar professional athlete should have their wife get an early c-section so they can make it to the game? I certainly hope most players think their baby's birth is more important than playing a game and if not they shouldn't be fathers.
And we are talking about a sorry team like the Mets, not somebody good like Boston or the Yankees ...OK
The rules allow for a 3 day paternity leave so Boomer or any baseball fans should just let that be.
he should have done the baby making to schedule the kid for November through february
I see Melky is back on the roids.....
Melky, Giambi, ARod, Justice, Sheffield, Clemens...
Did any Yankees other than Jeter play clean?
I know you're a fan, and I didn't mean to single out the Yankees, but it's so easy to look at the successful teams with skepticism now.
IMHO, the really despicable team is the Red Sox. They broke an 86 year curse with a team full of roided up monsters. How special.
The truth is I bet a lot of the unsuccessful teams had cheaters in that era. But like you said, it's easy to look at the successful ones and criticize them for their cheaters.
Pretty much. Because who cares about teams that suck more often than not?
Throwing stones about the PED thing is extremely dumb; all fans have (unknowingly) rooted for PED users at some point - whether there is proof or not. No one has a moral high horse about it, and if they think they do, they're being completely naive.
Why can't every White Sox road game be played in Denver?
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Disagree. Sorry, I can't help it. It's despicable that the most storied drought in baseball was ruined by a team where the largest production came from roiders.
As far as I'm concerned, the 2013 Red Sox got their first deserved WS in 96 years.
Edit: 2005 White Sox had one player who failed PED test in 2009, utility player Pablo Ozuna.
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Disagree. Sorry, I can't help it. It's despicable that the most storied drought in baseball was ruined by a team where the largest production came from roiders.
As far as I'm concerned, the 2013 Red Sox got their first deserved WS in 96 years.
Edit: 2005 White Sox had one player who failed PED test in 2009, utility player Pablo Ozuna.
I mean, it's a free county. Anyone can live with delusions if they so choose. I like how you distinguish between the "largest production" though, since the White Sox also allegedly had a steroids user on its WS team. Cherry picking doesn't exactly work when you're doing the moral outrage thing.
If the White Sox actually won more often, they'd be under a microscope too. But since they don't, well..
Exactly 217 plate appearances by the 2005 White Sox were by accused PED users. In 2004, 1319 plate appearances for Red Sox players. It's not a delusion, it's a fact that the Red Sox were a disgrace to the game in 2004.
Edit: Remind me of when I made my claim that the White Sox were completely clean and how that at all hurts my argument that the Red Sox in the mid 2000s were a disgrace.
That's exactly why your argument has no weight. Every team in major league baseball - every team - has had steroid users. In winning years, in losing years - it was a league-wide problem, and not specific to any one team. The Red Sox won in 2004 because they played better than all the other teams. If steroids were the way to a WS, the Cubs would have bought out BALCO.
As much as I hate the Yankees, I'm not going to pretend they won in 2009 because some guys allegedly used steroids. It's the kind of excuse fans of losing teams use.
If you think that 2004 was "disgrace" - that's your prerogative. But you're in the minority on that one. History will remember the 2004 Red Sox as one of the greatest teams ever.
This is where MLB really screwed themselves by denying for so many years. Every player is guilty until proven innocent. No amount of drug testing will stop the doubters because it has been going on for so long.
Every team had dirty players, some more than others, we don't know if there are still dirty players. We have to assume the testing is working.
Agreed on both counts. And I think a healthy amount of skepticism toward certain records absolutely makes sense as the steroids era (hopefully) comes to a close.
Acting as if some teams are absolved from the steroids issue is pretty absurd, though. I've seen fans try to pull the high horse about it time and again. I always find the application of morality to sports extremely interesting.
If this guy were in NY, Boston, or LA, he'd be Yasiel Puig. So far he looks better than Yasiel Puig.
All aboard the ambulance to the Yankee Medical Facility. Jeter with a tight hamstring, Roberts bad back, Cervelli goes down, and now Solarte is injured.
CC probably went back to the clubhouse to get his glove....
Cervelli pulled his hamstring. Solarte looked like a groin injury.
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This has been a good game. The Red Sox offense this year just hasn't been there. They've been striking out a lot and not getting a lot of hits with RISP. Our starting pitching hasn't been that great either but they also haven't been getting run support. I hope Pedroia and Koji are okay. Grady has been playing great, I hope he plays like this all season.
I totally get the AJ Pierzynski hate now. He's so hateable when he's not on your team.
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He hit it in the sky! Cheer! Yay! oh...
It's like a Cubs game in the Bronx
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He hit it in the sky! Cheer! Yay! oh...
It's like a Cubs game in the Bronx