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Baseball Season 2006

mmmm CUBS

So the cubs capped a nice weekend sweeping the Cardinals. The team looks improved but we are going to need some more starting pitching. There is this amazing new thing called hustle and you can see it in a few parts of the lineup. It was real nice to see pooholes go like 1-9 with only 2 RBI's for the whole series tho. I'm pretty excited to see some more from this team.
 
MacNut said:
Ok so I am a little discusted at the moment but remember this,
So I cant get to upset just yet.

After all who expects the Tigers to be in first place at the end of the season or for the White Sox to be this bad at seasons end.
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This may be the year that the Yankees' lineup finally underachieves enough to miss the playoffs. Of course, I've said that the last two seasons. :rolleyes:
 
IJ Reilly said:
Sorry, I don't follow. What do you know that the rest of us don't?
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I don't have any special knowledge. I'm just annoyed that it seems like he hid an injury from everyone.
 
aloofman said:
This may be the year that the Yankees' lineup finally underachieves enough to miss the playoffs. Of course, I've said that the last two seasons. :rolleyes:
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It won't happen unless the staff undergoes some serious injuries. The yanks are going to win 80+ games, no matter what (and you know who this is coming from). Some teams just take longer to get going than others, but you can bet with the experience that they have, the necessary changes will be made to turn a 4 game slide around quickly.

On the other side, the starting pitching of the red sox right now is remarkable. Last year they were 3-2x (don't remember the exact number) when only scoring 2 runs in a game, mostly due to very poor defence and less than stellar pitching. This year they've already pulled off 2 games and they could have done it yesterday with the pitching. Wake has rebounded very well from his dissapointing first start (with an ER of 0 yesterday) and every ESPN analysis is buzzing about Pap (not big Papi). So far he has been lights out with 3 saves.

Ben
 
aloofman said:
I don't have any special knowledge. I'm just annoyed that it seems like he hid an injury from everyone.
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I don't get that at all. I read in the newspaper, or maybe it was at dodgers.com, that he was experiencing some tenderness in the elbow during spring training, so it was no secret. I suspect the trainers his doctor knew even more about his condition. It's just one of those things. You don't know until you know.
 
Way to go Astros

Is is possible to be on the edge of one's seat while following a baseball game over ESPN Gamecast 7 time zones away?

I think so, because the Astros just pulled out a nice win over the Nats, moving on up to 5-2. And hey, we actually got some timely hitting.
 
saabmp3 said:
On the other side, the starting pitching of the red sox right now is remarkable. Last year they were 3-2x (don't remember the exact number) when only scoring 2 runs in a game, mostly due to very poor defence and less than stellar pitching. This year they've already pulled off 2 games and they could have done it yesterday with the pitching. Wake has rebounded very well from his dissapointing first start (with an ER of 0 yesterday) and every ESPN analysis is buzzing about Pap (not big Papi). So far he has been lights out with 3 saves.

Ben
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The sox bullpen could be pretty devastating this year -- Timlin in the seventh, Foulke in the 8th and Papelbon in the ninth. The question is the rotation -- can Schilling throw 30 games, can Beckett keep the blisters off his fingers, can Wells throw 30 games, can Clement be dominant for a whole season ...

If one rotation guy goes down and Papelbon has to start, the bullpen will be a mess again. People can be excited as they want about Craig Hansen, but he's still only thrown 17 professional innings. So, as a sox fan, I maintain my vague worrying/non-vague nail biting ...
 
saabmp3 said:
It won't happen unless the staff undergoes some serious injuries. The yanks are going to win 80+ games, no matter what (and you know who this is coming from). Some teams just take longer to get going than others, but you can bet with the experience that they have, the necessary changes will be made to turn a 4 game slide around quickly.
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I don't mean that the Yankees will suck or that the slow start is any indicator, only that eventually their aging hitters will tail off enough to underachieve for a long part of the season. Their latter-day Murderer's Row lineup and the late-innings bullpen are clearly their strengths, but no one is afraid of their rotation or defense. The Yankees depend greatly on that lineup living up to expectations and my guess (that's all it is) is that eventually they won't.

Like I said, I've been predicting this for a couple years now. My reasoning is that other teams with costly veteran payrolls have been disappointments on the field (late '90s Dodgers, the Mets for much of the last 15 years, the Orioles several years ago). Despite a correlation between payroll and performance, it hasn't happened to the Yankees since the early '90s and my whacked logic is that they're overdue. Kind of like how after a long string of success, the 49ers eventually had to come back to earth.

I'm not a Yankee-hater or anything and I'm not really rooting for it to happen. (Except maybe so that I could finally be right!) I just think we've all gotten used to the idea of an unstoppable Yankees juggernaut (at least, lately, in the regular season), but it can't last forever.
 
Yankees win 2 in a row with a nice 3 run homer in the 8th by Jeter to give the Yankees a 9-7 lead as the Sandman comes in and shuts the door on the Royals.:)
 
Aww this it to bad....
Boston Red Sox center fielder Coco Crisp was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday after injuring his finger sliding into third base.

Manager Terry Francona expects Crisp to miss several weeks. To fill the roster spot, Boston called up outfielder Dustan Mohr from Triple-A Pawtucket.
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David Wells seems to back to his old tricks again.:rolleyes: Hows the Barry Bonds Home run tracker going, has he hit any yet.
 
MacNut said:
David Wells seems to back to his old tricks again.:rolleyes:
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Well, he didn't have the best outing, and the boos were going to come just because of his nasty attitude over the summer. However, the bullpen once again showed some very good talent. Ortiz homered, Pena homered, nothing bad there.
Hows the Barry Bonds Home run tracker going, has he hit any yet.
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Well, no, but he does have 7 (yes....seven!) walks in 12 AB's. To the average baseball fan, this indicates that pitchers are not giving him anything useful to hit.

But, that's just me trying to put a positive spin on things!

Ben
 
MacNut said:
Hows the Barry Bonds Home run tracker going, has he hit any yet.
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It's hard to hit homeruns when the games are rained out. Horrible weather here for the last week. I'm hoping today's games are a go. Don't worry, MacNut, if Barry stays healthy he will break Ruth's record. Aaron's is another thing altogether.
 
Sayhey said:
It's hard to hit homeruns when the games are rained out. Horrible weather here for the last week. I'm hoping today's games are a go. Don't worry, MacNut, if Barry stays healthy he will break Ruth's record. Aaron's is another thing altogether.
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See even mother nature is trying to stop Bonds from ruining the game.;) Hopefully Bonds will get injured, we can still dream.
 
Sayhey said:
It's hard to hit homeruns when the games are rained out. Horrible weather here for the last week. I'm hoping today's games are a go. Don't worry, MacNut, if Barry stays healthy he will break Ruth's record. Aaron's is another thing altogether.
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When the Giants come to town tomorrow, I will be in the stands, booing just for you. ;)

That is, if we don't get rained out.
 
Go Tribe! I expect to see Cleveland win the Central Division this year. Dropped one to Seattle last night (crap pitching on both sides, WHY do we have Danny Graves again?) but our bats are still hot - if we keep averaging 6 runs per game we will win 100+ games this year.

Pronk has, hmmm, 6 dingers already...that's what I'm talking about.
 
Who would ever thought that the Mets would be the best team in baseball at the moment 7-1. The Braves are in some trouble as the pitching has fallen apart.

Yankees win 4 in a row and sweep the Royals, 1.5 behind the Red Sox at the moment.
 
MacNut said:
Who would ever thought that the Mets would be the best team in baseball at the moment 7-1. The Braves are in some trouble as the pitching has fallen apart.
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The mets had one of the best off seasons I've ever seen, so I'm not surprised and its only 8 games. And I won't sell off the braves until october because well I always try that and I'm always wrong.
 
It's not so easy to follow my team now that I'm back in England, but I bought the MLB.tv package so I can watch the games... and I'm begining to wish I hadn't. My Padres suck rhino so far. No frickin' pitching.
Oh well, there's always next year!:rolleyes:
 
stebu said:
It's not so easy to follow my team now that I'm back in England, but I bought the MLB.tv package so I can watch the games... and I'm begining to wish I hadn't. My Padres suck rhino so far. No frickin' pitching.
Oh well, there's always next year!:rolleyes:
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I'd trade you Scott Cassidy with a 1.54 ERA for the whole St. Louis Cardinal bull pen, right now.
 
MacNut said:
Aww this it to bad....
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Well, Mohr hit a 2-run spud in his first start, and now Peña's only 1 HR down on Arroyo...


Speaking off the hairy one, WTF! We should have traded Clement to the Reds and give Papi a day off.

As for the pitching, the sharp end seems good. Schilling is Schilling again, Wake is getting the knuckler to, er, knuckle, and Beckett is good after the first inning (hey, Pedro was the same way a lot of the time.) Wells once again had that stubborn streak bite him again. Last year's "I don't need a rehab AAA start" turned into a blowout against...
The Blue Jays, of course. Clement, well, let's hope he can at least recreate the first half of '05. The 'pen is awesome now though. Lenny, Mike, Pap, Keith, Julian (who didn't punch anyone in the head today. Kudos!)

Interesting read.

Also, it seems the Pawsox like to play long games
This year is the 25th anniversary of the longest professional game ever played, when Pawtucket beat Rochester, 3-2, in 33 innings in a game that was suspended early on Easter morning 1981 and resumed June 23 of that year. Wednesday night, the PawSox, on the same McCoy Stadium field, came up on the short end of a 4-3 verdict to the same Rochester team, which needed just under half the number of innings to exact revenge. Jason Tyner came up with the game-winning hit in the top of the 16th against Red Sox catcher/infield prospect Trent Durrington, who threw three innings allowing just one hit and two runs, while walking three.

"See who pitched last night for Pawtucket?," Francona quizzed reporters Thursday. "Durrington pitched three innings. I wish I could have heard him. I would love to hear him in the dugout between innings. He's got some serious enthusiasm that's infectious. It's awesome."
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I think it says something when a catching prospect pitches three innings. Flashbacks of David McCarty pitching an inning back in '04...
 
Sayhey said:
Thank you, IJ. I would expect no less. ;)
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I'm sure with a screen name like Sayhey, your allegiance is clear. But I'm wondering, do your Giant days go all the way back to NY? And does IJ's Dodgeritis go all the way back to Brooklyn? If so, I would expect some pretty good boos going on.
 
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