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Baseball Season 2006
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Just bought 30 days of MLB.TV for $14.95. I had to see the forthcoming series with the Twins and the Tigers. Don't know why I have such high hopes. In April the Tigers swept the Twins and outscored them 33-1 for the series 
Anyways, Flip4Mac ROCKS. Instead of being stuck with a fixed sized window when watching the games, they fire up Quicktime so I can maximize the screen and kick back on the couch with a cold beer. Here's to good baseball
Anyways, Flip4Mac ROCKS. Instead of being stuck with a fixed sized window when watching the games, they fire up Quicktime so I can maximize the screen and kick back on the couch with a cold beer. Here's to good baseball 
iHotu said:
Sorry, I should have more closely checked my post. I voted for Cobb, even though he was arguably the worst human being to every play in the major leagues.
IJ Reilly said:
nice how things turned out eh?
we swept the dodgers haha.. the pitcher even got a homerun
I dunno, they're 1-2 against the Red Sox, and 1-3 against the Yankees. I don't thin they'll have the hitting to get past the BoSox's (hopefully, by postseason time) rotation (assuming a healthy and consistently good Wells. He looked good in his last start until he got nailed. We'll see what Monday brings), and bullpen (well, Papelbon and Timlin at least, and hopefully Foulke by then too).MacNut said:
i am gonna vote for josh beckett or jeff conine for the marlins hometown hero. god we are so young (but we have 2 rings!)
Is it me or ever since the all-star break the NL West has been reverting back to a repeat of awful 2005 season.
It should be a rule that no team under .500 can make the playoffs, Let another good team that deserves a shot get in.
Abreu is a Yankee, along with Lidle, lets just hope the 4 minor leaguers they are trading are not top prospects.
Abreu is a Yankee, along with Lidle, lets just hope the 4 minor leaguers they are trading are not top prospects.
MacNut said:
One of them was a #1 pick (according to the Boston Globe/New York Times) in 2005. But honnestly, you just scored one of the best players on the market. Expect the price to be high.
Ben
MacNut said:
I think thats just silly, any other good team has two chances to make the playoffs they can win their division or they can win the wildcard. If they aren't good enough to take either of those spots then they really aren't that good at all. The fact that one conference occasionally gets a team at or slightly below .500 isn't that big of a deal. People whine about it but they don't whine when the wildcard wins the world series over 6 division winners.
Tanglewood said:
I don't think it was ever really that much better, I think it just played some bad teams ( like the Chicago Cubs) and got some easy wins early on, and some people started getting excited for no apparent reason.
It looks like the Cardinals ditched Pujol's best friend Luna, definitely an upgrade at 2b with belliard but ... I still laugh at them losing this week oh so shamefully!
MacNut said:
From a distance it seems like a real steal for the Yankees. Guess we'll see in a couple of years.
They won't be re-signing Sheffield, at the very least ...
thedude110 said:
IIRC, Abbreu is supposed to make something like 40 mil over the next two years. There's only one team in the league that can randomly pick up guys like that.
No. The Red Sox usually don't pick up spending like that.
Ben
Counterfit said:Coming back down to Earth is more like it.
Take a look at the standings. Only one NL division has two teams above .500. I haven't sat down and run the numbers recently, but even without doing so, I'd be willing to bet that the combined records of the three NL divisions are within ±.005 of each other.
MacNut said:
No it shouldn't; this is baseball, not basketball. Besides, when has it ever happened?
d wade said:
and still in first thankfully!
IJ Reilly said:
Now taking a look at the standings I think I'd rather be a fan of a team in the NL West (which I do) than be a fan of Pittsburgh or Washington and have to resign myself to April '07 already.
IJ Reilly said:
Devil's Advocate:
Technically the Padres finished lasted season 82-83 after being swept in the playoffs.
IJ Reilly said:
It's interesting to run the numbers on this.
The West still has the best overall record in the NL:
West: 259-264 .495
East: 254-268 .487
Central: 295-334 .469
But when you look at how the West has fared out of division, they seem more middling:
East v. West: East, 60-54.
Central V. West: West, 66-60.
But when you look at Interleague play, where the AL has dominated, the West has been the only NL division to hold its own:
In Interleauge play:
East: 32-52.
Central: 31-62.
West: 35-40.
I'm not sure how "strength of schedule" would play into that.
In other words -- the West has no dominant team, but decent teams up and down. While I think one would be hard put to argue that the NL West is a tougher division to win than the AL Central or East, it is probably the deepest division in MLB this year.
Assuming the Giants and Dodgers don't tank entirely.
Why has the NL west been so bad over the past few years, Its not like they have no named players. There should be at least one team that can run away with the division. Why are the Giants paying Bonds so much money if he hasn't been able to produce, The arguable greatest player and he can't even get his team the lead.