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MLB 2009 Season

MacNut said:
Fun to watch until your star players go down because of it. I just don't see the risk being worth it.
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I think it would be better if they played it in November after the WS. Then it wouldn't interrupt spring training.

There are always injury risks in sports.. you can't not play just because you might get hurt.
 
zioxide said:
I think it would be better if they played it in November after the WS. Then it wouldn't interrupt spring training.

There are always injury risks in sports.. you can't not play just because you might get hurt.
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There really is no good time to play this. Spring the players are out of shape. Summer you have to stop the season for a month. Winter the players are tired from playing 162 games, plus playoffs.
 
A-Roid decided he's gonna have surgery and miss 6-9 weeks.

USA vs Venezuela tonight.. if USA wins they advance to the next round.
 
Boston Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester, who overcame cancer to become one of the best pitchers in the American League, has agreed to a five-year, $30 million contract extension with a $13 million team option in 2014, a source close to the team told Yahoo! Sports on Saturday.

The 25-year-old Lester received the third long-term extension Boston has given to a homegrown player in the last three months. Reigning AL MVP Dustin Pedroia received a six-year, $40.5 million deal with an $11 million option in 2015, and Kevin Youkilis signed a four-year, $41 million contract that bought out two years of free agency.
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Yahoo Sports

:D
 
Netherlands just pulled off their second epic upset of the Dominican Republic in the past week...

Tied 0-0 entering the 11th, DR scores on an error by Kingsale, the Netherlands RF. 1-0 Dominican Republic. In the bottom of the 11th, Kingsale gets the RBI to tie the game 1-1 and then goes on to score the winning run.

Netherlands wins 2-1 in 11.
 
this is my third year of doing this and i present you with the 2009 MLB National TV Schedule. this covers all of the nationally televised mlb games for 2009 (blackout restrictions may apply). for those of you that are new, i originally did this back in 2007 as a way to make sure i could watch as much baseball as i could on basic cable (aka, no mlb.tv or extra innings packages), and made it public so those hunting for a random baseball game can see one nearly every day. also, new for this season are alarms to go off 5 minutes before the scheduled first pitch (you can turn these off if you want).

i suggest you subscribe and update it at least daily, as many of the espn, tbs and mlb network dates are usually announced 1-2 weeks prior to the telecast. all times et.
 
So has Bud Selig got the message that the World Baseball Classic is a bad idea.
 
The problem with the WBC is that if MLB is ever going to take it serious they need to have good pitchers. I don't see that ever happening so I don't really see a point in it.

Edit: is he kidding me, lol, who really cares about the WBC? The stadiums were just about empty. Plus major league teams are not going to risk their star players getting hurt for what is an exhibition.

I only watched part of it tonight because there was nothing else on, Sure I rooted for the US but I didn't really care about the game.
 
MacNut said:
At least that is over and we can focus on real baseball.
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I hope it's not over quite yet, since I'm going to the final game on Monday.

Great baseball? Probably not, but the final between Japan and South Korea is probably the best possible matchup. I think both of these teams will really want to win, and I'm also hoping Japan pitches Yu Darvish. May be the only time any of us get to see him pitch.
 
The US team will never play great baseball like the other countries, they go all out and our players are still getting their legs. Unless they move the dates this thing is played the US will never be true contenders.
 
I don't know how this exhibition fits into the baseball seasons of the other countries which participated, but I don't suppose fans in this country would prefer to see players pulled out of their team's rosters in the middle of the regular season. Another issue to keep in mind is that many of the teams were filled with MLB players, not just the USA team.
 
There really is no good time to play this event. Spring the players are not in shape. Summer they can't break the season for a month, and after the world series is too long.
 
It is a side show, but we do get to see some players who may or may not show up in the major leagues. It's certainly going to be a different atmosphere at Dodger Stadium tonight. BTW, the park wasn't "almost empty" for yesterday's game. They sold over 46,000 tickets, so it was much closer to almost full.

EDIT: Well it was quite a good game, and a interesting scene. Those Korean and Japanese fans can certainly teach us a thing or two about chanting in unison!
 
Voice of Yankee Stadium May Be Finished

By JACK CURRY
Published: April 1, 2009
The new Yankee Stadium may sound much different than the old one. Bob Sheppard, the public-address announcer for the Yankees since 1951, is retiring, according to Paul Doherty, a friend and agent who has represented Sheppard.

Bob Sheppard, who started as the Yankees' announcer in 1951, hadn't missed an opening day until 2006 when an injury kept him out of the announcer's box.

Doherty said that Sheppard’s son, Paul, told him about Sheppard’s plans on Wednesday morning.

“I think Bob just wants to take it easy and no longer have the pressure of, ‘Can he? Will he? Or won’t he?’” Doherty said in an e-mail message. “And, at 98, who can blame him?”

Sheppard, when asked to confirm that he was officially retiring, said, “I never said it.”

Sheppard has been slowed by a bronchial infection. When asked what his plans were, he said: “I never said I’m not returning. I never, never said I’m not returning and I say it to you now.”

Doherty added that Sheppard remained active.

“I’m happy to say that Bob is still doing well enough to drive a car,” Doherty said. “He picked his son up at the train this past weekend.”

The last lineup that Sheppard announced was actually his first. Doherty said that two months ago, he had Sheppard recreate the first lineup he did, on April 17, 1951. It included Phil Rizzuto, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra.

“Now on to him seeing his 100th birthday in a year and a half,” Doherty said.

The Yankees have not named a replacement for Sheppard, but it will not be Jim Hall, Sheppard’s longtime backup. Paul Olden will fill in for the two exhibition games at the Stadium this weekend.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/sports/baseball/02sheppard.html?_r=3&ref=sports
 
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