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Official 2007 MLB Season Thread

zioxide said:
hehehe i love it.

but ortiz has been hitting.. just not as many home runs. his average is over .300

how about youk and lowell, both above .320

once manny gets going and drew gets out of this slump, the offense is going to be so crazy. pedroia is heating up too.

Gabbard did awesome today. lets see if he can keep it up later this week because he will most definitely be filling in for beckett's next start after today's performance
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Youk is one of the hottest hitters in the league right now..Sox have L-R-L-R all thru the lineup.Nice balance.Even Coco is hitting..Lowell is just a player. Guy does whatever you ask of him. Like I said,Sox have major pitching depth. The bullpen is sick. Add Lester to the mix,and I'm liking it ;)
 
furcalchick said:
andruw jones emanating suck like nothing else...struck out five times today. ugh. a bunch of fans are done with him.
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As much as I dislike him right now, I think he'll eventually get to the point where he realizes that Terry P is there to help him- and he'll actually listen. It's the freaking batting stance he reverts to, he needs to shorten the distance between his feet becuase he moves his head too much.
Sayhey said:
We will take him. How about Morris and a few prospects? ;)
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How 'bout a 4 and 5 spot pitcher?
 
mattscott306 said:
How 'bout a 4 and 5 spot pitcher?
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As long as it's not our current 4 and 5 spot pitchers (or our 1 and 2 pitchers,) I'd be quite happy to pull the trigger on that deal. I like Matt Morris, but I was serious, I'd be willing to part with him and more for the struggling Andruw. You have one of the great defensive centerfielders in baseball, who also has power to spare, and you all are ready to give up on him because he is in a slump? My only concern with Jones is the ability to lock him up to a long term contract after this year.
 
Sayhey said:
As long as it's not our current 4 and 5 spot pitchers (or our 1 and 2 pitchers,) I'd be quite happy to pull the trigger on that deal. I like Matt Morris, but I was serious, I'd be willing to part with him and more for the struggling Andruw. You have one of the great defensive centerfielders in baseball, who also has power to spare, and you all are ready to give up on him because he is in a slump? My only concern with Jones is the ability to lock him up to a long term contract after this year.
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I wouldn't let go of Jones for any small deal, we need to shore up our rotation, and that would be the only reason I'd let him go this season. Harris can cover a good bit of distance, as can Franceour, the only concern would be Diaz- he's not as great of a fielder as Langerhans was. While it wouldn't be optimum to lose a gold glover- we need starting pitchers.
 
Holy Snikes! A 2 game winning streak for the Yankees! Break out the champagne! This deserves a celebration! :rolleyes:

Seriously though, glad they got the win.
 
zephead said:
According to George Knox of the California Angels, 3 games won in a row constitutes a "winning streak". "It has been done before."
That's "Angels in the Outfield" for those of you who don't know.
:p
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LOL!

I thought it was the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? LAAA for short. :Shoots person who decided to rename team.... again:
 
The Don Ditty said:
LOL!

I thought it was the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? LAAA for short. :Shoots person who decided to rename team.... again:
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Nah, he's done pretty much everything right except for that one thorny detail.

You know what we need to do? Get Jack Bauer in there and force Arte Moreno (the owner) to change the name back to Anaheim Angels. I'm sure he won't hesitate with Jack holding a gun to his head. ;)
 
zephead said:
Nah, he's done pretty much everything right except for that one thorny detail.

You know what we need to do? Get Jack Bauer in there and force Arte Moreno (the owner) to change the name back to Anaheim Angels. I'm sure he won't hesitate with Jack holding a gun to his head. ;)
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They need to just go back to being called the California Angels.
 
zioxide said:
They need to just go back to being called the California Angels.
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Ehh, but the thing is that there's 4 other teams in California. It makes sense with other teams to have the state's name as part of their name (Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, etc) because they're the only team in the state. Not so with California. I think that may have been at least part of the reason that they decided to go from California Angels to Anaheim Angels in '97, although they've never been the only team in the state, with the Dodgers and Giants moving there before the Angels were created in '61. :confused:
 
zephead said:
Ehh, but the thing is that there's 4 other teams in California. It makes sense with other teams to have the state's name as part of their name (Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, etc) because they're the only team in the state. Not so with California. I think that may have been at least part of the reason that they decided to go from California Angels to Anaheim Angels in '97, although they've never been the only team in the state, with the Dodgers and Giants moving there before the Angels were created in '61. :confused:
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The Angels were originally called the L.A. Angels because for the first several years they played within the city limits of Los Angeles, for one year at a minor-league park called Wrigley Field, then they were tenants of the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium from 1962-65. If I had to guess I'd say they didn't call themselves the Anaheim Angels right after the move because Anaheim wasn't a big city then.

They changed the name in the late 1990s as part of a stadium renovation deal. The city of Anaheim owns the stadium, and they asked for a name change from Disney (the team owners at the time) in exchange for the city paying for part of the stadium redo. You might remember that for almost 20 years the outfield was enclosed and the Los Angeles Rams played there. Now the stadium has an open outfield again.

That name change agreement ended up being the issue when the L.A. Angels of Anaheim thing came up. The deal with Disney was that "Anaheim" had to be in the name. It was kind of assumed at the time that no other city's name would be included, but it wasn't in writing. :rolleyes:
 
i personally think it should be la angels. anahiem seems so small time, to me at least. la sounds like big market team.

but big series starts tonight, mets vs. braves, all games on tbs.
 
furcalchick said:
i personally think it should be la angels. anahiem seems so small time, to me at least. la sounds like big market team.
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That was the rationale of the Angels owner. The problem: people in Orange County hate Los Angeles. Actually, people from almost every other part of the state hate Los Angeles.
 
kyle davies can pitch and hit...8 innings of shutting the muts down, then a three run homer for a 8-1 win.

the other two braves vs. mets games are on tbs, xtra thursday (moved from friday vs. the red sox).
 
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