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Official 2007 MLB Season Thread

aloofman said:
Apparently it was Alex Trevino for Candy Maldonado in 1985. Clearly this move was a turning point for both teams. :p
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Hey, if we get another Maldonado back in this trade, I'll be very happy. Candy actually played very well for the Giants for a few years. I'll have you know that after the Giants traded for Maldonado they went from a 100 loss team to winning the division in '87. Must be a cause and effect, don't you think? ;)
 
MacNut said:
The thing I don't like is when the umps warn the benches without giving the other team a chance to retaliate a player getting hit. It is a part of the game that if a batter is hit the opposing pitcher is going to respond. The fact that A-Rod was getting thrown at the whole series and nothing was done about it is what I don't like. Clemans makes one inside pitch that hits a batter and he's tossed.
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Like a lot of officiating in professional sports, it's at least a little arbitrary. Human factors are always in evidence. We've seen players ejected for just looking at an ump. One day a batter "takes one for the team" and is awarded first base. The next day a pitcher is ejected for throwing at a batter. If it made complete sense, it wouldn't be baseball. :)
 
Sayhey said:
Hey, if we get another Maldonado back in this trade, I'll be very happy. Candy actually played very well for the Giants for a few years. I'll have you know that after the Giants traded for Maldonado they went from a 100 loss team to winning the division in '87. Must be a cause and effect, don't you think? ;)
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I know exactly what you mean. Getting Mike Davis before the '88 season? Same kinda thing! :D
 
IJ Reilly said:
More like Cracker Jacks, for a peanut to be named later.

The Dodgers needed a left-handed bat on the bench after trading Betemit. Of course that's not all they need right now. A few breaks might help. Can a team trade for that? Favorable umpiring for a fate to be named later.
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You guys wanna take back JD Drew?Please?Please? :(
 
furcalchick said:
getting sick of dl drew already? i know how you feel. he's the perfect boras agent. greedy and never plays hard...expect that one year he played for us.
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Was sick of him by Memorial Day..Thru today 6HR 42 RBI .254 AVG all for $14 mil/year..He's lost the fans and the media..Both are having a field day with him.
 
Still amazing that the DBacks have risen so far, and still have been outscored this year.

The statisticians compute them as having another losing season so far this year, instead of having caught up to the third place team.
 
Yankees beat the Indians 6-1. Hughes looked sharp today: 6 innings, 6 K, 1 ER. Despite not going as long as i would have liked, Chamberlain came in and shut things down. Yankees are tied with the Mariners for first in the Wild Card, and are 5 games out of the AL East :D
 
Sobe said:
From wiki:

On three occasions, foreign players have challenged his single-season home run record of 55 (Americans Randy Bass in 1985, 54 HRs, and Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes in 2001, 55 HRs; and Venezuelan Alex Cabrera in 2002, 55 HRs).

That's all you really need to know about Japanese home run records.
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And that means what? That Japanese players don't hit as many homeruns during the year but still have the consistency to hit 868? Way to make a worthless quote. And you never addressed number 2.
 
steamboat26 said:
Yankees beat the Indians 6-1. Hughes looked sharp today: 6 innings, 6 K, 1 ER. Despite not going as long as i would have liked, Chamberlain came in and shut things down. Yankees are tied with the Mariners for first in the Wild Card, and are 5 games out of the AL East :D
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We have our own setup man and he didn't cost anything. Lets see Gagne 3 innings 6 runs 9 hits. Sounds like money well spent.:p Way to close that game out last night.:D
 
fotografica said:
Yeah,that's about what,$8 mil a win so far :p...JD Drew simply blew last night. The guy seems to be stuck in park...
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He did well in the game today. About damn time. 3 hits and 2 rbi.

Beckett got his 15th win.. pitched 8 2/3rd gave up 8 hits 2 runs with 8 strikeouts. He just couldn't get that last out though, so they brought in Paps to get the save.
 
MacNut said:
While no Toronto players were given any punishment Clemans was suspended for throwing in.
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Er, no. Towers, Stairs, and Butterfield were all fined.


Man, I wish players could be taken in a poker game. We could use a new right fielder. And should it be a sign of something that Wind-Mill Peña hasn't been dealt yet?


Also, Harry Chiti.
 
zioxide said:
He did well in the game today. About damn time. 3 hits and 2 rbi.

Beckett got his 15th win.. pitched 8 2/3rd gave up 8 hits 2 runs with 8 strikeouts. He just couldn't get that last out though, so they brought in Paps to get the save.
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One good game every three weeks isn't worth $14 mil/year. Ortiz is obviously hurting.His swings are rough at best..We're still leaving lots of guys on base.
 
That's it.

Eric Gagne is ****ing awful. I wonder if we can send him down to like AA.
 
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