Baseball 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (2 Viewers)

[Spitfrnd]

Well is it possible my Orioles have found a coach that may lead them in the right direction???? looks like we got 3 wins in a row (not Over with Angels) but winning 3-0 in the 8th, don't know a whole lot about
Buck Schowalter (spelling) but he's has some winning teams, anything right now is an improvment, hopefully we can finish this terrible season on a high note and go into next year with a positive outlook...Sammy

We can onlyl hope Sammy, that is always what we have left.

George, I am not sure covering TO is all that much of a problem any more. Legends move on quickly at wide out.

 

[Warrior]

George, I am not sure covering TO is all that much of a problem any more. Legends move on quickly at wide out.

Funny because they were saying the same thing about Randy Moss after the Patriots traded for him; amazing what having a quarterback who can actually get the ball to you will do for you, Palmer is head and shoulders above Romo and whatever bozo the Bills had for a QB last year..............

 

[Spitfrnd]

Funny because they were saying the same thing about Randy Moss after the Patriots traded for him; amazing what having a quarterback who can actually get the ball to you will do for you, Palmer is head and shoulders above Romo and whatever bozo the Bills had for a QB last year..............

Yes he is and yes they did. Ah well we have depth issues at wideout ourselves. It sure would be nice if we could get Vincent Jackson away from San Diego. They really don't need him as much as we do.

 

[lancer]

HELL YEA!!!!!! no jinx here Al, just call our boys butter because they are on a roll!!!!!!!!!!!...Sammy

So right, Sammy. As bad as the O's have been, they do have a habit of coming back to win. I figured we would win if we got to the bottom of the 9th tied. 3 in a row is ok. Who's next? Bring 'em on. Go Birds! -- Al

 

[Warrior]

Well the Sox took game one last night, Clay pitched well aside from his first inning home run, offense cuffed around Vasquez (why this guy didn't just stay in the national league is beyond me, he is mediocre at best) despite Youk being out for the rest of the year.

Injuries have absolutely killed this team, with Ramirez, Veritek, Youkalis, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Lowell, Cameron, Dice K, Buckholtz and Beckett all spending time on the DL, that is half of their starting rotation and 5 of their 9 position players all on the shelf at one time or another.

It's a miracle they are where they are at this point in the season, can only imagine where they'd be without all the injuries.

We'll see how they do vs Sherman Klump today...............

 

[Warrior]

We'll see how they do vs Sherman Klump today...............

Sherman pitched a very good game for the Yankees, had him on the ropes with two runs and runner on second with no outs, couldn't advance him to third, let alone score him, Yankees scored five, ballgame.

They have to win the next two as the Rays have lost three in a row and the Sox after New York play Toronto and Texas.

A week from today, they'll either be still in the hunt or toast, we'll see.......................

 

[Louis Badolato]

Sherman pitched a very good game for the Yankees, had him on the ropes with two runs and runner on second with no outs, couldn't advance him to third, let alone score him, Yankees scored five, ballgame.

They have to win the next two as the Rays have lost three in a row and the Sox after New York play Toronto and Texas.

A week from today, they'll either be still in the hunt or toast, we'll see.......................

George,

Red Sox fans should be thanking god for Terry Francona and Adrian Beltre. Considering the unbelieveable amount of injuries to key players the Red Sox have suffered this year, for them to be in the hunt is a testiment to how good a manager Francona really is. I have nothing against Torre or Girardi, but I would swap them both for Francona in a New York minute. And Beltre has been a rock for you this year. If it wasn't for him, and the miraculous rebirth of Ortiz after the worst April ever (man if he gets a steriod test, he's toast) you also would have long since been done.

 

[Warrior]

George,

Red Sox fans should be thanking god for Terry Francona and Adrian Beltre. Considering the unbelieveable amount of injuries to key players the Red Sox have suffered this year, for them to be in the hunt is a testiment to how good a manager Francona really is. I have nothing against Torre or Girardi, but I would swap them both for Francona in a New York minute. And Beltre has been a rock for you this year. If it wasn't for him, and the miraculous rebirth of Ortiz after the worst April ever (man if he gets a steriod test, he's toast) you also would have long since been done.

Terry gets hardly any credit in this town, which is a joke to be honest. We used to have a talk show host in this town who said whatever Red Sox manager is at the helm when the team finally wins a world series will have a statue built and will never have to buy a meal in this town again.

Well this guy has won two World Series and had the team in game 7 of the 2008 ALCS, yet he gets ripped time and time again, pretty sad really.

The Red Sox took a flyer on Beltre, he has been a Godsend. Too bad they only signed him for one year, no way he'll be back, not with that horses behind of an agent he has, Boras. He'll want 4 years 68 million, so forget it.

Too bad as his swing is tailor made for Fenway, you'd think these guys would take less dough to stay in a place where they can flourish, but nope, it's all about the money and every last dollar that they can get.

Just ask Jason Bay; his swing is made for Fenway, yet he turned down 4 years, 60 million and signed with Mets and that grand canyon of a stadium they play in, has he gotten 10 home runs yet, unlike the little league stadium that the Yankees play in, what's it, 200 feet to right field?

Ortiz did the same thing last year, started off slow, caught fire later in the year, he's not on the sauce, he already tested positive once.

And speaking of steriods, congrats to A-Roid for hitting his 600th home run th other night.

Will be nice when this steroid user passes Bonds, another steroid user for the most home runs all time.

And to think they'll have a plaque in momument park and his number will be retired and he'll be referred to as one of the greatest Yankees of all time.

What a fraud.

 

[jazzeum]

Players never realize how good they have it or maybe it's just their agents asking for more. Bay is also an example. Jeff Weaver is a perfect example. Dave Duncan resuscitates his career in 2006 in St. Louis and he spurns them to sign with the Mariners (I believe), from where he's gone back to his Weaver-like ways.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Terry gets hardly any credit in this town, which is a joke to be honest. We used to have a talk show host in this town who said whatever Red Sox manager is at the helm when the team finally wins a world series will have a statue built and will never have to buy a meal in this town again.

Well this guy has won two World Series and had the team in game 7 of the 2008 ALCS, yet he gets ripped time and time again, pretty sad really.

The Red Sox took a flyer on Beltre, he has been a Godsend. Too bad they only signed him for one year, no way he'll be back, not with that horses behind of an agent he has, Boras. He'll want 4 years 68 million, so forget it.

Too bad as his swing is tailor made for Fenway, you'd think these guys would take less dough to stay in a place where they can flourish, but nope, it's all about the money and every last dollar that they can get.

Just ask Jason Bay; his swing is made for Fenway, yet he turned down 4 years, 60 million and signed with Mets and that grand canyon of a stadium they play in, has he gotten 10 home runs yet, unlike the little league stadium that the Yankees play in, what's it, 200 feet to right field?

Ortiz did the same thing last year, started off slow, caught fire later in the year, he's not on the sauce, he already tested positive once.

And speaking of steriods, congrats to A-Roid for hitting his 600th home run th other night.

Will be nice when this steroid user passes Bonds, another steroid user for the most home runs all time.

And to think they'll have a plaque in momument park and his number will be retired and he'll be referred to as one of the greatest Yankees of all time.

What a fraud.

I agree with you on all points. Francona deserves tons of credit. If that man isn't beloved in Boston, what manager ever will be? Two Championships in the last 6 years, and what, none in the 86 years before that. Wake up guys, and realize that along with Mike Sciosa in California/Los Angeles/Anaheim (what is the deal with the Angels, anyway?) you've got one of the two best managers in the game.

All of the steroid abusers are a disgrace to the game. The only legitimate power hitter of the last 20 years not tainted by roids is Ken Griffey, Jr. He may be the last ever legitimate member of the 600 club. A-Rod, Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, Manny, Ortiz, Palmiero, none of them should ever see the inside of the Hall of Fame. As far as I'm concerned Roger Maris is still the single season home run king and Hank Aaron is still the career home run king.

One thing, though, George . . . the Yankees play in a little league stadium? The last time I checked the only stadium with a shorter right field porch would be, eh, Fenway, wouldn't it? The Pesky pole literally is as short as some little leaugue parks'. And the green monster is a joke. Bucky Dent hit a pop up to short left field in any other park, but in Fenway is was a home run. I have never understood why the Red Sox don't just load up on right handed pull hitters and just keep hitting what in any other park would by lazy fly balls but in Fenway would be extra base hits off or home runs over that ridiculous wall.

 

[Warrior]

Players never realize how good they have it or maybe it's just their agents asking for more.

It's a combination of both.

Greed from both is more like it.

 

[Warrior]

One thing, though, George . . . the Yankees play in a little league stadium? The last time I checked the only stadium with a shorter right field porch would be, eh, Fenway, wouldn't it? The Pesky pole literally is as short as some little leaugue parks'. And the green monster is a joke. Bucky Dent hit a pop up to short left field in any other park, but in Fenway is was a home run. I have never understood why the Red Sox don't just load up on right handed pull hitters and just keep hitting what in any other park would by lazy fly balls but in Fenway would be extra base hits off or home runs over that ridiculous wall.

The pesky pole is 302 feet from home plate; unless you hit the pole square on the nose, right field is actually closer to 400 feet as the right field wall curves down from the pole, not strait across, big difference.

It's a widely discussed situation that the new Yankee Stadium is a bandbox of a park, balls fly out of there.

Bucky Dent broke his bat on the pitch before his titanic blast of a home run and used one of Mickey Rivers bats, which were all corked.

That is how that ham and egger, punch and judy clown hit his home run, a home run he's milked to this day.

The wall giveth and the wall taketh away, many a screaming line drive that would have been a home run anywhere else is a double in Fenway, in some cases a single.

And the Red Sox tried for 86 years to load up on right handed power hitters, it did not work.

In the past 35 years, Cepeda, Kingman, Canseco, Clarke, Rice, Evans, Armas, Henderson etc, etc, to no avail.................

 

[Louis Badolato]

It's a widely discussed situation that the new Yankee Stadium is a bandbox of a park, balls fly out of there.

Actually George, that was only true last year, before the demolished old Yankee Stadium. This year home runs in the new house are way down, much closer to the way the old park played. Apparently, the wind pattern before they took down the Stadium caused a jet stream out towards right and right center so just about any ball hit high enough into the air in that direction was carrying out. Once the old Stadium came down, the jet stream effect disappeared, and home runs per game dropped from an average of more than 3 (insane) to about 1.5.

 

[Warrior]

Actually George, that was only true last year, before the demolished old Yankee Stadium. This year home runs in the new house are way down, much closer to the way the old park played. Apparently, the wind pattern before they took down the Stadium caused a jet stream out towards right and right center so just about any ball hit high enough into the air in that direction was carrying out. Once the old Stadium came down, the jet stream effect disappeared, and home runs per game dropped from an average of more than 3 (insane) to about 1.5.

Thanks for pointing that out. Think of it this way, even though it was vacant, the old stadium still had a hand in last years championship, must be those ghosts in the stadium Jeter and that nitwit Charlie Steiner used to babble about...........

 

[Warrior]

Well last night, Burnett gets scratched due to back spasms, so the matchup vs Beckett looks like a walk through as the Yankees throw some tomato can out there.

Nope.

The guy fields his position like Brooks Robinson and pitches lights out, while Beckett can't make it out of the 5th inning, and horseface, who has struggled all year at the plate, looks like an MVP with what, two home runs this series and a raftload of RBI's.

Just unreal.

I mean unreal.

Today we've got a struggling Lester vs a surging Hughes, best the Sox can do now is split while the Rays keep losing.

Talk about frustratingly annoying.

NFL preseason starts Thursday vs the Saints.

It's time for football.

 

[Louis Badolato]

Well last night, Burnett gets scratched due to back spasms, so the matchup vs Beckett looks like a walk through as the Yankees throw some tomato can out there.

Nope.

The guy fields his position like Brooks Robinson and pitches lights out, while Beckett can't make it out of the 5th inning, and horseface, who has struggled all year at the plate, looks like an MVP with what, two home runs this series and a raftload of RBI's.

Just unreal.

I mean unreal.

Today we've got a struggling Lester vs a surging Hughes, best the Sox can do now is split while the Rays keep losing.

Talk about frustratingly annoying.

NFL preseason starts Thursday vs the Saints.

It's time for football.

George,

Don't pull the plug on your team's season yet. This afternoon is the key game of the series from Boston's standpoint. If you can pull off a win behind Lester and split the series, you will pull to within 4 games of the Rays for the wildcard lead. The Rays have two of their young starters (none of whom have thrown a full 200 inning big league season) being examined this week for shoulder problems. If those two starters go on the DL, the Rays, not Boston, are done. Your real problem is the Twins. You will be in a flat-footed tie with the Twins, who play in a weak division, while you have about 12 games left against the Yankees and Rays, as well as another half-dozen or so against the surging Blue Jays. I see Boston and the Twins fighting it out for the wildcard, and the Rays falling out of contention as their young pitching hits the wall.

However, if the Yankees win this afternoon, you are pretty much out of contention for the division, and will have a tougher row to how in the wildcard race. Even then, I would not count you out, with Pedroia coming back next week.

 

[Warrior]

George,

Don't pull the plug on your team's season yet. This afternoon is the key game of the series from Boston's standpoint. If you can pull off a win behind Lester and split the series, you will pull to within 4 games of the Rays for the wildcard lead. The Rays have two of their young starters (none of whom have thrown a full 200 inning big league season) being examined this week for shoulder problems. If those two starters go on the DL, the Rays, not Boston, are done. Your real problem is the Twins. You will be in a flat-footed tie with the Twins, who play in a weak division, while you have about 12 games left against the Yankees and Rays, as well as another half-dozen or so against the surging Blue Jays. I see Boston and the Twins fighting it out for the wildcard, and the Rays falling out of contention as their young pitching hits the wall.

However, if the Yankees win this afternoon, you are pretty much out of contention for the division, and will have a tougher row to how in the wildcard race. Even then, I would not count you out, with Pedroia coming back next week.

It's funny you mention the Twins as last night on the local news they showed the wildcard standings and there they are right behind the Red Sox, the Twins, who have a 47.00 payroll and are always in the hunt for either the central division or the wild card.

And you are correct, they play in that marshmellow division down the stretch while we get the Yankees, Rays and Blue Jays, don't forget about the Orioles as even though they are 200 games out of first, they are playing well under their new skipper.

Speaking of which, I always find it odd a team plays like wretches under one manager, he gets canned and they catch fire under the new guy.

Why didn't you play like that for the first guy, I just don't get it............

 

[lancer]

Gentlemen, I must remind you that there are 50 games left. That is a lot of games and I can remember several historic collapses that occurred with far fewer games remaining than that. True, it is getting late, but where the NYY and Boston are concerned, I wouldn't celebrate or throw in the towel until game 162 ends. Besides, I am an O's fan (and NYY fan) and they are suddenly a team that can throw a monkey wrench into things (besides their own season). -- Al

 

[lancer]

Well, Boston got their split and thus survive to stay a real factor in the race. I still think it will go to the wire. The real good news is that the O's are now 6-1 under Showalter with 7 straight quality starts (at least 2 years since that happened) and now seem ready to start their pennant push.Now we get to see what happens on the road. -- Al

 

[sammy719]

Well, Boston got their split and thus survive to stay a real factor in the race. I still think it will go to the wire. The real good news is that the O's are now 6-1 under Showalter with 7 straight quality starts (at least 2 years since that happened) and now seem ready to start their pennant push.Now we get to see what happens on the road. -- Al

Well Al maybe brighter days are ahead for our beloved O's, I'm hoping anyway, just this last week was exciting for me to remember the good ol' days ha!! don't know if it's Showalter or just a change in the lineup or what, but hope they play this well for the balance of the season give me a.... O-R-I-O-L-E-S!!!!!!!!...Sammy