Correct. The last 3 games of the season, in NY. -- Al
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Jason, Werth signed a $126 million contract that runs from 2011 through 2017. He was a necessary veteran for a young team when he signed and everyone figured it would be a good signing for the first 4 years but that the last 3 years were a gamble and that is how it seems to be playing out. Werth is 36 and obviously past his prime but he is still a veteran and a leader for the team. Don't know what management will do about the final 2 years of this contract. -- Al
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He'll be 37 next year on the back nine and with a bloated contract; the MFY's will be all over him, he'll go to Williamsport East, work on his inside out swing and hit 40 home runs.......................Aroid will help him just like he helped Horseface this year revive his career...............
Sounds like a plan. Knowing how the NYY like the older vets, maybe they'll trade us Chris Young for Werth. Straight up OF for OF.:tongue: -- Al
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I think signing Werth gave the Nats legitimacy; people realized they were serious when they signed him.
I don't follow the Nats day to day like Al but they're just getting a lot of players back, with Span still to come; they haven't clicked yet but when and if they do....{eek3} They were everybody's favorite to go to the WS. No reason to change that yet. Sometimes a strong challenge brings out the best in you.
The question is whether the players coming off the DL, like Zimmerman, Rendon, and Werth recently, and Span and Strasburg in the near future, can play themselves into game shape fast enough to be helpful. It's a good team on paper, and has been since put together, but all the lost games to injury have changed everything. Nats now have 57 games, instead of 162, to get their game on-track. It won't be easy and I'm pretty sure the Mets will have a lot to say about it all. It's going to be a real race. -- Al
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Mets dodged a huge bullet tonight. They had a 8-0 lead going into the bottom of the 9th and proceeded to give up 6. To say the bullpen looked shaky is an understatement. The guy they picked up from the As looked awful and set the scene for what was almost a disastrous loss.
Key word being 'almost'. :wink2: Don't feel too bad. The Nats bullpen threw our game away tonight against the Diamondbacks. Even when Williams makes the right moves with the pitchers, it blows up. Jeesh!
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Well Cy Serevino looked good tonight, but not good enough, threw a cookie to Ortiz and he hit the @#$% out of it, a 440 foot blast and the Sox won 2-1.
The Jays hit 42 home runs tonight and won, they're only 4.5 back................oh wait, 6 in the loss column as Michael likes to say...........hey, whatever helps you sleep at night, I wouldn't want an offense like that coming up behind me on the outside rail.
The Jays hit 42 home runs tonight and won, they're only 4.5 back................oh wait, 6 in the loss column as Michael likes to say...........hey, whatever helps you sleep at night, I wouldn't want an offense like that coming up behind me on the outside rail.
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Don't forget those scrappy O's..you can't kill even with bug spray, they are like roaches, just won't die!!!
they have won like 9 of 12 and only 5.5 out, and 1 out of wild card, as much as this team is different from last years Orioles they just seem to tough out the bumps and bruises just enough to stay close, come late Sept. that's all you can ask for, sure as hell making it interesting...SammyAnd a red hot Slammin' Chris Davis doesn't hurt!^&grin -- AlDon't forget those scrappy O's..you can't kill even with bug spray, they are like roaches, just won't die!!!
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The Yanks and Blorays have 13 games left to play out. As most pundits are saying, with the run producing machine that Toronto is, they should be running away with division, but they ain't yetttt. Michael
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Didn't realize they had that many head to head games left; should be an interesting couple of months.
The Twins are in the toilet now, so the second wild card spot is back in play, Rangers are heating up, getting Hamels can't hurt, so someone from the East might grab that second spot and play the Angels or the Astros.
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Well Rodriguez with another very good outing tonight, naturally Dreamboat hits a home run for a 2-1 win, Miller comes in for the save.
Keep signing Red Sox free agents MFY's; if the Red Sox signed MFY free agents, they'd stink on ice, but the MFY's sign Boggs, Clemens, Damon, Ellsbury, Miller, etc, etc, etc and they all come through and win them games and WS titles.
I really want to smash something right now, just infuriating, been putting up with this #$%^ing crap from the MFY's for 37 years.
Toronto; you're on deck next, bring your bats...............................
Keep signing Red Sox free agents MFY's; if the Red Sox signed MFY free agents, they'd stink on ice, but the MFY's sign Boggs, Clemens, Damon, Ellsbury, Miller, etc, etc, etc and they all come through and win them games and WS titles.
I really want to smash something right now, just infuriating, been putting up with this #$%^ing crap from the MFY's for 37 years.
Toronto; you're on deck next, bring your bats...............................
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A big wet kiss to Big Poppi, for making CC still think he has something more in the tank...Appreciate it
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A big wet kiss to Big Poppi, for making CC still think he has something more in the tank...Appreciate it
Yeah, I saw that little fist pump and dance from fatso; good for him, actually thinking he's still a MLB pitcher.
Imagine this; he's getting 25 million a year for the next two years. Wow; at least Jesse
James wore a mask.
Ortiz put that one in the memory bank; can't wait for the next match up when that wrecking ball tries to go middle in again and Ortiz hits it into the Atlantic ocean and then stares at that tub of goo as he rounds the bases..........................
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Although I think the Yankees will make the playoffs, they don't have that horse that you can ride to a championship.
If you look at division leaders and contenders, they do. For example, Toronto has Price, KC has Cueto, Houston has Dallas Keuchel, Giants have Baumgarner, Dodgers have two (Greinke and Kershaw), Washington has Scherzer and Mets have two (deGrom and Harvey).
Who do the Yankees have? Several decent pitchers but not an ace. Their horse in the past -- CC -- is basically just a broken down nag at this point.
If you look at division leaders and contenders, they do. For example, Toronto has Price, KC has Cueto, Houston has Dallas Keuchel, Giants have Baumgarner, Dodgers have two (Greinke and Kershaw), Washington has Scherzer and Mets have two (deGrom and Harvey).
Who do the Yankees have? Several decent pitchers but not an ace. Their horse in the past -- CC -- is basically just a broken down nag at this point.
That is the exact problem that worries me about the O's. They have 3 or 4 decent pitchers but no horse to tie the wagon to in the big game. Why the O's didn't go out and try to sign someone like Cueto or Price is beyond me. The lack of a genuine ace is their biggest weakness. -- Al
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True Al. That is why I think teams like the Os and Angels may be pretenders not contenders.
It's only August but you wonder how good some of these pitchers may be in October. The Mets intimated that if deGrom and Harvey hit their innings limit, they may shut them down. They're hoping that Matz can come back in a few weeks so they can go back to a 6 man rotation. Ron Darling also said the other night that Scherzer has pitched more innings than in the past and he wondered how effective he would be come October.
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It's only August but you wonder how good some of these pitchers may be in October. The Mets intimated that if deGrom and Harvey hit their innings limit, they may shut them down. They're hoping that Matz can come back in a few weeks so they can go back to a 6 man rotation. Ron Darling also said the other night that Scherzer has pitched more innings than in the past and he wondered how effective he would be come October.
Brad