Author Topic: MLB & Division Watching (2010) (Read 122477 times)

DPMOmaha · « **Reply #1200 on:** July 01, 2010, 09:48:15 am »

Quote from: houston-nat on June 30, 2010, 11:39:32 pm

"Howard Kendrick"? When did that happen?

About the same time Mike Morse became Michael Morse, perhaps?

Nathan · « **Reply #1201 on:** July 01, 2010, 05:53:29 pm »

Giants trade Bengie Molina to the Rangers for reliever Chris Ray and minor league starter Michael Main.

UMDNats · « **Reply #1202 on:** July 01, 2010, 11:36:13 pm »

Dbacks fired GM Byrnes and their manager. Byrnes still gets paid fully for the next 5 years. Wow.

PatsNats28 · « **Reply #1203 on:** July 01, 2010, 11:44:41 pm »

Quote from: UMDNats on July 01, 2010, 11:36:13 pm

Dbacks fired GM Byrnes and their manager. Byrnes still gets paid fully for the next 5 years. Wow.

is it a shanahan clause?

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #1204 on:** July 01, 2010, 11:45:22 pm »

Quite possibly the worst call (and easiest to get right) in baseball history just took place in the Twins/Rays game.

Clear as day tag... ump watching, and calls him safe.

You have to check it out.

PatsNats28 · « **Reply #1205 on:** July 02, 2010, 12:01:27 am »

Quote from: Lintyfresh85 on July 01, 2010, 11:45:22 pm

Quite possibly the worst call (and easiest to get right) in baseball history just took place in the Twins/Rays game.

Clear as day tag... ump watching, and calls him safe.

You have to check it out.

linkeage?

PANatsFan · « **Reply #1206 on:** July 02, 2010, 12:28:19 am »

Quote from: UMDNats on July 01, 2010, 11:36:13 pm

Dbacks fired GM Byrnes and their manager. Byrnes still gets paid fully for the next 5 years. Wow.

I'm pretty sure if he works somewhere else he loses that. 5 years to drink beer and sleep. Sounds awesome.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #1207 on:** July 02, 2010, 02:34:36 am »

Quote from: Lintyfresh85 on July 01, 2010, 11:45:22 pm

Quite possibly the worst call (and easiest to get right) in baseball history just took place in the Twins/Rays game.

Clear as day tag... ump watching, and calls him safe.

You have to check it out.

Saw it on sportscenter. Some bullcrap.

PC · « **Reply #1208 on:** July 03, 2010, 08:56:35 pm »

Ubaldo is getting bent over by the Giants, 7-1 SF in the 3rd. Just gave up a grand salami.

PC · « **Reply #1209 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:04:19 pm »

See, this is what sucks! The Nationals offense in Strasburg starts seem to feel no obligation to give him run support. As for the Rockies, just like in Jimenez's stinker from earlier this week, his offense pulls his ass out of the fire, 7-7 in the 6th inning.

Jimenez gave up 7 runs, including a grand slam, in the 3rd inning and he STILL might win this game!

PC · « **Reply #1210 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:18:37 pm »

After the Rockies went up 8-7, the game is tied now, 8-8, and Ubaldo is out so he won't get the totally undeserved win.

UMDNats · « **Reply #1211 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:26:14 pm »

Bruce Chen has a perfect game through 5 innings.

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #1212 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:26:34 pm »

It's Bruce Chen.

It won't last.

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #1213 on:** July 03, 2010, 10:43:37 pm »

And it ends in the 7th inning.

Good effort though.

PC · « **Reply #1214 on:** July 03, 2010, 11:21:14 pm »

Aubrey Huff just hit a homer (on the road, FYI) and the play-by-play man described it as a "one-hander". Apparently, he hit a one-hander, in yesterday's game too.

What are the hotel cleaning women going to find when they clean his room, after this weekend!

imref · « **Reply #1215 on:** July 03, 2010, 11:31:06 pm »

AZ has already made 6 errors tonight, Dodgers have scored 11, 3 are earned.

Coladar · « **Reply #1216 on:** July 04, 2010, 03:57:19 am »

Cripes, I thought we were awful in defense, errors, unearned runs and having an awful SS. Look at tonights ARI/LAD game. Jesus. 6 errors. 8!!!!!! Eight! Unearned runs!!! Three errors by their shortstop and he was caught stealing. And they left him in the entire freaking game. Firing their manager and their GM, but particularly right now at least, their manager, sure looks like it was a smart idea. Really improved the team there.

I bet Rizzo does a happy dance every night that he got out of that sinking, or more appropriately, sunken ship. Wow. Eight unearned runs. Wow.

Apparently this game was literally insane. Xavier Paul walked in the second inning. Not a huge deal, right? Yeah, he walked on THREE balls. That's right. He walked on 3 balls. Apparently he fouled off a few, the scoreboard was incorrect and the umpire lost track. And no one in the entire game, players, coaches, four umpires, noticed. It was only an eight pitch at bat, not like some freakish 20 pitch where one could barely understand it. Has such a thing ever happened in the modern era, say the last twenty five years? It seems unbelievable.

Lastly, what was in the water today? Tons of crazy games, but five with 11 or more runs scored by a team. Lots of blowouts for some reason.

spidernat · « **Reply #1217 on:** July 04, 2010, 10:42:12 am »

Quote from: Nattie20 on July 04, 2010, 02:04:43 am

The absolute prime candidate for juicing. Been mediocre before this first 3 months of this season. He's cycling now.

JimenEZ has two full seasons under his belt. He threw 198.2 and 218 innings in those two seasons and had an ERA under 4 both seasons (under 3.5 last year). If you judge his work prior to this season according to record then you can make the determination that he was mediocre since his record coming in to 2010 was 31-28. But if you judge a pitcher according to record..... you're a moron.

John Lannan's first two seasons seem similar. JimenEZ pitched more innings and had an ERA slightly lower than Lannan's. But while Lannan's K/BB ratio has steadily declined over the last couple of seasons, JimenEZ' K/BB has actually improved. I wonder if Lannan would be accused of being a juicer if he had taken this leap forward instead of regressing this season. I doubt it since in fact, in the John Lannan Appreciation thread, some people here were thinking that he was on the brink of becoming an ace. And one poster even declared:

Quote from: eagleskins on April 07, 2008, 12:35:15 am

When he gets the walks down, he can be dominant.

The Chief · « **Reply #1218 on:** July 04, 2010, 11:16:29 am »

I knew spidernat would post something about ezes

PC · « **Reply #1219 on:** July 04, 2010, 06:27:40 pm »

Dontrelle Willis, DFA'd again.

Hopefully, he invested his money wisely.

PC · « **Reply #1220 on:** July 05, 2010, 02:20:25 pm »

Quite a pitching spectacle going on in Detroit today. It's 6-5 Orioles over Tigers, in the 2nd. The Orioles starter lasted 1 inning. The Tigers starter last a little longer, 1.2 innings.

PC · « **Reply #1221 on:** July 05, 2010, 02:30:43 pm »

Now 8-6, Tigers, in the third.

PC · « **Reply #1222 on:** July 05, 2010, 04:51:48 pm »

The Debacle in Detroit is finally over, 12-9, Tigers. Where was this Tigers team when we played them???

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #1223 on:** July 05, 2010, 05:31:39 pm »

They scored plenty of runs versus the Nats.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #1224 on:** July 05, 2010, 08:19:03 pm »

This is so strange. I'm on the computer in the bedroom of my Dad's apartment while the Red Sox at TB game is on the living room TV. I can listen fairly easily due to the volume. I'm hearing cheering on the TV, and I keep on thinking the Rays must be doing something, but it is the Red Sox rallying with two out, scoring 3 off Garza. The Rays had been drawing their own crowd against the Red Sox since 2008, but the crowd seems to be a Sox crowd. Also, no stupid cow bells. Kind of sad since the Rays are in contention.