MLB 2010 thread

Non-Phish General
#253

Sadly, I, like with most sluggers suspect Hamilton of roids. Just seems to fit to me. I can’t help it with these guys. Baseball’s ruined it for me. Of course when he’s roiding homers on the Yankees as fellow roider A-Rod looks on, I think it’s great. Heck, I say let 'em all roid up just to make it even.

While I usually dislike NL baseball, the Giants/Philly series has been fascinating stuff. Lot of great, close games with good crowds and two fanbases who really care and don’t quit when their team gets down in these games. I’m kind of pulling for the Giants just because I like pitching-heavy teams that make these hyped-up sluggers look silly. Of course it’s difficult because I DETEST seeing Aubrey Huff and Edgar Rentaria having big involvement and making big plays on their team. These are two guys who came to the Tigers and SUCKED in the AL multiple times and had to go running back to their little NL so they could put up numbers again. Renteria’s leading off for San Fran?..He couldn’t even bat 7th with the Tigers and we’re not even that great a hitting team. It is nice to see Polanco on the Phils though who I always liked and who got it done in the AL and who I wish the Tigers had kept. He rocks. I also hate watching pitchers bat…what a waste of time.

#254

Congrats to the Gints. They played a tough, smart game last night and deserve to move on for shutting down the Phils in the series.

Sad that a Rangers-Giants WS is goint to generate much interest, except for the most avid baseball fan because these are two young scrappy teams. I’m rooting for the Giants in this one.

#255

gonna go Giants in this one.

if only because SF is way headier than the middle of Texas.

#256

Would love to see Texas win Game 4 tonight…I don’t really care who wins as both teams are great stories, but I’d like to see a 7 game World Series!!

#257

I didn’t see Games 3 and 4 due to football but good for those Giants. It’s good when solid pitching triumphs over hitting these days since that seems to be how it’s supposed to work. And good for those Giants fans who deserve it.

#258

Congrats to the SF Giants. They deserve every bit of the honor of winning the World Series.

I love dark horse wins from the team that wasn’t expected to get past the semis. Great pitching, great playing, great spirit, just a great all around win.

#259

Good work San Fran, way to close it out!

2011, go Twins… :confused:

#260

first World Series win for San Francisco.

:thumbup:

(Giants haven’t won since way back in NY)

#261

Good moment to watch that game a few nights ago. I always love the isolated shots of each player on the field as the final out is recorded. Always a cool feature from Fox.

And Edgar Renteria…holy crap…two World Series-winning hits now…and yet he was terrible on the Red Sox and Tigers and I couldn’t stand him the entire time he was here. Now that I see it, I figured him out…he’s an “American League Killer.” He killed the Indians with the Marlins in the WS, then killed the Red Sox with his play AND his contract when he played for them, then killed my Tigers with his play and the fact that we gave up a solid pitcher in Jair Jurrjens to get him, then he just killed the Rangers through the entire World Series. He’s just an AL Killer. That’s all it is.

#262
  1. Ellsbury CF
  2. Crawford LF
  3. Pedroia 2B
  4. Gonzalez 1B
  5. Youkilis 3B
  6. Ortiz DH
  7. Drew RF
  8. Scutaro SS
  9. Varitek C
  1. Lester LHP
  2. Buchholz RHP
  3. Lackey RHP
  4. Beckett RHP
  5. Matsuzaka RHP
#263

I swear when I quickly was skimming that last post I saw the 5th starter as makisupa and had to do a double take

#264

Tip of the hat to Cliff Lee, classy guy.

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#265

the phillies have essentially the 4 aces halladay hamels oswalt and lee

#266

Well they did sign an over the hill and over-rated 37 year old shortstop for three-years @ $51 million.

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:wave:

And didn’t the Red Sox learn anything from the past couple post seasons.
Good pitching will always beat good hitting. Always.
Yet, they go out and throw over $100 million at a hitter. :crazy:

And if I hear any Red Sox fans complain about the Yankees trying to “buy” a championship ever again I’ll throw up on their shoes. I’m almost sick of Sox fans more than Yankee fans.
Their staff is horrible and will end up on IR.

#267

^To be fair, the Sawks were already pretty good with pitching and had a good defensive teams and were wrecked by injuries last year. With the Crawford signing, they should be rolling. Besides, them signing Crawford means the Yankees DIDN’T sign Crawford so that alone could be worth it since they’re a division rival.

I don’t like the Gonzalez trade though since I don’t trust a National League lifer who has always been the only good hitter on a bad team. Just seems like he’d be lost in a big market and in the AL. And, to be fair, most Sawks fans say they spend to keep up with the Yankees…which is true.

And how funny, Phillies. You had Cliff Lee and then stupidly traded him and then downgraded to Oswalt and then lost in the playoffs…and then you come crawling back to Cliff Lee. I mentioned how stupid that trade was all last year so I guess it’s funny that they got him anyway. Not a bad pick-up either way. I guess the Yankee fans fucked up with that story about how their fans were spitting on Lee’s wife during the playoff games. Not smart.

#268

Welcome back to the CUBBIES!

#269

Well, Tigers got Magglio to come back for 5-million less than he contract. With him and V-Mart in the lineup, hopefully the hitting will improve. Also a strange move with moving Phil Coke to a starter…if he works, we’d have a solid lineup. I still say we steal Greinke from KC, but I doubt it’ll happen.

#270

The Twins did sign Tsuyoshi Nishioka, so there… :confused:

#271

Come on, Brett. I know you are better than that…Yankmees??? Bankees?? Gotta have something better than those old ones.

:wink:

Sox might have a better rotation…but the Yanks postitional players and bullpen blows away the sox’s. Have fun paying Crawford all that money when Brett Gardner has about the same numbers for 500,000 a year. :laughing:

#272

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