Baseball 2009

mr.cub wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Who the  is Luke Scott and how the hell as he hit 14 home runs in 15 games against the Tigers (or something like that)?  Well, at least the Tigers came away with a split of their 4 game series with the Orioles after they lost the first two games.   This Orioles team is going to be phenomenal two years from now. MacPhail has done an incredible job in building a young team; they have so many young players just getting ready to burst into the system (Wieters started his first game Friday). And they all have extremely promising futures. The level of excitement, at least among my group of Orioles friends, is unprecedented

They've already prepared Wieter's plaque at Cooperstown:

JJLehto wrote: rileydog22 wrote: mr.cub wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Who the  is Luke Scott and how the hell as he hit 14 home runs in 15 games against the Tigers (or something like that)?  Well, at least the Tigers came away with a split of their 4 game series with the Orioles after they lost the first two games.   This Orioles team is going to be phenomenal two years from now. MacPhail has done an incredible job in building a young team; they have so many young players just getting ready to burst into the system (Wieters started his first game Friday). And they all have extremely promising futures. The level of excitement, at least among my group of Orioles friends, is unprecedented     They've already prepared Wieter's plaque at Cooperstown:     That is one IMPRESSIVE resume!

The Dodger overcame a 5-1 deficit in the 8th last night to beat the snakes.  They almost came back on Monday as well having two shots down the line caught with the tying run on third in the ninth. I am very pleased with this team. They never seem to give up or in.  I guess these kids have finally grown up.  The really amazing thing is they are doing it without the long ball.  They have scored 295 runs with only 37 HRs. They average 5.46 runs per game while holding opponents to 3.85.  Almost all of it without Kuroda who was  their best starting pitcher and half of it without Ramirez arguably their best hitter, certainly their best power hitter. That is amazing to me and would never have considered it two years ago.  If the starters keep going a bit longer in the games and the bullpen holds up I think this team is pretty good.  The bench players seem to have almost the same ability as the starters so Torre is giving his everyday players a good amount of rest when needed.

Edited by Garion81 - June 03 2009 at 12:23

I'm going to be attending college in Pittsburgh and I plan on going to a lot of Bucco games....in order to see the rest of the NL play.  

I'm going to Carnegie Mellon University. 

And I can always remember how to spell Teixeira because both vowel combination are "ei".  

If I were a Priates fan I would be pissed off about that trade they just made.  THey had an all star outfield in the making and now two of them are gone.

They've been rebuilding for....how long?  Nate the Great was supposed to be the leader of this rebuilt franchise, and now they trade him away for players that will almost certainly not be ready for about three years.  It should be noted, though, that the reason they were so quick to pull the trigger on this deal is that they had a really beastly CF in AAA that they just called up that will be a defensive improvement while playing pretty good offense.  

Although Riley I do thank them for Marte and Nady!
Well, not this season.....but assuming they get healthy and good again.

^ Thats for sure. 

Yea last year was one of those shameful ones I block out. 09 is shaping out to be much better so far