2012 MLB Season

Tigers beat the Angels 5 - 1 today. Not in attendance today, but didn't really get much work done as I was listening to the game.  Probably should have just taken the afternoon off and gone, except that it was kind of a crappy, rainy day all day and I sit through enough of those kind of games.

crimhead wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Tigers beat the Angels 5 - 1 today. Not in attendance today, but didn't really get much work done as I was listening to the game.  Probably should have just taken the afternoon off and gone, except that it was kind of a crappy, rainy day all day and I sit through enough of those kind of games. Lucky you guys to have any amount of rain. That is a commodity that we haven't seen in St Louis for quite some time.

It has been a very dry summer for us too.  We had some big storms roll through about 3 weeks ago, and then nothing until the last two days.  I am sure that our lawns are doing big time happy dances today though.

Another brilliant trade by the Mariners front office.....Send Ichiro to the NYY for 2 no name minor league pitchers and some cash.

^ Well reports are that he asked to be traded over a week ago. Which makes more sense than the Ms making the 1st move.....Ichiro is close to ending his career and I am sure he wants a good chance for a WS ring.

rushfan4 wrote: That was kind of sad news to see Ichiro traded to the evil empire.  It seems like it was quite the bargain since both of the pitching "prospects" that the Yankees sent are 25 years old, but I really don't know anything about them.

I'd like to point out that I'm tired of hearing from national broadcasters/syndicated columnists that the NL Central is one of if not the weakest divisions in baseball. We have 3 teams in the Reds, Cards, and Pirates who are all well in the hunt for playoff spots, and at least 2 of those teams will probably make the playoffs (it's possible all 3 of them could, but I highly doubt that's going to happen). Granted, the rest of the NL Central is pretty much in the cellar. But to have 3 quality (don't want to say "great" yet since we're still a bit of a ways off from October) teams in the same division eyeing a trip to the playoffs at the end of July should say something about one's division.

/rant

Liking the Buccos chances of finally breaking the streak. McCutch for MVP. The guy is having a career season when the Buccos need it the most.

rushfan4 wrote: What's the deal?  The Mariners trade Ichiro, and then go on and win 7 games in a row.

Buccos win 2 in a row. Hoping they sweep the D'backs and have a good homestand. Counting down the wins to break the streak.

The Tigers beat the Evil Empire again last night 6 to 5, in spite of the best efforts of Jose Valverde to give the game away.  I really hate leaving a game that we won in a pissed off mood and yesterday was one of those games.  The Tigers took a 6 to 3 lead into the 9th and Valverde proceeded to give up 2 runs and the Evil Empire had guys on 2nd and 3rd with no outs and former Tiger Curtis Granderson at the plate.  First pitch, Granderson ripped a shot down the line that was just foul (from our seats in right-center there was no way of telling until the umpire called it foul.)  He got Granderson to pop out a mile high to Fielder to end the game but by that point the entire crowd was spitting bullets and booing Valverde for every ball that he threw.  33 pitches thrown and almost half of them were balls.  On a side note, Ibanez had a great at-bat to draw a walk after falling behind 0 balls and 2 strikes.  He fouled off at least 4 pitches in the process. 

Edited by rushfan4 - August 08 2012 at 13:48