Baseball

Garion81 wrote: As a Dodger fan I am interested to see how this plays out.  While it looks like nothing LaRoche was a decent third base prospect and the pitcher was a first round pick 2 years ago but this team needed a power bat and they have it. With Penny coming back this should give them the division. If it is doesn't work out   they didn't pay his salary and he walks at the end of the year.  La Roche didn't figure into the plans after trading for Casey Blake so the only real loss was Morris.     I just wonder who gets sat down between Pierre and Eithier.  I hope it is Pierre.  I like him but Either is a better all around player.

It better not be Pierre....he's the only player on my fantasy team that steals bases! 

As a Dodger fan I am interested to see how this plays out.  While it looks like nothing LaRoche was a decent third base prospect and the pitcher was a first round pick 2 years ago but this team needed a power bat and they have it. With Penny coming back this should give them the division. If it is doesn't work out   they didn't pay his salary and he walks at the end of the year.  La Roche didn't figure into the plans after trading for Casey Blake so the only real loss was Morris.

I have and always will be a Manny Ramirez fan...even before his baggy pants and hair. He is such an excellent hitter, and he can back up his mouth...unlike Gary Sheffield.

Oh yea, thats for sure Rushfan, BUT  I guess as a fan of the Yankee side.....I didn't question it much and just accepted it. 

The fat lady is now singing.  The Tigers won 14-12.  What a huge come from behind win.  Good to gain a game on the Twins and stay even with the Sox.  Verlander versus Fausto Carmona tomorrow.  It should be a pitcher's duel, but who would have thought the Tigers would score 14 runs on the day that Cliff Lee pitched?

The Indians had the bases loaded and nobody out against Casey Fossum in the bottom of the 12th and couldn't score.  Shoppach struck out (he set/tied a record with 5 extra base hits today) and Andy Marte grounded into a double play.  12-12 going in to the 13th inning.

^ That's for sure. Seems like the Yanks are having their best year thus far of their last few...and this time they're NOT going after every big name and trying to buy a championship team.
I don't buy the fixed baseball thing, I know it's an easy thing to say to explain the Yankees inevitably sucking up everyone, but sorry it's just not true.


And if you want proof baseball is not fixed think about this.....2001 World Series
Yankees....New York....9/11    that has the quintessential feel good, scripted story right there....but I believe they lost to the "who are the Diamondbacks?"

I just don't understand how that trade happened though. Maybe it had to do with saleries? Farnsworth and Pudge can't be considered equals, or is Pudge not doing too well?

The Yankees are supposed to have a huge salary drop by the end of this year. With Mussina and Giambi's contracts ending they sure are going to have a lot of extra cash. I don't really feel the need for them to come back, although I do like Giambi.

I hope Hughes can quickly get his groove going and replace Ponsone, then when Wang replaces Razner thats a serious force.

I love Brian Cashman in every sense of the word, probably because I consider ourselves alike. I am all business and don't hesitate to get the best and by any methods. His last name is perfect complementary of him. The only problem is a think he played a part in getting rid of Torre, he really wasn't a fan of him.

rileydog22 wrote: Yankees are coming out as big-time trade deadline winners!  Kyle was by far my least favorite member of that suddenly stellar Yankees bullpen, and Pudge is still amongst the best catchers in the league, even if he lost some of his power when he dropped 40 pounds during the steroid crackdown.  And I still can't believe that they got Nady and Marte for Ross Olendorf

I know! The Yanks have driven me crazy the last few years....but I can only applaud what they've done so far. Kept they're team going through some major injuries, the Nady and Marte trade you mentioned
and 1 for 1 trade?

I-Rod for Kyle Farnsworth!???
I can't even believe it

I'm beginning to think that Baseball is as fixed as Basketball.  The final season at Yankee Stadium, the MLB front office wants the World Series to go through there.  Just imagine the Hollywood story.  A little bit of palm greasing to urge teams to make stupid trades to the Yankees in order to make them better.  Sounds a little bit like what happens amongst friends in a fantasy league, when one friend whose team is out of it trades their best players to their friend's team who is in the hunt.