MLB 2011 season

A split tonight...I guess it's better than to be swept by them.




Matt Holliday had to leave the Cards game in the 8th due to a moth flying into and getting stuck in his ear.

True.


Edited by crimhead - August 23 2011 at 02:43

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I hate the Phillies.

Well, it's nice and sunny right now, so maybe we'll win today.

I hate the Phillies. 

What a great weekend for the Tigers.  3-game sweep of the 2nd place Cleveland Indians.  Yesterday's game may have been the best game of the year.  If you like games where your team scores 7 runs in an inning to take a 7-0 lead and then proceeds to give up 5 runs the very next inning.  They held on to win 8 to 7 with what I have to assume was SportsCenter's number 1 play this morning.  A game ending double play with the final out being a play at the plate.  I didn't think that Austin Jackson had it in him to throw a baseball all the way home, even if it was a fairly shallow hit flyball.  I added a few extra grey hairs yesterday but in the end...what a game!!!

Ricky Romero has been on fire lately.  Threw a 3-hit shutout last night.

The Tigers are up two games with the Indians coming in for 3 games on Friday.  I think that Indians and White Sox play again tomorrow so it will either be 1 1/2 or 2 1/2 come Friday.  I'm kind of ticked.  Ford Field, which is right next door to Comerica Park, is having a Kenny Chesney concert on Saturday night.  It is the first Saturday night game that we have had in over a month, and we don't have another one until September 24th but they chose this Saturday to hold a concert for this sh*tty music.  Parking is going to be an absolute nightmare with 40,000 baseball fans competing with 40,000 northern rednecks for 10,000 parking spots.

Edited by rushfan4 - August 18 2011 at 08:45

1st base umpire cost the Tigers the game tonight.  With no outs in the 9th inning and guys on 1st and 2nd for the Twins, the umpire said that Santiago, the 2nd basemen was pulled off the bag on a throw to 1st and called the bunter safe.  Replays showed that he was still on the bag.  Valverde struck out the next two guys with the bases loaded, so should have had 3 outs, but Morneau came up and hit a single up the middle to score 2 runs and give the Twins the win.  Oh well.  It shouldn't have come to that in the 1st place as our sh*tty 3rd base coach ended a rally in the 7th inning by getting our baserunner thrown out by about 15 feet at the plate.  We could have had guys on 1st and 3rd with Victor Martinez and his .400+ batting average with RISP, instead the inning was over.  Incidentally, not that it would have happened, but he did lead off the next inning with a double up the gap.

I broke my wireless router / backup harddrive last night watching the Phillies game because we have a manager that chooses not to manage in one half of an inning and then over manages in the bottom half. I would have burnt his home to the ground if he lived across the street from me last night. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: ^ Looks like you were right.

Yep.  After he hit the first one, I pretty much expected that he was going to hit 600 last night.  The Twins had guys on first and third and I thought for sure they were going to walk Kubel to load the bases so that his 600th could be a grand slam.  I think at least 300 of those 600 home runs have come against Tigers' pitching.  

Too bad ESPN couldn't carry the game so that we all could have seen him hit #600 live.

Buccos beat the Cards. Yea!