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Relayer09 
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 Posted: May 17 2008 at 09:44 |
 rushfan4 wrote:
Well, the Tigers managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory again. They jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead, with a 2-run home run from Miguel Cabrera. Their first home run in 11 games from a guy not named Matt Joyce. They have now lost 11 of their last 13 games. The Tigers committed 2 errors in the 7th inning and went from a 3-1 lead to a 4-3 loss. They proceeded to go out 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the 8th and 9th innings and I think they just may have been eliminated from Wild Card contention today. Man this team that was supposed to be so good really sucks donkey balls. |
The Tigers are just killing my fantasy team this year. I picked up Guillen, Renterea, Ordonez and Cabrera thinking the Tigers would be monsterous. Oh the horror! 
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rushfan4
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Posted: May 17 2008 at 00:35 |
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Well, the Tigers managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory again. They jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead, with a 2-run home run from Miguel Cabrera. Their first home run in 11 games from a guy not named Matt Joyce. They have now lost 11 of their last 13 games. The Tigers committed 2 errors in the 7th inning and went from a 3-1 lead to a 4-3 loss. They proceeded to go out 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the 8th and 9th innings and I think they just may have been eliminated from Wild Card contention today. Man this team that was supposed to be so good really sucks donkey balls.
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rileydog22
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 23:08 |
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Holy sh*t Chipper Jones is good. I have him on my fantasy team and EVERY TIME I check a box score he's 2-4 or 3-4 with a run or an RBI. He's already a hall-of-famer for sure, but if he keeps hitting well like this for another year or two he could make himself into a first-ballot hall-of-famer.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 17:41 |
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A player to watch. The Dodger have a pitch named Clayton Kershaw in their AA system. He has a 97 mph fastball and a mean 12 to 6 curveball. The kid is 20 and there are comparisons to Koufax about him. Vin Scully has already nicknamed his curve "Public Enemy #1".
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darkmatter
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 11:32 |
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I haven't read Moneyball myself, but I've heard a lot of good things about it. Billy Beane makes some amazing trades. He got Dan Haren and Daric Barton out of the Mark Mulder trade, and then got six players out trading Haren to the D'Backs, including several high ranking prospects in their system. I'm amazed he got the two best pitching prospects and the best position prospect from the White Sox in the Swisher deal. There's too much talent in these trades for them to be unsuccessful.
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rushfan4
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 09:07 |
E-Dub wrote:
Um, can the Royals just play the Tigers for the remainder of the season? 
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Pfffft.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 02:02 |
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on another note.....I got to see the Cards piss away a 5-1 lead to lose to the Buccos 11-5. Great game that it was. I got to hear the Cards announcers ramble on about the importance of getting a lead on a team like the Pirates. It tends to get them down. Heh heh heh.....I hate announcers that are blatant homers for the team.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 16 2008 at 02:00 |
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Billy Beane is a great GM. He has been blessed with talent but like many small marker or teams that don't want to play the high salaries he gets to be a training/minor league team for the big market clubs, I wish that they could have gone to the WS the year that they played the Yankees in the playoffs.
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rileydog22
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Posted: May 15 2008 at 20:51 |
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Has anybody else read Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis? It's a brilliant book. It talks about how Billy Beane and the hapless Oakland A's managed to win their division several years in a row, while every year having the lowest or second-lowest payroll in baseball. Probably the best book ever written on baseball; Bill James has a couple books up there as well, but they're not nearly as accessible.
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E-Dub
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Posted: May 15 2008 at 20:30 |
Um, can the Royals just play the Tigers for the remainder of the season? E
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crimhead
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Posted: May 15 2008 at 02:40 |
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Got to see the Pirates lose to the Cards....Got to hear all about Jim Edmonds how both the Cards and Cubs fans are up in arms about the signing of him. It is like the guy didn't have a career before he got to the Cards. He did play for the Angels if I remember right.
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darkmatter
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Posted: May 14 2008 at 19:29 |
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I'm glad I'm finally home, now I can actually watch Phillies games rather than use Gameday on mlb.com.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 14 2008 at 13:44 |
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Well the Cubs are looking at Jim Edmonds. The comments posted on the story from the Cardinal fans is hilarious. They are throwing the guy under the bus. Wasn't it the Cards that decided they didn't want to pay him any longer?
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rileydog22
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 17:29 |
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The funniest thing about Fielder's weight is that he's on a diet right now; he became a vegetarian a few months ago.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 13:53 |
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6 out the last 7 for the Pirates. I'd be happy if they could win 52% of there remaining games.
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crimhead
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Posted: May 13 2008 at 02:23 |
rileydog22 wrote:
Yeah, him and Fielder (I always associate the two because they're the NL's most prominant fat sluggers) have both been struggling this year.
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yeah, I caught the cards/brew game tonight and couldn't believe how short and fat Fielder was. He reminded me of Kirby Puckett but fatter.
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Drew
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Posted: May 12 2008 at 21:19 |
Go Giants! 
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Padraic
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Posted: May 12 2008 at 21:16 |
darkmatter wrote:
Yea, it doesn't help that the Flyers are down 2-0 either.... 
But the Phillies are still having a good season, Ryan Howard's stats aside. Utley and Burrell each had a great April, even though Burrell is coming back down to earth recently.
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The team can be entertaining to watch at least. Wish Rowand was still on board, though.
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rileydog22
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Posted: May 12 2008 at 21:12 |
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76ers were pretty solid this year.
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darkmatter
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Posted: May 12 2008 at 21:12 |
Yea, it doesn't help that the Flyers are down 2-0 either.... But the Phillies are still having a good season, Ryan Howard's stats aside. Utley and Burrell each had a great April, even though Burrell is coming back down to earth recently.
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