MLB 2011 season

When the All Star game was here in 2005 I got a ball from the Celebrity Softball game and from the Future Stars game.  (with Verlander and Zumaya pitching for the Tigs).  The home run derby was kind of a pisser, because they moved us from our seats in right field for the media, and made us sit out in left field.  Other than Pudge almost all of the home runs were to left field.  Abreu probably put 10 of them in our seats all by himself.

Pretty far. His friend and brother basically caught him by his arm and leg and the rest of him had gone over.

Catcher10 wrote: MLB All-Star game.......that's what SportsCenter is for.

Exactly.

Baseball is still the sport that holds #1 in heart but the all star game is just terrible.

I don't watch the pro bowl either.


Edited by JJLehto - July 12 2011 at 16:36

yep

Cano had 12 in the final round, which was a record.  A fan almost fell out of the second deck.  I missed the end of the second round and the beginning of the final round as I fell asleep on the couch.  I woke up to see Cano hit his last 3 homers and run out to his dad on the mound.

His dad was grooving the pitches to him.  He was also pitching to Big Papi, but I think that he was throwing him spitters.

Yep.  They said they could field an entire All-Star team of guys who are either hurt, too emotionally exhausted to play, or who pitched on Sunday.  Something like the top 5 or 6 starting pitchers in the American League all pitched on Sunday, so are unavailable for tonight's game.

5 Tigers in the All-Star game tonight, less Verlander who pitched on Sunday.  It is nice to have some representation for a change.  The last few years have made the game more enjoyable.  I was so sick of just having 1 representative every year, who would get in the game in the 7th or 8th inning as a pinch hitter and pop out to Shortstop or strike out.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: JJLehto wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: If we play baseball for another 150 years I'm pretty sure all of those records will be broken and replaced by similarly unbreakable ones. The six grandslams in one year in particular. Give me a guy hitting 50 HR a year. It's only a matter of time before 3 people happen to be on base for 7 of them. That one I can see, but I don't see the hits record being broken, nor the most games played streak. At least until we get a new generation of players, all these roided up guys can't physically make it that long Suzuki is this generation and would have had a damn good shot at the hits record if he was born in America.

Well that is true. Crazy to think we're he'll end up after playing for 10 years in Japan!
I suppose if you assume his 200 hit a year pace, for 10 years even lowballing it he'll be over 4,000 hits by now.
I forget about him, being tucked away in Seattle like that.

I mean of course it can happen, I guess for the sake of it I'll modify and say "I dont see it happening in the next 50 years"
That may be when the next Ichiro or Pete Rose comes around. I hope! Would be nice to see some more "hit" guys and not just HR hitters.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: If we play baseball for another 150 years I'm pretty sure all of those records will be broken and replaced by similarly unbreakable ones. The six grandslams in one year in particular. Give me a guy hitting 50 HR a year. It's only a matter of time before 3 people happen to be on base for 7 of them.

That one I can see, but I don't see the hits record being broken, nor the most games played streak.
At least until we get a new generation of players, all these roided up guys can't physically make it that long

Oh yeah that whole Home Run derby was on wasn't it?
I used to like that when I was younger, it was a fun lil event....but recently I've started to see it's a boring, long event.
Especially when guys like Josh Hamilton have those pic games, its like "oh sh*t!" then "another one....when will this end?"




Edited by JJLehto - July 12 2011 at 13:40