The 2010 MLB Season Thread

rushfan4 wrote: The Tigers have their friends from Seattle in to spend the holiday weekend with us.  So far so good, as the Tigers handled the Mariners pretty easily with a 7 to 1 win.  A couple of more days like this would come in mighty nicely I would think.  All apologies to my Mariner friends, but the Tigers can't seem to beat the Twins or White Sox, so we really need to win games against teams that are struggling like the Mariners.

timothy leary wrote: Yes Seattle is a great place to live.........I am sitting here on July 3 and it is 55 degrees, summer where are you? and sports teams in Seattle suck

The Seahawks were good for a few years.
And the Mariners had...2001

They only suck as of late.

crimhead wrote: The Buccos are on a 58-104 path. Thankfully the Orioles are worse than they are. Here's looking forward to the Buccos having the number 2 draft pick again next year.

I'm sure they'll get a good player from it too. Will he make 3/4 into the season before he's traded this time?

Mariners take 2 outta 3 from Detroit...another gem from shortimer Lee..........I'll take it.

Also, it pisses me off to know end how the All-Star games always has so many f**king Yankees and Red Sox.  There is absolulely no reason both of those teams should have 6 players plus have a guy included on the vote in the last player.  A-Rod has no business going this year.  Verlander should be going and so probably should Brennan Boesch.  Boesch was rookie of the month for May, and I didn't hear who got it in June but he should have won it again.  Boesch's numbers in June were good enough to win the Player of the Month award (not just rookie) except that Josh Hamilton had such a crazy month and most like won the honor (or will win it). 

I've watched the All-Star game every year for the last 30+ years and yes it doesn't mean anything.  It is just annoying that for so many years as a Tigers' fan we were stuck with our 1 required player and that was it.  Such player would usually get in in the 7th or 8th inning as a pinch hitter/pinch runner/defensive replacement (if at all).  I am still pissed at the year that Cal Ripken Jr was voted in as the starting SS even though he was batting just over the Mendoza line.  Alan Trammell was having an MVP season that year.  Ripken won the MVP that game (I think that he ended up playing the entire game) and Trammell never even made it into the game. 

Nick Swisher 287 AB .293 AVG; 13 HR 47 RBI .505 SLG

Delmon Young is having a good year for Minnesota but again no comparison.  He has 55 RBIs but Boesch is killing him in the other categories.

Michael Young has 11 HRs and 51 RBIs but these are in over 300 ABs.  AVG is only .303 and SLG is only .487.  I think that he should have been selected for 3B before A-Roid.

And between the 3 of them, I think that Jared Weaver should be there.  He is 8 and 3 with a 2.82 ERA and leads the league in strikeouts with 124 and he is from the team that is hosting the All-Star game.