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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2011 at 16:33
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

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The Buccos are at .500 again!!! Pitching and timely hitting. I can't remember the last time that they were at .500 this late in the season.


Funny, I just heard the answer to that on ESPN LOL
Said they havn't been this good this late in 6 years. More accurately, this average this late in 6 years.

Yanks bullpen have another injury. Barely pulling wins out of their ass already, I hope they can find some temp talent in their farm system.

They'll probably call up the Tigers and ask them to send over one of our relievers for some "can't miss" minor leaguer who will miss.


Well your team should stop accepting LOL
I for one would love us to stop spending $ and develop for a change.

Girardi was just saying they were going to "depend on youth" since he didn't feel there were good enough out there, but he only has so much input..I'm sure management will go out and get someone for the rest of this season Angry
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

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I guess I just like to see players that respect the game and other players above everything else. 


Same but sadly...does that even really exist now?
Sure many do, but seems baseball has taken the route of other sports and has lost its respect.

I missed it, but the NY media is all pissy about Big Papi celebrated excessively or rudely (I guess) and after Girardi said "I didnt like that" he got ripped.
To each their own, but Joe was saying he's old school....you hit a homer, run the bases, don't let the pitcher know you exist...and he doesn't like how "emotional" players are now and disrespectful.
There was more pissyness over how Big Papi didn't get hit, or even challenged.

I assume that aspect of basbeball will be gone soon. Along with not running into pitchers.

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edit: funny how with more civility more disrespect has come to the game.
It is sort of like excessive celebrating in football.  On one hand, we expect players to show interest and intensity with the way that they play, but on the other hand, we expect them to be emotionless robots. 
 
There was an article last week about Bautista breaking some unwritten rule about showing up a pitcher.  (I think it was a White Sox pitcher.  Danks maybe.)   Toronto was beating Chicago by 7 or 8 runs and the batter before Bautista hit a home run.  Bautista ended up flying out or popping out and in disgust he threw his bat to the ground which apparently was showing up the pitcher by saying "you suck and I should have hit a home run against you, but I blew it by popping out".  Apparently since they were winning by so many runs he should have been content to just pop out.
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

The Buccos are at .500 again!!! Pitching and timely hitting. I can't remember the last time that they were at .500 this late in the season.


Funny, I just heard the answer to that on ESPN LOL
Said they havn't been this good this late in 6 years. More accurately, this average this late in 6 years.

Yanks bullpen have another injury. Barely pulling wins out of their ass already, I hope they can find some temp talent in their farm system.

They'll probably call up the Tigers and ask them to send over one of our relievers for some "can't miss" minor leaguer who will miss.


Well your team should stop accepting LOL
I for one would love us to stop spending $ and develop for a change.

Girardi was just saying they were going to "depend on youth" since he didn't feel there were good enough out there, but he only has so much input..I'm sure management will go out and get someone for the rest of this season Angry
Maybe we can swap Austin Jackson for Curtis Granderson as part of that deal.  Do you think that the Yanks might go for that again. Angry
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Well the emotionless thing were Girardi's words not mine, I do welcome some degree of celebration.

That's not so much the point though, it was worrying it may become unrestrained.
I don't watch every game so I can't make a personal opinion, but Joe said he felt "challenging" batters is happening less and less.

That's what I would hate to see. Besides being part of the game...if a player decides to celebrate excessively or disrespect a player/team so be it. You're entitled, just expect to be pushed off base once or twice. Maybe even clunked if it was deemed a bad enough disrespect.

Hey the team shoulda valued Granderson higher I guess. I never heard the name but after some time to grow he's become one of the best on the team now. I know since a period of last year he is near the pace of Bautista in terms of  HRs.


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The Royals need to step it up, today's finish was pretty good I guess but I expect an above .500 record.
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aaaaaaaaaaand Big Papi gets clunked and is whining about it now...

Could be a one time thing but I'm hoping Girardi is wrong and this isn't the future of the sport. A good batter, going against your biggest rival, you disrespected a pitcher and his coach. He gets hit, and now is complaining about it?
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I used to have some respect for that guy but he seems more and more like big baby sometimes...


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I'm going to the Jays/Red Sox game on Sunday.  Rookie Kyle Drabek is the scheduled pitcher vs Jon Lester, so a win won't be easy.
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And what do you know!
After the sh*tstorm big papi had to cause with the Yanks...a pitch is blatantly thrown right at Teixeira's head.
So either players are complaining are about being hit OR they feel its OK to throw full speed at someones head.

Whatever...Fausto Carmona has fallen off a cliff since his 07 year anyway.
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Well Scott, you may be a Yankee fan for the rest of the Indians series but don't struggle too hard...gotta love how we were this close to blowing an 11-2 lead.

All mah fears are coming true...the HR heavy offense faltered and the starting pitching is starting to slide back to normality....Also 3 of our relievers are hurt. Today it showed in an ugly way...thank goodness the lead was so large.
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The Giants do it again- another walk-off hit...

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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

And what do you know!
After the sh*tstorm big papi had to cause with the Yanks...a pitch is blatantly thrown right at Teixeira's head.
So either players are complaining are about being hit OR they feel its OK to throw full speed at someones head.

Whatever...Fausto Carmona has fallen off a cliff since his 07 year anyway.
The pitch hit Teixeira in the middle of the back. Doesn't make it right.  WCBS announcer claimed it knocked his helmet off.
To a ballplayer, I bet the knee hit a few days ago was worse.
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

And what do you know!
After the sh*tstorm big papi had to cause with the Yanks...a pitch is blatantly thrown right at Teixeira's head.
So either players are complaining are about being hit OR they feel its OK to throw full speed at someones head.

Whatever...Fausto Carmona has fallen off a cliff since his 07 year anyway.
The pitch hit Teixeira in the middle of the back. Doesn't make it right.  WCBS announcer claimed it knocked his helmet off.
To a ballplayer, I bet the knee hit a few days ago was worse.


Looked like it was going for the head, I mean he did drop pretty damn fast to avoid it so of course it didn't hit thereLOL
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Red Sox 16
Blue Jays 4

Glad I didn't watch this one. Ouch
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Good game by teh Royals yesterday, Soria was a beast of a closer once again. Glad to see he's found his mojo.
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Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

Red Sox 16
Blue Jays 4

Glad I didn't watch this one. Ouch


Sounds like you got some pitching issues there.
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Originally posted by crimhead crimhead wrote:

Originally posted by Stooge Stooge wrote:

Red Sox 16
Blue Jays 4

Glad I didn't watch this one. Ouch


Sounds like you got some pitching issues there.

Tell me about it.

Red Sox 14
Blue Jays 1

By far the ugliest, most lopsided sporting event I've attended.  I think catcher JP Arencibia let at least 3 pitches go past him.  Whenever we have an inexperienced starter, we should have Jose Molina go behind the plate instead.  The only positive was that Bautista snapped his homer-less drought.

At least the Dallas Mavericks just won the NBA championship.  That neutralized the (sun)burn.


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The Buccos are moving close to .500 again. Still early but I'm liking this trend of staying close to .500. Thanks to the Stros and Cubs for bringing up the rear so far.
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McCutchen is finally putting up the elite season I've been waiting for him to put up. Maybe with the jump he's having from very good to great, potential MVP people will stop ignoring him just because he plays for the Pirates. 
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Points: 66568 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2011 at 21:24
Sooooooooooooooooooo close to seeing Verlander throw a no-hitter.
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