MLB 2007: Spring Training Over
Monday, May 22nd, 2006 - 4:15pm
So Barry Bonds finally smacks number 714? Ok, so how is that breaking a record? I thought Hank Aaron had the career homerun record. And the New York Post is usually tasteless, but this goes beyond what is necessary- a 714 spelled out in syringe needles. Partisan newspapers ftw!
Otherwise, Teh Shock:
* Detroit is in first in the AL Centralia Division, that's gotta be a sign of the Apocalypse.
* Colorado is in first in the NL West. Wait. Colorado is in first in the NL West. It sounds so funny, but wtf not?
* Kansas City is still a Major League Team.
(Kerry Wood, Rich Ankiel, His Wife and Her Lover)
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* AL West worst division in baseball.
* Nomar Garciaparra actually productive after an injury.
* Cubs fans sipping the White Sox haterade even more after the Saturday brawl.
* No one's intentionally walking Albert Pujols.
* Oakland A's refuse free money by not opening up upper deck for Bay Bridge series.
* Armando Benitez is still not a closer.
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Today's fun:
Phillies 8
Mets 9
16th Inning F
.. and only 14 pitchers! Nice to see Carlos Beltran smack one in the 16th to endear himself to the Sheathful.
Pittsburgh is actually winning a game! Man, they have the best home:
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Now they need a baseball team for it.
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Browsing the news:
The Mets grabbed P El Duque, Orlando Hernandez from Arizona for a stiff; David Wright coming back into form; Bonds pending 715th homer; Dodgers shooting for 8th straight; Randy Johnson is still tall, and still sucks.
I can almost... ALMOST... lick myself there.
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* "Bonds on Bonds" placed on hiatus, probably because eight straight episodes about him talking about why he can't hit didn't make for good television. Other reality vehicles being floated for Barry are "Trading Shortstops," "While You Were Out at Home Plate," "American Chopper into Center Field," and "The Undersea World of McCovey Cove."
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I thought that So You Think You Can Dance premiered last night!
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I also see that the Yanks' have integrated "workin' it" and "showin 'em what you got!" to their training schedule.
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Man, does it just suck for the Blackhawks and the Cubs? Kerry Wood was supposed to start this week, according to ESPN, but has been "pushed back." And where the hell is Mark Prior? Two games ahead of Pittsburgh for the Sh_ttiest Team in the National League.
Good job to the Yankees, my team, the $206 million players, losing.. to Kansas City on Friday. And, the Mets.. splitting the first two games with Florida? It's good to know the Yankees and Mets get up for the good, challenge the bad, and lose to the ugly. Well, there's still over 100 games left, so let it be for now.
Week 10:
Boston, Detroit, Texas (one game over .500??), and Chicago (Sox, of course,) leading their divisions or holding onto the wild card in the Junior Circuit.
Mets, St Louis, Arizona, and Los Angeles the same in the Senior Circuit. Hmmm, the Mets? Arizona? Los Angeles? Not bad.
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Randy Johnson pitched a good game today.
Too bad he put his torso on backwards to get it done.
Also rumors are floating that Roger Clemens signed with the Houston Astros for $10 million for the rest of the season.
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Mets/Arizona play into the 13th, with the Mets winning on an Andy Chavez single. 13th? Didn't the Mets just play a 16 inning game? Imagine, all of those innings- in Shea Stadium. Sort of like taste-tester at an enema factory.
Mr Met, The Bensons, and The Twins.
* Roger Clemens officially an Astro, why do I think he "didn't do it for the money."
* Mike Moussina goes the distance for NY, that arrogant prick.
* Pittsburgh has won 4 straight. (wait, 4 straight, Pittsburgh. repeat. absorb. understand. Pittsburgh.)
* Barry Bonds, meh, check his link out, I couldn't be bothered.
Props to Hammerin' Hank, and Hot Dog Herman Ruth:
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Self QFT. Giants need a real closer, not this late-inning liability.
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It's funny, most of the people still screaming and bleating about Bonds are papers and writers desperate to sell ink. The NYPost had a huge "BONDS IN NY MAN DO WE HATE HIM OR WHAT" back page a while aog, but most people I talk to at this point have gotten over the Hate-hate, and just hate him, but don't want to give him the satisfaction of knowing they're paying any more attention to him. Which i'm down with.
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Who are you talking about? I don't recall any significant news of late from baseball. Did some record get passed? Oh that's right. It was Craig Biggio setting the modern record for most HBPs. Very impressive display of, um, taking one for the team. Has Aleve signed him as spokesperson yet?
He wouldn't have gotten so many if steroids hadn't made his arms so big!
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The Brewers are finally returning to the basement, passing the Giants going in the opposite direction. Dr Destroyer (Destruction? Magneto?) drafted by the Royals first overall in the draft. Boston Wounded get crushed by the Yankee Wounded.
Eric Gregg passes- I remember him picking up a hamburger somebody put on a base, and having him pick it up and eat it. Jolly ol' fella who got railroaded by his union and his employer.
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Shame about Eric Gregg.. he's been a Philly icon ever since he left baseball.. Additionally he was a different sort of Umpire.. and I have fond memories of him growing up watching baseball when he would act up with the Philly Phanatic... The Phanatic would tease him about his weight during the game and Gregg would play along.. he never showed him up.. but it was something you would never see in baseball today.
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Roger Clemens makes a start in Kentucky this evening before heading up to the big stage in Houston. I wonder how ESPN will treat his return? ESPNBonds was a failure, but I wonder if ESPNClemens will do a little better? I think I'll stick with ESPN5 and watch the Paintball Championships. Go London Knights!
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* Rocket who? Schimidt fans 16 to tie 102 year old Giants record.
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$10 says the Astros won't make the playoffs with or without Clemens. Although, no Pujols for however long does jumble the cards a bit. Sad, no healthy Pujols means we may be being robbed of what may have been a legendary season.
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Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Jason Grimsley investigated and home raided over "performance enhancing drugs." Before the drugs were illegal, this guy seems to have run the gammut of MLB drugs: human growth hormone, amphetamines and steroids.
His career record: 42-58 with a 4.77 ERA.
Guess he should have used something else, like beer and hotdogs maybe?
Seagull flew into pitched ball
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -
One of the birds had the misfortune to learn that during Sunday's Triple-A game between the Buffalo Bisons and the Durham Bulls. The seagull was struck by a pitch, carried off the field by a player and later flew away.
The Bisons were batting in the bottom of the 11th inning when the seagull flew between the mound and home plate just as Durham's pitcher released the ball.
The ball knocked the seagull to the ground. The batter swung and missed, with the ball getting away from the catcher. Since it was a third strike, the batter ran to first and was thrown out.
Umpires conferred on the bizarre happenings and ruled play should have stopped as soon as the bird was hit. The bird beaning was captured on videotape by the stadium's camera crew during the Bisons' 3-2 loss in 16 innings.
In 1983, Dave Winfield, then with the New York Yankees, threw a ball that hit a seagull at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Winfield was charged with cruelty to animals, a charge that was dropped the next day.
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I was listening to Colin Cowherd on the way home from work yesterday and he was talking about Grimsley with a reporter from Arizona. The reporter, reported that Grimsley a few years back was routinely hitting 96+ on the gun, presumably on 'roids, and now struggles to hit 90-91 now that testing is in effect.
Granted his career numbers are crap, maybe those extra MPHs on his fastballs equated to more balls leaving the yard off opponents bats.
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At this point nothing short of mandatory testing for all banned substances by every single one of the players on current MLB rosters will be enough in my mind to restore baseball to some semblence of order. Granted you'd probably not have enough players left over to field complete teams.. but this just goes to show how much the whole Bonds thing is nonsense and is directly about Bonds and not about Steriods etc.. because half the people booing at Bonds cheer for their own Roid'ed up players right now.
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Doesn't matter to me at this point, there are so many better sports to watch, namely NCAA and NFL football. The whole point of MLB was its stats and records which go back more then 100 years, now with the steroid era they mean absolutely nothing, to me at least.
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The whole Bonds investigation is a farce.. it is a sideshow to distract the public from one truth:
The owners have been in on it from day one. They wanted power, they changed the parks, they changed the ball, they overexpanded. They wanted home run hitters and created the conditions for them to thrive in.
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The thing is, it's not just steroids. The overlooked issue is Amphetamines, which have been in the game for ever longer, and are rumored to be being used even more than steroids ever were.
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The union stands in the way of any real reform more so than the owners. They litigate punishment and drag things out to ridiculous extremes.
How is it that an unfair labor practice filed by cops about contract negotiations will take 2-3 YEARS to get adjudicated, while cases with these athletes get a courtroom in weeks? Obviously, it's money, but it irks me.
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The Mets Cuban Connection gets two complete game victories in Arizona- one Thursday, one Saturday. Not bad. Frank Thomas smacks one for Oakland in the Baseball Cathedral in the Booge-down Bronx, and the Yankees seem to be circling the drain- but they're still only 1/2 game behind Boston.
I really have nothing to say about this one......
Save for the Rockies, who aren't too far behind, the NL West is pretty tight, with every team within four games of each other in the standings.
Arizona 34 28
LA Dodgers 34 28
San Diego 32 30
San Francisco 32 30
Colorado 30 31
Stop, or I swear to GOD I'll crush 'em!
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Who got it worse:
New York Yankees giving up a 9-2 lead and losing, 11-9 to Washington?
New York Mets having Kris Benson slap one out off of Peter Martin?
You missed! You missed!
Milwaukee is falling into the abyss, but not as far as Kansas City. The Royals are in a league of their own suckage. Pittsburgh has 8 more wins than KC, Florida has 10 more wins (7 straight, not bad,) if they continue to lose, they should probably be sent to the minors, the front office fired immediately, and finally have a clue show up.
Why do I even try.......
Atlanta has finally come back to earth after 14 years, not a bad run, but only one ring to show for it? And interleague, the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves? wtf?
And after 17 innings, the A's realize, they ALL have a bit of the Captain inside them.
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* Shakeup under way out west. Thanks in part to "teh interleague," the head to head matchup of the AL West and NL West is having a dramatic impact on the current standings. Suddenly in the AL, the Seattle Mariners have life again after sweeping the Giants at home and going in and taking the opener from the strugg-a-ling Los Angeles Dodgers, who were swept by the A's. However, Oakland's already dropped two to the Rockies, snapping their ten game winning streak in back-to-back shut-outs. And with the Dodgers running backwards, the San Diego Padres have quietly jumped into first place, with the aforementioned Rockies and Giants, riding two well-pitched wins against the Angels. Anyone who thinks Interleague baseball is a waste of time needs to crack open the sports section.
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