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baseball 2012
Since the free agency period is open and signings are happening for 2012, it seems appropriate to kick off the 2012 baseball thread. I'll begin with a question for darling Jen: what do you think of the Phillies acquiring Jonathan Papelbon?
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Naive ?
I may seem naive for a Brit., but can someone put me clear one one thing - which came first - Baseball or Rounders ?
Or should this be in a different thread ? Thanks |
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Rounders. Now, let's concentrate on baseball.
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I think they overpaid for him. He is still pretty good(but had periods of "meh-ness) last season, especially during the final game of the season!), but I think a shorter-term contract would have been better. He would have looked good in a Jays uniform, but the price was too high. They would have lost their first round pick if they signed him due to his being a Type A free agent(and their pick was 17th overall!) Of course, I am just thankful that the damned Yankees didn't scoop him up. I think that would have pissed both of us off! Am I right? |
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They over paid and should have put that effort and money towards getting big Al from the Cardinals
To early to think about Baseball Jen |
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While i'm still a Phillies fan and i have high hopes for them next/this season
Part of me wants to see the CUBS win it all, after all they have been the loveable losers like for ever Still Philliefan Jen |
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How about throwing some love towards the Blue Jays?
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I only have one thing to say 1993 Philliefan Jen |
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The late great Curt Flood was absolutely right. However, 40 years later free agency has murdered the game. Why was Adam Dunn in the lineup every day after the first half of the season? His salary. The White Sox were forced to play a guy that hurt the team rather than give somebody else a shot. Why do the words "stuck with" accurately apply to the lollygagging useless Alfonso Soriano?
Hell look at the way the current movie star players congratulate themselves after they get a hit - pointing to the sky and all that crap. Every member of the Milwaukee Brewers practically celebrate just for putting their mitt on. Free agency spawned the putrid pitch count. In 1971 Fergie Jenkins started 38 games and threw 30 complete games. Didn't wreck his arm. You could go on all day. A guy reaches first base and spends the next few minutes exchanging hand jobs with the opposing team's first baseman. You think Bob Gibson tolerate that? He'd fire the ball at his own first baseman's head. Screw buying players. You can win without "stars." Run everything out, advance runners, and leave your damn starter in if he's pitching good. |
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That was a good year, but it was a long time ago.
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Are the Marlins trying to buy a Worlds Series?
The Marlins spendind spree continues as they snaged another top teir free agent in Mark Buehrle
I need to go back and watch some hockey Philliefan Jen |
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The Marlins forgot about chemistry. The new players may not even gel! I honestly feel that they overpaid for Reyes, as he is far too injury prone for the money he received.
Albert Pujos and C.J. Wilson have both signed with the LA Angels. |
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"Teacher says every time a bell rings an Angel gets $254 million." |
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They seem to like overpaying. I cannot believe they actually took the albatross...er, Vernon Wells contract from around the Jays' neck!
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Ryan Braun(the 2011 NL MVP) has been suspended 50 games for testing positive for a PED. While the baseball writers of America have said that they will not give his award to the runner-up, I feel that if his appeal is not successful and his ban is upheld, then he should be stripped of the award. Why should he be rewarded, especially since it sounds like he knew about the positive test a MONTH before the MVP awards were announced.
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It happend now while most sport fans are caught up in the NFL and didn't happen during spring training when it would have caused a much bigger reaction, The baseball news everyone was paying attention to was where Big Al was going to sign with and so now most baseball fan have now going back to sleep awaiting spring training Philliefan Jen |
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My only wish is that he had received the American League MVP award so that stripping it from him would result in Jacoby Ellsbury being named MVP. Quote:
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Hockey is far more interesting that any other sport going on at this time. |
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That's because Ice Hockey is the worlds greatest sport period Santa's naughty elf Jen |
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And I agree with you about hockey being far superior to football. |
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Hockey is a great sport. Football is a mock war among mostly meatheaded men with overactive pituitary glands. It is not a sport. |
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I thought that was basketball Santa's naughty elf Jen |
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Baseball's Barry Bonds spared jail for misleading jury.
Baseball's Barry Bonds spared jail for misleading jury.
30 days house arrest and $4,000 fine -- a joke!from bbc.co.uk/news/ + 250 hours of community service -- I suppose that's the main reason he is bothering to appeal the conviction.
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Peter Keane, emeritus dean of the Golden Gate University Law School, has been tracking the Bonds case, and other steroid investigations and trials, for years. ?Well, the punishment was particularly light,? he says. ?He was convicted of a federal felony, a serious offense. Bonds intentionally threw a monkey wrench into the gears of the justice system. That?s not jaywalking.? |
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who cares about Barry Bonds
So Barry beat the rap in the legal system
But his baseball achivements are now worthless He hit more homeruns then Hank Aaron but in 07 when he did it almost no one cared Had he not done the riods he would have been a hall of famer for his outfielding and solid hitting but that wasn't good enought for Barry he did the riods so his HR count would explode Making him a member of the hall of shame instead of the hall of fame FYI i still consider Hank Aaron the home run king cause he did it the hard and right way Santas naughty elf Jen |
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The only memory i have of him playing was at the end of his career wearing the softball looking uniform of the Brewers back around 76 when i was very young Santas naughty elf Jen |
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I'm not sure whether to apologize for my awful pun or congratulate you for simply not taking the bait.
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Oh wait it is Santas naughty elf Jen |
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The worst part of all this is all the taxpayers dollars that went down the tubes while this whole fiasco was going on. Everyone knows that he IS guilty(your head doesn't swell up to that size for no reason), but if you're a celebrity(even one as douchey as Bonds) you are given a different standard than an average citizen.
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Spring training is around the corner and this year i'll be going to FL and take in a few Phillies game plus hit the beach
Phillie fan Jen |
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Am i the only one to notice the change taking place in the AL and NL?
have you noticed that just about all of the NL biggest hitters are jumping ship and going over to tha AL Prince Fielder being the latest signing with the Tigers for nine years While the AL best pitchers are jumping ship and going over to the NL making the AL the place to be to watch balls fly out of the park and the NL will be the place to watch a pitchers duel I blame the stupid DH rule for this Phillie fan Jenl |
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I don't. I prefer it over watching a pitcher hit.
With regards to the Prince Fielder signing, I don't think that Detroit would have signed him had Victor Martinez not had a long-term injury. I think it's telling that it took so long to sign him, and that many teams did not want to sign him for the long term like he wanted(plus, his Agent is Scott Boras, one who is widely despised in the MLB). I think that Detroit overpaid him. While he will more than likely have a few good seasons, I don't think he'll be good for them long-term. |
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"Watching a pitcher hit" is only one of many, many aspects of NOT having the DH rule that makes baseball more interesting. There are so many more strategic considerations that a manager must make at every juncture of the game as the pitcher's spot in the lineup gets closer and closer to an at-bat. That's what I miss in the American League. Watching the pitcher hit in earlier innings is a small price to pay to get that back.
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http://youtu.be/W8jdVwvZVjM Philliefan Jen |
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You don't need to get it, all you need to know is the Phillie Phaanactic is cute and adorable Philliefan Jen |
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You, Jen, are "cute and adorable." The Phillie Phanatic, well ...
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AHH come on he's so huggable you just what to get and give him a hug
Philliefan Jen Last edited by transjen; 03-30-2012 at 06:41 PM. |
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A bigger post-season
So, baseball fans, what think ye of the proposal -- currently being pushed hard by MLB with the Player's Union -- to change the format for the baseball post-season?
Under the proposal, each league's three division winners would earn a first-round bye, while the teams with the fourth- and fifth-best records in each league would play a game to determine who gets the wild-card berth. Then the wild-card winner would play the top-seeded division winner in the first round. Personally, I think this is idiocy. Jemele Hill, writing on ESPN.com today, explains one of the reasons I think it's idiocy. It involves my beloved Boston Red Sox. "Do you remember where you were on Sept. 28, 2011? It was only the greatest regular-season finale in baseball history. The Boston Red Sox needed one more out against the Baltimore Orioles to make the playoffs. Trailing the New York Yankees 7-0 in the eighth inning, the Tampa Bay Rays needed a win and a Boston loss to secure a spot in the postseason.I would rather keep things as they are than have had my Red Sox make the playoffs last year under the circumstances just described! Jemele Hill continues: "This proposed postseason expansion nonsense is undeserved charity. (Just ask the 2010-11 Indiana Pacers, who made the playoffs at 37-45, or the 2002-03 New York Islanders, who limped in at 35-34-11-2.) Any thoughts, friends? |
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If the Jays make it in, I'll be happy.
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I really don't like this new play-in game at the end but if it means my Phillies aviod elimination then i'll be all for it
On a side note i arrived in Clearwater FL late last night looking forward to getting my first look at my Phillies this season Philliefan Jen |
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What does everyone think of Yu Darvish? Do you think he'll live up to the hype, or do you think he'll end up being like DiceK(who never did end up living up to that huge contract)?
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If Ron Washington and the Rangers "do right" by Darvish, he will thrive in the Majors. |
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Remember back in the 90s and the Yankees paid over a million for a highschool can't miss pitcher named Brain Taylor Philliefan Jen |
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always been a big fan of the greatest baseball team of all time the NY Yankees. its been a while for them, bout time they add another to the trophy cabinet.
graeme lloyd was the first aussie to play in a world series, when he played for the yankees in 1998. |
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You won't find many Yankees fans in this thread. At best I'm ambivalent about them, but mostly I just don't like them at all. The Blue Jays are the only Toronto team (for any sport) that I do like.
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