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2010 MLB Season Thread
Topic Started: Apr 5 2010, 06:49 AM (5,187 Views)
Erick Von Erich
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Forgot to mention this, but when I went to the Rockies/Padres game, the soft pretzels were delicious. That was probably because it was only the second game of the year and the racks were stocked.

I strongly suspect that they fill the racks ONCE a year, cook the pretzels in April, then let the things just linger for the rest of the season until they're all sold off. I remember getting one last September and the damn thing tasted like it had been there for 5 months. I'm on to you, Coors Field vendors!
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Oh, and I think we have an early candidate for "Scrooge's Boner of the Year": on Sunday the Pirates gave up 13 runs in ONE inning to the powerful Diamondbacks.
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... I would like some clarification of the "Boner of the Year" award.


THE DIAMONDBACKS?!?!
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Hey now, the Pirates only gave up TWO runs in the rest of the game. So that's good... right?

D-Backs' Edwin Jackson hit a homerun in the inning. Read more about it:
D-Backs Beat in Bucs' Brains

Another potential "boner" could be Jeff Suppan complaining about his sore neck; which he claims was a result of the horrible hotel pillows in Arizona.
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I'll tell you why I love spring baseball. It let's teams like the Blue Jays and Orioles have a chance to say "we are in first place in the AL East
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The O's are resting nicely at the bottom of the east with a 1-7 record (1-8 after today, losing 6-0 already to the Rays). The Jays have been surprisingly good, though.
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Japan's 'Knuckle Princess' ready to baffle US men
04/14/2010 Diminutive teen Eri Yoshida says her tricky knuckleball will make up for any lack of size when she becomes the first Japanese woman to play pro baseball against the imposing US male sluggers.

The 18-year-old pitcher sealed a contract with the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League, a US independent minor league, last week after attracting attention in a US tryout winter league in Arizona earlier this year.

She will be the first woman to play for a pro team in the United States since Ila Borders retired in 2000 from her career in independent leagues.

"I was stunned by their size at first when I played in the Arizona Winter League," the 155-centimetre (five foot-one-inch) Yoshida said in Tokyo Tuesday ahead of the Chico's spring training from early May.

"But when I am on the mound I will forget about their physical build or size as I want to pitch with my mind focused only on the catcher's mitt," added the right-handed sidearm pitcher.

Yoshida, who became the first woman to play professional baseball with men in Japan last year, has a special weapon, the knuckleball. It is a pitch thrown with little speed or spin and moves erratically and unpredictably towards the home plate.

"I want to polish my knuckleball and I want to make my pitch as stable as (Tim) Wakefield's," she said.

Wakefield, 43, is a right-handed knuckleball master who has pitched for the Major League Boston Red Sox since 1995.

He inspired Yoshida to use the magical pitch when she watched him play on television when she was a member of a boys' team at high school in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo.

Yoshida has said the knuckleball is the key to a success in pitching against men.

Nicknamed "Knuckle Princess," she made her professional debut in March last year, playing with the Kobe Cruise in an independent league in western Japan. She went 0-2 in 11 games before leaving the Kobe club at the end of the season.

While playing in the winter tryout league, she managed to meet Wakefield at the Boston Red Sox's spring training camp.

"Wakefield advised me to pitch by focusing on one point and throwing straight forward. I've come to control my pitch better than ever," she said.

"I know that it is not easy to get ahead in the world of US independent leagues. I am determined to struggle each and every day. I want to climb onto the mound no matter what."

Asked if Major League Baseball was her ultimate dream, she said: "Of course, I want to challenge it if I can."

More than 100 players from the 10-team Golden Baseball League have been acquired by MLB or professional international baseball organisations in the last four years, the league said.

Golden Baseball League commissioner Kevin Outcalt said Yoshida had earned the opportunity "through her hard work and impressive performances in Japan and in the Arizona Winter League."

"This is not a publicity stunt," he said in a statement.

(credit) AP

--Oh, and "Japan's Knuckle Princess set to baffle US men" sounds like some sort of fetish website porn story.
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Publicity stunt.
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I'm bored, so I'm just sifting through all the games I can today.

Astros finally won one, so now they're just tied for the worst record in baseball at this point, at 1-8 (shared with the Orioles).

Speaking of the Orioles, why do they have the biggest collection of Rays cast-offs? I know they recently lost Aubrey Huff and Danys Baez, but they still have Ty Wigginton, Mark Hendrickson, and Julio Youblow..er, Lugo.

It's nice to see Jorge Cantu doing well with the Marlins, pushing his streak to 10 games in a row to start a season with at least a hit and RBI. I always liked him with the Rays. Marlins are mopping up the Reds, so I'm fed up watching a dead crowd and a boring blowout.

Kazmir is making his season debut against the Yanks, and got clobbered for 6 runs in 4+ innngs. 2 homers to Cano, a homer to Jeter, a few walks, and just meh. The Angels brought in another ex-Ray, Brian Stokes, to stop the bleeding.
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It's kinde of nice to see the Astros in the cellar, though that niceness wears off into pity when they've only won one. I'm still hoping the Reds can pull off a season over .500
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-I love spring baseball because the Bucs can sweep the Reds.

-Saw the box score for Ubaldo Jimenez's no-hitter flash up on a restaurant TV on Saturday night in the middle of an NBA playoff game. I thought: "oh, cool-- they're switching over to the Rockies game. I didn't know that was still on". Took me a minute and I realized: "wait...that's a FINAL? Zero hits? Sweet Bouncing Tits!"

-Cantu needs to be successful in his chosen profession. He's one of the ugliest dudes in MLB history, with that sand-blasted grill; ranking up in the Ron Karkovice level. Or that pitcher the Astros had awhile back, with the big lumpy moles on his face.
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The Rays just finished a 4-game sweep of Boston, in Fenway, and we've won 7 in a row on the road. Boston is 4-9... I don't understand it. I hate the Sawx, but they have 5 quality/all-star potential starters and some pop in the lineup, but have been playing like shit all around.
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Reds' Edinson Volquez got busted for PEDs. Kinda' curious how he stated he was taking pills to "help start a family with (his) wife". Similar to Manny's excuse from last year. Could be coincidence, but if guys keep using that excuse it'll get old quick.
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So does this mean he's putting up zero's on a different scorecard? :P
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Speaking of zeroes.... Pirates 0 Brewers 20. Officially the biggest blowout in Pittsburgh's 124 year history.

Oh, and doesn't MLB have "pitcher of the month"? Ubaldo Jimenez needs to receive that thing. 4-0, 0.95 ERA and a no-hitter.
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