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2010 MLB Season Thread
Topic Started: Apr 5 2010, 06:49 AM (5,182 Views)
Erick Von Erich
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Eh..this sounded funny at first glance, but it's not really that humorous (or memorable). I'm sure some TV sports desk assholes had fun with it:

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High and outside. That's the predicament a U.S. Army skydiver found himself in at the Rangers Ballpark yesterday.

The parachutist got tangled in a flagpole during a pregame jump last night in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers say the soldier was able to unbuckle himself from the chute and dropped a few feet to the scoreboard.

The rest of the Golden Knights skydiving team landed on the field as planned.


Source- KAKE in Texas

I took some time off and went down to the Rockies/Braves game last night. The Rox have added more hoops to their "Rockpile" $4 tickets. From 2002-2008 you'd be able to but them at any gate, as long as it wasn't a huge drawing team (ie: the Cubs). Now, you can only buy them at the Center Field gates, 2.5 hours before the game...which usually attracts a big line.

They still sell a few, online... but that $4 ticket had $5.50 in service fees attached to it. So I got one and went down early to watch BP and haggle for autographs. I stayed down in the lower section once the game started and ended up sitting about 20 rows up on the first base side, with no hassles. Typically a 30-50 ticket, but after I had to double my expenditure, I felt justified.

Oh, and Eric Young Jr has the biggest jaw/protruding lower lip that I've ever seen. Looks a little bit like Bubba from "Forrest Gump".

Got 3 autographs: Roger McDowell, Jason Heyward and Dexter Fowler. McDowell was quite grumpy, but justifiably so. A family of DOUCHES was standing there, about 10 feet away from where he was signing and saying stuff like: "c'mon!!!! We came all the way from Ohio! Get over here and sign for us!!" Umm...walk 10 feet and don't be an ass about it, you trolls. McDowell eventually broke down and scolded them a little.

No offense to McDowell, but did they really think anybody would believe that they came to Denver just for the sole purpose of (maybe) getting Roger McDowell's signature?

That's one of my cardinal rules of autograph haggling: never whine, complain, or demand that someone sign for your little kid. It's all about luck. You're not entitled to get an autograph and if you don't... no big deal, you'll get this guy (or somebody else) at another game.
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Turned on the Durham Bulls/Gwinnet Braves game, and it's Tony Schiavone calling the game! WOO!
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Was it the greatest game in the history of that great sport?
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Not really, but he was surprisingly pleasent to listen to*, and he seemed to sound like he truely enjoys the game, or at least the job that comes with it.


*-compared to his stuff from about 1995-on in Dubya-C-Dubya.
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Is there anyone more undeserving to write columns about baseball than Mitch Williams? I swear, every time he writes something for MLB.com (I was unaware he was a journalist, too, but that's me), it just comes across as someone who's just writing shit for the sake of writing it. He seems obsessed with riding the Boston Red Sox' cock and putting down everyone else in the AL East.

For the record, the Sawx have been playing damn good for a team with about 20 different players hurt this year and somehow managed to stay in it (somewhat).
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I think a LOT of those guys affiliated with MLB Network are just writing/talking for the sake of filling up space and killing time.

I think it was Dan Plesac who was trying to :ahem: ANALYZE a play and said something ridiculous like: "here he is... SWINGS at. That's a flyball that's playable... err, turns into a foul-off homerun...strike out! Umm, I'm out of it!" His broadcast partner didn't even notice the foul-up and said something like: "there you have it. That was the difference". Laughable and funny for all the wrong reasons.
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Someone call WWE. Gaby Sanchez knocked the shit out of Nyjer Morgan with a clothesline as he charged the mound during a Marlins/Nats blowout.
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Saw that the Braves have called up Freddie Freeman for September. Holy shit...so now if they ever get in trouble, they have Captain Marvel, Jr on their team!

He'll also come in handy if their bus is about to roll off a cliff, Bobby Cox's cat gets caught in a tree, or if Dr. Sivana attacks Atlanta. Shazam!
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Went to the Yankees-Rays game, tonight. CC Sabbathia and Joba the Hutt both collapsed in the sixth and the Rays rolled, 10-3. Surely NOT a coincidence, but as soon as the CC started walking guys, several fights broke out in the left field bleachers. When Joba came on, three more broke out that inning. Including an old lady who punched a cop.

(New) Yankee Stadium has some improvements (wider/taller concourses), but whoever designed it must've thought that New Yorkers just LOVED waiting in long lines for food. So they made sure to include that. But on the flip side, it has some of the shortest beer-only lines that I've ever seen.

The "Yankee Museum" on the second level was somewhat of a let-down. It's just one room with the central piece being a big Don Larsen/Yogi sculpture. Between them in a giant arced case with a few hundred autographed Yankees balls. No real rhyme or reason to the signatures included, though. I thought maybe they were all pitcher or catchers...but just random guys. I mean, Tim Foli?

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I never laughed harder watching Javier Vazquez plunk three batters in the row during the... 7th inning was it? Okay, that's a lie, but it was pretty amusing to me.
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Yeah, since A-Rod was leading off the Yankees half of that inning, we kinda' assumed the Rays would plunk him. But A-rod grounded on the first pitch which worked better.

This morning I have ESPN on in the hotel.... and their "baseball expert" Tim Kurkjian said "Jason Hammel is making his Rookie of the year push, right now".

WHAT?

Hammel's been in the bigs since 2006 and has logged over 500 innings on the mound.

Just because YOU have never heard of a certain player, that does not make him a "rookie".

But hey... Hammel's facing some tough competition from Ryan Braun and Hanley Ramirez for that award.
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That's fucking ridiculous. I was bad-mouthing Hammel for the two years he was coming out of the Rays bullpen, back when they were Devils.
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Will someone please explain to me why AJ Burnett is paid as much as he is?

For his fucking potential? Isn't he 33 or 34 by now

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Don't know his age, but he's been in the majors for a good decade now. Agreed on being over-paid, too. He's there 4th (or at times, worst) starter, but he's probably paid more than any of them other than C.C., of course.
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Well look at it this way. You're paying Derek Jeter 23 million to hit .266 and be a below average defensive outfielder. So A.J. looks like a bargain after that.

But on a more serious note. A.J. was 18-10 his last year in Toronto with like a 4.07. He also pitched 221.1 innings and his SO/9 was 9.4. Now, granted, they did overpay for a guy that has been plagued by injury problems his whole career. But this is also the team that decided Javier Vasquez deserved a second run in New York and also ruined Joba Chamberlain in a matter of 2 seasons.
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