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2011 MLB Season Thread
Topic Started: Mar 31 2011, 02:42 PM (8,961 Views)
torturedsoulv1
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I was ragging on the Red Sox when they were 0-6 on this board.

And I would certainly be ragging on the Red Sox if the Yankees did the sweeping

Have to be able to take it when you dish it out as much as I do on here and on FB
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Erick Von Erich
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Was at a bar, last night, and some douchebags began bellowing when the Red Sox took the lead. Including a "yuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" when Kevin Youkilis did something. I don't mean to rag on someone getting excited over a team, but when it sounds like a moose in heat there are problems.

Not to mention:
1- This was at a bar in downtown Denver on a Sunday night around 7
2- Roughly eight other games were on the TVs. Including soccer.
3- Maybe 20 people in the entire place.
4- NO Yankee fans were in attendance. Certainly nobody was carrying on when Andruw Jones hit a homer, earlier.
5- No Red Sox fans but themselves were in attedance
6- The douchebags left about 10 minutes later

But hey, douchebaggery has no defined set of rules or regulations.



Oh, and Jose Bautista may be the strangest home run turnaround since Cecil Fielder came out of nowhere (and Japan) in 1990. Bautista was a guy who once had the winning run on 3rd with 1 out...and proceeded to BUNT.
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That seems to be the trend here to. Wether it's Applebees, Chili's, whatever, the ONLY time it's obnoxious fan time is with Sawx fans. Is it a rule that you have to be an annoying twat to like the red sox, or do people think it makes them cool to brag and show off how hard they jumped on the wagon?
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Scrooge McSuck
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I completely forgot that Bobby Bonilla had a stipulation in his contract that would pay him roughly a mil a year for 25 years in deffered money... starting now. Odd. The last memory I have of Bonilla in a NY uniform is playing cards with Rickey Henderson while the team blew up and died to Atlanta in the 99 NLCS.
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I read about Bonilla in the paper, had totally forgotten about that also

He certainly wasn't worth the Mets paid him
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Wow...a Bobby Bonilla reference. I'm wondering if the Mets still have all that money in their budget; after reportedly losing a chunk in the Madoff scheme.

Last memory I have of Bonilla was when Tony LaRussa let him fulfill a "lifelong dream" (or some shit) by letting him pitch an inning with the Cardinals.
(after checking Baseball-Reference... ayup, that would've been in 2001)

I can understand why the Mets gave him a truckload of money in 1992. He was the MVP runner-up in 1990 and #3 in 1991, combined with 4 straight All-Star appearances. There wasn't exactly a marquee list of free agents in '92 and Bonilla seemed like the best of the bunch. The Mets also went out and overpaid for Eddie Murray and Bret Saberhagen (then to a much lesser extent, Bill Pecota). With all the hype, everybody basically handed them the NL East pennant that year.

I remember thinking: "yeah, but Bonilla wasn't that good, he's pushing 30 and his defense was less-than-average. Pirates can still win it". I was only in Year Three of my baseball fanaticism, but really wanted the Mets to fall hard that season. The hype and assumption that they would easily destroy the NL East really pissed me off.
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So how happy were you when the Mets turned into the joke of the league in 1992, then finished behind an expansion team in the standings in '93?
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I was into that. I coined the phrase "Mets syndrome", when any team goes out to pick up a buncha' "stars", then they bomb the next year. I seem to remember the Miami Dolphins doing that a lot in the 90's.

The 92-93 Mets also killed Jeff Torborg's managerial career. Torborg was the golden boy of the Bigs when he took the White Sox to a near-playoff berth in 1990. The Mets gig showed he wasn't anything special, but it was amazing that he still received a managerial job as late as 2002 (keeping the seat warm with the Expos, when he took to hitting up opposing teams for autographed memorabilia).
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Has there been a team so stacked with "talent" (or over-paid has-beens or one year wonders) that has played as horrible as those Mets since then? Off the top of my head, and this is going on name value, they had Vince Coleman, Bobby Bonilla, Bret Sabrehagen, Doc Gooden, Eddie Murray, Howard Johnson, David Cone, and John Franco on their roster that season. What the holy hell happend? You'd think a gaggle of mismatched parts could finish out of last place, especially over-priced parts.

Oh, and who was their pitcher that lost something along the lines of 27 consecutive decisions? Anthony Young? Youch.
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The semi-famous "Astros wall-climbing fan". This video's been getting a lot of jokes on the daily news... where they usually slip in the nugget: "he climbs the wall all the way OUT OF THE STADIUM".

So I was a little disappointed when I finally saw it. Guy messes with the home team's chances in the bottom of the 9th, then probably gets plastered by a cop on the concourse behind center field.
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Scrooge McSuck
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The Rays/Jays game is one UGLY exhibition of how not to play baseball.


1. Jays made 2 errors on one play, turning an RBI single into a 2-run single that saw the runner advance to third.

2. Another error on a throw to first after walking a batter.

3. Failed pick off throw went into right field.

4. 2 hit batters

5. failed to throw out CASEY KOTCHMAN at first, opting to throw at home, and nearly air-mailed that, too.

6. at least one wild pitch.


It's only the third inning, by the way, and this is all from Toronto. Rays are up 6-0 and still batting.
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In a "what the hell happened to him?" file moment, Chien-Ming Wang seems to be readying for rehab assignments, after missing the last two seasons with shoulder issues and multiple surgeries. Oh, he's signed with the Nationals, by the way.

Even though his stint was short, I liked Wang and thought he was a good middle-to-back of the rotation kind of guy, but his unpredictable success labeled him as "ace" of the Yanks, and his post-season numbers are abyssmal, to say the least, putting too much preasure on someone with limited big game experience.
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Sweet bouncing tits! Reds vs Pirates is on MLB Network "matinee" right now. WITH Bob Walk in the booth.

I haven't watched a Bucs game with James McDonald pitching, yet. Johnny Cueto's going for the Reds.

Interesting-- Cueto was facing Pedro Alvarez and lost track of the count at 3-2. He threw a waste pitch outside, looked at the scoreboard and was surprised that he had just walked Alvarez.
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Matt Joyce is FINALLY removing the terrible "bad trade" label from his resume. You know, where we got him in exchange for Edwin Jackson.

Yes, the media was SOOOOO bored, that they considered a one-year wonder for a minor league prospect a AWFUL trade for the Rays. Yes, Edwin ha a great 2009, and pitched the second least impressive no-hitter (second only to A.J. Burnett), but really... was it that worthy to print? A guy who's been with 7 teams now, for a guy who was still finding his craft in the minors?

It's not like Toronto ripping off the White Sox in the David Wells trade, or Von Hayes being traded for 6 guys, or any time the Yankees traded a prospect for a mid-level hack (Ken Phelps?). It was a 5th starter for a prospect. That's all.
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Scrooge McSuck,May 20 2011
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Matt Joyce is FINALLY removing the terrible "bad trade" label from his resume. You know, where we got him in exchange for Edwin Jackson.

Yes, the media was SOOOOO bored, that they considered a one-year wonder for a minor league prospect a AWFUL trade for the Rays. Yes, Edwin ha a great 2009, and pitched the second least impressive no-hitter (second only to A.J. Burnett), but really... was it that worthy to print? A guy who's been with 7 teams now, for a guy who was still finding his craft in the minors?

It's not like Toronto ripping off the White Sox in the David Wells trade, or Von Hayes being traded for 6 guys, or any time the Yankees traded a prospect for a mid-level hack (Ken Phelps?). It was a 5th starter for a prospect. That's all.

Are you saying Edwin Jackson has been with 7 teams?

I looked it up and was surprised he has been with 5 teams. I thought it was 3

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