This topis is pretty dead, and nobody has bothered to post the scores in almost a week.

I think we are all still playing - nobody's just posting.

Geoff was fired and plaw doesn't love us anymore.

Oh well.

yeah fantasy world is falling apart. I'm glad we're still playing at least.

I had to comeback and comment this. isn't Crawford the most exciting player out there? I just love this guy. I wish our Yahoo league was a keeper league so I'd keep him until he's 50.

now, I also had to comment this:



what the hell does that looks like?? I never seen a human being (is it?) in such a weird position. he looks more like an ostrich than like a pitcher.

That Carl Crawford steal was awesome. He was almost home before the pitcher even released the ball.

A steal of home and an inside-the-park home run are probably the most exciting individual plays in baseball, IMO.

The steal of home, unfortuantely, is a dying art.

I remember about 30 years ago Rod Carew stole home several times in one season.

Jackie Robinson also stole home a bunch of times during his career in the 40's and 50's, but in most cases today it happens only on the front end of a double steal, when a runner draws a throw going from first to second, and the runner on third breaks for home late.

The inside-the-park home run is dying out because the parks are getting smaller.

Before Yankee Stadium was renovated in the 70's, they had the monuments on the actual playing field, and dead center was something like 470 feet from home plate.

Guys used to hit balls that wound up behind the monuments, and there were always several inside-the-park homers in Yankee Stadium every year.

Robinson stole home 19 times in his career and was caught only 12 times. Pretty damn good for stealing home.

I believe that he stole home 5 times in a season for two years straight.

But probably the most famous steal of home by Robinson was in the 1955 World Series against the Yankees :




Don Cardi

Was that a picture of Robinson stealing home against the Yanks? I always thought Yogi was catching because right after the ump made the call Yogi got up and started jumping around arguing because it did look like Robinson was out.

You're correct. I originally posted the wrong Pic.
The correct one is there now.





Don Cardi

Great picture!

It definately looks like he's out.

Wow! I didn't even hear about that, so I'm glad y'all mentioned it here. I was able to find the video on MLB.com - amazing!

Great Benny reference, Bethie.

This place is dead, without scores and with little conversation...

And I know I'm not one to talk, with my lack of spirit for the game, but I've been trying to set my lineup more often...so there. I really miss our fun conversations.

Thursday (4 days to go in 1st Half)
MIL: Capuano (9-4, 3.45) vs CHC
NYY: Johnson (9-7, 5.25) @CLE
BOS: Wakefield (6-8, 3.90) @TAM

(Pitcher W-L record is standard rather than Plaw's way of team performance -- it's faster for me)

I'm going to try to do daily standings when I can, since my workload eased up a little (and since Plaw refuses to do it for some reason :p )... I may even do comments!

Hey Geoff, I didn't DNP last night - I wanted to keep Boston PS for today, but I switched a few batters. See? I do play every so often!

This sounds completely ridiculous coming from me since I've missed so many days, but I'd like to offer to do scores for you if you ever need me to.

Ooops, my bad - sorry! I looked at PS and the first three batters only and thought you hadn't played... not that picking Wakefield made me think you didn't play or anything...

You're such a sweetheart! But as I've said, anyone who feels ambitious enough can do the standings Or if someone wants to start it for the day, I could always edit it, etc... it's just kinda tedious to check previous days. I WISH ESPN would do some type of StatTracker like Yahoo has -- it'd be SO much easier!!

Here's some comments, JG... Songs/song lines that reflect their first half :p

There's some great motivation to keep me in the game. :p

I must've completely missed Capuano...

Well, I might pitch in as "Commish" if I see this thread dying out again. But I think I'll leave comments to CS.

Just let me know Gina. The next time, I'll just leave picture comments.

For example:

GG -

:p

Aww, thanks for the mention, DB!! And I love the PP&M you're rockin' by your name.

I vote for picture comments!!!

As long as things don't get out of hand, that is.

For example, three Jessica Alba pics are posted for every Willy/Benny pic. :p

Hey wait a minute. Now I have absolutely NO objection whatsoever to seeing a Jessica Alba pic, but after all this is a BASEBALL topic. So in the spirit of keeping on topic, and within the sport of Baseball, perhaps we should only post baseball related pics in this topic.




However I vote that we start a seperate topic solely dedicated to posting pics of Jessica Alba!


Don Cardi

Thursday (4 days to go in 1st Half)
MIL: Capuano (9-4, 3.45) vs CHC
NYY: Johnson (9-7, 5.25) @CLE
BOS: Wakefield (6-8, 3.90) @TAM

(Pitcher W-L record is standard rather than Plaw's way of team performance -- it's faster for me)

I didn't want to start a whole thread for this, but thought this was gutt wrenching funny.

DL gives Mark Prior offer. Enjoy DB.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50033

That was great!

I knew you'd like it DB.

Mike and Mike were mentioning this morning how The Onion one time had a headline, "The Yankees buy every single MLB player".

Friday (3 days to go in 1st Half)
OAK: Zito (18-5, 3.28) vs LAA
LAA: Lackey (6-5, 3.12) @ OAK (JG vs DB, JL, CC, DC )
DET: Bonderman (7-4, 3.65) @ SEA
CHC: Zambrano (7-3, 3.33) @ MIL
SDG: Woody Wms (3-1, 3.04) @ WAS

Beth, that was great! "We firmly believe that Mark's best injuries are still ahead of him." That's hilarious, the whole thing.

Btw: their entire sports section is hilarious... I'd never look at it before, I always used to read just the articles on the main page.