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Re: Major League Baseball '09
[Re: SC]
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05/07/09 02:01 PM
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I only hope that Manny's tenure with Boston wasn't under the influence of these performance-enhancing drugs. In the end, the Sox certainly would not have been the only team to win it all with drug/steroid abusers. The Yanks had Clemens, Justice, Giambi, and Petitte all under the steroid cloud, along with Darryl Strawberry's illegal drug taking. Half of the 1986 Mets championship roster was on coke, with the other half a bunch of drunks.
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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05/07/09 02:08 PM
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Mignon
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BREAKING NEWS
Manny Ramirez has been suspended 50 games for violating the league performance enhancing drug policy.
Article Sucks to be him.
Dylan Matthew Moran born 10/30/12
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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05/09/09 01:29 AM
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Zito and the Giants take game one away from Dodgers with ace Billingsley on the mound!  I hope this isn't a jinx, but this may be the best, or at least close, start to a season in Zito's career. Even during those great years in Oakland he struggled during the first month or so. He'll never be worth the money he's being paid, but for a fourth starter, he'd been very good finally.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
[Re: klydon1]
#543156
06/03/09 10:34 AM
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The thing that is remarkable about Randy Johnson is that he was terribly inconsistent when he broke in the big leagues. His tenure with Montreal was not memorable and early time with Seattle was not great. He really did not start getting to be great until 1993. The Big Unit then went on an incredible stretch dominating MLB from 1994-2002.
To me, his biggest highlights were the ALDS performace against NY in 1995, the tiebreaker game vs. California in 1995, and the 2001 World Series. Johnson pitched in a blowout game in Game 6 of the World Series and stayed in too long, in my opinion. I thought they would need him for Game 7, which he did come in to relieve Schilling. Johnson threw 2 dominant innings and ended up as Co-MVP. Had Arizona lost that series, it would have been remembered for the blown saves by their closer, Kim, rather than being remembered for the Big Unit and Schilling.
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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06/03/09 12:00 PM
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The entire 2001 World Series was incredible. For New York, that series swept our imagination - President Bush throwing out the first pitch in Yankee Stadium, Jeter's amazing "Mr. November" home run, Soriano winning Game 5, the fans chanting for Paul O'Neill. It was an exciting and engaging series, and it distracted us from all else that was going on around us.
HBO did a special on that postseason and the incredible healing power that it had for NY. Try and catch it if they ever replay it. I'll have to look for that HBO special. Sounds very interesting. I remember Soriano hitting the HR in the 8th inning off of Schilling and thinking that the Yanks had won it. It was a good pitch - low and away - yet it was still hit for a homer. You can't fault the pitcher - it was just a great hit. Then the Diamondbacks got a rally started, aided by an error and Luis Gonzalez hitting a very tough pitch from Rivera - after significantly choking up on the bat. That Game 7 was one of the best decisive games in the past 25 years.
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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06/08/09 05:57 PM
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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06/12/09 02:20 AM
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I'd say about 10 out of the 25 have/had average or better MLB careers (or in the case of guys like Hamilton and Price, show great promise). 40% success rate among those 1st pick is a lot better than I had expected. It seems though that position players in the 1st slot succeed considerably more often than pitchers. I heard a stat the other day on ESPN that say something like no pitcher taken in the 1st pick in the last X number of years has won a Cy Young. I believe it.
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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06/12/09 02:23 AM
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I wonder how things would work if baseball went to 20 teams, with the remaining 10 being in a separate league. Then you have something like in the English Premier League where, at the end of the season, the bottom three teams are relegated and the top three teams in the league below are promoted. I wonder if that would encourage teams like the Pirates to try harder to put better teams on the field.
It won't ever happen, but it's fun to think about. I would love to see that. Nothing would encourage the Pirates. They are the saddest story in the league. It's a shame, because PNC park is beautiful, and the franchise produces good players, but they trade them away for younger (read: cheaper) talent. Their owner sucks balls. Believe me, as a Buffalo Bills/Sabres fan, I know how that works. Owners who have the cash to spend but refuse to do so because they're only interested in turning profits? Yeah. It blows to be a fan of those teams.
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Re: Major League Baseball '09
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06/16/09 11:58 PM
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Do you guys think we are finally seeing results in baseball with drug testing going on? I heard an interview with Mike Krukow who said when he pitched, he would take greenies because they were legal. I didn't know what greenies were, and Krukow said that there were days when his arm hurt so bad that he couldn't hold his arm up above his head, but after taking greenies which would mask the pain, he could go out and pitch normally.
The focus has always been on steroids, but now that greenies as well as other drugs are illegal there is a huge youth movement in all of baseaball beacause older players can't play through the pain without cheating like they used to.
If you look around all of baseball there is a ton of young talent coming up that may not have had a chance before, and the playing field seems to be leveling out. There are only a couple of teams that are dominant while the rest of the teams are fairly equal. As of two days ago the Giants had the sixth best record in the majors, which seems ridiculous after years past. But with the MLB cracking down on cheating it makes sense that all of the teams who were benefiting the most from older sluggers who were cheating are now brought down to a realistic level.
I'm not sure if I've explained my point well enough, but basically it's nice to see a more pure form of baseball being played with more teams having a chance to compete.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." -Calvin and Hobbes
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