2011 MLB season

[Pentegarn]

New year, new season. Go tigers!

[sspadowsky]

If the fucking Cardinals don't sign Pujols, I will be forced to listen to "Will Pujols be back next year?" all goddamn season, which means I will have to completely ignore baseball in 2011.

[Pentegarn]

Filler post that used to be a reply to a spambot

[Colonel Flagg]

Adam Wainwright is out for the season? And Nick Punto will miss at least 2 months for hernia surgery?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6150113
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6150062

Sorry about this, sspad. :( For your sake, I hope the second opinion on Wainwright comes back better than the first.

[Babs]

Wainwright will undoubtedly be out for the season due to his future surgery. A lot of people aren't going to know how valuable he truly is to the Card's until about mid season. This is going to be a wide open opportunity for teams in the Central Division, such as the Reds.

[Colonel Flagg]

Is Chapman still throwing in the mid 100's?

[Colonel Flagg]

How would you like to be Ino Guerrero right about now?

http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=6166841

[sspadowsky]

If Kyle McClellan can do a star turn this season, we might have a shot. I think the offense will be there. But yeah, Wainwright going down is a great big torpedo in the ass.

[Dimnos]

http://profantasybaseball.com/Closer/uploaded_images/Neftali-Feliz-792572.jpg

That is all. :rock

[WhiteRat]

LAND OF THE RISING FUN!
http://www.nichibei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nishioka-in-Twins-uniform.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

Why am I reminded of Gilbert Gottfried?

[MailCall]

I'm glad to see Miguel Cabrera has been swinging the bat better lately.
http://detnews.com/article/20110309/SPORTS0104/103090424/1129/rss15
:maul

[WhiteRat]

I'm glad to see Miguel Cabrera has been swinging the bat better lately.
http://detnews.com/article/20110309/SPORTS0104/103090424/1129/rss15
:maul

That's great, as a Twins fan I welcome more Cabrera in the news.

[MailCall]

And Ordonez signed a massive one-year deal. Oh, Aunt Mathilda...Ilitch is gonna clean house...I wish Monaghan still owned the team...

[Colonel Flagg]

Cleveland Enters Second Month Of Complete Silence So As Not To Jinx Indians

CLEVELAND—The entire population of Cleveland continued its two-month-long silent streak Saturday, opting to remain completely still so as not to ruin hope for the Indians, who are off to their best start in five years. “Ssshh,” superstitious Indians fan Lindsay Berowski told reporters while placing her index finger over her lips and shaking her head briskly. When asked for further comments about the team’s impressive record, Berowski located a pen and paper and wrote, “Be quiet and please leave.” According to sources, many are blaming Wednesday’s 14-2 loss to the Red Sox on Cleveland resident Paul Eutsey, who recently rose from the chair he had been sitting in for the past month to clean off the dried urine and fecal matter that had caked itself all over his body.


Cleveland fans sure are wacky!

[Dimnos]

Your talking about it! >:

Wait. I dont give a shit about the indians. Go rangers!

[Colonel Flagg]

Anyone seen El Blanco? :(

He'd be giving me shit right about now, as the Phils JV squad got pounded by the Metropolitans this afternoon.

[Colonel Flagg]

Frosting spambot!

[Pentegarn]

This was rough

http://sportsofboston.com/2011/07/08/video-texas-rangers-fan-dies-catching-foul-ball/

And this is not the first time a fan fell in Texas

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/07/baseball-horror-fan-falls-50-feet-reaching-for-foul-ball/

[MailCall]

Who will win the AL Cy Young? All kinds of opinions. Weaver pitches in a pitcher's ball park. Sebathia has won too many high-scoring games. Hernandez throws for a weak team. Verlander chokes in tight situations. I still choose Weaver. It'll be an interesting outcome.

[MailCall]

Ron Roenicke...NL Manager of the Year?

[Womti]

GO ORIOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MailCall]

Former Orioles pitching great Mike Flanagan found dead from apparent suicide:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030164/Former-Orioles-pitcher-Mike-Flanagan-committed-suicide-shooting-face.html#ixzz1W4YGEKn0

[WhiteRat]

The lackluster Twins traded Jim Thome to the Indians for some jobber.

[MailCall]

The lackluster Twins traded Jim Thome to the Indians for some jobber.

"A player to be named." As a Detroit fan, I still have to admit I'd like to see JT do well with the Tribe in what will likely become his closing season.

[Colonel Flagg]

Because of the crappy weather recently, the Phils now get to play 33 games in 31 days. Shades of the '50's. :\

[Pentegarn]

Don't worry they will easily win 20+ of them :lol

[MailCall]

Congrats to the White Sox for pushing a couple of runs over in their sweeptastic 18-2 nail-biter last night. If Detroit could keep up with that kind of hit production, they wouldn't have to worry about finding three more Verlanders for their pitching rotation.

[Pentegarn]

Only Philly gets 4 (or in their case 5) Verlander caliber arms in their rotation

[Colonel Flagg]

I'm not too fussed by the Phil's protest being disallowed by MLB, but really - where is it written that Joe West gets to use instant replay whenever the hell he wants? If that were the case, what about last year's one-hit perfect game thrown by Armando Gallarraga (and blown by Jim Joyce)?

If you can review an on-the-field ruling of a ground-rule double, you can review a botched call of safe at first base.

Mr. Selig, you can't have it both ways. Douchebag.

[MailCall]

Funny sh*t. The Brewers' Nyjer Morgan goes off...again...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Nyjer-Morgan-tosses-tobacco-at-Carpenter-calls-;_ylt=Al0Pyvt16RHmU7A7ziNXmdMRvLYF?urn=mlb-wp18859

Also, speaking of Selig...
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aq4AUVkJgygjCdwGitzdB00RvLYF?slug=jp-passan_bud_selig_expanded_playoffs_wild_card_09071 1

[MailCall]

A Tiger win coupled with a Tribe loss tonight secures the AL Central crown for Detroit. Scherzer is on the hill for the Tiges, hoping the GOOD end of his inconsistent ways wins out.

[Pentegarn]

Tigers lose, ending their long streak, but the good news is that Cleveland cannot afford one more loss. Add to that that they are a Cleveland sports team and this means Detroit has the AL central in the bag

[Pentegarn]

Starting to get the divisions clinched right and left. The Brewers, Diamondbacks and Rangers all clinched

[MailCall]

Divisions decided. Now we wait on the WildCards. The Sax are embarrassing themselves, but the Rays aren't capitalizing. The Cards look a little better than the Braves. Meanwhile...Verl is having a helluva time trying to get his 25th right now. But it's tight. We'll see...

[sspadowsky]

Wow. Holy shit. This has to be the most exciting night of baseball in decades.

I had completely written the Cardinals off a couple of weeks ago. They were playing like a dead team. I will now happily eat my plate of crow, stock up on beers, and prepare to park my ass in front of some playoff baseball. Go Cards!

[Colonel Flagg]

I was sure that they'd have to go to a playoff with the Braves, since the Phils set up "pitching by committee" in the final game, while the B's went with their ace. Just goes to show how badly Atlanta choked.

Not to say St. Louis didn't have to play the stuffing out of September to recoup. Congratulations Cards!

See you on Friday, sspad! And nice to have you back! :)

[MailCall]

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3880/tigerslogo.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/tigerslogo.jpg/)

[Pentegarn]

Don't know what it is but this is the most interesting postseason since Kirk Gibson played for the Dodgers

[MailCall]

God pulled Verlander. Leyland should've pulled Fister.

[Pentegarn]

You know the Yankees have too fucking much bank when God is on their roster >:

[MailCall]

God threw us a bone. Scherzer and Valverde team up for a Game 2 win. I reckon Porcello is up after the return of Verl tomorrow night.

[MailCall]

I'm praying hard........that Fister gets the flu.

[Pentegarn]

Tigers certainly can't bother to win it decisively can they? No, they gotta make it come down to a 1 run game

[Colonel Flagg]

Really, Pent, can you think of a more satistying ending than Valverde striking out A-Fraud?

[Colonel Flagg]

Although seeing Posada crying was a close second.

[Pentegarn]

Really, Pent, can you think of a more satisfying ending than Valverde striking out A-Fraud?

I did like seeing A-Roid get K'd I will admit

[MailCall]

The Tigers won it with pitching. NY apologists are pouring in. Even on-air sportsanalities are saying the Yanks have had weaknesses all season...that this was not a "typical" Yankee championship team. Yet Nova was an unexpected star. and Jorge was an example of a veteran still in form. Bottom line: with a $100 million payroll, the standards are high. In NY, they're even higher.

[Pentegarn]

that this was not a "typical" Yankee championship team

The Yankoff fans/talking heads are so full of fucking shit. They get 'the best team that money can buy' then it fails and now here come the excuses.

chemistry wins championships, not bank, and until the Yankees of the 21st century figure this out, they will not win 1/4 World Series like the Yankees of the 20th century did

[Colonel Flagg]

I'd say better luck next year, but luck had nothing to do with the Phils collapse. That was pure skill. :(

[Pentegarn]

I was a bit taken aback by it, all MailCall heard from me this year was "Phillies Phillies Phillies, nobody can beat the Phillies" which was how i was here come to think of it. But I honestly thought with that stable of aces and the competent hitters they collected it would be a slam dunk. Not sure what happened there though :confused

[MailCall]

In a way, their starters stalled...especially Lee. What sucks for Philadelphia is this: they got their hopes up with the Eagles and the Phillies...Title Town Blues.

[Colonel Flagg]

Are you ready for an Eagles Cheer?????

Ready?????

E * A * G * aaaah, whatever. :(

[sspadowsky]

I love when the Cards make it into the post-season in this kind of fashion. Nobody gives them a chance. They are always the underdogs, and that makes it more fun to root for them.

Sucks for Howard, though. What a shit way to end the season. By all accounts, he's a very nice guy, and as bad as I wanted the Phillies to lose, I hate to see that sort of thing happen to him. Why not someone who really deserves it, like Nyjer Morgan?

[Colonel Flagg]

Looks as if it's 6 to 9 months on the shelf for Ryan, which means there's a good chance he'll start the 2012 season on the injured list. And that's after a successful surgery, which isn't guaranteed, and which can't even be attempted until the swelling subsides.

Indeed, a shitty way to end the season. Why couldn't he have pulled a Kirk Gibson? :(

btw, good luck to the Cards, Sspad. I hope they kick the crap out of the Brewers.

[MailCall]

One thing's for sure: the Money Men are NOT happy. The Yanks are home, the Sox never made it, and the best record in the majors has been knocked out. Verlander might be a draw except he got slapped last night. Watch for the lowest-rated World Series possibly ever.

[Pentegarn]

I grew up loving the sport, but let's face facts, baseball is in a sharp decline. Steroids, players charging money for autographs, controversy, congress getting involved. Baseball has suffered one black eye after another to such a degree that 2 sports that both disregarded the fans during their respective lockouts garner more fandom than baseball does.

Honestly I blame the commissioner, all this crap has happened under his watch, and he arrogantly let it because he thought the resulting home run derby would save baseball, in his hubris though his turning a blind eye to what was going on has cost him dearly. the best thing he can do for baseball is step down and let someone with fresh ideas try to bring it back to what it was even in the 80s

[sspadowsky]

While I agree that Bud Selig is a turd, you may want to check out this article:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tom_verducci/05/03/bud.selig.attendance/index.html

[sspadowsky]

And this one:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/current_attendance.shtml

[MailCall]

Selig is misunderstood. And baseball needs a jolt.

Also, good job on that HR Cabrera. Now stop doing that stupid John Cena hand-across-the-face thing. Yech.:\

[Colonel Flagg]

Tigers. :(

C'mon Cards, Give 'em Hell in Brew-town.

[MailCall]

Tigers. :(

C'mon Cards, Give 'em Hell in Brew-town.
I would like seeing the Birds in, too. Friends at work are big fans. Jackson starts tonite. He reminds me of Scherzer for the Tigers.

[sspadowsky]

Well, fuck me running. They pulled it off!
Cardinals:
http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/d3/3d36d157-89b4-532f-b264-fd82746660a6/4e98fbecc0251.image.jpg
Brewers:
http://www.allenulbricht.com/wp-content/uploads/crying-baby.jpg

[MailCall]

Well....Card fans oughtta be happy right now. Pujols jacked a three-bagger.:x

[sspadowsky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/sspadowsky/wschamps.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

Congratulations to the Cardiac Cards.

[MailCall]

Congrats again to AL MVP Justin Verlander.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/tigers-justin-verlander-wins-al-mvp-award-15000174#.TssIgfIXJ2I

[Colonel Flagg]

Ryan Braun. Guilty or no (http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7338271/ryan-braun-milwaukee-brewers-tests-positive-performance-enhancing-drug)? He's facing a 50 game suspension.

He claims that there was no intent to deceive or cheat. That defense worked real well for JC Romero last year.

[MailCall]

Ilitch pays Prince Fielder a king's ransom to nudge out MC and be fat at the same time. Will this move make a difference? What happens when Martinez comes back? Trade for a pitcher?:\

[Colonel Flagg]

PItchers and catchers report in three weeks - time for a new thread?

[MailCall]

Great as a start for a 2012 MLB thread...mainly for Cubs fans...

JVGAfA15U1I

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I joined my friends league as the Montana Mexicans

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Locke9999/montana.jpg

Are the Colorado Rockies still good? I'm trying to just draft their entire team.

[Colonel Flagg]

No.

[Pentegarn]

yes you should be drafting the entire Tigers team this year

[kahljorn]

just give your mexican montana a tiger skin poncho and youll be set