"you're an Athletic -- be athletic" would be a good season rolling thread title
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
mlb draft coming up in a couple days. kinda excited for it even tho my team is now controlled by mlb and unable to sign players over slot. that being said Ive read that the draft is crazy deep and I think we can still get value without "cheating".
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.plunkeveryone.com/
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 June 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
that's a great site.
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
i sometimes want to start a thread in the vein of "local announcers subtly phrasing things in awesome ways" thanks to my local guys.just a few minutes ago they were talking about the Yankees game and how Tex had just got plunked and then went on to say that the yankees "did not cope with that well" in regards to the subsequent scuffle. made me laugh.
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 11 June 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
24/30 teams have btwn 28-36 wins
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 11 June 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
no wonder some ppl can't tell which teams are "awful"
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 June 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Opinions on possible realignment?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6651634
― Huey "Keytar" Smith (WmC), Monday, 13 June 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
15/15 doesn't make sense to me. I don't like the idea that some team will be doing interleague on the last three days of the season.
― polyphonic, Monday, 13 June 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Two highly ranked executives believe the Houston Astros would be a possibility, because a switch to the AL for Houston would foster a rivalry between the Astros and the Texas Rangers.
Oh, boy. Can't wait.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Monday, 13 June 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
why not send Milwaukee back?
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 June 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Q: has the '...to foster a rivalry' method of alignment/scheduling ever worked?
A: No
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 13 June 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
i think that it has, actually, although it won't matter until the rivalry teams are both good, which i don't see the astros being for a while
*does not apply to professional sports teams in florida
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 June 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
to prev. question: why would there have to be an interleague game "every day"?
― Elegant Bitch (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 13 June 2011 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
i honestly don't understand why that would be a thing
16 vs. 14 = even15 vs. 15 = odd
odd = at least one team in each league that would need to play interleague game.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 June 2011 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
cause you'd have 15 teams in each league, ie 7 play 7 in each league then the 15th teams play each other.
neyer suggested pitting shitty teams (based on the previous season's record) against each other in the final week for the interleague teams. it'll bite you sooner or later, but whatever.
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 June 2011 05:50 (twelve years ago) link
you wouldn't HAVE to have interleague every day but the alternative is staggering the schedule in a goofy way such that teams have weekend days off. right now every team plays every fri/sat/sun which is of course the optimal thing financially.
― ciderpress, Monday, 13 June 2011 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
it wouldn't be literally every day -- probably skip some mondays/thursdays -- but yeah
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 June 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
just create two more franchises, duh
― sanskrit, Monday, 13 June 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
It would probably be better to get rid of two franchises.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, they're too profitable. Even the Pirates are raking in the dough.
Are there any clubs in the red besides the Dodgers?
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
i think it would be more fun to guess what B-grade cities might qualify for a MLB franchise.
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Las Vegas, Portland, Sacramento
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hartford, New Jersey
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
hamilton, winnipeg, fremont
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
haha, wrt Fremont... Oakland's AAA affiliate in Sacramento was outdrawing the A's for a while a season or two ago (?)... Sacramento is <60 miles from Oakland.
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
portland would be a decent choice for the AL, it might be nice for seattle to have a nearby regional rival as opposed to ones that happen to share a time zone. maybe for the NL, give chicago a team? : /
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
so apparently Colbert has some bet with mlb.com and if he wins he takes over their twitter feed?
― magic punani (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
ronnie belliard is retiring after tonight's lehigh valley ironpigs game
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
hbryant42 Howard BryantMLB sources tell me the most viable market for relocating a team is also the most contentious: NYC
hbryant42 Howard BryantSan Antonio, Portland, Las Vegas are all "less attractive than they seem. The best city is San Jose, but it is for now, off limits."
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Saturday, 18 June 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
Neyer
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/7/13/2274319/mlb-realignment-for-reals
― Steve Aoki Newsletter (Andy K), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
And just like that, the Clemens trial is over.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/07/11/national/w020115D09.DTL&tsp=1
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Nice
http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/trade-partners.cgi
― Steve Aoki Newsletter (Andy K), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
apparently the pirates beat the braves tonight (3-1) without their first baseman ever touching the ball
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
how is that even
― can afford a drug lifestyle ----► (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
you know, suzyn, you just can't predict baseball
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
Altanta didn't ground out a single time...how often does that happen?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
This made me lol this morning. Grats, Berto!
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/What-the-heck-Roberto-Alomar-takes-fan-8217-s-?urn=mlb-wp13874
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
tim mccarver just called david freese a brown-eyed handsome man
― mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
the fox game i have is **rubs eyes** tampa at seattle ??
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 30 July 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure where to put this--I have learned that the starting-pitchers-doing-really-well thread has a very specific purview...AL Cy Young: shaping up as an historic three-way race between Verlander, Weaver, and Sabathia. (You could stretch things to include Haren and Beckett, but realistically, it'll probably come down to those three.) It'd be Verlander or Weaver today, but Sabathia sure is coming on strong.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
can't see how it's anyone but Verlander. Sabathia is having probably his best full season but Verlander is just sick good right now.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
The oldschool James Cy Predictor has Verlander with a narrow lead over CC and Weaver.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
and in the NL, it's got to be Halladay right?
Verlander should just join the Phillies, wouldn't baseball fans just love that
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
The AL's so relatively close at this point, I think it's completely up for grabs. Each guy still has 10 or 11 starts left.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Honestly I don't think Weaver has a shot, as good as he's been
I feel like the voters REALLY want to give it to CC one of these years so yeah if he goes on a big run he'll probably get it
If Verlander completed his second no-hitter though they could have given it to him right then. Even the new school SABR voters (do they exist?) have to appreciate that.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
No-hitters are usually great games, but dumb luck is all that generally separates them from 1- to 4-hitters. So, wrong.
By the Prospectus version of WAR, Weaver has a whisker of a lead over Verlander. And Kershaw leads Halladay! So I like that version.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Right now, for me, it's between Weaver and Verlander. Going on basic stats (but not W-L), I'd probably give the edge to Verlander -- more innings, lower WHIP, higher K rate.
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Is this the page where you got the James rankings, Morbius?
http://espn.go.com/mlb/features/cyyoung
By that system, Verlander/Weaver/Sabathia are even closer than I would have guessed. One thing that doesn't really make sense to me is why Wilson is ranked so much higher than Rivera.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link