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MFisH wrote:

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def agree about the unassisted triple play, it is more rare but it's more luck than the other 2.

i say 4 HR game is more impressive, there have been 21 perfect games in mlb history and there has only been 16 4 Hr games.

u could also argue that there only 2 pitchers per game who have the oppurtinty at a perfect game but there are 18 batters with an oppurtunity to get 4 HR's and the fact that there have been less of them to do it says how much harder it is to do.

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 a little late on this but after king felix perfect game there have been 3 perfect games this year but still only 1 4 HR game (josh hamilton).  so again, which one is more impressive a 4 hr game or a perfect game?  i think the stats back it up!

Someone hit 3 hrs in a game last night

i bet theres been 5-10 pitchers this year who've gone into the 7th inning with a perfect game and lost it

Too much has to go into getting a perfect game.

Not give a single walk.

Not give up a single hit.

27 up

27 down.

4 homeruns is more of a fluke thing.

Perfect Games are a feat and a half.

gabbert may or may not be cut depending on how much i hate her clingyness.

 

we acted like we ran bmore last time? haha oh god i barely even remember leaving the monster house.

 

anyways, ill be there at 630

If the A's lose to Texas and finish second in A.L. West:
-- Orioles beat Tampa Bay and finish one game ahead of Oakland: A's would play Baltimore in wild-card game Friday at Camden Yards.
-- Orioles beat Tampa Bay and Yankees lose to Red Sox: Orioles and Yankees would play one-game tiebreaker Thursday at Camden Yards to determine A.L. East champion. A's would visit loser of Orioles-Yankees tiebreaker in one-game wild-card playoff on Friday. Winner would advance to ALDS against No. 1-seeded team, with series beginning Sunday at home of the lower-seeded team.

its all for positioning thou right Os already made the playoffs and get a full series

ya nick the o's are def in but MLB changed it this year to 5 teams (3 division winners, 2 wildcards) in each league makes the playoffs instead of 4.  so now the 2 wildcard teams play in this 1 game playoff series. 

worse case scenioro would be the o's play in this wildcard game ON THE ROAD, and then lose which would mean no getting hammered at pickles for your boy.

best case, play home friday game (don't care what kind) win, and then get a 5 game series.  that means multiple home games for your boy to get hammered at pickles.

They have basically the same record as the Yankees this year.


Stranger **** has happened, and their pitching staff is actually very solid.

they play on friday either way right?

you want me to put in all this work for you? haha does she have a friend for me?

haha no we werent that bad.  actually we hung out in the back corner of stalking horse by ourselfs playing arcade games, basically the opposite of acting like a badass.  we then went to mad river just the 2 of us) n tore up the dance floor which was a lot of fun if u remember.

relax dude.  if the o's play there will be a bunch of ppl who come down like paul and kearns whole house.  if not, ill tell her another weekend

very disapointing loss last night.  really hurts my chance for 1 more friday game (MUST win 2nite for that to now happen) and even worse chance for another home game (2 straight wins at yankees stadium) where theres a 50% chance of me getting another parking ticket or my cared towed, but ill take those odds if it leads to a great night.

anyway, how dead was yankees stadium last night?  growing up in nj and with a ton of yankee fans i remember the playoff crowds being like a football game.  who could forget the pedro game where the whole crowd chanted "who's your daddy" and they were losing pretty bad at that point but it was loud as hell and electric there.  last night, in a series changing game that was close the entire time i felt like it was just your average game in june there.  im guessing the new stadium priced out all the old fans who use to get hammered n make noise, now its all corporate.  its a shame, thats not NY home field advantage at all

The best part is they have A-Rod under contract till 2017!!!!

Arod is being benched tonight!!!!

29 million dollars this year is sitting on the bench!!!

This is why baseball pisses me off, a salary cap is needed so damn badly.

Sorry I didn't answer your 2nd txt last night Fish, was in the middle of watching Skyfall.


The reason for last year was, they were opening a new stadium. They needed to put butts in the seats to make it look good basically. All in all the Marlins owner is massive scum. Here's just a few things that he's done throughout his MLB tenure.

·After purchasing the Montreal Expos in the 1990s, he immediately claimed that, without a new stadium, the team that was much beloved and supported by its fans and once was near the top of the National League in annual attendance could not compete without a new stadium. When public officials balked, he cut payroll and denigrated the City of Montreal as a baseball market.

·In 2000, unsatisfied with rights fees offered by English-speaking TV and radio broadcasters in Montreal, Loria allowed the Expos to play with no television or English radio broadcasts, preventing thousands of Expos fans from actually seeing or hearing Expos games.

·In selling the Expos, he received a sweetheart deal and no-interest loans from Major League Baseball which allowed him to buy the Marlins and with put the Expos into league receivership. When he left Montreal, he moved the Expos’ entire front office staff, on-field staff, office equipment and computer equipment to Florida, leaving new Expos general manager Omar Minaya with virtually no resources with which to field a competitive team.

·The atrophied remains of the Expos then served as an easy target for contraction threats by Major League Baseball designed to create leverage in labor negotiations with the MLBPA and had the effect of alienating all but the most die-hard Montreal baseball fans. As a result of both Loria’s acts as Expos manager and his complicity in the league’s use of the Expos as an example and bargaining chip, Montreal was utterly destroyed as a viable baseball market.

·Loria took over the Marlins in 2002. Between 2002 and 2010, the Marlins got around $300 million in revenue sharing and banked at least $154 million of it in pure profit.

·Two years ago, the Marlins were forced into an agreement with Major League Baseball and the player’s union to stop violating Article XXIV(B)(5)(a) of the Basic Agreement which requires revenue sharing money to be used to improve your team instead of lining ownership’s pockets.

·In addition to team team profits and the substantial appreciation of the franchise since he purchased it, Jeffrey Loria pays himself around $10 million a year in “administration fees.” As a result of last night’s trade, he is now paid nearly twice the salary of the Marlins’ highest-paid player.

·The ballpark which the Marlins convinced Miami to build them was paid for by the public against its will, was shady all around, led to public outrage which cost politicians their jobs and wound up costing far more, drawing far fewer fans than the team promised taxpayers it would and has led to virtually zero development of the surrounding area, contrary to the promises of Loria and his friends.

·A year ago Friday, David Samson talked big about the Marlins “rising payroll, higher revenues” and the team’s new way of doing things, a plan that lasted until roughly July.

·David Samson last March to a group of Miami business leaders: “I don’t have to hold back now that the stadium is built – not that I ever have …” He called people who run for office “not the cream of the intellectual crop,” adding about the entire population, “That’s not to say we’re not the smartest people in Miami. My guess is, if you’re in this room, we’re immediately in the top 1%.”

And the winter meetings begin! Hold onto your butts.

They had to do it, I'm cool with it. They're a NY team, they should be able to have a big contract and not let it really affect payroll.

At the same time, if they had traded him for a package of great prospects, I'd of been fine with that as well.

All in all, it was probably a good move.


R.A. Dickey is on the block, really good chance he gets dealt.

They have no shot this year, it's a given.

They've got A LOT of promising arms in the minors right now, so there's all the reason to move him.

None the less that he's 38 and the knuckleball is a volatile pitch.

Currently the mets Need 2 starting outfielders and a starting catcher, at the moment, Pitching is an area of strength. So they're trading from a strength to correct a weakness.

Damn

Makin NY look like the sticks

No clue, but if Piazza gets the snub I give up on HoF all together.

wow thats crazy.  these sportswriters man, they cant figure any way to vote.  some writers will not vote anyone from that time period in no matter what.  who would have thought with the #1 home run hitter of all time and the #1 pitcher of our generation eligible that craig biggio n jeff bagwell would get the most votes haha. looks like i was pretty close with my bonds/clemens 35% guess!

 

Player	Votes	Pct
Craig Biggio	388	68.2
Jack Morris	385	67.7
Jeff Bagwell	339	59.6
Mike Piazza	329	57.8
Tim Raines	297	52.2
Lee Smith	272	47.8
Curt Schilling	221	38.8
Roger Clemens	214	37.6
Barry Bonds	206	36.2
Edgar Martinez	204	35.9
Alan Trammell	191	33.6
Larry Walker	123	21.6
Fred McGriff	118	20.7
Dale Murphy	106	18.6
Mark McGwire	96	16.9
Don Mattingly	75	13.2
Sammy Sosa	71	12.9
Rafael Palmeiro	50	8.8

opening day, one of the few days i dont mind baseball.  going on friday so i'm pretty pumped for that.

question tho, why is cole hamles starting for the phillies today?  lee and holiday hurt or something?