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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 22:44:11 GMT -5
The Golden State Warriors defeated the Houston Rockets ... 118 to 113 without the services of Kevin Durant. GSW advance on playing the winner of Portland/Denver series. Curry scored all of his 33 points in the 2nd half. Klay added 27.
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Post by String on May 14, 2019 16:24:56 GMT -5
For the first time, I've been watching the English Premiere League this whole past season and man, does it draw you in as a viewer and make you a fan. For a little over a minute, Liverpool was winning the very close title race this past Sunday surging ahead of rival Manchester City until Man City woke up in their match against Brighton and proceeded to roll over them and go on to repeat as League champions. Fortunately, after a stellar league campaign, Liverpool will play for the Champions league title against Tottenham on June 1st.
Hurricanes are back in Raleigh tonight to play the Bruins. Down 0-2 in this series, here's hoping those Bunch of Jerks don't eat another 'poop sandwhich'.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2019 6:30:39 GMT -5
Seattle Mariners became the 1st team to hit 90 home runs; and sadly ... they are under .500 and looks like a long season ahead. I went to 3 games so far and my record is 1 win and 2 losses.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2019 23:24:40 GMT -5
It's Golden State vs Toronto in the NBA Finals and the way the Raptors handled the Bucks ... I think it is a toss up and may the best team wins.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2019 13:50:05 GMT -5
It may be the end of the line for Red Sox great Dustin Pedroia. After suffering another setback in trying to rehab his knee, Pedroia was asked if he would play again, and he replied, "I'm not sure." Pedroia has said another surgery on his knee is not an option at this time, and he does not know form hour to hour whether his knee will hold up, making doing anything athletic difficult. One minute, it's fine, and I can run, pivot, etc on it, and an hour later it hurts so bad I can barely walk, is how he described it, and this casts his future in baseball in doubt.
Pedey seems to be one of those guys who will be a baseball lifer, always being involved in some aspect of the game, but I am not sure of he will play again. Time could heal the knee, but he's been rehabiing it for almost 2 years now and it's not showing much progress.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on May 28, 2019 12:56:41 GMT -5
It may be the end of the line for Red Sox great Dustin Pedroia. After suffering another setback in trying to rehab his knee, Pedroia was asked if he would play again, and he replied, "I'm not sure." Pedroia has said another surgery on his knee is not an option at this time, and he does not know form hour to hour whether his knee will hold up, making doing anything athletic difficult. One minute, it's fine, and I can run, pivot, etc on it, and an hour later it hurts so bad I can barely walk, is how he described it, and this casts his future in baseball in doubt. Pedey seems to be one of those guys who will be a baseball lifer, always being involved in some aspect of the game, but I am not sure of he will play again. Time could heal the knee, but he's been rehabiing it for almost 2 years now and it's not showing much progress. -M Yep, I think he's done, mrp. Sad to see, especially because much of it apparently is due to Machado's dirty slide, but even without that, he had lost more than a step. He hadn't been able to nail that high inside heater (which he used to do in his sleep) for a while. I think all that's left is some way for Sox and Pedroia to figure out if there 's a way for him to be bought out gracefully. He might be back as a coach, but I'm not sure he has the disposition for it, at least, not yet. Meanwhile, Chavis is a sturdier, beefier version of Pedroia at the plate. He may not wind up at second, but he's not going anywhere this year unless there's a full-systems breakdown. And Devers is actually younger than Chavis!
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 15:14:34 GMT -5
MLB All Star voting began today. Submitted my 5 allotted ballots.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 9, 2019 21:13:24 GMT -5
Thoughts and prayers for Big Papi, hopefully he makes a full recovery.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 23:59:21 GMT -5
Congrats to the St. Louis Blues who hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup this evening.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 13, 2019 5:28:09 GMT -5
The Blues were at the bottom of the League in January... What a great display of tenacity!
Congratulations to a team that fully deserves the first Stanley cup of its history!
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Post by The Captain on Jun 13, 2019 5:49:05 GMT -5
Congrats to the Blues for perserverence, as it's taken 52 years since they began as a franchise to finally hoist the Cup. This follows the 46-year wait that the Washington Capitals had to endure before finally getting their first championship last season.
The only two teams from before the NHL-WHA merger without a Cup win are the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks, although the longest current drought belongs to the Toronto Maple Leafs, who haven't won it all since the final season before the 1967 NHL expansion.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 13, 2019 11:52:53 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 13, 2019 15:49:25 GMT -5
Congratulations to the Blues. They played very well and the Bruins didn't have a counter for them. I had a bad feeling about this series after the Bruins let that second game slip away. We have to save the duck boats for another day.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 15, 2019 8:01:58 GMT -5
I ran across a blurb on the MLB site that Brian McCann drove in his 1000 rbi and it made me look at the all time leaders. These are the top 5.
Hank Aaron 2,297 Babe Ruth 2,213 Alex Rodriguez 2,086 Albert Pujols 2,020 Barry Bonds 1,996
I was surprised that Albert Pujols was only 277 from the record. He's still in the running , at his current output he might come close.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 15, 2019 8:30:09 GMT -5
I ran across a blurb on the MLB site that Brian McCann drove in his 1000 rbi and it made me look at the all time leaders. These are the top 5. Hank Aaron 2,297 Babe Ruth 2,213 Alex Rodriguez 2,086 Albert Pujols 2,020 Barry Bonds 1,996 I was surprised that Albert Pujols was only 277 from the record. He's still in the running , at his current output he might come close. It's going to be really tough for Pujols to reach that record. The Angels are a mediocre club at best right now, and he would have to average .7 RBI per game over the next 414 games to make it (414 being around the maximum number of games he could play between today and the end of his contract in 2021). With the health issues he's had that last couple of years (he only played 117 games last year, and only 58 of the Angels 70 games thus far this season), he probably won't play more than 320 games by the end of his contract, moving the RBI per game figure to .85, which is far higher than the .73 figure he's posted for his entire career. No doubt that Albert Pujols is an all-time great, and for a while, it looked like he was on his way to breaking all sorts of records, but Father Time gives no one a pass. He's only been an All-Star once since leaving St. Louis, only garnered MVP votes in two of his seven seasons in Los Angeles (finishing 17th in the balloting both times), and hasn't led his league in any meaningful category since 2010 (he has led the league in GIDP three times since then, however). When in STL, he only struck out more than he walked in one season (his rookie year of 2001), while he's done that every year in LA, and he hasn't hit higher than .300 since leaving the Cardinals. His OBP hasn't been higher than .325 since 2013, and his OPS hasn't been higher than .800 since 2012. He'll probably finish around 3350 hits, 675 HR, 2200 RBI, and those are 1st Ballot HOF numbers, which is pretty good for a 13th-round draft pick, but he's definitely just playing out the string and collecting stats at this point instead of being an impact contributor.
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