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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 15:34:11 GMT -5
And the Grady Sizemore comeback bid is over in Boston. Maybe another team will take a flyer on him? I mean Carlos Pena just got a minor league deal with the Rangers so there's got to be hope for a guy with a .216 average....
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 17, 2014 15:42:32 GMT -5
And the Grady Sizemore comeback bid is over in Boston. Maybe another team will take a flyer on him? I mean Carlos Pena just got a minor league deal with the Rangers so there's got to be hope for a guy with a .216 average.... -M This was sad to watch up close, mrp. He couldn't hit anything, and almost every catch he made he made anything but routine. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 17, 2014 17:47:36 GMT -5
I hate seeing a former great and respected player struggling to keep his job when he's older and obviously lost his edge.I remember Ali and Willie Mays being painful to watch.Fortunately,so far,Derek Jeter is doing OK and actually been on a hot streak this past week
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 17, 2014 18:58:25 GMT -5
When I was a kid, Willie Mays was the one we thought would break Babe Ruth's records. At the end of 1965 Mays had 505 home runs and Hank Aaron had 398. But after age 35 Mays broke down quickly, while Aaron stayed healthy and productive. The last few years for Mays, playing first base for the Mets, were indeed painful to watch. Aaron passed Mays in 1972 and Ruth in 1974.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 18, 2014 7:08:15 GMT -5
Mickey Mantle was another who hung on 2-3 years longer than he should.But the Yankees were begging him to continue since ,at that time,they were a 2nd division team and he was the only attendence attraction they had.So he wound up batting in the .230-.240 range and finished his carrer just below a .300 lifetime batting average which really bothered him later in life
Meanwhile Tanaka continues to dominate with his 11th win last night,tops in the MLB. 10 more KOs in 6 innings work
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 8:35:58 GMT -5
Oddly enough, sabermetrics shows that Mantle was still one of the more productive players in the AL those last couple of feeble-appearing years. It's a matter of context -- remember, in '68 (the Mick's last season), "The Year of the Pitcher," Yaz's paltry .301 was enough to win the league battle title.
From Wikipedia:
The AL's collective slugging average of .340 remains the lowest since 1915 (when the game was still in the so-called dead-ball era), while the collective batting average of .231 is the all-time lowest.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 18, 2014 14:47:54 GMT -5
Spain is playing Chile right now. (Spain won the World Cup last time around.)
And Chile just scored a second goal in the first half. (First half is just a few minutes from being over.)
This was unexpected. It looks like Chile might be joining the Netherlands in winning Group B and going on to the Sweet Sixteen.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 15:11:52 GMT -5
Amazing finish to the Sox Twins game today. John Lackey goes 9 innings of shut out ball and the Sox can't score to support him, managing 1 hit all day. Uehara comes in and gives up a solo homer in the top of the tenth, then Big Papi and Napoli go back to back in the bottom of the tenth for the walk-off...frustration to fruition. Hell of a game.
-M
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Post by Jesse on Jun 18, 2014 17:48:08 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 18, 2014 19:26:00 GMT -5
I read recently that the owners have finally concluded that the name "Washington Redskins" is just too embarrassing to keep using. So, since their stadium is located in Maryland, the team will soon be known as the Maryland Redskins.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 18, 2014 20:04:05 GMT -5
Biggest surprise this week?
Spain already out of the World Cup?
An eleven year old girl is playing in the Women's US Open Golf Tournament?
Kansas City Royals win ten straight?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 23:10:32 GMT -5
England play Uruguay in a must win match tomorrow...
COME ON ENGLAND....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 0:37:20 GMT -5
Not quite perfect....Clayton Kershaw tosses nine innings of no hit no walk ball, but Hanley Ramirez booted a throw for an error to keep it form being a perfect game. Congrats to Kershaw on the no-no though.
-M
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Post by DubipR on Jun 19, 2014 8:19:00 GMT -5
Not quite perfect....Clayton Kershaw tosses nine innings of no hit no walk ball, but Hanley Ramirez booted a throw for an error to keep it form being a perfect game. Congrats to Kershaw on the no-no though. -M Yeah. Hanley Ramirez's throw was so nasty, totally overthrew it. But it was an amazing game to watch on TV. 9 innings..107 pitches. That's control.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 19, 2014 16:15:13 GMT -5
So England just lost to Uruguay, giving them two losses and sending them to the bottom of the group.
Most interesting to me, though, is the fact that this doesn't actually eliminate them. Thanks to the way the scheduling for this group works and how the matches have played out, England still has a chance to get in via a three way tie for second place. And a three way tie is not that unlikely, either.
Assuming Italy beats Costa Rica tomorrow, which is not a certainty but is likely, the group will look like this:
Italy - 6 points
Costa Rica - 3 points
Uruguay - 3 points
England - 0 points
Italy plays Uruguay in the final match, while England plays Costa Rica. Anything could happen, but I do think the most likely outcomes of those matches are Italy over Uruguay (as Italy will still have something to play for, since a three way tie for first place is also still possible) and England over Costa Rica.
If those results were also to both happen, the final results would be:
Italy - 9 points
Costa Rica - 3 points
Uruguay - 3 points
England - 3 points
The tie breaker is goal differential. Right now England is sitting -2 and Uruguay is -1, while Costa Rica is +2. If the rest of the matches were decided by 1 goal, Costa Rica would win the tie breaker. If England were to beat Costa Rica by 2 instead of one in their game, though, they would be tied on tie breakers, in which case the next tie breaker is points earned head-to-head - which England would win.
A whole lot of things need to go right for England to advance, including those games simply all having decisions and not being draws. But with all four teams still having something to play for to the end, and most of them needing wins to advance, I think it's possible we could go to a three way tiebreaker in this group.
For what it's worth, the other three way tie-breaker scenario would be if Costa Rica loses to Italy, then beats England, while Uruguay defeats Italy. IN that case, Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica would all be tied with 6 points and there would be an even more complex tie breaker scenario to figure out, because two of the tied teams would advance. Whereas the three way tie for sceond place results in just one of them advancing.
I do enjoy weird scenarios like this.
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