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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 22:38:43 GMT -5
Yes, forgot to mention that slide. That's twice in the last few games that a hard slide into second has changed the outcome in the Sox' favor. BTW, Ryan Brett, the second baseman for Tampa, was injured on the play and is headed for the DL. I read he injured his shoulder sliding into a bag, I assumed it was while running the bases, I didn't realize it was on the broken double play attempt. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 1:18:12 GMT -5
Apparently Wade Miley was so focused on pitching he didn't realize the Sox had scored inthe 3rd inning and though he was coming out with a no decision, and didn't realize they were ahead until the 8th inning when teammates started talking about Koji time.
And the AL still only had 4 winning teams (as opposed to the 6 in the NL) but now the Orioles are not among them, but the Houston Astros are!?! The Astros? How long has it been since that team has had a winning record later than opening day? I love it! I love seeing long suffering teams turn it around (except when those teams hail from NY or Tampa).
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 22, 2015 5:19:35 GMT -5
Yes, forgot to mention that slide. That's twice in the last few games that a hard slide into second has changed the outcome in the Sox' favor. BTW, Ryan Brett, the second baseman for Tampa, was injured on the play and is headed for the DL. I read he injured his shoulder sliding into a bag, I assumed it was while running the bases, I didn't realize it was on the broken double play attempt. -M Last night they were saying it was from the Betts slide; now it seems they're attributing it to when he was picked off by Miley and he caught his left arm in the dirt. |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 22, 2015 10:27:42 GMT -5
Just two games into my Pirates' series with the Cubs and I'm starting to see what all of the fuss is about with the crew from Chicago. Kris Bryant is a stud, as is Jorge Soler, and now they've added Addison Russell to the mix. Throw in Anthony Rizzo, Starlin Castro and Dexter Fowler, and they have the makings of a really nice core of position players.
Bucs should have won last night, after taking an 8-6 lead into the ninth, but our closer, Mark Melancon, can't get a pitch above 90 miles/hour and is not fooling anyone with his other pitches. The Cubs had runners on 2nd and 3rd after just two pitches and had the bases loaded after 8 pitches, then got a Baltimore Chop over the third-baseman's head to drive in two and a ground-out later in the inning to take the lead and the game.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2015 23:43:04 GMT -5
Sox took it on the chin tonight, blowing a 4 run lead. The offense looked good, but everything else that had looked good fell apart tonight. Kelly was cruising going into the 5th and fell apart and the bullpen decided to pour some gas on that fire. Ah well, it's a 162 game season, so it's going to happen.
-M
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Apr 24, 2015 0:52:25 GMT -5
Dodgers sweep? Yes please. Warriors roar back against Pelicans to take a 3-0 series lead? Oh hell yeah.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 24, 2015 13:28:45 GMT -5
Big weekend series between the NY Mets, on a winning streak of 11 straight, and The NY Yankees, winners of 6 of the last 7. For the 1st time since interleague play was instituted, The Mets can be viewed as the favorites.
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 24, 2015 17:29:48 GMT -5
Major League Baseball is conducting a Franchise Four contest to name each team's best four players.
Pick your team and pick the four players you think represent your team best.
CHICAGO CUBS
Ernie Banks
Ryne Sandberg
Ron Santo
Mordecai Brown (although my all time favorite Cubs pitcher will always be Greg Maddux)
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Post by The Captain on Apr 24, 2015 17:44:58 GMT -5
For the Pittsburgh Pirates, the first three on the list are, without question:
Honus Wagner
Roberto Clemente
Willie Stargell
Fourth could be anyone from Paul Waner, Arky Vaughan, Pie Traynor, Ralph Kiner, or Barry Bonds. I would go with Traynor, who was usually considered the top 3B in MLB history until Mike Schmidt came along.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 21:42:23 GMT -5
I placed my vote a few weeks ago when I first saw this...I went for the left field legacy passed on for the Sox with
Ted Williams
Carl Yastremski
Jim Rice
Pedro Martinzez
and then threw in Pedro as the face of the team that broke the Curse...
it was hard leaving Fisk off and the memorable '75 World Series home run, but the bulk of his career I felt was with the White Sox. I thought about a right in for Luis Tiant or Pedroia as well, but those 4 deserve it as much as anyone else I could have written in.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 15:16:13 GMT -5
SEATTLE MARINERS
Ken Griffey Jr.
Randy Johnson
Edgar Martinez
Ichiro Suzuki
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 15:20:43 GMT -5
Jim Rice just represents an era of the Sox for me-the 25 player, 25 cabs era where no matter how good the individuals were, the team never rose to the moment (coming closest but falling short with Bucky F-ing Dent game and the '86 series). For me he represents the period between the post-Yaz glory days and the 2003 championship (even though he retired in '89) where the Sox were good, but never quite good enough, where every season ended in bitter disappointment but the stats usually looked good. Rice for me epitomizes that era better than anyone else and those were the bulk of my formational years as a Sox fan (I caught the tail end of the Yaz years and started following the team cica '73-'74 when I was in nursey school/kindergarten and got my first Sox Yearbook and first baseball cards. It's the long era of dreariness with moments of hope ending in bitter disappointment-which is what defined Red Sox nation pre-2003, so for me Rice is the symbol of that era, and its an era that needs to be represented in any monument to Sox history.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 25, 2015 15:37:27 GMT -5
I know a friend who voted and put in Rivera and Jeter instead of Ruth and Gehrig. I'm sorry but you can't remove Babe Ruth from that list. As crazy as it sounds if you have to replace any one of my 4, I think it would have to be DiMaggio. That person knows nothing about baseball. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Jack squat. Typical Yankee fan. BTW, replacing DiMaggio with Rivera would be an argument with having. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 25, 2015 16:27:32 GMT -5
Jim Rice just represents an era of the Sox for me-the 25 player, 25 cabs era where no matter how good the individuals were, the team never rose to the moment (coming closest but falling short with Bucky F-ing Dent game and the '86 series). For me he represents the period between the post-Yaz glory days and the 2003 championship (even though he retired in '89) where the Sox were good, but never quite good enough, where every season ended in bitter disappointment but the stats usually looked good. Rice for me epitomizes that era better than anyone else and those were the bulk of my formational years as a Sox fan (I caught the tail end of the Yaz years and started following the team cica '73-'74 when I was in nursey school/kindergarten and got my first Sox Yearbook and first baseball cards. It's the long era of dreariness with moments of hope ending in bitter disappointment-which is what defined Red Sox nation pre-2003, so for me Rice is the symbol of that era, and its an era that needs to be represented in any monument to Sox history. -M I, too, remember those years well, and I can tell you that you're so right about Rice. He was feared in the AL from his rookie year up through 1986. (I remember when a rival manager, maybe Alex Grammas of the Brewers, yanked his third baseman and putt him in the outfield once when Rice came up.) By any measure -- average, slugging, RBIs, extra-base hits, OBP -- he put up numbers consistently that would be drool-worthy in any era. From '75 to '86, Rice missed an average of only 11 games a year, and that's with two seasons in which he missed 18 (1975 after his wrist was broken by a Vern Ruehle pitch in September), 1980, when he lost 38 games to a hand injury that affected his production for another couple of years, and 1985, when he was out for 20 games. During the 16 years of his career, he led the AL in HRs and RBIs. And he was an excellent left fielder, especially at Fenway. Sorry. I could go on, but Rice was a force of nature there for a few years and got nothing but disrespect from many in the press and fandom, all undeserved. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 25, 2015 18:00:42 GMT -5
That person knows nothing about baseball. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Jack squat. Typical Yankee fan. BTW, replacing DiMaggio with Rivera would be an argument with having. He's a Phillies fan, actually, haha. Equally unknowledgeable. Only a step above a Dodgers "fan." |
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