Random Baseball Musings

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't think this is new news, but it's the latest from the old guy at the trib.

 

The City Series, one of the most popular features of Chicago’s baseball schedule, will be reduced from six to four games between the Cubs and White Sox in most seasons, according to union leader Michael Weiner.

 

Commissioner Bud Selig declined to discuss the specifics of the schedule being finalized for baseball’s first season with 15 teams in each league, saying only that interleague play would become a season-long feature. But Weiner told members of the Baseball Writers Association of America on Tuesday that "traditional rival" series like the Cubs and White Sox will go from six games a year to four games in most seasons.

 

Weiner suggested that it is likely those four games will be broken up into two-game series at each park rather than playing four games at a park one year and then four games at the other park the following year.

 

There could still be six Cubs-White Sox games once every three years. Weiner said inter-league play will rotate between divisions, with teams playing the five-team divisions in their opposite league every three years, and will comprise six series a year, the extra series being one with a so-called “traditional rival."

[erik316wttn]

It's so easy to make a fair schedule, yet MLB is completely blind to it.

 

18 games against each of the other 4 teams in your division = 72 games

 

6 games (3 home and away) against each team in one other division in the other league = 30 games

 

6 games (3 home and away) against every other non-division team in your league = 60 games

 

60+30+72 = 162. Done.

[jersey cubs fan]

It's so easy to make a fair schedule, yet MLB is completely blind to it.

 

If the goal was to create a perfectly "fair" schedule, I'm sure they would try it.

 

That's not the goal.

 

The goal is to maintain a fiscally thriving business.

[Cubswin11]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8147253/the-mlb-all-star-game-being-held-kansas-city-where-royals-continue-their-historic-run-futility

 

Good article on Grantland about the Royals minor league system and where they are now, a year and a half later, after they were declared to possibly have the greatest minor league system ever.

[El Duderino]

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/KY1.gif

[OleMissCub]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson did some great tweeting during the ASG

 

FYI: Laws of physics show that it takes twice as much energy to throw a baseball 100 mph than it does to throw one at 70 mph.

 

Does it disturb anyone else that "The Los Angeles Angels" baseball team translates directly to "The The Angels Angels"?

 

Hand-stitched balls, rubbing mud, leather mitts, wooden bats, pine tar. Baseball: a game untouched by modern materials.

 

Curious that intent is assigned by announcers when a batter gets a hit. Yet 70% of the time the player can't get a hit at all

 

Slowest pitch in Baseball to reach catcher? 30 mph, thrown at 45-deg angle. Any slower and at any other angle hits the ground

 

Baseball should track extraordinary plays that fielders can bank, and then credit against errors they might later commit.

 

You can play baseball on the airless Moon, but only if you find a way not to suffocate & if you don't care about curve balls.

 

In the 1960s, when we still dreamed, we named a dome, a baseball team, and even the artificial turf they played on "Astro"

[Guest]

The last one is perfect.

[imb]

WILL COSMOS JUST HURRY UP AND COME OUT SO THE WORLD CAN SHARE MY NDT BONER?

[Clem Fandango]

[expletive] awesome

[Clem Fandango]

Speaking of awesome...

 

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/art-howbaseballs.html

[XZero771679666304]

WILL COSMOS JUST HURRY UP AND COME OUT SO THE WORLD CAN SHARE MY NDT BONER?

 

I'm pretty sure most of the people who will watch it already do.

[TruffleShuffle]

i'm still having trouble getting used to the idea of melky cabrera as a good baseball player.

[BCVM22]

Relativistic Baseball: what would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

 

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

[Banedon]

Maybe this is something I should have known, and I'm sure may of you probably do already know this, but I just found out that the Los Angeles Angels played in a ballpark in LA called Wrigley Field, and that it was named that a year before Cubs Park was renamed Wrigley Field....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field_(Los_Angeles)

[jersey cubs fan]

Maybe this is something I should have known, and I'm sure may of you probably do already know this, but I just found out that the Los Angeles Angels played in a ballpark in LA called Wrigley Field, and that it was named that a year before Cubs Park was renamed Wrigley Field....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field_(Los_Angeles)

 

You should have known. It's the place they filmed home run derby.

 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/166981

[Guest]

Don't really know where to put this, and don't remember where we were discussing it before, but the Braves are calling up Sheets.

 

But now Sheets, who will be 34 on July 18, is on the comeback trail. He signed a minor-league contract with the Braves just ten days ago (after throwing 90-92 m.p.h. in a simulated game), and has made two starts for the team's double-A affiliate. In his first start he pitched five innings, allowed four earned runs, and struck out six. In his second start he pitched into the sixth inning, allowing two earned runs. Those were the first games that Sheets has pitched in since July of 2010, and they were all the Braves needed to see. Sheets has been tabbed to join the Braves' big league rotation, and he will make his first start this Sunday.

[Banedon]

Don't really know where to put this, and don't remember where we were discussing it before, but the Braves are calling up Sheets.

 

But now Sheets, who will be 34 on July 18, is on the comeback trail. He signed a minor-league contract with the Braves just ten days ago (after throwing 90-92 m.p.h. in a simulated game), and has made two starts for the team's double-A affiliate. In his first start he pitched five innings, allowed four earned runs, and struck out six. In his second start he pitched into the sixth inning, allowing two earned runs. Those were the first games that Sheets has pitched in since July of 2010, and they were all the Braves needed to see. Sheets has been tabbed to join the Braves' big league rotation, and he will make his first start this Sunday.

 

I wonder if his deal was structured such that he had to be called up or released by a certain date?

[jersey cubs fan]

http://deadspin.com/5925116/phillies-announcer-melts-down-somebody-figure-out-how-to-[expletive]-get-scott-hairston-out

 

hahahaha.

 

phillies announcer didn't realize he was still on air when discussing Scott Hairston.

 

 

beware of potty mouth

[Sammy Sofa]

Truth.

[Backtobanks]

i'm still having trouble getting used to the idea of melky cabrera as a good baseball player.

 

Yeah, I remember the Yankees trying to convince everybody to take him in a trade.

[XZero771679666304]

I was just watching highlights of the 1990 ASG on MLB Network and they showed Barry Bonds horsing around with Canseco and McGwire, marveling at their size. After Mac picked Bonds up like a toy, Barry said "These boys are too big for me."

 

Ha.

[Proven Veteran]

Maybe this is something I should have known, and I'm sure may of you probably do already know this, but I just found out that the Los Angeles Angels played in a ballpark in LA called Wrigley Field, and that it was named that a year before Cubs Park was renamed Wrigley Field....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field_(Los_Angeles)

 

You should have known. It's the place they filmed home run derby.

 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/166981

I love that show.

[El Duderino]

Bullpen:Today in Baseball History

 

1896 - In a 9 - 8 defeat to the hometown Chicago Colts, Phillies outfielder Ed Delahanty hits four home runs in one game. All of the round trippers are the inside-the-park variety.

 

that is awesome.

[Banedon]

You think Theo ever looks at Boston and thinks "Man am I glad I'm out of there...."?

 

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/13/it-sounds-like-bobby-valentine-has-lost-the-clubhouse/

 

David Ortiz publicly stated his support recently for the manager, but another respected player on the team said privately that it was all for show. That same player has gone weeks without speaking to Valentine and said that the manager does not have the support of “anyone” in the clubhouse … Valentine went out to the mound in Chicago for a visit with his pitcher, and all the infielders joined him for the conference except star second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who remained at his position.

 

Edes ads that players are grumbling about the Youkilis trade and that they are taking complaints about Bobby Valentine to GM Ben Cherington. Who, quite obviously, was not on board with the Valentine hire in the offseason, but rather had it foisted on him by team president Larry Lucchino.

[Clem Fandango]

God bless Larry Lucchino for being an absolute [expletive] and allowing us to get Theo and Co. as a result of his power trip insanity.