BaseballBob

I hope they don't think that this will enable the Rays to sign high priced free agents. Merchandise sales of MLB licensed stuff is shared with all 30 teams. This means when all those Yankee and Red Sox fans buy up all that Yankee and Red Sox gear, they're helping out everyone in MLB. They don't have to, they have to lock up their current roster (BJ, CC, Kazmir) and a 97 win team, the youngest team in the playoffs, with the best farm system in the game will only get better. Actually, their farm system is very good because of all the high draft picks they've had during the crap years. This is how the Tigers got to the World Series in 2006. With this good season behind them, the Rays will have a low pick next year. A little known fact about the MLB draft is that, unlike the NFL and NBA, teams cannot trade their pick positions. This means the Rays cannot offer, say, Carl Crawford and Rocco Baldelli to the team with the first pick next year for that pick.

I hope they don't think that this will enable the Rays to sign high priced free agents. Merchandise sales of MLB licensed stuff is shared with all 30 teams. This means when all those Yankee and Red Sox fans buy up all that Yankee and Red Sox gear, they're helping out everyone in MLB.

They have a whole section devoted to Cubs Obsesssion (Whats the Score) with 15 threads on the front page of that section devoted to Cubs in some way. It's a matter of degree. Thats all. 15? Must be that new math they're teaching in the schools these days.

Yeah, there's no obsessing over the White Sox here. viewtopic.php?f=29&t=51376

They're getting a new stadium. they proposed it. is it officially happening? I'm under the impression it is. But I'm up here in Chicago. Maybe one of the locals in Tampa knows for sure. I don't know if I would want to be a baseball player in an outdoor stadium in Tampa. The humidity in July and August would be brutal. I hear it rains a lot there, too. Wait a minute......did I say there are circumstances where I would not want to be a MLB player???? Am I nuts????

They're getting a new stadium.

They come here every year.

Won/Loss records are not an accurate reflection of a pitcher's skills. You can be lights out on a lousy team so you have a 8-12 record because of lousy run support. You can be mediocre with a 13-6 record on a good team because your team puts 9 runs on the board for you every time out.

Back to the original question, here is another site, http://dtfc.yuku.com/ I know nothing about it, did not look through it for quality, I was given the link by a friend.

Dumbest, yes. Weirdest? I think Inge has that one hands down. Idiots crack their skulls on pool bottoms all the time, but moving a pillow? That takes imagination and initiative!

I feel the same way about football I went to one Vikings' game there. It was the Bears/Vikes week three of the 1985 season. I was in Heaven.

Indoor baseball is an abomination. Yes, against the will of God. I spent a few years living in Minnesota and had to stop going to Twins' games because it was not baseball (no, I was not rooting for the Twins, I just like going to the ballgame).

Wimp. What team will he be a die-hard fan of next week?

I'd rather see the Cubs beat a team with historical signifance (Red Sox, Tigers, Yankees) than the White Sox. I'm willing to bet that if it came down to a Cubs/Sox WS, the outcome would cause rioting in Chicago. With the amount of anymosity between the two fan groups, we're talking 68 Democratic Convention riots. If the Cubs and Sox were to meet in the World Series this year or any other year, I don't think it would result in any uptick in violence. Most fan fights are fueled by alcohol and I'm sure bars would proclaim which team they are backing so that you won't get too many over served Sox and Cub fans crammed into one space together for a World Series game. I doubt the fans of one team or the other would want to be around a lot of fans of the other team, it would ruin the experience of everyone cheering together a victory. I don't understand the "historical significance" comment. What is the historical significance of the Red Sox, Tigers and Yankees? The Red Sox have not won too many World Series' titles over their history (seven, five of them long before 2004), the Tigers have won four and of the Yankee's 27 titles, 20 came between 1923 and 1962....46+ years ago. The two oldest teams in the American League are the White Sox and Indians-they played each other in the very first American League game back on April 24, 1901. The Indians were knowns as the Cleveland Blues at the time. The White Sox won the AL pennant that year, there was no World Series-postseason games prior to 1903 were considered exhibition games. The World Series games listed in the books from the 1880's and 1890's were among the National League and the American Association League. I would enjoy a Crosstown Classic World Series. It would en El of a series! (I can't take credit for that line-it was used by the media quite a bit during the summer of 1977 when the Sox and Cubs occupied first place longer in their respective divisions than any other MLB team. Neither one, however, was in First on the only day it mattered: October 1st.

No one cared? 1,750,000 people showed up for the parade on LaSalle Street according to the Police Department making it the largest single gathering of people ever in the history of the city.

The singing of "Take me out to the Ballgame" was started by Harry Caray at Comiskey in the 1970's when he was the Sox' play-by-play guy. It was the Cubs who "co-opted" it, not the Sox. The "L" flag was waved by the Sox dugout over the weekend by Sox fans, not the team itself.

Kyle, why are you asking? Is there a reason you cannot register there? Anyway, I would not worry about the Brewers this year. Yost is not the brightest bulb in the Managerial Tool Chest and they have an injury-prone pitching staff. Not a good combination if they want to play in October. Getting the to stat analysis earlier in this thread, while this year's numbers compare favorably to last year's numbers, I put little stock in them because, in baseball, things can change quickly. Look how quickly the Tigers went from 119 losses (2003) to the World Series (2006).

One fact about Danks that does not get mentioned much is that he had a baseball mentor growing up. A family friend in Texas who mentored him through Little League, high school, college, etc. Who was this? Nolan Ryan. Yes. That Nolan Ryan.

Why not? All the research I've seen indicates that a 5-man rotation offers no health benefits over a 4-man rotation. The Dodgers began the 5-man rotation because they had five good starters, not because they wanted to prevent injuries. No-can-do 4 man rotations any more. Ever since the Pitcher's Mound was raised, pitchers have had to throw more breaking stuff and fewer fastballs. The breaking stuff is harder on the arm, so you can't do the 40+ starts like they did before the mound was raised. Studies have shown that the higher mounds of today lead to more injuries among pitchers (http://www.eyedoctornewsletter.com/pitchersmound).

If someone gives up a first hit late in the game, you gotta take him out. I've seen many times where a no-no is taken into the 6th or 7th and then someone gets a bloop single, the pitcher is kept in and before you know it, 5 runs are in and Mr. No-no gets tagged for a loss.

The Twins are on their way down. They have played a lot of games at home so far and that is the only place where they can win. Now that they will be on the road more often, the lack of pitching depth and hitting depth will catch up to them.