The Super Terrific MLB Thread - Part 2
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Whoever programmed the Bonds alert to pop up on ESPN's website should die in a fire.
phanan
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Schilling really is doing well at making sure his blog gets tons of hits...way to promote that website!
hey armando benitez blew up and cost his team a lead in the 9th inning... sounds familiar
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Old friends Smoltz and Maddux are about to pitch against each other in Braves vs Padres 
Mr. Brown went to the game with his boss, lucky him.
Mr. Brown went to the game with his boss, lucky him.
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they just took Maddux out WHAT? NO WAY! UNBELIEVABLE! 
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well, that was good for the braves
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Hopefully Dice-K is back on track now...
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The Blue Jays' ship is sinking earlier than expected...
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Wake got some run support 
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I can't believe Tim Wakefield's ERA is below 2 right now.
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Q: Everyone outside of New York and Boston thinks Yankees and Red Sox fans are the same exact person living in two different cities. I see no difference at all between the two fan bases. You are both loud, obnoxious, have ridiculous accents, put stupid pressure on your players, spend money to the point it makes the game unfair, spend way too much money on Japanese pitchers and think your city is far superior to everywhere else's. Am I missing something?
--Josh, Tampa, Fla.
SG: Yeah, you're missing the part where we root for teams that win 95-100 games every year and finish 30 games ahead of the Devil Rays. You left that out.
(Phanan, Hewson, for this one shining moment, we were united)
--Josh, Tampa, Fla.
SG: Yeah, you're missing the part where we root for teams that win 95-100 games every year and finish 30 games ahead of the Devil Rays. You left that out.
(Phanan, Hewson, for this one shining moment, we were united)
actually, i believe new yorkers have the superiority complex where as the bostonites tend to have a big inferiority complexnew yorkers think they're better than everyone else, where-as most of the bostonites i've come across find a constant need to prove to everyone how great their city is.
it's a nice balance... ying and yang. also makes for some very entertaining bar fights in college towns
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San Francisco always reminds me of Boston in that sense...always trying to prove how amazing their city is. And, I love Boston and SF both, but, stfu residents.
i actually grew fond of boston when i went up there to see pearl jam with the man of hews... i try not to tell too many people that, though... especially my new englandite friends from college
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I'm gonna remember that post.
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I've heard the SF and Boston comparison for many years, both on the coast, smaller than the big city on each coast (LA and NY), quaint old architecture in parts of the city and a few other things.No spoken words said:
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That was because mostly of my sparkilng personality (or maybe inexpensive beer and 2nd row seats, but who's counting)Headache in a Suitcase said:
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Hewson said:
I suspect these two items are highly correlated.
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Hewson said:
I should have said that the 2 cities remind me of each other in many ways, including what you list above. I like Boston a tad more, probably because it has deeper American history, but, both are great cities, at least in my opinion.
Too many good starting pitchers are getting hurt this season, with Halladay being the latest...appendix.
i wonder if toronto fired their strength coach
milwaukee's good... but they're not that good.
with how bad the NL Central is this year they may be able to hold on, but they're still about a year away
with how bad the NL Central is this year they may be able to hold on, but they're still about a year away
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what a comeback for the Sox
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Let's just hope the situation with Beckett's finger isn't too serious.
Chipper Jones rips interleague rivalry games
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
May 13, 2007
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Chipper Jones likes interleague games, playing in ballparks he hasn't seen before and opposing teams the Atlanta Braves seldom face. What he doesn't like is this kind of interleague play.
With interleague games resuming next weekend, the Braves third baseman on Sunday sharply criticized the current format that requires the Braves to meet the Red Sox and the Mets to oppose the Yankees six times each, while other NL East teams play less-rugged schedules.
"I don't think there's any question it's not fair, but I don't think major league baseball is concerned with fair," Jones said before Atlanta's 13-2 loss in Pittsburgh. "If you play the top teams in the American League and everybody else doesn't, it's pretty unfair."
While the Braves oppose the Red Sox (6 games), Tigers (3), Twins (3) and Indians (3), and the Mets face the Yankees (6), Tigers (3), Twins (3) and Athletics (3), the other NL East teams look to have less-demanding schedules. The Phillies, for example, play three games each against the losing-record Blue Jays and Royals, plus three each against the White Sox, Indians and Tigers.
"Is it fun? Yeah. It's fun playing in new cities. It's fun playing in front of new crowds, it's fun playing new teams," Jones said. "What's not fun is when they're all contenders and your competition doesn't have to play the same competition you do."
What Jones most dislikes is the recently added wrinkle that requires teams to play so-called regional rivals in home-and-home series each season, such as Braves-Red Sox, Yankees-Mets and Angels-Dodgers.
"It's a factor (in the pennant race)," Jones said. "We play Boston six times, and they've got the best record in the American League. We play the top three teams in the toughest division in baseball (the AL Central). We, without a doubt, have the toughest schedule in baseball, bar none. You don't play in our division and play the interleague schedule we play and not say we don't have the toughest schedule."
Since interleague play started in 1997, the Braves' 91-75 record is the sixth best in the majors. The Yankees are the best with a 103-71 record; the Pirates are easily the worst with a 52-84 record. But, at the start, teams from one division played only those from another division, so each team played roughly the same schedule.
The regional rivalry concept changed that. This season, the Mets play interleague games against teams from all three AL divisions.
"If we're going to play the American League Central, everybody has to play all the teams in the American League Central," Jones said. "This split-it-up and we have to play our rival in the American League East stuff, I don't get it. It's unfair for us and the Mets on a year-in, year-out basis to have to play the Yankees and Red Sox when other teams don't.
"This is no disrespect to the rest of the teams in the American League East, because Tampa is up and coming, and in two or three years, Tampa might be the class of the American League East and the Florida Marlins are going to have to deal with it," he said.
Interleague play creates a difficult pre-All-Star schedule for the Braves, who play 12 interleague games in 13 days next month against the Twins and Indians on the road and the Red Sox and Tigers at home. After that, they play the Nationals at home, then go on the road for a 10-day road trip to Florida, Los Angeles and San Diego before the All-Star break.
"We should do it the way we did it the first five or six years of interleague play, and that's play every team in the American League East, every team in West and so on," Jones said.
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
May 13, 2007
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Chipper Jones likes interleague games, playing in ballparks he hasn't seen before and opposing teams the Atlanta Braves seldom face. What he doesn't like is this kind of interleague play.
With interleague games resuming next weekend, the Braves third baseman on Sunday sharply criticized the current format that requires the Braves to meet the Red Sox and the Mets to oppose the Yankees six times each, while other NL East teams play less-rugged schedules.
"I don't think there's any question it's not fair, but I don't think major league baseball is concerned with fair," Jones said before Atlanta's 13-2 loss in Pittsburgh. "If you play the top teams in the American League and everybody else doesn't, it's pretty unfair."
While the Braves oppose the Red Sox (6 games), Tigers (3), Twins (3) and Indians (3), and the Mets face the Yankees (6), Tigers (3), Twins (3) and Athletics (3), the other NL East teams look to have less-demanding schedules. The Phillies, for example, play three games each against the losing-record Blue Jays and Royals, plus three each against the White Sox, Indians and Tigers.
"Is it fun? Yeah. It's fun playing in new cities. It's fun playing in front of new crowds, it's fun playing new teams," Jones said. "What's not fun is when they're all contenders and your competition doesn't have to play the same competition you do."
What Jones most dislikes is the recently added wrinkle that requires teams to play so-called regional rivals in home-and-home series each season, such as Braves-Red Sox, Yankees-Mets and Angels-Dodgers.
"It's a factor (in the pennant race)," Jones said. "We play Boston six times, and they've got the best record in the American League. We play the top three teams in the toughest division in baseball (the AL Central). We, without a doubt, have the toughest schedule in baseball, bar none. You don't play in our division and play the interleague schedule we play and not say we don't have the toughest schedule."
Since interleague play started in 1997, the Braves' 91-75 record is the sixth best in the majors. The Yankees are the best with a 103-71 record; the Pirates are easily the worst with a 52-84 record. But, at the start, teams from one division played only those from another division, so each team played roughly the same schedule.
The regional rivalry concept changed that. This season, the Mets play interleague games against teams from all three AL divisions.
"If we're going to play the American League Central, everybody has to play all the teams in the American League Central," Jones said. "This split-it-up and we have to play our rival in the American League East stuff, I don't get it. It's unfair for us and the Mets on a year-in, year-out basis to have to play the Yankees and Red Sox when other teams don't.
"This is no disrespect to the rest of the teams in the American League East, because Tampa is up and coming, and in two or three years, Tampa might be the class of the American League East and the Florida Marlins are going to have to deal with it," he said.
Interleague play creates a difficult pre-All-Star schedule for the Braves, who play 12 interleague games in 13 days next month against the Twins and Indians on the road and the Red Sox and Tigers at home. After that, they play the Nationals at home, then go on the road for a 10-day road trip to Florida, Los Angeles and San Diego before the All-Star break.
"We should do it the way we did it the first five or six years of interleague play, and that's play every team in the American League East, every team in West and so on," Jones said.
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Ahhh ... you guys should check out the Nationals game. Its in the bottom of the 7th anf there is something ... interesting ... going on.
you ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuined it
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Dalton said:
Nevermind. Please resume pretending that the nationals do not exist.
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