2009 MLB Thread, part 2

[cyborg ninja 14]

It's a shame Ryan Howard couldn't hit at all during the series.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

And their pitching sucked.

 

[Kingfish]

It's officially the offseason. The first Marlin has been dumped.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10327310/Red-Sox-acquire-Hermida-from-Marlins

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I wish the Marlins won the World Series to keep their every-6-years streak.

 

[Kingfish]

I just wish any of the other 29 teams had won. Any of em'.

 

[Gamma Ray]

Well they didn't. The best won, and I think we're looking at a new era similar to that from 1998-2000.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Well they didn't. The best won

Debatable

and I think we're looking at a new era similar to that from 1998-2000.

No. The Yankees best players were all going into their prime and under team control. This Yankee team doesn't have young, franchise players like Jeter, Rivera, and Posada.

 

[Fresh Prince]

I'm sure non Yanks fans can wish for the days again like the 80s and 90s when the Yanks were a bad team...Know Red Sox Nation pissed off at this, was watching a Boston sports chanell when the guy said Yanks winning the WS like getting swine flu.....And by the way, baseball needs a salary cap if they do not have one like every other pro sport here in america.

 

[Kingfish]

Right. It has old, franchise players like Jeter, Rivera, and Posada who are frankly nearing the end. No one else they have recreates that core.

 

[Wilderbeast]

Damon and Matsui are so useless! Can't wait to get rid of those gramps.

Does it hurt to b THAT wrong?

Yankees baby.

I've still got a hangover from partying with the boys after the game but it's worth it.

2009 World Champions, suck on that haters.

 

[Kingfish]

That hardly means that either of them will be back.

 

[FaT_tONle]

You can argue that the UEFA Champions League is more difficult

No UEFA team has near 27? When did they start that tournament anyway? I consider the individual leagues in each country more like divisions, so Madrid has about 30+ Spanish titles, but those leagues have no competitive balance whatsoever, much like MLB. But at least in UEFA you have all the big teams from each country in it which makes up for it.

 

[Raiden]

I'm sure non Yanks fans can wish for the days again like the 80s and 90s when the Yanks were a bad team...Know Red Sox Nation pissed off at this, was watching a Boston sports chanell when the guy said Yanks winning the WS like getting swine flu.....And by the way, baseball needs a salary cap if they do not have one like every other pro sport here in america.

I became a fan of the Yankees during those lean years, so I'm happy for their recent success, but I don't feel a sense of championship entitlement like some Yankees fans do.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Outside last nights game, how many homers Matsui had?....I think he hit one in game 4.

 

[The Chris]

He had one in game 2 and one in game 3 or 4 before hitting another last night.

 

[omid17]

Red Sox acquire OF Hermida from Marlins

Hurdle named Rangers hitting coach

Dodgers decline Garland's $10M option

 

[Spidey-Bat]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_y...slug=ap-giants-lincecum-pot&prov=ap&type=lgns

Lincecum cited for marijuana possession

SEATTLE (AP)—San Francisco Giants star pitcher Tim Lincecum(notes) is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state.

Washington State Patrol spokesman Steve Schatzel said Thursday that the 2008 Cy Young Award winner and former star at the University of Washington was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 in the town of Hazel Dell, about four miles north of the Oregon border, on Oct. 30.

An officer approached Lincecum’s 2006 Mercedes and smelled marijuana as the pitcher rolled down his window. Schatzel said Lincecum immediately complied with a request to hand over the drug and a marijuana pipe from the car’s center console.

The amount measured was 3.3 grams. Schatzel said police consider that a small amount for personal use, well below the maximum of 40 grams before possession is classified differently and carries a more severe penalty.

The arrest was first reported by The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash.

“It was about the size of a thumb, the whole thumb,” Schatzel said of the volume of marijuana Lincecum handed over.

Lincecum was fined a total of $622 for driving at 74 mph in a 60 mph zone, and for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Both are misdemeanors.

The 25-year-old All-Star starter entered a plea of not guilty through his attorney on Monday, according to records in Clark County District Court. A hearing that had been scheduled for Friday morning was canceled, pending a pretrial conference between Lincecum’s attorney and a county prosecutor on Nov. 23.

Lincecum is currently scheduled to appear before a judge on Dec. 22.

The native of the Seattle suburb of Bellevue went 15-7 with a 2.48 ERA in 32 starts and 225 1-3 innings in 2009, his third season in the major leagues. He is 40-17 with a 2.90 ERA in his career, and could be getting a huge, multimillion raise from salary arbitration this offseason.

Teammates consider the smallish right-hander a quirky perfectionist. They also consider him the “Franchise,” the nickname they gave him when he broke into the big leagues only a year out of college. Others see his boyish face, shaggy dark hair, his diminutive frame—and his dominance—and call him “The Freak.”

San Francisco chose him 10th overall in the 2006 draft out of Washington, and he instantly became the organization’s top pitching prospect since Hall of Famer Juan Marichal signed with the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1957.

Probably got it from Zito.

 

[Kingfish]

Everybody already knew that kid was on dope. Hardly a shocker.

 

[omid17]

im not shocked at all, most athletes do it and TL lives in the SF where oaksterdam is

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

I hate you all, I made the 2010 thread but you're still using this one.

Lincecum is totally on the dope

 

[Kingfish]

This one needs to be closed before everyone will migrate.

 

[TMC1982]

People Don't Seem To Like This Chris Rose Guy

I've never had any feelings for FOX's Chris Rose, one way or another, before. That is until FOX decided that he's their "Ernie Johnson" and put him in front of the camera every chance they got. He's really a terrible announcer, but he hasn't really had the time or training to even be considered one. He has however been a host/interviewer before, and based on last night's postgame performance, I think we can officially say he isn't very good at that either.

Chris not only decided to address Derek Jeter as "Jeets", but he continually tried to go with a GPS joke about the parade route, thus confusing the players to no end. If you hop into Twitter and search for Chris Rose, you can read some of the reactions to his stellar work....

I love how it took a World Series win for people to realize how annoying Chris Rose can be. My personal favorite moment from the postgame was that Mariano Rivera had to bring up the retirement question by himself, and then answer it. Just terrible.

With that said, FOX's attempt at the Series wasn't all that bad this year. I still think that Tim McCarver doesn't know what he's talking about, but he does have his brief moments of genius. And Joe Buck was surprisingly tolerable for once.

Head to Deadspin for some more tweets about Rose....

Chip Caray Surrenders His Crown To Chris Rose As The Most Loathed Broadcaster In Baseball (Deadspin)

Something must be wrong if you seem to be making Jeanne Zelasko look competent (Chris Rose's predecessor as Fox's MLB pregame host/World Series Trophy presentation emcee) in comparison. And ironically, speaking of Chip Caray, during the first few years of Fox's baseball coverage (1996-1998), he was the pregame show host (before being replaced by Keith Olbermann for the next two years).

 

[omid17]

****in Chris Rose man lol

hey TMC here's the new thread Official 2010 MLB Thread

 

[The Riddler]

ahhah lincecum getting caught for weed is such a non-news story.

who the eff cares about weed? everyone smokes it.

wonder if this somehow hurts his cy chances.

 

[omid17]

yup