Official 2011 MLB Thread - Part 1

[cyborg ninja 14]

Hey, someone mentioned the Dbacks. Feels pretty good man. I'm going to enjoy this while it lasts.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Good for them. Nice to see Gibson, a Tiger great, having success as a manager.

 

[Erzengel]

So the proposed minority owner David Einhorn from what I'm hearing on the radio, is investing 200 Million into the Mets. The Wilpons have 2 years to repay him and if they do he will still own 1/8th of the team, if not he will own 60% of the team. What a deal, Einhorn has nothing to lose.

 

[Duke]

GREAT comeback win by the GIANTS last night in extra innings!!!

 

[John McGuirk]

Maybe the Tigers can stop being so W-L-W-L and string together another nice win streak to catch to Cleveland

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The Pirates have already matched their road win total from last year (17) and are poised to exceed that today thanks to Mike Pelfrey's typical early inning crappiness.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Maybe the Tigers can stop being so W-L-W-L and string together another nice win streak to catch to Cleveland

We just swept the Twins?

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Dice-K to have TJ surgery. I think it's safe to say his career in the US is over.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjOS0TzDP.kRSXSVzhgTYmcRvLYF?slug=ap-redsox-matsuzaka

 

[FCEEVIPER]

The Pirates have already matched their road win total from last year (17) and are poised to exceed that today thanks to Mike Pelfrey's typical early inning crappiness.

Mets stole this one.

 

[BlackLantern]

Papelbohn lost it today

 

[cyborg ninja 14]

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/43275668/ns/sports-other_sports/#storyContinued

 

[BlackLantern]

that's awful.....my condolences to his family

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Stupid Yankee fan yells at Torii Hunter for falling over his friend while trying to catch a fly ball

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi...t=AiMc3pCuJ81UxqWGUZXmjrIRvLYF?urn=mlb-wp8657

 

[Dr. Evil]

Anyone see the Mike's Hard Lemonade Commercial with the Bearded one Brian Wilson?

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Indians coming back down to Earth finally. That Division is the Tigs for the taking, provided that someone besides Verlander can actually pitch for us. Scherzer's been horrible the last month, and Penny and Porcello are still inconsistent as hell.

 

[BlackLantern]

so the Mets are chugging along

 

[Dr. Evil]

This is stupid, because as long as Major League Baseball isn't going to be involved, Baseball won't ever return to the Olympics:

http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/olympic_sports_bids/1216135736.html

And there is no chance in hell of MLB disrupting their season to do this. They are not the NHL.

 

[BlackLantern]

it won't happen because the IOC is notoriously anti-American....they got rid of softball because we were owning everyone, same with baseball

they won't do it with basketball because its makes them an ungodly amount of money

 

[Spidey-Bat]

We need to get rid of the WBC. The Mets had the most players in it in 2009, and then they had a **** ton of injuries. All it does is make us watch more irrelevant games and delay the season so no one will watch the post-season in November.

 

[BlackLantern]

eh, I like the WBC....I think it benefits baseball, on the whole, to have some sort of international tournament or competition

its how basketball became a global game

 

[Spidey-Bat]

With the exception of Cuba, all the good international talent is already in the MLB.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The NBA finals are over, the NFL is in a lockout, nobody cares about hockey. Let's start talking about baseball again.

How about all this realignment talk? Many are talking about moving an NL team to the AL (Astros talked about the most), having 3 divisions of 5 teams, regular interleague through the season, and 5 playoff spots in each league.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Why not just give the AL the Brewers back? Although I assume for alignment purposes it would have to be more of a Western team.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Move the Royals to the AL West. No one would notice.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Was reading some of the realignment stuff from Kurkjian and looks like part of the plan is to scrap the Divisional format all together, which would be really odd but not unprecedented in baseball. Top 5 teams in each League would make the playoffs. 4th and 5th seeded teams would have a short "play-in" series before the other teams started playing.