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[wildkycat]

Originally Posted by 715 asterisk

Very nice avy, wildKYcat.

thanks man.

 

[ii flash ii]

Im mad hyped... Ill be hyped to see Griffey hit number 600, and to see Mike Hampton come back... And its time for the Braves to take back their number 1 spotin the East...

 

[N41D]

Rangers took a flier on John Patterson and signed him to a minor league deal... If he can get healthy, he's a pretty good asset. But that's a reallybig IF...

 

[mfr3shm]

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

Marte's got like 4 HR and 10+ RBI, but he's batting under .200.

Damn the Indians have been holding on to Andy Marte for the longest time when will they realize that he will not be any use to them.

 

[wildkycat]

Originally Posted by ii FLaSh ii

Im mad hyped... Ill be hyped to see Griffey hit number 600

there's no reason i shouldn't see that live. surely he'll "try" to hit it in Cincy.

i went to six games in a row when he was on 499 and he never hit it, then he hits it the next road series in STL. but man, the atmosphere was amazing everytime he came to the plate.

 

[scuse7]

Originally Posted by wildKYcat

Originally Posted by ii FLaSh ii

Im mad hyped... Ill be hyped to see Griffey hit number 600

there's no reason i shouldn't see that live. surely he'll "try" to hit it in Cincy.

i went to six games in a row when he was on 499 and he never hit it, then he hits it the next road series in STL. but man, the atmosphere was amazing every time he came to the plate.

That sucks. I can only imagine what it was like

Hopefully you can be there for 600. That would be something to see

 

[wildkycat]

anyone else feel somewhat cheated by this dumb idea to start the season in Japan? Bud Selig is an idiot. the more i think about it, the more it really pissesme off. with all the steroid stuff and whatever, trying to clean up the game for the fans, we can't even get the first Major League Baseball game of theseason in our own country? i understand promoting the game and all that, but this is about as stupid as Bud's All-star game/world series home fieldadvantage blunder.

the first baseball game of the season should be played in Cincinnati. it's one of, if not the best opening day's in baseball.

[h2]Sayonara, baseball tradition[/h2]
By Furman Bisher | Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 08:57 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Baseball used to be a game played with nine men to a side, two managers, four umpires, and the major-league season always opened in Cincinnati. Come to think of it now, that would be sort of like "Gone With the Wind" opening in Valdosta. But Cincinnati had a deal, see

The first "major league" baseball game was played in Cincinnati on June 1, 1869. The locals, the Red Stockings, eked out a 48-14 victory over Mansfield, whoever Mansfield was. So, several years ago - even the league office isn't sure when - it became a custom that every major-league season opened in Cincinnati. Nobody played before the Red Stockings, now shortened to Reds. It was just that way. That's how baseball is, very long on tradition. It just gets into a habit it likes and stays there.

Well, not any longer. Money can change any habit. Eight springs ago the Mets and Cubs opened the season, not in Cincinnati. Guess where? Tokyo. That Tokyo, the guys who gave us Pearl Harbor. Some people don't like you to bring that up, trade with Japan is so hot. But I've got a long memory. I saw what a few bombs can do to our property.

Oh, well, 'scuse me. It's just tough to get away from it when you turn on your TV in the morning there are the Boston Red Sox playing the Oakland A's in the Tokyo Dome. Not only that, but the Red Sox pitcher is Daisuke Matsuzaka, who didn't grow up in Wampole.

Why not? A Japanese newspaper chain, Yomiuri, foots the bill for this Oriental excursion. Yomiuri is not exactly the Chicago Tribune of Japanese baseball. Yomiuri owns several teams. The Tribune owns only one team, and that team hasn't been in a World Series since World War II. (Sorry to have to bring that up again.) Yomiuri's team has been the Yankees of Japan, and I'm not sure, but I think they call themselves the Giants.

About Cincinnati and its dibs on opening day, that went on for years. Then the major leagues expanded from coast to coast, cramping the schedule. Television came in spreading money around like fertilizer, and things began to change. The Reds no longer had a monopoly on opening day. So they were allowed to throw the first pitch before anybody else. That privilege is gone now, but one priority remains - the Reds are always allowed to open the season at home. So much for tradition, of which about all that remains is that the baseball hides are actually sewed together by hand by ladies in some Latin American country.

They no longer play a Hall of Fame game in Cooperstown. The All-Star Game ends when the commissioner says it's time to go home, even if the score is tied. World Series games start about my bedtime. The schedule is so jacked around that the Braves open the season with a one-game "series" in Washington, where a new ball park is being opened. There, one other tradition still prevails: Presidents still throw out first balls. George Bush gets to start the last game of his eight-year career on the mound.

It would be my guess that in Japan, emperors don't throw out first balls, or even have any kind of presence at such a sweaty game. I saw a game in the Tokyo Dome once, but it was more dome-shaped then. It now appears to have gone oblong to oblige the new long-ball society. Managers are interchangeable, it seems. Bobby Valentine is still managing a team in Japan, and Trey Hillman, who managed five seasons in Japan, is now managing the Kansas City Royals, which, on the surface, appears to be a demotion.

So that's where major-league baseball stands today, geographically. Not here in the USA, not in Cincinnati, not even in Kauai, but on the other side of the International Dateline. Heaven only knows where it's headed next. They tell me they're building a state of the Soviet stadium in Vladivostok, complete with a video screen as high as the sky, and beer sales. Oh, I forgot tell you this about Cincinnati's sin. The Red Stockings were expelled from the league in 1880 for selling beer at the park. Think of that!

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

that @$%# sucks......

 

[wildkycat]

yeah it sucks...i mean, do people realize that baseball has started? it's !$$@@@% crap.

anyways, Homer Bailey will start the season in AAA.

Right-handerBailey cut from Reds camp

Him and Jay Bruce in Louisville.

 

[kiddin like jason]

Cameron Maybin will start the season in AAA AA.

 

[allen3xis]

I had no idea we opened Monday...

I've been so far away from even thinking about baseball.

It's just dumb, nobody cares about opening in Japan.

 

[bkmac]

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

Cameron Maybin will start the season in AAA AA.

Marlins plan to win early on in the season with Cody Ross and Alejandro De Aza splitting time in Center Field

 

[tbone95860]

Red Sox lost

Rich Harden was killing it.... if only he could stay healthy, he's nasty.

 

[j rain 23]

Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk

Rangers took a flier on John Patterson and signed him to a minor league deal... If he can get healthy, he's a pretty good asset. But that's a really big IF...

i was shocked that we outright released patterson. i guess we just got fed up with him. he's supposedly healthy and he was getting hit hard in springtraining and his arm strength has plummeted.

enjoy him.

 

[wildkycat]

from Sports Illustrated:

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Tigers over Red Sox
Yankees over Angels[/td] [td]DIVISION SERIES
Cubs over Diamondbacks
Rockies over Mets[/td] [/tr][tr][td]CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Tigers over Yankees[/td] [td]CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Cubs over Rockies[/td] [/tr][tr][td]WORLD SERIES
Tigers over Cubs[/td] [/tr][/table]
and Nowitness, there's a pretty good read on Hamilton and the Rangers in the newest isssue.

 

[sohi 23]

I'm 99% sure the Giants will finish with 100 losses.
They freakin suck.

 

[scuse7]

I am not surprised at how well Tejada has been doing. I really think he will have a good year. He has the short fence in left. Also, has Berkman and Carlos Leeto help him out. I wouldn't be surprised to see him hit a lot of home runs.


BTW what is up with Bedard. I thought he would be killing after how good he finished last year. Then again he did start wicked slow last year.

 

[wildkycat]

i done went out and bought...

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...for Opening Day like it's the first day of school.

"ima kill 'em Monday."

 

[shkinny6]

wildcat did u read the idea in s.i about jr. to the m's?

johjima and a package to the reds for george kenneth....reds start bruce everyday and the m's bring in jr as DH

i would seriously buy tickets to every m's home game for the rest of the season

 

[bkmac]

Originally Posted by Shkinny6

wildcat did u read the idea in s.i about jr. to the m's?

johjima and a package to the reds for george kenneth....reds start bruce everyday and the m's bring in jr as DH

i would seriously buy tickets to every m's home game for the rest of the season

That's a rumor or just an idea?

I can't wait until he hits #600.

 

[nnarum]

It's almost here

 

[N41D]

i was shocked that we outright released patterson. i guess we just got fed up with him. he's supposedly healthy and he was getting hit hard in spring training and his arm strength has plummeted.

enjoy him.
Yeah, we'll see. He's starting the year out in Oklahoma City, and if he's not in the Bigs by June (maybe July?) 15th, he can opt outof his contract... So he's got a chance, but he'll have to earn it.

and Nowitness, there's a pretty good read on Hamilton and the Rangers in the newest isssue.
Good lookin, I'll have to check it out.

4 Texas Rangers 72 90 15.0
I just don't get how people figure this team will be worse than last year's... It makes NO SENSE.

The lineup is better top to bottom, and the starting pitching just cannot get any worse. The Rangers were 10 or 15 games over .500 from June 1st on, and thereare several guys that had injury plagued years that should be healthy, along with improvements from younger guys like Kinsler, Hamilton, Wilson and Benoit inthe bullpen, and hopefully Brandon McCarthy...

The Rangers will win more than the 75 games they won last year.

 

[mez 0ne]

It is time.

 

[nnarum]

Originally Posted by Mez 0ne

It is time.

 

[nnarum]

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