This Week in Baseball 4/23 - 4/29

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Baez just gave up HR #2 to Swisher to make it 6-4 A's.

 

Baez is the worthless guy out in the bullpen..worthless is really and understatement

[devo 0]

Mets win 6-1. It's scary just how similar Ambiriox Burgos is to Armando Bernitez. With a five-run lead, he walks the bases loaded in the top of ninth (after getting several two strike counts) before mercifully putting the Rockies to bed. Also, Moises Alou continues to play out of his mind, as he goes 3 for 3 tonight with two doubles to bring his batting average to .397 and his OPS to 1.014.

 

Edit: And the Marlins thankfully put the Braves away after letting their six-run lead be whittled down to one. Phew.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Bot 9, 2nd and 3rd, no out for the Os down 6-4 !

 

All vs Street..

 

EDIT : ROBERTS Basehit makes it 6-5! still 1 out, runners at 1rst and 3rd!

 

I have no idea wtf mora just did bunting!!!

 

ugh!

[vivalaultra 0]

So, the Phillies tore up the Astros, banged out 20 some odd hits, knocked my second favorite Astros' pitcher Chris Sampson (from beautiful Channelview, TX) around pretty bad, and now they're throwing hot dogs at Luke Scott...literally throwing hot dogs at him. Yes, there are fans in right field that are actually THROWING hot dogs at Luke Scott. Congratulations, Philly, you have the worst fans in baseball (excluding present company, of course).

[CanadianChris 0]

AWESOME squeeze play to tie...oh, wait, doesn't the runner on third need to be running?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Walks kakes to get to Tejada with the bases loaded and 2 out..

 

WTF..Tejada grounds out on the first pitch.

 

Should have at least tied the game! damnit

[CanadianChris 0]

The Blue Jays snapped their five-game losing streak...in Fenway, of all places. The bullpen came up with their best game in awhile, with four innings of two-hit ball, and the offence came alive as well with 14 hits.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

Another game where Alexander is God, Lord and Saviour... and the Yankees still lose.

 

C'mon media morons, say something about how his incredible hitting means nothing, and he's not a team player.

[CanadianChris 0]

Another game where Alexander is God, Lord and Saviour... and the Yankees still lose.

 

C'mon media morons, say something about how his incredible hitting means nothing, and he's not a team player.

They're going to blame him for there not being enough runners on base when he homered in the ninth.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

You're right. If he was a real leader, he'd teach the SS to get his OBP to Abreu's level.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

Not to toot Alexander's horn anymore... but he's just ridiculous this year. Ridiculous. Not only 14 HR's in 18 games, but 7 doubles along with that. He's beyond human. He is the greatest man alive.

 

And through all this, the Yankees are 2 games under .500.

 

I can't wait until Alexander is all "fuck you" to New York in October, and plays in the Southwest.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

If A-Rod saw you calling him "Alexander" in public repeatedly to gain attention on yourself he'd probably kick you in the stomach.

 

Plus A-Rod isn't a winner.

 

At any rate, glad to see Phillie's big three JRol, Chase, and Howard starting to all play well at the same time. The bottom of the lineup may be garbage but the good players are really, really good when they're on. So hope it keeps up. Three in a Row! Whoa!

 

"Congratulations, Philly, you have the worst fans in baseball (excluding present company, of course)."

 

Philadelphia is so tame compared to incidents in the 90's and 70's. Please. For all we know, it was an Astros fan throwing hot dogs at the Astros outfielder for his team sucking ass. Wow, a few weiners get thrown around, INDICT THE CITY!

 

Chill, bro.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

How is referring to someone as "A-Rod" better than his actual name. I don't care if he likes it. He's being silly.

[Slayer 0]

I just call him Alex Rodriguez, because I've never liked that whole "first initial + first syllable of surname" trend (thanks a lot, Jennifer Lopez)

[Vern Gagne 0]

I go with AE. We're close.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

I think it's time to call it a year for the Cubs. They can't win shit. They're already in last place and 5 back. No way they come back from that.

[vivalaultra 0]

Of course they can come back. It's the NL Central. None of the teams are really 'breaking away' from the pack. I mean, the Brewers are playing well right now, but, still. The Cubs do have problems, mainly the fac that they have like...15 outfielders and the only true CFer they have is a rookie who's best suited to bat leadoff where Soriano's batting. (It's kind of odd how last season, the Cubs had 12 or something 2nd basemen; they got rid of all their second basemen and got some utility guys and a buncha outfielders). And the bullpen looks in pretty bad shakes, especially Ohman and his 40 foot curveballs. But, yeah, 5 games back in the NL Central is like 2 games back in the NL East. Seriously, any team in the division could lose 8 straight or get hot and win 8 straight at any time.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

They're winless in extra-inning and one-run games. They're a defeated team. They blew a 4-0 lead and stranded like eight runners tonight, by the way.

[vivalaultra 0]

Yeah, and it was another Zambrano start, too, although he pitched pretty good. Does he have any wins this season? What do you think needs to be done? Cut Jones and Izturis, play The Riot and Murton? Kick Wade Miller out of the rotation, shoot Will Ohman and call up Rocky Cherry?

[Guest Richard McBeef]

They DLed Miller, called up Cherry, and Cherry gave up the game-winning homer tonight. I don't know what to do. I do want The Riot at short, but this is just a poorly built team. I don't think they can salvage it.

[vivalaultra 0]

So, they're going with Pie in CF, Soriano in LF, and some combo of Murton/Jones/Floyd in RF (what's the platoon on that, anyway? Just 'Lou's discretion'?)? They should stick Soriano back at 2nd and bat him 5th, put Pie in CF and bat him 1st, stick Murton in LF and bat him 2nd. I don't know. It's odd, because as much shit as I gave the Cubs before the season started, they really did look like they had a stacked lineup. Is it Lou's fault?

[Guest Richard McBeef]

The bullpen is shitty, Cedeno and Ward have been worthless, and Lee hasn't hit a home run. They're already saying on WGN that the '07 Cubs are on pace to be one of the all-time busts. When you lose the in-house station, you're in trouble.

[vivalaultra 0]

The Cubs' plan for 2008:

 

1. Sign A-Rod

2. WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Above Average 0]

JR's got 7 (?!) HR's... he must be on steroids. I'd say test that man ASAP if I wasn't a Phils fan and whats worse is I can't believe Matthews has got me calling him JR. Terrible. On a seperate note, did anyone see how pissed Howard was when he got punched out after Utley's bomb to straight away center?

[vivalaultra 0]

Hey, AA, is there some ritual in Philly where asshole fans in RF throw hotdogs at opposing outfielders or were the fans just especially rowdy tonite, do you think? That reminds me of the time at Wrigley when one of the bleacher bums threw a Twinkie at Lance Berkman and started heckling him, so Berkman reached down, picked up the Twinkie and ate it and got a standing ovation.

 

And J-Rol better be hitting homeruns. After he said the Phillies were the 'team to beat and all'.

[Above Average 0]

I've seen spies (other teams fans) before in our stadium, but they were probably a little more rowdy than normal. Still, you have to admit that it was funny. Not worth condemning the Philly fan base which has become an easy target nationally. The best is when we're getting blown out and start Eagles chants. I've gotten tons of dirty looks for that shit.

 

And Berkman gets props for that response. Why didn't Scott man up like he did? The fans would've respected him for it.

[vivalaultra 0]

So, if Luke Scott would've picked up a half-eaten hot dog off of the ground that a drunken fan threw at him, he'd be cool? I assume that fan didn't see the piece on 'Outside the Lines' about how Luke Scott carries a 9mm handgun with him when he rides through the rough neighborhoods. Yeah, that show was hilarious. Luke's hardcore.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Like Cena's Writer, I'm also missing Phil Hughes' major league debut by one day, I'm going to the game Wednesday. The match-up ain't too shabby, Pettitte vs. Burnett.

[Broward83 0]

So, if Luke Scott would've picked up a half-eaten hot dog off of the ground that a drunken fan threw at him, he'd be cool? I assume that fan didn't see the piece on 'Outside the Lines' about how Luke Scott carries a 9mm handgun with him when he rides through the rough neighborhoods. Yeah, that show was hilarious. Luke's hardcore.

 

 

Because when I think of strapped up muthafucka's I don't wanna mess wit...Luke Scott is who I think of first.

 

Meh, Astros come up with the usual "we've been good for a few games.. time for us to get blown out now" game.

 

Welp, maybe two to three months before I get to move back to Houston and see an Astros game live at the Juicebox and mark out for "Deep in the Heart of Texas" like an idiot.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I've seen spies (other teams fans) before in our stadium, but they were probably a little more rowdy than normal. Still, you have to admit that it was funny. Not worth condemning the Philly fan base which has become an easy target nationally. The best is when we're getting blown out and start Eagles chants. I've gotten tons of dirty looks for that shit.

 

As you should. Football sucks.

 

It was dollar dog day again at Philly, and those nights tend to attract tons of college kids. They've had problems this year at other games already, for example a previous Phils/Astros game saw that fan run onto the field and make it to second base.