This Week in Baseball 6/18 - 6/24

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ESPN & FOX Games to Poison Our Youth

 

MONDAY

Red Sox (Curt Schilling) at Braves (Chuck James), 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN

 

WEDNESDAY

Red Sox (Julian Tavarez) at Braves (Buddy Carlyle), 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN

 

SATURDAY

Tigers at Braves, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX

Astros at Rangers, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX

Yankees at Giants, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX

 

SUNDAY

Tigers at Braves, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN

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Obviously I love all the Braves love this week (even though I won't get the Fox game, never do), but all 3 ESPN games this week having the Braves is a bit ridiculous. We haven't had many ESPN games this year, so it isn't like 3 Yankee games, but two of them are Red Sox games, who have been all over ESPN. Of course I'll be watching, but really the Wednesday game should have been something else.

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Clippard was sent down, so I imagine that the Igawa Re-Launch will occur in either Colorado or SF this week.

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for entertainment sake I hope it happens in Colorado.

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Obviously I love all the Braves love this week (even though I won't get the Fox game, never do), but all 3 ESPN games this week having the Braves is a bit ridiculous. We haven't had many ESPN games this year, so it isn't like 3 Yankee games, but two of them are Red Sox games, who have been all over ESPN. Of course I'll be watching, but really the Wednesday game should have been something else.

The Red Sox aren't on enough.

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I saw that the Os have gotten former Cubs president Andy MacPhail to be their Chief Operating Officer..yay..he should be used to losing!

 

I read on the Baltimore Sun Os fired Sam Perlozzo also..and as an interim manager they're going to Dave Trembley the bullpen coach..haha..

 

Supposedly they are looking into Davey Johnson (the last manager to guide the Os to a winning season, and I don't believe he'd be interested) and Joe Girardi who left the Marlins last year. No one knows anything about Leo Mazzone's status with the club given that he only came to Baltimore to be with his good friend Perlozzo.

 

Trembley would become the Os 6th manager since 1997 and whoever is hired would be #7, would tie the Blue Jays for most in the managers over that span.

I cant seriously imagine anyone that is available that would be an improvement would want a piece of the Baltimore managerial position given the state of disarray that the organization is in right now.

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I saw that the Os have gotten former Cubs president Andy MacPhail to be their Chief Operating Officer..yay..he should be used to losing!

And winning, since he built the world championship Twins, but as a bean-counter like he was for the Cubs, this guy is the drizzling shits. If he was financially hamstrung by the Tribune, I can't imagine Peter Angelos being better. Haaaaaaaaaaaaave fun!

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I think Giradi would rather stay away from that mess.

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The Red Sox aren't on enough.

 

One could argue that the Yankees tend to get more games played on ESPN than the Red Sox, but seriously, Boston is all over that network.

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I found this at another site.

 

There are human characteristics that make some people better at performing under pressure. Whether he is more motivated in RBI situations or he works the pitcher differently, whatever it is the guy definately performs better in pressure situations. CLUTCH!

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I think Giradi would rather stay away from that mess.

ESPN was asking why he'd take the Os job now over waiting around the potential Yankees job to open up if Torre were to leave, but I have to ask how endangered Torre's job is now after the run they've put together.

 

Quite honestly, I see Trembley hanging around for the rest of the season, them looking for a new manager in the offseason and not finding one thus hampering any potential free agents that would be stupid enough to consider Baltimore in the first place and then removing the interim tag on Trembley and just going with it for whatever happens next year.

 

Im also hoping this means they manage to find takers for Mora, Millar, Gibbons, Patterson and most of the bullpen @ the trade deadline..

haha..yeah..the 4 of them aren't worth a bag of balls and a case of batting gloves probably and there isnt a team desperate enough for bullpen help to take any of the bullpen guys.

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Maybe they can find a taker for Tejada too. Since his 34-homer, 150 RBI season in '04, his numbers have gone down, and he really hasn't done squat this year.

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I saw that the Os have gotten former Cubs president Andy MacPhail to be their Chief Operating Officer..yay..he should be used to losing!

 

So, if the Os continue to suck, will this hiring be called a 'MacPhail'ure?

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The MacFAIL jokes have already been mastered here, thanks.

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for entertainment sake I hope it happens in Colorado.

 

Turns out it's gonna be Friday at SF. Wonder if he will continue to baffle me and pitch with sunglasses on.

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Derrek Lee and Chris Young were both suspended for 5 games, owing to their fisticuffsmanship on the field the other day. I don't think it's fair that starting pitchers get suspended for 5-games, effectively only missing one start, while position players miss five games total. If Lee gets suspended for five games, Young should get suspended for five starts.

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Derrek Lee and Chris Young were both suspended for 5 games, owing to their fisticuffsmanship on the field the other day. I don't think it's fair that starting pitchers get suspended for 5-games, effectively only missing one start, while position players miss five games total. If Lee gets suspended for five games, Young should get suspended for five starts.

By the same logic, a pitcher only plays every five days, effectively making their one start worth 5 games. Suspending them five starts is like a 25 game suspension for an everyday player.

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Derrek Lee and Chris Young were both suspended for 5 games, owing to their fisticuffsmanship on the field the other day. I don't think it's fair that starting pitchers get suspended for 5-games, effectively only missing one start, while position players miss five games total. If Lee gets suspended for five games, Young should get suspended for five starts.

 

They both miss the same percentage of the season from a games played perspective, though.

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Derrek Lee and Chris Young were both suspended for 5 games, owing to their fisticuffsmanship on the field the other day. I don't think it's fair that starting pitchers get suspended for 5-games, effectively only missing one start, while position players miss five games total. If Lee gets suspended for five games, Young should get suspended for five starts.

By the same logic, a pitcher only plays every five days, effectively making their one start worth 5 games. Suspending them five starts is like a 25 game suspension for an everyday player.

 

And suspending a SP for 5 games is the equivalent of suspending a starting position player for 1 game. I know that Lee and Young are both missing the same percentage of the season in days, but the Cubs are being punished more heavily by losing Lee for 5 games than the Padres are by losing Young for one start. I just don't think it balances out that when a position player and a pitcher get into a fight, the position player's team suffers more by having to play a whole week with a short bench and a possibly inferior player starting in place of the suspended player than the pitcher's team that only has to start a guy on short rest or have a bullpen game for one day.

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I am really getting tired of Manuel batting Ryan Howard 4th against lefties. If Howard, who has one swing, was not 4th, the Phillies would have a hitter up, with two outs, who knew how to pull a ball and at least get a run in from 3rd on a fly out. Instead, SURPRISE, we get Howard striking out badly, and now the Indians lead it 1-0.

 

Howard cost the team some runs yesterday too with RISP and just terrible at bats and an 0-5 day.

 

Howard needs to be batting 6th until he learns how to swing against lefties. The fact that Aaron Rowand, who has the 5th best average in the NL, is hitting behind him just sucks.

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Okay, seriously...

 

1. Position players do not play every game.

 

2. Suspending a pitcher five starts means that he can't pitch in any capacity for nearly 15% of the season. Suspending a position player means that he can't play in about 3% of the season.

 

3. Yeah, no Lee means a short bench, but yes, Young being suspended five starts means a short rotation or bullpen for TWENTY-FIVE GAMES.

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Tomo Ohka...has been released. I hope the Astros sign him to a minor league deal like they did with Chan Ho.

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Okay, seriously...

 

1. Position players do not play every game.

 

2. Suspending a pitcher five starts means that he can't pitch in any capacity for nearly 15% of the season. Suspending a position player means that he can't play in about 3% of the season.

 

3. Yeah, no Lee means a short bench, but yes, Young being suspended five starts means a short rotation or bullpen for TWENTY-FIVE GAMES.

 

I can see your point and I recognize my error. However, I still think it's disproportionate that Lee's missing five games (all of which he most assuredly would start were he not suspended) while Chris Young only misses one start. But yeah, I wasn't considering that suspending a pitcher for five starts would make the rotation or pen short for 25 games instead of just one. I'm not a details guy.

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Errr, nevermind. I didn't read something correctly.

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Maybe they can find a taker for Tejada too. Since his 34-homer, 150 RBI season in '04, his numbers have gone down, and he really hasn't done squat this year.

 

Im not talking a Marlins-esque fire sale here, just getting rid of the big fat contracts of players that aren't playing remotely close to the contracts they're getting. Tejada doesn't need to be traded unless he gets back on his "I wanna be traded" kick.

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I *love* the Cleveland Indians and hope to God they are the AL rep. in the World Series. They're so fun to watch, even embarassing the Phillies.

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Prince Fielder has passed Albert Pujols in the All-Star vote lead with a small 23,000+ lead. Pretty much every other race is decided in the N.L. as Barry Bonds is now over 100,000 votes behind Alfonso Soriano for the final outfield spot. Nice to see Giants fans didn't get the memo about stuffing the ballot box when your team hosts the All-Star Game.

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Oy. I like Prince Fielder, but this is one of those situations where a guy's having a hot couple of months. Fielder is not better than Albert Pujols.

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These California Angels...they go first to third pretty well. Speedy little boogers.

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Oy. I like Prince Fielder, but this is one of those situations where a guy's having a hot couple of months. Fielder is not better than Albert Pujols.

That's obviously true but I thought the All-Star game was about rewarding players having the best seasons to this point. Pujols struggled out the gate and Prince is putting up great numbers.