This Week in Baseball 6/16 - 6/22

[MFer 0]

I've only been to 3.

 

Tiger Stadium

Comerica Park

Fenway Park

[Hawk 34 0]

I've been to these ballparks

 

Riverfront Stadium

Great American Ballpark

Busch Stadium

Jacobs Field

Three Rivers Stadium

PNC Park

Wrigley Field

Tiger Stadium

Camden Yards

Pro Player Stadium

 

I will add Citizens Bank Park and Miller Park this summer. Is Comerica Park worth visiting?

[starvenger 0]

I will add Citizens Bank Park and Miller Park this summer. Is Comerica Park worth visiting?

Personally I think it's a pretty nice ballpark and the immediate surrounding area isn't too bad.

[MFer 0]

I'd say it'd be worth your time to check out a game there. Very nice scenery and atmosphere and the food's pretty good.

[bob_barron 0]

I've been to Turner Field, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, Rogers Centre and Camden Yards

[KingPK 0]

Curt Schilling is not going to pitch this year, so this may be it for his career. Is he a Hall of Famer? Baseballreference.com has him right at the standard for getting in, so I think he'll get in. Maybe not as a first-ballot choice, but he'll get in.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I've only been to Dodger Stadium and Dolphins Stadium, personally. If only there were a lot more people, Marlins games would actually be really fun to go to.

[CanadianChris 0]

Curt Schilling is not going to pitch this year, so this may be it for his career. Is he a Hall of Famer? Baseballreference.com has him right at the standard for getting in, so I think he'll get in. Maybe not as a first-ballot choice, but he'll get in.

I think he gets in, but on the 3rd or 4th ballot. He's come up huge in big games enough to overshadow whatever questions people might have about his numbers.

[treble 0]

Haha, Cito Gaston. Oh man, you think maybe there's a reason he hasn't gotten another manager's job in 10 years?

[Guest !!!]

Haha, Cito Gaston. Oh man, you think maybe there's a reason he hasn't gotten another manager's job in 10 years?

He was going to be hired in 2004, but Reinsdorf intervened and signed Vinny Del Negro Ozzie Guillen instead.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball...p_david_wr.html

 

"I told him next time he does that I'm going to get my blade out and cut him. I'm a gangster. You go gangster on me, I'm going to have to get you. You do that again, I'm going to cut you right on the field.

What.

[treble 0]

I think Cito is the first ex-Jays manager to get another job since Jimy Williams.

[RepoMan 0]

Cleveland Stadium

Jacobs Field

US Cellular

Wrigley

Kaufman Stadium

PNC Park

Camden Yards

 

Minors

 

Silver Stadium

Frontier Field-Rochester Red Wings

 

new Dwyer Stadium-Batavia Muckdogs

 

Cafaro Field- Mahoing Valley Scrappers

 

new Sec Taylor Stadium- Iowa Cubs

 

Ned Skelton Stadium- Toledo Mud Hens

 

Dunn Tire Park- Buffalo Bisons

 

Canal Park- Akron Areos

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Curt Schilling is not going to pitch this year, so this may be it for his career. Is he a Hall of Famer? Baseballreference.com has him right at the standard for getting in, so I think he'll get in. Maybe not as a first-ballot choice, but he'll get in.

I feel bad for Schilling. That he had to attempt rehab at all rather than surgery was a circumstance of having a one year contract. It was detrimental and ill fated from the start.

 

Hall of Fame? I say yes. 216 wins is at the lower end, but you have a high winning percentage, 127 ERA+ (42nd all time), and he is an amazing 11-2 in the postseason. He spent a few of his prime years with the Phillies when the offense was truly inept, keeping his win totals down. I don't sweat the counting stats if there's a HOF level peak, and Schilling certainly has it.

 

As for Ballparks:

Citizens Bank Park

Veterans Stadium

Yankee Stadium

Oriole Park at Camden Yards

[NoCalMike 0]

I've been to,

 

Pro

 

McCafee Stadium - Oakland Athletics

3Com/Candlestick - SF Giants/49ers

Fed Ex Field - Washington Redskins

Texas Stadium - Dallas Cowboys

Reliant Stadium - Houston Texans

Camden Yards - Baltimore Orioles

Dodgers Stadium - Los Angeles Dodgers

Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego Chargers

Sun Devil Stadium - Arizona State Sun Devils/formerly Arizona Cardinals

 

Minor League

 

Raley Field - Sacramento Rivercats (A's triple-a team)

[treble 0]

I've only been to:

 

Olympic Stadium

SkyDome/Rogers Centre

Yankee Stadium

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

I just knew that the wheels would be coming off the bus this year. But it astonishes me how much the Jays have brought this on themselves.

[Cartman 0]

I've been to:

 

Fenway (Lots)

Yankee Stadium (Wednesday)

Angels Stadium (1999)

Dodgers Stadium (1999)

 

I really want to add Wrigley, Camden, and San Fran someday.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Even better than the Cubs coming from behind to beat the White Sox in walk-off fashion was getting to hear Hawk call the shot. Put that idiot in his place.

[Guest !!!]

I'm gonna listen to White Sox postgame. I'll keep a running tally of conspiracy theories and instances of the non-word "alls."

 

"They should've put Pablo Ozuna in instead of Jim Thome." Thome doesn't have the fire and the passion.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I just knew that the wheels would be coming off the bus this year. But it astonishes me how much the Jays have brought this on themselves.

Shows what people know about baseball in early March. I think there were a few people saying they were in the wild card hunt..ha.

 

/Will not mention that thanks to the Jays, the Os wont finish in last place this year like they were supposed to.

[Guest !!!]

I think you're guilty of the same fallacy in late June.

[CanadianChris 0]

I just knew that the wheels would be coming off the bus this year. But it astonishes me how much the Jays have brought this on themselves.

Shows what people know about baseball in early March. I think there were a few people saying they were in the wild card hunt..ha.

 

/Will not mention that thanks to the Jays, the Os wont finish in last place this year like they were supposed to.

I wasn't aware that the season ended in the middle of June. Still over half the season to go.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

This Os/Brewers game is gonna be a slugfest

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

I've been to,

 

Pro

 

McCafee Stadium - Oakland Athletics

3Com/Candlestick - SF Giants/49ers

Fed Ex Field - Washington Redskins

Texas Stadium - Dallas Cowboys

Reliant Stadium - Houston Texans

Camden Yards - Baltimore Orioles

Dodgers Stadium - Los Angeles Dodgers

Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego Chargers The Padres also played here before moving to Petco Park

Sun Devil Stadium - Arizona State Sun Devils/formerly Arizona Cardinals

 

Minor League

 

Raley Field - Sacramento Rivercats (A's triple-a team)

 

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

This is one of the slowest games Ive seen all year. 3 1/2 innings and a few minutes short of 2 hours.

[Guest !!!]

This game is more like a suckfest than a slugfest. If I have to look at Craig Counsell's goofy-ass batting stance one more time, I'm going to defenestrate my television. I need some Piggly Wiggly Tailgate Tips. BADLY.

 

 

YES

 

JAMAICAN JERK CHICKEN BREAST SANDWICH WITH BANANA SALSA

 

WANT

[geniusMoment 0]

12th straight quality start for Edinson Volquez, who goes to 10-2 after beating the yankees.

 

Something funny though is Cincy Shortstops, I'm not sure if this has ever happened to Cincy, maybe someone here can say if it's happened to their favorite team.

 

Coming into season Shortstops

Alex Gonzalez--Put on DL with a broken knee

Jeff Keppinger takes over--put on DL with a broken knee

Jerry Hairston Jr. takes over--put on DL with a broken thumb

Jolbert Cabrera takes over--put on DL with a dislocated thumb

 

All of that by mid June

 

Paul Janish you're next, be afraid, be very afraid.

 

They're on their 5th ss by mid-June, none removed because of play, all due to injury.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

What happens when a Switch Hitter faces a Switch Pitcher

 

Abbott and Costello would have loved Pat Venditte.

 

The comedy duo would have been proud to script the five-plus minute scene that occurred Thursday night in the ninth inning of the game between the Class A Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones.

 

Venditte made his professional debut with Staten Island, less than two weeks after he was drafted by the Yankees in the 20th round. He pitched the ninth, and after retiring two batters and allowing a single, a switch hitter stepped to the plate.

 

That's hardly unusual. But it becomes intriguing against Venditte, a switch pitcher.

 

Things got a tad dizzying when designated hitter Ralph Henriquez, who had taken his on-deck circle swings as a lefty, entered the batter's box from the right side.

 

Venditte put his specially made glove (it has six fingers, two webs and fits on both hands) on his left hand, and got ready to pitch right-handed.

 

Henriquez then changed his mind and switched sides of the plate, because a batter sees the ball sooner when it is thrown by a pitcher using the opposite hand.

 

So Venditte shifted his glove to the other hand.

 

Then it happened again. And again. And again.

 

Apparently unsure of how the rules handle such an oddity, the umpires didn't stop the cat-and-mouse game until Venditte walked toward the plate and said something while pointing at Henriquez. Umpires and both managers then huddled and the umps decided the batter and pitcher can both change sides one time per at-bat, and that the batter must declare first.

 

The ruling favored the pitcher, since he gets to declare last.

 

About seven minutes after he first stepped in, Henriquez struck out on four pitches as a righty against a right-handed Venditte and slammed his bat in frustration. Staten Island won, 7-2.

 

AP

 

Ive always wondered why there werent more switch pitchers in baseball.

[Dandy 0]

Probably because it is pretty fuckin' hard to do.

[jimmy no nose 0]

I swear the Toronto offense looks worse every time I get a chance to see it. They went against the Pirates who had the worst team ERA in the majors coming in and failed to score in 12 innings. Then of course they lost the game on what I believe went down as an unearned run.