2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

Yes, that was the first point. Gregorius is a known commodity, especially among fans of the NL West. His bright future is the main reason the D'backs pulled off that big three-team trade.

The second point was: Per baseball's infamous unwritten codes, veterans don't typically go after rookies for retaliation — and that slide looked exactly like retaliation — especially when the rookie wasn't involved in previous incidents. If you're trying to send a message, it's important to direct it to the right recipient. That's why Greinke plunked Montero, the leader on that team, and why Kennedy in turn plunked Greinke. Those were OK, according to the (nonsensical) code.

Greinke's takeout slide on Gregorius was a punk-ass move, akin to a 6'4" hockey enforcer picking on a 5'8" sharpshooter. The Diamondbacks won't forget that.

 

Oh please. "The Great American Institution" plays out in 15 different cities every year and the rest of the clubs get a home opener a few days later. This year one of those cities will be Sydney, Australia, which will be very cool.

It's beyond naive to think MLB would or should ever going back to the Reds hosting a day game on a weekday to open the season.

 

I was thinking about this last night, okay the game is tied, you know the D-Backs are probably going to try and retaliate for Montero. So, you think it's possible that Mattingly left Greinke in the game knowing he'd get hit and it'd give them a baserunner?

I think Mattingly is a terrible manager, but maybe he was thinking, why waste a pinch hitter? Let Greinke get hit, take first and then maybe pinch run for him?

 

Save your Sydney outrage. Nothing ain't ever going to top Furman Bisher going off when the A's and Red Sox played in the country that bombed Pearl Harbor a mere 67 years earlier.

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2008/03/25/sayonara_baseba.html

 

Absolutely not. Unless Mattingly is more stupid than I give him credit for.

And if he did intentionally leave his $147 million pitcher in to take a 90 mph fastball in the ribs or worse, he ought to get fired tomorrow by the Dodgers owners for reckless endangerment of their investment.

 

He's pretty dumb. I mean he made a lineup card with a guy hitting .146 in the five spot.

 

Man, I forgot about that gem. It went from your standard "old man yells at cloud" column straight into ... "la da da ... PEARL HARBOR!" Fire Joe Morgan couldn't have scripted it better.

 

Artist's rendering of Furman Bisher:

 

Could we at least get a couple of Australian Rules Football matches to be named later?

 

After seeing some of the footage from last night, the possibility does exist with this matchup.

 

At least, the umpires should do the finger-pointing thing when signaling each out.

 

My goodness, does the Giants' starting pitching suck. Only one guy has an ERA under 4.70, and that's Bumgarner at 3.58 -- but he might be the worst of the bunch right now as his monthly splits are 1.55/5.17/6.55. On the road, all of them are like mid-level Triple-A pitchers.

I take it back. Chad Gaudin is good. But he's the reliever summoned to an emergency start.