2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

outofplace · Jul 11, 2013

Dick Whitman said:

outofplace said:

Matt1735 said:

Has anyone seen Manky? He's got to be at an orgasmic high with the return of the only Yankee that ever mattered. What a heroic effort to return in time to DH before the All-Star break.
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Please don't encourage him.
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I get more out of his baseball posts than yours.
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A troll supporting a troll. No surprise there.

JC · Jul 11, 2013

outofplace said:

Dick Whitman said:

outofplace said:

Matt1735 said:

Has anyone seen Manky? He's got to be at an orgasmic high with the return of the only Yankee that ever mattered. What a heroic effort to return in time to DH before the All-Star break.
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Please don't encourage him.
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I get more out of his baseball posts than yours.
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A troll supporting a troll. No surprise there.
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Nobody here has engaged Manky more than you OOP.

outofplace · Jul 11, 2013

JC said:

outofplace said:

Dick Whitman said:

outofplace said:

Matt1735 said:

Has anyone seen Manky? He's got to be at an orgasmic high with the return of the only Yankee that ever mattered. What a heroic effort to return in time to DH before the All-Star break.
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Please don't encourage him.
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I get more out of his baseball posts than yours.
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A troll supporting a troll. No surprise there.
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Nobody here has engaged Manky more than you OOP.
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Never said I was perfect. Manky is still a troll and more and more often, so is Dick.

Dick Whitman · Jul 11, 2013

Don't agree with oop = "Troll."

Steak Snabler · Jul 11, 2013

Our long national nightmare has ended. Freddie Freeman beats out Yasiel Puig in the NL All-Star final vote.

Also, Steve "Who?" Delabar wins in the AL.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/11/freddie-freeman-steve-delabar-win-the-all-star-game-final-vote/

KYSportsWriter · Jul 11, 2013

Delabar is from my area, so we've been playing this up big all week. First All-Star from this area. And his story is a pretty damn good one, going from fracturing his elbow and out of baseball, to substitute teaching and coaching high school baseball to this.

Starman · Jul 11, 2013

Steak Snabler said:

Our long national nightmare has ended. Freddie Freeman beats out Yasiel Puig in the NL All-Star final vote.

Also, Steve "Who?" Delabar wins in the AL.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/11/freddie-freeman-steve-delabar-win-the-all-star-game-final-vote/
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Thank god almighty the Tigers' campaign to get Joaquin Benoit (seven big saves) added to the roster failed.

They already have about 3-4 too many All-Stars, they didn't need another. A team that's 50-41 doesn't deserve seven (or six) All-Stars. Maybe if they were 60-31, but they're not.

LongTimeListener · Jul 11, 2013

Steak Snabler said:

Our long national nightmare has ended. Freddie Freeman beats out Yasiel Puig in the NL All-Star final vote.
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Bullshit. The fix was in.

Football_Bat · Jul 11, 2013

Would be funny that Jetes' half-game might cause him to wait a year to enter the HOF.

Tarheel316 · Jul 11, 2013

Starman said:

Steak Snabler said:

Our long national nightmare has ended. Freddie Freeman beats out Yasiel Puig in the NL All-Star final vote.

Also, Steve "Who?" Delabar wins in the AL.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/11/freddie-freeman-steve-delabar-win-the-all-star-game-final-vote/
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Thank god almighty the Tigers' campaign to get Joaquin Benoit (seven big saves) added to the roster failed.

They already have about 3-4 too many All-Stars, they didn't need another. A team that's 50-41 doesn't deserve seven (or six) All-Stars. Maybe if they were 60-31, but they're not.
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Agree with this. The A's have one, which is ridiculous.

YankeeFan · Dec 15, 2014

This sounds pretty cool:

THE annual All-Star Game is scheduled to take place on Tuesday at that crime scene in Queens known as Citi Field, where the New York Mets routinely commit misdemeanor assaults on the heart. A night of celebrity baseball, neatly wrapped in red, white and blue bunting, might be just the thing to clean the slate and help the Mets see the light, and maybe a fastball or two.

But if the All-Star break for many fans is a welcome timeout in a long season, all I can think of is some century-old baseball doggerel about an ancient Chicago Cubs infield: Tinker to Evers to Chance.

Tinker to Evers to Chance. Tinker to Evers to Chance. I don’t care that much about the All-Star Game, but Tinker to Evers to Chance.

Please don’t misunderstand. In my boyhood my life was so defined by baseball that I often conflated the Yankees starting lineup with the Twelve Apostles (batting leadoff and playing second base, Horace Clarke; batting second and playing center field, Simon who is called Peter). But the use of performance-enhancing drugs — by the players, not me — and the related corruption of once-sacrosanct statistics have cooled my enthusiasm. Not for baseball so much as for the baseball of today.

I prefer a more innocent time. A time when the same ball might last the entire game, and fielders wore gloves not much larger than their hands, and batters strived to hit ’em where they ain’t. A time when ballplayers brawled with fans, and tobacco companies used baseball cards to entice the young, and a small group of corrupt baseball heroes from Chicago could throw the World Series, and ...

In truth, the dead-ball era was about as innocent as the gyrations of Little Egypt, the Dita Von Teese of the day. But this distant time — a two-decade period between the close of the 19th century and the ascent of a true game changer, the home run hitter Babe Ruth — was far more colorful, helping to cement baseball’s claim as the national pastime.

Now, as if to please wayward fans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has reached into its bottomless duffel bag of curiosities to present an exhibition of early and extremely rare baseball cards. Rows and rows of long-dead ballplayers stare out from the past like the mug-shot denizens of the New York Police Department’s once-famous Rogues Gallery.

Here is that human snarl, Ty Cobb, so knotted with rage that he alienated opponents and teammates both; he may be the greatest, loneliest player of all time. Here, too, is Cobb’s polar opposite, Henry Joseph Smith, an average outfielder for the Brooklyn Superbas who played only one year in the major leagues — but who went by the nickname Happy.

The 600 baseball cards on display at the Met in “Legends of the Dead Ball Era” are really only a sampling from its trove of 31,000, a majority of them belonging to the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection. Burdick was a simple-living bachelor from the Syracuse area who found distraction from his chronic arthritis in the collection and study of American cards and ephemera, including the baseball-theme trade cards produced by tobacco and candy companies.

Burdick donated his massive collection to the Met in the late 1940s, but its breadth and responsibility nearly overwhelmed the museum’s curators. This problem was solved when illness forced him to retire from his job assembling electrical parts: he relocated to modest lodgings in Manhattan, moved his oak desk to the museum’s print department and personally began the meticulous slog of cataloging and mounting his life’s work.

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Knighthawk · Jul 12, 2013

UPChip said:

No decision for Max Scherzer tonight, who got the handshake of death from Leyland after 7 in a 2-2 game at Progressive Field. Tigers failed to score in the top of the eighth.
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I fell behind in this thread, and I apologize, but the correct AP Twitter style on Leyland's favorite move is "Handshake of Doom".

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