2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

You can argue they have too many, but that's not on Leyland. Cabrera was voted in by the fans, and Scherzer, Peralta, Hunter and Fielder were all voted in by the players. The only Tiger that Leyland put on the team was Verlander, and that's a reasonable pick. The Final Five ballot was obviously not what Bud Selig had in mind, but getting more set-up men into the ASG is something Leyland has talked about forever - he chose Brett Cecil (zero career saves) as one of his discretionary picks - and he was trying to make a statement. Benoit's got a 1.69 ERA, so once you go down that road, you pretty much have to include him.

Victor Martinez, who has the mobility of an iceberg at this point, is a better first baseman than Fielder at this point. Martinez isn't good, mind you, but he at least appears to have vague defensive instincts.

 

Thousands of women in New York are going to be really, really surprised when their husbands and boyfriends suggest going to the Met for the day. "Are you sure you don't mean the Mets, honey?"

 

Today is the 34th anniversary of the Disco Demolition Night riot at Comiskey Park. If every park in the bigs doesn't play the Village People over the PA system tonight, I'm going to be bitterly disappointed.

 

I was obsessed with keeping score at Yankee games as a kid.

I bet others in this group were score keepers as well.

 

Greatest. Promotion. Ever.

 

I don't keep score at Jays games but I have been keeping score and tracking pitch counts for Huggy Jr.'s teams for years. None of the other parents want to do it but I always volunteer for it. It keeps me in the game.

I covered the junior women's world fastpitch championship in my part of the Toronto 'burbs for the local rag and kept my own scorebook because I didn't trust the online scoring which had an error or two in every game I did.

 

Indeed. Long live the Insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army. (Why the fuck do I remember that?)

 

I was like you. I would even do it at home. I'm sure a lot of us were in that boat. If I weren't married with children now, I'd probably continue to keep a scorecard for Sox and Cubs games when I watch them. I told my wife a few weeks ago that the best gift I could receive for a future birthday, Christmas, or Father's Day was to have three hours of uninterrupted peace to watch a baseball game and keep a scorecard. I only covered baseball for a couple of seasons, but there was nothing like that moment when the game finally began and, at least until deadlines started creeping, I could lose myself in the game in front of me and my record of it, just like when I was a little boy. On my high school team, everyone would come to me for instruction on scorecard nuances. I couldn't field well enough to play much, but I could keep a mean scorecard.

I hope my dad appreciated that he had a son who would sit at the ballgame with him and keep a scorecard. It can't be that common. I think my attention span was better then than now.

 

Local TV news coverage:

 

3 hours? Don't you want to watch a full game?

 

Mandatory part of going to games with my dad. He insisted we bring mechanical pencils (not pens) because the little eraserless pencils they hand out with the scorecards might break.

 

I kept score the old fashioned way covering HS and LL baseball. But there were times I'd be watching a big MLB game or listening on radio and keeping score while adding social commentary. Here are some photos from the "Aaron Boone!" -- which I watched alone at the Coolidge Hotel in White River Junction, Vermont -- and a few pages from a Yankees-Rangers playoff game in 2010 -- which I listened to on the MLB app. (Click to enlarge)











Found the link (http://joeyulkin.tumblr.com/post/12046026187/game-7-scorecard) I was trying to engage readers by having them watch the game and keep score and send in their scoresheets so that I could scan them in and embed them into a story for our website. No one bit. No one nibbled. Steve Buttry is a big baseball fan so I thought I could get him to participate but his response was, to the effect, "No thank you -- Twitter is my scorebook" and that's about the time I realized that it's all over.