2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

Of the large number of people who came out of that situation looking like assholes, the biggest asshole of all was McCann. He should have been thrown out too.

 

I don't think Gomez ever touched home plate. So should that run have counted?

 

McCann was charged with obstruction.

 

But Giants fans are so peaceful and Dodgers fans are the hateful ones.

 

Bud Selig to retire in January 2015, per Jon Heyman on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/JonHeymanCBS/status/383287118828556288

 

Cano wants 305 million over ten years. LOL

 

Yeah, after the way Pujols and A-Rod fell apart less than halfway through their deals, I think the market has corrected to the point there won't be anymore 10-year contracts for guys in their 30s.

 

All it takes is one moronic owner and there's always one out there.

 

Very well. I didn't see the game, just the highlights. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Agree, Steak.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...omezca01.shtml

This is a guy who averaged 1 HR every 70 AB in the minors and 1 HR every 60 AB in MLB through 2011, who now, after 3200 PA in pro ball with a lifetime 73 OPS+ is among the best hitters in baseball. Ironically, on the same team with Braun.

His career parallels another player (Melky Cabrera) in so many ways. Extraordinarily unproductive for many, many years with a replacement level OPS+ career, who suddenly becomes one of the best hitters in baseball.


http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/m...-in-1st-092513 the longer video.

You'll want to look at his face from 3:05-3:18 while his own team mates try to calm him down from his rage. At 7:07 the announcers are speculating that 'he's on something that they are not.'

 

Horseshit.

Are we now going to speculate about roid rage every time a player loses his temper?

And did they also speculate about Reed Johnson's flying fists or McCann's irrational blockage of home?

 

The Indians will probably have a new closer with three games remaining in the regular season.

Chris Perez pitched the bottom of the ninth of what was a 6-1 Cleveland lead at Minnesota and proceeded to go single, triple, ground out, single, fly out, homer to the second-worst batting club in the league. Two nights ago, he gave up home runs to Dayan Viciedo and Alejandro de Aza to turn a 4-3 lead into a 5-4 Chicago lead (after which Jason Giambi bailed him out by breaking his own record and becoming the oldest player to hit a game-winning home run). Perez has already been arrested for and charged with marijuana possession (which would be a nonissue if he played for Seattle or Colorado but yeah, still a problem in Cleveland) and refused to talk with the media pretty much all season. He's lost almost all popularity among fans and, tonight, after his second straight implosion, he reportedly told Tito Francona that he doesn't want to cost the team wins.

Expect Joe Smith, Cody Allen or Justin Masterson (back Wednesday night after missing four weeks with an oblique injury) to be named the new closer Friday.

Also expect Perez to be finished in Cleveland.