Baseball Thread Number 8: Cal Ripken says the playoff hunt is fun

Hold on, hold on...

Yup, I can see BYH's boner from here.

BOSTON (AP) — Umpires working the series between the Red Sox and Angels at Fenway Park complained Thursday that Los Angeles coaches were “unprofessional and unbecoming” after two close calls went against them at the end of Wednesday night’s loss.
“Their deportment as we left the field, going through the Angels dugout, left a lot to be desired,” plate umpire Rick Reed told the Boston Herald on Thursday. “We filed a report after the game and I would think there will be a coach or two over there that would be regretting his actions today. I would think a coach or two will be regretting his actions.”
An attempt by The Associated Press to reach the umpires for comment before Thursday night’s game was unsuccessful. A Fenway Park security guard who knocked on the door of their changing room said they were unavailable because they were on a conference call with the commissioner’s office.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Major League Baseball was looking into it. Mike Port, baseball’s vice president for umpires, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

 

Where's your fuckin' statue, Jeter? [/haroldbaines]

 

And in a moment not from The Onion (but it could be), Shawon Dunston says the Trib shouldn't be allowed to sell the Cubs because he's still owed his college money.<blockquote>According to Reuters, the 46-year old Dunston wrote the bankruptcy court judge:

"I, Shawon Dunston, being a former player of the Chicago Cubs from 4-9-85 - 10-5-95/4-5-97 - 10-4-97 am entitled to college scholarship funds obligated to me by the Chicago Cubs," said the three-sentence handwritten letter.

"To date, these scholarship funds have not been paid to me."</blockquote>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/09/former_cub_shawon_dunston_dema.html?ft=1&f=103943429

 

Even now he's better than the cocksucker of fail, Aaron Miles. [/Armchair_QB]

 

If Derek Jeter had been playing back then he would have pitched 69 complete games every season!

 

I know, eh? Remember when pitchers actually pitched??

Just for fun I looked up some pitchers' histories - Gaylord Perry threw 232 complete games in a 10-year span between 1967 and 1976, including a four-year stretch between 1972-75 where he threw 29, 29, 28 and 25.

Only once in this decade has anyone thrown as many as 10 complete games - C.C. Sabathia had exactly 10 last year - and nobody will do it this season. Fuuuuuuuuck..............

 

How is that players have gotten so much bigger and stronger, but so much more fragile?

 

Management is in CYA mode 24/7?

 

So are you.

 

Take solace Pirates fans, your High-A team won a championship last night.

 

We now present you Volume MMCMLXIX of Crazy Man Ranting ...<blockquote>''I'm only going to say two things,'' manager Ozzie Guillen said after another collapse. ''I'm tired and I don't have anything ... it was 2½ hours of satisfaction and then 2½ hours of horse (crap) baseball. Go and ask them. I don't have any more quotes, seriously. What the (expletive) am I going to say? (Are) they horse (crap)? Yes, they are.''

Guillen then walked into the clubhouse and made a loud point of saying there would be a lot of lineup changes for today's series opener against Kansas City, and, ''If they give up on me, I give up on them.''</blockquote>http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/1777364,CST-SPT-sox18.article

 

I'm sure most of those players will be traded off for spare parts before they reach the majors.