MLB 2014 season thread

I'm not going to expend any meaningful thought on a LOOGY shitballer.
Just pointing out a common tactic you use in debate.
It's what makes you the atomic clock of bad posting.

 

As I said. You were trolling.

Also, I provided support for my point, so you were wrong about that, too.

Now please stop interrupting the baseball discussion with your idiocy.

 

I am very glad I don't have to be subjected to your personality disorder in real life.

 

Anywho...

Speaking of facts over speculation, it has been a big night for some of the guys busted for PED use. Braun hits three home runs. Melky Cabrera's two-run home gives him four, already surpassing his total from 2013. Bartolo Colon threw seven shutout innings for the Mets in Atlanta.

 

Getting back to this April 8 theme for a minute ...

Home Runs on April 8, 2004:

Ellis Burks
Jose Offerman
Rob Bowen
Jacques Jones
Eric Munson
Alex Sanchez
Casey Blake
Jorge Posada
Todd Greene
Rich Sexson (who has been out baseball 6 years, which seems mind-blowing)
Shea Hillenbrand
Bobb Estalella
Ty Wigginton
Mike Cameron
Sammy Sosa
Mike Lowell (for the Marlins against the Montreal Expos)
Mike Lieberthal
Raul Mondesi (for the Pirates)
Marquis Grissom
Brady Clark (2)
Keith Ginter (a guy named Keith Ginter hit 38 career homers)
Junior Spivey
Hector Luna
Albert Pujols (2)

Ten years later -- April 8, 2014 -- just one of those guys still plays Major League Baseball:

Albert Pujols, who hit a home run.

 

I imagine Wigginton will catch on somewhere before long. He was with the Marlins in spring training.

 

Frank Thomas thinks the balls are juiced this year, hence all the April home runs:

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/09/frank-thomas-things-the-balls-are-juiced-this-year/

As the link points out, Thomas hit 8 homers in April 1994 and 9 in March/April 1996.

Glad to see now that Bob Feller is dead, someone has assumed the "ballplayers aren't what they were in my day" mantle.

 

Last night at Turner Field:



That's what you get for shooting off fireworks after you get shut out by the Mets.

 

Speaking of guys named Hamilton, Billy Hamilton scored on a 130-foot sacrifice fly today against the Cardinals. Not one of those goofy, over the shoulder foul pop catches where the guy has his back turned to the plate, either. Just a fly ball to shallow right field.
Also had a couple of stolen bases, a triple that by all rights should've been a double, and another run on a sac fly that wasn't all that deep. Dude is fast.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_04_09_cinmlb_slnmlb_1&mode=recap_away&c_id=cin#gid=2014_04_09_cinmlb_slnmlb_1&mode=video

 

Jesus. That tag-up is insane. I thought the second baseman was going to catch the ball.

 

Ervin Santana's first 20 pitches were strikes in his Braves debut tonight. Has a 2-hit shutout vs the Mets thru 5.