MLB Thread Number 3, 2007

No argument here.

If the Brewers win 105 games, they probably will and probably should be considered underdogs to any experienced teams, particularly the Mets, Dodgers or Braves.

 

They just don't know how to do things the easy way, do they?

 

Because his pitching didn't cause the run. His fielding did.

 

I understand the questions about some of his previous starts, but why are you criticizing Arroyo for running out of gas in the ninth inning? Why is the bullpen not up and ready at the start of the inning so they can come get him at the first sign of trouble?

 

Except for the 11-1 win on Mother's Day, no. No, they don't. It's about time they started winning some games like this, instead of dropping them all the time.

 

Sorry buck, usually I agree with you on baseball matters, but the ERA is designed to gauge a pitcher's effectiveness as a pitcher. His error as a fielder really has nothing to do with that. His fielding percentage is the gauge of his effectiveness as a fielder, as it is for the other eight players out there. Beyond that, if the batter reached on an error, he didn't earn his way on; ergo, his run is not earned, whether it was the pitcher or the second baseman whose error allowed him to reach.

On another completely unrelated note (I'm ill-inclined to wade through 32 pages of posts to find this ...) can someone please repeat why the D Rays are playing Texas in Orlando?

 

To try and drum up support outside the Bay area. Orlando's only about an hour and change away. It might work if the Rays can ever field a competitive team.

 

If it was a walk, it should be unearned. However, it it was a bad throw to second and the batter singled, the run should be earned because the guy got to third by himself.

and no, a pitcher's error shouldn't affect his ERA.

 

Actually, the Sentinel had a column by this non-sports idiot who clearly doesn't know about anything other than political BS. He claims the games at Disney's Wide World of Sports are part a grand scheme to pit the Tampa/St. Pete folks against Orlando in a bidding war for the team's future home.

I call BS on that notion, which was featured in a column that had something about stealing "home base" in the headline.

The D-Rays just want somebody to care about their games. And I would if I could tune in their radio coverage when I'm on the road.

 

Mets lineup against Cubs this afternonn includes:

David Newhan 2B
Reuben Gotay SS
Julio Franco 3B
Carlos Gomez LF
Endy Chavez CF
Ramon Castro C
Jason Vargas P

Guess you could call it the Cubs vs. the Scrubs


And the Scrubs are still better!

 

The Mets have put out a spring-training type lineup against the Cubs today. Julio Franco is playing THIRD BASE, his third career start at that position.

Chavez, CF
Gotay, SS
Green, RF
Delgado, 1B
Franco, 3B
Newhan, 2B
Castro, C
Gomez, LF
Vargas, P

Gotay, Franco and Newhan all are hitting below .200.

 

If it was, it failed. They had something like 9,500 seats at the park, and they couldn't sell them out. I would think any two major league teams could sell out a 10,000-seat minor league park in a city which had never seen a real regular season game.

Florida should be demoted from a state to a territory. First, the hanging chads and they can't support major league baseball.