Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Well, at least there's always Phil Hughes.

 

Surely, at least at this stage in baseball's evolution, Yankees at Rangers would BE the Sunday night ESPN game?

 

So who won last night's game in Hoboken? The Cooperstown Doubledays? Or the New York Knickerbockers?

 

Good point.

 

Of course it would.

How else would the Rangers show up on ESPN unless they're playing the Yankees or Red Sox?

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tom_verducci/08/05/deer.antlers.arod/index.html?eref=writers
"Baseball sent a warning to its major and minor league players last week that may sound odd, if not comical, but is a sign of these drug-testing times: stop ingesting deer antler spray.
Until the warning went out, baseball players, taking their cues from the body-building and NFL cultures, felt safe using a deer antler spray as an alternative to steroids with almost no risk of flunking a drug test."

 

Moises Alou wants everybody to know that it's still ok to piss on your hands though.

 

The Rays haven't had a pitcher in his 30s start a game since Jae Seo on May 24, 2007, his 30th birthday. That's more than 700 games.

 

That's freaking amazing.

 

That's a gigantic crowd for the Pitt at San Fran game tonight.

 

Proof of how seriously the AL Central ought to be taken: Fresh contract extensions for Leyland and Dave Dombrowski.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/08/tigers-extend-dombrowski-leyland.html

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/page/rumblings110809/hamstring-woes-likely-cost-jose-reyes-millions