And the Red Sox start out the year in first place!
(And did it through pitching, baserunning and defense?)
Whodathunkit?
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And the Red Sox start out the year in first place!
(And did it through pitching, baserunning and defense?)
Whodathunkit?
I'm glad that you said "start"........:eek: They have a whole heck of a long way to go to "finish" there! :p
They actually have a chance this year, minus Valentine (said from the beginning, it's either going to be a disaster or great, nothing in between) and some new young players. It's a different look for the Red Sox, pitching, defense, and speed.
My dad and brothers would be thrilled. I remember as a kid, them glued to the radio listening to the Red Sox games. My surviving brother lived in FL for over 40 years before moving to NC, so now he's a Marlins fan, tho he still follows the Sox. Tee-hee-hee - Marlins lost their opener, just like the Phillies did! :(
Go Red Sox!:D
Cards not off to such a hot start but hey it's just the start of the season eh?
Dear Yankees,
Please hire a new radio broadcast team.
Thank you.
3rd game of the season, 16 innings, I couldn't stay up past 12:30 to watch the whole game and I don't think it ended till nearly 2:30am CST!!!
Way to keep it classy, Toronto/ :rolleyes:
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/...toronto-return
TORONTO -- This is what it was like at ground zero for John Farrell's return to the Rogers Centre on Friday night.
"You popped your head out of the dugout, they were waiting for him," Red Sox bench coach Torey Lovullo said.
"There was a lot of venom coming out of the stands. A lot of hand gestures, a lot of facial gestures, gruesome. Some of the comments were well below the belt. You stuck your head out, they were waiting, hatred in their eyes, screaming obscenities.
"They didn't mind if there was a child or woman sitting there. These people, it was like, let it rip and say whatever you want."
Lovullo said he couldn't help but be impressed by the coordination of a crowd of 45,328 chanting in unison, at least a half dozen times through the course of the evening, "F--- you, Farr-ell."
Somehow I think Youkilis' return to Fenway will be a tad different.
The Cubs beat the White Sox 7-0 last night behind some great Jeff Samardzija pitching :) And they played at the Cell! Nice work, Cubbies! It was a good sports night for me - the Cubs and the Blackhawks won.
Jessika - you live south of the 49th and you say "eh"? :D;)
I'm not sure who that was that came in, put on Cubs uniforms, won a few games... but they've left and now the lovable losing Cubs are back. They've lost two in a row to Arizona. Oh, well. There's always next year.
Maybe the Cubbies need to get this guy to come over and put on a uniform:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...173057541.html
I read an interesting story on the internet about food served at baseball stadiums all over the country. In Texas you can get Tex-Mex food, in California you can get a fish taco or crab salad, and out east they have enormous sandwiches. (Where is PNC Park? They have a Primanti Brothers sandwich and I saw that restaurant on Guy Fieri's show.) Up in Milwaukee you can have a Usinger bratwurst instead of a hot dog.... yum! I'd like to try the fish taco, please and I love Mexican food.
It hasn't been a very good day for baseball in Chicago. The Cubs ... lost to Pittsburgh. The White Sox had a lead, but their pitcher gave up a grand slam. I'm not sure who the Sox' opponent was.
Today is a double-header in Boston, as yesterday night, they would have needed kayaks in the outfield. and a snorkel mark for the catcher!
I have been going to some of the local minor league games here in town....
Growing up as a kid? I rooted against the hated Reds, Pete Rose, Cesar Geronimo, Dave Concepcion and the rest of gang.........
The team here is a farm club for the Reds, so I have had to stifle myself when I go to the games.:p;)
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The one thing that I really do enjoy is the atmosphere at the stadium.
It's not as tense as a major league game and the fans are much more well behaved.
It's sad that people take sports too seriously.
Oh, Cubbies. You are breaking my heart. You were up 3-0 going into the ninth inning - against the Mets - and you gave the win away. When the fans said "Maybe next year" last year, we really meant it.
I started life as a Red Sox fan. As a native of Rhode Island they were the closest. My uncle took my brother and I to Fenway Park when we were just kids - my first visit to a "real" ball park.
As I got older I sort of switched to the Yankees - after all, they did win the occasional Championship. I remember game 5 of the 1956 World Series - racing home from school to see Don Larsen pitch a perfect game. After I graduated from Nursing School, I worked in NYC - Columbia-Presbyterian. A patient gave me 2 tickets to game 5 of the 1962 World Series. The Yankees beat the Giants - what fun that was :)
I moved to Michigan in 1966 and immediately loved the Tigers. And two years later they won the World Series :)
I'm a Tiger fan through and through. But when the Sox won in 2004 I almost went nuts. What a fantastic run of baseball that was. The person I most thought of that night was my Uncle Lester - how happy he would have been when they won.
The Tigers are doing well this year. It's fun to watch our lineup when they are on a role. Poor opposing pitchers - can't figure out who to walk 'cause the next one up is perfectly capable of driving the ball out of the park :)
Tigers 5 - Orioles 1
Max Scherzer is now 10 - 0, with 116 K - best in the Majors :)
The Cubs are 15 games behind Pittsburgh in the National League Central. The White Sox are also quite a ways out. d:-(
The O's are coming....only 3.5 games back from the BoSox...we'll see... :)
It has been an interesting season so far ... I do like it when it's not just the same teams on top, the AL East has several good teams going!
I'm getting SO tired of the umpires acting like they're more important than the players.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/tex...pens-to-me.ece
It was a borderline ball, which normally gets called a strike with a hot pitcher on the mound, and Kulpa has to turn a possible no-hitter into a headline about himself.
But isn't it all about Ego?
I will be glad when we can get through a sportscast without hearing a certain Suspended-but-playing Yankee's name. Sigh. Why would a manager even want him on the field but to generate publicity?
Not going to happen.
I doubt Girardi wants anything to do with him, but ownership's possible out on his ridiculous contract was shot down by MLB when they allowed him to return to the field.
If they gotta pay him the remainder of the money they owe him, they might as well play him.
Boooooo Pirates, cards have been knocked out of first place and are trailing by a few games... always seems to happen to us midway through the season! It's ok, we've always been a wild card team, anyway ;)
Yeah, I'm pretty mad about that too and last night's game didn't make me feel any better. The Cards are a better team than that. I'm glad they won that extra inning game a couple of nights ago. Hopefully we can win today and take two out of three from the Pirates.
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...nalforStan.jpg
Even Redbird is hanging his head in shame :(
Slugger Field, the AAA Reds affliate made it into second place in the USA Today poll.
It's a wonderful place, they left up the brick facade of an old brick building and built the field behind it - I have been a few times and really love it.
The most expensive regulat ticket is 11 bucks and they have specials like 1.00 dog and soda night, dollar beer night and they also have an All-You-Can-Eat offering in a covered pavillion in right field.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/B2/2...eague-ballpark
I grew up hating the Reds, so I have to suck it up when I go to a game......
It was a pretty good game last night even though the Cardinals got lucky in the 12th. My Buccos are still in first place by two games. Go Bucs!!
Max Scherzer is now 19 - 1 :love:
And, he also had a double - knocking in the winning run :)
Even though Ryne Sandberg is now the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, he got a huge welcome at Wrigley at yesterday's game. Sorry, Philly but he was a Cub first and he will always be "our" Ryno!
The Buccos are in first place again by a game. Our new players are helping out and all of Pittsburgh is Pirate crazy. Raise the Jolly Roger!