*** OFFICIAL 2011 MLB Season Thread ***

[JujuFish]

You know things are going poorly for your team when you get swept by Cleveland, and I say that as an Indians fan.

 

[hclarkjr]

Phils pound out 16 hits and clobber the Metropolitans 11-0. Lots to like, but especially for me the many long, loud, line-drive outs Ben Fransisco is making. Maybe better pitching staffs will catch up to him and curve ball him to death, but it's surely a hopeful start.

Meanwhile the Mets didn't pitch and didn't hit. On the other hand, they fielded poorly (again), too.

Still, the season is young and I've seen enough hopeful signs from them to think that maybe their season won't be quite the death march some think.

funny you had no comments the first 2 games when the mets offense was much better!! :whiste:

 

[Perknose]

funny you had no comments the first 2 games when the mets offense was much better!! :whiste:

Yes I did. Do0d, if you're going to troll, at least don't be a lame-ass lazy one and get your facts straight.

Post #94:

Paging Mr. Storm. Paging Mr. Storm.

Mr. Blanton has terminated his Cy Hume impression and it is now 7-6, one out, with the bases loaded for the Mets.

Post #95:

Jesus Hume Christ! Was 7-0. Now 7-7, sacks still full with two out for the Metropolitans.

 

[drum]

You know things are going poorly for your team when you get swept by Cleveland, and I say that as an Indians fan.

:biggrin:

Could be true

 

[TallBill]

Edwin Jackson was straight up dealing today. Rays and Red Sox both 0-6?

 

[Perknose]

From the Elias Sports Bureau, the most 10-plus strikeout games by a Giants pitcher, since 1900:
Christy Mathewson: 28
Tim Lincecum: 27
Jason Schmidt: 27
Juan Marichal: 25

WOW! Never mind Juan Marichal, one of the best pitchers of his era after Sandy Koufax. Christy Mathewson!?!:

Career: 373-188 (3rd), 2.13 ERA (9th), 2507 SO (29th), P, HOF in 1936

Edit: Oops, forgot my point, which is that Tim Lincecum, at the tender age of 26 or so, already has nearly as many or more games with 10 plus strikeouts as some all time bests had in their entire careers.

 

[rcpratt]

Brad Thomas is going to blow this game.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

5-1 Reds!

 

[davmat787]

WOW! Never mind Juan Marichal, one of the best pitchers of his era after Sandy Koufax. Christy Mathewson!?!:

Isn't Mathewson credited with inventing the screwball, one of the toughest pitches to learn how to throw? Seem to recall something along those lines...

 

[Perknose]

Isn't Mathewson credited with inventing the screwball, one of the toughest pitches to learn how to throw? Seem to recall something along those lines...

Tug McGraw!

Sorry, that just sort of erupted out of me. To answer your question, YES, according to the intarwebs, Mathewson is credited with inventing the screwball.

 

[davmat787]

Tug McGraw!

Sorry, that just sort of erupted out of me. To answer your question, YES, according to the intarwebs, Mathewson is credited with inventing the screwball.

When I was a little kid with millions of baseball cards, I knew all about these old greats and whatnot, even some dead ball era stuff. Then something stirred in my loins, found out what girls really are for, and my life went downhill from then on. :biggrin:

Ahh, the memories of baseball cards.

 

[rcpratt]

CoPa is lit up this morning

Nothing better.

 

[davmat787]

CoPa is lit up this morning

Nothing better.

Lit up like Lance Parrish' old catcher mitt with the neon mouth? I still have one around somewhere. :biggrin:

 

[drebo]

Rays and Red Sox both 0-6?

A Yankees fan's wet dream.

However, expect the Red Sox to get their first two wins this weekend. The one thing the Yankees have been exceptionally good at under Joe Girardi is losing games they should win. I expect nothing more from them this weekend.

That said...Hughes vs. Lackey...don't expect a well-pitched game today. Blech.

 

[Perknose]

CoPa is lit up this morning

Nothing better.

CoPa? Even Google couldn't edumacate me on this one:

Child Online Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Central Oregon Pediatric Associates - COPA - Central Oregon

 

[rcpratt]

Comerica Park, sorry. Local lingo.

I have been lighting up the child online protection act lately, though.

 

[davmat787]

CoPa? Even Google couldn't edumacate me on this one:

Comerica Park.

http://mlb.mlb.com/det/ballpark/index.jsp

 

[davmat787]

Since it is a long season, how about sharing some great baseball moments that you really were at the ballpark for? Here are a few of mine, all Seattle related. All other ballparks I have been to were regular games.

1) "The Game" 1995 ALDS when Edgar Martinez drove in Joey Cora and Ken Griffey Jr in, Randy Johnson came out from the bullpen. M's won.

2) Attended all of Randy Johnson's home starts in 1995 when he won the Cy Young.

3) In 97, was about 10 seats away from where Mark McGwire's 538' homerun landed in the upper left field deck. It was hit off of Randy Johnson's 97mph fastball. RJ k'd 19 A's that game, but the M's lost 4-1, lol.

4) Too many amazing Ken Griffey Jr. catches to list or remember, and was at the opening of Safeco.

That is it for me, should not be very hard to top. But you have to have been there, no couch tickets.

 

[TallBill]

A Yankees fan's wet dream.

However, expect the Red Sox to get their first two wins this weekend. The one thing the Yankees have been exceptionally good at under Joe Girardi is losing games they should win. I expect nothing more from them this weekend.

That said...Hughes vs. Lackey...don't expect a well-pitched game today. Blech.

I don't think Boston is freaking out just yet. Tampa, however, just might not be what it used to be.

 

[anxi80]

Since it is a long season, how about sharing some great baseball moments that you really were at the ballpark for?

Was at both the games where a fan tossed a syringe at Barry Bonds feet and when he hit #755 off Clay Hensley.

Saw Aroldis Chapman throw a 105-mph fastball to Tony Gwynn, Jr.

Probably the one that stands out best though is when Peavy dueled with Clemens in 2005 (the season where Clemens finished with a 1.87 ERA). Both pitchers threw a complete game, with the Padres winning 2-0. The game lasted 1 hour and 53 minutes.

 

[SP33Demon]

Most recently, Ken Griffey Jr's last game at Camden Yards last year. Only around 9,500 fans there because it was well, the Orioles (and it was raining), but everyone left gave him a standing O during his last at bat. Always good to see a class act future HOFer go out to a standing O in an opposing ballpark.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Was at both the games where a fan tossed a syringe at Barry Bonds feet and when he hit #755 off Clay Hensley.

Saw Aroldis Chapman throw a 105-mph fastball to Tony Gwynn, Jr.

Probably the one that stands out best though is when Peavy dueled with Clemens in 2005 (the season where Clemens finished with a 1.87 ERA). Both pitchers threw a complete game, with the Padres winning 2-0. The game lasted 1 hour and 53 minutes.

I am young... but I was at Buster Posey's major league debut last season against the DBacks at Pac Bell. I think he was 4/5 or something, all singles. Giants thrashed the Dbacks

 

[Perknose]

Since it is a long season, how about sharing some great baseball moments that you really were at the ballpark for? Here are a few of mine, all Seattle related. All other ballparks I have been to were regular games.

1) "The Game" 1995 ALDS when Edgar Martinez drove in Joey Cora and Ken Griffey Jr in, Randy Johnson came out from the bullpen. M's won.

2) Attended all of Randy Johnson's home starts in 1995 when he won the Cy Young.

3) In 97, was about 10 seats away from where Mark McGwire's 538' homerun landed in the upper left field deck. It was hit off of Randy Johnson's 97mph fastball. RJ k'd 19 A's that game, but the M's lost 4-1, lol.

4) Too many amazing Ken Griffey Jr. catches to list or remember, and was at the opening of Safeco.

That is it for me, should not be very hard to top. But you have to have been there, no couch tickets.

Great baseball moments I was actually at the park for? Not many.

Ones that nevertheless stick in my memory? A few.

At the old Connie Mack Stadium, helpfully located in scenic North Philly, I saw:

Roberto Clemente throw out a runner at first from right field on what should have been a single. Clemente, along with the Say Hey kid, was one of the finest ballplayers I ever had the privilege to watch play the game.

Curt Flood leap high over the wall to rob the Phillies Wes "Kingfisher" Covington of a home run. Flood was INTENSE! We were close to the field, and watching him flailing about in the on-deck circle like a madman on meth really stuck with me.

The Little General, the legendary and star-crossed Phillies manager Gene Mauch, standing his ground on the top step of the dugout, arms folded across his chest like an angry marionette, in order to prevent the onrushing opposing catcher from snagging an otherwise just reachable foul ball.

Grown men having peanut wars in the stands. I was like 10 or 11 and it was the very first time I'd ever seen grown-ups acting like complete fools.

Venturing alone into the ancient Connie Mack's men's room alone as a 10 year old. It was Epic! It was . . . Dickensian! The urinal was one long, unbroken trough running the length of one wall. One bowl for ALL, men jostling elbow to elbow at it, with a longish line waiting. The floor was rough concrete, measurably tilted from all sides to a HUGE center drain, and that floor was AWASH with effluvia! Like I said, epic and Dickensian!

Pulling up to park in North Philly @ Connie Mack for a game, all this prior to the mid-sixties racial riots. There may have been some small dedicated parking lot, there may have not been any at all, but most who drove there had to park on the streets.

You immediately "payed" pleasant enough local black kids a bunch of change to "watch" your car. Everybody, black and white or yellow, did, absolutely without question. It was just the way it was done, a local "tax" if you will. You can only imagine what might have happened to the car of a fool who didn't fork over any change. No obdurate fool big enough existed, though.

In, I think, 1966, the Phillies traded what was probably a bag of used balls and some future considerations for career reserve outfield Jackie Brandt from the Orioles. He scarcely ever played, even for the Phils. At one game, with typical Philly class and for a reason I can still not fathom, some asshole fans spent the entire game parading around the stadium with two huge bedsheets that said, "Busher Brandt."

Brandt actually started this game, and had what may have been his only triple and his only home run of the year. By the 7th inning or so, his having done this, the jamokes retired the "Busher" bedsheet and unashamedly kept parading around the "Brandt" one.

You can't make this stuff up!

 

[TallBill]

Hmm, I'd have to think hard to remember all the ones I was there live for.

Buehrle's flip to first to win play of the year on opening day last year.

Game 163 victory against the twinkies

 

[davmat787]

Great baseball moments I was actually at the park for? Not many.

Ones that nevertheless stick in my memory? A few.

At the old Connie Mack Stadium, helpfully located in scenic North Philly, I saw:

Roberto Clemente throw out a runner at first from right field on what should have been a single. Clemente, along with the Say Hey kid, was one of the finest ballplayers I ever had the privilege to watch play the game.

You saw Clemente in person, showing off his amazing gun no less! Very lucky, he really was one of a kind, hell look at how he died: plane crash while doing charity work. Dave Parker had a hell of an arm too, did he and Clemente ever share outfield duties? I'm guessing probably not, Parker played for the Pirates after the Reds?