you took that during batting practice because those werent your seats

"Crazy" Carlos Zambrano is back in baseball. Signed a minor league deal with the Long Island Ducks.

He'll be playing alongside with famous has-beens Ian Snell and Dontrelle Willis.

(credit to mlbtraderumors.com)

Ian Snell is famous?

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Orioles close to being back in first place.

A's "got screwed" on a replay call. All anouncers on both teams unanimously agree

NYY-COL series suspiciously low scoring thus far

Michael Bowden still sucks at baseball.

Tied for first.

Which is still first place

Plus, the Os are 2-1 head to head vs Boston, so tiebreaker

Plus Baltimore comes before Boston alphabetically, as does Orioles over Red Sox

so in conclusion

FIRST PLACE!

Someone has to explain to me how the Angels are 11-22, barely better than the Astros

Just watched that. Ridiculous.

Same here. That shouldn't happen on a replay call, not sure how they botched that

This could hamper the "we need replay for HR" argument since here they had good evidence to overturn/get the call right and they still blew it lol

It's May 9.

Hey with some teams you have to take the small victories when you can get them. I was happy the Rockies were in 1st on May 1. Probably won't see it much more this season.

REd Sox have Mexican Joe Torre pitching in middle relief.

Someone in my fantasy league offered me Allen Craig for Mark Trumbo. I rejected it.

Good move?

Yes. Trumbo is better for this season and eventually the other guys in that lineup will hit around him, give him more RBI opportunities.

On a side note, the MLB Networks onslaught of Barbasol adds has led me to ditch Gillette and give it a shot

Edgar, you should try Aveeno. I've been using it for years.

My Padres take on the Rays tonight. Pretty excited. Love Tampa and Longo. How my Pads continue to play ridiculously well.

Now remember, Mo. NO SHAGGING FLY BALLS!

You know what happened the last time we were in Kansas City, right?

still seems weird to me that Jeff Samardzija was a wide receiver for notre dame

MLB suspends umpire Fieldin Culbreth 2 games and fined an unspecified amount of money for that pitching snafu in the Astros/Angels game a last night.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/92...on-astros-game

Alex Cobb had 13 ks in 4.2 innings (14 outs total) but left losing the game because he threw 117 pitches

so the Cardinals just breed amazing pitchers I guess

Orioles scored 9 unanswered runs from the 6th on to lead the twins 9-6 in the 10th.

I finished 7th in a 20 team fantasy league game tonight on Fanduel and won $45..woo

well on my way to winning #millionsofdollars

Overbay has me wanting Tex to take off until August. Pinstripes rejuvenation

Speaking of Overbay, hes 12 for 41 with 3 hrs and 7 rbi off Shields which is why Im taking him tomorrow on fan duel since I blew $10,000 of $35,000 on Yu Darvish and needed a cheap 1B option and he's only $2,200.

Alex Cobb has an absolutely dirty change up.

Joel Hanrahan out for the season after having surgery for a torn tendon in his throwing arm. Only had a 1 year deal with the Red Sox and they already hinted he'd be playing for someone else next year.

Hate baseball so much

Thinking about just talking baseball in casual. Droford ruins it for me here sometimes

ok guys

went to see the nationals vs the cubs today

that brings my total games watched this year to 3
i think

this fucking annoying bitch came and set next to me in the 4th inning after waiting the whole game in the "liquor line"

just comes in and turns around talking to her friends behind her, was insanely loud, talking about the worst things possible, like the embodiment of "white people problems"

just went on and on about managers, head managers, reps, cashouts, then started talking about her atkins diet, and crossed the line by listing the ingredients she gets when she goes to chipotle

wasn't even watching the game, one time the ump made a close call against the nats but it was the right one, she turns around after the call is made and just starts yelling at the ump for making a call against the nats, that is all people do it seems, don't realize that every single call isn't going to go your way, i don't understand

there was a drop of rain in the 6th inning so they all got up and left

jesus

Did you go alone?

I hate hearing about white girl things. Listening to their college lives is the worst.

went with my brother 4nd my dad

There was a sick throw by Roger Bernadina to the cut off man Danny Espinosa to get this guy out at 3rd who was trying to do a triple and they didn't show a single replay, not even during the heineken light highlights

I hope Cashman is taking notes. This Yankees team Girardi is sending out everytime they play right now is getting job done. Even without the heavy hitters. AND, they're cheap.

Tonight's starting 9 + the 1 or 2 guys they got on the bench right now comes out to about $57 mil. if my math is right.

Also not to jinx it, but I think Cashman caught lightning in a bottle with this Vernon Wells trade. I wish this font size was smaller.

He'll go 0 for his next 90 now

I think the Rockies would do better if they got a couple more hits during their games. What do you guys think?

Maybe they're saving their hits so they can cash them in at the same time for a bigger prize.

I think the skateboard costs 4,500 hits.

This week they've barely had enough hits to buy one of those pencil erasers.

I wonder if arcade prizes are universal.

Like we all had the dilemma of using our last 20 tickets on the super ball or the keychain.

Super ball everytime btw.

That shit bounced high as fuck.

HEY HOW ABOUT YOU SHUT YOUR FAT DICKHEAD MOUTH

Looks like we got a keychain fan over here.

I wish they could hit enough for a keychain

The chemistry of this group is through the roof and I love them. Reminiscent of the '96 Champs teams. However, it has only been slightly more than a month. We'll stay tuned and see how it continues...

"Don't ever 'shush' me!"

-Joba Chamberlain to Mariano Rivera.

I got the water gun... I was 16 and my friend and I pooled all our tickets together, was shitty, wasn't even a super soaker, barely used it. This was at Chuck E Cheese's

at the arcade I went for the superball

Chad Jenkins is starting for the Jays. Ugh. He'll allow more home runs than batters he strikes out.

Joey Bats killing the Sox today.

Rizzo gets an extension.

Rizzo is going to be real good. I know that's not going out on a branch, but good deal for the Cubs to lock him up.

I'll have a really good laugh when all the injured veterans come back and get full playing time and the team starts to fall apart..

Still trying to figure out if Rizzo will be "real good" or "great". Leaning toward the Fred Mcgriff real good. Solid numbers all around, maybe a career year with 32-35 bombs, occasional all-star, but never a serious MVP contender. Think the Cubs rebuilding project's issue right now is they don't have that true superstar. Unless Castro or Rizzo outperforms my expectations, or a Baez or Almora down on the farm is it, they are going to run into problems if the only way to get that type is to throw $200 million at someone down the road.

I cant take anyone who's named after a rat seriously.

Also can't take Trevor Plouffe seriously either cause he sounds like something used to take a shower.

I'm sure the Cubs will find that guy to throw money at when he is one of the final pieces of the puzzle. Need the foundation first. You don't want another Soriano deal

Fred McGriff should be a Hall of Famer. Rizzos a stud. It's a good sign.

Could be worse than McGriff. Could be JT Snowe

Seems like he is a better overall hitter than Snow, but if he dosent live up to potential that is probably a pretty good comp for what he would be.

As far as the superstar goes, I like signing guys as pieces of the puzzle via free agency. Those are contacts you can usually get out from under (see Dejesus' 3 year deal). You basically get one (maaaybe two) chances to spend a giant wad of cash on one player. Not to mention the draft pick you would likely lose as well. So another Soriano is a very real possibility in that case. Your MVP type should really be someone who you developed yourself (Castro) or who you aquired early in his career with lots of years of control left (Rizzo). If not, and you have to spend top dollar, you take a huge risk.

Skippord, rox coming to Wrigley this week. Anything I should know about em?

They have some guy named Tulo. Heard he can hit, kinda.

Rox are throwing Nicasio, Francis and Garland. Would have liked to have seen De La Rosa. At least I get to se Matt Harvey on Friday.

Nicasio throws incredibly hard but can't get past the fifth inning because whatever team he's facing fouls off nine hundred pitches per at bat. Jeff Francis will give up two runs at minimum. Garland is my favorite and I hope he gets all of the ground balls.

And outside of Cargo and Tulo I would watch every at bat Wilin Rosario takes because he is one of the strongest people in baseball and hits monstrous home runs. Also Nolan Arenado plays terrific defense and will hit at least 5 line drives that he will be robbed of hits on. Josh Rutledge looks like Captain America.

That seems like a fair breakdown of them.

I know, I know. Video games. But here is my anecdote about Wilin Rosario.

I got his card in Diamond Dynasty and was very shocked to learn that he has 99 power vs. both lefties and righties. So I used him. And he hit lots of home runs. I will try to get his card again when my current catcher expires.

The end.

That is pretty impressive.

He has a picture of himself dressed like Mr. T in his locker.

Was gonna make a post yesterday on how the last 2 or 3 Mother's Days, the baseball gods give all the starting pitchers superpowers and 1 or 2 come close or get a no-hitter or perfect game.

Chris Sale came close last night.

I think I have a romantic link to West Coast baseball due to their great pitching/pitchers parks. As a Yankees fan I could only hope to have games over in about 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Gonna assume someone from the Rockies saw my posts making fun of them and put them on the bulletin board for last night's game.

Sox two games back now, fuck you baseball.

Astros president and CEO George Postolos has stepped down.

Hmmm. Any well known GMs or front office guy sitting around that we know of? If someone's looking for the ultimate rebuilding project, this is it.

<font color=goldenrod>It makes my heart hurt how bad the Mets are. Their offense is the worst its been in years.</font>

Don't worry, they play the cubs soon enough.

Wonder if RP saw Travis Wood pitching tonight.

I forgot to mention that Juan Nicasio is putting me in possibly the worst situation

pitching soooooooooooo bad but I can't hold it against him because he broke his neck and hasn't gotten command back. And they refuse to send him to Triple A to work it out.

Hope Chris Johnson hits a triple on his next at bat.

<font color=goldenrod>I was going to go to the series in Chicago but had to call the plans off a couple months ago. Had a great time seeing the Mets in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago, so I wanted to do another baseball road trip.

Wrigley's still on the bucket list.</font>

The Grandyman returns to the line-up tonight!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FIRST WAVE OF REINFORCEMENTS!

Hope Rizzo breaks a leg tonight. Hes set either way. Blow cubs blow

I'd just like to say, suck it, Droford.

:n: Red Sox

1st month looking more like a fluke than them being any good with how bad they've been this month.

Yankees stole one from King Felix last night.

About time they did.

Wonder who sits once Granderson comes back. My choice would be Ichiro. And obp hovering around .300 should not be in your everyday lineup.

What they ought to do is what they did last night with Granderson, Ichiro and Gardner. So much speed. Add in Wells platooning with Pronk at DH and using Youk and Nunez/Nix off the bench won't hurt either.

Phillies sign Carlos Zambrano to a minor league deal.

He had a deal with the L.I. Ducks but wanted to exhaust all his MLB options before he signed. He's off to Florida for extended spring training.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Ugh

The problem with Itchiro is he's not getting on base and it's been that way for at least two years. Speed don't mean squat if you're not getting on base at an at least league average clip.

Hope he gets called up just as Philly fans are getting pissed that the season isn't going as planned. One more meltdown. C'mon!

I would love to see Carlos Zambrano crack some skulls like a Gatorade machine in Philly.

Phil Hughes just lost some money on his upcoming contract this evening.

:D Lester. Ties Buchholz for most wins on the team.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ns...g/k-bigpic.jpg

Lol