They usually give the team the dinger ball at wrigley.

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somehow he remains the most infuriating Rockies player in history even when he's gone

Young very much seemed like he wanted to deliver a crotch chop in the Rockies' general direction.

seriously I'm pretty sure could've played a better outfield than he did when he was here, and he's making incredible catches and actually running the bases competently for the Mets

That's why if you know you'll be sitting in the bleachers you bring an extra ball to switch out. You throw the extra ball and that way you've appeased the clamoring fans around you while still hanging on to the HR ball.
Fuck the wave *to an extent

Stadiums sell a bunch of those balls too. My biggest baseball-related regret in my life is not buying a Ryan Raburn HBP ball from Comerica park last summer for $30. My buddy was at the game when it happened, and Raburn got beaned by Dylan Axelrod. After the non-buy, same buddy was at a Sox/Tigers game that Axelrod was again pitching at, and by a cruel Twist of Fate (© Matt Hardy) actually ran into Axelrod at the game. Would've been a perfect moment, having Axelrod sign the ball. Alas.

PS fuck Ryan Raburn.

I've seen it before. Tried looking for a video to no avail. Smart thing to do.

your mom is a good team

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At least I won't have to worry about her losing a series to the Reds :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

<font color=goldenrod>Matt Harvey: He's Very Good</font>

The Rockies: They're breaking my heart on a nightly basis

Just saw Jeremy Bonderman pitch to Ryan Raburn. In 2013. What the heck is going on with baseball.

Watching the Yankees game and hearing Paul Konerko come to the plate while "Harvester of Sorrow" blares through the stadium. Pretty sweet.

Yeah, this Giants game.

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Yankees are 1 away from becoming a .500 team.

As they should be

I'm still pretty marveled at just how well the Tribe is doing this season. 6 games back on the Tigers, and Detroit is 12-3 head-to-head this season against them. Couple games the other way and things would be a lot more interesting.

Yankees game was a heartbreaker last night. As Warren came out I said to a friend, ,"I like this guy, if we need a starter to replace Hughes or Pettite later this year he could be the guy." Almost Immediately tried to punch myself in the face.

I had kind of the opposite happen. When Bonderman came out in the 11th I thought he was going to give up a walk-off HR or something. Instead he pitched 3 REALLY solid innings for the Tigers and ended up with the W. Kind of marked out a bit (as evidenced by post #2617).

RDD, how about Ryan Rayburn and his contract extension...

I don't know if it's become BLATANTLY OBVIOUS or not but Ryan Raburn is my absolute favourite player EVER. Next to Brandon Inge, of course.



Worth every penny.

9th Walk-off winner of the year for the Buccos. 28th comeback win. This team is so fun to watch this year. So fun.

Guys Ryan Raburn is warming up in the Indians' pen right now. Baseball is just taunting me at this point, I can't make this shit up.

Have Ryan Raburn on my team in the show. Not this year's, like 09 or 10 via fantasy draft. Think he's played every position at some point. Also hit some clutch homeruns.

That's what I think of when Ryan Raburn is mentioned.

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Clemens finished that year at 20-3

Fucking hate whatever mongoloid was calling the Dodgers game tonight with Steve Lyons. "Kenley Jansen has recorded 27 outs in a row. That means he pitched a perfect game. Huh huh huh"

If the Cubs were to shop Starlin Castro, I wonder what they could still get in return.

White Sox don't need to reshape, they need a full on rebuild.

3 bags of balls and 2 Low A changeup artists. Selling at the top of the market.

God....last year they had intro talks of a Castro for Upton swap with the dbacks. Never went anywhere but both sides thought about it.

A-Rod's return to the Stadium tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should be good. Or bad. Maybe for him.

Awful

Can't wait to watch the game. MOSTLY because Detroit is playing but the A-Rod story is exciting in its own right.

Love A-Rod. He's going to get the John Cena reaction tonight, until he does something meaningful, which will then be cheered.

I think you might be one of the only A-Rod apologists left. Rare company.

Rangers wind up with Alex Rios after everyone said a deal was unlikely. Rios and cash to Ranger for PTBNL (probably Leury Garcia #20 prospect in the Rangers system at the start of the season)

Jurickson Profar is the most fun player ever to see at a baseball game because every time he comes up to bat you can yell JURASSIC PARK and it gets funnier the more drunk you are.

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huh. Ill be damned.

A PTBNL was all it took to pry Rios away from the southside?

Kenny Williams must be losing it.

I'm no apologist. I think that, if he did indeed lie and continue to cheat, he's an asshole who cheated everyone, and even more so, himself, out of being arguably the greatest player of all time. He could have been the guy to defeat the evil Bonds career HR mark, but instead, he's essentially the current mega heel Bonds.

With that said, I do love him as a player. Juice or no juice, he's an extremely talented, devoted player who would have been one of the greats regardless of drug use. He's a son of bitch of a person, but I still enjoy watching A-Rod the player.

I think thats about all he could have done with Rios right now. Kenny Williams is one of the worst GMs out there. Many reasons for them being another version of the Huston Astros - just without Mark Appel and Carlos Correa.

Kenny got promoted just before the wheels fell off the wagon. Must be nice.

You have no idea when he started juicing, His whole career could be a sham,

Im a yankees fan and I have no tolerance so why are you backing him?

the Rockies scored almost as many runs tonight as they have the whole month

Tampa Bay Blows it and the Red Sox still have a 2 game lead!

If anyone was wondering how well issuing an intentional walk TO PITCH TO Chris Davis works, the Giants found out tonight. :(

OF COURSE Detroits 12-game win streak comes to an end v. the New York Yankees @ "new" Yankee Stadium in A-Frauds 1st home game this year, in a walk-off in the 10th fucking inning. :nono:

If not wins, at least I get some good photo opportunities with all my time at AT&T Park.

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<font color=goldenrod>I'm sure this ring makes both of us angry, RDD :(</font>

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If the devil himself scheduled a train to hell Phil Hughes would be the conductor.

Lyle Overbay with a jack in this lost cause of a game.

Fuck Joba, fuck that fat fucking fuck!

Got good seats for this game and Im just feeling profoundly ripped off save for seeing future HOFers like Miggy, Tori, And maybe Fielder too.

<font color=goldenrod>Remember when Joba was supposed to be Mo's successor?</font>

1 AWAY!!!!!!

If you're ignorant enough to even consider thinking that Alex Rodriguez wouldn't be great with or without drugs, I don't know what to tell you.

Roids do not make a player better. Baseball is a skill driven sport. PEDs do not teach plate discipline, approach, swing path, swing mechanics, etc. Nor do they influence hand eye coordination, pitch recognition, and all of the other skills that go along with baseball. All roids did was either/both help him recover from workouts/injury faster and maintain strength and health. He still had/has to have well developed skills built up and around God given talent in order to excel.

<font color=goldenrod>The Pirates are just 12 wins away from breaking The Streak.</font>

Assuming A-Rod was telling the truth previously about 2001 being the start of his roids, then based on his 1994-2000 stats, he would have been a good to great type player. Probably not MVP or Hall of Fame caliber like Griffey was during that period or Bonds for his pre-roids career.

If he did them while at Seattle, then somewhere in the 1998-2000 period would be the likeliest spot in terms of certain stats.

A cheat is a cheat. And Joba Chamberlain left a slime trail on the field this afternoon.

LOL yeah PEDs dont make you at all better. They dont heal you faster, extend your peak, and allow you to play everyday in top form.

Brady Anderson was not better because of roids, right?

Arod may have been an all time great without them but we will never know. All we can say is hes a fucking cheater that should be exiled like Bonds and Sosa

There's no moving on from this. Baseball is forever tainted. You can ban Arod, but what Bonds did and got away with will never be forgotten. Bonds got of scot free and that is the biggest crime in the history of this sport. Arod is the sacrificial lamb for Bonds.

MLB isn't blameless. They probably let Arod get away with some of the PED so he could have a shot of taking the record since he's not really Bonds level of a cocksucker even though he's pretty close.

People thought Dallas MacPherson was going to be stellar. Todd Van Popple too. Roids probably would've helped them.

Remember Eric Gagne getting ridiculed for how bad he stunk when he wasn't using roids around the time of the trade to Boston and later with Milwaukee.

I don't live in a world of what ifs

I don't care if he could have been great without them. A rod DID use then and in negates every achievement he had on the field.

I cannot believe Pete rose is banned for life and these roiders aren't.

I would rather my kids have rose as a role model than anyone else. He was the hardest working player of all time, and the most competitive. Guy played his heart out every day. Gambling is against the rules but his acts effected less games than arod cheating for 10 years and winning a ring.

Disgusting.

For anyone who thinks peds don't increase every bit of performance a player has, look at melky Cabrera. Below average started in NY and ATL then an all star in KC and SF.

But yeah Damian ray, it doesn't make bad players good.

<font color=goldenrod>At this point I think baseball just needs to acknowledge that the steroid era happened. Put up a wing in the HOF specifically for the 90s/00s and just be like "yeah, this was an era of baseball and a lot of people cheated during this time...draw your own conclusions".

But the writers will probably continue to refuse voting for anybody they even remotely think might have cheated. Even guys like Bagwell and Piazza who have never been officially implicated aside from like one rogue writer accusing them of doing it for no reason other than they hit a lot of HR in the steroid era. Leaving out known roiders like McGwire is one thing, but I guarantee at least one clean guy who is clearly HOF worthy will be left out unjustly.</font>

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<font color=goldenrod>Anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.</font>

I dont think its hurt anyone that hasnt popped.

Frank Thomas is going to WALTZ into the Hall this year. Not one person will hold him back.

I think the only clean guys not making wont be because of doubt, but numbers.

Fred McGriff belongs in the Hall, but because of Juicers skewing numbers in his era he falls short.

Fucking Crime Dawg for HOF 2014 lets make this happen TPWW

<font color=goldenrod>I hope you're right about Frank Thomas. No question he deserves it. But the Bagwell and Piazza snubs have me concerned that these old fogey voters have decided that the entire era is tainted and all power hitters should be questioned. It's not right. Even Craig fucking Biggio got left off and he wasn't even a power hitter. 3,000 hits is normally a lock.

Actually Bagwell and Piazza could be in deep shit if they don't make it this year since this is the last year before locks like Glavine and Maddux enter the ballot, Smoltz the following year, etc.</font>

Do you assume pitchers wont be tainted by PEDs? Guys like Thomas and Griffey are fine because they never had even a whiff of suspicion. Bagwell and Piazza and Biggio will make it with time. This was a "statement year" by the writers.

Not to say those pitchers used PEds, but it would be naive to think that during the steroid era there were good pitchers that declined to be great by avoiding the stuff.

<font color=goldenrod>Pitchers most certainly roided, but most of them get overlooked since everybody associates PEDs with dingers. Lone exception being Clemens and that's just because he got caught.</font>

Biggie is a class act and a hell of a player. But he never won anything, barely sniffed being top 5 at his position many years of his career. A lot of writers want years of dominance where biggio was always just good.

Big Hurt was a multiple time MVP and the most feared hitter in te mid 90s.

Maddux will be first ballot.

I think they also have their own code on first ballot players where they will hold a guy back a year saving first ballot status for guys who are on their own level. Like I remember gammons saying piazza is a sure fire hall of gamer but not a first ballot guy...which blows my mind. Baseball voters have that stupid code.

The Mets announcers are retarded. That was like the first 2 seconds of Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue. It's a motorcycle revving up.

<font color=goldenrod>Sounds a lot more like a 500 foot cow invading than a motorcycle.

Not really surprised they didn't know it was from seeing as Motley Crue suck.</font>

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Reporting you to Sixx for a permaban.

BRETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/kid in the tunnel.

*Bret Hart's music plays*

So yeah, I'm done watching the Jays for the season. Good-bye baseball thread.

Can't wait for Grant Balfour to get busted mid-game for whatever the fuck is on his hat

We all know it's coming

Bartolo Colon is 14-4 in 2013.

Motley Crue is mint. You guys are brtl.

Fucking brtl. Fags. Fuck you.

Saw motley crue live last year. Was awesome.

Tell em Hawk!

The last time Motley Crue were good the Jays were relevant.

I believe in Hiroki Kuroda

<font color=goldenrod>Juan Lagares just struck out looking on a ball nowhere near the zone.

Opposite thing happened earlier today with Yu Darvish getting fucked out of a clear strike while he had a perfect game going.

WOOOOOO HUMAN ERROR!!!</font>

Baseball Umps have way too much leeway and attittude.

Ed Hochuli blows a call and his career is on the line and he accepts responsibility.

Baseball umps blow a call and toss the player for "showing them up".

Hate umps