Future is bright though. Crawford in the minors, Nola and Velasquez already up, high pick this year. Philly is gonna be fine long-term.

I expect the Phillies to trail off eventually but yeah, their future is bright. Ditto for Atlanta. Oh and the Marlins are pretty decent too and should get better next year.

The NL East is going to be a fucking loaded division soon, which is why I wanted the Mets to go balls out in this next year or two when they have their whole stable of cost-controlled pitching before some of the rebuilding teams are back to contention.

Speaking of the Mets, their lineup continues to be a fucking joke and they're 100% reliant on home runs in a big ballpark. That is the only way they know how to score. It's a fucking joke that none of these guys know how to manufacture runs.

Yankees avoid the sweep.

In other news, Hal Steinbrenner blames the players for their woes. Not Joe Girardi.

Regardless, he's gone along with Cashman if things don't turn around.

99% of the time, its the players fault anyways and the coach just gets the brunt of it (see Atlanta's Gonzalez)....not much sense firing a manager for a sub-par record when they dump big money contracts and only sign AAA plugs....

And Matt Harvey departs with 2 outs in the 3rd inning, having given up 9 runs.

Seriously, send this fucking bum to AAA until he sorts his shit out, or make up an injury to DL him or something. They gain absolutely nothing by running him out there every 5 days looking like this.

Travis Wood got the super rare extra innings bullpen Superwin the other night as the Cubs continue to pile up Superwins like they're going out of style.

OFFICIAL SUPERWIN LIST
4/3: Francisco Liriano
4/6: Kenta Maeda
4/14: Jason Hammel
4/18: John Lackey
4/19: Jason Hammel (2)
4/22: Jeff Samardzija
5/1: Clayton Kershaw
5/3: Jake Arrieta
5/11: Noah Syndergaard
5/15: Jose Fernandez
5/15: Dan Straily
5/18: Travis Wood

Chis Sale wins again. WOOOOO. 9-0 baby.

Down goes Heyward

looks like a broken arm or dislocated/seperated shoulder

Os powered by Rickard leadoff homer hit 4 homers to beat the Angels 9-4. 25-15 through 40 translates out to 100 wins

MLB changing the official strike zone as early as next season due to how umps have been calling the lower part of the zone.

Also a new rule on intentional walks could happen as early as next season and one meant to save pitches and cut back game time a little bit.

Pinged on my phone just now that the Yankees dugout is flooded with backed up septic water/sewage over at O.co Stadium in Oakland.

Been saying it for awhile, A's and Raiders need to get out of there.

Just trying to make em feel at home.

The Cubs have collected so many Superwins this year they were bound to be victimized by one soon. Matt Cain breaks an 0-for-48 skid at the plate and drives in 2 runs in a Superwin against the Cubs, bringing his record to 1-5 on the year.

OFFICIAL SUPERWIN LIST
4/3: Francisco Liriano
4/6: Kenta Maeda
4/14: Jason Hammel
4/18: John Lackey
4/19: Jason Hammel (2)
4/22: Jeff Samardzija
5/1: Clayton Kershaw
5/3: Jake Arrieta
5/11: Noah Syndergaard
5/15: Jose Fernandez
5/15: Dan Straily
5/18: Travis Wood
5/21: Matt Cain

Matt Wieters just hit a 3 run homer with 2 outs in the 9th down 1-0..on his birthday..and they won

And the umpires screwed The Halo's out of any chance of coming back in the 9th with a pair of terrible calls, especially on Yunel Escobar, resulting in him getting tossed....Wieters' glove touched the dirt when he caught the ball, that's how low it was....

Ump was shotty the whole game only way to explain how Shoemaker got 12 ks in 7.1 innings

How did Hawk Harrelson get ahold of your two accounts?

Also, for those who haven't heard it, see if you can find the clip of Hawk being so concerned for Todd Frazier after he hit his mouth diving into the seats for a foul ball that he literally left the broadcast booth to go check on him. Like it was life threatening. Like he didn't have a job to do at the time. When are they going to just tell him to stay home?

you mean: when are they going to tell him "HE GONE!"?

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I get Gary Thorne for Os games about 2/3 of the time

Him doing the empty stadium game in a golf announcers voice was hilarious though

I have found it odd the amount of Cubs fans have started to dig in on Hawk over the past couple years. He's just a damn announcer who the hell cares.

If I want to watch a Sox game, I want good play by play and analysis of the game. I don't want to hear a soundboard of catchphrases, silence, an aimless story about "how I played with Yaz" and blaming the umpire's strike zone everytime the Sox are down by 1.

A play by play TV commentator left the booth in the middle of the inning to do....what?? See an injured player? What a pro.

Hawk Harrelson is terrible and anybody who likes him should feel terrible.

Drebin is spitting so much truth.

How long was he out for since maybe the real reason was him being hungry and snuck off to eat a hot dog or two on the way to and from the booth. Checking up on the injured player was just his alibi so nobody would ever find out.

WOOOO someone besides Sale won.

This game sums up how to beat the Cubs if it wasn't already evident in the NLCS last year and as recently as against the Brewers last week.

Take away their hitting advantage is easy. They like to work the count. The starter piles up pitches and before you know it, you're into middle relief in the 6th inning at the beginning of a series. That may work in the regular season, but not in the playoffs. If you have a starter who is confident in his stuff, and he pounds the strike zone, the Cubs are in trouble.

Look at this game so far tonight. Mad Bum throws 28 pitches in the 1st inning and loads the bases with 2 outs. Cubs don't come through, but that won't always be the case. You have to give yourself the opportunity before you can take it. The rest of the way? 6.2+ only 87 pitches. 0 runs and no real opportunities. Yes, its Madison Bumgarner. But who do you think they face in the playoffs? You can do that during a 162 game season when you face a teams 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th best starters, but doing that against a series of front line starters.....guys getting Cy Young votes? Good luck.

Cubs are going to have the best record in Baseball, but the Giants and Mets would beat them in October with the way things stand now.

The Cubs problem? I'm trying to wrap my head around it because I can't believe this could be true: they have too many good hitters.

It also marks two nights in a row that the Cubs got Superwin'd

OFFICIAL SUPERWIN LIST
4/3: Francisco Liriano
4/6: Kenta Maeda
4/14: Jason Hammel
4/18: John Lackey
4/19: Jason Hammel (2)
4/22: Jeff Samardzija
5/1: Clayton Kershaw
5/3: Jake Arrieta
5/11: Noah Syndergaard
5/15: Jose Fernandez
5/15: Dan Straily
5/18: Travis Wood
5/21: Matt Cain
5/22: Madison Bumgarner

Wait Jerad Eickoff got one today too. Need to give credit where it's due to the Phillies/screech

OFFICIAL SUPERWIN LIST
4/3: Francisco Liriano
4/6: Kenta Maeda
4/14: Jason Hammel
4/18: John Lackey
4/19: Jason Hammel (2)
4/22: Jeff Samardzija
5/1: Clayton Kershaw
5/3: Jake Arrieta
5/11: Noah Syndergaard
5/15: Jose Fernandez
5/15: Dan Straily
5/18: Travis Wood
5/21: Matt Cain
5/22: Madison Bumgarner
5/22: Jerad Eickoff

VITO! Got tickets to see the 51's play tonight. Any future Mets I should keep an eye on?

Dilson Herrera who is their 2B of the future and saw some time in Queens the last two seasons.

Brandon Nimmo who is a lefty hitting outfielder. I'm actually not yet convinced he'll be an everyday option in the majors but he's still young/promising.

Also TJ Rivera/Ty Kelly are two journeyman minor leaguers who are tearing the cover off the ball this season attempting to force a call up to the Mets bench. I heard Kelly may actually be getting called up as early as today depending on if Duda lands on the DL.

Roger that.

In our local baseball league that we cover, one of our commentators is the owner of the team and we can't get rid of him even though he is terrible. He will be drinking beer throughout the thing and you will occasionally hear the cracking open of a can very clearly through the mics. He will then also randomly leave headset to go buy some food, which he will then loudly eat on air. Then he'll get bored with baseball and start talking about the food he is eating, or start discussing football or something.

Probably the worst commentator I've ever worked with.

6 games against the jays in the next10 days,,,,,any1 want to aviatar bet me the yankees win at least 5 out of 6...

NO CHANCE.........

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@lock Jaw

Do people actually listen to him? If so, they don't make fun of it?

Still better than Hawk Harrelson.

:lol: @ anybody thinking that giving a GM job to Hawk Harrelson was a good idea

We rip him all the time in the truck

Rain delay so SNY is showing a Mets Insider special on Noah Syndergaard

On a related note, I really want to have sex with Noah Syndergaard

Multiple Thorgasms

Ynoa o the bump, Vito. Good stat line

Jed Lowrie is here.:shifty:

Oh yeah, Ynoa. He's on their 40 man roster. Not sure if he'll get a cup of coffee this year or what but he's got promise as an extra starter.

Nice to grab a win over the Nats tonight. Mets' bats finally showed up. :cool:

Pitcher for Nashville tonight got skills.

Jed Lowrie is wearing his A's helmet. Everyone else black team helmets.

Nimmo having a good night, Vito.

Eovaldi & the bullpen with a nice gem today.

Something's going on in San Diego. Trading off some players.

Mets acquire James Loney from San Diego for cash.


White Sox are in talks of possibly getting James Shields. But, nothing set in stone yet.

FUcking Dickey vs Price today. God dammit. I know Price isn't lighting the world on fire, but he always owns the Jays, and Dickey is Mr. 50/50.

WOOOO WSox blow another game.

1 hit was all the Yankees needed today.

I wonder what the ChiSox would be willing to give up for Shields if the Padres paid down his contract. They have some intriguing options, and Tim Anderson is apparently not considered untouchable.

I also wonder if the deal is done or not depends on if Shields will opt out.

They'll give you Clayton Richard and you will like it.

The WSOX aren't big on amateur scouting, so alot of their guys wind up not panning out. Chris Sale not withstanding, anyone else on that roster a drafted and home grown talent? While that's not entirely necessary to have a good team, a team like the white Sox needs to be better at that than they are since they aren't in the same league financially as teams like the cubs, red sox, yanks or either LA teams.

Basically, you don't want any of that garbage.

Isn't Abreau home grown? Danks was fine until this year. But ya, at least we had a miracle season that we can cling onto for another 10 years.

Abreu is from Cuba.

He hasn't been anywhere else, so that's close enough lol

Yankees send Luis Severino down to AAA to get his shit together.

Probably for the best. Next will be Pineda if he can't figure it out. But the best move at this point is to think about a starting pitcher between now and the trade deadline.

I wonder if Cashman gets desperate and tries to shop the prospects they do have to bolster the rotation.

Do they have enough quality prospects to do that?

Even if they fix the rotation, they'd still have serious hitting problems. Last in the division for scoring and 2nd to last in the AL.

No prospects. Got rid of like 10 during the offseason with the Castro & Chapman trades. Bags of money would work at this point.


All the Yankees can do at this point is tread water and stay the course until something changes.

I wouldn't deal Severino unless I was absolutely wowed at what I was getting back....

Still can't believe how stellar the Jays starting staff has been, trying to wait for the rest of the team to catch up.

Hope they use this new found momentum and go on a nice run in June.

8 of the last 11 is a good start
bullpen is a big issue.
Long live Estrada!

Yankees still have Aaron Judge and the injured Greg Bird. Judge can attract some teams looking to move talent and though Bird is hurt I'm sure they can find a taker. They also have a ss prospect who's name escapes me.

Blue Jays about to acquire Jason Grilli from the Braves for a minor leaguer. Sean Ratcliffe's name is being tossed around right now.

UPDATE:

Trade's been made official.

He can't be worse than Storen

It's a HAPP'nin again. Nice start lastnight... kind of wish they let him go 7 but he seemed to be coming unravelled a bit in the 6th so I get bring in Joey Ears in the 7th.

Got to Betances which is great. Especially when it's friggin Pillar and Barney getting your big hits.

Marlon Bird likely suspended 162 games due to a failed PEDC test. That could mean he's finished for his career as a team would have to sign him to finish out the back end of the suspension assuming he's on a 1year deal.

Mookie Betts needs to be PED tested

Orioles have 13 runs in the 7 inning..no home runs

Seems like every Jays game I watch, they lose and when I don't watch, they win....

If they can win the socks series away it would seem like they are back in business.... But we shall wait and see

Last night the Orioles scored 13 runs without a home run
Tonight they scored 12 off 7 home runs

LOL

First team to homer in 5 consecutive innings this year
7 hrs ties the most allowed by the Red Sox in a game ever

Smelly Kelly and Porcello fuck up what could have been good early season lead for the Sox.

Tonight was on your bullpen.

Ouch..the Padres blew a 12-2 lead on the Mariners and its 16-12 Mariners now

holy fuck

Damn it, Droford. Stop stealing my thunder.

In all seriousness I'm glad this is happening to the Padres. Their sorry front office/ownership sat on their hands and tried to bandaid a shit team, selling it as a competitor.

Instead of trading Tyson Ross, Derek Norris, James Shields and possibly Matt Kemp and Andrew Cashner to try and pile up as much young talent as possible, they fooled themselves into thinking they were decent.

Now they're fucking good God almighty awful and there's zero help on the farm. This is what happens when your ownership thinks creating a winner happens overnight.

Slick series of cuts by director/cameras prior to final pitch... respect...

Mad Bum had a Superwin yesterday just to point out..

Also..the Orioles are back tied with the Red Sox for 1st after beating the Yankees 6-5

Jays are really starting to heat up. Dickey was incredible tonight

ChiSox and Padres agree in principle to trade James Shields.

For what, exactly?

Padres want Fernando Tatis, Jr. but no confirmation yet

it's Tatis Jr. and RHP Erik Johnson

WOOOO we added some decent pitcher to our super shitty team.

Jason Hammel scores a superwin with a 2 run double against the DBacks.

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Padres probably hoping Shields opts out this offseason since they'd only be on the hook for this year's share of the money owed.

If the ChiSox can stay in it long enough, I think Shields sticks around. 2 games separate 1-4 in the AL Central right now.

If they fall out, he's gone.

Mark Teixeira to the 15-day DL. Here's hoping he avoids the season ending surgery. Can probably ship him off to some sucker team for some prospects.

Season's pretty much a loss anyway right now.

Os were losing 7-0 to the Yankees going into the 7th and 3 homers and zero outs later its 7-6

I like Tatis but realistically this is just a salary dump with the Padres getting two lottery tickets in return. I'll take it.