That previous post needed a woooooo! After World Series champs...wooooooo!

Carlos Gomez is cool.

He's from the DR so he's Caribbean Cool. He just wanted to spit in the face of McCann for not being cool.

Was thinking Boons Farm.

He re-hire Scott Boras?

I get it for the LCS, but no game before that.

someone's underestimating the Angels

Skip with another strong point.

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Don't have an issue with them doing it but agree that it doesn't make sense to celebrate all of those as if they were the same status.

Winning the division and/or LCS should be bottle worthy considering how hard it is to do both in MLB.

Ol' Buddy Boy is retiring.

He's set to leave January 2015.

MLB players gettin bottle service week2week

rofl
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Now the Selig has announced his intentions to retire, we get to listen to all the great things Bud Selig has done for baseball.

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My dad shed a tear watching Rivera last night. Felt awkward but then again there were 40+ grown men on the field doing the same thing.

Hate the Yankees but goddamn that was cool. Respect the s out of Rivera.

Marlins fire P.B.O. Larry Beinfest and his special assistant Jim Fleming.

I feel sorry to the executive who takes that job.

Mariano Rivera; That's how a ball player should want to go out.

<font color=goldenrod>Tiebreaker scenarios for the AL Wild Card spots announced.

If all three teams finish the year with the same record, Cleveland hosts Tampa Bay on Monday, September 30th. The winner of that game gets a Wild Card spot. The loser of that game plays at Texas on Tuesday, October 1st for the second Wild Card spot. The actual Wild Card game would follow that on Wednesday, October 2nd. The host team is determined as follows:

If Tampa Bay and Cleveland play, Tampa Bay hosts.
If Tampa Bay and Texas play, Texas hosts.
If Cleveland and Texas play, Cleveland hosts.

Note that this situation only happens in the event of a three way tie for both spots. If two teams tie for the second spot with the third team taking the first spot outright, the tied teams would have a one game playoff with the host determined the same as above. The winner of that game would then travel to the first Wild Card team to play the Wild Card game.</font>

Has there ever been this much fanfare for a guy going out like Rivera before? Seems really weird to me. Like yeah he's the greatest closer of all time but the constant tributes and "moments" seem like a bit much.

Can't imagine what will happen when Jeter leaves.

I was thinking Ripken Jr. had all that going for him when he hung 'em up.

Eric Wedge tells the Mariners he won't return as manager next season.

<font color=goldenrod>To be honest I can't really think of any other player who would deserve a sendoff like Rivera. He's just been ludicrously good his entire career, probably could go another few years at a high level if he really wanted to. But moreover he's always been so humble and such a huge class act. I hate the Yankees and so do a lot of people, but Rivera is the one guy there isn't a bad word to say about.

I don't even know if Jeter would get this kind of sendoff. Then again I'm not sure he's the type who would pre-announce his retirement. He'll turn 40 during next year but if he goes back to putting up Jeter-esque numbers I think he'd just keep going on a year-to-year basis and retire in the offseason when he does hang 'em up.

If he did announce retirement ahead of time I'm sure he'd get honored at each park and everything but it'd probably be more like Chipper Jones' sendoff than Rivera's. The biggest Jeter "moments" would probably come during the ASG and at Yankee Stadium, where he'd almost definitely get the same honor as Mo in having his number retired while still active.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Speaking of honoring players - Mike Piazza goes into the Mets HOF tomorrow and it's shockingly expected to be a sellout crowd. Not bad for a meaningless Mets/Brewers game on a NFL Sunday.

But the Mets have said they still aren't retiring his number. I'll never understand why they're so stingy about this. They haven't given 31 out since Piazza left. It's clear they're never going to give it out again...so just retire it. He's the best hitter you've ever had, you dummies.</font>

Hope the Jays can sweep the Rays. I like the Rays, but I want these games to matter to the Jays

Lol the Jays won with this lineup

SS Reyes
DH Kawasaki
3rd Lawrie
RF Sierra
1B Derosa
CF Gose
2nd Goins
LF Pillar
C Thole

Only Derosa hasn't spent anytime on the DL or the minors this season

Do they have some sort of requirement for retiring numbers?


The Red Sox themselves are pretty strict with their requirements since its both 10 years played on the team and be in the MLB Hall to get a number retired.

Jays giving the Rays a shitkicking again today with only Lind, Reyes and Lawrie in their line up.

Lol 7-1 Jays now in the 5th. Goins and Pillar both hit 2 run home runs. If Tampa gets swept Tampa's 5 fans will be pissed.

Love me some Mike Piazza.

<font color=goldenrod>Nope, the Mets don't have any sort of requirement. There's a panel of like 7 people who vote on the team HOF and whether or not to retire any numbers. So far they've only retired 3 - 2 managers (Casey Stengel and Gil Hodges) and Tom Seaver. The committee has said they don't want it to get to the point where they retire one number and risk opening up Pandora's Box. That's why there are no '86 Mets numbers retired. If you retire Gary Carter's number 8, you open up talk on if 16-18 should also go up for Gooden, Hernandez, and Strawberry since all of them played such huge roles in the Mets' greatest season ever.

I'm glad they don't retire the number of every significant player ever...but I do at least think each "era" should get a number retirement. Keith Hernandez' 17 should go up as he was really the leader of the Mets through most of the '80s. Carter only spent 5 years with the Mets, but he was a co-captain so if they were to put 8 up as well I wouldn't mind. Both numbers are out of circulation anyway so it makes little sense to not officially retire them. Gooden's 16 and Strawberry's 18 don't really have much of a case, they were great but should have been HOF'ers if not for the off field problems. 17 and possibly 8 is fine to do the '80s justice.

Then you throw Piazza's 31 up for the late '90s early 00's, and from there you don't have to worry about retiring another number until 2020 Wright (who already has most of the team records and will have a HUGE lead in everything by the time he's done) retires. That would be 6 or 7 numbers retired over about 60 years. That's really not that bad.</font>

Giants lock up Hunter Pence for 5-years, $90 mil.

And not 1 fuck was given.

I thought Pence was done last year. He looked slow and old... but managed to pull himself together again. Not so sure about 5 years

Gonna miss Andy Pettitte

Andy fucking Pettitte with a CG to close it out

did he win?

Yep. Complete game.