Sir Stewart Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 I totally care that Kate saw doubter on TV. Maybe this will help to conjure him back into the VC vortex....I do too. I was just yoking about the RTT Jorge. Link to post Share on other sites
greg Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 t minus 13 days 6 hours 34 minutes 19 seconds until the return Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 To be taken with a grain of salt, of course, but a writer at mlb.com selects Matsuzaka ahead of Santana for the AL Cy Young this year. Obviously it's just a bit early to predict, but these lists are amusing to peruse nonetheless:http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20...s&fext=.jsp Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Oh yeah, Matsuzaka is also picked as the runner-up to Delmon Young for AL ROY (see same link).... Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Don't you get too excited - after all, you have Braden Looper in your starting rotation. That's obviously why LaRussa has been drinking so much. oh, I don't expect the Cardinals to do much - nor the Sox - 500 ball for both. However, that doesn't mean I won't be watching excessive amounts of it Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 One bright spot of following the Texas Rangers... I get to follow the best young infield in the AL Michael Young Mark Teixeira Ian Kinsler Hank Blaylock Link to post Share on other sites
feilfs01 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 One bright spot of following the Texas Rangers... I get to follow the best young infield in the AL Michael Young Mark Teixeira Ian Kinsler Hank Blaylock SAM-MY!!!! SAM-MY!!!! SAM-MY!!!!!SAH ME SOSA...I lah heem!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I never knew the Texas Rangers actually had fans.... Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 SAM-MY!!!! SAM-MY!!!! SAM-MY!!!!!SAH ME SOSA...I lah heem!!! A return engagement for Sammy... We STILL hate Harlod fucking Baines here. Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Yeah, but you guys had Juan Gone. Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I never knew the Texas Rangers actually had fans.... Nice... Kick a man when his team is down. We had a great run in the mid-90's, but had to face the Yankees all three years in the first round of the playoffs. Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Yeah, but you guys had Juan Gone. Yes indeed we did...and Pudge Rodriguez and Reuben Sierra. What Sierra did to himself is a tragedy. He muscled up and lost his limberness and bat speed. (May have been roids, may have been just too much pumping iron. Letting Pudge go was a TERRIBLE mistake. 'He's caught too many innings, he's gonna break down. He doesn't know how to handle a pitching staff". BULL SHIT He's won his ring...almost got another with Detroit. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 We had a great run in the mid-90's, but had to face the Yankees all three years in the first round of the playoffs.Right around the time that co-GM W. Bush sold off Sammy, no? Amazing how Bush "invested" around $600,000 for under a 2% portion of the team with other people's money and came away $14-15 million richer under a decade later by selling that same percentage back. Amazing. Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Because they got a publicly-funded stadium. Don't forget that. Small government, except for friends. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Nice... Kick a man when his team is down. We had a great run in the mid-90's, but had to face the Yankees all three years in the first round of the playoffs. I am only teasing - though seriously, I have never actually met a Rangers fan. Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 oh, I don't expect the Cardinals to do much - nor the Sox - 500 ball for both. However, that doesn't mean I won't be watching excessive amounts of it The Cardinals had a .516 record last year and won the World Series. It's all about peaking at the right time. Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 The Cards also had a boatload of injuries to deal with on their way to finishing at .516. Yeah, they were playing their best ball when it counted most, but it also helped to have everyone healthy. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 With the beginning of another season I offer up a sappy yet poignant quote to help kick things off. If anyone has read A Great and Glorious Game, they know that this man had a sincere passion for the game of baseball. I've always dug this guy- partly because I went to high school down the street from Yale (even had his wife as a teacher and their kids as classmates) where he was President from the mid-70s to mid-80s, partly because he was a hard-core Red Sox fan, partly because he was a serious man of Literature, but mostly because he was a fair and decent man. Banning Pete Rose for life from the game wasn't an easy decision, and it weighed heavy on him (as did the three-pack-a-day smoking habit) but in the end he did what he thought was the right thing to do for The Game. "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." -A. Bartlett Giamatti And: "When I was seven years old, my father took me to Fenway Park for the first time, and as I grew up I knew that as a building it was on the level with Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's Capitol, the Czar's Winter Palace and the Louvre. Except, of course, that it was better than all those inconsequential places." Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 well playing .500 ball will be worse for the Sox than the Cards - no way can you contend in the AL Central with that kind of record. Last year Ozzie said that winning 90 games should be a ticket to the postseason......bzzzzzzz wrong. -- and.....today is the day!!! woooohoooo! Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." -A. Bartlett GiamattiI'll miss Jerry Trupiano reading that on the air this year. Link to post Share on other sites
Willkoman Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I'll go into the 2007 season like I have since I was 10. Excited! Link to post Share on other sites
rareair Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 having just completed watching a run of spring training games in florida last week, i am ready for tonight and wish my first name was nook. self-proclaimed holiday tomorrow afternoon as well. this may be the cubs best chance to get over .500, and i am not going to miss it. Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Baseball all day tomorrow. This rules. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 it's time..... Link to post Share on other sites
Kicking_Television Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 They aren't gonna be out of nowhere this year... I'm quite excited, however have class at the exact same time as their first pitch Link to post Share on other sites
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