Not-So-Obnoxious Baseball Thread

[rjwhite41]

Braun IS clean. Not gonna say one way or the other about Pujols, cause I dunno.

You don't know about Braun either. We don't know about anybody. I'll believe Braun but a Brewer fan attacking Pujols, who's NEVER failed a test, doesn't have a leg to stand on. Braun failed a test, even if the validity of that test may be in question.

 

[iaefebs]

It's baseball... can we forget about the drug tests? It seems to have happened, maybe, most assuredly, I don't care... it's 2012. A new year.

 

[scrambledegg81]

Wow...I really hope you all caught the Giants/Phillies game tonight. Without a doubt the best pitchers' duel I've EVER seen in 30 years of watching baseball. Cain vs. Lee, 2012...one for the history books.

 

[McBrewskie]

Pujols used roids but Braun is clean. Sure

Braun was using too. I'm a giants fan though and have no doubt Bonds was a user and shouldn't be in the HOF.

 

[McBrewskie]

Wow...I really hope you all caught the Giants/Phillies game tonight. Without a doubt the best pitchers' duel I've EVER seen in 30 years of watching baseball. Cain vs. Lee, 2012...one for the history books.

Game was unbelievable. Great pitchers duel.

 

[joelrapp]

my one wish for this year would be for the moderators to delete every account on here of people who say that they like the yankees or the red sox. I'd rather watch an Astros v Pirates game than yankees v red sox. Sorry just don't have 12 hrs of free time to invest just to get to the 3rd inning. I am so sick of both of these teams. ESPN will carry 4 games in the next week all will have either or both the yankees and red sox. I long for a team I can really cheer for but alas being in Indianapolis I am stuck with being a bastard mutt of a cubs/reds/cards fan.

 

[joelrapp]

Braun IS clean. Not gonna say one way or the other about Pujols, cause I dunno.

Just made a light beer based loosely on Miller Lite, named it Ryan Braun's failed piss test ale. Funny thing is being based on Miller Lite it tastes like piss.

 

[rjwhite41]

Braun was using too. I'm a giants fan though and have no doubt Bonds was a user and shouldn't be in the HOF.

I disagree. There wasn't a rule against use at the time therefore Bonds didn't break any rules. Put him in the Hall, Clemens too. And Rose. The Hall is for the greatest players of all time and Bonds was definitely one of them. Besides, how do we know anyone already in the Hall didn't use? I guarantee there's amphetamine users in there. The football HOF certainly doesn't discriminate.

 

[Wolfhound180]

my one wish for this year would be for the moderators to delete every account on here of people who say that they like the yankees or the red sox. I'd rather watch an Astros v Pirates game than yankees v red sox. Sorry just don't have 12 hrs of free time to invest just to get to the 3rd inning. I am so sick of both of these teams. ESPN will carry 4 games in the next week all will have either or both the yankees and red sox. I long for a team I can really cheer for but alas being in Indianapolis I am stuck with being a bastard mutt of a cubs/reds/cards fan.

How about my Rangers owning the sox for the past 2 games? I love it!

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

How about my Rangers owning the sox for the past 2 games? I love it!

Wait a minute. YOUR Rangers? You're from Ohio! I have about a thousand posts on here touting the greatness of the Rangers! JK Yes, be a Ranger fan. That's a team worth supporting.

Now, how about the retirement of Pudge? Quite possibly the greatest Ranger of all time??? I love that although he has been playing for other teams, he is going to come back to Arlington to retire as a Ranger. Pudge is the man and I can't wait for them to retire his number and hang it in the outfield! Wish I could be there Monday night when they honor him in the pre-game.

 

[Wolfhound180]

Wait a minute. YOUR Rangers? You're from Ohio! I have about a thousand posts on here touting the greatness of the Rangers! JK Yes, be a Ranger fan. That's a team worth supporting.

Now, how about the retirement of Pudge? Quite possibly the greatest Ranger of all time??? I love that although he has been playing for other teams, he is going to come back to Arlington to retire as a Ranger. Pudge is the man and I can't wait for them to retire his number and hang it in the outfield! Wish I could be there Monday night when they honor him in the pre-game.

Yea I grew up in Grapevine so The Rangers are the only baseball team that I love. I think that it is awesome that pudge is going to retire in Texas. It's funny, him and I have a mutual friend and I have been to his house a few times. Pretty cool getting to touch all of those gold gloves with my bare hands! I know for a fact that he would t remember me though.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

I'll bet that was just cool as hell to get to see. Good to have another Ranger supporter on here!

 

[passedpawn]

Now, how about the retirement of Pudge? Quite possibly the greatest Ranger of all time???

Nolan Ryan?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Nolan Ryan?

That is always a valid arguemnt, but Nolan was only here 4 years. Pudge was here the first 12 years of his career and won a ton of awards. There is no arguement about Nolan's contribution, but I would suggest that Nolan's contribution now, is bigger than then.

 

[joelrapp]

Ryan hands down no questions

 

[Bernie Brewer]

You don't know about Braun either. We don't know about anybody. I'll believe Braun but a Brewer fan attacking Pujols, who's NEVER failed a test, doesn't have a leg to stand on. Braun failed a test, even if the validity of that test may be in question.

Braun didn't fail a test. He won his appeal, therefore he did not fail his test. So therefore I DO know about Braun (and Pujols, too, I suppose) until it is proven differently

 

[rjwhite41]

Braun didn't fail a test. He won his appeal, therefore he did not fail his test. So therefore I DO know about Braun (and Pujols, too, I suppose) until it is proven differently

I'm not going after Braun, I promise you that. I'm just defending Pujols. Braun did fail a test. A test with his name on it failed and he won an appeal questioning the handling of that test, but at this point it's just semantics. I just get sick of people pointing fingers at players who have never failed a test (throw Braun in there if you like) simply based on their domination of the game. I would honestly be shocked if Pujols juiced. I have no opinion on Braun since I'm not a Brewers fan but I was shocked that at the result of the test. Roids is just a $hitty excuse for why your rivals repeatedly beat your team (I do not mean you specifically). People need to just leave it be, there's testing and rules in place now.

 

[iaefebs]

OK I admit the Rangers may be the best team in baseball. I think Beating Scherzer was a given, I think the first three runs in the first game today were real, the rest was garbage luck. But taking Verlander to 115 pitches in 6 innings? That was good baseball.

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

The first game was a lot more than the second but the second game was much better! I hate the loss, but taking it to Verlander like that was pretty awesome!

 

[iaefebs]

I agree, . Verlander was on,and the pitches were good, he had good movement, Rangers were able to foul them off and extend at bats, the Rangers were up to the task

 

[jdjtexas]

I'm glad to see my rangers are getting the respect they deserve... My entire childhood I watched as they idled on by never achieving much and now 2 yrs in a row a world series and lookin good again this year

 

[scrambledegg81]

Bam!! Giants take the double-header from the Mets, with some massive multi-run homers and a double play that was absolutely NUTS. Backhanded glove throw by Burriss to an open handed grab by Crawford at second, rifle to first....

AND Sandoval ties Willie Mays' record in games batted at 16.

*swoon* :fro:

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Wow! And that is the reason Darvish is worth all that he got! 8 1/3 shut out innings his first time facing the spankees! It was a thing of beauty! 10 K's!! Some excerpts...

''You hear a lot of guys get hyped and he was everything that you'd heard,'' Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira said. ''We had a gameplan to make him throw strikes, and he definitely did that. If you tried to be patient you're down 0-1, 0-2. If you tried to be aggressive every pitch seemed like it started in the zone, then moved out of the zone.''

''He's good. You have to give credit to the way he pitched,'' Cano said. ''He didn't miss any pitch over the plate.''

"He has a lot of different pitches. We really didn't know what to expect," Jeter said. "He had the fastball, two-seamer, cutter, four-seamer, curveball, slider, change-up -- he's got pretty much everything."

Just awesome. And to make things even better, our rival, the Angels, lost again! Hot Damn. Let's go RANGERS!!

 

[McBrewskie]

Bam!! Giants take the double-header from the Mets, with some massive multi-run homers and a double play that was absolutely NUTS. Backhanded glove throw by Burriss to an open handed grab by Crawford at second, rifle to first....

AND Sandoval ties Willie Mays' record in games batted at 16.

*swoon* :fro:

That was awesome. Then we got to see the effects of a late double-header last night. Oh well, looking good.

 

[passedpawn]

Mariano Rivera down. Knee injury, hopefully not bad.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21128441&topic_id=8878548

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Possibly career ending! Wow. I hate the yanks, but I hate to see this happen to him. Helluva pitcher!

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Possibly career ending! Wow. I hate the yanks, but I hate to see this happen to him. Helluva pitcher!

Possibly career ending because he was gonna retire after this year anyway. So in this case year-ending=career ending. If it had happened to someone younger I doubt if it would have been "career ending". Even so, it's a sh!tty way to end it all.

 

[motobrewer]

booo-ers.

when did it become 1994?

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Possibly career ending because he was gonna retire after this year anyway. So in this case year-ending=career ending. If it had happened to someone younger I doubt if it would have been "career ending". Even so, it's a sh!tty way to end it all.

Didn't know he was planning on retiring this year. But your right, either way, it sucks to end like that.

 

[McBrewskie]

**** the Yankees.