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Ric
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861st Post Sat Sep 6th, 2008 05:20 pm | |
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that money can't make me happy.
"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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stemyn
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862nd Post Sat Sep 6th, 2008 10:07 pm | |
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Ric wrote: sigh
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
Reggie Jackson
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Ric
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863rd Post Sat Sep 6th, 2008 10:11 pm | |
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| Gallaraga walked 6 today.Gave up a Granny and a solo.. lost 10-2. But the greatness will show thru, I'm sure... he is sure to make the Rangers look foolish, right?
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that money can't make me happy.
"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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Mark
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864th Post Sat Sep 6th, 2008 11:20 pm | |
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This year's AL season end awards should be very easy to make....
MVP: Pedroia (The other contenders (Kinsler and Quentin) suffered season ending injuries)
Cy Young: Lee (though KRod will get lots of votes)
Manager of year: Maddon (Will ANYbody dispute this one?)
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865th Post Sat Sep 6th, 2008 11:34 pm | |
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The managers:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/coach
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Ric
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866th Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 12:57 am | |
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| I agree.. but a season ending injury shouldn't rule out a candiacy for an award...
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that money can't make me happy.
"There are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary. And there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance."
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LEB
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867th Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 03:45 am | |
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| Kinsler had a wonderful season but even before the injury I believed Hamilton was the MVP of this team and if I had a vote would cast it for Josh for league MVP.
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stemyn
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868th Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 09:55 am | |
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Rangers showed some offense Saturday. Sure was nice to be there. It was nice to see the Red Sox nation shut up for a while. Once it hit 13-4, they started sliding out. A lot of them did not get to see the last 4 in the 9th inning.
Harrison looked good at times, but overall not so good. His record is good, but only because the Rangers are scoring runs when he pitches.
He sure gets a lot of fly ball outs.
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Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
Reggie Jackson
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Dave C
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869th Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 04:35 pm | |
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| Today will be a big test for McCarthy.
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LEB
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870th Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 05:11 pm | |
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I think McCarthy has come along well. Whether he throws a no-hitter or gets knocked out in the first inning, I don't think this a crucial test for Brandon.
The important thing is he stays healthy and is prepared for next spring.
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Dave C
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871st Post Sun Sep 7th, 2008 05:49 pm | |
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| Well, I agree, I don't think a bad outing will cause him to fall out of the mix or anything like that. But, if he can somehow continue what he's done the last two outings against a team of mashers like Boston, that would make the biggest statement that he's made to date.
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Mark
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872nd Post Mon Sep 8th, 2008 12:08 am | |
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Ric wrote: I agree.. but a season ending injury shouldn't rule out a candiacy for an award...
Every situation is certainly different, but if an injury causes a player to miss the final month of the season (Quentin) or the final six weeks of the season (Kinsler), then that player's overall contribution to his team is compromised.
Another post season award to think about is comeback player......Percival? Bradley? Wheeler? Ryan?
I'll bet this one goes to Percival or Ryan.
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Mark
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873rd Post Wed Sep 10th, 2008 04:09 am | |
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September baseball in the East.....
The Rays took down Papelbon in Boston tonight.
The AL power structure is changing.
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LEB
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874th Post Wed Sep 10th, 2008 04:15 am | |
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Dave C wrote: Well, I agree, I don't think a bad outing will cause him to fall out of the mix or anything like that. But, if he can somehow continue what he's done the last two outings against a team of mashers like Boston, that would make the biggest statement that he's made to date.
Well, Brandon got hit hard but it's no big deal. His comeback looks good and gives promise for next year.
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LEB
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875th Post Wed Sep 10th, 2008 04:16 am | |
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Mark wrote: September baseball in the East.....
The Rays took down Papelbon in Boston tonight.
The AL power structure is changing.
Getting rid of the "Devil" paid off, huh? 
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Soup
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876th Post Wed Sep 10th, 2008 04:22 am | |
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Mark wrote: September baseball in the East.....
The Rays took down Papelbon in Boston tonight.
The AL power structure is changing. Maybe. But the Red Sox will probably win the division. TB is below .500 on the road at 33-36 and they play 12 of their last 19 there. Boston has only lost 20 games at home and they play 12 of their next 18 at home. If their season-long trends play out, Boston will win it by 1 or 2 games.
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Ric
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877th Post Thu Sep 11th, 2008 06:22 pm | |
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THE NEWBERG REPORT
Taylor Teagarden likes major league pitchers. Some seem to have taken a particular liking to him as well, but only those wearing the same uniform.
The 24-year-old, who hit .315/.448/.606 for Bakersfield and .294/.357/.529 for Frisco in his breakout 2007 season, with a combined 28 doubles, 27 home runs, and 83 RBI in just 110 games played, hit just .211/.319/.374 between Frisco and Oklahoma this year, with seven doubles, nine home runs, and 22 RBI in 73 games. He hit .188/.381/.313 for Team USA in Beijing, with two doubles among his three hits in 16 at-bats.
There's no reliable trend in those numbers, other than Teagarden's proven ability to reach base even when he's not hitting. He's a walk machine.
That is, until you look at his big league statistics, which include zero bases on balls in 20 at-bats.
Then again, a .350 on-base is a .350 on-base, and you'd gladly take three home runs, a double, and three singles in those 20 trips, knowing that even when that .350/.350/.850 line comes back to earth, Teagarden will probably start to add some walks to the ledger, as he always does. He's going to reach base.
But as Teagarden's manager said, after his latest effort, which included a run-scoring single off Feliz Hernandez and a two-run double off Randy Messenger last night: "The catcher's job is to have a positive impact on the pitcher, and Taylor Teagarden is doing a good job of that. He's been in sync with the guys on the mound. What he hits is not important to me. It's how he gets his pitchers through innings is important."
Starting pitchers, in Teagarden starts, have a 3-2, 3.16 mark in five games, which included, on one hand, two bad lines -- one from Kevin Millwood (Teagarden's debut, which was also his only hitless game in the bigs) and one from Brandon McCarthy -- and on the other, three efforts (Vicente Padilla, Dustin Nippert, and Padilla again) in which the starter gave up no earned runs.
Weighing in on the catcher situation a week ago, I suggested that if it were me, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia's elbow progresses enough this off-season to attract the kind of starting pitching offers that Texas is looking for, I'd trade Saltalamacchia and go with Gerald Laird and Teagarden as my catcher duo next year, and possibly in 2010, Laird's final season before free agency.
I'm not going to get carried away with .350/.350/.850 yet, but Teagarden's work behind the plate -- which, unlike the production at the plate, meets squarely with expectations set for the University of Texas product since his third-round arrival in 2005 -- is doing nothing but strengthening my conviction on that idea.
Teagarden probably isn't ready to catch 140 games in the big leagues, but he's absolutely ready to catch big league pitchers, manage big league game plans behind the plate, and run into his share of home runs and reach base while at the plate. We may decide next summer or next winter that he's ready to step in fulltime, making the idea of trading Laird at that point more palatable, and maybe Ramirez or Manuel Pina will give the Rangers confidence that they're ready to catch once a week to smooth that transition.
But for now, at a time when Teagarden was expected to be rounding out a minor league season en route to a November addition to the 40-man roster, he's been one of the really good, really encouraging stories of the Rangers'
second half, and I'm all but certain at this point that he's the least likely of the Rangers' four major league-ready catchers to be traded this winter.
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878th Post Thu Sep 11th, 2008 07:34 pm | |
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Soup wrote: Mark wrote: September baseball in the East.....
The Rays took down Papelbon in Boston tonight.
The AL power structure is changing. Maybe. But the Red Sox will probably win the division. TB is below .500 on the road at 33-36 and they play 12 of their last 19 there. Boston has only lost 20 games at home and they play 12 of their next 18 at home. If their season-long trends play out, Boston will win it by 1 or 2 games.
The Rays had lost 6 of 7 going into beantown, but they've won two in a row at Fenway, including a thriller last night in xtra innings!
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Soup
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879th Post Thu Sep 11th, 2008 08:38 pm | |
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| I saw that. Nothing is for certain, just basing it on year-long trends. TB is not a great road team and most of their remaining games are on the road.
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880th Post Thu Sep 11th, 2008 09:40 pm | |
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Soup wrote: I saw that. Nothing is for certain, just basing it on year-long trends. TB is not a great road team and most of their remaining games are on the road.
We'll see, but that's the best story in baseball. Worst team in the majors since they were formed and now, headed for the playoffs. The Mets were awful, but that was only for seven years before they won it all. In ten years, TB had never won more than 70 games in a season.
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