All-Star Game Open Thread
Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 4:58pm
Ted Lilly should be available for an inning tonight....chat is open for those interested. Evan Longoria will sit out with an infected fingertip and Michael Young takes his spot in the lineup...Chone Figgins his roster spot.
| * Ichiro Suzuki RF | Hanley Ramirez SS |
| Derek Jeter SS | *Chase Utley 2B |
| * Joe Mauer C | Albert Pujols 1B |
| # Mark Teixeira 1B | Ryan Braun LF |
| Jason Bay LF | * Raul Ibanez RF |
| *Josh Hamilton CF | David Wright 3B |
| Michael Young 3B | # Shane Victorino CF |
| Aaron Hill 2B | Yadier Molina C |
| Roy Halladay P | * Tim Lincecum P |
If you're passing on the All-Star game, Dave Pinto at Baseball Musings is doing a brief rundown of all 30 teams at the break, here's the Cubs entry. Over at The Bleacher Report, the top 20 Cubs transactions since 1990...I think #17 is silly for a list that seems to be intended to be serious, I mean, if you want to talk about transactions that involved just getting rid of a player, moving Michael Barrett in 2007 probably had a bigger perceived impact than moving LaTroy Hawkins.
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#1 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Lilly got booed, and took it like a champ.
#2 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
All I care about is Hamilton, Hanley and Braun coming out of it healthy. Not going to watch, though.
#3 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
gametime in 2 and 1/2 hours...can't wait.
these 3 hour pre-games are murder.
#4 Sotomayor vs. '77 Royals
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/7/13wexler.html
GEORGE BRETT: Perhaps we should change the subject a little. In his confirmation hearing a few years back, now Chief Justice Roberts analogized the role of the judge to the role of the umpire. Do you agree with that characterization? And specifically, do you think that it would be unconstitutional to waterboard Tim McClelland?
SONIA SOTOMAYOR: I'm sorry. Tim McCllelland?
GEORGE BRETT: I'll phrase it another way. Let's say, for example, that a hypothetical rule prohibited the use of pine tar on any bat higher than eighteen inches above the tip of the handle. Would you strictly construe that provision as it applies to someone who has just hit a game winning home run?
WILLIE WILSON: And, also, would you legalize cocaine?
#6 Re: Sotomayor vs. '77 Royals
Love the parody, Rob. I'm not sure why I think it's funny, but I do. It captures the Zen of Supreme Court confirmation hearings so nicely.
#5 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Is Steroid Week finally over?
#8 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
yeah, but we still have 1 day without baseball that counts and 2 without cubs baseball.
the best part for me...it's @WAS and the 1st 2 games are on CSN...which means it's in my blackout area so i don't get to see any cubs til their saturday game on WGN. oh boy!
not only do i live 4 hours from DC...my cable co. doesn't offer any of the channels WAS games are shown on. i'm also in BAL's blackout zone and only see the handful of games on Fox Sports East.
this is one of my "i pay $160 a year for what now?" times of the season.
#9 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
just 1 day...Cubs play Thursday...
#10 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
For me this weekend's games in Washington are just another reason not to watch. That is easily the worst park in professional sports for watching a game on TV. Whomever designed it, or whomever told the designers what they wanted, decided to put the main camera that's behind home plate up on the roof or damn near the roof. Whenever a ball is hit in play the TV angle is atrocious. And it's impossible to judge fly balls at that angle. My solution is I just don't watch any game at the Nats. Bad timing with the All Star week means I won't be watching any Cubs games until next week.
#16 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
not to undermine any of your causes, but I'm not sure your boycott is going to be very effective. I do agree about their camera angle to the outfield though...is it okay that I still watch?
Did I mentioned how bored I am over the break?
#55 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
You may all watch. And my boycott is not to change the world, it's just so I don't have to watch that crap. Lol.
#7 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
From Baseball Musings: "When I was at STATS, Inc, we found the direction of the wind at Wrigley affected offensive output greatly." Most of us figured that out before our tenth birthday!
#11 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
A couple years ago I saw the Cubs play the Giants and had really great seats in LF so I could taunt Bonds. One of the things I remember about that game is 3 or 4 balls were hit very well and everyone was just sure it was going to be a home run, only to peter out for warning track fly-outs. Wrigley is a fickle lady.
#19 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
were you working for stats, inc at that time?
#38 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Yeah, I've got a lot of respect for Pinto, STATS, and statheads in general, but comments like that are just ridiculous. It's probably not how Pinto intended, but the way it reads is just chock full of arrogance and implied discovery.
#12 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Not sure if this is new or 3-44, but Pedro to Philly.
#13 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Not 3/44, but disappointing, just the same.
#14 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
zomg, that was so 3/44, it was 6/88...lolz....lollerskates....(internet gang gestures)....please start baseball again.
supposedly for $1M, and another $1.5M in incentives...immediately placed on DL so he can warm up in the minors over the next few weeks.
#15 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Placed on the DL with what, or is this just standard operating procedure?
#17 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
David patton's groin injury...
press release says mild right shoulder strain...just procedural I imagine to get him on the MLB roster right away and so he can get some minor league starts in....
#18 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Clearly this is a made up injury (see the quote below), but who could contest this: another team, the union, MLB or does no one care.
"They said he was throwing much better than he was last year and that he was in tremendous shape," Manuel said after the game. "Then I also hear today that he took a physical. That's about the extent of what I've heard."
Sorry I am bored.
#79 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Doubtful Patton complains. He gets 400k weather he pitches or not. Better than 60 k in Colorado Springs.
#21 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
Puy on DL for being old and bad.
#20 Re: All-Star Game Open Thread
the above post is proof positive why you deserve a kick in the nuts
#22 Bored Speculation
Good morning! I take it everyone here is eagerly anticipating the second half! Me too.
For one day, we get to wish what it would be like to have all those wins under our belts say, if we were Angles fans, or Rangers fans.
Trouble is, they are still 2-3 games between each other in the standings. Ain't baseball great? I still have a bit of trouble with the divisions and 30+ teams, but I guess the economy will take care of the ones who are faltering.
Who do ya'll thing will be the first team to fold? If the Rangers weren't near first I think they would go under. DFW fans are baseball fair weather and a lot of times the Rangers' AA team in Frisco outdraws them. This is Dallas (read Arlington) Cowboys country. Here's my list of the top 3 that might struggle for existence:
1. Kansas City Royals
2. Toronto Blue Jays
3. Washington Nats
Not in any order, of course and probably not this year. Bailouts are not the sole property of banks and GM, so it's possible fan Obama will bail baseball out also. It will be interesting however, if Bud Selig DOES take from the Yankees and give to the poor. Clark Howard on his TV show said fans can gets $1.00 nosebleed tickets at Braves games and bring your own food for a savings of 75 bucks per seat, but that doesn't help the team survive. Anyone?
#24 Re: Bored Speculation
SD Padres.
BTW... Their DL is ridiculous:
D. Eckstein 2B/SS 15-day Strained right hamstring
H. Blanco C 15-day Strained right hamstring
C. Floyd RF 60-day Torn labrum in right shoulder
C. Young SP 15-day Right shoulder inflammation
B. Giles RF 15-day Right knee contusion
N. Hundley C 15-day Left wrist contusion
J. Peavy SP 15-day Strained tendon in right ankle
S. Hill SP 60-day Right elbow inflammation
M. Worrell RP 60-day Right elbow surgery - out for season
C. Baek SP/RP 60-day Strained right forearm
Their DL alone is a pretty good team.
#26 Re: Bored Speculation
Other than Peavy, who is good on that team?
My thought, before I saw that last comment, was that even a health team, with everyone of those players on the active roster, that is still a bad team.
#27 Re: Bored Speculation
Okay, Dave, that was hyperbole. I said it because they have so many of their best players on the DL.
*sigh*
I'll run all my future comments by you first.
#28 Re: Bored Speculation
Although it says a lot about the state of the Padres' DL when I make a comment like that and someone takes it literally...
#29 Re: Bored Speculation
Ryno... not trying to be an ass. I just thought it was interesting that I had a completely different response when I saw that list of players.
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