WARNING!!! WARNING!! Annual off-topic baseball thread!!

[mick]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
History for the Tampa Devil Rays!! Not that they've really had much history to talk about. But Jonny Gomes is the first Ray to hit 3 HRs in a single game. And they even won. Will wonders never cease?

I also saw that Nomar is due back to the Cubs on Friday. I had thought that he was going to be out for the season. But now, he'll be around to bat .230 for you the rest of the way. And Kerry Wood is also rejoining the team on Friday. Is he going right back into the rotation, or doing a bullpen stint, a la Schilling?

And mick, what the heck set Pudge off last night? That was quite a show he put on after getting tossed.

Pitcher whined.
"The call that angered Rodriguez was an 0-1 pitch to Payton that Barrett called a ball. Pitcher Nate Robertson said Barrett had "given me that pitch" earlier, but Barrett said: "It wasn't even close enough where a catcher would usually argue. It was considerably inside."

[Now, Pudge had to step up for his pitcher, plus Pudge probably just called the pitch that went "grand slam".]

"I warned Pudge a couple of times, but he kept going. When he went too far (with his language), I ejected him." - Detroit Free Press




mick