Warning!! Danger!! Annual Off-topic Baseball Thread '07!! Beware!!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

I hate to do this to Chuck, but Cleveland rocks!

Why is it all about Chuck?

The Cleveland pitching staff rocks. Westbrook did his thing. Jensen Lewis? Who? Betancourt tamed the big boppers last night in the 8th. Even Borowski looked sharp closing last night.

Rock on.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Rock on.

Indeed.

[Nevadaref]

Game 4
Cleveland 7, Boston 3

It looks as if the Sox will be fortunate to get the series back to Boston.

Now where's my Chief Wahoo? Found it.

[mick]

Sabathia, 27, is a hulking lefty — he's 6-7 and weighs 290 pounds — with a repertoire of fastballs sliders and changeups. - usatoday.com

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by mick

Sabathia, 27, is a hulking lefty — he's 6-7 and weighs 290 pounds

For those of you who don't know, my college roommate and I visit a couple ballparks each summer, hoping eventually to visit all the MLB ballparks. (I mention this mainly for Dan, who may not have been aware of these trips.)

Anyway, when we were in St. Petersburg this summer, the Devil Rays were playing Cleveland, and Sabathia happened to be starting. Around the 4th inning, when he seemed to be struggling, a Cleveland fan next to me yelled, "C'mon, C.C. Put your gut into it!!"

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

For those of you who don't know, my college roommate and I visit a couple ballparks each summer, hoping eventually to visit all the MLB ballparks. (I mention this mainly for Dan, who may not have been aware of these trips.)

[ChuckElias]

It worked!!!!

[mick]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Anyway, when we were in St. Petersburg this summer, the Devil Rays were playing Cleveland, and Sabathia happened to be starting. Around the 4th inning, when he seemed to be struggling, a Cleveland fan next to me yelled, "C'mon, C.C. Put your gut into it!!"

So he's more bulking than hulking ?

[BLydic]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

a Cleveland fan next to me yelled, "C'mon, C.C. Put your gut into it!!"

If he put his gut into it, he'd be a 20 gamer for sure

Go tribe!

[ChuckElias]

Ok, I'm the first to admit that Manny should be running hard out of the box. But that ball was a HR. Buck and McCarver said they couldn't tell, even on replay, but that's BS. It was gone.

[BktBallRef]

Good for you, Joe Torre!

Screw'em.

[BktBallRef]

Chuck, wtf is Beckett yelling at Lofton about? That was weird.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Chuck, wtf is Beckett yelling at Lofton about? That was weird.

It probably had something to do with dropping the bat on the strike call right before. It's one thing to think it was ball four, it's another when the pitch was pretty easily a strike.

Turned into a typical baseball melee:

"Yo' Mama!"

No, yo' Mama!"

Oh, yea?!? Yo' Mama!!"

...grumble...grumble...(back to dugout).

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Ok, I'm the first to admit that Manny should be running hard out of the box. But that ball was a HR. Buck and McCarver said they couldn't tell, even on replay, but that's BS. It was gone.

It looked to me like it hit right on the front corner/edge of he wall; that's why it bounced back on the field. But is the yellow line in or out? I would think the ball has to go over the line to be a HR?

[mick]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

It looked to me like it hit right on the front corner/edge of he wall; that's why it bounced back on the field. But is the yellow line in or out? I would think the ball has to go over the line to be a HR?

YU.P.
"A fly ball hits the top of the left-center field fence and bounds into the grandstand: homerun." - Rules of Professional Baseball