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

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Do you remember who the hottest team after the All-Star break was last season? Of course you do not. No one cares who is hot. Just like I told a coach during a summer league I will say the same thing to you. "Since when did they start putting up banners in June and July?"

And I'm doing the same thing parents do in June and July - get excited over what's happening right now. I know what happens now doesn't necessarily reflect on what happens in Oct., and I know the best team doesn't always win in Oct. So, I'm excited now.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

They are still the champions until someone else wins the World Series.

Where can I start impeachment procedings?

Originally Posted by JRutledge

When the Cubbies fall off, then what is going to be your excuse?

Wait 'till next year!

(Duh...)

Originally Posted by JRutledge

BTW, who did the Cubs lose too tonight?

Don't know - I was watching The Beverly Hillbillies.

Thought I heard a rumor though that the Cubs took 2 out of 3 from the World Champs, in the house of the World Champs?

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I heard this on a talk show yesterday. Honestly, I think this is a silly issue. The next one he hits will be the 500th one that he has hit. I think the Elias sports bureau has gotten this one wrong. It's just silly.

So, are you saying they consider the makeup the same as playing on the original date?

Let's say A-Rod punches out Giambi in the dugout (I dunno, could happen...), and gets suspended 5 games, starting immediately (7/27). Are you saying he could still play in the makeup, because the makeup is actually being played before the suspension takes effect?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

I heard this on a talk show yesterday. Honestly, I think this is a silly issue. The next one he hits will be the 500th one that he has hit. I think the Elias sports bureau has gotten this one wrong. It's just silly.

And it makes that nonsense about bringing in specially holographed and marked nuclear powered gold plated wireless enabled with integrated video camera and cup holder baseballs in for his plate appearances seem even sillier.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

So, are you saying they consider the makeup the same as playing on the original date?

Let's say A-Rod punches out Giambi in the dugout (I dunno, could happen...), and gets suspended 5 games, starting immediately (7/27). Are you saying he could still play in the makeup, because the makeup is actually being played before the suspension takes effect?

The rule, 10.23 (d), states: "All performances in the completion of a suspended game shall be considered as occurring on the original date of the game."

I guess Bud would hafta decide what is considered a performance?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Let's say A-Rod punches out Giambi in the dugout (I dunno, could happen...), and gets suspended 5 games, starting immediately (7/27).

Inmplausable scenario (that means a third world play for you Chicago public school graduates).

Why would they suspend anyone for punching out Giambi?

oops...ahem...well, I'll see you guys later

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Exactly!!!!
Do you remember who the hottest team after the All-Star break was last season? Of course you do not.

Peace

Yes, It was the Twins.

I remember this only because they caught my Tigers....with a lotta help from the Royals.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Why would they suspend anyone for punching out Giambi?

Ooh, good point.

Btw, I stayed far away from Chicago Public schools. I are a gradute from the suburbs.

(So, I guess that means you have to type slower for me.)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Here's a question for you stat freakos.....

A-Rod hit his 499th homerun on Wednesday of this week. The Yankees are finishing a game tonight with Baltimore that was suspended from last June 28. If he homers in the suspended game tonight, will that be his 500th. homerun? Or his 499th.?

Neither, it'll be his 493rd. All others will move back one, making last Wednesday's homerun his 500th.
And if he hits two....

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Neither, it'll be his 493rd. All others will move back one, making last Wednesday's homerun his 500th.
And if he hits two....

Then it'll be his 492nd?

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

That's half the answer...it happened twice.

Who was the other batter?

Orlando Cepeda for the Braves hit 3 HR off of Bill Hands of the Cubbies the same day. And the last one was a grand slam. Wow. Very cool.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Orlando Cepeda for the Braves hit 3 HR off of Bill Hands of the Cubbies the same day. And the last one was a grand slam. Wow. Very cool.

Congratulations, Skippy. That's more than Chuck Elias knew.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Congratulations, Skippy. That's more than Chuck Elias knew.

That name sounds familiar...

Didn't he invent Sports Bureaus, or somthin'?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

What unusual occurrence took place in baseball on this day in 1970?

The unusual part is that all the home runs came off the same pitcher; but I count at least a half dozen days on which at least two different players hit at least 3 homers in the same game, although not all off the same pitcher.

It happened most recently on September 3, '06 (Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols); and it happened twice in nine days in September of '96.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

That name sounds familiar...

Didn't he invent Sports Bureaus, or somthin'?

Yup, and according to Chuck's other post this a.m., it looks like he has a lot in common with them. Didn't Chuck say that they were silly? They gotta be related somewhere down the line.

They both write small too.

[Dan_ref]

Somehow I feel like I'm in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode...can't figure out why though.