Warning!! It's Baaaaaack!! Off-topic Baseball Thread '08 !!

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Naming the stadium after the team is fine, of course. Yankee Stadium, Oriole Park and Dodger Stadium are all ok, obviously. Naming after a person or location is ok. I'm sure there are other things that we could include, but the main thing is to EXCLUDE purely corporate names.

Ahhh... so you're basically an anti-capitalist commie pinko tree-hugger that wants to place corporate wealth in the hands of the government.

Don't come crying to me when they rename Fenway Park Hillary Clinton Stadium (both are associated with a swamp so it is appropriate I suppose)

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Or, what if some pimp named Chan bought the team in L.A. - he could rename it Chan Ho Park.

(I'm starting to see this veer way off track...)

Clever but borders on the repulsive.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Sorry, my inner Dan is showing.

It's that type of mean spritediness that drives people away fom here.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

It's that type of mean spritediness that drives people away fom here.

I'd make fun of this or disagree with it, but I have no idea what the muck it feans.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I'd make fun of this or disagree with it, but I have no idea what the muck it feans.

Neither do I, I stole it from the other thread. :shrug:

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Ahhh... so you're basically an anti-capitalist commie pinko tree-hugger that wants to place corporate wealth in the hands of the government.

That's obvious - everyone in San Francisco agrees with him.

(Oops, there's that mean-spirited, repulsive, borderline humorous side of me showing again.)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

That's obvious - everyone in San Francisco agrees with him.

(Oops, there's that mean-spirited, repulsive, borderline humorous side of me showing again.)

Tooting your own horn again, M&M?

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Tooting your own horn again, M&M?

Nope, that's what Dan said.

And I certainly believe (almost) anything he tells me.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Nope, that's what Dan said.

And I certainly believe (almost) anything he tells me.

Oh! Well that's different. Carry on, then.

[mick]

Tigers are only 2 games under .500

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by mick

Tigers are only 2 games under .500

Yeah, baby, b/c they beat up on the Yanks again last night. Sox got another walk-off win, too.

And how 'bout them Cubbies? 19 runs last night and tied for first. . .

[mick]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Yeah, baby, b/c they beat up on the Yanks again last night. Sox got another walk-off win, too.

And how 'bout them Cubbies? 19 runs last night and tied for first. . .

Against the Cubs, Jeff Suppan (1-1) may have given up 11 in 3-2/3, but only 8 were earned.

[mick]

1966 - Year of last Series sweep for the Tigers in Yankee stadium.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mick

1966 - Year of last Series sweep for the Tigers in Yankee stadium.

[ChuckElias]

Sox lose, getting shut out. Their hitting is just not real good right now. They scored 3 runs in 3 games against Toronto, and were pretty lucky to win the first 2. Now we get Tampa Bay at home for 3 games to battle for first place supremacy of the division!!!

That just seems wrong, but to be honest, I'm actually really happy for the Rays. They've been horrible since their inception, they play in a corporate-named mausoleum of a dome (we'll have to come up with a new name for the Trop), and it's nice to see them doing well this far into the season. Having said that, I hope the Sox sweep them, just to get even for the last series.

And I knew it was too early to worry about Leyland and those Tigers.

[M&M Guy]

I caught a portion of a replay of the Sox game from last night, but did I see a vague resemblance to the famous 1972 USA/USSR basketball game?

Apparently Crisp flew out to end the game with a runner on. But, wait! We can't have that, not in Beantown! An umpire had ruled a balk on the Toronto pitcher, and the last out doesn't really happen! (Insert obligitory Toronto manager ejection here.) Then, Crisp singles to keep the game alive! The tying run indeed comes to the plate! Can Boston score that "layup" to win after the "do-over"?!

Nope. Last is out is made, and the Toronto shutout is preserved. (Must not have had any Soviet-born umpires out there.)

(Ok, so it's Friday, and I need a weekend real bad.)

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I caught a portion of a replay of the Sox game from last night, but did I see a vague resemblance to the famous 1972 USA/USSR basketball game?

Apparently Crisp flew out to end the game with a runner on. But, wait! We can't have that, not in Beantown! An umpire had ruled a balk on the Toronto pitcher, and the last out doesn't really happen! (Insert obligitory Toronto manager ejection here.) Then, Crisp singles to keep the game alive! The tying run indeed comes to the plate! Can Boston score that "layup" to win after the "do-over"?!

Nope. Last is out is made, and the Toronto shutout is preserved. (Must not have had any Soviet-born umpires out there.)

(Ok, so it's Friday, and I need a weekend real bad.)

So you're saying that even with the umpires giving 127% to help the home team the sawx couldn't pull out a win.