WARNING!! It's the 2012 Annual Baseball Thread!! Open at your own risk!!

[grunewar]

LCUBED came up from Richmond today bringing oppressive heat and the HOT hitting (again) Cards who strolled away with a 10-9 victory over my Nats (34K in attendance). 3 1/2 hrs. 24 Hits - including four HR's (no pitchers duel today). It was NOT boring!

Nice meeting you Leonard, we'll have to do it again sometime! Safe travels!

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by grunewar

LCUBED came up from Richmond today bringing oppressive heat and the HOT hitting (again) Cards who strolled away with a 10-9 victory over my Nats (34K in attendance). 3 1/2 hrs. 24 Hits - including four HR's (no pitchers duel today). It was NOT boring!

Nice meeting you Leonard, we'll have to do it again sometime! Safe travels!

The feeling is mutual, oh kind sir. The drinks were cold, but the Baggo competition was hot along with the weather, of course. That's a pair of fine young men you have.

My attendance prediction was 33,500. Do I win anything?

My Huskies of NIU lost late (18 -17) to the Hawkeyes.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Lcubed48

My Huskies of NIU lost late (18 -17) to the Hawkeyes.

You gave us quite a scare, though.

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

You gave us quite a scare, though.

Congrats on the W. However, moral victories are like kissing your sister. Yuck!!

I believe that NIU suffers from mid-major complex in scheduling. The Huskies lost big time on offense from last year so it will take some time to jell.

[grunewar]

Nats have scored 20 runs, with 12 homers, and 32 hits in the last two games!

Great to have expanded rosters too!

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Nats have scored 20 runs, with 12 homers, and 32 hits in the last two games!

Great to have expanded rosters too!

That's the annual (since 1908) cry from the northside.

[BillyMac]

ChuckElias and I have been walking around looking exactly like this for several months now.

[grunewar]

Keith Hernandez shaves his mustache

[grunewar]

Here's one for you Chuck:

Top of the first inning, Nats vs Cards. Bases loadad, Michael Morse at the plate. He hits a deep ball that appears to go over the 8' fence and hit a wall behind it for a HR. Umps unsure as the ball hit the wall and is now on the field. Morse gets thrown out between first and second as he was jogging the bases as if it was a HR. Harper scored, but Zimmerman and LaRoche stay on their respective bases (third and second).

Umps go to the back to review the replay......the umps come back and declare it a HR. Here's the kicker. The Umps send everyone back to the their original bases and send Morse back to the plate where, without a bat, he fakes like he's hitting the ball over the fence, and now everyone scores as they recreate the play without a bat or ball. Nat's lead 4-0.

Never seen anything like it. Wild.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?co...yamlb_tormlb_1

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by grunewar

The Umps send everyone back to the their original bases and send Morse back to the plate where, without a bat, he fakes like he's hitting the ball over the fence, and now everyone scores as they recreate the play without a bat or ball.

According to the NFHS, beginning in 2013-14, all correctable errors in basketball games will be decided by replaying the error without using an actual basketball.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by grunewar

Here's one for you Chuck. . . The Umps send everyone back to the their original bases and send Morse back to the plate where, without a bat, he fakes like he's hitting the ball over the fence, and now everyone scores as they recreate the play without a bat or ball. Nat's lead 4-0.

I saw that on SportsCenter. Very strange. I guess there had been some concern that one of the runners had passed another runner in the original confusion? So instead of possibly counting a run erroneously or having to call the guy out, they did the pantomime routine. I really hope that they didn't require him to act out the swing. I'm guessing he did that part on his own. Either way, like you, I've never seen anything like it. Kind of funny.

[Lcubed48]

It's finally over! Go Teddy!!

Teddy wins! Nationals mascot finally ends 525-race losing streak - Yahoo! Sports

[Welpe]

How about that finish in the AL West? The A's came from 13 games back at one point and after the last day, stand alone on top.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Welpe

How about that finish in the AL West? The A's came from 13 games back at one point and after the last day, stand alone on top.

If only it was covered in the media with the same fervor as last year's Chicken and Beer fiasco. Texas has pretty much gotten a pass nationally for the last month, although now there will be plenty of "Huh?? What happened?" analysis.

I'm actually really looking forward to these one-game play-ins tomorrow. While on a philosophical basis, I'm against diluting the field of playoff teams, I'm glad that they've come up with a way to reward the division winners. It should be harder for the wild cards to advance in the playoffs.

And I would also love to see an O's/Nats World Series.

BTW, can anybody believe what Dan Duquette -- former Boston GM, and then out of baseball completely for about 10 years -- has done with the O's. I'm amazed that he's been successful after being away from the game for so long. I'm sure he wasn't completely cut off from baseball information, but still. . .

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Lcubed48

It's finally over! Go Teddy!!

Teddy wins! Nationals mascot finally ends 525-race losing streak - Yahoo! Sports

That's really fun. It makes me wonder if that was their plan all along (to have him win when the Nats finally won the division, even if it took 20 years), or if somebody just had the thought, "wouldn't it be a great time to break the streak?".

Who was the character that took out the other three Presidents? At first, I thought it was the Philly Phanatic, but it's clearly not him. His nose fell off!!