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post #1 of 197
4/1/07 at 9:07pm
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Opening pitch in a few minutes. I have never been more excited about baseball than this season. I consider myself a student of the game, but this year it becomes something larger.

Aside from all the individual team discussions, here's a place to the discuss the ebb and flow of the long and wonderful thing known as a baseball season.
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post #2 of 197
4/1/07 at 10:04pm
I am right there with you. I dunno what it is about this season but Me and all my buddies feel the same way. All keyed up for it. Go YANKS!
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post #3 of 197
4/1/07 at 10:11pm
even though I have Carpenter in my CHUD fantasy league it's nice to see him get lit up. If he goes south the Cards will be done early. I should have drafted Oswalt.
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post #4 of 197
4/2/07 at 12:20am
Anya - nobody cares about anyone else's fantasy team. This is a fact of life.
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post #5 of 197
4/2/07 at 12:21am
I am HOPING this is the year the Brewer's luck finally turns - solid pitching from the 1 through 5 and all their youth has gotten a season or two under their belt. Time for the rubber to meet the fucking road.
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post #6 of 197
4/2/07 at 3:44am
Yeah i'm excited to see what MLB 07 holds in store for us.

For me as a Halos fan i'm wincing after another forgettable offseason where the Angels could only add Gary (I had one great season and got 50 mil over 5 years take that Adrian Beltre!) Matthews Jr and Shea Hillenbrand in what was a talented but limited free agent class.

So because Vladimir probably won't have decent protection again it comes down to pitching and staying healthy. Bartolo Colon and Garrett Anderson are badly needed after limping through 06. Weaver needs to not have a sophomore slump. Without question Kelvim Escobar needs to earn his paycheck.

The bullpen is still solid with Scott Shields and K-Rod leading the way.

Hurts to see Erstad gone. Howie Kendrick looks good though. Hopefully Casey Kotchman can erase the bad season of 2006 off his mind with a great 07.

Look forward to seeing what transpires.
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post #7 of 197
4/2/07 at 4:08am
I thought this thread was going to be about The Show.

Which is fucking deep.
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post #8 of 197
4/2/07 at 10:36am
Well, my team's season did not begin so well. Still always excited for a new season of baseball. Normally I argue for this to be a national day off, but I am off anyway. Ah fuck it, it should still be a national holiday today.
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post #9 of 197
4/2/07 at 1:01pm
Great start for my Mets. If they can play D like that all season looks like they are gonna get another trip to the playoffs.
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post #10 of 197
4/2/07 at 1:07pm
Baseball Magic makes Jesus Magic look like Sea Monkeys.
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post #11 of 197
4/2/07 at 4:22pm
I don't think there is enough interst for an entire Indians thread, but if the entire season is like the first two innings (which happens every year, right?) then I will be stoked...

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The Cleveland Indians struck first and fast in their season opener in Chicago.
The Tribe scored 5 runs in the first inning and four more in the second, and while the White Sox countered with two of their own, the Indians took command of their season opener.

Grady Sizemore led off the first with a home run, and after three more straight hits, the Indians had a 2-0 lead.

Jhonny Peralta hit an opposite field single to drive in the third run, and newcomer Josh Barfield triple in two more.

Indians starter C.C. Sabathia gave up two runs in the bottom of the first.

In the top of the second, the Tribe scored four more to chase Chicago's starting pitcher, and roar out to a 9-2 lead.
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post #12 of 197
4/2/07 at 5:14pm
I'll save some things for the Brewers thread, but teams are going to take a lot of extra bases against the Dodgers when they're trotting out both Juan Pierre and Luis Gonzalez in the outfield. It's already happened today on more than one occasion.
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post #13 of 197
4/2/07 at 8:32pm
Both Joe Morgan and Dusty Baker doing games for ESPN. There has to be better people out there.
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post #14 of 197
4/2/07 at 9:12pm
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Originally Posted by Brian Wehman
I don't think there is enough interst for an entire Indians thread, but if the entire season is like the first two innings (which happens every year, right?) then I will be stoked...

Nice to see another Tribe fan, hopefully another Browns die-hard as well. I was shocked when I checked the stats during work, I hope all of the hype pays off for once. One thing the game proved is that we still don't have a closer. Keeping my fingers crossed for high point output to offset the late inning gimmies.
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post #15 of 197
4/2/07 at 9:15pm
Big Frank gets hit by a pitch.. and isn't injured. Hey, that Jays bullpen might be alright. But the back end of the rotation scares me. Tomo Okha, number 4? Egad.
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post #16 of 197
4/3/07 at 2:39am
For a pitcher who has a career ERA slightly over 4 you're certainly down on Ohka. Ohka, really isn't that bad of a pitcher. He's probably the Jays best #4 pitcher in years and he's certainly night and day ahead of Shaun Marcum and Casey Janssen. If he can stay healthy, and give the Jays 180+ innings, it could be enough to win more times then not when he pitches.
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post #17 of 197
4/3/07 at 10:28am
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Originally Posted by Brian Wehman
I don't think there is enough interst for an entire Indians thread...
Hey, if we can manage to sustain a Brewers thread you should be able to manage one for the Tribe.
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post #18 of 197
4/3/07 at 10:46am
I pick up the Tampa sports radio station here in Orlando, and they've pretty much written the Rays off already after the bullpen blew that game yesterday. I guess there must some sense of relief knowing you don't have to get worked up over the next 181 games.

Every time I hear James Earl Jones' "People will come" speech in Field of Dreams, it makes me want to get excited about baseball, but I have no team I feel passionate about. I was a Mets fan back in the 80s, but then the strike and the lost Series dampened my enthusiasm, and I'd feel like a front-running poser if I picked them up again now.
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post #19 of 197
4/3/07 at 10:53am
I expect this to be the only game the Mariners win in that fashion this year. Holy cow.
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post #20 of 197
4/3/07 at 11:05am
The first week of baseball is so great because the season doesn't seem so long. Fans of teams that win their first series start thinking "maybe this is the year!" and fans of teams that lose get ready for the long-awful season ahead. Then it turns August, there's still two months to play, and the A's and Twins decide to start playing for real and beat the shit out of everyone, rendering the preceding season meaningless.
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post #21 of 197
4/3/07 at 1:11pm


JoBu loves the Cubbies this year.
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post #22 of 197
4/3/07 at 1:15pm
Yesterday was a good day. I had the one-two punch of having both the Yankees and the Gators winning their respective games. Whoot!
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post #23 of 197
4/3/07 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by teledork


JoBu loves the Cubbies this year.
Why has he been so unkind to them the past 90-some, though?
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post #24 of 197
4/3/07 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by heLL pAso
For a pitcher who has a career ERA slightly over 4 you're certainly down on Ohka. Ohka, really isn't that bad of a pitcher. He's probably the Jays best #4 pitcher in years and he's certainly night and day ahead of Shaun Marcum and Casey Janssen. If he can stay healthy, and give the Jays 180+ innings, it could be enough to win more times then not when he pitches.
I guess so, he just seems like a downgrade from John Thomson.. and I have no logical reasoning for that. If anything, Thomson's been less of a sure thing over his career than Okha, but I just remember Thomson's decent years in Colorado and thinking, "If he ever got out of there, he'd be a really good pitcher someday."

I'm still not a Towers believer. Everyone wants him to repeat what he did in 2005, but everything in me says that 2005 was the aberration, not last year.
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post #25 of 197
4/3/07 at 2:17pm
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Why has he been so unkind to them the past 90-some, though?
Cheap rum? Lousy cigars? A budding interest in Ivy?

It's the Cubs, man. Does there need to be any reason? I mean, with any luck the fans in Chicago won't hear the first "We'll get'em next year" until around August or so. Even with JoBu's help.
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post #26 of 197
4/3/07 at 4:44pm
No picks?

National League
East - New York Mets
Central - Milwaukee Brewers
West - Arizona Diamondbacks

American League
East - New York Yankees
Central - Cleveland Indians
West - Anaheim Angels

Wild Card
AL - Boston RedSox
NL - Atlanta Braves
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post #27 of 197
4/3/07 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson

Every time I hear James Earl Jones' "People will come" speech in Field of Dreams, it makes me want to get excited about baseball, but I have no team I feel passionate about. I was a Mets fan back in the 80s, but then the strike and the lost Series dampened my enthusiasm, and I'd feel like a front-running poser if I picked them up again now.
Bah, it's not posing, that's how you get into (or back into) any sport, you start following a good team. You could keep it real and start following the Nationals, but even the Nationals wouldn't advise that.

Actually, the Rays are a fairly interesting team. Their lineup is, anyway.
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post #28 of 197
4/3/07 at 10:50pm
I wish the Rays could be that interesting. Hard to say I'm not feeling for Jorge Cantu, even if he's showing himself to be a dick by demanding a trade. I mean, he was pretty good a few years ago, and now the Devil Rays are sending him to AAA?
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post #29 of 197
4/4/07 at 12:16pm
So I was at the Nats-Marlins game last night. After the game, a local Shakespeare troupe was trying to recruit an actor to play Iago. They wanted someone who'd play the part with panache -- a real over-actor.

They were having trouble finding someone, until they asked the Marlins' left fielder, who happily accepted.

Because Josh Willingham.
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post #30 of 197
4/4/07 at 12:34pm
I'm now rooting AGAINST LeFors favorite team.
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post #31 of 197
4/4/07 at 3:49pm
Hey, what can I say? My seats are in left field, so I was staring at the back of Willingham's jersey for half the game, and the joke just came to me. And if I can't tell a joke like that at CHUD, where can I tell it?
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post #32 of 197
4/4/07 at 5:12pm
Into a box that you burn, so that they joke may never be heard by another.

P.S. Go Pirates, no matter how bad you suck, extrapolation teaches us that this is going to be a great year!
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post #33 of 197
4/7/07 at 11:04am
I think the Jackie Robinson tribute is getting out of hand. It's one thing for Griffey Jr. to ask to wear the no. 42 on the 60th anniverasry of him getting in baseball, it's another for the Dodgers and Cardnials to have every player wear 42. That will just look dumb.

Others to wear 42 are Other confirmed participants include the Giants' Barry Bonds, the Tigers' Gary Sheffield, the Astros' Carlos Lee, Bill Hall of the Brewers and the Cubs' Derrek Lee.

If it goes to the teams captain, best player then the White Sox should let Konerko wear 42 because they really don't have a black player good enough to wear it.

That's about 7 teams. Any other teams doing it?
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post #34 of 197
4/7/07 at 11:34am
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Originally Posted by Anyawatchin Angel
If it goes to the teams captain, best player then the White Sox should let Konerko wear 42 because they really don't have a black player good enough to wear it.
Jermaine Dye anyone?
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post #35 of 197
4/7/07 at 1:39pm
It sure as hell wont last, but when was the last time the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were in sole possession of first place in the American League East?
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post #36 of 197
4/7/07 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by Calitheus
Jermaine Dye anyone?
forgot about him. The Sox line up is just really light skinned.

Another snow out in Cleveland. I never understood why they don't have teams start in the Warmer climates for the first week.
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post #37 of 197
4/7/07 at 4:55pm
Looks like more Cubs, Floyd and Jones will wear 42. I'm sure everyone will wear it when the time comes.

*and Mark Grace sucks as a announcer.
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post #38 of 197
4/10/07 at 10:05am
I'm going to Milwaukee today to watch the Angels beat the Indians.
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post #39 of 197
4/10/07 at 10:09am
Yeah Cleveland. We finally get to have our home opener... in Milwaukee!
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post #40 of 197
4/11/07 at 7:01pm
That Ana-Cle game drew 19,000 fans.

Remember that next time someone says Milwaukee isn't a "baseball town."
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post #41 of 197
4/12/07 at 7:23pm
Total attendance for the Cle-Ana series in Milwaukee was over 52,000.
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post #42 of 197
4/22/07 at 7:52pm
Anyone pumped for Daisuke's start against the Yanks? I think he'll shut them down.

There was an interesting article in the SI baseball preview issue where they talked about his stamina.

"In past years with the Seibu Lions, he wouldn't even ice even after his frequent 300-pitch bullpen sessions, a program that would have been grounds for dismissal for any major league pitching coach who allowed it."

"Then you reflect on the 250 pitches he threw in a 17-inning complete game in high school - the apex of a stretch in which he threw 54 innings in 11 days..."

In addition to Dice, I always enjoy watching Dontrell Willis pitch. It's something about their pitching motions that says "heart."
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post #43 of 197
4/23/07 at 12:12am
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Originally Posted by KBM
Anyone pumped for Daisuke's start against the Yanks? I think he'll shut them down.
You would be wrong. He left the game winning but he by no means shut them down. 6 runs in 7 innings isnt that great.
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post #44 of 197
4/24/07 at 4:42pm
If Hunter gets suspended for this... I dunno, it's just really dumb. Edit: As Dan Patrick pointed out (while talking to Hunter), the "gift giving policy" is way tougher than the steriod policy.

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Maybe a thank-you note would have sufficed.

Torii Hunter's gift of expensive champagne to the Kansas City Royals has the Minnesota Twins outfielder in some bubble trouble.

"Hunter's gift of four bottles of Dom Perignon, which he had delivered to the Royals clubhouse this past weekend, was meant as a reward for the Royals sweeping the Detroit Tigers last September, allowing the Twins to come from behind to win the American League Central. The gift fulfilled a promise Hunter made last fall.

But baseball has rules about this sort of thing.

Namely, rule 21-b, which proclaims "Any player or person connected with a Club who shall offer or give any gift or reward to a player or person connected with another Club for services rendered ... in defeating or attempting to defeat a competing Club ... shall be declared ineligible for not less than three years."

And after "The Cheater's Guide to Baseball Blog" reported the violation, the Twins got a phone call from the commissioner's office about the proffered bubbly. And the Twins found themselves in an awkward position -- having to call the Royals to ask that the champagne be returned.

Luckily, the Royals hadn't popped the corks yet.

Hunter said he wasn't aware of the rule. "I do good things," he said, according to the Star-Tribune of Minneapolis. "If you want to make a good thing into a bad thing, then so be it."

Twins GM Terry Ryan wasn't aware of it either.

"I'm to blame as much as anybody because I didn't know the rule," Ryan said, according to the Star Tribune. "We'll end up righting the wrong. We've already contacted the Royals. They're going to return the goods, and hopefully that'll be the end of it."

Ryan called Hunter's gesture "an honest mistake," according to the Star-Tribune. But he acknowledged that the rule is designed to avoid any tampering between teams and that Major League Baseball isn't about to let that slide with a slap on the wrist for Hunter and the Royals.

"Integrity of the game; it's as simple as that," Ryan said, according to the newspaper. "This is an honest, trivial exchange, but it could grow into something different if you let it get away."
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post #45 of 197
4/25/07 at 5:57am
To me, Hunter is the T.O. of baseball.
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post #46 of 197
4/27/07 at 1:49pm
I wonder if this is Bud Selig's secret plan to get back at Hunter. Man, that looked like it hurt...

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post #47 of 197
4/27/07 at 2:36pm
Nothing will come of Hunter champagne "gift". The way the rule is written, it's an equal crime to solicit and receive gifts. They'd also have to suspend the Royals team.
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post #48 of 197
4/29/07 at 12:49pm
Cards avoid sweep by death of pitcher Josh Hancock
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The St. Louis Cardinals were informed this morning by the St. Louis Police Department of the tragic death of pitcher Josh Hancock, 29, who was killed in an auto accident on westbound Highway 64/40 within the city limits.
Cardinals' Manager Tony La Russa informed Josh's father of this tragic event. Major League Baseball representatives have also been notified and tonight's 7:05 p.m. game with the Chicago Cubs has been postponed.
First Daryl Kyle, then Hancock. I'd be weary if I was a Card whenever I played the Cubs.
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post #49 of 197
4/29/07 at 1:12pm
I never really doubted what a dick you are ... But wow, what a dick you are.
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post #50 of 197
4/29/07 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by flyarz
I never really doubted what a dick you are ... But wow, what a dick you are.
do you do this to everyone who makes a joke or worse about someone who dies? Because there are a many on here who say good and worse.
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