2017 MLB Season Thread

[LawrenceMD]

manny ramirez is back...

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I feel simultaneously jealous/bad for Oakland A's fans.


Damn I had so many happy memories watching Manny Play:

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[Slopho]

I went through my rookie card collection not to long ago, to see how many of them that I have that are tainted by the steroids era is a damn shame.

 

[LawrenceMD]

this was featured on deadspin:

behind home plate at the marlin's new stadium is:


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I'm happy they are trying to be original... but damn I hope that can handle a ball/bat/intense blazing heat/sunlight.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Chipper Jones has announced that this season will be his last. First-ballot HOFer? I think so.

As an aside, Chipper stopped by my office many years ago to sign baseballs and take pictures. (He was a hunting buddy of a friend of my then-boss.) Like most professional athletes, he is much bigger in person than he appears on television.

 

[Slopho]

yeah Jones is a first ballot HOFer. honestly about 2 good seasons from 3000 hits and 500 HRs.

 

[Slopho]

Wow!! Matt Bush is still around!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AmiQQraqUxqXHudOqkTL07g5nYcB?slug=ap-raysplayer-dui

And he's still getting into trouble.

 

[Rambo]

Any seamheads that get a chance should read this week's ESPN the magazine. There is a DEAD ON article on the new Marlin's stadium (blocks from the apartment) that really nails many of the issues with this *************. There's also a great article on pitching biomechanics and its reluctance to be accepted into baseball.

 

[Rambo]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2012/s...jones-arthroscopic-surgery-torn-knee-meniscus

 

[Saul Silver]

I really hope Chone Figgins doesn't suck this year.

 

[Rambo]

Here's the ESPN The Mag article on biomechanics:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7...s-underlying-biomechanical-flaw-espn-magazine

 

[edinatlanta]

Bold prediction: It will be well into April before...

1) The Mariners lose a game.
B) Oakland wins a game.
III) A regular season game gets wrapped up in 9 innings.

 

[bdeuce22]

The Marlins stadium looks like that big ship in District 9 surrounded by these shoddy homes.

 

[Saul Silver]



Bold prediction: It will be well into April before...
1) The Mariners lose a game.
B) Oakland wins a game.
III) A regular season game gets wrapped up in 9 innings.

Mariners-Athletics games are incredibly boring. I'm pretty sure there were a couple A's-M's series last year where less than 10 runs were scored combined over the entire series. Given that the two teams play one another over a dozen times a season, and usually those games are incredibly close, I'm sure we're in the running for one of the boringest rivalries in pro sports.

 

[thekunk07]

**** the a's. still wondering why money ball was a phenomenon. it's like writing a book/producing a movie about the houston rockets

 

[Steve B.]

Down to Brass Tacks- who wins it all:

My vote is the Angels