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thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #100 on:** September 21, 2011, 04:59:05 PM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/sports/baseball/baseballs-bronze-age.html?_r=1&ref=sports

baseball's bronze age

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #101 on:** September 29, 2011, 04:18:04 AM »

(sorry Archie in advance)

fun fun fun night of watching baseball in a long time with everything going on

RedR8R · « **Reply #102 on:** September 29, 2011, 01:40:13 PM »

Quote from: thedrUNKenLoper on September 29, 2011, 04:18:04 AM

(sorry Archie in advance)

fun fun fun night of watching baseball in a long time with everything going on

Would have to agree with you loper. Was actually just intending to enjoy the Ranger game to see if they could secure home field over Detroit, but after that finished got involved in the "dual" between Rays/Yankees and Bosox/Orioles. It was amazing.

Honestly didn't even know it was about as exciting on the NL side until later.

What a night. Glad I tuned in.

RedR8R · « **Reply #103 on:** September 29, 2011, 01:42:24 PM »

All I can say about the Bosox monumental collapse for the ages is.....

.....at least it wasn't my Cubs (who look to be nowhere near sniffing playoffs for a while).

Hsker4Life · « **Reply #104 on:** September 29, 2011, 05:16:01 PM »

Glad to see my Rangers back in the playoffs.

Rangers Vs. the Rays...should be a great series.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #105 on:** September 29, 2011, 05:55:06 PM »

I went to a bar up the street so I could watch every game of meaning (plus the Royals finale, yep still care) since ESPN gave me O's-Red Sox and Phillies-Braves on ESPN2 when I wanted to watch the Rays. Left during the rain delay and used my MLB.TV account to watch the Rays-Yankees after the game resumed. But fun fun fun night, just hope Bud kills the two wildcard idea after the fun last night created because with that we wouldn't have had such an interesting night. Again sorry to Archie.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #106 on:** October 01, 2011, 06:19:28 PM »

Sept. 30, 2011 Results:

ALDS Game 1: Tampa Bay Rays 9 @ Texas Rangers 0, TB 1-0
WP - Moore (1-0) LP - Wilson
ALDS Game 1: Detroit Tigers 1 @ New York Yankees 1, Game Suspended by rain bottom second

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #107 on:** October 05, 2011, 01:59:02 AM »

http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2011/story/_/id/7059990/tampa-bay-rays

this is frustrating to me in the sense that the Rays were so bad for so long and now they are getting better but that commute from Tampa to St. Pete is a bitch.

Blackshirts · « **Reply #108 on:** October 13, 2011, 03:18:40 PM »

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7091803/sources-theo-epstein-agrees-five-year-deal-chicago-cubs-leave-boston-red-sox

As a Cubs fan this makes me all tingly inside

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #109 on:** October 13, 2011, 05:24:44 PM »

Whats your level of Cub-dom? Are you a realist or unreal?

Blackshirts · « **Reply #110 on:** October 13, 2011, 05:58:17 PM »

depends on what time of year it is, right now I know we have way to many bad contracts to be competitive for 2-3 years.

Come April I will swear we have a team that can win it all.

Come June I will be repeating our motto "Just wait till next year!"

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #111 on:** October 13, 2011, 06:13:21 PM »

Typical fan then it seems ha but you may not like hearing this buuuuuut the farm system needs to be redone and yes alot of bad contracts even with a few good pieces currently on the North Side.

Blackshirts · « **Reply #112 on:** October 13, 2011, 06:18:54 PM »

we have bats in the farm system just no arms. There are some great pieces to build on in Castro and Barney but #1 we have to get some pitching going.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #113 on:** October 14, 2011, 09:07:22 PM »

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AvtiMyMjo5hGk.mxOg5mMos5nYcB?slug=jp-passan_greinke_brewers_cardinals_game_6_101311

As a Royals fan I just hope Greinke beats the Cardinals even if he wined out of KC because it did return some decent players back.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #114 on:** October 14, 2011, 10:06:51 PM »

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Taiwan-animators-make-silly-CGI-reenactment-of-R?urn=mlb-wp24068

look away Red Sox fans

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #115 on:** October 19, 2011, 10:48:09 PM »

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/MLB-won-8217-t-let-Dirk-Nowitzki-throw-a-first-;_ylt=AvU_ulEno_5qAyJnleEV1wE5nYcB?urn=nba-wp9533

MLB just doesn't get it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&page=wojciechowski-111018&sportCat=mlb

sure why not it needs fixing

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #116 on:** November 02, 2011, 08:57:35 PM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/michael_mccann/11/02/dodgers.sale/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_wr_a4

Bud Selig in my opinion has done a mixed job of approving owners (which more or less is a good old boys network in the NBA, NFL and NHL)

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #117 on:** November 11, 2011, 06:19:58 PM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/joe_lemire/11/11/ramos.kidnapping/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t12_a3

Sad story about Ramos in his home country

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #118 on:** November 17, 2011, 04:04:02 AM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/11/16/astros.sale.ap/index.html?sct=mlb_t2_a5

Well I guess the state of Texa$ will be happy about this.

architechguy · « **Reply #119 on:** November 18, 2011, 03:24:30 AM »

I don't like this deal. This is a low class, dirty move by Selig. He shoehorned his own team in the National League 12 years ago when he was the only person on the planet who wanted that to happen, now he's covering up his tracks by moving another team nobody wanted to move in the first place. I hate this, nobody asked the fans if they even wanted this deal to happen. If MLB wants to realign, I can think of 15 good ways to do it and this wouldn't even make the list of top 100 ideas.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #120 on:** November 18, 2011, 04:48:48 AM »

I have a bad feeling that the Rangers (who have a ton of debt but apparantly have a big TV deal coming) played a role in this and got another patsy in the west. So the Astros will be celebrating there 50th anniversary and last NL season this year.

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #121 on:** November 18, 2011, 10:46:41 PM »

Though new Astros owner Jim Crane was unanimously approved, some teams would have been opposed had there been any chance they could have voted him down. The Angels, for one, were against him. But as is usually the case in baseball, the vote was 30-0 in Crane's favor. No matter what anyone thinks of Crane, having 15 teams in each league and a balanced schedule -- ripple effects of the approval, which was contingent upon Crane agreeing to move the Astros to the AL West -- are major benefits.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jon_heyman/11/18/red.sox.manager/index.html#ixzz1e6FpPNQc

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #122 on:** November 28, 2011, 09:19:16 PM »

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_cba_hgh_testing_draft_rules_112211

as a Royals fan this doesnt look great...

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #123 on:** December 21, 2011, 03:52:49 AM »

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/a/15703

Interesting article here about the future of front offices

thedrUNKenLoper · « **Reply #124 on:** January 24, 2012, 05:31:48 AM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/01/23/astros.changes.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a17&eref=sihp

do we have any Astros fans here?

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