Baseball 2013

[katmai]

Fucking lame Cards

[fhdz]

Btw, Matt Carpenter was hit by a pitch 3 times tonight.  WTF

I SWEAR UMP HE WAS FATTER

[Razgovory]

Cards-Diamondbacks are in the 14th inning.  Dunno why I'm watching, other than to just see it through.  Cards always lose in extra innings.

Btw, Matt Carpenter was hit by a pitch 3 times tonight.  WTF

Now see, I came up with a rule that would apply in this situation.  If the pitcher hits you three times in one game, you get to him once with the bat.  The Bosch thing is getting big.  I checked the list, so far no cards were on there.

[The Minsky Moment]

Cardinals draft another college pitcher with a great change in the first round, this time a lefty.

EDIT: Make that two lefties in the first round!

[katmai]

My honest picks for who should start in All Star game.

Now to stuff Ballot box for Giants

American League

    1B - Davis, Chris
    2B - Cano, Robinson
    SS - Hardy, J.J.
    3B - Cabrera, Miguel
    C - Saltalamacchia, Jarrod
    DH - Ortiz, David
    OF - Cruz, Nelson
    OF - Jones, Adam
    OF - Trout, Mike
    Write-in - N/A

National League

    1B - Goldschmidt, Paul
    2B - Phillips, Brandon
    SS - Tulowitzki, Troy
    3B - Sandoval, Pablo
    C - Posey, Buster
    OF - Beltran, Carlos
    OF - Brown, Domonic
    OF - Gonzalez, Carlos

[derspiess]

Buster Posey over Yadi?  Even voting honestly you're a homer.

Cards took 2 of 3 this weekend here in Cincy.  I saw both wins.  Thus ends my 8-game losing streak as a Cards fan seeing them in person.

Got Tommy a new Cardinals jersey to wear (sure it's, a Lance Berkman jersey I got on clearance but he doesn't care).  I could only get him to take it off briefly Saturday night so I could wash it for him to wear Sunday.  Took Lola to her first baseball game. Cards dominated offensively and defensively Friday.  Yesterday's game was a rough start for St. Louis but they managed to tie it up & get a rare extra innings win due to a monstrous 10th inning highlighted by a Matt Holiday grand slam.  All in all a great baseball weekend.

During the game Friday they honored a 92 year old WWII Marine vet.  Old dude looked sharp in his dress blues & stood up on the Reds dugout to wave to the crowd. 

[derspiess]

Thanks to kat's reminder, I made use of some dead time on a conference call to put in my 35 All-Star ballots

Of course I voted all Cards, and voted for the few AL guys I liked, semi-randomly filling in the rest of my AL ballot.

My 'honest' All-Star picks would be as follows:

National League

    1B - Joey Votto
    2B - Marco Scutaro (Phillips probably deserves it more, but I can't stand him)
    SS - Troy Tulowitzki
    3B - David Wright
    C - Yadier Molina
    OF - Carlos Beltran
    OF - Bryce Harper
    OF - Shin-Soo Choo

I don't follow the AL so much so my picks weren't that noteworthy.  I did vote for Rick Ankiel on the AL side just for shits & gigs, particularly since he's with the Mets now.

[MadBurgerMaker]

So I'm sitting around the house waiting for the AT&T dude to finish everything up (two week delay there...that was nice), and I noticed there was some minor league baseball on the MLB network, so I turned it on.

Daisuke Matsuzaka was the starting pitcher for one of them (Columbus Clippers), apparently in one of his first games back following some sort of strain, but then had to leave because of a blister.  Talk about your career going down the drain.

[Barrister]

Huh.  I'm bored with the Jets long out of the playoffs, and CFL only in training camps.

Curiously the Royals are doing well recently, and you can get access to mlb.tv for a pretty modest $42 per year.  Maybe I should try and get into watching baseball?

[Valmy]

Huh.  I'm bored with the Jets long out of the playoffs, and CFL only in training camps.

Curiously the Royals are doing well recently, and you can get access to mlb.tv for a pretty modest $42 per year.  Maybe I should try and get into watching baseball?

It's fun.  I really like the fact there is almost always a game going on in the evening when you get home from work.

[Syt]

Yep, it's good to have on the background (even as radio broadcast if playing a game) with its relaxed pace. Also, how many sports are there where each team has its own sets of announcers/commentators calling the games? Even with a mediocre team like the Pirates you become attached to the familiar voices.

[Barrister]

What is a good online source for news for small-market American teams?

And Syt - hockey certainly has its own sets for announcers for each team.  Oh how I miss the nasally tones of Dennis Beyak...

[stjaba]

What is a good online source for news for small-market American teams?

Are you specifically looking for Royals coverage?

I'm sure the Kanas City Star has pretty good coverage on the Royals. This blog is written by a very good writer: http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/

[Syt]

Sorry, katmai!

[katmai]

You better apologize!