“Around the game, Burnett has become the symbol for wasted money,” said an AL East scout who also believes the Yankees will have to eat at least $20 million. “When you’ve got a guy who has managed to pitch below .500 (34-35) for a team with the Yankees offense, yeah, it’ll make you apprehensive. This is the question now being asked, even about guys like Oswalt and Jackson. How much do you pay for mediocrity?”
-divorces, Madoff and steroids, oh my! -baseball you are my favourite but sometimes resemble an afternoon soap!!
"This could quite possibly be the best baseball promotion ever. No, it definitely is the best baseball promotion ever."
-atta boy Doc!-brought tears to my eyes!
-Cito Gaston retires-Happy Trails!
"For every Stephen Strasburg(notes) and Jason Heyward(notes), there are a thousand Daniel Navas and Darnell McDonalds, guys with skill and pluck and want-to and some sort of flaw, inherent or assigned, that attaches itself to their vita and refuses to dislodge.Most never make it, not in a place like Boston, not anywhere. On a dollar and a dream, and a baker’s dozen years of trying, the unlikeliest two did."
-a couple more reasons i truly love this game!
-a couple more reasons i truly love this game!
"BOSTON -- The kid who was 70 pounds when he started high school made a dramatic and historic entrance to the Major Leagues on Saturday. Daniel Nava, an undrafted prospect the Red Sox signed out of an independent league in January 2008, swatted the very first pitch he saw from Phillies right-hander Joe Blanton and put it into the Boston bullpen in right-center field for a grand slam."
-class all round!
"Roy Halladay's illustrious career has captured its grandest feat: A perfect game.
The Phillies' ace retired each of the 27 Marlins he faced in order on Saturday night to notch the 20th perfect game in Major League history and the second this season in the Phillies' 1-0 victory." -good one Doc!
The Phillies' ace retired each of the 27 Marlins he faced in order on Saturday night to notch the 20th perfect game in Major League history and the second this season in the Phillies' 1-0 victory." -good one Doc!
"The Major League Baseball players' union issued a statement condemning the law. A congressman whose district includes Yankee Stadium wrote a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig urging him to pull the all-star game from Phoenix. The World Boxing Council took a step to limit fights in Arizona."
-come on 'merica,don't go down this road, please!-stay away from the racism and facism!-have you learned nothing?
-come on 'merica,don't go down this road, please!-stay away from the racism and facism!-have you learned nothing?
-1903 in the life of erratic pitcher Rube Waddell, cataloged by Cooperstown historian Lee Allen:
“He began that year sleeping in a firehouse in Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in a saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia. In between those events he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics, played left end for the Business Men’s Rugby Football Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt, courted, married and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts, saved a woman from drowning, accidentally shot a friend through the hand, and was bitten by a lion.”
And that was just 1903. In one game against the Athletics, Waddell was at bat in the eighth inning with two out and a tying run on second. The catcher threw to second, trying to pick off the runner, but overthrew, and the ball went into the outfield. The runner took off for home. As he rounded third, the center fielder hurled the ball in to home plate …
… and Waddell, to everyone’s horror, knocked it out of the park.
He was declared out for interference. “They’d been feeding me curves all afternoon,” he told a flabbergasted Connie Mack, “and this was the first straight ball I’d looked at!”
-an unassisted triple play. rare feat having only been done 15 (?) times before!
"NEW YORK—Thanks to his vaunted grace and tremendous skill, Yankees captain Derek Jeter was able Tuesday night to make a pop-up to shortstop look as routine as it actually was. "Look at him effortlessly settle under that ball and close his glove around it as it falls slowly in," gushed Yankees radio announcer John Sterling, who also had the privilege of broadcasting Jeter's catch of a soft humpback liner in 2002. Teammate Robinson Cano added that "watching him day in and day out, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that everyone makes that kind of play all the time… It's a joy just watching him glide up the middle, catch the ball on a stolen base attempt, and lay down the tag as if he's done it a million times before, which he has. What a teammate." Later in the inning, Jeter made an easy play look difficult with that jump-throw thing he doesn't need to do."
"There's a fly ball deep to centre field. Winfield is going back, back. He hits his head against the wall. It's rolling back toward second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres."-;)
"CHICAGO -- Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux will be celebrated on Sunday at Wrigley Field as the Cubs retire the No. 31 both wore with the team"
personally i enjoyed the entire WBC series!!
there are only 11 3rd basemen in Baseball Hall of Fame and George is one of them!
"The radar gun blinks wildly. It’s not used to this. No one makes it strain to read out a third digit. It looks like binary code, not the speed of a pitch from a 20-year-old kid: 101."