2009 MLB season discussion*

[Trichocyst]

I love Matt Stairs. He's like the new Sal Fasano who hits pinch hit bombs (2 this season already). I think good ole Sal is in the Rockies system somewhere.

[archibaldcrane]

Meant they have and look how shitty they been since. Nice strawman though

Brewers got further in the playoffs than the Cubs did last year

playing 5 games instead of getting swept counts as further in my book

[Absolutely Virtue]

Zimmerman hitless today, SF intentionally walks him in the 7th.

Thanks for ruining the one good thing Nats fans have had happen to them this year in a meaningless game between two shitty teams.

[Tagus]

I'm a pure-blooded White Sox fan, and I'm pretty much to the point where I hope the Cubs win. If I have to go through another off-season in Chicago hearing about the curse this and the curse that, watching them blow up cursed items in Harry Caray's, watching my friends and family who are Cubs fans somehow hear the Siren song of hope again every year, and watching that hope get dashed across the rocks in the playoffs so mercilessly.... well it's just getting painful for the rest of us. I know they would rub it in my face, as a Sox fan, because winning is just so foreign to them that they couldn't possibly handle it with grace, but I'm willing to accept it if we could just get the insanity that is Cubs baseball to quiet itself. Just a little.

Who am I kidding? It would just get worse. Go Sox.

[Pringles]

Zimmerman hitless today, SF intentionally walks him in the 7th.

Thanks for ruining the one good thing Nats fans have had happen to them this year in a meaningless game between two shitty teams.

So called it...although earlier than I imagined it.

[Akiyama]

Didn't care about his streak. 30 is great, but no one is breaking the record.

[archibaldcrane]

He had another chance in the 9th and blew it.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Yeah I hauled ass home to catch the end of the game and saw him ground out. What's amazing is that 30 is a big deal, but still nearly a month of games from the record. Unreal.

Now the Nats bullpen is blowing a four run lead in the bottom of the 9th. Stellar.

EDIT- Nats win! afk dancing in the street

[archibaldcrane]

While JJ Hardy has been sucking hard this season, I'm loving the emergence of Rickie Weeks. Kid is cranking lead-off homers (and today triples too). At points last season I was trying to figure out wtf they were doing with him leading off, and while power numbers aren't necessarily what you're looking for it's nice to get some production out of that spot.

[Headspace]

Blegh, Cueto off to mediocre start. Hope he finds a rhythm.

[Rhinox]

AP-Cubs slugger Alfonso Soriano(notes) hit his 53rd leadoff homer Wednesday night, tying Craig Biggio(notes) for second on baseball’s career list and setting a club record.

Chicago was trailing 2-0 when Soriano drove an 0-1 pitch from San Diego’s Chris Young beyond the left-field bleachers to start a three-run rally. Besides tying Biggio, Soriano moved ahead of Jimmy Ryan with his 21st leadoff homer as a Cub. Rickey Henderson holds the major league record with 81 leadoff homers.

Soriano, who began the night batting .278, now has 11 homers on the season.

Ryan Theriot(notes) tied it when he went deep on the next pitch, the first time the Cubs led off a game with back-to-back homers since April 27, 2000, at Houston. It also was the first time the Padres had allowed consecutive homers to the first two batters, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

[Rhinox]

And Ryan 'Babe ruth' Theriot just hit his 5 homer (2nd tonight) after hitting just 7 combined the last 3 years.

[Ensam]

Second worst record in baseball after 11-1 start

/blood covered wrist

[archibaldcrane]

Blegh, Cueto off to mediocre start. Hope he finds a rhythm.

Looks like we're perched atop the NL Central after today (and Cueto is on my fantasy team to boot!)

*NLCentralLeadersHighFive*

[Headspace]

Looks like we're perched atop the NL Central after today (and Cueto is on my fantasy team to boot!)

*NLCentralLeadersHighFive*

Fuck yeah 3 way ties are the bomb.

Rhinox, maybe you guys should catch up.

[Rhinox]

sure.

This afternoon good for you?

[Stiker]

Last night Rangers win on a walkoff 2-run double in the 11th. Today they win on a walkoff 2-run HR on the back of a complete game by Harrison.

Loving baseball so much right now.

[Andarvi]

Jesus christ the Tigers fucking suck. Blowing the W for Verlander (and my fantasy team) in the 7th and beyond. Assholes.

[archibaldcrane]

sure.

This afternoon good for you?

The Brewers are still waiting for you.

[Cephius]

Jesus christ the Tigers fucking suck. Blowing the W for Verlander (and my fantasy team) in the 7th and beyond. Assholes.

Yeah you missed the W, but you got a 1 ERA, sub .5 WHIP and 13Ks... can't really complain (about your fantasy team anyway)