2010 MLB Season Discussion

[Bozo]

I have MLB Tonight on and it's a flashback game. Must be on one of my local channels

Nevermind.. I don't get the game on TV at all. This blows.

Check the link I posted to stream it.

[Akiyama]

Eh, nah. Just a spring training game x.x

[Eliseos]

Just ordered a new brewer's hat/hoodie. Excited to see 81 games of great baseball followed by 81 games of not-so-great baseball. FSN is also broadcasting all but 5 games for them this year, and all of them in HD.

[Alderaan]

Floating realignment anyone?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...html?eref=sihp

"When baseball commissioner Bud Selig named a 14-person "special committee for on-field matters" four months ago, he promised that all topics would be in play and "there are no sacred cows." The committee already has made good on Selig's promise by discussing a radical form of "floating" realignment in which teams would not be fixed to a division, but free to change divisions from year-to-year based on geography, payroll and their plans to contend or not."

Seems a little extreme to me, when a much simpler solution could be a salary basement or god forbid a cap. I mean, who's going to actually want to move to the AL east?

[Akiyama]

Agreed. Realigning teams so they'd have a better chance is silly. The Twins have always been pretty good, but let's face it; are the Indians, White Sox, Tigers, and Twins really powers? Hasn't helped the Royals any, what with their finishing last every year. If they are talking about Baltimore/Blue Jays, well they're just boned due to where they are. Not much you can do about that.

Realigning shit would be stupid beyond belief.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Move the Braves, Mets and the Phils to the AL East for SUPER DIVISION OF DOOM.

Move the Jays, O's, and Rays to the NL East for SUPER DIVISION OF NATS HAVE A CHANCE.

AL East:

Yanks
Sox
Braves
Mets
Phils

NL East:

Nats
Fish
Rays
O's
Jays

Everybody wins. Except for the teams in the new AL East. But that's good because I hate them.

[Akiyama]

The Braves and Phillies actually did pretty well against the AL East last year in the division match-ups.

Rays/Marlins would own the NL East in that case. LOLNATS. Don't be silly :3

[Alderaan]

If you really look at the divisions across the board, every team has a chance to win their division except the AL east. Sure you'll get a Rays situation every 5 years or so when everything lines up perfectly, but other than that it's a 2 team race. Would they dare split up the Yanks and Red Sox? Just doing that opens the door to more wild card possibilities, but it hurts the bottom line.

You also can't blame those 2 teams. They're paying huge revenue sharing numbers which a lot of teams are pocketing and not using to improve their teams. That has to be handled first and foremost.

[OctavoGilgamesh]

FSN is also broadcasting all but 5 games for them this year, and all of them in HD.

That makes my fucking day. Having a new 50" plasma and having to watch grainy standard def baseball sucks.

[Melena]

Got to love the LOLMets this year. According to ESPN, mets medical staff think he has a thyroid issue and Reyes is saying no I don't. If Reyes is right, god help any Mets player that gets injured this year.

[Akiyama]

are the Mets trying to help the Nats out of the cellar or something?

[Melena]

They keep this up, they may become the Oakland Raiders of baseball. Who wants to sign with these guys right now knowing if they get hurt they could get fucked?

[Akiyama]

They keep this up, they may become the Oakland Raiders of baseball. Who wants to sign with these guys right now knowing if they get hurt they could get fucked?

Jason Bay. He's out for the money. That's gotta be the only reason he went there. Look at what David Wright did in terms of power

[*Shinzon*]

Got to love the LOLMets this year. According to ESPN, mets medical staff think he has a thyroid issue and Reyes is saying no I don't. If Reyes is right, god help any Mets player that gets injured this year.

Tests done in NY already confirmed that he does in fact have an overactive thyroid. Originally non-mets doctors in Florida discovered the condition on a routine test and when he was sent back to NY, tests yesterday confirmed it. I haven't heard anything to the contrary yet.

Edit: According to that ESPN article, Reyes believes that the non-mets docs in Florida discovered inflammation and specialists in NY, again not mets docs, said that they don't believe he has a thyroid issue, but is waiting on secondary tests to confirm. Which is different from what Marty Noble posted on Mets.com about doctors confirming he has the condition.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Jose Reyes has an overactive thyroid. The Mets said late Tuesday that tests administered in New York on Monday confirmed the original diagnosis. The club said little else except that Reyes is to remain in New York for additional blood tests, which will determine how he is treated. The results of those tests are not expected before Thursday.

But Reyes told ESPNDeportes.com's Enrique Rojas later Tuesday: "The specialists who took care of me in New York have told me that I'm fine and that there's nothing wrong with my thyroid. The test [taken to follow one conducted during his physical] showed that I'm fine. We just have to wait for the results of the additional test. The [doctors] found inflammation in my throat and no medicine to treat the thyroid or any other condition has been prescribed."

The ESPN article appears to have been written yesterday and just posted today, while Noble's article was posted early tuesday at the mets camp. That ESPN article is really confusing since the team has already confirmed the issue. Someone is lying, no idea why Reyes would say he doesn't if simple blood tests confirmed it.

[Eliseos]

That makes my fucking day. Having a new 50" plasma and having to watch grainy standard def baseball sucks.

Haha, same. Just bought a new 47" LED myself, was ecstatic to hear that.

[Melena]

It was up yesterday, I just didn't have a chance to post it yesterday as I was busy at work.

[Conrad]

The 700 Level posted this from another website. It's the 2010 season run by a computer simulation 50,000 times.

Playoff Probabilities (based on 2010 MLB season played 50,000 times)

Team
 Division Win
 Wild Card Win
 LCS Win
 World Series Win    
 
Boston Red Sox 
 51.0% 
 18.0% 
 30.2% 
 18.2% 
 
New York Yankees 
 43.7% 
 23.7% 
 29.5% 
 18.1% 
 
Philadelphia Phillies 
 69.3% 
 15.0% 
 34.8% 
 15.9% 
 
St. Louis Cardinals 
 69.8% 
 14.6% 
 26.4% 
 11.8% 
 
Minnesota Twins 
 36.4% 
 5.4% 
 8.4% 
 4.2% 
 
Seattle Mariners 
 36.5% 
 11.5% 
 8.0% 
 3.8% 
 
Colorado Rockies 
 32.2% 
 12.8% 
 9.0% 
 3.8% 
 
San Francisco Giants 
 31.2% 
 13.2% 
 8.9% 
 3.3% 
 
Tampa Bay Rays 
 5.3% 
 10.9% 
 5.2% 
 2.8% 
 
Los Angeles Dodgers 
 30.5% 
 11.3% 
 6.0% 
 2.5% 
 
Texas Rangers 
 34.1% 
 11.4% 
 5.8% 
 2.4% 
 
Chicago Cubs 
 23.5% 
 7.8% 
 5.2% 
 2.4% 
 
Detroit Tigers 
 33.6% 
 4.9% 
 4.8% 
 2.2% 
 
Chicago White Sox 
 28.4% 
 4.3% 
 4.7% 
 2.1% 
 
Atlanta Braves 
 14.3% 
 12.3% 
 4.4% 
 1.7% 
 
Los Angeles Angels 
 20.0% 
 5.0% 
 3.1% 
 1.5% 
 
Florida Marlins 
 10.8% 
 7.3% 
 3.0% 
 1.4% 
 
New York Mets 
 5.6% 
 1.7% 
 2.7% 
 1.3%

Found at predictionmachine.com. It's amazing how far every team drops off for their WS chances after the BoSox, Yankees, Phils, and Cards.

edit: meh, the copy/paste screwed up the chart but it still makes sense so I'm not going to try and change it.

[Akiyama]

I do not like Atlanta's chances

[Eliseos]

Some of those teams have a better chance of winning the lottery than even making it to the playoffs lol.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Nats average wins: 64.7, 0% chance of playoffs FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU