2011 Major League Baseball

[RinglingRingling]

Why is it the Sox can go on a 9 game win streak, but can't do squat against the Rays.

Because even when they were cellar-dwellers, the Devil Rays were a good team, if they were playing division leaders. Playing the Royals, or the Orioles, or Mariners tho.... it was anyone's guess what was going to happen.

[RinglingRingling]

Jeter, Yount, Ivan Rodriguez, Pujols . . . 4 best position players of my lifetime. Ichiro is a distant 5th . . . and, yeah, I know he plays right field. Schmidt and Biggio follow.

Jeter wouldn't even come close to making the top 10 of the best position players in my lifetime.

that's because you're 4 years older than Abner Doubleday...

[LIPH]

My lifetime is considerably longer than that.

Here's a "fun" trivia fact for you, Larry:

The last M.L. ACTIVE ballplayer who was older than us-Dave Winfield. (b. Oct. 3rd, 1951).

What about Rickey's last hurrah through the minor league?

Rickey's younger than the grumpy old men, he was born in 1958.

[Wino you know]

Rickey's younger than the grumpy old men, he was born in 1958.

Also, I said the last active MAJOR league ballplayer. But yes, Rickey Henderson was playing minor league ball until just recently. And, if I recall correctly, LUIS TIANT was pitching in the Northern League (an independent league with no major league affiliations) until he was well into his 60's. Maybe the Cubs should sign him.

[Tequila Revenge]

Rickey's younger than the grumpy old men, he was born in 1958.

Also, I said the last active MAJOR league ballplayer. But yes, Rickey Henderson was playing minor league ball until just recently. And, if I recall correctly, LUIS TIANT was pitching in the Northern League (an independent league with no major league affiliations) until he was well into his 60's. Maybe the Cubs should sign him.

Just wondering if "major" counted for a player that was signed to a team and in there system.

As for the grumpy old men; who's doing Sophia and who get's Ann?

[nutmeg]

Wooo Hoooo! Go Tigers! #1

[Lightning Bolt]

Rickey's younger than the grumpy old men, he was born in 1958.

Also, I said the last active MAJOR league ballplayer. But yes, Rickey Henderson was playing minor league ball until just recently. And, if I recall correctly, LUIS TIANT was pitching in the Northern League (an independent league with no major league affiliations) until he was well into his 60's. Maybe the Cubs should sign him.

Rickey play with San Diego Surf Dawgs 2005...even had his bobblehead night

[Wino you know]

Rickey play with San Diego Surf Dawgs 2005...even had his bobblehead night

I didn't know San Diego also had a minor league team. Too bad Rickey couldn't hang around the majors for just a few more games. He was something like three home runs shy of 300.

I saw him play in 1993 when he was with Toronto at a game in Oakland. (This was before he was traded back to Oakland). He homered in that game.

[Wino you know]

Just wondering if "major" counted for a player that was signed to a team and in there system.

I actually meant a player who was active on a major league team.
I think it's great that Rickey played professional ball until he was close to 50, but it's moot in my post because, as G.O.M. #2 said, he's younger than both of us.

As for the grumpy old men; who's doing Sophia and who get's Ann?

Neither one of us.
They're both too old for Larry and they're both too young for me.

[Wino you know]

Wooo Hoooo! Go Tigers! #1

They're kicking some serious butt now, aren't they?

Well, that about does it. I'm off to Chicago for the Yankees/Cubs series where I WON'T be seeing Derek Jeter get his 3000th hit.

[nutmeg]

Wooo Hoooo! Go Tigers! #1

They're kicking some serious butt now, aren't they?

Well, that about does it. I'm off to Chicago for the Yankees/Cubs series where I WON'T be seeing Derek Jeter get his 3000th hit.

Enjoy the game/s. Sorry abou the Jeter thing....

[chippewa]

Mets lose on a walk off.......balk.

[drunkpirate66]

In Pittsburgh, PA for the Red Sox. The ball park here is amazing and your team ain't half bad either. They are almost half good.

[Tequila Revenge]

In Pittsburgh, PA for the Red Sox. The ball park here is amazing and your team ain't half bad either. They are almost half good.

How as it watching a real baseball game

[Bfan53again]

In Pittsburgh, PA for the Red Sox. The ball park here is amazing and your team ain't half bad either. They are almost half good.

How as it watching a real baseball game

I bet the BoSox fans in Pittsburgh this weekend we fully expecting a sweep.......but not by the Bucs!

[Tequila Revenge]

In Pittsburgh, PA for the Red Sox. The ball park here is amazing and your team ain't half bad either. They are almost half good.

How as it watching a real baseball game

I bet the BoSox fans in Pittsburgh this weekend we fully expecting a sweep.......but not by the Bucs!

I was just taking another shot at the DH. Imagine a baseball game where the manager really has to....well, manage late in the game.

[Tequila Revenge]

Baseball cheaters can't hide from the laws of physics

http://yubanet.com/life/Baseball-cheate ... hysics.php

The physicists did find that a ball was less lively if kept under the controlled temperature and humidity of a humidor, as practiced by the Colorado Rockies starting in 2002. The Rockies, trying to compensate for the extra distance balls were flying in the high, dry and thin air of Denver, noticed a drop in offensive statistics like home runs and total runs per game.

The researchers took four dozen baseballs and stored them in environments with humidity ranging from 11 to 97 percent and temperatures as low as 35 F. Measuring their coefficient of restitution against bats, they found the colder, moister balls bounced less.

The researchers calculate that a humidity increase from 30 to 50 percent would take 14 feet off a 380 foot fly ball - enough to decrease the chances of a home run by 25 percent.

[Dr.Corona]

This Saturday night.......Tigers hosting SF Giants @ Comerica Park.

Parrothead Night!! Free floppyhat for first 10,000 through the gates.
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/schedule/ ... y=2011#m=7

Don Middlebrook providing the entertainment!

[drunkpirate66]

In Pittsburgh, PA for the Red Sox. The ball park here is amazing and your team ain't half bad either. They are almost half good.

How as it watching a real baseball game

I bet the BoSox fans in Pittsburgh this weekend we fully expecting a sweep.......but not by the Bucs!

I was just taking another shot at the DH. Imagine a baseball game where the manager really has to....well, manage late in the game.

Blame my parents for moving, when I was 2, to a state who has a professional baseball team that plays in the "league" with the DH. Its almost been 40 years of the Designated Hitter (1973, right?). I don't really like it either but what are you gonna do?

And I fully realized that Pittsburgh is no longer a push over. Nor is the other PA baseball organization. Cliff Lee looked as good as 1999 Pedro last night.

[LIPH]

How about those Mets