Major League Baseball Thread 2006 Season
10-08-2006, 01:13 AM
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Well...I dunno but, when a team that's well, really...TWO or three teams (if you add up salaries and stuff) goes kaput. I can't help but go 
...
So, yeah. @ Yanks.
P.S. to Twins.
...So, yeah.
@ Yanks. P.S.
to Twins.
10-08-2006, 08:29 AM
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Torre out.
Typical Steinbrenner, this wasn't Torre's fault. His players choked.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224
Torre out.
Typical Steinbrenner, this wasn't Torre's fault. His players choked.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224
10-08-2006, 11:45 AM
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Torre out.
Typical Steinbrenner, this wasn't Torre's fault. His players choked.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224
Torre out.
Typical Steinbrenner, this wasn't Torre's fault. His players choked.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2617224
WHOA. Here's hoping the Cubs hire him...!
10-08-2006, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Torre out???? I don't think so, I won't accept that untill it happens. It's not his fault. They played as a team & lost as a team. I'm dumbfounded as to how they played. They had their asses handed to them. 
And with Steinbrenner I too will believe it when I see it, at this point it is just a report from the Daily News, one of the lowest forms of news in NY, only one step above the Post. I believe the National Enquirer before those 2 sorces of News.
10-08-2006, 02:53 PM
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Poor Torre. I know there's a big debate between who's responsible for winning between managers and players. We certainly have heard that lately with Girardi getting fired. Maybe Girardi will end up there since he coached that one year under Torre. 
I'm going to root for the Tigers also. I'm a Leyland and Pudge fan for obvious reasons.
I'm going to root for the Tigers also. I'm a Leyland and Pudge fan for obvious reasons.
10-08-2006, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Torre out???? I don't think so, I won't accept that untill it happens. It's not his fault. They played as a team & lost as a team. I'm dumbfounded as to how they played. They had their asses handed to them.
10-08-2006, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by NSXNEXT
With that amount of talent, how could you not blame him? $200 million dollars worth of egos in that dugout.
$200 million dollars worth of egos in that dugout.
(Giambi and Shef anyone?)
But, for all their success in the regular season with that offense, they were strangely impatient yesterday at the plate. And with the season on the line, I would've started Wang instead of Wright.
10-09-2006, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by NSXNEXT
With that amount of talent, how could you not blame him? $200 million dollars worth of egos in that dugout.
$200 million dollars worth of egos in that dugout.Jared Wright
Randy Johnson
Alex Rodriguez
Octavio Dotel
10-09-2006, 07:44 AM
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He did a great job even getting them to the playoffs with most of the guys injured the whole season and a bad staff.
10-09-2006, 07:52 AM
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arod could stay in NY if he grows some balls this winter. He's way too passive to play in NY.
RJ should stay if he can change the way he pitches like the other 40+ pitchers have learned to do.
Jared wright needs to go.
Dotel needs to get his arm back to stay in NY. Many pitchers have took a season to recover from tommy john.
RJ should stay if he can change the way he pitches like the other 40+ pitchers have learned to do.
Jared wright needs to go.
Dotel needs to get his arm back to stay in NY. Many pitchers have took a season to recover from tommy john.
10-09-2006, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by gocubsgo55
Cubs are signing Girardi any of these days. Inside sources close to myself say it'l be official soon 
Girardi could go to the Cubs, but he could be one of the Cub's new managers coaches, like either a 3rd base or 1st base coach, not the Cubs manager.
10-09-2006, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
Cheaters too.
(Giambi and Shef anyone?)
But, for all their success in the regular season with that offense, they were strangely impatient yesterday at the plate. And with the season on the line, I would've started Wang instead of Wright.
(Giambi and Shef anyone?)
But, for all their success in the regular season with that offense, they were strangely impatient yesterday at the plate. And with the season on the line, I would've started Wang instead of Wright.
...i would have gone with Wang again...he shut them down in game 1...
10-09-2006, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by NSXNEXT
Yea but that's just it. Look at their record during the regular season with all those injuries. When the playoffs start, great teams step up. Detroit stepped up big time.
Team chemistry and effort overcomes big name entitlement every time.
The impromptu celebration on the field afterwards was priceless.
10-09-2006, 09:39 AM
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10-09-2006, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Fibonacci
The impromptu celebration on the field afterwards was priceless.
they definitely had something to cheer about....and why not get the fans involved too....
10-09-2006, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Stop the "cheater" BS. No one has any proof, untill that day they are innocent.
I agree Wang should have started. 4 days rest is plenty. I will fault Torre for that 1 thing. He could have combined pitchers in game 5 if he had 2.
I agree Wang should have started. 4 days rest is plenty. I will fault Torre for that 1 thing. He could have combined pitchers in game 5 if he had 2.
You can't be serious. Sheffield admitted under oath to the BALCO grand jury that he used steroids. The BS is that he claims it was accidental. Giambi was also implicated. He apologized to the media. The BS here is that he stopped short of actually specifying what he was sorry for to avoid official sanction.
Actually the real BS is that somehow New York has forgiven those douchebags and they point their sanctimonious fingers at Rodriguez, a guy who is arrogant, yes, but is above suspicion for cheating.
10-09-2006, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Fibonacci
Team chemistry and effort overcomes big name entitlement every time.
The impromptu celebration on the field afterwards was priceless.
The impromptu celebration on the field afterwards was priceless.
10-09-2006, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by IlliNorge
You should fear for the organized "celebration" that would follow a Tigers World Series victory. Is Detroit fireproof?
We'll cross that bridge when we get there. It's no Toronto, but Downtown Motown is on the upswing - don't be a
Contrary to popular opinion, Michigan doesn't have a monopoly on village idiots and doltus maximus behavior.
10-09-2006, 01:32 PM
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Don't blame A-Wad...honest!
1. A-Rod only struck out four times in the series. That may not be great, but do you want to know who struck out four times in the 1977 World Series? Reggie Jackson. Yet Jackson was hailed as a hero and named series MVP, while A-Rod gets dumped on. That's a double standard and it's simply not fair. (Sure, Jackson had five home runs in the 1977 World Series, including three in the clincher, but that's just semantics.)
2. I can't believe people are ripping on A-Rod when baseball is full of steroids abusers. Just think what kind of series he would have had if he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. We're talking .150 or .200, and maybe even an RBI or two.
3. A-Rod was just pacing himself to turn it on in the ALCS and World Series. I mean, why waste hits against the Tigers? Everyone knows they stink and were overmatched by the Yankees.
4. If the Yankees had big leads in all the games, A-Rod would have produced. It's not his fault his teammates didn't set him up for success.
5. So A-Rod isn't a true Yankee? Well, then neither is Mariano Rivera. New York's "Hall of Fame" closer did absolutely nothing in the final three games. And that's a fact.
6. A-Rod would have had a great series if it wasn't for Joe Torre. A-Rod started the series 1-for-2, and if Torre had pulled him then he would have finished the series batting .500 -- and a .500 batting average in the playoffs is something only an ultra-clutch, all-time great can accomplish.
7. Lay off him. He's only a No. 8 hitter. Guys at the bottom of the order are usually in the lineup for their defense, not their bat. OK, so maybe not defense in certain cases either. But it's a rule that you have to fill a lineup with nine guys, and Rodriguez allowed the Yankees to do that.
8. He'd play better if he didn't have to stand beside Derek Jeter in the field. You try hitting when your eyes are stinging and watery due to having to breath in that skanky cologne all day. The guy pours that nasty stuff on like he's a 14-year-old boy on a date at the mall.
9. Everyone wants to talk about Detroit's starting pitchers. But look at A-Rod's ERA in the series. It was 0.00. No one on the Tigers did any better than that.
10. I think A-Rod is awesome. But, granted, I'm not as bright as he is.
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...t&lid=tab2pos2
10-09-2006, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
2. I can't believe people are ripping on A-Rod when baseball is full of steroids abusers. Just think what kind of series he would have had if he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. We're talking .150 or .200, and maybe even an RBI or two.
6. A-Rod would have had a great series if it wasn't for Joe Torre. A-Rod started the series 1-for-2, and if Torre had pulled him then he would have finished the series batting .500 -- and a .500 batting average in the playoffs is something only an ultra-clutch, all-time great can accomplish.
6. A-Rod would have had a great series if it wasn't for Joe Torre. A-Rod started the series 1-for-2, and if Torre had pulled him then he would have finished the series batting .500 -- and a .500 batting average in the playoffs is something only an ultra-clutch, all-time great can accomplish.
10-09-2006, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by gocubsgo55
Cubs are signing Girardi any of these days. Inside sources close to myself say it'l be official soon
...so what other sports news do you know that we don't?
10-09-2006, 06:46 PM
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I'm going to root for the Tigers also. I'm a Leyland and Pudge fan for obvious reasons.
And on a different topic: Which AL team is gonna take Adam Dunn for some young pitchers?
10-10-2006, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Torre's holding a conference at 1pm. Guess we'll find out.
I'm a METS fan, and I think he did a damn good job towards the end of the season. He definately made some questinable decisions, but over all I think his players let him down.
10-10-2006, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by RaviNJCLs
Based on all the reports I heard, Torre is not going anywhere.
I'm a METS fan, and I think he did a damn good job towards the end of the season. He definately made some questinable decisions, but over all I think his players let him down.
I'm a METS fan, and I think he did a damn good job towards the end of the season. He definately made some questinable decisions, but over all I think his players let him down.
10-10-2006, 10:07 AM
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They would be stupid to get rid of Torre...
yes they should have crushed the ball...but that isnt Torre's fault. he cant go hit for them. they swung at all the bad pitches...not him.
yes they should have crushed the ball...but that isnt Torre's fault. he cant go hit for them. they swung at all the bad pitches...not him.
10-10-2006, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by TLofNYC
...Torre is a great manager, but if you can't win with that line up, its time to go.
I don't know why everyone thinks Torre is a god of a manager. He has a $200 million payroll to play with. When he used to manage the Cardinals, they were down right horrible, well for St. Louis standards.