The 2009 Baseball Season Thread

[Article 15]

The Rays are kicking us in the teeth right now!


and ...


1000th post in the thread!!!

 

[Andrew2382]

and the yankees explode on the orioles and win 10-2

 

[Andrew2382]

wanna explain to me how my last post was post #1002 when article's was 1000????

 

[Article 15]

wanna explain to me how my last post was post #1002 when article's was 1000????

Ummm ... this post is number #1002.

And this this post is #1003.

 

[Andrew2382]

nm my screen was showing the previous post...odd


anyway

yanks are unstopable

 

[Xenophon]

NY continues to roll, the hapless orioles are swept.

On to Toronto.

 

[Article 15]

Y'all got the division, that's for sure. We'll see what happens come playoff time.

Beckett's recent struggles do concern me. Without both him and Lester pitching strong we can't win.

 

[Xenophon]

Everything is even come playoff time.

Still 4 and a half weeks of baseball before then.

 

[Article 15]

Beckett was not a happy camper in his post game interview. Polite, but obviously not thrilled with his performance.

Brad Penny goes and pitches 8 innings of 5 hit shutout ball against the Phillies. Man, I hate that guy.

 

[del]

Everything is even come playoff time.

Still 4 and a half weeks of baseball before then.

that's the good news.

 

[Xenophon]

Long way to the moutain top.

 

[Truthspeaker]

Beckett was not a happy camper in his post game interview. Polite, but obviously not thrilled with his performance.

Brad Penny goes and pitches 8 innings of 5 hit shutout ball against the Phillies. Man, I hate that guy.

Man I love that guy. We'll take your sloppy seconds.

 

[Truthspeaker]

Hey Paulie!

Rough night in Phillie for you I bet. Glad Aaron Rowand finally showed up. Now deal with Timmy tomorrow. I'm sure glad it's not a young Pedro we gotta face tomorrow.

 

[JW Frogen]

As long as Boston looses I am happy.

 

[Xenophon]

Rays finally woke up to avoid being swept by the sox, beating Boston 8-5 to drop the Red Sox to 7 1i/2 behind NY.

 

[Paulie]

c'mon seriously, you can't go into PHILA-FREAKIN-DELPHIA and score two runs?

I think you answered that question in the beginning of your post.

But look, we only scored ONE. Like I said, we get gems from our starters and give them no run support as well.

Last night, Hamels was just a LITTLE BIT better.

No. Sanchez was the one who pitched better. He gave up one run, struck out 8 in 6 innings against a powerful offense.

Cole Hamels did nothing other than pitch to minor league hitters who would make no adjustments to his very hittable changeup. No one tries to go the other way, no one has an approach to see a good pitch and swing at it. Except the Panda, Freddy Sanchez and Nate Schierholtz(healthy and available). All not in the lineup.

Look at Hamel's era. He's hittable. Especially in that park. Bochy is the worst lineup filler-outer in the game. He can manage a pitching staff but not hitters. You want proof other than our vast offensive futility?

Barry Bonds hit the most homers against the Padres. Bochy was the manager for most of those years. I remember he would almost never walk Bonds intentionally. He would always pitch to Barry with a base open and get raked. He has no ability to judge the talent of an offensive player.

He pinch hits an injured Bengie Molina who is slow as molasses when healthy for Nate Schierholtz who has a batting average 30 points higher and is left handed with blazing speed who is willing to ACTUALLY take a walk. Molina blindly swings at anything that remotely LOOKS like a baseball and strikes out.

bochy literally refuses to bunt a runner over to third base with nobody out. "Because I hate to give outs away." Moron!!!! How about scoring a run? You wouldn't give away an out to get a run? You're already giving away outs without getting runs back.

The definition of Insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

Bruce Bochy is insane!!!!!

The Best pitching staff in the majors ALL YEAR AND CURRENTLY THE HOTTEST PITCHING STAFF TOO.

And this guy can't scratch out 4 runs in the National League West?

Paulie surely you gotta agree with me.

I don't agree with you about Hamels having a hittable changeup in that game. That changeup was his best all year, if you ask me.

As far as tonight, this is a crucial matchup against Linc. If he shuts us down, that will seriously affect the confidence level going into a potential NLDS against you, and my whole argument about pitching being more important will come to fruition. Linc and Cain with a 1-2 punch to get you up 2-0 in the series is exactly what I'm talking about.

This might be our biggest game so far this year.

 

[Truthspeaker]

I think you answered that question in the beginning of your post.

But look, we only scored ONE. Like I said, we get gems from our starters and give them no run support as well.

Last night, Hamels was just a LITTLE BIT better.

No. Sanchez was the one who pitched better. He gave up one run, struck out 8 in 6 innings against a powerful offense.

Cole Hamels did nothing other than pitch to minor league hitters who would make no adjustments to his very hittable changeup. No one tries to go the other way, no one has an approach to see a good pitch and swing at it. Except the Panda, Freddy Sanchez and Nate Schierholtz(healthy and available). All not in the lineup.

Look at Hamel's era. He's hittable. Especially in that park. Bochy is the worst lineup filler-outer in the game. He can manage a pitching staff but not hitters. You want proof other than our vast offensive futility?

Barry Bonds hit the most homers against the Padres. Bochy was the manager for most of those years. I remember he would almost never walk Bonds intentionally. He would always pitch to Barry with a base open and get raked. He has no ability to judge the talent of an offensive player.

He pinch hits an injured Bengie Molina who is slow as molasses when healthy for Nate Schierholtz who has a batting average 30 points higher and is left handed with blazing speed who is willing to ACTUALLY take a walk. Molina blindly swings at anything that remotely LOOKS like a baseball and strikes out.

bochy literally refuses to bunt a runner over to third base with nobody out. "Because I hate to give outs away." Moron!!!! How about scoring a run? You wouldn't give away an out to get a run? You're already giving away outs without getting runs back.

The definition of Insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

Bruce Bochy is insane!!!!!

The Best pitching staff in the majors ALL YEAR AND CURRENTLY THE HOTTEST PITCHING STAFF TOO.

And this guy can't scratch out 4 runs in the National League West?

Paulie surely you gotta agree with me.

I don't agree with you about Hamels having a hittable changeup in that game. That changeup was his best all year, if you ask me.

As far as tonight, this is a crucial matchup against Linc. If he shuts us down, that will seriously affect the confidence level going into a potential NLDS against you, and my whole argument about pitching being more important will come to fruition. Linc and Cain with a 1-2 punch to get you up 2-0 in the series is exactly what I'm talking about.

This might be our biggest game so far this year.

You know I was born in philly so i was happy they won last year. My dad told me I was at the game when Mike Schmidt hit 4 homers in a game. I was 1 year old. Somehow I have a visual image of the Philly phanatic even back then.

I maintain pitching is always more valuable than hitting. Except in extreme cases like the Giants. If the Giants could just hit 1 homer a game. or average 4.5 runs per game, we would be running away from the Dodgers.

I hope they give Buster Posey a shot soon. He's a "can't miss" prospect so let's throw him in the fire if they're so sure about him.

I sure hope Brad Penny pitches like this the rest of the year!

 

[Truthspeaker]

I think you answered that question in the beginning of your post.

But look, we only scored ONE. Like I said, we get gems from our starters and give them no run support as well.

Last night, Hamels was just a LITTLE BIT better.

No. Sanchez was the one who pitched better. He gave up one run, struck out 8 in 6 innings against a powerful offense.

Cole Hamels did nothing other than pitch to minor league hitters who would make no adjustments to his very hittable changeup. No one tries to go the other way, no one has an approach to see a good pitch and swing at it. Except the Panda, Freddy Sanchez and Nate Schierholtz(healthy and available). All not in the lineup.

Look at Hamel's era. He's hittable. Especially in that park. Bochy is the worst lineup filler-outer in the game. He can manage a pitching staff but not hitters. You want proof other than our vast offensive futility?

Barry Bonds hit the most homers against the Padres. Bochy was the manager for most of those years. I remember he would almost never walk Bonds intentionally. He would always pitch to Barry with a base open and get raked. He has no ability to judge the talent of an offensive player.

He pinch hits an injured Bengie Molina who is slow as molasses when healthy for Nate Schierholtz who has a batting average 30 points higher and is left handed with blazing speed who is willing to ACTUALLY take a walk. Molina blindly swings at anything that remotely LOOKS like a baseball and strikes out.

bochy literally refuses to bunt a runner over to third base with nobody out. "Because I hate to give outs away." Moron!!!! How about scoring a run? You wouldn't give away an out to get a run? You're already giving away outs without getting runs back.

The definition of Insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

Bruce Bochy is insane!!!!!

The Best pitching staff in the majors ALL YEAR AND CURRENTLY THE HOTTEST PITCHING STAFF TOO.

And this guy can't scratch out 4 runs in the National League West?

Paulie surely you gotta agree with me.

I don't agree with you about Hamels having a hittable changeup in that game. That changeup was his best all year, if you ask me.

As far as tonight, this is a crucial matchup against Linc. If he shuts us down, that will seriously affect the confidence level going into a potential NLDS against you, and my whole argument about pitching being more important will come to fruition. Linc and Cain with a 1-2 punch to get you up 2-0 in the series is exactly what I'm talking about.

This might be our biggest game so far this year.

Of course his changeup was the best it's been all year. He was facing the free swinging, often missing Giants! Every national league pitcher has had his best outing against the Giants this year.

 

[Truthspeaker]

Another Reason the Phillies don't want to see the Giants in the playoffs:

Since 1901 The Giants own a record of 1014 wins over the phils to just 767 losses all time. a 756 winning percentage. OUch!

Neat-O-Stat-O-Da-Night.

1993 was the worst because we owned them that year going 8-4 against them. but the braves got to play them instead of us because there was no wild card. We would have won the series that year if there was a wild card. It got invented the next year because of how great the Giants were in 93. 103 wins and didn't make the playoffs because the ATLANTA Braves were in the NL WEST and they had 104 wins. The Phillies got in with 97 wins.

A very painful year. We would have trounced toronto.

 

[Andrew2382]

and the Yankees score 10 runs...


again


This team is on a path of destruction. You can't pitch to them over a course of 9 innings. Jeter needs 3 more homeruns and they will have 8 people in the line up with 20 or more bombs.

Sick stat