That was the one! Seattle, during the interleague portion.
Fuckin’ Mets.
CC’s back, so I have some hope for the Indians.
But Byrd’s pitching tonight, so I have no hope for the Indians.
Okay - we’re about 2 weeks from the All Star break - How’s your team doing?
Even tho I am a diehard Mets fan, I know there must be something fundamentally wrong with the Universe - I’m not complaining, I just keep looking around waiting for, I don’t know what, SOMEthing (else) bizarre to happen.
Not as well as yours, but considering the injuries the Yanks have sustained, I am pretty please to be in first by a game. Johnson is finally showing some signs of life. We desperately need to jumpstart A-Rod & Jason G. Jeter & Cano with some timely hitting by Bernie & Phillips seem to be carrying the team. If the Mets win tonight, one of the Philly outfielders could be a Yank within the next two weeks. 
I enjoy seeing Willie doing well, so I am somewhat rooting for the Mets. As long as they do not win the World Series.
I was at last nights Yankee game and it was a fun one. Some great defensive plays by both teams. A near Brawl with Player ejected. Johnson looks very good before he got tossed. A nice quick victory and a Redsox loss the same night. Thanks to the rain delay, I got to listen to the Mets on the way home.
Jim
Well, what do you know? Dodgers are tied for 1st in the (say it with me now) “toughest division in baseball.” That means we get 2 more weeks of summer fun before the wheels come off. I’m just wondering how it will happen. Will Nomar get broken again? Will terminal acne strike all the rookies that are powering our offense? Will all the former Red Sox get homesick for Boston and quit to go home? Who knows? I’m loving the ride, but my cynicism is hard to conquer.
Mets-Dodgers in the NLCS? 
If it makes you feel better every team in your division has a losing record to the NL East except Colorado that is 9-9.
On the other hand, there is not one team in the West that looks like it could run away with the division. It should be an interesting summer. Keep the faith, they could do it this year.
Jim {of course they would still lose in the first round}
That will certainly confuse a lot of Brooklyn folks
AHAHAAHHHHHHAAAA The Cubs! I’m not crazy. They’re great!
No, they’re awesome!
The way they purely out-fundamentally-play everyone else…?
It’s beautiful (twitch, twitch)…
What is today?
where am i?
mommy?
:wally 
:mad:
valium
go cubs. wood’s gonna win the cy young too
I suppose a case could be made that the NL is tougher because it has two more teams than the AL
And the only team with a better record (so far this season) than the Mets is Detroit
A’s, six wins in a row, and as of this moment about half way to making it seven.
Wait, they just gave up a run. And now another one. 6-5 in the fifth. We’ll see.
But overall, right where they need to be in the division. Could be a little better placed for the wild card.
Baseball is good. We STILL don’t even get Tigers’ games on regular TV.
I could be wrong and they get some games on Fox Sports Detroit, except we don’t have the channel. Rarely, they’re on one basic cable channel, but that’s just disgusting and plain pathetic that the best team in the league can’t even be watched by their fans.
Good God, but the Jays’ pitching has been bad this year. Halladay is in Cy Young form, Chacin has been good when he’s not been hurt and BJ Ryan has been lights out, but the rest have been maddeningly inconsistent at best. Thank goodness for that upgraded offense, which has really kept us in the AL East.
My team is doing decently, considering what an incredible lack of hitting talent they have. Unfortunately, hitting coach Dave Magadan became the scapegoat and got fired today. The Padres don’t have an advance scout, and Magadan did both his job and the advance scout job too, spending sleepless nights watching DVDs of every pitcher and hitter and compiling incredibly detailed reports which, again, somebody else should’ve been doing for him. Magadan wasn’t a talented player himself, but achieved success as a major-league hitter through tedious study and work, and that’s how he coached too. A couple of players have specifically and publicly acknowledged Magadan as having made a huge difference in their careers. San Diego is a place where the fans pick scapegoats but the owners usually refrain from pulling the trigger on them–they couldn’t this time, though.
2005 to date, Padres team batting avg: .252, 16th in NL.
1999, when the Padres fired Magadan’s new replacement and replaced him with magadan: .252, 16th in NL.
2003, with Magadan as hitting coach: 3rd team average in NL.
silenus, acne or not, you guys have some real good young players up there. If they hang on to all of them, it’ll be an exciting team to watch as they hit their peaks.
The only thing we know so far about the NL West is that San Francisco will finish 5th.
Rysto, how far west does Blue Jay fanhood go? Does anyone follow the Nationals in Quebec? How far west do you go before people start watching the Tigers/Twins/Mariners? Do they?
I imagine that you’ll find a good number of fans all over the country. We Canadians will usually support a Canadian-based team over an American one.
No idea, although I would bet that anyone who might have been inclined to would be feeling rather bitter about the whole thing.
There might be some Tiger fans in Windsor, althought I doubt there’d be many. People in BC get Mariners games on Sportsnet Pacific, while people in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba seem to get games from teams like the Twins. In the East we mostly get Yankees and Red Sox games. Blue Jays games are broadcasted nationally.
Only just noticed this thread.
My team, the Orioles, are doing pretty much as i expected, sitting on .441 with 30 wins and 38 losses. This is my sixth full baseball season living in the US, and the Birds have never yet broken .500 for a season and have never made the playoffs in that time, so things are right on schedule.
As usual, the team is doing OK (though nowhere near as well as last year) in the offensive stats, ranking 9th in team batting average, 15th in OBP, 17th in slugging, 16th in home runs, 9th in total bases, and 2nd in stolen bases (thanks to Corey Patterson).
Like the last couple of years, Miguel Tejada is leading the way with the bat, averaging .333, with .392 OBP and a slugging figure of .556. He also comfortably leads the team in homers, with 16. Since his return from injury, Brian Roberts is hitting over .300, although last year’s home run power seems to have deserted him. Ramon Hernandez, Corey Patterson, Melvin Mora, Jay Gibbons, and Javy Lopez are all also doing pretty well.
As expected (and as usual) it’s pitching that’s really killing the Orioles. They are 29th in team ERA and 28th in WHIP. Of the five guys in the starting rotation, none has an ERA under 4 (Daniel Cabrera is best at 4.17), and three of the team’s best pitchers from last year (Eric Bedard, Rodrigo Lopez, and Bruce Chen) are all struggling. Bedard and Lopez both have ERAs almost 2 runs higher than last year, and Chen’s has bloated from 3.83 last year to 7.33 this season.
The bullpen is a mixed bag, with some doing great and others not so well, but when the starting pitchers are giving up so many runs it’s always going to be hard to win games.
I can’t even complain that the Orioles have been unlucky. Based on runs scored and runs allowed, their expected win-loss record is 30-38, exactly the same as their actual win-loss record. Actually, at 10-6 in one-run games, one could even argue that Baltimore has been a little bit lucky. Playing at home, they’re not so bad, with a record just over .500, but on the road they are a meager 11-21.
To be honest, i can’t see very much changing over the rest of the season. Once again, as September rolls around i’ll be reduced to hoping that the Yankees miss the playoffs.
We have a large tent in Yankee land, we actually accept those that want to jump on the bandwagon* and we do not tease them any more than any other Yankee Fan. Give up rooting for a team owned by nut that knows nothing about baseball and builds losers and come root for the team that is owned by a nut that knows a little bit more about baseball but also thinks winning is the only worthwhile achievement.
Jim
- we need a lot of fair weather fans to pay for our bloated, designed by committee payroll.
huh. Just this year - don’t by up all the Shea tickets and we promise not to buy up all the Bronx tx.
Cards appear to be weathering the loss of El Hombre pretty well so far. Scotty Ro has been hitting, Jed has picked it up a bit and the black hole that has been the catching is finally starting to do something besides weakly ground out.
The pitching, on the other hand, has looked like crap. Right now, it’s basically “Carp and pray.” There’s a good chance that Jason Marquis or Jeff Suppan will be leaving town in exchange for an outfielder, and Anthony Reyes will finally get his spot in the rotation. He’s been lighting AAA up since his last start for the big club.
Albert will be back by the first of July at the latest, most likely, and then I expect some real movement. The Reds can’t keep this up as long as their aces are named Bronson Arroyo and Aaron Harang, the Astros have more problems than Roger Clemens will solve (although he looked pretty sharp pitching for Lexington when I saw him,) the Brewers won’t be a threat until next year and the Pirates/Cubs are playing for draft picks.
Blue Jays now only one back, after playing a very strong schedule so far.
Your Jays Update:
Blue Jays When Josh Towers Starts: 1-9 (.100)
Blue Jays When Anyone Else Starts: 36-20 (.643)
RickJay, is Josh Towers just Glendon Rusch bad, or is he like Jason Marquis in that he has flashes of competency only to have the wheels fall off?