Wow, what a good deal for Toronto. Escobar’s a very good player.
Ha! We have the same situation going on with Fausto Carmona. It’s either 1 ER or 11 ER with him.
I would like to share with you a video: An Asdrubal Cabrera 2011 highlight reel that just showed up today which includes an amazing play from today, possibly more amazing than the one he made a month ago today (5/19).
Indians swept the Pirates and are 6-0 in interleague this year. The AL is 49-34 over the NL but I don’t know what that indicates. Suck it? Or not. I don’t think anyone cares.
We had a game that went into the 11th with a 117-min rain delay in the 8th. The winning run was a walkoff homer by a dude named Cord Phelps who just recently came up from the minors to relieve some pressure at 2nd. It was his first major league homer.
The Yankees invade Cincinnati tonight! I wish I could get tickets to go. I love interleague play.
Should be an interesting series.
And is there any other team playing better baseball than the Phillies right now? Good grief their starting rotation is unfair!
The Red Sox, perhaps. They’re 13-3 in June, averaging almost twice as many runs as their opponents in that span (7.38 to 3.75).
Definitely the Red Sox. Since the beginning of last month, they have been on a tear going 32-13. Phillies during the same stretch are just 26-20. It’s not even close
Pujols is out 4 - 6 weeks. That sucks and I’m not a Cards fan.
It really sucks because he’s the first baseman on my fantasy team and I don’t have a quality backup for him.
I’m sure Joey Votto or Prince Fielder are languishing on your league’s waiver wire somewhere…
GO REDS! Take down the Evil Empire!
OK, everyone. I’m putting out a virtual jar and asking for donations. I’m taking up a collection so I can afford to buy the Dodgers, now that McCourt is almost certainly going to be forced to sell them.
I promise free bleacher seats to a game for anyone that contributes should I be successful! 
I think even the Yanks are playing better then Phillies in that stretch.
On paper this Yanks @ Reds series should be very high scoring. Neither team is running out great pitching and both teams are hot offensively right now in a small park. Should be fun.
4 in the first is a good start…
Looks like it’s the latter tonight 
So far a 6-run 5th with the Rockies ahead 7-4. Blah.
Can I buy in? I have always wanted to own part of a baseball team. It looks like it could go cheap.
Sox break a 3-3 tie against the Padres with a 10 run 7th inning. !0 runs with only 5 hits in the inning. Padres contributed 4 walks along with 2 HBPs (both with the bases loaded).
9 of the 10 runs scored w/ 2 outs.
Holy Cow.
Can we talk for a moment about how old new Marlins manager Jack McKeon is?
-He was born during the Hoover administration
-He was 29 before the US had 50 states
-He started managing in the minors before Sputnik
-He managed Lou Piniella in the majors, who has since managed 3548 games of his own and then retired
-His MLB managerial debut was in 1973. The following current MLB GMs were not even born at that time: Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer, Chris Antonetti, Jon Daniels, Andrew Friedman, Alex Anthopoulos.
-Nobody on his current roster was alive at that point, either.
-Generalissimo Francisco Franco was not still dead, but was in fact very much alive.
I will be very interested to see how this turns out.
The same year the DH rule was introduced.
The Expos, Pilots (later the Brewers), Padres and Royals were 4 years old.
The Washington Senators had moved the year before to Texas to become the Rangers.
The Blue Jays, Mariners, Diamondbacks, Rays, Marlins and Rockies were not in existence.
The Brewers were still an AL team.
The day after using Yovanni Gallardo for batting practice. That’s 14 wins in the last 16 games, and they STILL can’t pull away from the Yankees.
And first inning blues continue to plague the Reds. If you take away all the bad first innings from Cincinnati’s starting pitching, the Reds would be in first place!
Damn. Those four runs in the first sealed the deal and the Reds offense remains kinda quiet at home.