I remember Shumpert well.
I hope Betts turns out better in life than did Blaylock, whose life has taken turns for the mulch worse.
Holy crap, this Mariners - Padres series has been insane!
Tonight, the Mariners just set a team record for overcoming a deficit: 10 runs (previous record: 8 runs, vs. the Angels in 1996). They were down 12-2 vs. the Padres, and came back to win the game 16-13.
Overall, this series, both teams … awful pitching.
Actually, i got it wrong: they won by 4.
Tonight, after going the first three games of the series without a homer, the Orioles pounded seven of them, and split the 4-game series with the Red Sox.
On one of my first trips to Wrigley Field, I was lucky enough to get a ball autographed by Fergie Jenkins. Standing right next to him was Terry Shumpert, who plucked the ball from Fergie, signed it as well, and handed it back to me. I was later told by an appraiser - unofficially - that Shumpert’s signature negated the value of Fergie’s. I still have that ball somewhere.
Speaking of the Cubs, if I heard the MLB Network correctly, the entire Cub infield would make the All-Star Game as starters if the voting ended today. And I think they said that Rizzo is the top vote-getter thus far (though I may not have heard them correctly, and it was a day or two ago, so it might have changed).
Only to collectors who can’t buy your personal experience.
If Seattle scores 14 runs in two innings to turn a 12-2 deficit into an eventual 16-13 win, but it happens after even the west coast people have given up and gone to bed, did it really happen?
If fantasy owners wake up and find a top pitcher on the DL because of celebration, it does.
RF in Fenway is like CF in many ballparks, so I’m glad to have an outfield that features JBJ and Mookie, defensively. If you’d told me the two of them would hit the way they have so far, I may have believed it about Mookie, but I’d have said you’re crazy regarding JBJ.
OK, let’s start talking about trades. What pitchers are available? Because the Red Sox are in desperate need of a starter. The return of Eduardo Rodriguez is nice, but Joe Kelly just got sent down to the PawSox. Can’t imagine Buchholz slides back into the rotation.
Jose Fernandez is arbitration eligible after this season, but I assume his price tag will be out of this world. Especially for a deal so far ahead of the deadline.
James Shields is probably available and he’s been very durable throughout his career. But he’s got a bad contract.
Sonny Gray was a guy the Sox wanted last offseason, but he’s been bad in 2016.
Maybe the best answer for Boston is another guy in Oakland who actually finished last season with the Red Sox. Rich Hill has been great, but he’s 36 and hasn’t been a full time starter in almost a decade. Might be a risk worth taking, though.
Do the Red Sox care?
Anyway, it’s awfully hard to make a deal for a major piece this early.
In College Football this is known as “Pac-12 After Dark” and possibly results in Heisman trophy and bowl game snubs.
The Dodgers will be shopping for a starter, and they have the cash. Ryu is probably out for the season, Urias isn’t ready yet, Wood is out for at least a month, Anderson and McCarthy are wrecks…Kershaw and Maeda can’t do it all by themselves.
Given their situation with Panda, they probably do care about taking on big, ugly contracts. But maybe not.
And yes, this early they’d have to give up quite a bit to get any available pitcher, but man they need it. The scores in their last 3 losses were 10-9, 13-9 and 12-7. The offense is good, but you can’t afford to lose that many games when you score 6+.
Good. I hate college football night games. I’m getting really sick of Washington State Cougars football games (an amateur sport, mid-season game) pre-empting the fracking World Series (a professional sport, championship series) on the radio.
Seriously. I first posted a gripe about this on the SDMB back in 1997, when the Saturday WS game was pre-empted by a mid-season WSU football game. It’s still happening. College football needs to go back to Saturday morning/afternoon where it fracking belongs.
Well, if they played the World Series during daytime like God intended …
Okay trying this again: check out the almost not really catch (ideally should have yakkity sax playing) from the Astros-A’s game: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15936782
… in October.
You mean like last year when they helped vote in four starters (3 of which played), and the AL team won, ensuring home field advantage for the 2015 World Series Champion Kansas City Royals?
The All Star Game is fan voted so that fans can vote for who they want to see in the game. If other fans want to see Mike Trout or Manny Machado or Mookie Betts, then vote for them. Complaining that fans in one of the smallest markets in the MLB are somehow overwhelming the ballot is pretty weak sauce. (For the record, I’ve voted just once so far, and I didn’t vote for Omar.)
I mean the one like last year when MLB cancelled over 60 million votes due to fraud.
Well, James Shields is on his way to the Sox. But it’s the White Sox.
That they could provide zero evidence of and wouldn’t release their criteria for eliminating votes, and still ended up with 3 deserving Royals starters.
The ASG voting system is absurd anyway.