<font color=goldenrod>After the exhausted Padres battled to a time limit draw over the Rockies to pick up their third straight title defense, the dastardly Dodgers cashed in their Money in the Bank contract to win the MLB Series Championship.</font>

Should have watched a bit of that. Betcha the background noise was interesting, windows shattering, people screaming and chanting.
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<font color=goldenrod>Looks like Adam Wainwright might have blown out his Achilles coming out of the batter's box last night.

I always thought it would take an ace going down with a major injury while batting to give the Player's Association real ammunition to fight for the DH being added to the NL the next time the CBA is up, and there it is.</font>

Always torn about the DH. I like NL ball better because I like all the strategy that goes into lineup manipulation especially late in the game. On the other hand, another hitter is better to see not to mention the game could probably use some more offense in a predominantly pitching friendly era.

Wonder if you could do something wacky like allowing the home team to choose DH or not, and expand the roster to 26 with 25 being active for a game. Probably dumb since I'm guessing everyone but Joe Maddon would pick the DH everytime.

The strategy and lineup manipulation is phoney though. The national league average of pitching changes is only a marginal amount more than its American counterpart.

I'm all for the dh league wide. If I wanna see someone flail helplessly at breaking balls, I'll record my Sunday league at bats.

<font color=goldenrod>I love NL baseball and will continue to defend it. I love the late decisions that factor into games. Pitcher is throwing a gem in a close game, keep him in or pinch hit? The late-game double switches. The need to actually have a well-rounded bench with guys who can play multiple positions. Bartolo Colon batting.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Although this has no chance of happening, my solution would be to eliminate the DH league-wide and expand the rosters to 27 players. The union would need a damn good reason to agree to eliminating the DH, so this proposal would placate them by creating 60 new jobs league wide.

I figure in this scenario most teams would carry an extra relief pitcher and then a 6 man bench. Those older guys who can still hit but not do much else can still be saved as a lethal bat for late in the game. In the modern NL it's tough to keep a one-dimensional player like that around as a pinch-hit specialist since, again, NL baseball behooves a team to have a diverse, flexible bench.

Owners might not be happy about having to pay 2 more guys a Major League salary, but budgets may still go down with the high-paying DH job gone. The teams that would have a big issue with it are the Tigers, Yankees, etc. who have high paid DHs who pretty much can't field anymore and now there'd be nowhere for them to play.</font>

Lol red sox

A-Rod :cool:

Pitching has been abysmal. Even when they were doing well earlier, still had issues with starting pitching barely getting 5 innings per game.

Phillies won! Wooooo!

<font color=goldenrod>lol jesus. people who hadn't watched the Mets all year probably watched tonight and wondered how the hell they were 14-4. 4 errors and a ridiculous baserunning blunder.

ah well. sucks to lose the Subway Series but they're still 9 games over .500 and back to playing NL baseball tomorrow. hopefully they don't let this loss linger. 7 more divisional games this week with a chance to put some really nice distance between them and the others.</font>

Finally went to my first game of the season yesterday. Love baseball (© Supreme).

Josh Hamilton deal made official today. Rangers get Hamilton along with Angels covering the bulk of what's left on his deal while Angels get the choice between cash or a player to be named later.

Fuck the idiot asshole kids wanting to riot in Baltimore for screwing up an entire 3 game series

Brandon McCarthy done for the season with a torn UCL.

Adjust your fantasy rosters accordingly.

Tommy John Surgery count for 2015: 13

Goddamn it....first Adam Wainwright now Brandon McCarthy. My team is dropping like flies.

Ooof. That sucks.

Time to make some trades, buddy.

Sounds like a perfect solution to me.....

Perfect solution is DH for all

Hey Vito, question for ya.

How EXACTLY did Matt Harvey get the nickname "The Dark Knight of Gotham"?

Baltimore riots cancelled White Sox/Orioles game again today.

<font color=goldenrod>I believe Sports Illustrated wrote an article about him when he was taking the league by storm in 2013 calling him that, and it just sort of stuck. Harvey himself took to it. Been pretty outspoken that he wants to be the savior of the team and live the superstar lifestyle, date supermodels, sign the 9 figure contract, etc. Of course the NY media took the last part and ran with it assuming he'll be a Yankee in 2019 but whatever.

Funny thing is I read an article this past offseason about this whole "soul-searching" trip Harvey did in Asia the winter after his TJS. It sounded exactly like one of those exotic trips Bruce Wayne would take before returning to Gotham.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>What I love about Harvey is the dude holds himself to ridiculously high standards. I've he'd strike a guy out, give up a routine single, and then strike out 2 more guys...and he'd be shaking his head coming off the mound because he's pissed off that he gave up a single.</font>

http://m.orioles.mlb.com/news/articl...d-to-tampa-bay

game will be played in an empty stadium. Unreal.

<font color=goldenrod>That's gonna be so weird.

Should have moved it to Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD. Only holds like 6,500 but it's funny to imagine a big league game being played in a short season Single A stadium.</font>

Empty Stadium match.


It's an afternoon game, too. Wish I'd be around to watch it, will definitely be weird.

Does feel weird with MLB borrowing soccer type punishments.

Yeah damn @ afternoon game. May try to hold off on viewing MLB scores tomorrow and catching it on mlb.tv after

Ugh. Like 5 players went down to injuries yesterday. Yanks lose Tanaka for a month with a forearm strain.

Gonna suck looking for spot starters, team's actually been holding it together and doing good lately.

The worst part isn't today's empty stadium game, it's the fact that they moved the weekend series with Tampa to their shit fest of a stadium and Tampa has apparently decided that they don't want to switch back with the Os later in the season so they're essentially losing those 3 home games.

Unfair Tampa Bay Rays already know how to play baseball in an empty arena.

<font color=goldenrod>Would be funny if they still have all of the scoreboard graphics and walkup music during the O's game.</font>

That + the 7th inning stretch

Too bad it's a Wednesday afternoon game. Would be hot if it was a Monday night primetime game and there was a "7th Inning Stretch Boiler Room Brawl" match akin to HALFTIME HEAT empty arena match Mankind/The Rock...

Is the area between right field and the warehouse part of the ballpark or is that public property. Hope it's public and there's like 8 million people out there.

Eutaw Street is considered the ballpark and you have to go through gates to get in there.

Aw poop

Let's watch!

There's a real feeling of electricity in the ballpark tonight, Jim