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MLB - Official 2012 Season Thread: Where Curt Schilling & Marlins will never find us.

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yankeehater

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verbum said:
Phillies have won 4 in a row, Marlins have won 2.
I hope the Braves can tame the Marlins tonight and push them down.
Maybe the Cubs can beat the Phillies tonight before the Red Sox face the Phillies in Philadelphia this weekend. We are at Tampa Bay.
The Washington stadium should be full of Orioles fans this weekend.
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I wonder if they have some stupid take back the park thing going for the O's.
 
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verbum said:
Phillies have won 4 in a row, Marlins have won 2.
I hope the Braves can tame the Marlins tonight and push them down.
Maybe the Cubs can beat the Phillies tonight before the Red Sox face the Phillies in Philadelphia this weekend. We are at Tampa Bay.
The Washington stadium should be full of Orioles fans this weekend.
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Going to be an amazing series.

I'm also looking forward to playing @ Philly, @ Miami, @ Atlanta next week. That's when we push away in first!!!!
 
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RBH

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Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says it's up to Oakland owner Lew Wolff to decide whether to consider additional sites for a new ballpark for the Athletics, leaving open the possibility of a move outside the Bay Area.

Speaking Thursday after a quarterly owners' meeting, Selig said there's no timetable for resolving Oakland's dispute with the San Francisco Giants. The Giants are preventing the A's from building a ballpark in San Jose, which is part of the Giants' territory.

Baseball has been reluctant to approve relocations. When the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals after the 2004 season, it was the first shift since the expansion Washington Senators transformed into the Texas Rangers in 1972.

Asked whether the A's would consider other relocation possibilities, Selig responded: ''You'd have to ask Lew Wolff. That's really his decision to make.''

Twenty-three teams have opened ballparks since 1989, and the A's and Tampa Bay are the only two teams still seeking new stadiums. Wolff would be allowed to consider other sites within the A's territory - such as downtown Oakland - but approval from MLB would be needed for a move outside the territory.

''It depends where they'd be. They could be all over the world, for that matter,'' Selig said. ''They need approval. We have to go through an approval process. It just depends on
where they're moving to.''

Selig said last month he hoped the A's and Giants would resolve the matter themselves, but there's no indication that will happen.

''Both clubs yesterday made a presentation to the executive council, but there's nothing new other than that,'' Selig said.

He added that he can't provide a timetable and responded ''no'' when asked whether some kind of decision was approaching.

Baseball also announced its new one-game wild-card playoffs will be televised Oct. 5 by TBS and that two division series games will shift from TBS to the MLB Network under a deal running through 2013. TBS Sports President David Levy said a rights fee was involved.

Owners also approved having a 2-3 playoff format in this year's division series, deviating from the 2-2-1 that had been used since 1998. The change was made because the wild-card round was added after schedules were set with the regular season ending Oct. 3 and the World Series starting Oct. 24. Teams with home-field advantage will host Games 3, 4, 5, eliminating one travel day, and the wild-card playoff winners will start at home.

Baseball could revert to a 2-2-1 format in 2013, when the regular season is tentatively set to start on April 1, with a Sunday night game possible the previous day. Baseball is shifting from the midweek start it used in 2011 and 2012.

With the Houston Astros switching to the American League next year, MLB also is working on a new schedule format that provides season-long interleague play. He said it's possible baseball could retain six interleague games between rivals, such as the New York Yankees and Mets, the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, the A's and the Giants, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Angels.

''The fans like it,'' Selig said. ''When your fans like something, you have to be responsive to that and sensitive to it.''

Baseball hopes to complete its new collective bargaining agreement with players within a few weeks. A memorandum of understanding on the five-year deal was signed Nov. 22.

Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations, also gave MLB's first explanation for last week's decision to fire Shyam Das, the arbitrator who in February overturned a 50-game suspension for NL MVP Ryan Braun following a positive drug test. Braun's lawyers argued his urine sample wasn't handled as specified in baseball's drug agreement.

''Shyam served for 13 years. That's a very long time,'' Manfred said. ''He's a very high-quality arbitrator. We made a decision to exercise our contractual right to make a change. There's nothing more to that.''

Management and the union are to talk next week about selecting a new arbitrator, who would hear the union's grievance to overturn a 100-game suspension for Giants reliever Guillermo Mota.

Mark Walter and Stan Kasten, the Dodgers' new chairman and president, attended their first owners' meeting since buying the team from Frank McCourt on May 1 in a record $2 billion deal. Owners approved a six-year extension of the major league constitution and Baseball Advanced Media, the sport's Internet division.
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RBH

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The Frankman said:
Rob Johnson with a bunt basehit?

IN 2012?
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RBH

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A's just got screwed by the ump.


Squeeze attempt by the Rangers.

Bunted it in the air.

McCarthy dove and caught it, threw to 3rd for an inning-ending double play.


Ump said that it wasn't a catch, and refused to consult the two other umps. Clearly a catch (both in real time and in the replay).

So instead of inning over, no runs........1 run in, 2 guys on base, only 1 out, Texas now up 4-3.



Human element!
 
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TheNatural

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Fucking Reds, the perpetual .500 team. Any chance of ever getting hot and gaining some momentum gets snuffed out by shitty fuck ups. Headed right to 81-81.
 
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Meier

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That Dodgers team last name read like a Spring Training SS team. Treanor, Sellers, some rookie 2B/3B, Sands, Adam Kennedy, etc. Yikes, let's pray none of those guys see any significant time.
 
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The Frankman

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Well some reason Francisco is pitching... but at least he didn't allow a run as Cozart grounds to Turner at 1st, who takes it to the bag and the ball is over!

Mets' split the abbreviated homestand and now head to north of the border to face those darn Toronto Blue Jays. Mets in hockey unis to come later tonight!
 
The Elite

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RBH said:
A's just got screwed by the ump.


Squeeze attempt by the Rangers.

Bunted it in the air.

McCarthy dove and caught it, threw to 3rd for an inning-ending double play.


Ump said that it wasn't a catch, and refused to consult the two other umps. Clearly a catch (both in real time and in the replay).

So instead of inning over, no runs........1 run in, 2 guys on base, only 1 out, Texas now up 4-3.



Human element!
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Throw a helmet!
 
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Mr. Enigma

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Orlando Hudson was just DFA'd by the Padres. He's in the final year of a 2-year, $11.5 million deal. Hudson has until May 27 to accept to decline a minor league assignment. If he declines, the club has until May 27 to trade, waive, or release him.

Hudson has struggled in his second year with the Padres. He has produced a .211/.260/.317 line in 131 plate appearances. He's got 1 home run and 11 RBIs, but he is currently leading the Majors with 5 triples.

Hudson is still owed about $4.2 million of his $5.5 million salary this season.

He has a 2013 $8 million club option with a $2 million buyout.
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AND THE O-DOG IS LOOSE
 
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zulux21

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oh god... this half inning of baseball (white sox vs angels) might be one of the better comedies I have seen in a while. Trout dropped a routine fly ball and now the second basemen lost a fly ball and it just dropped.
 
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Mr. Enigma

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MLB owners have unanimously agreed on a new playoff format that will see the Wild Card winners actually host the first two games of the Wild Card's LDS. The format for the LDS series involving the Wild Card will now see a 2-3 format, with the division winner actually playing on the road for the first two games.

The argument for this change was that the previous 2-2-1 format gave more of an advantage to the Wild Card if they were able to win just one game on the road when they came home for Games 3 and 4. Another purely logistics argument was made for this change: it would eliminate a travel day from the postseason schedule.

The new format makes it impossible for the Wild Card to win the division series in their home ballpark. The general consensus was that the division winner should be able to win at least one game on the road, thus giving them the clear advantage if they came back home tied 1-1 with Games 3, 4, and 5 at home.

This amendment also joins two other format changes for the playoffs that will begin this season.

The first change being there will now be two Wild Cards from each league, with the two teams playing a sudden-death elimination game the day after the regular season (unless there are tiebreaker games to be played). This was designed to also give the Wild Card team more of a disadvantage in the LDS on two fronts: having to play an extra game and presumably using their #1 pitcher in the sudden-death game.

The second change is that now teams in the same division can face each other in the first round. The old rules since the birth of the Wild Card in 1995 stated that if the league's best record and Wild Card winner came out of the same division, they could not face each other in the first round. This has happened quite often.

Since 1995, the best record and Wild Card winner came out of the same division nine times in the NL. Two of those nine teams went on to win the World Series (the '97 and '03 Marlins). In the AL, it's also happened nine times. One of those teams went on to win the World Series ('04 Red Sox).

In 17 postseasons since the debut of the Wild Card concept, five Wild Cards have gone on to win the World Series ('97 Marlins, '02 Angels, '03 Marlins, '04 Red Sox, and '11 Cardinals). In 2002, the only World Series pitting two Wild Card teams was played (Angels vs. Giants). Nine Wild Card teams have made it to the World Series, including a stretch from 2002-2007 where at least one of the World Series participants were a Wild Card team.

This is how last year's playoffs would have shaped up had it been using these three new format changes.

First off, we would have the two Wild Card tiebreaker games, which would have been Red Sox @ Rays and Braves @ Cardinals. Assuming the Rays and Cardinals won, this is how the LDS would have matched up. Keep in mind, the Yankees owned the AL's best record and the Rays won the Wild Card, so they would have faced each other.

ALDS Game 1:
NYY @ TB
DET @ TEX

NLDS Game 1:
PHI @ STL
ARZ @ MIL

For all the disadvantages the Wild Card is supposed to get now with this new system, there's one obvious flaw. The Cardinals and Rays would have had the luxury of not traveling for their first game, while the division winner would have to lay in wait and not be able to travel until a Wild Card winner was crowned. They would also lose the benefit of being able to send their Game 1 pitcher out early to be rested because they wouldn't know where to send him. Considering the stuffed playoff schedule now after teams complained of so many off-days in the 2010 postseason, this could be a disadvantage for a division winner.

Using the most recent NL example, we'll use the 2010 season, where the Phillies owned the NL's best record and the Braves won the Wild Card.

The Wild Card game would have been Padres @ Braves. Assuming the Braves won, this is how the Game 1 alignments would have been:

PHI @ ATL
CIN @ SF

Also considering the 2010 example, the 2010 Braves had MLB's best home record at 55-26. Would it really be fair to the team with the NL's best record to force them to play on the road against the team with MLB's best home record? Too many variables here make this new format a potential nightmare for a division winner, which was the exact opposite of MLB's intended results for these changes.
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CygnusXS

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RBH said:
A's just got screwed by the ump.


Squeeze attempt by the Rangers.

Bunted it in the air.

McCarthy dove and caught it, threw to 3rd for an inning-ending double play.


Ump said that it wasn't a catch, and refused to consult the two other umps. Clearly a catch (both in real time and in the replay).

So instead of inning over, no runs........1 run in, 2 guys on base, only 1 out, Texas now up 4-3.



Human element!
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AnEternalEnigma said:
Wild Card stuff
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Fuck both of these things.
 
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