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MLB - Official 2012 Season Thread: Where Curt Schilling & Marlins will never find us.
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BFIB
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I hope I'm proved wrong. But with Houston moving to the AL, Selig pushing for interleague to play every day, you can't have two different leagues with different rules. It worked without interleague, but it can't work now if we are going to have an interleague game every day next year.
Well, with the way pitchers contracts are going it would make more sense for the players union to push for elimination of the DH. Hopefully that is the future Bud is working towards!
Nationals
SS Ian Desmond
2B Danny Espinosa
3B Ryan Zimmerman
1B Adam LaRoche
RF Jayson Werth
LF Mark DeRosa
CF Roger Bernadina
C Wilson Ramos
P Stephen Strasburg
Cubs
RF David DeJesus
2B Darwin Barney
SS Starlin Castro
LF Alfonso Soriano
3B Ian Stewart
1B Jeff Baker
CF Marlon Byrd
C Geovany Soto
P Ryan Dempster
ITS BASEBALL SEASON
SS Ian Desmond
2B Danny Espinosa
3B Ryan Zimmerman
1B Adam LaRoche
RF Jayson Werth
LF Mark DeRosa
CF Roger Bernadina
C Wilson Ramos
P Stephen Strasburg
Cubs
RF David DeJesus
2B Darwin Barney
SS Starlin Castro
LF Alfonso Soriano
3B Ian Stewart
1B Jeff Baker
CF Marlon Byrd
C Geovany Soto
P Ryan Dempster
ITS BASEBALL SEASON
BFIB
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That would be awesome. I'm just not sure the players union would be willing to give up those 14 jobs (soon to be 15).
Keeping things in the NL Central, the Reds have a 4 year offer on the table for Phillips. Reds serious now!
vas_a_morir
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DH in the NL is coming. Nothing you can do about that. The DH is a huge advantage for AL teams. I say everybody uses it or nobody does. Preferably, nobody would. But, we know what's coming.
Dominican Power
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No one wants to see pitchers hit.
Like I said, pitchers contracts are rising at a faster rate than hitters. They wouldn't be giving up jobs, it's not like all of a sudden the AL teams have one fewer roster spot. It will just go to a pitcher, which is beneficial in overall compensation distribution.
acheron_xl
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I like this utopian vision of yours. Get rid of the DH. Let the old guys go play in Japan if they want to DH.
A guy can dream.
I'll be pretty damn surprised if Strasburg doesn't end up with at least 10 K's.
GO CUBS!!
I don't mean signifying the start of the season with some shitty concert, I mean how there is one single day that marks the start of the season, such as the game last night. Instead of that, we had two games played that were barely telecast here played on the other side of the world from which the teams came back and played more exhibition games. Ridiculous. Agreed, no problem with them being in Japan, my issue is more the staggering of the season games with exhibition games.
Also, I do think the start of the season is a special day. National holiday is obviously some hyperbole on my part, but the Yanks aren't playing until tomorrow, but I'm still doing everything in my power to make it home to watch the Mets pregame festivities, etc. because I feel like it's part of the fun of the season starting.
Jays lineup:
Escobar-SS
Johnson-2B
Bautista-RF
Lind-1B
Encarnacion-DH
Lawrie-3B
Thames-LF
Arencibia-C
Rasmus-CF
Seems twitter was in a bit of a fever earlier as the press received a lineup card where Brett Lawrie was batting 3rd and Bautista hitting clean up.
Escobar-SS
Johnson-2B
Bautista-RF
Lind-1B
Encarnacion-DH
Lawrie-3B
Thames-LF
Arencibia-C
Rasmus-CF
Seems twitter was in a bit of a fever earlier as the press received a lineup card where Brett Lawrie was batting 3rd and Bautista hitting clean up.
Ban all the proponents of NL clownball plz
BFIB
Member
Please no. I hate softball sunday baseball that is the AL.
Man I just love 4 hour baseball games.
More bang for your buck.
Should be the theme for your Rock n' Jock style.
Just like we all love watching a pitcher hit.
I do too, but not as much as I love automatic outs.
Greinke and Gallardo would hit 3/4 for Seattle.
:jnc
If a pitcher goes down in 3 pitches, then the game just moves right along. What's the big deal? If he actually works the opposing pitcher, it's just like any other batter. And el oh freaking el if he draws a walk.
Dan Cortese and Bill Bellamy should be fixtures at Yankee's Oldtimers Day.
The Frankman
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Time for the Mets to pad that Opening Day record.
Any excuse for Ron Washington not to be reduced to shambles on a daily basis huhn?
Little Green Yoda
Member
Answer: because it's easy to pick the defending champs who lost its best player to take a step back this season?
thanks a lot, Dave Jack Moore
BigJonsson
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I am excite
The Frankman
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Little Green Yoda
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Wouldn't that 25th roster spot typically reserved for the DH be given to a bench guy or reliever? And the only relievers that pull the big contracts are the big name guys. Admittedly, I don't know how much the average DH makes though...
Another possible solution to placate the player's union is to increase the roster size, but then Doug Melvin is going to whine about small market teams getting the shaft again.
TheNatural
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The old DH argument again?
Screw it, I like having differences between the leagues, it's tradition. The good old days had NL and AL commissioners. Why make everything standard? That's boring.
Screw it, I like having differences between the leagues, it's tradition. The good old days had NL and AL commissioners. Why make everything standard? That's boring.
sazabirules
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Nationals
SS Ian Desmond
2B Danny Espinosa
3B Ryan Zimmerman
1B Adam LaRoche
RF Jayson Werth
LF Mark DeRosa
CF Roger Bernadina
C Wilson Ramos
P Stephen Strasburg
Cubs
RF David DeJesus
2B Darwin Barney
SS Starlin Castro
LF Alfonso Soriano
3B Ian Stewart
1B Jeff Baker
CF Marlon Byrd
C Geovany Soto
P Ryan Dempster
ITS BASEBALL SEASON
I'll only be able to catch the beginning of the game but I'm still really excited. I haven't been able to keep up with spring training.
Lol, after the recent draft changes, you can't even pretend to complain Melvin is the only one complaining.
Most teams would go to an extra arm, I would assume. Bullpen arms have been increasing at a significantly faster clip than DH contracts, which are generally stagnant over the last five years.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
They might hit 7th for the pilots
goldlion054
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omg, its almost time. 10 minutes or so until Verlander's first K of the season.
Feels good to play in the weakest division in baseball
Feels good to play in the weakest division in baseball
TheNatural
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Is anything free on mlb.tv today? I'm going to hit ESPN3 for the first couple games.
jays/indians
http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/index.jsp?c_id=mlb&affiliateId=mlbMENU
edit: oh god sports south, don't show me highlights of the end of the season
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