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Official 2011 MLB Thread v.2: The Mets are terrible.

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verbum

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Good game for the Braves, leaving Coors Field on an upward bounce. Looks like the heat in Cincinatti will will moderate a little on Saturday and Sunday.

Maybe we can pick up Johnny Gomes and Nick Masset while we are there.

While Jonny Gomes doesn't have impressive overall numbers (.215/.338/.407), he has hit very well against left-handed pitching this year (.340/.446/.547). It's not clear what role Gomes would serve other than as a right-handed pinch hitter -- he is not a center fielder -- though the Braves have been looking for a right-handed bench bat for some time now.

If the Braves chose to get all their needed pieces from the Reds, Nick Masset could fill the Braves need for an additional right-handed reliever.
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http://www.talkingchop.com/2011/7/21/2286523/braves-shifting-trade-focus-away-from-high-end-bat

I'm down with not spending a lot of money or prospects for extra help.
 
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eznark said:
Prince, Weeks, Fielder, Hart, Lucroy, Gallardo

Thanks Jack Z, I for one am glad we had patience in you!
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Meh, Jack Z. is a bit overrated. He did hit upon Prince and Braun, which are two awesome picks. As was Hart, obviously, considering where he was drafted. J.J. Hardy was a good pick as well, although he ended up playing his way off the team.

Weeks was a given, the Brewers were going to take whoever the Rays didn't take. Delmon Young and Weeks were by far the best two prospects coming out that year. The Rays took Young, the rest is history.

Melvin is actually the one who stepped in and took Gallardo if I remember correctly. Which is rare for Melvin, but I'm glad he did it. Jack Z. had little to do with that pick.

So Jack Z. has to be given credit for his ability to find some good bats, but at the same time his inability to hit on any pitchers was pretty devastating. If he had hit upon just one or two, the last few years would look much differently.

Jack Z. also had the tendency to ignore defensive aptitude in his players. That, combined with his failure to develope pitching, proved costly.

So he was definitely an above-average scouting director but also had some flaws.
 
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verbum said:
Good game for the Braves, leaving Coors Field on an upward bounce. Looks like the heat in Cincinatti will will moderate a little on Saturday and Sunday.

Maybe we can pick up Johnny Gomes and Nick Masset while we are there.
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If anything I think Cincinnati will be buying, they're not too far back at the moment and they've underplayed their talent. I will eat a shoe if they get rid of Masset.
 
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sangreal

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He also ran into the wall last night and got hit with a foul ball the night before. Not to mention the back-to-back turf series. Needed a night off
 
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Windu

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eznark said:
Guy sucks. He is pitching like Suppan. Worst pitcher in baseball /brewerstwitterers
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Brewers should trade him for Derek Lowe, a world champion.
 
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Windu

never heard about the cat, apparently
on second thought, the braves will take those 4 women that the brewers tv crew just showed on tv for Dlowe instead.
AnEternalEnigma said:
I don't know what the Brewers were really expecting with Greinke. He was shitty in 2010.
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he has been incredibly unlucky. and the brewers defense is beyond horrible. They need to get no hit defensive specialist for 3B and SS instead of no hit, no defense for 3B and SS.
 
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AnEternalEnigma said:
I don't know what the Brewers were really expecting with Greinke. He was shitty in 2010.
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If he keeps on giving up 2 earned over 7 I think he should probably be hung from the Miller Park rafters. Guy is atrocious. 2.13 xFIP? How does someone even get that bad at baseball?
 
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Sharp

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AnEternalEnigma said:
I don't know what the Brewers were really expecting with Greinke. He was shitty in 2010.
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Well I guess we can throw out the last fifty years of baseball research just this once...
 
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eznark

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Sharp said:
Well I guess we can throw out the last fifty years of baseball research just this once...
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Even by retard Joe Morgan standards the Brewers are 10-5 in his starts so I don't know what Luddites are upset about.
 
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So Betemit didn't do shit for us tonight, even had a wicked error.

It's only one game though, hopefully he can adjust with the club house. Anyone is better than Brandon Inge.
 
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Square Triangle

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Lambtron said:
I've never laughed harder at a throw than that one. Holy shit that was brutal.
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I don't know if his spike got caught or he lost balance or just wanted to throw it into the ground. It was really freaking weird. And I'm pissed Leyland didn't have JV attempt a CG, Minnesota fans looked bored anyways.
 
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Square Triangle said:
I don't know if his spike got caught or he lost balance or just wanted to throw it into the ground. It was really freaking weird. And I'm pissed Leyland didn't have JV attempt a CG, Minnesota fans looked bored anyways.
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It looked like he was trying to throw a shot put. It's like he pushed the ball rather than throwing it. It was an all time bad throw.
 
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verbum

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Too bad no one had any rice or bird seed to throw at him.

The dress was a bit snug -- zipping up the back wasn't happening -- but by the 8th inning Ryan Woody admits, "I almost forgot I had it on."
Huddled in the outfield seats Saturday night at Turner Field, Woody's cousin proposed the dare -- as if wearing a wedding dress to a baseball game wasn't bold enough.

The 26-year-old Decatur resident thought about it a good 30 minutes before turning to his cousin: "You got my bail, right?"

And with that Georgia's second-most famous runaway bride climbed the outfield fence -- fortunately he eschewed matching heels -- and leaped onto the warning track to cheers from the near-sellout crowd.

"The funniest part of the whole thing was when they were escorting him out one of the guards said to him ‘Man, you're not even drunk, are you,' " said friend Brent Grems, 28, of Knoxville.

Though he spent the night in Fulton County Jail, law enforcement showed the University of Tennessee graduate some mercy, allowing him to remove the dress before he was booked.

"What happened, happened," said Woody. "I guarantee you, it won't ever happen again."

The idea was born on a camping trip in Tennessee. Grems, weary of his friend's smack talk, challenged him to a tin can shooting contest. He immediately regretted the bet.

"There was no way I was going to beat him," Grems said. "I do not like guns, whatsoever."

Somehow, "I won," he said. "That is to say, he [shot worse] than I did."

Woody, a man of his word, started looking for a dress. A co-worker provided the gown. Finding the courage to put it on wouldn't be so easy.

As game time approached Saturday Woody "looked like a ghost," Grems said. "He was so nervous."

But the Turner Field crowd was welcoming. "Everyone wanted to get his picture," Grems said. The positive attention relaxed Woody, perhaps too much.

Major League Baseball rules prohibit fans from going onto the field, with violators subject to criminal prosecution. Security was heightened after an incident nine years ago at Chicago's Comiskey Park when a drunken father and son assaulted Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa.

Atlanta police charged Woody with trespassing. No court date has been set, he said.

As for the dress, it's still in police custody. Woody said, "I've got to call the jail and see if I can get it back," grass stains and all.

"There's definitely part of me that's a little jealous," Grems said. "I'll never have a story to top this one."

Somewhere, Morganna the Kissing Bandit -- the buxom Ohio woman who gained fame by running onto big league fields, kissing unsuspecting ballplayers -- is smiling.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/turner-field-wedding-dress-1033315.html
 
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Sharp

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Lambtron said:
I've never laughed harder at a throw than that one. Holy shit that was brutal.
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In '07 Matt Chico threw a fastball that went sideways and landed in the opposing team's dugout...
 
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darkside31337

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turnbuckle said:
Thank fucking god. I was scared Detroit actually may end up with him.
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Why would the Tigers need him? They just got Wilson Betemit.
What Dombrowski is actually thinking

Sad that the Pirates aren't in it. They obviously were not going to pick up the tab but not parting with prospects is shocking to me. This might be like the last time they are in contention for the next 250 years or so. Cutch must be pissed.
 
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