The Baseball Thread

cody ross (a Bahstin Puppy) brought halladay back to earth with 2 solo dingers...
texas bullpen made a nice adjustment in game 2 after blowing it big-time in game 1...

cliff lee really is that damn good.
whoever signs him will be handing over a nice chunk a change...

by whoever, you do, of course, mean the spankees...

If you were the Yankees manager, would you start A.J. Burnett today?

I, for one, would NOT.

read somewhere that texas will have some more monies available to possibly sign him.
nolan just might ante up...

nope.
looks like girardi's hoping the bats wake up tonight.
gotta think he would've started cc on short rest had they been down 0-3...

WTF...?

what happened to Berkman's homerun???

the computer showed it, and then didn't showed it...

when I went to be a European, it was two zip.

I come back and it's 1-0.

what gives TV folks...?

It was a FOUL BALL!

Thumbs up, fbaezer. Burnett sucks.

(And if I were manager of the Yankees, I wouln't give an IBB for the go-ahead run).

I gave up on Burnett in June. but I didn't owe him 30 million dollars ...

the Rangers are making this one a no doubter.

the replay showed it was foul -- although it might've grazed the 'foul pole'...

the fans were affecting plays throughout the night.
kinda surprised no interference was called...

shut it off when it was 3-2 jankees (beauty sleep), figgering they'd hold on.
AJ's outing was like a whole bunch of beckett's -- great start, but lost focus for one inning and it cost him...

how's teixeira's hammy?
is he done??

The not so slight difference between Beckett and Burnett is that Beckett has had several good seasons, while A.J. has only had one -an island of great pitching in the sea of a mediocre career.

Now, if he can pitch two or three decent innings, make him a long reliever, for Christ's sake! Either he'll thrive there and rebound or become another useless millionaire like Oliver Perez. But don't use him in the CS... you'll end up proving your millions were sent to waste.

I'm happy the Yanks are almost done, it'll be good to see new faces in the WS. But I'm also sure old George Steinbrenner must be rolling in his grave and pulling his sons' legs at night, ordering him to fire Girardi.

they may be forced to sign girardi -- who's out there to replace him?
bobby V?
tony pena deserves a shot, but i don't see that happening...

I think Girardi has done an overall good job. But the Yankees' management has a short fuse, and so do many Yankees' fans.

I think Cliff Lee added, and AJ out makes Girardi a much better manager.

they had sketchy starting pitching all year.

had I known that being an average left handed starting pitcher was worth 11 mil a year for an old guy, I woulda switched hands and worked harder when I was a kid...


the Ted Lilly story
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-dodgers-lilly

LOL, sure!

Just yesterday I was thinking of myself at the job as the manager of the Florida Marlins. If you do a fine job, the team will be slighly above .500, but with that payroll you can't be a championship contender.

Their payroll was 47 million both years they won championships...pretty low.

Well, you're right.
Then my staff some days looks something like the Pittsburgh Pirates'.

Tied 5-5 in the bottom of the ninth.

Madsen gives way to...Roy Oswalt...?

mr Lidge was whom I expectorated.