MLB 2025 Season

lukin2006

The Tigers are on a roll ... 12 game winning streak. Getting great starting pitching, the bullpen seems to have settled down a little. Need to get Prince and Jackson to get hitting a little better. But what a great FA signing was Tori Hunter, can't say enough good about him. The sabre metrics vs. old school are starting to debate Trout and Cabrera again ... I wouldn't forget about Max Sherzer ... if he wins 25 or more he quite possibly could be in the MVP mix.

Indifference71

Rios to the Rangers.

JonnyPistachio

Pete Rose -- great player, but he says the stupidest things.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/pete ... ter-081213

Disgraced baseball icon Pete Rose recently advised Alex Rodriguez and other players who have run afoul of baseball's PED ban that they should come clean, saying baseball's all about giving second chances.

Early this morning, he expanded on the topic during a radio chat with 93.7 The Fan’s John Phillips.

To sum it up, Rose, who was banished from baseball for betting on games during his time as a manager for the Cincinnati Reds, says he'd have been beter off if he'd used drugs, been an alcoholic or assaulted his wife or girlfriend.

"I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball,” said Rose.

Rose, the game's all-time hits leader, was banned in 1989 by then commissioner Bart Giamatti.

He didn't publicly admit to betting on baseball until 2004, when he released an autobiography "My Prison Without Bars."

Reinstatement rumors have persisted over the years, but MLB has shown no inclination to bring him back into the fold.

norm

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Major League Baseball decided Thursday to implement instant replay on virtually every play but the strikezone - including three manager's challenges per game - that will begin in 2014, Commissioner Bud Selig announced.

"It's a historic day,'' Selig said.

MLB vice president Joe Torre, Atlanta Braves president John Schuerholz and advisor Tony La Russa presented the all-encompassing replay proposal to the 30 ownership groups, which was widely accepted, Selig said, and expected to be formalized at their quarterly owners' meetings Nov. 13-14 in Orlando, Fla.

The replay will include up to three challenges that mangers will be provided during a game, one in the first six innings, and two beginning in the seventh inning through the game's duration. If a manager is successful with his replay challenge, he will not be charged with a review.

If a manager exhausts his three challenges, and umpire crew can make a review of its own only to determine home-run calls, a rule that will be grandfathered in with the new regulations.

Baseball, using its central MLBAM offices in New York, will be provided with replay cameras that will be monitored by men with umpiring experience. They will make the final call on disputed plays, not the crew chief.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ml ... d/2659555/

Cliffy6745

I am about to yell

WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT TO JUST HAVE AN UMPIRE IN A BOOTH THAT CAN BUZZ DOWN IF THEY GET IT WRONG? FUCK THE STUPID CHALLENGE SYSTEM. JUST GET IT RIGHT.

norm

Cliffy6745 wrote:

I am about to yell

WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT TO JUST HAVE AN UMPIRE IN A BOOTH THAT CAN BUZZ DOWN IF THEY GET IT WRONG? FUCK THE STUPID CHALLENGE SYSTEM. JUST GET IT RIGHT.

answer: bud selig

Cliffy6745

norm wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

I am about to yell

WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT TO JUST HAVE AN UMPIRE IN A BOOTH THAT CAN BUZZ DOWN IF THEY GET IT WRONG? FUCK THE STUPID CHALLENGE SYSTEM. JUST GET IT RIGHT.

answer: bud selig

Point taken...ugh.

Jearlpam0925

You're not complaining about that "foul" ball down the line in 2009 right, buddy?

Cliffy6745

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

You're not complaining about that "foul" ball down the line in 2009 right, buddy?

Nah, starting this year

Jearlpam0925

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

You're not complaining about that "foul" ball down the line in 2009 right, buddy?

Nah, starting this year

Well, of course.

Cliffy6745

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

You're not complaining about that "foul" ball down the line in 2009 right, buddy?

Nah, starting this year

Well, of course.

That was really bad, but the Twins weren't beating the Yanks that year even with a couple runs there.

Jearlpam0925

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Nah, starting this year

Well, of course.

That was really bad, but the Twins weren't beating the Yanks that year even with a couple runs there.

Well, we will never know will we? Series would've been tied right? Who knows...a team with like 86 wins beating a 100+ win team would be pretty crazy....never saw that before. Oh.....wait. Damnit.

Cliffy6745

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Well, we will never know will we? Series would've been tied right? Who knows...a team with like 86 wins beating a 100+ win team would be pretty crazy....never saw that before. Oh.....wait. Damnit.

It likely would have been. They still had the bases loaded that inning with no outs and didn't score so I guess we won't but considering the Yankees own the Twins and how good the Yanks were that year, I am pretty comfortable saying the Yanks would have won. So yeah, it happens, but wouldn't have there

The Fixer

Cliffy6745 wrote:

I am about to yell

WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT TO JUST HAVE AN UMPIRE IN A BOOTH THAT CAN BUZZ DOWN IF THEY GET IT WRONG? FUCK THE STUPID CHALLENGE SYSTEM. JUST GET IT RIGHT.

totally agree. entire thing is so stupid.

the NHL is the only league that has gotten replay right. don't know why these other leagues make it so difficult on themselves.

another option is to just add more umpires to each crew

BinauralJam

Watch Scioscia get fired next, mark me words, friggin scapegoat

Wobbie

my buddy norm is showing much restraint for not gloating about his mother fucking d**gers. I am hoping they are peaking too early.

The Juggler

norm wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

I am about to yell

WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIFFICULT TO JUST HAVE AN UMPIRE IN A BOOTH THAT CAN BUZZ DOWN IF THEY GET IT WRONG? FUCK THE STUPID CHALLENGE SYSTEM. JUST GET IT RIGHT.

answer: bud selig

this isn't football. only bud selig could screw this up so badly. even people who wanted replay didn't want it like this.

by putting the burden more on the managers than the umps, he's really changing the game a lot more than it needs to be changed. head coaches in the nfl have the benefit of assistants up in the booth alerting them via their headsets, after they've seen the reply, whether to challenge or not. managers in baseball don't have that luxury...yet. this is stupid and, sadly, not surprising. hopefully the owner's are able to tweak it this off season. not optimistic though. :thumbdown:

norm

imalive wrote:

my buddy norm is showing much restraint for not gloating about his mother fucking d**gers. I am hoping they are peaking too early.

the winning speaks for itself

:wave:

pureoc

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/95799 ... ources-say

Classy guy. You would have to be an absolute moron to still support this piece of shit.

Cliffy6745

Dare I say that I don't hate Schilling in the booth? Seems sacrilegious.