Boras is such a clown. The way he completely screwed A-Rod on his rookie negotiations was amazing. If I were a player, I would not sign with Boras because he's a greedy scumbag who doesn't give a damn what the player wants. It's an ego trip for him and all he cares about is how much money he can get and how much he can screw over baseball. I'd either negotiate my own contracts or hire a lesser known agent who isn't a morally bankrupt attention whore.
I could've sworn I saw articles in April about the increase in home runs and that it's not their fault, the dimensions are almost identical, etc.
They ARE almost identical. Key word: almost. The fences are not quite as high, and the right field fence doesn't jut out quite as quickly because of the manual scoreboard... it used to arc, but now it's a straight(er) line out to center. Enough for some cheapies to find their way out. That probably doesn't account for ALL of the difference. Having a better team and/or more talent in the AL East probably accounts for some of it, as well.
ok. I don't know why the Angels didn't use Napoli last night instead of Budde. Swisher is out after fouling a ball off his leg last night. He has a bruise. Hairston starts at third and the outfield is Melky-Gardner-Duncan
X-rays on Posada were negative. He has black and blue toes and is also not playing. So the lineup: Jeter Hairston Texeira Matsui Duncan Cano Melky Gardner Molina the placement of Hairston and Duncan is because of the lefty matchups, I guess. They shouldn't be so high in the order. Angels have basically the regular lineup, with Kendrick instead of Izturis and with Vlad on the bench for Matthews.
Morales had been ice cold in September after being named POTM in August, but he's now 6/6 in this series.
Morales just stole second. Weird, considering he's slow. Molina threw it into centerfield. Suzyn Waldman breaking the news that Juan Rivera got yanked on Monday for not running out a double. Really? You just found that out now?
I think you could ask the same question about a lot of names in sports. Carsten? Shelley? Edwar? And those are pretty run of the mill. I was just thinking of Yankees. There are some seriously weird names on other teams.
But the Angels still take the cake in that department. Chone. Torii. Kendry. Maicer. Vladimir. Erick. Douchebags.
Erick is just misspelled, like when you see athletes with various spellings of Antoine and Sean. Nothing wrong with Vladimir. The others are off, yeah. Torii, Chone (another misspelling of Sean, I guess. I'm not amused), and Maicer are not real names.
I was just driving back home and I caught this part on radio. Fucking retards. I hate our announcers.
Sterling on another one of his "Baseball is unpredictable" rants. There's just no way you can predict any of this. How do you know if he gets thrown out at plate? How do you know? :lol: Waldman: "I think if you were in the prediction business, you'd predict Figgins would catch that ball." I predict that Sterling has at least five more of these rants left in him this season. He'll also be good for a few sessions of "stat-bashing", where he goes after those damn statistics people who really don't know anything.
Sterling and Waldman telling us that there's a lot of traffic around LA. Man, I wish someone would've told me this before. Sterling says he received advice that to drive around LA, you have to bring a buddy, so you can drive in the "HOF lane". Not kidding. He said it twice. I bet Chad Ocho Cinco drives in that lane when he visits LA.
Yep. Maybe they only allow Hall of Famers in that lane. Matthews drives home Rivera with a double. 3-2 now in the bottom of the 6th. Kazmir managed to make it through 6, although it took him 111 pitches. This will probably be Burnett's last inning.
