Yea, I heard of him, never heard his broadcasts though.
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Yea, I heard of him, never heard his broadcasts though.
Strasburgs At It Again 8 K's Through 5 Innings Beasting.
im so pissed at myself for not grabbing him in my fantasy league when I had the chance
Yeah He Got Drafted Before I Was Willing To Take Him In My League But In Retrospect Wouldn't Of Been A Bad Pick Considering Some Of The Pitchers I Did Draft. Yankees Are Back Where They Belong In First Place Tied With Tampa Bring On The Phillies I Will Take A Repeat Of Last Year With The Yankees Taking Em Out. First Game Tuesday Is Halladay Vs. CC Big Time Matchup.
Strasburgs the real deal.....unless he fucks his arm up.
So in about 5 years, will he be a Met, Yankee, Angel or Red sock? thats how the systems works
Doubt It He's Getting People In The Seats Most Teams Atleast Keep That One Guy Like Everyone Thought Mauer Would Be A Yankee/Redsox/Etc. But The Twins Had To Keep Him The Nationals Will Keep Strasburg. If Anything I Dont Know What Zimmermans Contract Looks Like Or When It Ends (But With Harper Coming Up Eventually) He Will Probably Be The Casualty.
How come the Marlins are building a new stadium for like ten fans?
Zambrano out of control again. Next stop is the mental ward.
http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_spor...nZtWDDIBhh7d2X
how come no one ever wants to keep cliff lee? dude is one of the best pitchers and every season he is on the trading block
good job of the rangers getting him over the yanks
LOL WTF is Will Ferrel doing at the Home Run derby talking?
Not surprised Ortiz sonned everyone @ the derby.
R.I.P. to George Steinbrenner
--NEW YORK – George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4.
Steinbrenner had a heart attack, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Fla., and died at about 6:30 a.m, a person close to the owner told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not disclosed those details.
His death was the second in three days to rock the Yankees. Bob Sheppard, the team's revered public address announcer from 1951-07, died Sunday at 99.
For more than 30 years, Steinbrenner lived up to his billing as "the Boss," a nickname he earned and clearly enjoyed as he ruled with an iron fist.
He was known for feuds, clashing with Yankees great Yogi Berra and hiring manager Billy Martin five times while repeatedly clashing with him. But as his health declined, Steinbrenner let sons Hal and Hank run more of the family business.
Steinbrenner was in fragile health for years, resulting in fewer public appearances and pronouncements. Yet dressed in his trademark navy blue blazer and white turtleneck, he was the model of success: The Yankees won seven World Series titles and 11 American League pennants after his reign began in 1973.
He appeared at the new Yankee Stadium just four times: for the opener in April 2009, for the first two games of last year's World Series and for this year's homer opener, when captain Derek Jeter and manager Joe Girardi went to his suite and personally delivered his seventh World Series ring.
"He was very emotional," said Hal Steinbrenner, his father's successor as managing general partner.
Till the end, Steinbrenner demanded championships. He barbed Joe Torre during the 2007 AL playoffs, then let the popular manager leave after another loss in the opening round. The team responded last year by winning another title.
Steinbrenner had fainted at a memorial service for NFL star Otto Graham in 2003, appeared weak in 2006 at the groundbreaking for the new Yankee Stadium and later became ill while watching his granddaughter in a college play.
In recent times, Steinbrenner let sons Hal and Hank run more of the family business. Still, the former Big Ten football coach took umbrage when others questioned his fitness.
"No, I did not have a stroke. I am not ill. I work out daily," Steinbrenner said in 2006. "I'd like to see people who are saying that to come down here and do the workout that I do."
When Steinbrenner headed a group that bought the team on Jan. 3, 1973, he promised absentee ownership. But it didn't turn out that way.
Steinbrenner not only clashed with Berra for more than a decade but paid to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield, deriding the future Hall of Famer as "Mr. May" in 1985 after poor performances. Berra's wife, Carmen, said Tuesday her husband was at a golf event in Pennsylvania and was expected to comment later in the day.
While he liked to appear stern, Steinbrenner could poke fun at himself. He hosted "Saturday Night Live," clowned with Martin in a commercial and chuckled at his impersonation on "Seinfeld."
He gave millions to charity, often with one stipulation, that no one be told who made the donation.
The Yankees paid off for him, too, with their value increasing more than 100-fold from the $8.7 million net price his group paid in January 1973. He freely spent his money, shelling out huge amounts for Jeter, Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez, Torre and others in hopes of yet another title.
"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing," Steinbrenner was fond of saying. "Breathing first, winning next."
All along, he envisioned himself as a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. It was fitting: George Michael Steinbrenner III was born on the Fourth of July, in 1930.
Added up, he joined the likes of Al Davis, Charlie O. Finley, Bill Veeck, George Halas, Jack Kent Cooke and Jerry Jones as the most recognized team owners in history.
Steinbrenner's sporting interests extended beyond baseball.
He was an assistant football coach at Northwestern and Purdue in the 1950s and was part of the group that bought the Cleveland Pipers of the American Basketball League in the 1960s.
He was a vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1989-96 and entered six horses in the Kentucky Derby, failing to win with Steve's Friend (1977), Eternal Prince (1985), Diligence (1996), Concerto (1997), Blue Burner (2002) and the 2005 favorite, Bellamy Road.
To many, though, the Yankees and Steinbrenner were synonymous.
His fans applauded his win-at-all-costs style. His detractors blamed him for spiraling salaries and wrecking baseball's competitive balance.
Steinbrenner never managed a game, as Ted Turner once did when he owned the Atlanta Braves, but he controlled everything else. When he thought the club's parking lot was too crowded, Steinbrenner stood on the pavement — albeit behind a van, out of sight — and had a guard personally check every driver's credential.
Steinbrenner made no apologies for bombast and behavior, even when it cost him dearly.
He served two long suspensions: He was banned for 2 1/2 years for paying self-described gambler Howie Spira to dig up negative information about Winfield, and for 15 months following a guilty plea in federal court for conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions during the Watergate era.
"I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful," Steinbrenner said in 2005. "But I know that I have tried."
Rest in peace
The National League finally wins the All Star game.
white sox took first place. i told you a long time ago. hottest team in baseball right now.
White sox going to AL world series with pitching and clutch play.
I like Baseball this year, because every division is close, the pitching has been great, and any one that is hitting home runs is probably doing it without the aid of steroids
^ i think ortiz is again..
It was a sad day when the Boss passed. People obviously don't realize what he meant to baseball. But for those who hated on him and the Yanks.. let's just keep that discussion deaded, no pun intended.
Yanks doing their thing. Taking 2 outta 3 from the 2nd best team in baseball.
Red Sox are fuckin' done. Yanks and TB will thump e'm the rest of the way. Even if they get hot us 2 will keep 'em grounded where they belong. TB and Yanks in the ALCS this year. But first we'll have to get past Texas in the 1st round prolly. Won't be the first time we done went to war. Texas was always there in the 90s to give us a fight.
^i havent scene the boston redsox play in months..
i have however scene the pawtucket redsox play on the road an in fenway for sometime now..
that is soon coming to an end..
Well of course the Red Sox are back again and making a run. Tampa takes 2 outta 3 from the Yanks. First time Tampa has EVER sold out a regular season series. Awesome series it was. Great games. Today was pretty lame, but still, great series. The AL East is heating up.
My second team the Marlins are looking like they MAY be making a run.. but they've got some ground to pick up.
What's up with the Mets, B-Rock? Ya'll been on a slide lately.
i hate the red soxs. they are cheaters
^really?
go touch beltre's head
Back in 1st
We're gonna put Beltre in a headlock and rub dirt on it this weekend.
Those damn Tampa Rays.
- A Giant is gone: Bobby Thomson dies at age 86
The Giant who hit the home run for the ages now belongs to them.
As first reported by the New York Daily News, Bobby Thomson — the man who hit "The Shot Heard 'Round The World" to win the 1951 NL pennant — died "peacefully" at his Georgia home on Monday night. He was 86 years old and had been in poor health.
Thomson played for five teams over 15 seasons, hit 264 career home runs and was a three-time All-Star. But he ensured his name will always be remembered on Oct. 3, 1951, the day he hit his dramatic home run off Brooklyn's Ralph Branca to send the Giants to a 5-4 victory that earned them entry into the 1951 World Series. It has often been called the greatest home run of all time.
Thomson's blast landed in the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds and capped a four-run ninth-inning rally that was emblematic of the Giants' season. The team trailed the Dodgers by 13 1/2 games on Aug. 11, but went 37-7 to finish the season and force a three-game tiebreaker series with their crosstown rivals. Thomson's home run to win the decisive third game was so big that it basically made the ensuing World Series a historical footnote. (Who ever remembers that the Giants lost to the Yankees in six games?)
Though a 2001 Wall Street Journal story alleged that the moment was a product of stolen signs, Thomson never admitted to knowing what was coming from Branca.
But that's neither here nor there as today is a day to remember the man who experienced baseball's ultimate feeling before players like Carlton Fisk, Kirk Gibson, Kirby Puckett and Aaron Boone(notes) ever did. There are undoubtedly going to be a lot of nostalgic baseball fans reminiscing about that game and even more "The Giants win the pennant!" impressions going on over the next few days.
And rightfully so. Check out the magic moment once again.
The Braves getting Derrick Lee is big that might put them over the top in the N.L
roger clemens indicted
Strasburg might have Tommy John surgery. I feel bad for the Nationals fans. I remember the Cubs with Kerry Wood & Mark Prior going through major injuries & basically ruining their careers. I hope Strasburg comes back strong.
he might still be good, but they have to be careful not to rush him
has anyone else noticed that people think the same 3 N.L. teams are good at the beginning of the season, but by this time they've all done shit?
Los Angeles Dodgers
Chicago Cubs
New York Mets
I think the cubs think they have to lose
^^Lol. Yea the Mets, Cubs, Dodgers normally have big payrolls. The Cubs are at 140 mil. And 20 games under .500. The Mets are going nowhere. The Dodgers are trying to sneak into the wild-card. Smart trades & good scouting should be the recipe for success. But the Cubs signed Milton Bradley. They gave Alfonso Soriano an 8 year deal. Yes, 8 years, when 5 should of been enough. Dumb moves like these are why the Cubs are going on 103 years of no title.
good to see frank Thomas get his jersey retired
Jesus Montero near 1.000 OPS since June, not bad for a 20 year old in his first full AAA season
^^ daaamn at :06
seems like Derrek Lee brought along shit from chicago as the phillies are now in first place. what were they like 7 games back?