I know it's a tough road to hoe with playing the Angels but can we get a resounding chorus of "Let's go Mariners." Oakland already lost today and a win would only put them one game behind. Come on everyone, "Let's go Mariners."
2014 MLB Season: How Many Pitchers Will Die For Our Sins?
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Let's Go Mariners!
All that extra muscle didn't make him a better hitter.Well, in fairness, they didn't have the advantage of gaining 40 pounds of muscle in their late 30's.
Naturally of course...
All that extra muscle didn't make him a better hitter.Well, in fairness, they didn't have the advantage of gaining 40 pounds of muscle in their late 30's.
Naturally of course...
Then why did he do it?
It's kind of sad, but I'm familiar with about three of the Mariners players: Felix Hernandez, Robinson Cano and Dustin Ackley. Yet I still consider myself a fan.
Anyway....go Logan Morrison! Well timed home run to finally put some runs on the board in the top of the 9th.
Let's Go Mariners! *clap clap clap-clap-clap*
ETA: Mariners win 3-1! Does that put them .5 games out of the wild card?
Anyway....go Logan Morrison! Well timed home run to finally put some runs on the board in the top of the 9th.
Let's Go Mariners! *clap clap clap-clap-clap*
ETA: Mariners win 3-1! Does that put them .5 games out of the wild card?
All that extra muscle didn't make him a better hitter.Well, in fairness, they didn't have the advantage of gaining 40 pounds of muscle in their late 30's.
Naturally of course...
No, it just made the ball travel farther when he did hit it.
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Tough to say, but easy to find a way that could be wrong.
Hit a ton of HRs, no? Let's say he's got exactly the same hitting skill, but not quite as much, uh, juice on the ball. Instead of being HRs and helping his AVG, OBP, SLG, etc, how many turn into routine fly balls or warning track shots?
He still had to make contact, but if all the roids did was let him hit it another 10 feet, that can still turn out to be all the difference in the world. Goes from out of the park to just a loud out. And once he hit everything out, he started getting walked all the time, so that boosts things too...
As of right now (9/19), Kansas City is the top wildcard.
The Mariners are 1 game behind Oakland for the second spot.
That Indians/Royals game they're making up tomorrow: Why, exactly, are they doing this? When the rain delay was originally put down, the game wasn't tied, and it had long passed the point where it was considered a regulation game. So why didn't they just call the game? Why bother suspending it and making it up later?
I guess they feel like they have to finish the game because of the post-season implications.
--Sran
Kansas City holds the second wild card and is a game and a half back for the AL Central. This late in the season, MLB would like to have wins and losses be decided by games played to their entirety if at all possible.
I need the Twins to win their remaining 7 games in order to win the bet I put on them at the start of the year. Not very likely. I really didn't expect them to lose more than 90 games three years in a row.
There's one more week of regular-season baseball, which means this is the time of year that managers and front-office personnel start getting wary of answering their phones; the first domino to fall is Frank Wren, who has been fired after seven years as Atlanta's GM. Fredi Gonzalez's job is reportedly safe at the moment, though changes to his coaching staff are expected and he will certainly serve at the leisure of whoever the new GM is.
I have no idea how he hung around so long (and some writers have been hinting that Wren wasn't fired for performance, but rather that he lost a power struggle with a brutally terrible manager).
Looking at the Braves' roster, they have so much bad or unnecessary money on the books right now. BJ Upton obviously, but there's Chris Johnson, the money they have to pay Uggla next year, those other "cost certainty" extensions like Kimbrel, Freeman, Simmons ... woof.
I'm sure the BJ Upton acquisition didn't do Wren any favors. I remember when Fredi Gonzalez was supposedly the next hot managerial prospect on the horizon. Nothing I've seen from him has left me with a favorable impression.
--Sran
I would bet money that the Upton and Uggla contracts wound up costing Wren his job.
What went wrong with Dan Uggla? It's like when he put on that Braves uni, his average dropped 60 points and kept droppin, and then his power numbers fell off the cliff.
The amount of testing going on changed.
Has anyone seen this yet?
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYEGUzV-tOs[/yt]
While mildly funny, it reiterates for me why he should never get into the hall.
I have seen that Pete Rose ad, and he comes off as a real dick.
Dan Uggla used performance enhancing drugs? Perish the thought! <sarcasm>
Dan Uggla used performance enhancing drugs? Perish the thought! <sarcasm>
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