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MLB 2019: Mad Max Beyond Astrodome

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And Nick Castellanos to the Cubs for a return yet to be reported (please be Russell, please be Russell, please be Russell).
 
In a brand new stadium called Astrodome with a brand new field called Astroturf.

Houston city hall still hasn't decided what to do with that old rust bucket, so it sits there and makes more rust. It would now officially cost more to renovate it for something usable that it would be to level it.
 
Houston city hall still hasn't decided what to do with that old rust bucket, so it sits there and makes more rust. It would now officially cost more to renovate it for something usable that it would be to level it.
In Syracuse, the main train line use to bisect the city and really cut off the northern part of the city from the main southern part. So they rerouted the train about 4 miles north and made the old trackway into a new highway. However they left the old elevated train station with some art installations on the concourse intact, this happen in the 60's. Fast forward to a few years back, the city never really kept up the train station and it was starting to deteriorate rapidly and they were afraid something may happen. So they looked into finally removing it, however they were shocked to learn that it would cost something like 14 million to remove or just 6 million to repair and push it on down the trail to someone elses responsibility. So that's what they did, the spent the money to just repair it enough to last another 20 years and it will have to be addressed again.
 
I'm so fucking sick of these retaliatory back-and-forth pitches between times that lead to brawls. It shouldn't have any business in baseball (yeah, yeah, I know the history but still).

"Gentleman! You can't fight in here! This is baseball!"

(With apologies to Peter Sellers and Stanley Kubrick)
Ban Clint Hurdle from the Game and the hit by pitches probably drop by 70 percent.
 
MLB is still reviewing the tape of Tuesday night's kerfuffle in Cincinnati, but the final tally of ejections was:

Reds: manager David Bell, Amir Garrett, Yasiel Puig, and bench coach Freddie Benavides
Pirates: Trevor Williams, Chris Archer, Kyle Crick, and Francisco Cervelli, who got ejected for participating while on the IL
 
The ones at GABP in Cincinnati, though... SKYLINE CHILI cheese dogs are the best. :drool:

Speaking of Cincinnati...wow. What the hell was Amir Garrett thinking? :wtf:
He appears to have had enough.
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Joe Torre has handed out the suspensions for Tuesday night's Pirates/Reds brawl:

Pittsburgh:
  • Keone Kela: 10 games
  • Jose Osuna: 5 games
  • Kyle Crick: 3 games
  • Clint Hurdle: 2 games
Cincinnati:
  • Amir Garrett: 8 games
  • David Bell: 6 games
  • Yasiel Puig: 3 games
  • Jared Hughes: 3 games
Meanwhile, TribLive sports columnist Tim Benz isn't having any of this shit...
[Joe Torre's statement] makes it sound like the fight itself — the actual culmination of the incident becoming a brawl — is the biggest problem that Torre has with the situation.

As he should.

However, why, then, did Kela get a longer suspension than Garrett? Because he was guilty of throwing at Derek Dietrich earlier in the game?

Who is Torre? A third-grader in mom’s station wagon? “Keone started it, Mom!”

Unfortunately, it wasn’t Kela who started the brawl. Garrett did.
If the actual fight is the biggest deal, as Torre suggested it was in his statement, Garrett’s suspension should’ve been longer than anyone else’s.

But, in Torre’s cobwebbed, old-school mind, Kela created a worse sin since he broke baseball’s “unwritten rules.”

Kela went up-and-in, instead of brushing back low-and-tight.

You know, like Hughes did on Starling Marte. I guess Hughes only got three games because “he did it the right way.”

According to baseball’s unwritten bible.
Pirates-Reds Brawl Suspensions a Complete Joke
 
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He probably got a longer suspension because Pittsburgh has been throwing at Dietrich all season. Clint Hurdle only getting two games off is the real joke.
 
My old grumpy pants says fuck them all and suspend them all for far longer. I'm so fucking sick of this unwritten beaner bullshit.
 
Vince Velasquez recorded an outfield assist in tonight’s Phillies-White Sox contest, throwing out Jose Abreu at the plate. This has been a weird stretch of games.
 
5 years ago today, Javy Baez hit his first ML home run, albeit in Colorado. Unsurprisingly it was an opposite field shot.

Since then he's third on the Cubs in hits, homers, RBI and runs. First in stolen bases and (probably) strikeouts, but you get 100% every freakin' play of every freakin' game.

I'm glad Detroit didn't take him in 2017, even when he swings at 3 consecutive 59 foot pitches.
 
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