Oakland won it's spring opener over the Giants 9-4, with SS Marcus Semien hitting two home runs - one off of Madison Bumgarner.
I love this time of year!
I love this time of year!
MLB Offseason 2014-15: Wait, pitchers and catchers report WHEN?
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Just had breaking news on my news feed, ARod got a single in his first at bat today.
That MLB is run by hypocrites; I don't like Josh Hamilton, but if he's willing to admit that he has a problem and seek help for it, that alone should mitigate whatever punishment is handed down. I have no problem with MLB suspending him for half the season, but an entire year seems excessive.
Edit: Meanwhile, can we stop kissing this guy's ass already? He was a defensive liability for the final nine seasons of his career and remained an everyday player for at least 2-3 years longer than he should have.
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Edit: Meanwhile, can we stop kissing this guy's ass already? He was a defensive liability for the final nine seasons of his career and remained an everyday player for at least 2-3 years longer than he should have.
--Sran
Didn't you get the memo? Baseball ended forever on September 28, 2014; anything played after that is merely an imitation.
Sarcasm aside, I guess I just don't understand the Jeter-worship. Yes, he helped the Yankees win World Championships, but was he any more responsible for those than Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neil, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius--or even someone like Darryl Strawberry?
Don Mattingly and I are from the same town in Southern Indiana. I grew up watching his mediocre Yankees teams get their asses beaten time and time again by Toronto, Boston, Detroit, Oakland and Minnesota. Mattingly was never the same offenisvely after injuring his back but remained baseball's premier defensive first baseman; in other words, he was never the liability that Jeter became during his final seasons in New York.
The New York media crucified Mattingly for playing everyday--and called Buck Showalter an idiot for putting him in the lineup (Shawalter is an idiot, but not because he did that)--even after the Yankees started winning again in 1993, because that's what George Steinbrenner told them to do. What King George never realized was that he was undermining himself by using the media to criticize Mattingly's play. After all, it had been Steinbrenner who signed Mattingly to what was then a lucrative contract extension after threatening for months to trade him for Will Clark. That the media never realized this is a testament to how many New York writers have their heads up their asses.
In any case, Mattingly retired after batting .417 in a memorable WC series versus the Mariners; it's now believed that he retired not only because he felt he was being phased out of the Yankee lineup by Steinbrenner but also because he was concerned about his (first) wife's drinking habits. The media were only too happy to see him go, and to see Tino Martinez arrive to replace him. Jeter retired after hitting a seeing-eye single against the Red Sox--and media still hasn't released their mouth-vice-grip on his scrotum. It's disgusting, and it's way past old.
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Any of you Orioles fans know what's taking them so damn long to start selling single game tickets? I'm coming to Baltimore this summer and I'm in a serious "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" mode....
Normally they go on sale during FanFest in January, but they elected not to do so this year. My guess is part of the reasoning is that Baltimore really isn't a baseball city for most of the year (interest only really spikes during the mid- to late summer if it looks like the team might have a shot at a postseason run) and so they're trying to get as many season ticket packages sold as possible. I would expect them to go on sale sometime in the next two weeks or so.
You can get single-game tickets on StubHub right now, however.
Yeah, I thought about that, but then I checked again: you can buy tickets on StubHub now, but they won't be actually delivered until just a few days before the games. And so I might not get some of them in time before I leave. (Won't have access to a printer in my hotel, most likely.)
Just have them sent to your phone and you can scan that at the gate.
I just called the O's ticket office and they said "beginning to middle of next week" for single tickets.
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I'm trying not to mock the Yankees too much, but this is just ridiculous:
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Frankly, I've only thought Captains matter in Hockey, but this is stupid. If you're going to have the position, have it. The new person won't be as great as Jeter, but that's just it, he just won't be as great. If anything, what this is saying almost diminishes Jeter. It's saying "we don't need a Captain to be successful." If you don't need a Captain, the fact that Jeter was a great Captain is meaningless.
Anyway, my two cents.
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Frankly, I've only thought Captains matter in Hockey, but this is stupid. If you're going to have the position, have it. The new person won't be as great as Jeter, but that's just it, he just won't be as great. If anything, what this is saying almost diminishes Jeter. It's saying "we don't need a Captain to be successful." If you don't need a Captain, the fact that Jeter was a great Captain is meaningless.
Anyway, my two cents.
^Brian Cashman is an idiot.
--Sran
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There will always be veteran players on any team whom the rookies look up to and respect. Does it really matter if those vets are called "Captain" or not? 
Most teams don't have captains and still do pretty well. Hell, even the Yanks didn't have a captain for like 20 years after Thurman Munson died.
Most teams don't have captains and still do pretty well. Hell, even the Yanks didn't have a captain for like 20 years after Thurman Munson died.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't think captains matter in baseball, but I also don't think it mattered that Derek Jeter was captain. Clearly, they can do just fine without one.
Not sure about other teams, but there have always been periods when the Yankees didn't have a Captain.
I didn't think anything but fights mattered in hockey
Agree. Sometimes I just wish.... well, I shouldn't go there.
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