Craig H Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 BTW, for those sick enough to be interested, the best pitcher in the league faces the worst pitcher in the league tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Well, yeah. The situation with Buffalo cutting ties with them after 2012 was hilarious. Essentially, the players the Mets were sending them stunk, and attendance went into the shitter. Spokane ran into that a few years back when they were still a Royals affiliate. Management got sick of the Royals giving them a roster full of guys who struggled to hit .210 at short season A combined with pitchers who topped out at 82mph. So they cut ties and have been with the Rangers since. Now Spokane routinely gets first round draft picks and guys that can actually play. It helps that Texas is just a flat out better organization, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Ron Washington is holding a press conference today to go into detail about why he resigned from the Rangers. INTRIGUE!!!! Infidelity. YAWN! Since when is that a resignable offense? A moral failing yeah. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 So I went to the Cubs game yesterday, which was awesome. A game saving outfield catch by Chris Coghlin was made practically right in front of where I was at. What was not great were the helmet nachos. It's a baseball helmet full of nachos. An actual adult sized helmet. In lieu of drinking many beers since I had to drive back home that same night, I had a fucking Cubs helmet full of nachos. What a goddamn ridiculously bad misstep. I urge all of you, if your team has the same thing, to avoid that shit, or at least have a group of 5 or 6 people help out. You will have a food hangover. Guaranteed. I first saw those at Busch Stadium last year. It'd be cool to have the novelty helmet, and $17 for such a monstrous amount of food really isn't bad by ballpark standards, but I know there's no way I could (or would want to) polish it off. Then I'm stuck with a slimy Cardinals helmet on the train ride home, plus I know it would just end up being used as a puking vessel for one of the SLU or Washington University students who can't handle their Busch Light. Maybe it would be worth it to pay off one of the plentiful cherubic tykes in my section to eat the nachos and I could keep the helmet when they're finished, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I got cheesesteak nachos at a Phillies game earlier this year. No helmet, but it did come in a pretty big tray. Something like $11 for the whole shebang, plenty for my girlfriend and I for four hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Winning run at 2nd in the 9th with no one out and an 0-2 count on a pretty good hitter. yeah, Mike Matheny, give him the bunt sign again. FUCK!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Oh, Grand Moff Tarkin, patron of misguided self-assurance in the face of crumbling advantage, PRAY FOR US! Really, all the Moffs... ALL THE MOFFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Fuck this game. Like the one that's happening right now mainly. But also all the other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 MOFF BLESS THIS FUCKING GAME!!! MOFF BLESS US, EVERY ONE!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Fuck this game. Like the one that's happening right now mainly. But also all the other ones. Seeing Matt Adams lumber and jiggle his way home to score the winning run makes it all worth it to me, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 The trend in recent years is to have as many teams close to home as possible, with the AA and AAA teams extremely close in case teams need an emergency call up. Needless to say, a club like the Mets, who have their AAA team in Vegas and their AA club in Binghamton are in a tough situation if they need to bring a major league guy up right away. Binghamnton is fine since they can just shoot up North to the Syracuse airport and go from there. It's the same situation as Scranton for the Yanks. (again - right next to big enough airport to make a flight into the city in like 15 minutes or be off to where ever the team is in the country.) It is just means that the Mets really should have their guys rehabbing in Binghamton... which I am not sure if they do or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Right. I meant that they generally would want to skip good prospects over Vegas and let them grow closer to home in Binghamton, but they'd also need to keep some depth guys there as well in case of an emergency. Of course, they dumped both Wheeler and Syndergaard into the fire at LV, and both ended up ok enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdA Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Rippa and I are giggling far too much about the Royals having issues with online playoff ticket orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I hate to use the whole IF THIS HAPPENED IN NEW YORK...cliche, but imagine if this happened in New York, Philly, or Boston. People would be PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdA Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Oh please. Buying Royals playoff tickets with your credit card is one thing. Trying to buy Phillies or Mets playoff tickets with a credit card is SURE to get the fraud department on high alert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhock Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 What was not great were the helmet nachos. It's a baseball helmet full of nachos. An actual adult sized helmet. In lieu of drinking many beers since I had to drive back home that same night, I had a fucking Cubs helmet full of nachos. What a goddamn ridiculously bad misstep. I urge all of you, if your team has the same thing, to avoid that shit, or at least have a group of 5 or 6 people help out. You will have a food hangover. Guaranteed. I first saw those at Busch Stadium last year. It'd be cool to have the novelty helmet, and $17 for such a monstrous amount of food really isn't bad by ballpark standards, but I know there's no way I could (or would want to) polish it off. Then I'm stuck with a slimy Cardinals helmet on the train ride home, plus I know it would just end up being used as a puking vessel for one of the SLU or Washington University students who can't handle their Busch Light. Maybe it would be worth it to pay off one of the plentiful cherubic tykes in my section to eat the nachos and I could keep the helmet when they're finished, I don't know. Have you seen the White Sox Sundae Helmet? There's a goddamn funnel cake in there below the sundae. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 I've had the helmet nachos at US Cellular. It's surprisingly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Edwin Jackson allowed more runs (four, and counting at this time) than he got outs (two) in the first inning. More impressive than either myself or Craig could have imagined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Oh please. Buying Royals playoff tickets with your credit card is one thing. Trying to buy Phillies or Mets playoff tickets with a credit card is SURE to get the fraud department on high alert. And possibly get your cc info swiped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Edwin Jackson allowed more runs (four, and counting at this time) than he got outs (two) in the first inning. More impressive than either myself or Craig could have imagined. God...just eat the contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 it's weirdly fun reading anonymous fan lectures decrying that Royals fans were booing in the 2nd inning with their team down big tonight. What. are the fans just supposed to take naps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Good riddance, Braves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhock Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 ...and good riddance Frank Wren, it appears... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 This organization is so fucked. They fire the GM, create a committee of three senior citizens that haven't done a damn thing in years to find his replacement, and say that the horrible, shit ass manager is safe. Go Rays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdA Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 But-but...NEW STADIUM IN A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!! Yeah, no idea how Fredi is keeping his job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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