It's baseball season

“Godzilla didn't hit one out today!

Thome drove in a run and scored; Millwood pitched three shutout innings, but the Yankers-fightins game was rained out after three innings. The other part lost to the Brats in a split squad game. Full team faces the Brats tomorrow.”

“Geo, my post was from yesterday.

He did knock one out of there”

“Yeah Artex, yesterday, but not today against the Fightins. I don't care how many homers he hits off other teams, just the Fightins.

Second at-bat, huh? What took him so long. Thome nailed his on an 0-1 pitch in his first at-bat as a Phillie. (Braggin on my team here and trash talkin)”

“Godzilla's roar will only count during the regular season, you just wait! :-)”

“Hey, I'm in a league which could use 4 more managers. If you think you can play against the best post here and I'll send you the password. You must know your stuff or atleast think you do and be competitive for the duration of the season. This is NOT a beginner league! League info is below.

League ID#: 17457
Password:!@#$%%^&*(^^
Season: Full Season
Draft Type: Live
Draft Time: Monday, March 24 at 11:05 am PST
Draft Status: predraft
Maximum Number of Teams: 12
Maximum Players on a Team: 23
Player Universe: All baseball
Maximum Moves: No maximum
Maximum Trades: No maximum
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head League
Waiver Time: 1 days
Last Trade Date: Sunday, August 10
Trade Reject Time: 2 days
Minimum Innings: 16
Roster Changes: Daily
Starting Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, Util, SP, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P, DL
Statistical Categories (Batters): Runs
Hits
Doubles
Triples
Home Runs
Runs Batted In
Stolen Bases
Walks
Strikeouts
Errors
Batting Average
On-base + Slugging Percentage

Statistical Categories (Pitchers): Innings Pitched
Wins
Losses
Shutouts
Saves
HR's
BB's
K's
Holds
ERA
WHIP
K/9”

“I would join, but I'm suffering from Fantasty Sports overload right now. Best of luck with the season.”

“What website is this trough Rockman. I am interested.

BB”

“rabbit season ???


no ... its duck season


no ... its rabbit season


awwh forget it ... its baseball season”

“I have enough ways to go insane without adding to it.

Then too, I am wondering to myself why the great Omar Vizquel didn't charge the mound after Jose Mesa plunked him last season.”

“I think Mike Pizzia(sp) may say its hunting season on pitchers.

LOL”

“baseball i think is was a backpacking site !!!!!!!!”

“It's called Trail Talk. There is a trail from home plate to first base, then to second, then to third, and then back home. You follow the trail.”

“Hey Geo, did you see that article on ESPN about their ongoing feud? Mesa says he's going to kill Vizquel...

Hey, you know, if I threaten to kill somebody, I can go to jail for it...hmmmmmmmmm....”

“And we all speak figuratively about killing people who bug us, or beating the crap out of them. If Mesa really wanted to kill him, he'd have thrown at his head instead of plunking him in the back.

In the old days, pitchers were head hunters and did throw at the heads of batters. It was considered part of the game, and batters retaliated not by charging the mound, but by digging back in and crowding the plate more, then getting on base and scoring. After you scored, you turned around and stared at the pitcher to let him know you did it just because he threw at you.

Man, Piazza's eyes were something else. One of the Philly sports guys said he put the evil eye on the pitcher. Make that two evil eyes. Dodgers-Mets games should be fun this season. And Jeremy Burnitz ran the guy into the dugout.”

“Yeah, it was a much tougher game then. Who was it used to sharpen his spikes? Cobb? I can't remember.”

“Cobb did that and spiked A's third baseman Frank "Home Run" Baker sliding into third one day. There is a famous photo of that play. The Tigers had to get police to get Cobb out of Philly alive.

Drysdale was a head hunter, and the Phillies had a relief pitcher name of Turk Farrell. Farrell was also a head hunter. Farrell got traded to Houston, then eventually ended up with the Dodgers. Farrell went up to Drysdale and said he had heard Don kept the names of people he wanted to serve up chin music to written on the sweatband of his cap, was it true?

Drysdale took off the cap and showed Farrell where his name was written on the sweat band.

Gulp!”

“Cobb also beat up a handicapped man in the stands for heckling him. Real class act, Cobb. But he could play.”

“I thought Tommy Lee Jones did a great job of portraying him in the movie despite the fact there is zero resemblance.”

“Oh yah. Painful movie to watch though.”

“Wait till they film the Pete Rose Story!”

“But we saw that already...”

“BB, it's through Yahoo!”

“Oh, and the password is... (the name of the player who always wears a helmut while playing the infield. Hint: he plays 1st base)”

“Is the guy Piazza went after, Guillermo Mota, related to Manny Mota? Manny has been the Dodger organization forever.”

“Not sure, but cud be. Baseball genealogy is getting a lot like Georgia backwoods genealogy. Everybody's related to everybody else.”

“LOL, good one Geo!”

“Olerud”

“So how long before The Baseball Family produces people who are good for nothing but playing baseball?


Oh, wait...”

“Can't find anything on the web linking Guillermo and Manny. Guillermo comes from San Pedro de Macoris in the DR, and Manny came from Santo Domingo in the DR. Could be related, or maybe Mota is like Smith. But if they were related, I would think it would have been stated somewhere.

After the game Piazza went looking for Mota. Wonder if he wanted to give him a bear hug and apologize for charging the mound.

Sounds like a testosterone excess.”

“"Olerud"
Buddha Bear
02:36:28 PM
03/13/03

No, the fans are rude!”

“Alrighty! the Buddha Bear is in! Anyone else think they can compete against me? Bring it on!!!”

“How fast do you throw?”

“Try to say a prayer for the Tugger tomorrow. He goes under the knife.”

“tug mcgraw?”

“The same!”

“Could this year be the year for the Tigers??? Several of the early to mid 80's Tigers players (World Series Champs) make up the coaching staff. How could we go wrong?

I'm really looking forward to a good season at Comerica Park. No long will they call it Coma Park. :-)”

“long=longer

duh!”

“My Devil Rays downed your Phillies in the spring training game last night, 4-3!

P.S. I know it's just spring training, and with the Rays having the lowest payroll in all of MLB at 34 million, our chances of accomplishing anything our not even slim to none.. they're just none! :-)”

“Cleveland 22, Atlanta 0.

We're goin' to the series!”

“That's an ass-whuppin'!”

“The downside of Atlanta's trading during the offseason becomes clear...”

“Doesn't look to me like a great season is about to unfold for the Fightin's!”

“Yeah, it's back!!

link”

“Thanks a lot treebeard, I just spit coffee all over my screen!


BTW, A's 25, M's 10 yesterday. Now, I know managers and coaches aren't necessarily trying to win every game in spring training, but are primarily looking for specific things, guys getting in shape, etc. But I find it hard to believe there'd be anything positive for the M's pitching staff in that game. "Yeah, son, don't worry about those 10 earned runs you gave up in your 1-1/3 innings - you had a heck of a slider out there on the 12th batter of the inning!"”

“Reminds me of the story they tell about Johnny Podres when he was pitching coach of the Phillies. He went out to the mound to settle down a shaky pitcher.

"You're doing great," he told the pitcher.

"Pods, which game are you watching?" the pitcher replied.”

“Heh heh....

Once when my dad was getting knocked around the park and the manager wasn't taking him out, he simply threw the ball over the outfield wall, which caused the ump to throw him out of the game. That's one way to keep the ol' ERA down....”

“In the 1930s, the Phillies had a pitcher named Walter Beck. His nickname was Boom-Boom. The Phils played in a small stadium called the Baker Bowl, which had a short, metal right field fence. Boom-Boom's nickname was because that was the sound the line drives made when the struck the wall.

Boom-Boom got traded to the Dodgers, managed in those days be Casey Stengel. Ol Case went out to yank Boom-Boom because he was getting shellacked one afternoon, and while waiting for this to transpire, the Dodgers' rightfielder, having been up drinking all night, thought he might catch a little snooze.

Boom-Boom, after Case yanked him, got mad and threw the ball at the right field fence.

"Boom!" The rightfielder woke up with a start, fielded the ball, and threw it towards home plate.”

“The Fightin's downed the Blue Jays 10-4 today!

Joe Roa made the team; that's a great story.

Wendell Magee is back and will be at Scranton if Marlon Byrd needs more time.

Are they ready for prime time though, that is the question?”

“Just curious.. I've never heard the Phillies called "the Fightin's" before. What's the story behind that?”