I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)

[UK Redsox]

Cubs manager Lou Piniella to retire at the end of the season

Farewell to the king of the managerial meltdown

[UK Redsox]

Ouch !!

[H00513R]

Don't forget him getting into a shoving match with Ron Dibble!

[UK Redsox]

Bring me the arm of Lefty O'Doul

[UK Redsox]

Farewell to "The Major", Ralph Houk, dead at 90

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/ralph-houk-dies-at-90/article1647918/

Managed the Yankees, Red Sox and Tigers

[H00513R]

Bring me the arm of Lefty O'Doul

I did this with a horrible sweater of my mother-in-laws that I rescued out of the yard sale. We sent it around the US for a year and then made a scrapbook out of it.

[pmarachi]

this has been a rough season for the Yankees.

Their jersey is like a huge death memorial at this point.

I already sent this to UK Redsox, but I went for a dinner/tour of fenway the other night for work, and I met a few famous Sox (one was also a yankee), so here is my take on these guys:

They gave us all 4 balls and 4 sox hats (which I obviously didn't take) and bought out some players to sign some stuff.

Jim Rice: kind of an asshole, but from the stories I heard, I don't blame him. I know that when he first got there fans racially abused him. He was probably thinking "yeah... They gave me a hard time and now these white boys want me to sign their shit'. My father loved Jim Rice (even though he was a yankee fan) and actually has 3 framed pictures at home. A jim rice pic, jackie robinson pic and a mickey mantle pic. So I got him a signed ball and when he asked me how he was I told him "he was a great guy, really nice!". Figured I would keep the ghost alive.

Dennis Eckersly: he was OK. He was a little creepy with the girls, which was funny (we have quite a few very very attractive women at our company), and he was pretty drunk. I wanted to tell him that the sox shouldn't have traded him for Bill Buckner, but I bit my tongue. He was the only one who would personalize a ball he signed. When I walked up I jokingly said "you were a redsox? I thought you were an A?". He laughed and signed my ball "Dennis Eckersley Oakland A's Pitcher -dennis eckersley".

Luis Tiant: I was excited about him. Although I wasn't alive yet, he was a yankee for a few years. We didn't know who would be there, but I was wearing a yankee hat and was probably the only person there (with about 15 sox fans and 15 yankee fans in the group of 200) who knew he was even a yankee.  I asked him to sign my yankee hat. He did it the whole time shaking his head and giving me a dirty look. Not in a joking way, he was really annoyed with me. Oh well! After I laughed I googled him to see if his time in NY ended poorly and couldn't find anything. My dad said it didn't end bad, he was popular and overall left with a good record. I did notice however that he had a half full bottle of Jack Daniels under the table.  The guy was really angry to be there. Wouldn't make eye contact or anything with anyone.

John Longbord: awesome guy. Seriously. The whole time he was just like "Free booze! Gorgeous women waiting on line to meet me! This is the life!". He stuck around for an hour after the others left just taking pics, eating and drinking. Telling stories and jokes. Taking pics of himself with people on HIS camera! Really cool. I was really impressed with him.

[UK Redsox]

Brooks Conrad is becoming the stuff of legend

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100724&content_id=12593746&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[UK Redsox]

Tampa's Matt Garza throws a No Hitter

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/garza_nohitter/index.jsp

He faced the minimum 27 batters. One guy walked but he was thrown outs as part of a double-play

[pmarachi]

this no hitter stuff is getting nuts.  That is the SIXTH this year!


(yeah, 5 on paper, but 6 in reality)

[UK Redsox]

It's "non-waiver" trade deadline day in MLB.

This is the last day that teams can swap players without the rest of the league having the opportunity to claim the players involved.

Recently we've seen the following moves:-

Cliff Lee - Mariners to Rangers
Roy Oswalt - Astros to Phillies**
Asutin Kearns - Indians to Yankees
Jorge Cantu - Marlins to Rangers
Matt Capps - Natinals to Twins


Rumoured to be moving today:-

Lance Berkman - Astros (poss to Yankees)
Adam Dunn - Natinals
Ted Lilly - Cubs (poss to Dodgers)



In other recent news; the Orioles sign Buck Showalter as Manager. Pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg of the Natinals goes on the DL





** if they'd have just kept Cliff Lee in the first place they wouldn't have had to trade for another pitcher now

[H00513R]

Sorry to see Lilly and not Zambrano go, but Lilly could return to the Cubbies next year. So glad Theriot is gone.

[Comrade Blitz]

Roy Oswalt - Astros to Phillies**
** if they'd have just kept Cliff Lee in the first place they wouldn't have had to trade for another pitcher now

and Cole Hamels is proving why no one wanted him last year when Halladay was on the block....wish they'd kept Lee and sent Hamels and Blanton packing.

[UK Redsox]

OK Paul, I'm conceding this season to the Highlanders/Rays.

With Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk on the DL and possibly out for the season, the Sox are fecked

[UK Redsox]

A-Roid finally reaches 600 home runs

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100804&content_id=13011408&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb