2012 MLB Thread

[Schlitzbrille]

Yankees, you keep disappointing me every time you win.

[gunnar hendershow]

Andrew Bailey sucks.

[9 to 5]

I went to school with an Andrew Bailey. I am guessing it's a different guy.

[gunnar hendershow]

Your Andrew Bailey would probably do a better job.

[9 to 5]

I dunno, he was a bit of a cunt. Fill me in.

[gunnar hendershow]

Andrew Bailey's blown like 30% of his save opportunities this year for Boston or something. That's pretty horrendous.

[The Buscher]

There's very little chance the Yankees blow this division. After the momentum from a win like that it just seems like a given.

If it winds up being an A's/O's wild card game I'll pull for the winner of that to go all the way just for the unlikeliness of it. Overall though this is shaping up to be a fun postseason.

[Schlitzbrille]

There's very little chance the Yankees blow this division. After the momentum from a win like that it just seems like a given.

If it winds up being an A's/O's wild card game I'll pull for the winner of that to go all the way just for the unlikeliness of it. Overall though this is shaping up to be a fun postseason.

Verily, it does indeed look like a fun post-season.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Nationals clinch #1 seed and Teddy won the President's race.

[GhostMachine]

Nationals clinch #1 seed and Teddy won the President's race.

Its about damn time!

And I vote they rename the Nationals to the Senators if they actually reach the World Series.

[The Buscher]

Oakland may actually win the World Series...their bullpen is just unreal.

[gunnar hendershow]

They'll be a tough out in a series. All the teams with deep pens are going to be very tough in series play, as they usually are. Phillies in 08, Giants in 10, and Cardinals last year all had incredible pens. This year Oakland, Baltimore, and Cincinnati all have fantastic bullpens. The 70's are back!

[Blitz]

That game may have been harder to watch than game seven of the World Series. Just terrible.

[naiwf]

I never thought I would see a hitter win the Triple Crown in my lifetime, so I'm glad that Miggy got it done.

[gunnar hendershow]

I never thought I would see a hitter win the Triple Crown in my lifetime, so I'm glad that Miggy got it done.

Great to see it.

[GhostMachine]

Two thoughts regarding awards:

Cabrera has to be a lock for MVP. If someone wins the Triple Crown, the MVP going to anyone else but them has to be a joke.

If anyone other than R.A. Dickey wins the NL Cy Young, then fuck the motherfucking motherfucker who gets it instead.

Oh, and its looking like Boston is going to fire Bobby Valentine. That's good. He's being used as a scapegoat for how bad the Red Sox did this year, but I lol'd when I heard he had been hired in the first place as I thought he was a bad fit for that team, and I was more than proven right.

Edited October 4, 2012 by GhostMachine

[gunnar hendershow]

Cabrera would be a lock for MVP if it wasn't a precedent that winning the Triple Crown doesn't guarantee you the award. Trout has a WAR of 10.7. That's one of the best totals for a hitter of all time (I believe top 20 in the live ball era). And his defense was arguably the best in the league. Triple Crown means nothing when Trout had a season topped only by Ruth, Gehrig, Hornsby, Ripken, Mays, Bonds, and Mantle.

[Blitz]

Not sure if Trout could ever have the power numbers to win a triple crown, but I could see him leading the league in average, homeruns, RBIs, steals and runs scored at some point in his career.

[Lint]

How horrible...I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like

[gunnar hendershow]

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. It's just the worst thing I could imagine happening, from incredible heights to the lowest low.