Baseball (MLB, WBC, College, etc.)

bmwracer wrote:
That was a crazy season for the Amazin' Mets... :victory: :applaud:

Crazy season for them this year too though the wrong craziness :shakehead: ....Hodges must be rolling over in his grave in disgust. :shamefulcry:

Well, one good thing came out of K-Rod's meltdown, :sweat: Takahashi has now moved into the closers role, notched his first save tonight with a 1-2-3 inning. :applaud:

Interesting: I mentioned the "Shot Heard 'round the World" yesterday and today I find out that Bobby Thompson passed away today. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Interesting: I mentioned the "Shot Heard 'round the World" yesterday and today I find out that Bobby Thompson passed away today. :sweat:

Just watched his home run again, bet that video will get a lot of views now. Interesting note, in 1954 he was with the Braves, early in the season he broke his ankle and they plugged some rooke named Aaron into his position. :applaud:

hitomi #1 wrote:Just watched his home run again, bet that video will get a lot of views now. Interesting note, in 1954 he was with the Braves, early in the season he broke his ankle and they plugged some rooke named Aaron into his position. :applaud:

Aaron, huh?

Wonder what became of him.... :rolleyes:

bmwracer wrote:
Aaron, huh?

Wonder what became of him.... :rolleyes:

Probably not much, those 'clean' players rarely succeed. :bow:

hitomi #1 wrote:Probably not much, those 'clean' players rarely succeed. :bow:

Yeah, there's that Mays and Williams guy as well.

Though I hear that Williams was a pretty good pilot in WWII and Korea. :victory:

Dodgers start a series tonight with the Rockies at Dodger Stadium in a battle for third place... Should I bother to even watch the game on KCAL9? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:Dodgers start a series tonight with the Rockies at Dodger Stadium in a battle for third place... Should I bother to even watch the game on KCAL9? :headscratch:

Well, Bobby T. and the '51 Giants didn't give up being down 13 in mid-August and looked what happened. :bow:
Sox upended the Halos tonight at Fenway 6-0. :victory: Buchholz improves to 14-5 with an ERA of 2.36, may have to put him in the running for the Cy Young even though he spent a couple of weeks on the DL, Lester is right there with him in that race. :applaud: Sox will remain 5 1/2 out of first and the wild card as the Yanks :usuck: and Rays are both cruising to easy victories. :puppydog:

hitomi #1 wrote:Well, Bobby T. and the '51 Giants didn't give up being down 13 in mid-August and looked what happened. :bow:

But the 1951 Giants didn't have a bullpen like the 2010 Dodgers. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
But the 1951 Giants didn't have a bullpen like the 2010 Dodgers. :bleh:

True, but maybe the '51 Dodgers did. :doh:

bmwracer wrote:Interesting: I mentioned the "Shot Heard 'round the World" yesterday and today I find out that Bobby Thompson passed away today. :sweat:

He isn't forgotten in NY even after all these years, Daily News has him on both the front and back page covers, plus a 4 page spread of him. :applaud:

Dang, now the BoSox's Mike Cameron is out for the season... Boston's got a severe case of the injury bug this season. :crazy:

bmwracer wrote:Dang, now the BoSox's Mike Cameron is out for the season... Boston's got a severe case of the injury bug this season. :crazy:

Pedroia just came off the DL yesterday, team rule when one comes off another has to go on. :nut:
Sox are now 9-0 against the Halos coming back from a big deficit and winning 6-5, not a strong start again from Lackey who at least settled down after giving up 5 runs in the first few innings, goes 7 to get the win. Rays and Yanks :usuck: keep on winning, deficit remains at 5 1/2 games. Think for the Yanks :usuck: Girardi learned Torre's bad habit of burning out the bullpen, :victory: they won 9-4 but used 7(!) pitchers.
Phils also clobbered the Giants again, quietly they've moved into the wild card lead by 2 games over them. :bow:

hitomi #1 wrote:
Phils also clobbered the Giants again, quietly they've moved into the wild card lead by 2 games over them. :bow:

Speaking of quiet, the Padres are now 25 games over .500, best record in the NL and 2nd best record in baseball behind the Yankees and Rays. :shocked:

Dodgers wild pitch themselves into an extra-inning loss to the Rockies, 3-2.

It seems that always their bullpen that fails them. :shakehead:

The San Francisco Giants seem to be choking even worse than usual and that is bad. :bonk:

MonsterZero65 wrote:The San Francisco Giants seem to be choking even worse than usual and that is bad. :bonk:

No, it's normal. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
No, it's normal. :beaten:

True. And the A's are looking great now that there is no chance to make ther playoffs they are unbeatable.

Roger Clemens charged with perjury in steroid case

WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.

Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statements and perjury.

The former Major League baseball pitcher and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified under oath at a 2008 hearing before a House committee and contradicted each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances.

McNamee has told federal agents, baseball investigator George Mitchell and the committee that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 to 2001.

Clemens has maintained that McNamee was lying.

Clemens' attorney, Rusty Hardin, said by telephone from Houston that he had just learned of the indictment and would wait to decide whether to comment.

The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, the judge who presided over the perjury and obstruction trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. No date has been set for Clemens' initial court appearance.

In a defiant appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2008, Clemens said, "I've been accused of something I'm not guilty of ... I have never taken steroids or HGH."

Longtime Clemens friend and pitching star Andy Pettite told congressional investigators that Clemens confided to him that he had used human growth hormone. Clemens said Pettite's assertion wasn't correct.

"I believe Andy has misheard" the conversation, Clemens responded. He said he had simply mentioned to Pettite a TV show about three older men who used HGH to get back their quality of life.