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bmwracer wrote:
We don't have that problem here. :beaten:

True, that means you Sox fans on the West Coast can start celebrating earlier after a victory. :hehe:
Have a good buddy for some strange reason is the biggest Cubs fanatic in the area, perhaps the whole state, so I really enjoy watching what the Dodgers are doing to them now. :rofl:

hitomi #1 wrote:True, that means you Sox fans on the West Coast can start celebrating earlier after a victory. :hehe:

For sure: I never liked the Angels.

gaijinmark wrote:

If those idiots at FOX hadn't made the second worst trade* in Dodger history when they owned the team, the #1 name on the list would be Piazza!! :beatyou:


* All time worst Dodger trade: Pedro Martinez to Montreal even up for Delino DeShields. :shakehead:

Another name that could have easily passed Karros was Paul Konerko, they traded him and another player to the WS for Jeff Shaw, LaSorda was the GM at the time, meanwhile Konerko hit his 370th career HR tonight. :applaud:

hitomi #1 wrote:
True, that means you Sox fans on the West Coast can start celebrating earlier after a victory. :hehe:
Have a good buddy for some strange reason is the biggest Cubs fanatic in the area, perhaps the whole state, so I really enjoy watching what the Dodgers are doing to them now. :rofl:

Yeah, I caught the last few innings of the game, and I swear there were more seagulls in the outfield than fans in the stands by the 9th inning. :beaten:

Rev wrote:


Yeah, I caught the last few innings of the game, and I swear there were more seagulls in the outfield than fans in the stands by the 9th inning. :beaten:

Cub fans are are getting fewer out there, think they're finally getting sick of the losing, attendance this year versus last year is down over 15%, finally wising up. :beaten:
Why no mention of the dramatic win by the Jays tonight, they prevail in extra innings as GM's new fave player picks up another win. :victory:

Wow, Dodgers hammer the Cubbies, 12-2.

Now the Dodgers'll get shut out in the next game. :sweat:

hitomi #1 wrote:
Cub fans are are getting fewer out there, think they're finally getting sick of the losing, attendance this year versus last year is down over 15%, finally wising up. :beaten:
Why no mention of the dramatic win by the Jays tonight, they prevail in extra innings as GM's new fave player picks up another win. :victory:

D'oh! Turned it over to watch the hockey when they went into extras. Silly me :puppydog:

Heh, White Sox got blown out tonight by Detroit. Rough day for Chicago Baseball.

hitomi #1 wrote:
Why no mention of the dramatic win by the Jays tonight, they prevail in extra innings as GM's new fave player picks up another win. :victory:

Yup, who needs Halladay when you've got Rpez, um, Rcez, wait, no, Rzce, , ,

I mean "Zep", yeah, that's our guy!! :woot:

BoSox beat the Angels again, 4-3. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:BoSox beat the Angels again, 4-3. :victory:

:woot:
Yup, another good starting performance but also another short one as Lester picks up the win with 6 shutout innings, :mrgreen: bullpen has been shaky lately allowing 3 runs but Papelbon shut the door in the 9th, he's actually been pitching solid this year. No offense by the hitters, only 5 hits, error by the Halo's CF allowed 2 runs to score which was the difference. :sweat:

Dodger bullpen implodes again and they lose to the Cubbies, 10-8. :shakehead: :grumble:

^^ Least they didn't get shut out... their pitching so far has reminded me of the Sox, starters usually do well but for only 5-6 innings, it's hard to have 3 or more pitchers come in and have all of them be successful. :shakehead:

Sox up early 4-0, what they need is a blowout instead of these games that go right down to the final out, :sweat: at least they're winning most of them.
Yanks :twisted: are going at one HR rate right now, hit 5 more tonight in blasting the O's 15-3, now on a pace for 315(!!!!), that castoff Martin went deep twice more for them tonight.

BoSox beat the Angels again, 5-0.

Ho ho ho ho ho.... :rofl:

Read in today's LA Times about former Dodger great Steve Garvey and an investment group are considering buying the Dodgers.

A much better choice than having Mark Cuban's grubby hand on the team.

bmwracer wrote:BoSox beat the Angels again, 5-0.

According to the Japanese press Dice-K "flummoxed" them:


Dice-K flummoxes Halos in another show of brilliance

ANAHEIM, California, April 24 (16:11) Kyodo


Daisuke Matsuzaka silenced his critics for the second consecutive start, pitching eight shutout innings in the Boston Red Sox's 5-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night.

After allowing just one hit in seven scoreless frames in his previous start, Matsuzaka (2-2) was masterful as he limited the Angels to just one hit while striking out nine at Angel Stadium.

''My feeling is I didn't want to stop the team's winning streak and all of our starting pitchers have really been putting in a lot of work, so I wanted to do my part in the effort,'' Matsuzaka said.

Indeed, the Japanese right-hander appears to have been reborn since his disastrous start against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 11, in which he surrendered seven runs and eight hits in two-plus innings.

The sole hit came when Alberto Callaspo drilled a one-out liner that careened toward Matsuzaka's face before he deflected it off his glove for an infield single in the second inning. He walked three and threw 115 pitches, 78 for strikes.
''I reacted well to that liner, but since it hit my glove I really wish I had caught it,'' Matsuzaka said.

Red Sox manager Terry Francona was impressed, to say the least, for Matsuzaka, who knocked his ERA down a peg to 4.09 after an inflated 12.86, coming away from his start against Tampa Bay.
'He gives up the one hit, he had three walks (two of them were) to Bobby (Abreu). He was throwing strikes, he changed speeds,'' Francona said. ''He stayed out of the middle. That was fun to watch. He gave us a chance to score then spread it out a bit. That's a good formula for winning,'' he said.

Dodgers rout the Cubbies, 7-2... Shoulda swept the Cubbies, if it weren't for that bullpen meltdown yesterday. :grumble:

Angels get swept by the BoSox, 7-0. :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:BoSox beat the Angels again, 5-0.

Ho ho ho ho ho.... :rofl:

Ho ho ho, Santa came thru again today as the Sox win.... 7-0! :victory: Lackey must have felt left out with all the recent success of the starters as he goes 8(!) shutout innings, notice the moon is blue tonight. :doh: Next up for the winners of 5 in a row is a trip to Baltimore before heading home to face the Mariners, has the potential to be another good week. :fingerscrossed:

Lackey just seems to like pitching against the Angels. Still his outing was very surprising.

^^ They skipped his last start so he could pitch twice against AL West teams, he's done well against that division in his career, hopefully he can carry it over to the rest of the league. :fingerscrossed: Good sign too in Crawford's last 2 games, 4 hits plus he hit his first HR today. :sweat: