Started by bmwracer · 27 Sep 2004 · 5,578 replies
dochira wrote:Don't forget about their new GM, Colletti.
eltinator wrote:Ahhh, I hate it when ex-players kill us, hopefully we'll get the better of LA this season :mrgreen:well, one thing you can count on is that nomar will get hurt again, so he don't pose too much of a threat to your giants.
niko2x wrote:well, one thing you can count on is that nomar will get hurt again, so he don't pose too much of a threat to your giants.
gaijin mark wrote:Tentative working title:"I'm not a jackass, I just play one in real life."
gaijin mark wrote:Jeff Weaver (career record 78 wins 87 loses) signs with the Angels for $8.3 million. :crazy: If I only had an arm!!! :banghead:
Tu_triky wrote:quote of the day:
The only way out of this hideous embarrassment is for Bonds to quit. Now. Ifm not going to stay up waiting for him to do so. It would take a man of honor and integrity to take such a step, and wefve already seen time and again that those are qualities foreign to him.
Too bad you canft administer them in a syringe.
Tu_triky wrote:quote of the day:
The only way out of this hideous embarrassment is for Bonds to quit. Now. Ifm not going to stay up waiting for him to do so. It would take a man of honor and integrity to take such a step, and wefve already seen time and again that those are qualities foreign to him.
Too bad you canft administer them in a syringe.
MikeNolan wrote:Thank god he has no integrity and honor. The Giants need him to win the division. And even the World Series :victory:
Japanese fans cry foul
By JIM ARMSTRONG
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese baseball fans were outraged over a controversial call in the World Baseball Classic that helped the United States beat Japan on Sunday.
With the score tied 3-3, Japan appeared to score the go-ahead run against Joe Nathan in the eighth when Akinori Iwamura flied to left with one out and the bases loaded. Tsuyoshi Nishioka tagged up from third and beat Randy Winn's throw home to give Japan a 4-3 lead.
Second base umpire Brian Knight ruled Nishioka safe but Team USA appealed the play, contending Nishioka left the base before the ball was caught, and plate umpire Bob Davidson overruled the call following a brief discussion with the other umpires.
It didn't appear Nishioka left before Winn made the catch on the television replay.
"It was a terrible call," office worker Shoichi Enomoto said a day after the game. "When you have the best players in the world competing, you should have better umpires. We were robbed."
Even Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi weighed in on the call.
"It clearly looked like we were going to win," Koizumi said. "It's a shame to lose on such a strange call."
Davidson is one of 22 major league umpires who lost their jobs in the 1999 labour dispute. He's now a minor league ump who fills in at the big-league level.
In the bottom of the ninth, Alex Rodriguez hit a bases-loaded, two-out single to give the United States a 4-3 victory in the opener of Round 2.
Several Japanese baseball commentators pointed out that Nishioka was shifting his weight to his front foot before the ball reached Winn's glove but that his back foot was still on the bag and Davidson might have been fooled by this.
Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who manages Nishioka on the Japan Series champion Chiba Lotte Marines, was quoted in the Nikkansports newspaper as saying "It was a bad call."
"I wanted to cry," former Hanshin Tigers manager Senichi Hoshin said. "(Sadaharu) Oh and his players did such a good job and to lose like that is devastating."
Japan will play Mexico on Tuesday before facing South Korea the following day in Anaheim.
gaijin mark wrote:As if to show there is justice, the USA got the sh*t beat out them by Korea last night. I find there is almost no interest at all here in the States.
gaijin mark wrote:As if to show there is justice, the USA got the sh*t beat out them by Korea last night.
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