Baseball (MLB, WBC, College, etc.)

Sammy Sosa hit his first home run since 2005 on Saturday night, a two-run shot for the Texas Rangers against Boston. :hehe: :hehe:

Dodgers pounding the Giants, 9-1, in the 7th inning. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:Dodgers pounding the Giants, 9-1, in the 7th inning. :victory:

bmwracer gloating :grumble: wow 126 million for Zito :shamefulcry:

JackClark wrote:bmwracer gloating :grumble: wow 126 million for Zito :shamefulcry:

Unfortunately, the Dodgers don't play the Giants all 162 games. :beaten: :sweat:

Reds lost to the Pirates today on an abysmally cold game 27 F most of the game). We're still tied for first in the division though. Record is 4-2-0.

bmwracer wrote:
Unfortunately, the Dodgers don't play the Giants all 162 games. :beaten: :sweat:

Wake me up once the season starts. :puppydog:

dochira wrote:Wake me up once the season starts. :puppydog:

I'll ping you in July-August. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
I'll ping you in July-August. :beaten:

Hahahaha. BAD JOKE!

:bleh:

Danji wrote:

Hahahaha. BAD JOKE!

:bleh:

This season is starting to be a bad and sick joke. :mecry:

dochira wrote:
This season is starting to be a bad and sick joke. :mecry:

It certainly doesn't help it's been so cold accross the country. Cleveland's home games have moved to the dome in Milwaukee just so they can play one. Snowed out half the games already! :usuck:

Reds lost last night to the D-Backs. :grumble:

Dodgers come home, play a non-Giants team (the Rockies), and promptly lose, 6-3. :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:Dodgers come home, play a non-Giants team (the Rockies), and promptly lose, 6-3. :shakehead:

It's okay, the Reds lost "ANOTHER" close one to the D-Backs last night in extra innings. We're now a .500 ballclub again. :( AND we're behind St. Louis .5 games back at 2nd place.

toronto is doing meh, hope they get better.
im surprised about boston but beckett is doing great so far.

and i hope a-rod continues to swing a hot bat. nice to see him have a good start.

Dodgers shut out the Rockies, 3-0, to take two of three. :thumbsup:

I know nothing about baseball: but I was watching NHK news last night, and it seems the Red Sox have a Japanese pitcher called Daisuke (Dice K) who is apparently their savior... heard of him?

Anime Dad wrote:I know nothing about baseball: but I was watching NHK news last night, and it seems the Red Sox have a Japanese pitcher called Daisuke (Dice K) who is apparently their savior... heard of him?

Yup... He's the new hot commodity from Japan...

Dodgers have Takashi Saito, Mariners have Ichiro Suzuki, Yankees have Hideki Matsui, and there are others... :)

It's funny, we get NO American baseball on TV here, unless it's on pay TV (cable) which I don't have. But it's on NHK news almost every night - actually it's pretty much the only sport they have, except Sumo and the odd ice skating. I guess there's a few Japanese ball players now :)

bmwracer wrote:
Yup... He's the new hot commodity from Japan...

Dodgers have Takashi Saito, Mariners have Ichiro Suzuki, Yankees have Hideki Matsui, and there are others... :)

a list of MLB players from Japan:

Red Sox - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima
Yankees - Hideki Matsui, Kei Igawa
Devil Rays - Akinori Iwamura
Blue Jays - Tomo Ohka

White Sox - Tadahito Iguchi

Mariners - Ichiro Suzuki, Kenji Johjima
Rangers - Akinori Otsuka

Cardinals - So Taguchi

Rockies - Kazuo Matsui
Dodgers - Takashi Saito

expect to see more players from Japan in the future. :mrgreen:

I want a Japanese player to root for with my Reds or maybe the Orioles. :puppydog:


Reds won last night beating the D-Backs 3-2.

Josh Hamilton homered for the second straight night. Consequently they were his first two major league starts! :applaud:

Danji wrote:I want a Japanese player to root for with my Reds or maybe the Orioles. :puppydog:

The Orioles used to have a utility player named Lenn Sakata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenn_Sakata :)