Go to some batting cages or something, I've been keeping the love with about 1,000 pitches a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
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Go to some batting cages or something, I've been keeping the love with about 1,000 pitches a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
Fuck batting cages. I have Wii Sports and Ken Burns.
I love batting cages, I recently picked up an awesome pair of batting gloves and I've noticed that my follow through has improved (I always used to swing barehanded).
P.S. I thought this was good http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...e=caple/061221
By Jim Caple
Page 2
Congratulations, Boston fans. Your Red Sox are the new Yankees.
Oh, I'm not saying that one World Series championship in the past 88 years is on par with the Yankees winning 26 championships and 39 American League pennants in the same period (I already get enough hate mail from New York fans to suggest such a ludicrous thing). But when the Red Sox signed J.D. (the Iron Man) Drew to a $70 million contract and invested $103 million in Daisuke Matsuzaka, they officially became everything Boston fans used to loathe about the Yankees. A team that fills out its roster by opening up a Costanza-thick wallet.
While Boston's projected 2007 payroll (perhaps $140 million) is still substantially south of New York's, it still will likely be more than all the other teams in baseball. If the Red Sox aren't the new Evil Empire or co-Evil Empire, they at least are Wal-Mart to New York's Halliburton.
Hell, the Red Sox paid more just for the right to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka than five teams paid their entire roster last year. And as Gordon Edes wrote in a terrific story on the wooing of Matsuzaka in Sunday's Boston Globe, the Red Sox arrived at the $51,111,111.11 bid because owner John Henry thought that string of 11s would be lucky. Now, when you have the luxury of slapping $1,111,111.11 on a bid for the pure look of it, you definitely are not living in the same neighborhood as the Kansas City Royals or Pittsburgh Pirates (or even the Chicago White Sox, for that matter).
It's to the point that if John Henry gained 40 pounds and started acting like an ass, you would think George Steinbrenner owned the Red Sox.
Not convinced the Red Sox have turned into the Yankees? Then consider this. No team has ever paid more money for a world championship than did the 2004 Red Sox (the Yankees have spent more trying to win, but their payroll was a mere $114 million when they won the Series in 2000). Further, when those Red Sox recorded the final out of that World Series, not a single player on the field was homegrown. When the Sox open the 2007 season, they may have just two homegrown players in the lineup, first baseman Kevin Youkilis and second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
A possible $140 million payroll. Signing two players for $170 million in a two-week span. Assembling a team from everyone else's farm system while trading away your own. The highest ticket prices in the game. Over-the-top fans seemingly everywhere. These are precisely the things Red Sox fans despised about the Yankees for years. And now they're also true of the Red Sox.
Next thing you know, Ronan Tynan will be singing "Sweet Caroline.''
Most teams have a distinct character, built up over the decades, a personality that persists almost without regard for actual record. The Twins will always be dependable Midwest farmers getting by on hard work, good soil and solid team fundamentals rather than stunning payrolls. The Athletics will always be West Coast free spirits going about the game their own way (whether that's drawing walks or drawing tattoos). The Yankees will always be pin-striped Gotham storm troopers dispatching opponents with cold corporate efficiency. The White Sox will always be the South Side blue-collar workers playing in the shadow of their yuppie northern neighbors. And for decades the Red Sox were the Calvinist, heroic underdogs always destined to fail tragically in the end.
That personality disappeared in October 2004 with the speed of a Big Papi home run leaving the yard, and no sane Red Sox fan would ever want it back. Understandably so. Who wants to have his heart broken again and again and again when you have the chance to live happily ever after with the person of your dreams? The Red Sox are finally on par with their hated rival and are delighted about it.
But that doesn't make things easier for everyone else. It used to be there was just the Yankees empire with which to contend. But the Sox knocking off the Yankees in 2004 didn't rid baseball of a menace. It simply meant there was another nuclear power in the ever-escalating arms race.
Sigh. It's enough to make you hope the Cubs never win.
That was the most interesting part to me. Fuck the Red Sox. Teams like those shitheads are the reason other sports have fucking caps.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpoDaddy
Brewers sign Jeff Suppan for 4 years/$42 million with an option for a fifth year.
Soup n' Brew
Now I can add the Brewers to the list of teams I never want to hear cry about salaries again.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
Dontrelle Willis just recently got busted for DWI; apparently he was stumbling around outside his car after pulling up to a nightclub at 4am and then started urinating in the middle of the street. He got arrested, spent 6 hours in jail, then got out on $1,000 bail.
Johnny Damon along with other players are a part of the new Professional Baseball Gaming League. Damon servers as commissioner and yes..you can play against him and other major leaguers like Prince Fielder, Mike Pelfrey, Corey Patterson..etc in games like Project Gotham Racing 3..etc. Guess this is all Xbox 360 so if you have that and some games you may get a chance to play with them and other baseball fans.
I would put this news at the gaming forum but I'm sure the word "baseball" might scare some folks off so I put it here.
Professional Baseball Gaming League
Sony did something (W)right:
http://www.ebgames.com/common/images/lbox/281654brp.jpg
Wow. Did you just find that at Gamestop/EB.com? I couldn't find it anywhere else. I sent the link to MetsBlog.
Yeah, I found it at EB.com completely by accident.