Oh, I'm sure they'll get their mojo together by this Monday when the A's roll in.....

That would be great, yeahhhhhh...

um, like I said......

just a one-game fluke, and the rangers tried their damndest to blow that one!

You took 3 of 4. I'd say you're back in it.

AND just swept the best team in baseball, at least record-wise (Cardinals), at their place over the weekend!

This was just what I needed after how tragically The Finals ended for me.

I fully endorse Bob's post regarding the sweeping of the Cardinals. Go Reds.

LOL, yeah that worked out pretty well for the Reds...and the Pirates.

The way we're going, the Reds and then the Cards will have their way beginning tomorrow night at the Mausoleum.

Despite last week's 4 game skid, I'm loving this Braves team this year.

Maybe it's the fact that Chipper is no longer there but it just feels like whole new era. The bats seem to be a bit feast or famine but the pitching is solid, we've got solid D, and can actually run a little bit. That said, if Uggla, BJ Upton, and Heyward don't start getting their shit together, we'll be looking at yet another early playoff exit.


Outside of that, finding a fair amount of enjoyment from the recent woes of the Nats.

they get that plumbing fixed at the e.coli, i mean, o.co?

You've never had any sewage in your backyard?!?

Bit of a 'sport' digression, but before they moved to LA in '81, I'd seen the all-slogan team play at least 100 games at the Coliseum; including the "Heidi Game." Baseball=too many to even count. I know ever nook & cranny.

If & when they tear down the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum =

I can understand your attachment to that place.

I'm all for burning Ryan Braun at the stake. Anybody wanna take up their torches and get this mob rollin'?

Meh. At this point they're all guilty until proven innocent in my book.

This.

That's kinda fun. Like the Tim Conway and Harvey Korman of baseball.

That's actually a pretty apt analogy.

Yep. It's kind of amazed at all of the apparent outrage. Internet comments are maddening.

Actually, aren't all MLBers proven innocent at this point except for the, like, 6 players who have been suspended in the last 18 months? They give everyone multiple drug tests.

I just don't understand why it's such a big deal in baseball, but nobody give a shit when an NFL player does it.

I think it's pretty naive to think that, just because only 6 people have been suspended, that there aren't a tremendous amount of players still using PED's; the use has just become more subtle and calculated--remember these are millionaires with the resources to pay people to create products that can get the necessary results (namely recovery) while still eluding detection. And the drugs and the people who use them will ALWAYS be ahead of whatever testing is currently being used. Almost by definition.

As for the difference between baseball and football: baseball is a sport who's foundation is numbers and the history of those numbers. Using PED's makes a mockery of that (to the people who care). Football, on the other hand, is a brutal sport based on winning at all costs, period. Nobody cares that the Steelers of the 70's or 49er's of the 80's were rumored to be doping on a level that made the East German's seem above board--it was all about winning at all costs.

Case in point, Drew Brees breaking the consecutive TD record a couple of years ago. It stood for almost 50 years and people outside of Saints fans couldn't have cared less. I have no clue what the passing yards record is, rushing record, sack record, receiving, none of it. But I do know 755, 61, 56 and I probably don't even need to tell people what those are.

I thought these were some of the most interesting comments about this from Braves catcher Gerald Laird:



I promise you MLB owners are in agreement. If this guy goes into the toilet when he comes back, the Brewers are still on the hook for a crippling amount of money.