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[elocomotive]

Still can't get over the Coco Crisp play. What is he doing there...


Poor Billy Beane.

 

[higgyfan4]

Fuck Josh Reddick. The last 4 letters of his last name say it all. Always enjoy the ramblings of a hypocrite...

And then there is this new rule: Don’t you dare kiss the baseball when you are playing against the Oakland Athletics.

“I didn’t appreciate it,” said Josh Reddick, the A’s rightfielder, after the Tigers’ 5-4 victory in Game 2 this afternoon. “I think that’s immature and not very professional.”

Reddick was ticked off at Al Alburquerque, the Tigers reliever who kissed the baseball after fielding a ground ball to get out of jam in the ninth inning.

“It got under my skin,” Reddick said. “It was very unprofessional. I didn’t appreciate that one bit. I’ll leave it at that.”

But, of course, he didn’t leave it at that.

He kept going on and on and on.

“I don’t think one person in this clubhouse appreciated it,” Reddick said.

Reddick was asked whether he thought the kiss was an attempt to show up the A’s and he agreed. Wholeheartedly.

“It is,” Reddick said. “That’s exactly what he’s doing. I don’t think anybody, from one day of experience in the big leagues to 15 years in the big leagues, everybody knows that this is a professional game. You have to keep within yourself. You can do all that stuff in the dugout, when nobody is looking, but you have to keep that stuff out of the game.”

Now remember.

Reddick was the Athletic who threw his bat after striking out, on a called third strike in the third inning. If he were playing Little League, Reddick would have been kicked out of the game and sent to the playground without getting a snack.

And he’s the one slamming Alburquerque for acting unprofessional?
(Alburquerque later said he didn’t mean to offend the A’s and his kiss wasn’t premeditated. “If you win, you feel happy,” he said. “If you doing something good, you feel happy, too. Everybody got different emotions.”)

After the game, Reddick explained his little bat throwing tantrum. He said he was upset with himself and the strike zone.

And don’t forget this. Reddick is the player who did a little showboating of his own on Sept. 20 on the final play of the game, performing a shuffle and a hop before catching a Miguel Cabrera fly ball as the A’s finished off a 12-4 victory in Comerica Park.

And this is the guy who is slamming Alburquerque?

 

[Taz_Hokie]

It was a terrible time. I'm glad it wasn't a save oppurtunity though. The Orioles need to score more than 2 and really need to make the opposing starter work harder than they did tonight.

I agree. We gave Sabathia so many easy outs early in the game which allowed him to pitch into the 7th with a pitch count of like 80 something.

BTW Comeds, if you are around during the games, you should swing by the Orioles forum. There are about 3 of us O's fans that post regularly there (along with one pesky Nats fan).

 

[forty_three]

I think I'm pulling for an O's and Reds series.

Now that I live in Ohio, this could be problematic for me. I have at least five people that I woul dnot be able to speak to until it was over.

From July 30 until the end of the season, Jim Johnson allowed 1 earned run in 24 innings. Yankees scored 5 off him in 1/3 of an inning.

bad time to blow up

Yeah, that hurt. But hey, he got it out of his system and will be ready for the next time.

I hope.

I agree. We gave Sabathia so many easy outs early in the game which allowed him to pitch into the 7th with a pitch count of like 80 something.

The O's certainly didn't do themselves any favors, but I gotta give CC his props. He had good command, did a great job mixing his pitches and had the hitters off balance all night. They never could figure out what was coming. Those low slush balls he was slinging must have looked awful juicy the way everyone bit on them. The bottom just fell out of 'em.

 

[filosofy29]

Go Reds Go!!

I want Mat Latos to get a ring.

Mat Latos is a little bitch. I hate that guy. I do have a soft spot for Dusty though. So if the Giants don't make a miraculous comeback, it wouldn't be terrible to see Dusty get a ring.....as long as Latos gets lit up in all of the rest of his starts.

Props to the Reds though, they dominated this weekend.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Where's the pitching depth?

This is why I like the Reds to win it all. They have pitching depth. No team is going to beat the Yankees with 1 pitcher alone.

Where's the pitching depth for the Tigers?

Scherzer's pretty good, 3.74 ERA and 231 strikeouts. Anibal Sanchez has a 3.86 ERA and a 1.27 WHIP, which also isn't bad. Doug Fister's solid, too.

In terms of starting pitching, in the AL, I don't think anyone's better off than the Tigers.

^^ This.

Detroit's starting rotation is strong. It's our middle relief that is iffy.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Fuck Josh Reddick. The last 4 letters of his last name say it all. Always enjoy the ramblings of a hypocrite...

He's a fuckhead. No one watching that game could possibly have thought AA was showing up the Oakland A's. AA did what every Tiger fan was doing at that same split second...thanking God that we got out of that inning unscathed. We weren't even AHEAD at that point of the game, for crying out loud.

Has Josh Reddick made any comments about Valverde? LOL

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Mat Latos is a little bitch. I hate that guy. I do have a soft spot for Dusty though. So if the Giants don't make a miraculous comeback, it wouldn't be terrible to see Dusty get a ring.....as long as Latos gets lit up in all of the rest of his starts.

Props to the Reds though, they dominated this weekend.

I thought the Giants would definately take Game 1 after Cueto left the game. When they couldn't score against LeCure their fate was sealed. Latos did what I expected him to do. The Reds have the best bullpen in baseball. Their rotation is solid from top to bottom & they can HIT!!

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

^^ This.

Detroit's starting rotation is strong. It's our middle relief that is iffy.

The biggest problem teams have when facing the Yankees is the way they work the count. By the 5th inning the opposing pitcher usually has something between 90 & 100 pitches. For Verlander that's not a big deal. For the rest it is.

Hopefully the O's can rebound from Game 1 & win the series.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

The biggest problem teams have when facing the Yankees is the way they work the count. By the 5th inning the opposing pitcher usually has something between 90 & 100 pitches. For Verlander that's not a big deal. For the rest it is.

Hopefully the O's can rebound from Game 1 & win the series.

We'll see. That was supposed to be true the last two times Detroit beat the Yankees - and our starting pitchers are better than those that eliminated the evil empire.

 

[dash]

Cards off to a fast start against the Nats (5-1 St. Loo after 3 innings)

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

We'll see. That was supposed to be true the last two times Detroit beat the Yankees - and our starting pitchers are better than those that eliminated the evil empire.

I hope it happens. I just think in the end the Yankees will represent the A.L. in the World Series. I want to be wrong in a bad way. If the Yankees & Mets fail to win the Series it's been a good baseball season in my book.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

I hope it happens. I just think in the end the Yankees will represent the A.L. in the World Series. I want to be wrong in a bad way. If the Yankees & Mets fail to win the Series it's been a good baseball season in my book.

Rep!

 

[kenyg54]

^^ This.

Detroit's starting rotation is strong. It's our middle relief that is iffy.

Proof in Game 2, it's not the middle relief that's iffy, if they pitch the rights guys.

 

[HonusWagner66]

baseball is a cruel sport that'll rip your heart out and stomp on it over home plate.

20 years.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Wait, wait, wait...Ichiro may have done an incredible job of avoiding the tag, but was he out of the basepath initially?

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

One O's fan is saying he was in the basepath, but you woulda thought the announcers would have at least mentioned something about it. Hmm.

 

[elocomotive]

C'mon O's... hold on here. Outside of hoping my boyhood team beats the Yanks, there is a guy at work who hasn't talked once about baseball ALL YEAR LONG and all of a sudden he is going around the office with a Yankees hat saying "Bronx Bombers, baby!" :eyerollgraphic:

 

[elocomotive]

O's get out of two straight jams in the 7th and 8th to keep the lead.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

C'mon O's... hold on here. Outside of hoping my boyhood team beats the Yanks, there is a guy at work who hasn't talked once about baseball ALL YEAR LONG and all of a sudden he is going around the office with a Yankees hat saying "Bronx Bombers, baby!" :eyerollgraphic:

His name wouldn't be Band Wagon would it?