MLB '09

[Alex]

I don't like free ice cream!

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

When Juan Pierre makes one of his frequent circus catches it's more often than not because he thought the best route to the ball involved taking a quick nap and starting in the opposite direction and only his speed saved him from embarrassing himself.

You just are never going to like Pierre are you?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

I don't like free ice cream!

What if you paid for it?

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

No-hitters are overrated. No Mets pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter, and they've done just fine. In 1969, at the second game I ever went to, Bob Moose of the Pirates no-hit the Mets. The Mets won the World Series that year. A few years later, Bob Moose was dead.

Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?

[Strangler Lewis]

Unpissed Cheerios are overrated.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Fvck Bud Selig, fvck making it count. It's an exhibition game! I don't give a rats ass who wins. I want to see guys swinging for the fences and pitchers throwing brushback pitches for comedic effect.

Meanwhile, the stupidest comment I've seen this year re: the all star game. "They should stop letting the fans vote, it turns into a popularity contest."

Really? The All Star game becomes a popularity contest? The horror!!

[Alex]

They should just stop playing it period. Or do it after the season if they must.

Or, at least stop letting people vote for the All Stars starting with the second game of a 162 game season (only 45% of which can even be taken into account for determining who that seasons All Stars are). And dump the "every team represented" rule. If you can't put one person on your term worthy of an appearance then pound sand.

But mostly, just stop having the game.

And I take it the NL lost again.

[Ghoulish Delight]

They did, but that has little to do with my distaste for it counting. Baseball generally has the smallest homefield advantage of any of the major sports, so who gets it is relatively irrelevant. I just miss the more fun tone the game used to have. Bleh.

Today, by the way, is officially the worst day of summer. Not a shred of MLB activity. Depressing.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm getting nervous. As much as the Dodgers need a strong starter, I'm not pleased to hear the names Kershaw and Kemp come up as possible trades. I think Colleti is smarter than that, but you never know.

IMO, now's the time to make some moves with the wealth of farm hands the Dodgers have. The past couple of seasons, it was the constant supply of inexperienced but massively talented players coming up and filling holes that has been keeping the Dodgers going. It would have been suicide to trade them, not knowing which ones would turn out to be the long term winners. But now with Kemp, Loney, Ethier, Kershaw, solidified as legitimate major leaguers and the verterans remaining healthy, now the Dodgers can afford to use the value they have in their system to get the pitching they need to make it to the end. They may not get Haliday, but with names like Blake DeWitt, Xavier Paul, and plenty of others they can pick up a good arm without breaking up the winning team they've got in the bigs right now.

I'd even rather see James McDonald go before Kershaw. He'll be a good starter in a couple years, and he's a big help in the over worked 'pen right now, but if they pick up a starter that can get some innings that becomes less of an issue.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

^ Ugh, getting rid of Kershaw or Kemp would be ludicrous. I would also be fine with McDonald going.

Oh, and nice pinch hit, Manny.