MLB '10 - Page 11

Ghoulish Delight · 05-20-2010, 06:53 AM

Eh, a loss with Ramon Ortiz on the mound doesn't strike me as something to worry about. Tonight will be the telling game.

Kevy Baby · 05-23-2010, 09:28 AM

Considering that on April 29 they were 6 games under .500 and 6 games out of first place, only to swing to 7 games over .500 and a tie for first place today.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-26-2010, 11:13 PM

Power outage at Wrigley, and I'm not talking about Carlos Lee.

Kevy Baby · 05-27-2010, 11:29 AM

Yeah, that was weird.

I'm just glad things are getting corrected: the Dodgers are in contention for the NL West lead and the Nats are in the cellar (granted, a position they currently share with the Mets and the Marlins)

Ghoulish Delight · 05-27-2010, 11:35 AM

It was mentioned earlier in the broadcast that last night was only the 458th night game at Wrigley. It didn't have lights until 1988, and even then they have an agreement with the neighborhood to limit the number of night games. Guess they're still working some of the kinks out of the system.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-29-2010, 09:05 PM

Wow, never been two perfect games in the same season, let alone the same month.

ETA: Sports Center just corrected me, there has been a season with 2 perfect games...1880.

Alex · 05-29-2010, 11:07 PM

From Keith Olbermann's baseball blog:

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There have been 20 official Perfect Games (sorry, Harvey Haddix; sorry, Pedro Martinez) in baseball history, and thanks to Dallas Braden and now Roy Halladay, there have been two of them in just twenty days.

Of course it's more preposterous than that. Because Mark Buehrle threw his perfecto for the White Sox just last July 23rd, there have now been three perfect games (15 percent of all of them, ever) in the last 130 days of Major League Baseball play.

Wait - it gets worse. The first perfect game, by Lee Richmond of Worcester of the National League, was thrown on June 12, 1880. The second, by Johnny Ward of Providence (also still in the NL that season), took place just five days later. So now we're talking about a quarter of all of them, ever, being concentrated in a net span of 135 days of play.

Alex · 05-29-2010, 11:41 PM

Then there's today's non-walkoff walkoff grand slam.

scaeagles · 05-30-2010, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Then there's today's non-walkoff walkoff grand slam.

It was reminiscent of when the Phoenix Cardinals All Star kicker (name escapes me) was celebrating after a game winning field goal and tore his ACL. Oops.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-30-2010, 08:06 AM

Yeah, I wonder if we've seen the last of those stupid home-plate celebrations due to that. I hope so.

05-20-2010, 06:53 AM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Eh, a loss with Ramon Ortiz on the mound doesn't strike me as something to worry about. Tonight will be the telling game. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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05-23-2010, 09:28 AM	#2
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Considering that on April 29 they were 6 games under .500 and 6 games out of first place, only to swing to 7 games over .500 and a tie for first place today. __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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05-26-2010, 11:13 PM	#3
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Power outage at Wrigley, and I'm not talking about Carlos Lee. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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05-27-2010, 11:29 AM	#4
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Yeah, that was weird. I'm just glad things are getting corrected: the Dodgers are in contention for the NL West lead and the Nats are in the cellar (granted, a position they currently share with the Mets and the Marlins) __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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05-27-2010, 11:35 AM	#5
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	It was mentioned earlier in the broadcast that last night was only the 458th night game at Wrigley. It didn't have lights until 1988, and even then they have an agreement with the neighborhood to limit the number of night games. Guess they're still working some of the kinks out of the system. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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05-29-2010, 09:05 PM	#6
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Wow, never been two perfect games in the same season, let alone the same month. ETA: Sports Center just corrected me, there has been a season with 2 perfect games...1880. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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05-29-2010, 11:41 PM	#8
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Then there's today's non-walkoff walkoff grand slam.
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05-30-2010, 08:06 AM	#10
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Yeah, I wonder if we've seen the last of those stupid home-plate celebrations due to that. I hope so. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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