2024 Major League Baseball season (Page 24 of 91)

If you missed the highlights from todays game in B-More....Josh Hamilton put on one of the greatest displays of power hitting EVER!!.....5 for 5.....4 homeruns and a double, 18 total bases, as the Texas Rangers beat The Orioles 10-8....Hamilton had 8 RBIs....not one of them dingers was a cheapie, in fact the last one was crushed, it had to go at least 430ft....I saw the Oriole fans give him a standing ovation as he rounded the bases....very classy B-More ....he's a free agent at the end of the year, I can hear someone from 161st avenue in the Bronx crunching some numbers (the Yankees)...***lemme see the luxury tax would be OH MY GOD!!!....I need a drink, wheres the waiter when I need him***......my Yanks need pitching more than Hamiltons stick, but what the heck, were frickin rich....30 million per season????....what would Dimmagio or Mantle have cost in todays market.....I still think of a Sunday double header back in bout 1972.....Nate Colbert hit 5 homeruns.....do you recall that day Rick??

Love the game of Baseball

Shreddy would have gave up a kidney to play one year in the "show"

Hammer, please don't mess with America's past time. It is what it is, cuz it's still what it always was. I'm still not happy with that pu$$y DH rule in the American League.

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                                                                                                      J Dawg

OK, here goes, my jury is still out on that addict, especially after he fell off the wagon in the off season. Granted, he must feel like hell after enticing that poor fan to fall outta the stands trying to grab his kid a ball, but the demons are still there and it scares anybody that's been there to imagine where he could go from here.

                                                                                                           God Grant Him The Serenity,

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I don't claim to know a lot about baseball history, but personally I think Cole's actions were totally unnecessary. It seems like a silly rite of passage to me and a stupid tradition to carry forward. IMO

We agree to disagree. There have been deaths and serious injury by pitches, but to my knowledge, never by an intentional plunking. Some of the best pitchers were most effective by having a touch of intimidating random wildness. It takes guts to stand in the box with a fireballer on the mound. It is a part of pitching to throw inside to keep the sluggers off the plate. We've got a kid that is looking to be our closer who tosses easy looking gas that pips the gun consistently at 100-102! He's a bit wild at times too.

It may come down to the composite bats now used in Little League and HS/College with the rapid loss of old growth wood. These were made to reduce the recoil acceleration and danger to the pitcher but could be engineered for the big leagues as well. I agree the danger of spearing by an splintered bat is huge and there have been scary incidents already.
Rick

thanks Dawg for getting us out of the gutter. We just lost a day game to them Cubbies, 1-0. We barely won last night thanks to Dan Uggla or it's a sweep at the Wrig. It's like something out of the Wizard of Oz, are you a good bat, or a bad bat? Off to St Louis on Friday, the damn bats had better pick up the pace.
Congrats to Freddie Freeman of ATL, NL player of the week last week, and had the honor also 2 weeks prior to that. Beat them stinkin Cards, might wish they still had Pulbert Ajols. I'm not dyslexic, it's a game we play swapping letters in the name. How about Hole Camels?

Tres

Didn't see the end of your game, but Dan's sister was glued to it sitting behind me while her husband and I focused on the Giants game. The "Freak" is diggin' himself a hole in the Bot of 4 in LA @ the moment. Looks like the Tribe may be coming back to earth losing again to the ChiSox 8-1.

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