Favorite Teams
Blexican : Rangers
Thunder : Rangers
Hugh : Mariners
BBB : Yankees
KBHoleN1 : Braves
Hulky : Let's go with the A's
Achilles : Red Sox
The One : Giants
Spencer : Blue Jays
Veilmenacex: Blue Jays
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Favorite Teams
Blexican : Rangers
Thunder : Rangers
Hugh : Mariners
BBB : Yankees
KBHoleN1 : Braves
Hulky : Let's go with the A's
Achilles : Red Sox
The One : Giants
Spencer : Blue Jays
Veilmenacex: Blue Jays
Hugh : Mariners
Even though they've been kicking me in the balls my entire life.
Yankees :)
Braves, of course.
I'd say A's, but the teams I watch the most on TV are the Giants and Orioles because I draft so many of their batters in fantasy baseball.
Great idea to have people post their favorite teams and update the OP, Blex. I know who a lot of people's teams are but can't remember everyone. This helps.
Red Sox, but they're basically being managed by Money Bags from Monopoly...
Giants.
Cueto and Shark look decent so far. Fingers crossed.
Blue Jays
I'm not sure if you can all see this vid, but holly fuck.
https://www.facebook.com/Dodgers/vid...8/?pnref=story
Is that the one of puig, bbb?
Double post to say Go Braves.
This David Price contract is playing out like a classic "let's throw money at our problems" Red Sox scenario...
Doug Fister is pitching for Houston now. He's facing Seattle tonight, his old team. Well one of his old teams.
A few years ago when he was with us we had him and a relief pitcher named Charlie Furbush. We still have Furbush actually.
So when Charlie would come in to relieve Doug the line was Fister/Furbush I mean come on. Fister Furbush?! That's fucking solid gold.
I hope Ichiro gets to 3,000 hits this season and retires. It's gonna be close. With Stanton, Yelich and Ozuna ( still can't believe how good that outfield is ) there's not much room for a 42 year old Ichiro, but he's making the most of his at bats. I just don't know if he'll get enough of them. It's a tough spot for Mattingly I think, or maybe not. No idea how he feels about it. It'd be a tough spot for me, but I'm a big Ichiron fan.
Ichiro is awesome. Hoping he gets 3k too.
I'm really liking Maeda and how he's pitching.
Miserable year to be a Braves fan. I hope they call up Dansby Swanson soon.
Chris Colabello - “They found a trace amount of metabolite in my urine stream. And that’s the only thing I know for a fact. I don’t know where it came from. I’m still trying to figure out how it got there. It’s all I can do.”
Sounds like a dude that got STD's trying to tell his GF he has no clue how he got them...
Yeah except the whole situation with a 31 or 32 yo cuban hitter with less than 100 ABs getting arrested for assault and paying him way too much before he even plays
My favorite team is the Phillies....
Surprising start! Once the weather starts warming up I'd assume the pitching staff will start to go into a slump. Our bats still aren't anything special and we've got a negative run differential which spells disaster.
Still not worried yet.
http://i.imgur.com/VMpTGTD.gif
Gypsyy yess
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaanoooooooo.
Dansby Swanson is going to hopefully not be trash.
17 runs in 5 innings at AT&T makes me so god damn happy.
With Trevor Story proving himself in the bigs (I think at this point the dude has at least a SOLID future and was a very underrated prospect) and brenden rodgers completely destroying the minors already that's gonna be a really interesting situation for the rockies moving forward. Very interested to see how Hoffman pans out as well, still high on him as a solid #3 starter or better.
Also Miguel Castro looks like a potentially dominant BP arm. Wish him the best of luck.
Hate the Rockies front office, but you guys have a lot exciting situations developing. Arenado is destroying the league.
Kyle Seager would hit 40+ bombs a year if he played for the Rockies. I can't get on board with the numbers anyone puts up on that team.
Robinson Cano is off his ass right now. Killing it. I'm pretty excited about the Mariners.
No he wouldn't. Coors Field isn't the most hitter-friendly park for Home Runs. It ranks behind Yankee Stadium, Miller Park, Camden Yards, and Wrigley Field in terms of Park Factor for Home Runs. And Colorado just raised their outfield walls by about 9 feet this season. Rox have hit 17 home runs at home and 25 on the road this season. Admittedly have played 18 on the road and 12 at home this season, but the ratio is still about 1:1. Last season it was 102 at home, 84 on the road, which isn't a huge disparity. The real advantage to playing at Coors Field is the ball moves straighter and the field is fucking huge.
So you should take Rockies hitters stats with a grain of salt. The annoying thing about this to me, though, is that nobody ever considers adverse effects, like fatigue factor of playing 81 games at altitude, or that it might be hard to play a half and half schedule where the dynamics of a baseball completely change on the road. And there's a double standard for our pitching. Tyler Chatwood is 4-2 with a 2.15 ERA, and nobody gives a shit.
Ya for a little while. He started a little rough, but he's been a lot better lately. Still has good velocity and a good slider. It's too bad he didn't get a win today, but Cueto's going to Cueto so.
Gray was drafted the pick after Bryant so it's not like he's that old.
Sorry for the late reply, worked like eighty hours this past week.
We're all honestly happy he's out. I was actually shocked when I found out he was sincerely injured, we just thought the fat fuck was bowing out for the season and collecting a check.
With the combination of his weight, totally non-existent work ethic, and big contract, the Sox would be lucky if they could trade him for a bag of baseballs. The rhetoric here has overwhelmingly supported the Sox just cutting him to set an example to the rest of them team, as we have so me huge contracts not playing well at all. I know we have a great young core (Bradley Jr, Betts, Bogart, Rodriguez, Shaw, etc), and people like to consider Boston fans spoiled - but a lot of people lose sight that the Sox have one of the highest payrolls in baseball, and have come in last 3 out of the last 4 years.
John Henry is so disillusioned in regard to a long term plan for building a baseball team. The '04 and some of the '07 team were built by Dan Duquette before the new ownership took over - Manny, Pedro, Varitek, Wakefield, etc. So they can't take all the credit for those runs. And '13, as fun as it was, was a fucking fluke and a half. They have no vision for a team. After '13, with the relative lack of star power, their tone was basically "we're smarter than everyone and didn't pay out big contracts and instead used baseball math to win with mostly no-name players." Then they blew it the next year and went out and bought the most expensive players on the market.
Like I said, I just imagine Henry throwing fistfuls of cash at pinned up baseball cards to construct a team.