If I'm not mistaken, the number of night games the Cubs are allowed to play at Wrigley is limited per an agreement with the Chicago City Council. This came into play when lights were installed at Wrigley in 1988 because of complaints by the residents of the neighbourhood. Besides, God created baseball to be played on real grass under the sun. Night baseball and the DH are just bastardizations of the game forced by TV money.
It might be a good idea for Ryan to move on. The Rangers' window of opportunity has closed for a while. This year will be all about hate and discontent in Ranger-Land.
I don't know. I'm guessing the Yanks won't just let him walk with nothing in return. I'm thinking mid-season trade for whatever they can get, assuming he's not on the DL by then. But either FA or trade, this is Chamberlain's last season in pinstripes
Be totally honest. What was your first, instantaneous thought when you read "Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper each added 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason..."? I would suggest the overwhelming majority of posters here would say "uh-oh, PEDS!" The others just hadn't had their first coffee yet.
What exactly is an "honest shot"? Didn't he get that in Denver? He had his shot and he proved he can't play QB regardless of the team's record. Not every defense can carry a QB like the Broncos did.
"Accountability Partner"? Fair speech for what the rest of us would call a babysitter. To paraphrase an eloquent post I read yesterday: In LA, Hamilton will be snorting coke off a hooker's **** before the All Star break. Arte, you're going to need a platoon of babysitters with Tasers to protect your investment. Good luck!
I tend to side with the owners in sports labor disputes on general capitalist principles, but when you already have a fourth rate product then repetitively remove it from the marketplace so consumers can't consume it, I'm pretty sure that makes the owners totally incompetent businessmen.
Broomstick putter. Belly putter. Semi-belly putter. Demi-semi-belly putter. Claw grip. Backhand grip. It's all crap. You can putt or you can't putt. No putter is going to read the green, pick the line or judge the speed for you. All the rest is just mental gymnastics.
One would have thought Girardi had more important things to think about at that point in the game than Alex's ego. Maybe the 51,000 fans wouldn't notice a left hander was suddenly batting in the 3 hole. Rodriguez has only very rarely made me forget Scott Brosius.
O's, absolutely true! All FAs would like to be in Soriano's position right now. He's due $14 mil (or a $1.5 mil buyout) with the Yanks or whatever he can get on the market. Not bad! Not sure anybody will be willing or able to top $14 mil, though.
95 wins and the best record in the AL is not exactly "hurting". 93 LOSSES and dead motherless last in the AL East is "hurting". How about you just sit back for 3-4 years and watch the Re Sux rebuild and let the Yankees go about the business of winning? It's not like you have a choice.
And then there there is your pathetic compulsion to be first on these posts when you really have nothing to say.