MLB 2009

[seedofvengeance]

Yay... my favorite part of every year!!! The day we announce Kevin Millwood as our opening day starter!! I love when we can give up 5 runs in 6 innings on opening day, it's great.

 

[muzmaze]

RED SOX NATION. Time to break-out that Red Sox shirt, put away the shovels, fill the cooler & spark the grill! OPENING DAY TOMORROW...it should be a great season for the Sox!

Great time of year...Sox open up and The Masters tees off. SPORTSGASM TIME!

Anyone going to opening day games? I usually celebrate my birthday by going to opening day...can't wait, weather permitting?

 

[Belligerent]

put away the shovels

can't do that over here. Just found out that the White Sox game is cancelled for tomorrow, it'll be at 1:30 on Tuesday instead. FUCK SNOW!

 

[rms]

Curently on the road to see the reds home opener tomorrow!

 

[King Richard]

RED SOX NATION. Time to break-out that Red Sox shirt, put away the shovels, fill the cooler & spark the grill! OPENING DAY TOMORROW...it should be a great season for the Sox!

Great time of year...Sox open up and The Masters tees off. SPORTSGASM TIME!

Anyone going to opening day games? I usually celebrate my birthday by going to opening day...can't wait, weather permitting?

The shovel you used to bury the Pats right?

 

[cookiecutter]

RED SOX NATION. Time to break-out that Red Sox shirt, put away the shovels, fill the cooler & spark the grill! OPENING DAY TOMORROW...it should be a great season for the Sox!

Great time of year...Sox open up and The Masters tees off. SPORTSGASM TIME!

Anyone going to opening day games? I usually celebrate my birthday by going to opening day...can't wait, weather permitting?

I am very excited for this Red Sox season. It should be a three team race in the AL East and I'm hoping this will spur the Red Sox to play some great baseball. I probably won't get to see any games in Fenway this year because I am staying in Toronto rather than returning home for the summer, but I'll be sure to catch some Red Sox Blue Jays games at the Rogers Centre.

I'm not going to opening day here in Toronto but I am going tomorrow. It should be fun.

 

[BasilisK]

Great Opening Day slug fest.

Tony Clark and Felipe Lopez both homered lefty and righty.

Chad Tracy's HR won it (the eighth HR of the game).

1-0.

Good times.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Zambrano always sucks on opening day. Maybe the Cubs can slug their way to a win today.

 

[muzmaze]

can't do that over here. Just found out that the White Sox game is cancelled for tomorrow, it'll be at 1:30 on Tuesday instead. FUCK SNOW!

Almost needed to keep the shovel here too...a very chilly heavy-rain in Boston today. This sucks!

Yanks pitching gives up a 10-spot to the mighty Oriole offense...woah!

 

[muzmaze]

The shovel you used to bury the Pats right?

Nope...only for snow in Winnersville. You must have used a shovel to bury...wait...you didn't have to, the Colts buried themselves didn't they? With some help from the Bolts.

 

[Belligerent]

a Facebook Chicago Cubs vs. Sox debate

Is thinking that Cubs fan thrive on disappointment. I mean c'mon. How many years are you gonna put yourselves through this unrealistic theory that this is the year? 101 yrs seriously. You guys are pathetic, and i'm not saying you guys should convert over to Sox fans b'cuz we don't want you. Have fun watching 162 games of hoplessness and heartbreak. And I'll be watching 162 games of Real MLB Championship Baseball !!!

Im ashamed to be related to you.

Zambrano is gonna break the home run record this year.
Cubs fans don't thrive on disappointment, they are just loyal. Dirty Sox fans only come out when the Sox are winning. Wrigley is packed regardless. I agreee with Emma, Gay update.

Really tho', the best thing was watching them last season. After the All-Star break all you heard was "they're going all the way,nothing can stop them" and more bs after bs. And would you look what happened, one and DONE in the playoffs when the Dodgers romped all over their asses. I had a grin from ear to ear when that happened. All of the hope year after year and its always a disappointment. Fantastic.

Courtney, Attendance has nothing to do with the way a team performs OBVIOUSLY!!!!!! I have been a die hard sox fan my whole and anyone who trully knows me would agree. And Emily, Don't hate b'cuz you know it's true.

i dont understand why all Cubs fans say this is the year? U HAVE THE SAME TEAM AS LAST YEAR!!!!! How is this the year? Go Blackhawks!

it's extremely far from the truth. sux fans came out of hiding when they won and ever since they wont shut up bout it. its annoying!!!!! on a side noe: cubs fans, in my opinion, are more fun...regardless!

I think I heard the Sox were handing out toothbrushes, deodorant, and hand sanitizer...And every 100th fan through the gates gets a brand new pair of booty tight black stone washed Wranglers...Trying to clean up their image

Hmmm okay, someone wants to play the stereotype card.
Opening day at Wrigley this year they will be handing out KY jelly for all the fudgepackers to use in the bathrooms after Eddie Vedder sings his homoerrotic Cub song. Then all the "True" fans could leave early like usual and hop in their Range Rovers and head to the next scenester bar to pay 10 dollars for a Miller Lite. Gimme a break will ya!!

 

[King Richard]

I think it's fun to watch the Cubs collapse year in and out.

 

[Belligerent]

Nothing makes me happier.

 

[MasterOLightning]

The Cubs are my team. I grew up a half hour from Wrigley. I can't not be a Cubs fan. The 101 years thing is overplayed. It's not like there aren't other teams with long enough droughts where a significant amount of fans haven't seen a title. See Cleveland, Houston, Seattle, San Diego, etc. I don't see the point in people bragging about championships they weren't alive to see anyway.

 

[cookiecutter]

I guess it's because I came to be a Red Sox fan during their long drought but I don't see a problem with supporting a team that has not won in a while.

 

[BasilisK]

RIP Adenhart.

I hope they execute this motherfucker.

Angels' Adenhart killed in accident
Rookie right-hander dies in three-car hit-and-run crash


By Tom Singer / MLB.com

04/09/09 4:30 PM ET
ORANGE, Calif. -- On one of the saddest mornings in Angels history, a groundskeeper on the field in Angel Stadium smoothed the pitching rubber on which Nick Adenhart stood 13 hours before.

In a conference room on the third floor of the park, Adenhart's No. 34 uniform was draped over a table atop the dais. On its left sleeve, a "Preston" patch commemorating the recent passing of Angels exec Preston Gomez.

There will soon be another patch on those uniforms, in memory of Adenhart, the victim of a tragic hit-and-run accident in Fullerton, Calif., in the wee minutes of Thursday.

The sudden and shocking development moved the Angels to cancel Thursday's night game, the finale of a four-game series with Oakland. Makeup plans will be announced later.

Into that third-floor room, media members, club officials and Fullerton police and fire department officers filed in with long faces and vacant eyes. They were there to discuss the 12:24 a.m. accident that took three lives and left a fourth in critical condition, and to reminisce about an exceptional 22-year-old.

As Tim Mead, the Angels' vice president of communications said in opening the proceedings, "It is with deep regret that we are having this press conference."

Of all the sad, thoughtful and poignant sentiments that ensued, nothing spoke louder of Adenhart's effect than the eyes of agent Scott Boras, which weren't vacant but wet.

Looking completely distraught when his turn to speak came, Boras took several deep breaths before saying, "Nick's parents, Jim and Janet, wanted me to convey to the entire Angels organization ... "

Then the tough-as-steel agent broke down, audibly sobbing before again collecting himself to say through quivering lips, "He was a great kid. His life goal was to be a big league baseball player. He'd summoned his father [on Tuesday], telling him 'You better come [to Wednesday's game]. Something special's going to happen.'"

Something special did: Adenhart blanked the Oakland A's for six innings of what turned out to be an Angels loss.

"After the game," Boras said, "he was so elated. It was tremendous fun. A great moment for all of us, seeing a young man take a huge step."

A couple of hours after that 6-4 loss, the Angels suffered a loss much more painful and lasting. A van driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo, a 22-year-old Riverside resident, ran a red light at the Fullerton intersection of Lemon and Orangethorpe and slammed the two-door Eclipse in which Adenhart was a passenger, hurtling it against a telephone pole.

Adenhart was pulled from the wreckage by Fullerton Fire Dept. rescuers and transported within 15 minutes to University of California-Irvine Medical Center, where he was soon pronounced dead. Courtney Stewart, the 20-year-old driver of the vehicle, and another unidentified 27-year-old male passenger were declared dead at the scene.

"An absolutely horrible tragedy," said Lt. Kevin Hamilton, in charge of the traffic bureau for the Fullerton Police Dept. and lead investigator on the case.

Hamilton said Gallo would be booked on DUI, vehicular manslaughter and murder charges, but the eventual charges he will face will be up to the District Attorney. Gallo's arraignment is scheduled for Monday.

Gallo has a history of arrests for driving under the influence. While withholding specifics, Hamilton said his blood-alcohol reading was above the minimum. The officer also said Gallo was driving with a license suspended due to his DUI infractions.

Angels general manager Tony Reagins and manager Mike Scioscia sat stone-faced behind that third-floor table in sharing their memories of Adenhart.

"He was a privilege to be around. He grew as much in four years as anyone I've ever known," said Scioscia. "I can't tell you how proud I was of the great progress he made. He had arm surgery before throwing his first pitch in professional ball, so his family should be very proud."

As head of the Angels' Minor League system prior to his ascension to GM in he winter of '07, Reagins had a special relationship with Adenhart.

"He had a great energy, but didn't show it," Reagins said. "He was very poised; nothing ever seemed to faze this kid.

"He was a tremendous player, and a tremendous person who impacted the other players and the coaching staff in a very positive way. Disbelief is prevalent; we're all in shock. We will deeply miss him; it's difficult to express how much."

Although Thursday night's game is off, the entire roster will convene in its Angel Stadium locker, with Scioscia holding a meeting to begin the healing process.

"We'll have everyone together," Scioscia said, "and start to move forward. And we'll focus on supporting Nick's family."

Wednesday's start was Adenhart's fourth in the bigs. He went 1-0, with an ERA of 6.00. In four Minor League seasons, one at each rung of the ladder, the 14th-round 2004 Draft choice went 37-28 with an ERA of 3.87.

But ERA is not the most compelling acronym of Nick Adenhart's legacy. It is RIP.

Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090409&content_id=4179446&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

[Belligerent]

ooh i didn't know it was a hit and run thats awful.

RIP Adenhart

 

[BasilisK]

.....and Mannywood came crumbling down.





FUCK YOU, DODGERS! YARR!

 

[cookiecutter]

Well that just sank my fantasy team

 

[seedofvengeance]

So... the Rangers are in first place... yep...
I'm a little uncomfortable right now.