Gästebuch » The Dodger Dogs vs. Boston Beans WS hits it’s middle act.

"Well http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-josh-bell-jersey , here we are. The FINAL Weekend HaloLinks of the 2018 season. Hell, by the time we convene again come Monday this might be the final Whatever-The-Hell-Day-It-Is-Links of the 2018 season. Only the Tiki Ti’s can control that.Maybe that’s the what this has to go down, with things closing out quickly and quietly up in LA so that we can all move forward with our baseball lives. If Tiki Ti isn’t going to show up and make a series out of it, just hand it to Kowloon while the rest of Southern California is doing any 3 of a thousand other things to do and let it all go unnoticed. At least we will have knowledge of which loser we can start mocking.I hope not, though. As a baseball fan, this is supposed to be the ultimate opportunity for drama and history. And it should mean something that it comes against the two best teams of the year. History itself erases the memories of all the times that the Padres took on the Rangers, just so that we don’t have to. But this is the other end of the spectrum of opportunity. With really no compelling reason to favor one team to lose over the other, getting the chance to line Tiki Ti up against Kowloon just to watch for the potential of baseball in all its glory is a chance not to be wasted. Unless Tiki Ti wastes it for us. If it gets that far, Sunday’s game is the huge one.We will go forward today with No-More-Than-5-Games-Left-This-Year-HaloLinks:A Little Bit Of Angels NewsGolden Glove Finalists were announced. The Angels nabbed 5 of them: Martin Maldonado at catcher, Ian Kinsler at 2B, Andrelton Simmons at SS, Mike Trout at CF. Of course, since Maldo played 34% of his games for Houston Ivan Nova Jersey , and Kinsler played 29% of his games for Boston, those teams would claim ownership of the recognition............Taylor Ward won the Fan’s Choice Award for his offense in the 2018 edition of the MiLBY’s...........So what’s it gonna be for the outcome of Arte and Anaheim? A new short-term lease to let people figure out what they have failed to figure out over the past decade already? Or just move the whole thing to Portland and let Oregon pay for it?..........I am not sure that Ian Kinsler, who struck out only 40 times in his 91 games as a Halo, was all too happy watching Justin Upton, Kole Calhoun, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani strike out a combined 535 times in 2018..........Everywhere In BaseballThis WS thing is going to end meekly if the LADs don’t wake the hell up. And what a few of you bothered to witness Wednesday night was an historic metric for just how bad LA is at the plate right now..........It doesn’t help that their bullpen is face-planting at the same time..........They will get some help if BoSux’ JD Martinez is held out with his ankle injury...........More example of why we don’t really need new rules to speed up the game, just more umpires with the balls to enforce the current rules that were already in the books, having been written years ago............Jeff Sullivan needs to make a mockery of this. He is outstanding at doing that........What if the League, and the broadcasters, and Madison Avenue all got the WS matchup they dreamed of, but it turned out that nobody really wanted to watch that matchup after all?............Yep, it’s a bitch to suffer through a playoff broadcast when the other team is the one doing well. Because that is what the broadcast team will slobber over. Every play from teh winning side will be dissected as though it ranks as one of the greatest moments of all time. Every player will be introduced as the very best in all of baseball. Gag. It’s what happens every year. But you what’s also a bitch? Broadcast experiences which miss out on the broader experience of the event itself that people who actually attend get to enjoy without distraction..........Huh, Joe Buck http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-josh-bell-jersey , maybe you aren’t such an impartial observer after all?............Hey, World Series winner! Your ass is going to the White House so don’t even think about it! Thus sayeth Commissioner Manfred...........The Red Sox actually spent time in Spring Training dedicated to working on situational hitting. What you and I knew as a kid as “choke up on you bat with 2 strikes”. Not that MLB’ers are choking up on their bats, but that coda of OBP represents an outlier for the Swing & K approach against improving pitchers. And it’s paying off in spades in this WS, 7 months later. I wonder how many other teams put in this work?..........The MLB Managerial Merry-Go-Round hit a few more stops. The Twins took on Rocco Baldelli as their new skipper.....The Blue Jays hired Charlie Montoyo..........The Wall Street Journal has been overrun by idiots. Maybe the have all fallen off their polo ponies and banged their heads one too many times. How else to defend their ongoing shtick about needing to re-write the rules of baseball to suit their ad revenue needs?..........Super Two dates are a thing. They drive who qualifies for Super Two status, meaning that they are ‘tweeners’ between 2 years and 3 years of service, who get to jump directly into arbitration. It’s a status that drives teams to monkey around with service time, as it can cost them a couple extra million on a top-quality youngster by the time their arb years are over. We will get to the Super Two guys after the season, but for now know that the cut off date this year has been set at 2 years, 134 days of Major League service..........Now I, for one, would absolutely go out of my way to purchase bags of chopsticks manufactured from game-used LAA broken bats. And I am sure that Ohtani and Trout chopsticks would sell for a premium..........The Duffle BagBoston doing Boston. Of course the Red Sox need some stupid battle cry. Of course they pick something in the common vernacular. Of course the franchise registers for a trademark on the phrase in the common vernacular. And of course we get some corporate marketing department to glom on anyway...........Out here on the left coast, we do things smarter. Case in point: our fast food creativity..........Curt Schilling is butt hurt that a business enterprise that thrives on public goodwill failed to include him as a representative of their brand..........Out of the mouths of babes..........reddit user, who just check his great-grandfather’s diary entry from 1916..........Mookie Betts is a good guy Brad Hand Jersey , too. I wonder how many other pro players do same without a press envoy, and only social media to expose their humanity?...........Matt Kemp must be too young...to know of David Wells........... CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Bryce Harper hopes to change all those zeros soon. Naw, not the ones in his contract.Back in the lineup two days after being hit by a pitch in the ankle, the Phillies newcomer with the $330,000,000 deal was hitless Sunday, leaving him with a batting average of .000 in spring training.Harper is 0 for 8 in 14 plate appearances over five exhibition games.His goal for the final week in Florida? “Definitely getting a couple knocks,” Harper said.“I don’t want to leave spring without a hit but if that happens, then March 28, here we come,” Harper said.That’s the day Philadelphia opens the regular season, at home against the NL East champion Atlanta Braves.Harper returned as the designated hitter against the split-squad New York Yankees and went 0 for 3 with a walk. The star outfielder will play in a minor league game Monday http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey , take Tuesday off and return to a major league game on Wednesday.On Friday, Harper was hit in the right ankle by a 96 mph fastball from Toronto rookie Trent Thornton and left the game. The decision to let Harper play Sunday came after a pregame workout that included running and hitting.“Felt good,” Harper said. “It was shocking I came in yesterday and not really any swelling, no bruising. Glad I was able to get out there and feel pretty normal.”Batting third, Harper took a called third strike on a 96 mph fastball from James Paxton in the first. Harper then grounded out to shortstop on another 96 mph offering from the left-hander.“The timing, definitely a little behind right now,” Harper said. “A little late on some of the pitches against Paxton today. It’s going to be a process.”Harper, who agreed to a 13-year contract in late February — almost two weeks after spring training began — Harper struck out swinging on a 90 mph pitch from Dellin Betances in the sixth.In his final plate appearance in the ninth, Harper drew a walk from minor leaguer Anderson Severino on high and in-tight 99 mph fastball.“This is practice,” Phillies manager Gabe Kapler said. “These are reps, they’re work. He’s seeing pitches, working some deeper counts. We feel like he’s going to have his timing and his rhythm down for opening day and that’s most important.”Harper sat out Saturday’s game against Houston but played catch and did agility work in the weight room.