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1. Harveys WallbangersNashville is above .500 so Melvin will likely leave him at Triple A for now so the team there can compete. But it looks promising for 2011.
Now if they can just figure out what in the h*ll has happened to Braun's power........................
Cardinal pitchers have given up the second fewest walks in the NL
Cardinal pitchers have only thrown 26 wild pitches which is well below league average. Some thanks to Yadier of course.
Cardinal pitchers have hit the third most batters in the league.
Look, it's ok. It's a tough game and Tony wants his guys to control the insider corner. That's FINE.
But every time The Don huffs and puffs about someone coming inside to Albert or declares that he never, EVER plays the game that way I just roll my eyes.
Spare me Tony. Cris Carpenter could shave a fly's back with his fastball and he has hit 10 batters this season.
So just spare me.......
Um, what? Why didn't the ump just call the 27th batter out and award the perfect game?
That's pitching bad luck even Charlie Brown wouldn't endure.
Because emotionally arrested grown-ups turned the ephemera of their youth into the specialized industries of their adulthood.
Absolutely. I don't know how many couch cushions I dug through in pursuit of enough change to buy a pack of cards.
If I'm Selig, I get together with the MLBPA and Topps and impress upon them the need for a set of cheap cards that are readily available to today's me. You won't find many better marketing tools to kids than cards, and baseball has largely pissed it away.
Who was the last pitcher to qualify for the ERA title while averaging over 8 IP per game?
Carlton? It'll probably be more recent ...
And it has been more recent.
is there a card app for iphone?
This guy did it 11 years after the 2nd most recent 8IP/G season for an ERA qualifier.
They've already done that. Topps is the exclusive supplier and their set is pretty cheap - something like $2-2.50 for 12 cards? The problem is the distribution. There's only a few places in San Francisco I can think of that sell them that aren't hobby stores. One's an old-school five and dime that could be straight out of 1959, and the other's AT&T Park (where, predictably, they're about $4 a pack).
I don't think I would call $2-2.50 cheap. I know my baseball-loving kid doesn't have that kind of money to truly collect baseball cards the way I did.
1994:
202 IP
25 G
Before him, you have to go back to Guidry & Soto in 1983.
Its okay you see, because Pete was betting ON the Reds to win.
If I'm Selig, I get together with the MLBPA and Topps and impress upon them the need for a set of cheap cards that are readily available to today's me. You won't find many better marketing tools to kids than cards, and baseball has largely pissed it away.
On the other hand, my kid can go online and look up everyone's stats for free. Not quite the same as physical cards, but I think he has a better deal overall than I did.
Is it better to be a baseball fan now than 30 years ago? Sure, no question.
But baseball cards were a wonderful way to get invested in the game, and I think the sport's leadership should recognize the value there and think longterm. But any sacrificing of short-term goals over the long-term health of the sport hasn't exactly been a strength of the Selig regime.
Its okay you see, because Pete was betting ON the Reds to win.
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and playing first base for the Phillies at the time. . . . Russ Nixon managed the REds in '83.
I think I'm still right in saying that distribution is more of a problem than price, and even with the Internet, it's still damn fun looking at baseball cards. I still buy about $20 worth whenever I go home and then open them up and spread them out all over my bed.
Quit getting your facts get in the way of my snark!
Why can't MLB simply make the cards themselves?
But that was still after the first wave of cards as collectibles boom. And as you note, your dad was buying them.
As a kid, late 70s-80s, we spent a quarter for a pack of about 20 cards and 50 cents for a pack of about 50 cards. We were doing the purchasing ourselves. Obviously, those prices aren't coming around again, but something closer to a dollar would be a price range that would attract more kids into the fold, I suspect.
As for distribution, give the convenience stores an item that kids will seek out, and I supsect they'll be happy to put them in a promiment location. A $4 pack probably isn't doing that.
I don't see why Topps couldn't put together a higher-priced, higher-quality collection for the overaged collectors. But making it easy for kids to get hooked on baseball cards (and hopefully, baseball) seems like the very reason cards exist.
Like MafiaWars / FarmVille gift cards!
Not that I'm in DC, but the drugstore down the road from me still has a glass case where they sell baseball cards, along with Pokemon, etc...
Well, I was 5.
I like Poveda, but the Rangers really need to go for it while they have the chance. Their window is IMO pretty small.
-- MWE
That's Reminayaification. He used to work for them. He scouted and signed my closest friend from high school back in 89.
SoSH, whose your friend (if I may ask)?
Not in so many innings, no. Eric Gagne had 137 strikeouts in 82 1/3 IP in 2003, which is the highest rate ever for anyone with more than 20 innings. Marmol is nearly 2 K/9 better than that.
-- MWE
His name was (is) Kevin Keon. Walked on at LeMoyne before the school went D-1, but was there when they made the leap (and came one win from a highly improbable trip to Omaha). Went in the teens to the Rangers, played one year for them and a second year in the Tigers system. He was still pitching semipro ball up until a couple years ago.
I'd rather have Cantu, who is adequate at 3B and even 2B if needed. Larish is basically limited to 1B (he's played 3B but is really stretched there).
-- MWE
As to their bats, I don't see a big difference there either - you could make an argument for either guy. Add to this that Cantu costs resources, Larish doesn't... it's an easy call for me.
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Keon: That name rings a bell, but I may have asked you the question before.
$0.88 - $1.32
EDIT: I think I should only owe a partial Coke since I provided the link.
-- MWE
How do you define small? They have Cruz/Kinsler/Hamilton/Young/Andrus each for 2+ seasons after this one. Colby Lewis for 2 seasons (1 plus a club option, really). CJ Wilson for another year. A lot of young, projectable arms in the minors and the majors.
I just don't see it at all - they will need to be pretty clearly outbid by another team in this division for them to not be the favorites for the next few years. The Angels can do it, but it's not like they have the core the Rangers do.
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