purposely drilled cabreara leading off the game…i find that pretty stupid if true…

comments in an empty game thread, does it make a sound?

they succeeded.

some heavy english…that ball moved in a bizarre way…

I was bored so I thought I would delve into one of my favorite subjects: where do the best pitchers come from? In spite of the Cardinals tendency toward drafting college pitchers, I think it is pretty clear that the best pitchers (in the US at least) are drafted and signed as High Schoolers.

I did a quick check of the five-man rotations and the closers of the eight playoff teams and I found that only 10 out of 40 starting pitchers and three out of 9 (counted both Saito and Broxton from LA) were from four year colleges. Most of the rest were high schoolers with some amateur free agents form abroad. FWIW, one of the ten college pitchers was Tim Wakefield and I am pretty sure he was drafted as a position player.

The other college starting pitchers were: Jamie Moyer, Joe Blanton, Dave Bush, Ben Sheets, Andy Sonnenstine, Matt Garza, Jered Weaver, Joe Saunders, and John Lackey.

So, Jeff and John, if you are reading this, quit drafting all those damn college pitchers and take a few chances on HS guys in the early rounds. Notable HS pitchers in the playoffs inlcude: C.C. Sabathia, Scott Kazmir, John Lester, Josh Beckett, Derek Lowe, Chad Billingsley, Clayton Kershaw, Ted Lilly, Rayan Dempster, Rich Harden, and Cole Hamels.

College pitchers are more likely to reach the big leagues and more likely to be middle relievers. Guess what our system has a surplus of: guys who project to be middle relievers and were drafted from college.

Bud Selig will attend the baseball game when the Brewers play the Phillies in Milwaukee, according to MLB News.

Is this some kind of joke?

in the playoffs, the more angry I get about instant replay.

Why not just put the two extra umps on the field? They don’t even have to be exceptional umpires. They can be permanant line judges. It isn’t that hard of a job.

on a what i think fun OT baseball thing… http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2008/10/3/627852/your-entrance-ab-music let me know what ya think.

that impresses me.

4-0 BoSox in the 1st….My Angel friends are about to commit suicide….Jason Bay does it again!!!….they are eating up Santana…..

Jason Bay is a lucky bastard to have escaped the Pirates. More power to him.

That was beeyootiful, hahaha!

is not showing much in this playoff season so far huh?… wow… I’ll be at Dodger Stadium tomorrow night …should be interesting. I’m betting the Cubs play MUCH better away from Wrigley but they have a TON of work to do….whew…

since Milton Bradley ended his season by arguing a call at 1st or Jake Peavy basically knocked himself out of the playoffs in the pile-on when the Pads won their division?

it looks like to me. This Red Sox team is getting hot at the right time. The Rays better be worried because they are going to have a tough time getting a win against this Red Sox team.

with Ervin Santana by putting a different uniform on him?

whoever that bushy haired man was!

Get some freaking runs, you Angels. How about some damn situational hitting already!

they’d blow the Red Sox out of the rest of this series.

It’s like they are clinching those bats so tight, they are all breaking off at the handle.

It’s like death by inches.

with another paper cut!

the lefty in to face Guerrero. Francona’s banking a lot on history here.

career 1.019 OPS vs. lefties.

in about a year, the Red Sox will be dead.

HAHA, jokes on them. They don’t even know it yet!

what would an important sporting event be without it?

I would have sent Tex all the way from 2nd!

from Masterson — 54% for the season. And Hunter, who never saw a pitch he didn’t want to swing at, swings at the first pitch.

I know he sucks but he has to be better than these Mighty Mites. Shouldn’t you use that bullet now?

and that will be the death of them.

or act of GOBs to get this run in.

the Sox are a little thin in the pen. Kendrick to the plate — another guy who just loves to swing.

bleeder between the pitcher and the 3rd basemen for sheer excitement.

This guy has killed the Angles offense with runners on these 2 games.

good afternoon, and good night. It took a good scouting report to know Kendrick wasn’t patient, according to Buck. Nice call, Buck.

has 20 HRs. Let’s do this!

Masterson’s got his back to the wall here.

you’d think he was the greatest sage in the history of baseball.

that was a pretty good pitch.

West Covina Angels.

Walking in runs, 1 station at a time.

The whole freaking team has them.

here.

grounder to short

that, after walking two, he lets this guy pitch to the lefty but left Okajima to pitch to the righty.

The big boys single to get on base but the bottom of the order (the black hole) kills any chance they have.

and the entire stadium pausing like in Semi-Pro in the Alley-Oop scene.

Tito looks over at his pitching coach and says “What the hell was that? Why didn’t they stop at 1st?”

Way to go, TBS. How hard did they try for that one.

is seeing Fox, and now TBS, showing all those shots of actors starring in their bad TV shows they’re plugging in between every damned pitch! Is this a game or an informercial for your show? Wait a minute. Don’t answer that.

That was a strange sound.

They need to get somebody that has a chance to get a hit in the 7th spot, since they have had so many runners on when he comes to bat this series. He is just killing them this series.

in order last inning. Since they can’t hit the ball over an OF’ers head.

and if we had a reliever that had gotten lucky like BS-Rod all season, we’d be playing still.

worked for a run last inning. bet they score again.

A triple. The world just asploded!

will be able to get this run home.

There is a GOB.

if I was Tito.

if it’s up by a run in the 8th and the other team only has 1 runner on base? Dire straits?

in the bigs. He and Nancy Drew are the reasons I can’t stand this current Red Sox team.

but those overdramatized commercials are grating.

And that brunette will always be the crazy chick from Coupling to me.

“If there is a new pitcher, swing at the first pitch!”

“Angels ’08”

but they’ve got the right guy coming to the plate.

I guess you, Tackle, are the other guy at VEB pulling for he Sox, huh?

whew!

Are you high Skip? Did you forget it was Figgins at 3rd? They guy that just turned a gapper into a standup triple?

Now that’s funny. First of all, yes. All pitching is about location. And second, Vlad swings at anything from his eyes to his toes, so location is a moot point.

Papelbon comes in and handles the middle of the Angels order and gets a blown save! Great stat!

is it like the luxury tax, where they are fined for every run over?

my tongue.

I thought that was long gone.

but you got to hand it to the Red Sox, when it comes to big games they are clutch.

Coco Crisp

HAHAHAHAHA!

A big drunk dude with a goattee

Aybar should’ve made a bigger fool of himself.

He was safe, BTW, Erick.

Nancy Drew.