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Wish me luck boys got $1K riding on this game being a high scoring affair. Watch Rogers pitch a shutout now or something. May 29 4:38pm Baseball - Pending 544.48 to win 518.55 1. Baseball - Toronto Blue Jays/Atlanta Braves - total Over 8 (1.95) for the entire game held on May 29 at 6:10pm [pending] E Rogers -R must start and K Medlen -R must start for action May 29 4:39pm Baseball - Pending 250.00 to win 262.50 1. Baseball - Toronto Blue Jays - team total Over 3½ (2.05) for the entire game held on May 29 at 6:10pm [pending] E Rogers -R must start and K Medlen -R must start for action May 29 4:40pm Baseball - Pending 205.79 to win 171.49 1. Baseball - Atlanta Braves - team total Over 4½ (1.83) for the entire game held on May 29 at 6:10pm [pending] E Rogers -R must start and K Medlen -R must start for action

For any gambling types, the over/under on this match up is only 8 runs. Looks like a clear bet on over to me.

Out of the people listed, Chris Davis. Jacob Brumfield allegedly could bench press between 500 to 600 pounds, so if we're talking about raw power outside the context of hitting he'd be up there.

Makes sense, my friend. I might have a little bit of a bias to the RBI because I grew up with my s***** baseball cards in the late 80's and 90's with those RBI plastered all over the back. And guys like Rob Deer, Ruben Sierra, Pete Incaviglia and our hero Joe Carter were good enough at them along with HR so their cards were worth a whole nickle instead the standard 3 cents which made RBI just so awesome by association!

Well it says you joined in May (this site started in May?) and we're on the 25th day in the month so it can't be too much more than three...unless you meant less than three lol Technically avg or obp with RISP would be the best stat to judge how a player performs in the situation but I still don't see how that makes an RBI stat flawed. Think Joe Carter's 1990 Season with SD. Then think who he had batting in front of him (Tony Gwynn, Bip Roberts and sometimes Jack Clark). Everyone sees Carter's season and knows it was s*** except RBI. What does it mean? It means he had a lot of guys on base before him for many of his AB, which is part of your argument but also pretty self-explanatory and obvious to most others, even in the pre-SABR acceptance days. But what it also means is what little use he had that season, he used to drive in runs. Clutch or whatever else you want to call it. RBI shows that even if you are a piece of s*** like Carter was in 1990, at least if there's a guy on third with one out you're going to have that tendency to do something other than strikeout or pop up in that situation. To be able to have 115 RBI with only 147 hits and 52 XBH in a full season is an impressive accomplishment in its own way and it tells you something about that player. Carter was intentionally walked 18 times that season. It certainly wasn't because of his tendency to get on-base otherwise.

He's at his peak trade value. There's not really a market for "just ok" DHs. You're either an elite masher that gets paid top $ or you're an also-ran. Like another poster said above there's cheaper options out there like Hafner. If you really like him, trade him for whatever you can get for him, have that team not pick up the option, sign him back next year for half the cost. And if the team picks up the option...sign someone else who can provide Lind-like numbers for half the cost. The only thing we need out of Lind before he departs is for him to sprinkle a little of that "take a walk sometimes" fairy dust around the clubhouse.

I haven't posted on this board too much, but you seem to hijack every thread that I have an interest in with your nonsense. There is something wrong with you. Picking fights with several different people is all you seem to do. If your other 2300+ posts in three weeks are anything like the ones in this thread you need mental help. Seriously. That's not even a jab meant to start an e-war that's a serious piece of advice. You called RBI a "flawed, situational statistic". It is situational but it's by no means "flawed". It's a situational stat and it has value for what it is meant to describe. I think that's the consensus among baseball people for the longest period of time or else Joe Carter would be in the HOF for having 300 more RBI than Rickey Henderson. It's not just the sabermetrics followers who discovered this idea in the past decade or so that RBI are a situational stat...it's pretty common sense.

Who knows...if they sell off all the garbage like they did in 1998 maybe they'll go on a huge winning streak and end the season pretty well. With that 2nd WC there's always a chance. Addition by subtraction. Of course the team doesn't have the young guys to take over for the dead wood that gets traded.

Wasn't he elected for his umpiring, not his playing career? Or maybe you were hoping the person who originally made the statement wouldn't know that lol

"For a city that elected a guy who said he didn't want money being spent on AIDS because it only kills gays and drug-users, it's a little perplexing that we drummed Escobar out of town because of a childish prank." Dumb baseball fans and people who vote in the city's mayoral election are probably two very different sets of populations within the city. Also, I'll take a guess that most of the people booing weren't booing because of the maricon incident. From Larry Murphy to Yunel Escobar, every ex-player that was ever booed in this city was due to some lofty expectations that this player would bring on a winning team, and when that didn't happen, he gets booed. If the Jays were in first place yesterday, the boos would have been much less. It would be more like "Thanks Yunel, trading you helped bring in some winning players". The boos for Yunel serve as a great proxy for boos towards AA, Gord Ash, Paul Beeston, JP (pick your choice), Interbrew and everyone else that has had a hand in making this team suck the last 20 years.

I can only imagine the field day some f***tards that follow the NFL have with this. In the past 14 years the 49ers and the Seahawks have done.... SMALL SAMPLE SIZEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Darryl Strawberry Dwight Gooden Though both those guys had several successful seasons before taking a s*** in their 30's so you could blame age or "other issues"

Just from watching the past three games - Jays. A mix of luck and tenacity seems that the offense is turning it around. I respect the Giants current roster a lot more than I respect any roster of the four division opponents of the Jays so the Dodgers will have a lot tougher fight.

They need to change the rules where if a fielder is hit and there's a significant injury, the play is dead and it's a ground rule double subject to umpire's discretion, like all other similar type of "interference" plays. Oh the irony if Happ ends up missing time because of a knee injury and nothing to do with the head.

I shudder worse with Buehlre

Actually now that I think about it, that's a good solution assuming that most people will have time for the instinct to turn their head and take it off the temple. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/protective-headgear-pitchers-fast-track-mlb-says-200533810--mlb.html

It's really hard to say. He could completely luck out and come out of this unscathed. It could be a career ender or it could be that he has no serious short-term effects but will have dizzy spells and memory loss the rest of his life. Only time will tell.

It's not so much whether you think they can win but if there's value in the number. This team goes on a winning streak which I think they are on the verge of doing and that 11.00 can drop to 4 or 3 real quick and you can buy out your bet making some good money in the process. An 11 given what I've seen the last few days is way overdone.

There's no such thing as a top 5 closer imo. It all depends on the situation the reliever finds himself in on a team. Is Janssen a capable pitcher with the mindset and smarts to be a success in a late-inning relief role? Definitely.

Baltimore Orioles 4.50 Boston Red Sox 2.75 New York Yankees 3.00 Tampa Bay Rays 3.50 Toronto Blue Jays 11.00 If you're a betting person I think laying some money on the Jays to win the East is a great bet right now. The offense seems to have finally picked it up these last three wins which was the clincher for me. Keep in mind you get more than 3x better return betting on the Jays than the Rays yet they are essentially in the same spot in the basement now.

Really they need full out cricket gear. But just like the NHL bravado won't allow for it. This doesn't happen often enough for it to be a real action for change

Offer him up for Halladay and hope Philly bites.

Arencibia needs to get his eyes checked. Everything I read about that man is that he gave it his all to improve his game this offseason. So far all I've seen is his slugging game get better, and his defense and pitch selection get worse. Every time he's out there it looks like he's catching 1991 Juan Guzman for the first time. It's like he has no depth perception, no ability to track the movement on pitches from pitchers he is allegedly familiar with. His complete lack of ability to frame pitches and his disgusting K/BB ratio leads me to think he has some kind of vision issue. You don't make it to the MLB as a catcher with such serious flaws in catching ability that seems to be getting worse otherwise. I'm sure half the people on this board could frame pitches better than him if we had a couple months of spring training to practice working with the pitching staff.