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| Originally posted by mets4012 i saw that live on tv what an AB it was. i was like is this ever going to end lol  |
i want mlb extra innings!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Originally posted by trunks1022 and in a full 9 inning game there's... 18 half innings  |
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| Originally posted by Shamez214 not always... |
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| Originally posted by Shamez214 i want mlb extra innings!!!!!!!!!!! that ab was great, i saw it on mlb.com. awwwwwesome. |
ok now that u brought that up... what announcers do u like/loathe listening to?
loathe:
michael kay/yankees tv broadcasts on yes/cbs. yankees broadcasts are pretty good with jim kaat at the helm. michael kay is just disgusting.
thom brennaman's voice annoys me a little.
like:
vin scully, and i've heard him only a few times. and i think when he was on nbc in the 80s when baseball was on nbc.
jon miller and joe morgan on espn sunday night baseball... i like jon miller's calls and joe morgan provides pretty good analysis.
gary thorne for mets and espn baseball games because he's even keel but when the game gets exciting, you can tell that he's genuinely interested in it.
harry kalas, phillies baseball. his voice is just gold.
i wish i could hear more announcers.
i cant stand chip carray. absolute moron. he just repeeats whatever steve stone says. he only got the job because of his grandpa.
i like the dodgers announcers. they seem to know what they are talking about.
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| Originally posted by jonze234 i cant stand chip carray. absolute moron. he just repeeats whatever steve stone says. he only got the job because of his grandpa. i like the dodgers announcers. they seem to know what they are talking about. |
hahaha! yeah, the braves announcers are horrible.
i think they should just get a soundboard with michael kay's sayings and press the corresponding button. ie:
'giambi swings... BASE HIT! 1 run will score... !2! runns will score and the yankees take... a 3 to nothing lead'
'see ya!'
i hate him.
but the absolute worst are tim mccarver and joe buck. OH MY GOD. last year, my brother and i put the radio on and the tv on mute during the playoffs. mccarver thinks he is baseball god and knows everything. he is SO critical of any mistake or something they 'should've done.' and fucking buck just repeats whatever mccarver says. only in broadcasting cause of his pops. ughh...
i'm surprised michael kay can speak during a broadcast given that he's got the yankees' collective c*** in his mouth... 
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| Originally posted by trunks1022 oh the guys on tbs baseball (braves)? they fricking bore the hell out of me. |
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| Originally posted by trunks1022 i'm surprised michael kay can speak during a broadcast given that he's got the yankees' collective c*** in his mouth... |
HOLY SHITTTTT!!!! i was just checking this site with japanese players stats... the catcher for the yomiuri giants, Shinnosuke Abe, is INSANE!! the dude is 24 years old. this is his 4th season in the league. are you ready for this??
37 games. <<< keep that in mind
.368 avg, .456 obp, .875 slug ( !!! ), 21 homers, 45 rbi.
to put that in perspective, this is barry bonds' numbers so far:
.360 avg, .628 obp ( !!! ), .840 slug, 10 homers, 22 rbi.
now, bonds overall numbers are better, but... this is BARRY BONDS. the best play of our generation. abe is just some new comer. his ops is 1.331 compared to bonds' 1.468, that is incredible. i hope the mets are in need of a catcher when this kid is able to come to mlb. WOW! 37 games, 21 hrs...
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| Originally posted by Shamez214 HOLY SHITTTTT!!!! i was just checking this site with japanese players stats... the catcher for the yomiuri giants, Shinnosuke Abe, is INSANE!! the dude is 24 years old. this is his 4th season in the league. are you ready for this?? 37 games. <<< keep that in mind .368 avg, .456 obp, .875 slug ( !!! ), 21 homers, 45 rbi. to put that in perspective, this is barry bonds' numbers so far: .360 avg, .628 obp ( !!! ), .840 slug, 10 homers, 22 rbi. now, bonds overall numbers are better, but... this is BARRY BONDS. the best play of our generation. abe is just some new comer. his ops is 1.331 compared to bonds' 1.468, that is incredible. i hope the mets are in need of a catcher when this kid is able to come to mlb. WOW! 37 games, 21 hrs... |
tied for 3rd in avg with melvin mora. 1st in homers. 1st in rbi. thats awesome. i head he has an uppercut, a la burnitz. so if he does come to n america, he will whiff more than cameron.
glaus is gonna have shoulder surgery and is gonna miss most of the season he was doin really good for me dammit. he was my only 3rd baseman for my fantasy team. i just picked up carlos guillen hes not doin that bad 42 hits .316 avg 3 hrs and 22 rbis he has less power but more hits and better avg then glaus so i guess its an ok trade off
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| Originally posted by Shamez214 HOLY SHITTTTT!!!! i was just checking this site with japanese players stats... the catcher for the yomiuri giants, Shinnosuke Abe, is INSANE!! the dude is 24 years old. this is his 4th season in the league. are you ready for this?? 37 games. <<< keep that in mind .368 avg, .456 obp, .875 slug ( !!! ), 21 homers, 45 rbi. to put that in perspective, this is barry bonds' numbers so far: .360 avg, .628 obp ( !!! ), .840 slug, 10 homers, 22 rbi. now, bonds overall numbers are better, but... this is BARRY BONDS. the best play of our generation. abe is just some new comer. his ops is 1.331 compared to bonds' 1.468, that is incredible. i hope the mets are in need of a catcher when this kid is able to come to mlb. WOW! 37 games, 21 hrs... |
LUNCH!!!
no wait this one is better:
eeeeyyyyeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!! 
makes you wish you were a baseball player, huh?
and these fucking pussies complain when anything doesnt go their way. you make millions of dollars and have hot wives and you play a game for a living. SHUT THE FUCK UP
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| Originally posted by trunks1022 he's gonna have to wait a few more years for his japanese team to grant him free agency |
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| Originally posted by DJ Cubano LUNCH!!! no wait this one is better: eeeeyyyyeeeaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!! |
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| Originally posted by mets4012 glaus is gonna have shoulder surgery and is gonna miss most of the season he was doin really good for me dammit. he was my only 3rd baseman for my fantasy team. i just picked up carlos guillen hes not doin that bad 42 hits .316 avg 3 hrs and 22 rbis he has less power but more hits and better avg then glaus so i guess its an ok trade off |
just watched the last few innings of randy johnson's perfect game. i switched back and forth between that the mets game. and the mets win with two outs bottom 9th
fuck yeah, let's go mets!!!! and randy johnson, eff you, we beat you. mwahahahaha!
haha, just kidding. that is awesome. i wish the mets could get a no hitter. where's kazmir?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/s.../19perfect.html
May 19, 2004
DIAMONDBACKS 2, BRAVES 0
Johnson Tosses Perfect Game Against Braves
By MURRAY CHASS
andy Johnson, a five-time winner of the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in his league, reached the .500 mark with his won-lost record last night, choosing a spectacular way to do it: he pitched a perfect game against the Atlanta Braves.
Johnson, at 40, the oldest pitcher to pitch a perfect game, faced 27 batters at Atlanta's Turner Field and retired all 27. No runs in Arizona's 2-0 victory, no hits, no walks, no base runners at all. "The no-hitter I threw with Seattle in 1990," he said at a news conference afterward, "I was far from perfect. I think I walked seven batters. Fourteen years later, I've come a long way."
Johnson, a left-hander, tossed the 17th perfect game in baseball history and became only the fifth pitcher to throw no-hitters in both the American League and the National League, following Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan and Hideo Nomo.
Young's second of three no-hitters, which he pitched in 1904, was a perfect game, as was Bunning's second, against the Mets in 1964. But none of Ryan's record seven no-hitters were perfect nor were either of Nomo's.
Dennis Martinez pitched the last perfect game in the National League, for Montreal against Los Angeles in 1991.
Since then, the American League has had three perfect games, thrown by Kenny Rogers, for Texas in 1994; David Wells, for the Yankees in 1998; and David Cone, for the Yankees in 1999.
"The biggest and most important thing was winning the ballgame," said Johnson, who improved his season record to four victories and four defeats. "If I had lost it, I would have been upset, but the bottom line is I wanted to win the ball game."
The closest the Braves came to a hit or a base runner was with their first batter. Jesse Garcia, playing shortstop for the injured Rafael Furcal, bunted the ball hard toward first base. Shea Hillenbrand fielded it, raced to the base and nabbed Garcia just before his headfirst slide.
Johnson, the National League's strikeout leader, struck out 13 and had only three balls on one batter. Johnny Estrada, the Braves' catcher, fouled off three 3-2 pitches in the second inning before striking out.
The Braves, who struck out 18 times in their previous game but had not been no-hit since Ken Forsch of Houston did so in 1979, hit a few fly balls deep, but none of them came close to being a hit.
Facing the last three batters in the Atlanta lineup in the ninth inning, Johnson induced Mark DeRosa to ground out to second base, threw a third strike past Nick Green and got Eddie Perez, batting for Mike Hampton, the Braves' starting pitcher, to swing and miss for strike three.
As soon as he saw Perez miss the pitch, Johnson thrust his glove hand into the air. Robby Hammock, a rookie catcher, raced to the mound and embraced Johnson, then the Diamondbacks raced out of the dugout and mobbed him.
"With the humidity you get loose pretty quick," Johnson said. "I felt my velocity got better as the game progressed. My slider was the best it's ever been velocity wise. I threw a few split fingers, not many. The job Robby did back there was amazing. I shook him off two or three times. That was in the eighth and ninth. It's nice when you're on the same page with your catcher."
Johnson added that Hammock "was jumping up and down; you could sense he was pretty excited.''
"I'm happy for him as well," Johnson added.
The 6-foot-10 Johnson, in his early years, was a hard thrower who had control problems. For many seasons now, though, he has been a genuine pitcher in all phases of the art. He was the most dominant pitcher in the National League for four successive seasons, winning the Cy Young award in 1999 and the three years after that. Only Roger Clemens, with six A.L. awards, has won the Cy Young more times than Johnson, who won the A.L. award with Seattle in 1995.
Although Johnson went into the game with a losing record, he had a 2.83 earned run average, indicating the troubles the Diamondbacks have had this season.
"Anyone is capable of doing anything on a given day," said Johnson, who has done more than most pitchers in his 16 major league seasons. "It didn't faze me. The bottom line is we needed to win the ball game."
Asked when he realized he was working on a perfect game, he said: "Trying to get caught up in that, you start thinking of things like that, you lose your focus. On days when I pitch, I'm very focused. It's me and the catcher and I know what I want to do. This was special."
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
i'm really glad for him. he;s been one of the most dominating pitchers for the past decade and more. ever since i really started paying attention to baseball in the early 90's. he's awesome. glad it was him and not another mediocre pitcher. seems it's always the mediocre ones. look at the list:
Randy Johnson, Arizona at Atlanta (NL), 2-0, May 18, 2004
David Cone, New York (AL) vs. Montreal, 6-0, July 18, 1999
David Wells, New York (AL) vs. Minnesota, 4-0, May 17, 1998
Kenny Rogers, Texas vs. California (AL), 4-0, July 28, 1994
Dennis Martinez, Montreal at Los Angeles (NL), 2-0, July 28, 1991
Tom Browning, Cincinnati vs. Los Angeles (NL), 1-0, Sept. 16, 1988
Mike Witt, California at Texas (AL), 1-0, Sept. 30, 1984
Len Barker, Cleveland vs. Toronto (AL), 3-0, May 15, 1981
Catfish Hunter, Oakland vs. Minnesota (AL), 4-0, May 8, 1968
Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles vs. Chicago (NL), 1-0, Sept. 9, 1965
Jim Bunning, Philadelphia at New York (NL), 6-0, June 21, 1964
x-Don Larsen, New York (AL) vs. Brooklyn (NL), 2-0, Oct. 8, 1956
Charles Robertson, Chicago at Detroit (AL), 2-0, April 30, 1922
Addie Joss, Cleveland vs. Chicago (AL), 1-0, Oct. 2, 1908
Cy Young, Boston vs. Philadelphia (AL), 3-0, May 5, 1904
really only young, koufax, hunter and johnson were AMAZING pitchers... strange isnt it? although pedro had one but blew it in the 10th, so he did have 9 perfect innings.
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