Just keep your eyes forward and try not to laugh
Does it seem like some of the other typical AL contenders are just having freak occurrences repeatedly knock them down this season or what?
With all of the random injuries floating around kicking the Yankees (while they're down no less), who would have possibly expected Giambi to wind up out for three weeks and possibly the season after a HR trot.
And then Sheff, who has always been something of a powder keg, totally loses his temper and chucks the shards of a bat at the ump last night.
Did Delmon Young teach you nothing Sheff? Your team was already pinched by the injury bug. How long do you think they can afford to have you out of action for? Dumb ass.
You just can't make this stuff up. Anyway, just thought I'd open a diary to for LGT'ers to post how long they think Sheff will be suspended for (if at all), and also as a place where we can list the other freak injuries of the year.
Remember, we aren't allow to laugh at our opponents over this. This would ultimately anger the baseball Gods, who would be forced to smite us for our cheek.
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and try not to laugh
In other scary news, the Twins called up Kevin Slowey. Bad news for Indians fans.
by Joe. on Jun 1, 2007 1:02 PM EDT 0 recs
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Plus, Ryan's magical bullpen dust appears to have finally run out.
by afh4 on
Jun 1, 2007 1:07 PM EDT
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by E5 on
Jun 1, 2007 1:11 PM EDT
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Morneau is Morneau.
Hunter is outdoing his career OPS by 130 points.
Cuddyer is right in line with last year.
Nick Punto might be the worst hitting regular 3B ever and is hitting like it.
Luis Castillo is having a great year considering his age.
Kubel has never hit much in the majors and continues to try to. He might see some improvement as his BABIP is low and LD% is high, if I remember correctly. Still, Gardenhire isn't too great at sticking with these sorts of guys.
Bartlett is struggling but it's his second season as a full on starter and he was over his head last year. He might see some improvement but this happens to guys trying to become full-timers. See Peralta, Jhonny.
Mike Redmond is probably overperforming if anything.
Mauer is Mauer when he plays.
Jason Tyner is hideously bad to be getting any ABs as a DH.
It's basically Hunter in line for a regression and the a mixed bag of guys who look to be on target. What are you talking about?
Plus, the Twins problem isn't "underperformance." Even if these guys correct to their "capabilities" they still suck. Punto is killing them, as is the Tyner/L. Rodriguez/J. Cirillo/L. Ford combo.
I'm not "counting the Twins out" because they have the best pitcher in baseball and some truly awesome prospects. But the offense is the problem in Minnesota and has been for a while. It's not underperforming, it's just lousy.
by afh4 on
Jun 1, 2007 1:22 PM EDT
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by drerikbrady on
Jun 1, 2007 1:25 PM EDT
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However, losing Crain hurts them a lot.
by afh4 on
Jun 1, 2007 1:28 PM EDT
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by Joe. on
Jun 1, 2007 1:28 PM EDT
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But it took an absolutely historic effort to do what they did in the second half last year. Plus, it took Liriano; I like Slowey a lot but Liriano is a whole different beast.
Things are different now. The bullpen isn't what it was and the offense might be even worse, especially if Mauer can't shake the injury bug.
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Jun 1, 2007 1:32 PM EDT
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by APV on
Jun 1, 2007 1:25 PM EDT
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for that matter, Gary Sheffield being an asshole isn't very freaky either.
by nctribefan on Jun 1, 2007 1:09 PM EDT 0 recs
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Jun 1, 2007 1:21 PM EDT
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by woodsmeister on
Jun 1, 2007 1:23 PM EDT
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if Sheffield had been ejected for whipping off his jersey top in celebration after a walk-off grand slam and beating his chest like Tarzan, i could see that as the work of Pronk's mojo. but the mojo does not deal in weak groundouts... that's how we can tell it's been missing.
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Jun 1, 2007 2:43 PM EDT
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Jun 1, 2007 3:10 PM EDT
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Jun 1, 2007 5:18 PM EDT
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Jun 1, 2007 1:22 PM EDT
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Schadenfreude
This is, after all, the same guy who admitted to making errors on purpose to get out of Milwaukee early in his career, yet powered the Fish to a WS win. Sheffield is due some wicked bad karma, my friends, and I hope this is the beginning of cosmic payback.
by woodsmeister on Jun 1, 2007 1:13 PM EDT 0 recs
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Jun 1, 2007 1:24 PM EDT
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Jun 1, 2007 1:29 PM EDT
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As for his effort, it's hard to say, but again, I mail it in all the time in parts of my life. It's easy to say you wouldn't do it if you were paid millions of dollars to play a game, but perspective changes really fast.
Plus, I am more understanding than most people of guys who feel like they're being screwed by ownership. There's not any rational defense-they're being paid millions of dollars and agreed to the contracts. But on a human level, I see how he has felt trapped, undervalued, dehumanized, etc. Obviously, to feel that way means your missing the forest for the trees (you can't be any of those things when you're cashing a 6 digit check every two weeks) but that loss of perspective is something that happens to people in all walks of life. The contrast is just starker with millionaires.
Rasheed Wallace is my big guy in this instance. Despite being a Duke graduate, I adore Rasheed Wallace. Watch Wallace on MTV's Cribs here in an additional video link in the right column and try not to think he's great.
These guys are different people near the game and away from the game. The kind of pressure on them is bizarre and bends people in weird ways that they can't necessarily control.
Cue responses about "I would never act that way!" I guess my point is that I'm not sure I wouldn't act that way and so I don't usually jump on guys for it.
Hmm. I'm not really sure what all that means but it's got that 'Sheed on Cribs link in there, so it's staying.
I keep all my cars dirty.
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Jun 1, 2007 1:47 PM EDT
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I didn't know you were a Duke grad. I'm a Vanderbilt grad. As a group, Vanderbilt students like to think that we have a strong rivalry with Duke. The reality is more likely that Duke people don't even recognize Vanderbilt as a rival. I think it has to do with the soreness that a lot of Vanderbilt undergrads have because they didn't get into Duke.
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Jun 1, 2007 1:58 PM EDT
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If you want to villify someone for dogfighting, spouse abuse, whatever, that's one thing. But the amount of heat that someone like A-Rod takes (just the other day someone here called him "scum") is just stomach turning to me. I feel largely the same way about the guys in sports grouped as "malcontents"-Sheffield, Wallace, etc.
I wouldn't have ever thought we had a rivalry with Vanderbilt but that's probably because I associate rivalries with sports pretty exclusively. I knew a few people who went there and everyone seemed to like it. Very, very, very pretty girls.
Plus Matt Freije. He was pretty sweet.
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As for A-Rod, he's a great player, can't deny it. I just think he's bush league owing to his behavior. Cheating on his spouse is pretty low though.
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And there are hundreds of guys in sheffield's position that don't act like sheffield. he has no excuse in my book.
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"I don't like getting like this," he said, "because I know how far I can go. That's why Major League Baseball had better be careful, too. I'm trying to restrain myself, and they'd better restrain themselves, too, with how this stuff goes. Because I get tired of being in the right, and then it always comes out wrong. If you want to expose me, then I'm going to expose you."
Asked what he meant a couple minutes later, he said, "Just read into that however you want. But it won't be pretty. I promise you that."
Was I right?
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