2011 MLB Season Thread

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Yankees are starting Betances (who??) tonight.

They might have been better off starting YOU!

[CofR]

Yankees up 5-0 in the 2nd, Redsox up 1-0 in the 3rd.

[Flickered Flame]

JJ Hardy with a blast!!! 2-1 O's. Come on Baltimore

[VERVE]

Originally Posted by troutman

I thought Moneyball was fantastic. If you are not a baseball fan, you may not enjoy it quite as much. Ebert:

http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs....0929999/-1/RSS

"Moneyball," a smart, intense and moving film that isn't so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics.

It centers on the character of the Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who after a bad start as a MLB player, moved over to management and was driven by his hatred of losing.

This is really a movie about business.

All that matters is that you win the last game of the season.

It is the "hatred of losing" that informs the whole movie. Beane lost his major league dreams, his wife, and I think it is his fear of losing his daughter that keeps him in Oakland. The scenes with his daughter were some of the best moments in the movie.

Moneyball was written by Zaillian and Sorkin, and there are some scintillating scenes that reminded me of the intense dialogue in The Social Network. Ex. the war room with the scouts, Beane meeting Peter Brand in Cleveland, and Beane's meeting with the Red Sox.

The acting was uniformly great. Philip Seymour Hoffman is barely recognizable as Art Howe. The score is very minimal, and melancholy.

I don't know how the book compares.

Looking forward to seeing the movie.

[VERVE]

Originally Posted by Flickered Flame

JJ Hardy with a blast!!! 2-1 O's. Come on Baltimore

Wow! The Rays are losing 5-0...What is wrong with David? For most of this year and last, Price was clutch... He is having issues with keeping the ball down.

[metallicat]

Costly balk (bock?) and the Sox have tied the game.

[GirlySports]

I don't know if any US-based websites are doing this, but the Guardian is doing a minute-by-minute live blog commentary on the wild card games tonight.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011...ays?CMP=twt_gu

I'm waiting for the cricket references

[dustyanddaflames]

"Tex has scored his second home run of the game".... epic!

[evman150]

And the Braves season comes down to Venters in the 8th and Kimbrel in the 9th...how fitting.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by evman150

And the Braves season comes down to Venters in the 8th and Kimbrel in the 9th...how fitting.

Yup, Freddi better cross his fingers that he hasn't run they ragged. He overworked them like crazy this year.

[Hockey]

Phillies tie it up in the 9th.

[metallicat]

Oh man, 6 runs so far in the 8th for Tampa and they're within one run. How many fans are currently rushing back to Tropicana?

[VERVE]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Oh man, 6 runs so far in the 8th for Tampa and they're within one run. How many fans are currently rushing back to Tropicana?

Oh the humanity...can we please have more drama! wow

[flames_1987]

Business just picked up at the Trop....man this is exciting

[VERVE]

Originally Posted by flames_1987

Business just picked up at the Trop....man this is exciting

Braves and Phillies in the bottom of 10th , 2 out, 1 on 1st, chipper at the plate

[VERVE]

I wonder how this works. Typically, a rain delay can cause the ump to call the game if after 5 innings and not tied. In the 7th, obviously it will not be called but if the rain continues, it maybe suspended (?) or continued again after the rain stops.

[VERVE]

oh my god the rays tied it bottom 9th 2 out

[metallicat]

Tie game in Tampa!!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Rays dead?

Nope

Chuck Testa



This is unbelievable!

[VERVE]

can someone please play some enya music to calm the situation...