2013 MLB Season Thread

[troutman]

2014 MLB Free Agency: Ranking the 15 Best Values of the Pitcher Market
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...pitcher-market


2014 MLB Free Agents – Pitchers
http://www.sportscity.com/mlb/free-a...ents-pitchers/

[seattleflamer]

Tanaka to the Yankees please....and then Kuroda can sign with his countryman in Seattle.

[seattleflamer]

Bloomberg infograph on MLB's franchise valuations and methodology:

http://www.bloomberg.com/infographic...am-values.html

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by troutman

Good thing there are no scumbags in Cardinals Nation.

http://youtu.be/ZEVX-wJF2DY

Good Lord.

Just gonna leave this here:
https://twitter.com/BestFansStLouis

[Papi34]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Just gonna leave this here:
https://twitter.com/BestFansStLouis

Wow incredibly classy fans right there.

[seattleflamer]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Just gonna leave this here:
https://twitter.com/BestFansStLouis

Almost makes me want to root for the Bosox....almost.

[GirlySports]

I don't know, the world of twitter is huge, if I selected and then packaged a bunch of idiots together on any topic I could.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I take that with a grain of salt.

I have no doubt that there are Flames fans that are just as classless.

I know Red Sox fans that are on par with those Cardinals tweeters.

That said, I'm totally following that account.

[Senator Clay Davis]

The ultimate humiliation for MLB?

Richard Deitsch ✔ @richarddeitsch
Via @paulsen_smw: The Giants/Vikings MNF game had a higher overnight rating than Game 1 of the World Series.

The worst Monday Nighter of all-time beat out a World Series game featuring two of the biggest franchises in baseball. Just brutal.

[GirlySports]

That's not surprising considering a New York team was in it.

Pretty sure next Monday's Seattle/STL game will not beat the World Series.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Ahhhhh yes 4-2 Cards.

[CofR]

Lackey can't buy a break... And now 3 games in STL, going to be tough.

[troutman]

Cards win on a couple of unearned runs. It's beginning to look a lot like 2011.

Cardinals reverse Red Sox fortune in Game 2

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...3pJ/story.html

Visiting teams at Fenway are supposed to melt into a puddle at the mere sight of Boston’s bearded warriors. For most of this year, especially in the playoffs, Sox opponents have lost their composure and their baseball skills upon walking into Fenway Park. The John Henry/Boston Globe Red Sox (has a nice ring to it, no?) are trained to play “Three Little Birds’’ and “Sweet Caroline” over the public address system, then watch the opponents beat themselves.

Not Thursday night. Not in Game 2 of the 2013 World Series. After a Game 1 embarrassment, the Cardinals played Big Boy Baseball, beating the Red Sox, 4-2, behind the power pitching of three baby hurlers who collectively are three years younger than the vice president of the United States.

The Cardinals regained the lead, scoring twice when Matt Carpenter hit a routine sacrifice fly to left. Freese beat Jonny Gomes’s throw home. Jay followed Freese home after Breslow picked up the ball after Gomes’s throw deflected off the mitt of catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and fired it past Stephen Drew at third and into the stands. Saltalamacchia and Breslow were both slapped with errors. The Cardinals increased their lead to 4-2 when Carlos Beltran followed with a single to right.

[dustyanddaflames]

Wacca is the real deal, guy was lights out. As impressive as Martinez was in the 7/8 innings, Rosenthal is wow. You know he is coming right at you with 98 mph gas on the black, and not one signle Red Sox could touch it. Again, wow.

[GirlySports]

Rosenthal, at the ripe old age of 23, was the oldest Cardinals pitcher to take the mound yesterday.

[Acey]

Crazy game ends on an obstruction call. Erin Andrews asks Holliday what he saw, he says "I didn't see, I got nervous."

[NBC]

Fair play to the umpiring crew, they made the right call in the most difficult of circumstances.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

That was the right call. There was interference.

I'm annoyed for two reasons:

1) The NHL couldn't have called interference when the exact same thing happened in Game 6 of the 2004 finals which lead to St. Louis' 2OT winner.

2) Of course St. Louis wins on a call like this. They always seem to find a way.

[GirlySports]

It's ridiculous out there today.

"It may have been the most controversial call to ever end a World Series game..."

Uh, no. It would have been controversial if it had been wrong. It wasn't wrong. Not even debatable.Two games in a row, the Red Sox threw the ball from home plate into Bolivia. That's why Boston lost. Nothing controversial about that.

[CofR]

Yep, it's 100% the right call. I feel bad for Middlebrooks... Salty throws him an uncatchable throw and he's the one who seems to be under the microscope.