So, wait, a ball that hits the ground and then bounces up and hits the batter is considered a HBP. I've never seen that before.

Huh. Learn something new every day.

You really didn't know that? Shit, I've seen Vlad Guerrero actually hit balls that had bounced in the dirt for base hits.

I've never seen it before, and I've watched a lot of baseball.
I know that if you don't get out of the way you won't get first base, but not the part about a bounced ball.

See, I don't think it's a dead ball. I just thought to be hit by a pitch it has to hit you while it's being pitched. Not after it bounces on the ground. Hence why the ruling of it being a wild pitch seemed correct to me.

YOU'RE a dead ball.

Hey, Giants, you know what you need to do.

LGR.

So now that it's a full day later and I've been getting my pumpkin ale on.....HEY-YOOOOO

Haters unite, wha what!!!!!!! Now I think I'm rooting for Texas regardless.

I got a Smuttynose! What you got?

shipyard

Niceness! I'm on my 4th.
I went w/the Smuttynose because I think it has a higher ABV!

I can't believe how exciting this game is. Every time the little dot shows up and says OUT for the Phillies, I'm happy. FUCK YOU FOX. Assholes.

Go Giants.

WOOOO!! The dots say home run Giants!! Six more outs! Fuck Philly!

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I'm torn, because rooting for the Phillies means I get to annoy New York fans. But I just don't care that much.

But how could you, in good conscience, cheer for a Philadelphia team?

They're not the Flyers, so I don't give a fuck. I've just never thought of the Braves as rivals to the Phillies, I'm a Ravens fan, and I don't really care much about basketball. So.

Agitating Yankees/Mets fans > agitating Phillies fans.



Plus I kinda like seeing my co-workers enjoy it.

You're a Braves fan? Not to sound like a total dick but why? I'm curious.

(This is all around when I'm 9 or 10) I really disliked the Mets and Yankees fans I knew. I didn't really have a team and both sides' fans nagged me about how awesome their team was, and mostly I wished they all would die. I didn't want to be a fan of their teams. They all seemed really slobbery. The Braves were kind of fun to follow being "West" at the time, and they had a guy named Ryan Klesko. I just REALLY liked that name. Easily my favorite Brave as a kid.

I've picked a decent number of teams to be a fan of over names. I actually was an Islanders fan til I was 5, when they traded Hrudey, who was my favorite player with his awesome name. The Rangers had dynamo names like Sandstrom and Granato so they were pretty easy for me to like, and I just never looked back. Seriously, the trading of Hrudey when I was little is the reason you're talking to a Rangers fan today.

Fuck yeah.

GO GIGANTES!
Why would they put Orlando Hudson on the MLB Network studio crew? God! is he annoying! Sounds like Shannon Sharpe at 78 rpm! Hey O Dog STFU!

DIE {PHILADELPHIA DIE

OSN: A-Rod Finally Leads Rangers To World Series

Beat me to it.

I guess I'll root for the Rangers, this being their first WS appearance and all. Pretty nifty.

Giants in 6.

and hey, You already know the cheer! LGR

I won't watch much, but I'm rooting for the Giants. I always go for the old school teams...except for the Red Sox. Those guys can suck it.

Either the Rangers or Giants win, I'm fine with both of those names. That said I like Texas in 6 because I don't think SF will hit enough.

This is horseshit.



What, is everyone going to get a participation ribbon now? Oh, and yes, let's extend the playoffs to 7 games for the LDS, you jackoffs. Baseball in December!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5728656

Insert snide remark about video replay ruining baseball but changing playoffs not.

I don't know if this article goes into this or not, but one of the caveats of the extended series and playoff teams is supposed to be a shorter season so it doesn't go into november.

Frankly I'm all for shortening the season, seeing more playoff baseball and avoiding the "dog days"

I just think that it dilutes the playoffs when you add another wild card. There would be no fun divisional races ever again. And this is coming from the girl whose team missed the playoffs completely.

Baseball isn't a sport where the dominate team wins every single time. Is all of this stemming from a Giants-Rangers World Series? Why? I hate Bud Selig.

Do you know how much revenue comes from the regular season. There is no way the owners go for that. They will scorch the Earth with Bud Selig's toupee before that happens.

Are you kidding? The more rounds of playoffs, the less likely the Yankees are to win the series. The playoffs are a randomizer.

So you add a full series? Then what? The division winners waits a week and a half to play again? It just seems like we could have 80 game winners making the playoffs.

The irony is that I imagine that the gripes come from teams that are sick of big-money dominance in baseball, when in fact this rule would just ensure that the Yankees and R-- S-- compete every single year.

It's my understanding it's the owners that want it and the players are willing to go along with it. Selig is pushing this, who represents the owners.

Damn it. You are ruining my argument here.

I'm assuming the #1 seed would have a bye while #2-#5 and #3-#4.

No, this has been in discussion for a long time. Selig was on ESPN radio before the playoffs discussing this, and he presents it petty well.

He also brings up a fair point that baseball has the lowest percentage of teams that make the playoffs, and even with adding teams they'd still be at the bottom of that, I think tying only football.

The season is 2 damn long, if adding a series finally shortens it, I'm all for it. It doesn't effect how the game is played, just how much, to answer Kusand trying to point out a hypocrisy btw.

Meh. I file it under "messing with tradition."

Guys, a bye week doesn't add a series. They want to add a series. They want to go from 8 teams to 12. not 10.

That's funny, I was under the impression the Yankees and Sox already *do* compete every year.

I thought they just wanted to add 1 wild card team in each league, not two.

I would think baseball fans would be more open to making the divisional series 7 games. Does anyone really think a best-of-5 between a wild-card and a division champ is representative of the outcome over the long-haul? Or are you guys not objecting to lengthening that?

That's what I thought too untill I realized that technically doesn't add a series. When they say add a series, I don't think they mean have another team playing, I think they mean they want it to play out like the NHL.

3 series before the Championship instead of 2.

You can't add just 1 team to the mix. The first place team would have to have a bye for two series not one. If 1 has a bye and 2 plays 5 and 3 plays 4, who plays the next round? You have 3 teams left.

This would be terrible.