I wonder what they were referring to then. They were basically saying that you can't fire a manager and just hire another one in baseball because major league baseball requires teams to have an interview process that is supposedly timely. It was basically "get the idea of manuel being fired and bobby being hired out of your mind because theres a long interview process that teams have to follow"

eh whatever, obviously it isn't there but it makes me wonder what the people were talking about.

Anddddd, Victor Martinez makes it the trifecta! Molina hit a foul off his foot.

(copied this from the yanks thread)

What's the difference? They're just so awful and in a hard division. You're doomed anyway! Poor Sox fans.

Pie hole.

At least the Rays are kind of imploding.

My dad didn't exactly say this verbatim but he basically called BJ Upton a tool when I was at the Mets game with him Wednesday. He was right

Tonight I got the pleasure to see Josh Hamilton smash a homerun over my head. It was the 2nd farthest homer in that stadium ever, and the farthest non-steroid induced homer I have ever seen live. The farthest I've seen was a 505ft shot from McGuire at Shea during a double header. Hamiltons ball was CRUSHED! As soon as it left the bat I knew it was a homer and the thing was FLYING towards me, then eventually over my head and into the 2nd tier some 60 feet behind where I was sitting. When I lost sight of the ball it looked like it was still traveling up. 468 ft shot.

Josh Hamilton is a badass. I miss the guy in Cincy, but Edinson Volquez was worth it for him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjYO...ea-zumaya062910

This is just sad

I got to see him pitch live last Wednesday and he hit 100 mph. It was pretty awesome to watch. Godspeed Joel, let's make the impossible happen.

Dear joey Votto,

I know D loves you like a lot, but seriously props for tying the game against the Phils. You're the man.

Xcdude

Philly went ahead.

D already reminded me

It was bound to happen that Arthur Rhodes would have a bad outing. His 33 straight scoreless appearances (30 innings) tied the major league record.

But yeah, Votto is awesome.

I vomited in my mouth a little while reading this.

How does one throw up on their mouth?

It's like a shart...but in your mouth.

I have no idea.

All-Star Game Starters

National League
C. Yadier Molina
1B. Albert Pujols
2B. Chase Utley
SS. Hanley Ramirez
3B. David Wright
OF. Ryan Braun
OF. Andre Ethier
OF. Jayson Heyward


American League
C. Joe Mauer
1B. Justin Morneau
2B. Robinson Cano
SS. Derek Jeter
3B. Evan Longoria
LF. Carl Crawford
CF. Josh Hamilton
RF. Ichiro Suzuki
DH. Vladimir Guerrero



Only one I disagree with for the AL is Morneau over Miguel Cabrera.

All-Star Reserves

American League
Adrian Beltre
Ty Wigginton
Ian Kinsler(replacing Dustin Pedroia)
Miguel Cabrera
John Buck(replacing Victor Martinez)
Alex Rodriguez
Jose Batista
Torii Hunter
Elvis Andrus
David Ortiz
Vernon Wells

Pitchers
CC Sabathia
Clay Bucholz
Fausto Carmona
David Price
Neftali Perez
Phil Hughes
Mariano Rivera
Jon Lester
Cliff Lee
Matt Thornton
Trevor Cahill
Jose Valverde
Joakim Soria



National League
Chris Young
Omar Infante
Brian McCann
Martin Prado
Marlon Byrd
Brandon Phillips
Scott Rolen
Michael Bourn
Jose Reyes
Corey Hart
Jose Reyes(replaces Troy Tulowitzki)
Ryan Howard
Matt Holliday
Adrian Gonzalez

Pitchers
Roy Halladay
Ubaldo Jimenez
Josh Johnson
Tim Lincecum
Tim Hudson
Jonathan Broxton
Arthur Rhodes
Adam Wainwright
Chris Carpenter
Brian Wilson
Evan Meek
Matt Caps
Yovani Gallardo

CC won't pitch, so perhaps Pettitte takes his spot.

1. I wonder who replaces Chase Utley since he's on the DL and out for something like 50 games.
2. I would have picked Pelfrey before picking Reyes from the Mets.

Travesty that Pelf isn't on the roster.

Travesty that Joey Votto didn't make it. Eat shit, Ryan Howard, you fat piece of crap.

Actually I was reading Yahoo! and one writer had Omar Infante as the worst all star ever, citing Votto as someone who should have gone over him.

Isn't Votto in the last vote?

"Big Pelf will chew you guys up."

-xcdudesquadloves91!!!

And he would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids umpires and their pet dog Rolen.

So you're saying we should blame him....again?

I've been so out of the loop so I'm just checking in to make sure the entire roster is still on the DL? Yeah? Okay, cool.

I looked at the lineup the other day and actually said, "Who?".

I'm not an expert, but yes.

It's cute how much interest you take in which teams I root for. I'm so glad you actually listen to what I say; you're not like other guys who just stare at my chest or plan out how they're going to get me in bed when I talk.

Thanks.

Now ,why was Varitek on crutches yesterday?

Broken bone in his foot.

Oh a complete game all the way....it's too much... *sobs*

Did Mark Messier hack your account?

SorryAboutThatYosemiteBear

Shit, did anyone see the highlights of St. Louis-Colorado last night? The Cards were up 9-3 in the bottom of the ninth and the Rockies scored nine runs; five with two outs. Chris Iannetta hit a 3-run HR to cut it to 9-7 and then Seth Smith won it with a 3-run HR of his own. Absolutely unreal.

Fuck St. Louis.

Votto and Swisher are in the ASG, you can breathe now D.

I genuinely hope that Francisco Cordero gets hit by a bus tonight. Not hard enough to kill him, but just hard enough so he can't pitch for the Reds ever again.

Fuck you, you worthless, fat piece of shit.

That giant, smoldering hole you see in the Louisville area is my heart. Over the last three nights the Reds have ripped it out of my body, stomped on it, urinated on it, shot it repeatedly, and nuked it to kingdom come.

I'm gonna take a little break from the Reds after the All-Star Game. Not giving up on them, no way. They're gonna rebound. But I think we need a little space to get to know ourselves better. And I just need to recover from the nightmare that has been our series with the Phillies.

Go Redlegs.

FWIW: My brother (well, his voice anyway) is supposedly going to be in an upcoming ESPN 30 For 30 production dealing with Bill Buckner and Steve Bartman. One of his friends is the head of the production company that's putting the film together. They ran into a problem where they couldn't find any good audio of people calling in to sports radio following the Buckner gaffe, so Mike's friend asked if he and a couple of his friends would make a few "dramatizations" of such calls.

So what does this do in terms of value of your autograph?

He killed George Steinbrenner! When will he stop causing so much pain!?

Hope you know winning the home run derby can be a bad, bad, bad thing.

It's like being on the cover of SI!

Like Ortiz could get any worse than he was in the beginning of the year. This is not some young guy in his prime that is going to be on the Red Sox for the next 10 years.