MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[Rappster]

https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status...2630427649

 

Fucking anti-Semites...everywhere.

[Kid]

Kreplach = dumplings.  Deal with it.

[jstraw]

Kreplach = wontons.  Deal with it.

ftfy

[1984]

I guess this is as good a place as any for this.

 

Very entertaining read and it really captures the strangeness that I love in baseball.  Plenty of Cubs mentions.  

 

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18352...-mlb-great

[Kid]

The most amazing stat from today's HOF announcement is that Pudge Rodriguez will be the first HOFer to have played a single game for the Tigers since Al Kaline retired in 1974.  

 

By comparison, 7 players played for the Cubs in 1974 or later and have been elected to the HOF (Dawson, Eckersley, Jenkins, Maddux, Sandberg, Santo, Williams).

[mrfelina]

Pudge is in?  Will this make way for Bonds?

[Butcher]

I think Bonds and Clemens both get in.

[rok]

Yeah, they both have 5 years to make up <25% points each. As the fossil sportswriters die off and are replaced by more stat-friendly new blood who don't care as much about PED's, the electorate will change in their favor.

[mrfelina]

So Sosa gets screwed? 

 

Wonder if the corked bat is just too much to overlook.

 

I'm not saying his numbers rival Bonds but still. 

[Butcher]

Sosa was an All-Star, what, seven or eight times? He was MVP once and got MVP votes multiple years. I think he should be in the HOF, but I don't think he'll get in. Too much backlash against him. Same thing with Manny, I think (although Manny got suspended for PEDs).

[Kid]

http://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/823203613057183744

[rok]

This is a disturbing trend out of the DR.

[funkster]

This is a disturbing trend out of the DR.

Was thinking the same.

[Andy]

That's too bad. Very talented, but edgy kid.

[Andy]

And Andy Marte. Rough day.