MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[Coldneck]

I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this, but Felix Pie has been on fire for about 2 months and is actually having a decent year. He's hitting .270/.332/.466 overall and .317/.374/.610 since the all star break.

[Butcher]

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I wasn't aware.

Fucking wonderful.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

<!--quoteo(post=61391:date=Sep 2 2009, 09:33 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Sep 2 2009, 09:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=61389:date=Sep 2 2009, 08:31 PM:name=Coldneck)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coldneck @ Sep 2 2009, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this, but Felix Pie has been on fire for about 2 months and is actually having a decent year. He's hitting .270/.332/.466 overall and .317/.374/.610 since the all star break.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wasn't aware.

Fucking wonderful.
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I was aware, and I think--should Pie continue his success (a big if)--we can chalk up watching him bloom elsewhere to the same mad sense of needing to win now that prevented giving him time to develop on the Cubs. Ricketts is walking into a fine mess.

[rok]

I noticed Pie was playing better a week ago when the O's played the Sox. I'm less than impressed, because although it was nice to see him have multi-hit games against them, most of his hits were of the cheap variety. He still has a massive hole in his swing, and remember when Patterson had a nice season with the O's as well? How did that work out for them?

[vegascub]

I don't have a problem with this rule. They have plenty of time to throw the damn pitch. He's just a jackass.

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Baseball's attempts to speed up the pace of the game have taken some getting used to for Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon -- to the tune of thousands of dollars.

Papelbon was fined $5,000 by Major League Baseball for taking too long to deliver his first pitch Tuesday night, according to Boston-area media reports. It was at least the fifth time he's been cited for failure to adhere to baseball's new speed limits for pitchers and Papelbon says he's been fined more than $10,000 total.


"After this, I don't know, man," Papelbon said, according to the Boston Herald, which first reported the fine. "I think they're going to call my parole officer and put me away."

Baseball put two pitching-related rule changes in place this season to speed up play. The pitcher must throw the first pitch of a half-inning no more than 2 minutes, 20 seconds from the final out of the previous half inning. And pitchers have 12 seconds to throw once a batter settles into the box.

Papelbon also had a ball called on him Tuesday night for taking too long between pitches.

"It's something I've got to get used to," Papelbon said, according to The Boston Globe. "When I come in from the bullpen, I've got to speed it up."

But that doesn't mean Papelbon is happy about paying.

"I know it's a new rule and everything and they're trying to enforce it," he said, according to the Herald. "I guess I'm just the one they decided to enforce it on. A rule's a rule. I don't know who else is getting fined. I can't say I'm being picked on. They may be saying the same thing to everyone else.

"If I have to get my agent involved and see if there are other guys doing the same thing I'm doing and not getting fined, then I have a case. If I don't, then I don't."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Butcher]

Bob Howry should be fined about a million dollars retroactively.

[kbwsb]

I'm 110% in favor of fining dawdling, slow-ass hurlers, but it should go both ways. A batter should not be allowed to step out of the box unless he's injured. Period.
That rule alone would likely shave 10 minutes or more off of every major league game (or 45 minutes off of any game involving Nomar.)

[biggz]

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HOWAH DEHAH YOU TAHK DAT WAY BOUT NOMAH! HE IS THE GREATEST EVAR!

[Clapp]

Justin Upton just hit what he thought was a bomb...nope. Didn't run and only got a single. When he came back to the dugout, A.J. Hinch told him he's done for the game. Love it. Wish Lou would do that.

[Coach]

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Well his brother just dogged it on a flyball by Jeter in NY

[Giff]

Derek Jeter is the Yankees' all-time hits leader.

[1060Ivy]

Time for another manager in Houston. Astros fire Cooper.

Maybe they'll go on a playoff push?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4492590

[Coach]

Regarding Cooper's firing:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->a clubhouse environment in which players long ago tuned out Cooper and wonder why this hadn’t happened long before. Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice reported that Astros players had taken to wearing T-shirts that read “Really?” as in, can you believe Cooper really did that?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I bet we can all guess who started that.

[BT]

<!--quoteo(post=64117:date=Sep 23 2009, 06:08 AM:name=Coach)-->QUOTE (Coach @ Sep 23 2009, 06:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Regarding Cooper's firing:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->a clubhouse environment in which players long ago tuned out Cooper and wonder why this hadn’t happened long before. Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice reported that Astros players had taken to wearing T-shirts that read “Really?” as in, can you believe Cooper really did that?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I bet we can all guess who started that.
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Milton Bradley?

[Coach]

<!--quoteo(post=64132:date=Sep 23 2009, 09:55 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Sep 23 2009, 09:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=64117:date=Sep 23 2009, 06:08 AM:name=Coach)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Coach @ Sep 23 2009, 06:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Regarding Cooper's firing:
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->a clubhouse environment in which players long ago tuned out Cooper and wonder why this hadn’t happened long before. Houston Chronicle columnist Richard Justice reported that Astros players had taken to wearing T-shirts that read “Really?” as in, can you believe Cooper really did that?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I bet we can all guess who started that.
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Milton Bradley?
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Close
Think of him as a reliever.