MLB News & Notes (other than Cubs or Sox)

[jstraw]

Sorry, I only want bad things to happen to the Yankees. Fuck 'em.

[Runnys]

Sorry, I only want bad things to happen to the Yankees. Fuck 'em.

This. But, I hold this opinion about every team in baseball not named the Cubs.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

The Starlin well-wishing is the resulting pushback to the hyperbolic criticism of him last year. It's really not that mystifying.

[jstraw]

The Starlin well-wishing is the resulting pushback to the legitimate criticism of him since his second season. It's really not that mystifying.

 

Fixed.

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

If by "fixed," you mean static, unyielding, and inflexible, then I agree with you.

[jstraw]

My opinion is no more subjective than your opinion. That's just as regards "hyperbolic." "Last year" is objectively false. I've been on his dumb ass for years.

 

I'm grateful that he raised his stock last year, and brought back some return.

[funkster]

Lovers quarrel!

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

But I'm not talking about any one particular voice of criticism; I'm not singling you--or anyone else at SOI for that matter--out. I think that in the aggregate, across media and levels of fandom, the criticism of Castro far outreached its warrant. Especially when it was clear that he wasn't being willfully defiant of coaching or had any sort of bad attitude.

 

The snowball of criticism on him reminded me a little of how LaTroy Hawkins was put through the fucking ringer for a couple of bad outings. I didn't get that then, like I didn't get the Castro beefing last year.

[jstraw]

I believed he was uncoachable, not in terms of willingness, but in the manner that teaching a goldfish to do long division would be futile.

 

Good guy, good teammate, good attitude, head in the clouds...

[VanSlawAndCottoCheese]

Well, in that case, I hope you can find it it your Grinchy heart, that if the young man goes on to have a prosperous career, that you can look at it as a human victory, even if it takes place in a pinstriped uniform.

[1060Ivy]

That water in St Louis must be something special. 

 

Hmm, a journeyman minor leaguer goes to the Cardinal organization and becomes ridiculously hot.  He batting 526 and OPS of 1.574 with 2 HRs, 2 doubles, and a triple in 19 ABs.  Yes, it's a small sample size but many fans knew it was going to be some no name player.

 

Don't worry Cardinal fans, Jeremy sports tats and comes from Indiana so most likely is a good old boy.  Awaiting the comparisons to Heyward from Cardinal fans. 

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-cardina...hazelbaker

[Butcher]

Cardinals voodoo is over. Hazelbaker will turn back into a pumpkin shortly.

[nakedman1664]

From MLBTR:

 

 

 

Former White Sox first baseman Adam LaRoche, who retired amidst a storm of controversy in Spring Training, has an outlook different than that of most ballplayers,ESPN’s Tim Keown writes. Now that LaRoche has stepped away from his big-league career after a disagreement with his front office about the presence of his son in his team’s clubhouse, he’s planning a lengthy RV trip with his family to the Pacific Northwest. LaRoche also stars in a reality show (Buck Commander) and owns a meat company. And improbably, in November, he joined with Brewers pitcher Blaine Boyer and a nonprofit to try to travel to Southeast Asia to go undercover to try to save underage sex slaves. “Something huge happened there for us,” says Boyer. “You can’t explain it. Can’t put your finger on it. If you make a wrong move, you’re getting tossed off a building.” 

 

Did I read that right?

[Butcher]

What the hell? Is that real?

[chshdsck]

Saving them for Drake, probably.