America's pastime: Hope springs eternal . . . (aka the baseball thread)

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@countingdown- Scherzer showed some class with it, he blamed a bad pitch, said sometimes it just happens.

As far as my ‘favorite’ team, the NY Mets, the Wilpons and Sandy Alderson are going to be happy, because they are going to blame the Mets slide on ‘injuries to key players’ for how badly they are playing. Wright being out is a big hole at third base, but Murphy is not a great fielder, and Flores booting balls and such is not because he is a young player up from the minors. Not to mention the fact that Cudyer and Granderson both suck at the plate (sorry, you don’t pay that kind of money for a .240 hitter and a .260 hitter), duda isn’t hitting well, and D’Arneau getting hurt continuously his is MO. So now they can blame injuries, as if even if they had the missing players they had a world championship team. If you won a world series by giving excuses, the Mets would be potential contenders if not winners, when the reality is they have great pitching and a crappy team.

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Hawkins, Tulowitzki, and Price in the past few days! Gotta love our Blue Jays. Hope springs eternal indeed!

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Lot’s more coming today at the trading deadline. Several deals will be made.

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Eight straight for the Jays. Swept the Yankees this weekend and are now only 1 1/2 games behind. Fans jumping on the bandwagon and ticket sales are crazy here in Toronto.

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Well, glad I was at work this weekend so I could avoid watching my Yankees swept.
Are they still clinging to the lead in the AL east?

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@musicmom Yankees are in 1st place by 1½ games.

My Cubbies 4 game swept the Giants, winning 2-0 today. The Cubs have the 4th best record in all of baseball. It is their bad luck that two of the teams with better records are in their division!

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Still 10 games left to play between NY and Toronto. Two knuckleballers effectively ended the Yankees string of high scoring games.

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Well, the Mets have been resurrected since last I posted here. Looking forward to a great stretch run as we battle the Nats for the division!

And meanwhile, very happy to root for the Jays over in the junior league.

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Around here we are just looking forward to football season. I’ve lost track of how many games they need to win to claw their way back up to .500

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@garland, your buddy R.A. has a 10-3 lead over Oakland in the 6th. Looking for their 10th straight tonight.

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I’m so happy to see him back to his top form again!

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An now that it no longer matters much Iwakuma threw a no-hitter today

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This is what it’s come to . . . I just told DH about the no-hitter and he said, “and they won?” Leave it to the Mariners to find a way to lose a no-hitter, but yes they did win the game.

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I’m excited about the Mets’ run for the title. I was in Las Vegas in March and intended to place a small bet on the Mets to win the WS, but I forgot to do so. Mainly because I have never bet on sports in my life and don’t even know how to do it, but the thought did cross my mind. I will kick myself if they win it! haha

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As for my Rangers, they are still in it, but can’t seem to win lately.

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10th straight win. Yankees lose. Jays in 1st!

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Mets in first and Yankees not–it’s like opposite world! :slight_smile:

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R. A. Dickey AND David Price - two of my favorite players. I’m a Blue Jays fan this year. :slight_smile:

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“They’re singing
Go, Cubs, Go!
Go, Cubs Go!
Hey, Chicago, what do you say?
The Cubs are gonna win today”

Don’t wake me up!!

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Don’t worry musicmom. The Mets’ road record is so bad that they’re not likely to win the WS, but it is fun to be in 1st place at this point of the season. (Disclaimer: I’m a Mets fan and we always expect the other shoe to drop)