Major League Baseball Thread

[ParkTrips]

^ Good call Jewey! I didn't realize that. As of now, he only has gotten on base 3 times more than he struck out. I knew he wasn't even hitting .300, but when he does hit, he can really crank. He could end up being the next Adam Dunn... hit .250, have half of your hits homers, and strike out 150+ times

 

Braves fans should be talking about Martin Prado, or lamenting over the fact that Kelly Johnson is lighting it up in Arizona, after they couldn't wait to get rid of him here.

[paintballer]

Teagarden needs to go away. Treanor needs to be put in his place

[cedarpointfangirl]

^ I 100 % agree. I have a feeling once Salty's healthy that Teagardens gone and Treanor will take his job. The only reason he's still in is because of that. Treanors hitting .233 and Tea's hitting 0.40. I heard so many people complain when they optioned Davis and brought up Smoak, people said Teagarden needs to go too. I was like HELLO..you can't do that till Salty's healthy.

[Hotlanta]

Braves fans should be talking about Martin Prado, or lamenting over the fact that Kelly Johnson is lighting it up in Arizona, after they couldn't wait to get rid of him here.

 

No thanks on Kelley Johnson. The guy always hits for a month, the rest of the year he is a ghost. Kelley Johnson injury last year was the best thing that happened to the Braves, finally Bobby woke up and gave Marteeeeeeeen a chance.

[Homer]

I'm really excited about the Rays this year hoping we don't choke again like last season. David Price is getting better each game and I'm glad my team is red hot now.

 

Too bad people in Tampa don't seem to embrace baseball unless Boston or New York is in town...

[monsterfan99]

Too bad people in Tampa don't seem to embrace baseball unless Boston or New York is in town...

I'll never forget in 1998 when we went to 3 games in a few weeks. The Ranger and Mariners games had maybe 2-3 thousand people. The Yankees game we went to was sold out.

[Homer]

^Last September, going to see the Rays and Orioles shortly after their playoff hopes were dashed, probably the same amount of people there. Heck, the Chick-Fil-A cow had no place to hide during the Chick-Fil-A "Spot the Cow" promotion.

[ParkTrips]

^ Could be worse, like the bleak years in Montreal, or even.. Miami =/

[monsterfan99]

As a then Expos fan (now Nats) I remember those games with less than 500 people there. The sad part was no one got to see Vlad in his peak prime.

[Chris Benvenuto]

RIP Ernie. You will be missed.

 

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[Josh Linn]

As a then Expos fan (now Nats) I remember those games with less than 500 people there. The sad part was no one got to see Vlad in his peak prime.

 

Talk about a league ruining/alienating a fan base, Montreal is a perfect example. Selig and Loria did everything they could to screw that city over. The Expos should still be there.

[Jew]

The Expos were destroyed long before Loria/MLB got involved. The owner before Loria did the most damage.

Edited May 7, 2010 by Jew

[monsterfan99]

The 94 strike and off season fire sell killed the Expos with most of the blame falling on the strike.

[Josh Linn]

The 94 strike and off season fire sell killed the Expos with most of the blame falling on the strike.

 

Amazing how they went from (probably) winning a World Series to not even being there 10 years later. A lot of people forget how much talent that team had. Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, John Wetteland, Marquis Grissom, and Moises Alou were all either in their prime or close to it. Unfortunately, like Vancouver in the NBA, Montreal will probably never have a team again despite having a really good fan base simply because the commissioners of each respective sport didn't really give them a chance (I know the Expos were around for awhile, but post strike they did little if anything to stay there).

[monsterfan99]

^ The post-strike fire sell was depressing with all the talent the team lost. Same thing has happened twice with the Marlins after they won their WS. Unlike the Pirates fans, they chose not to stay with a loser.

[Hercules]

Montreal just wasn't a baseball city. That is what killed them. I mean, but kind of baseball stadium randomly sings in French throughout the course of the game?

[Josh Linn]

^ The post-strike fire sell was depressing with all the talent the team lost. Same thing has happened twice with the Marlins after they won their WS. Unlike the Pirates fans, they chose not to stay with a loser.

 

The only real difference is that Loria actually put effort into getting the Marlins a new stadium. In Montreal, he bought a piece of land downtown when he bought the team, but never used it and eventually the lease expired and someone else bought it.

 

Montreal just wasn't a baseball city. That is what killed them. I mean, but kind of baseball stadium randomly sings in French throughout the course of the game?

 

They were right around Major League average attendance except for the last few years there. A nearly year-long strike that decimates your team would turn any place into a non-baseball city.

[Hercules]

^ I don't really care that much about attendance figures. It was just a weird atmosphere for a baseball game.

[Josh Linn]

^ I don't really care that much about attendance figures. It was just a weird atmosphere for a baseball game.

 

Well whether or not you think it was weird, they had a very solid fan base.

[ParkTrips]

They were right around Major League average attendance except for the last few years there. A nearly year-long strike that decimates your team would turn any place into a non-baseball city.

http://www.baseballchronology.com/Baseball/Years/1993/Attendance.asp

 

Define "right around", please. And feel free to go back through the 80s too. They hadn't been in the top half in attendance since 1983

 

If you look at 1995, their attendance dropped considerably less than the other clubs'

[BeemerBoy]

I've run into a LOT of baseball fans over the years. In fact, I lived in South Florida for 28 of those years - otherwise known as "Mini Quebec" in the winter. What's funny is that up until I left there in 2001, I had a very difficult time finding any of this so-called Expos "fan base" that's been mentioned.

 

My two favorite quotes from Montreal residents:

When asked what they thought of the Expos, "Nobody up there gives a s**t about the Expos."

 

And following the strike season, I asked if they were disappointed. The response, "The Habs look good this year."

 

Yeah.

[Josh Linn]

They were right around Major League average attendance except for the last few years there. A nearly year-long strike that decimates your team would turn any place into a non-baseball city.

http://www.baseballchronology.com/Baseball/Years/1993/Attendance.asp

 

Define "right around", please. And feel free to go back through the 80s too. They hadn't been in the top half in attendance since 1983

 

If you look at 1995, their attendance dropped considerably less than the other clubs'

 

If there was a strike ruined the best season in your favorite team's history, and then following that your owner instructs your GM to trade or release nearly all of your best players, would you be as much of a fan or as willing to go to games?

 

EDIT: Removed off-topic stuff. Please use PM's---Joey

Edited May 8, 2010 by Jew

[Jew]

^Go back and look at all the other years as well. Montreal is consistently in the bottom 1/3.

[Homer]

Dallas Braden of the A's just pitched a perfect game against the Rays and at the same time giving A-Rod a karmic slap in the face.

 

Although as a Rays fan, I have mixed feelings about this since they were on the butt end of a perfect game last year against Buhrle. But impressive.

[monsterfan99]

^That along with the fact that Jody Gerut hit for the cycle yesterday is what makes baseball amazing. Every single game can have something incredible happen. Even more amazing is Gerut had 4 hits all season before the cycle.