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Absolutely brutal call just ended the Rangers/Rays games. Robot umpires can't get here soon enough.

Amazing.

 

At least that call didn't ruin a perfect game. Also, one of my favorite things to do each season... Marlins attendance watch! For Monday's home opener: 34, 439. Last night: 14,222. Of course, that's going by the official numbers released, so it can skew lower for a lot of games.

 

My favorite pastime is to follow the stats of former Mets.

 

The Marlins need to seriously move out of Miami. They screwed the fans over royally by building a dumb ballpark and unless they get extremely lucky and start winning then I don't see the long-term value of having a franchise there.

 

Game delayed because of refs being stuck in traffic.

 

Hey!

The Indians aren't going to give up a crap ton of homers to the Yankees tonight!

 

This one's better:

 

So the Dodgers just took 2 out of 3 in San Diego, which normally wouldn't be much to talk about, however...


http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/index.jsp#contentId=44552904

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/...-brawl-zack-greinke-hits-carlos-quentin-pitch .


The likely suspensions (for Kemp & Hairston) are no big deal, but Grenike's collar bone fracture? ****! Quentin, needless to say, has to get suspended because of this, and Mattingly has suggested that he should be out for however long Grenike is out. Of course, that won't happen. Such drama, which will get even juicier come this Monday, because guess who begins a 3 game series at Dodger Stadium that evening? The Padres! Yup. Scully's best quote throughout the fracas, describing what Kemp was saying... "That's fertilizer.". Oh, San Diego would go on to tie that game later on in that inning, with the tie eventually being broken up in the top of the 9th via a pinch hit home run for the Dodgers, courtesy of... Juan Uribe!





For such a crazy game this early in the season, Uribe's home run made perfect sense.

 

I guess Greinke hit Quentin one too many times and he finally had enough of it. They have a history going back to the American League.

 

It's the ownership, not the city of Miami. The other owners need to put heat on Loria and find some way of getting him out of the game. He's terrible for baseball.

As long as he owns the team, it doesn't matter where they would move to. And besides, I can't think of any other market that doesn't currently have a team that would have the corporate backing to support a major league franchise right now.

 

It seems to me that if you're consistently among the league leaders in getting hit by pitches, you lose the moral high ground in charging the mound (such as it is). But it was also pretty stupid of Greinke to lower his shoulder into a charging, 240-pound Carlos Quentin.

Amazing.

 

Who does he think he is? Melo?

 

It'll never happen but I kind if agree with Mattingly. He should miss as much time as Greinke. It wasn't on purpose. It was a 3-2 count in a one run game.Quentin likes to crowd the plate and takes a lot of HBP

 

I kind of have to agree, there should be a lot more punishment than 3 - 5 games when a player gets hurt in a brawl like that.

 

At least he leaned in with his non-throwing arm. That should count for something, right?

DT421: It's a shame how a franchise with barely any support & with a scumbag ownership is playing a brand new stadium, whereas the other Florida MLB franchise, one with a legit team & fans, is stuck playing in the worst ballpark in all of baseball.

 

Yanks just got a triple play.

 

That's just it though, Miami will support the Marlins if they could just get the owner to meet them half-way. There is just too much of a history of them dumping the roster and that has helped to alienate what would otherwise be a great fan base.

And the Rays need a new place in Tampa proper. I know some fans down there and they said that they just don't want to make the trek to St Petersburg to see a game... especially in a terrible venue like the Trop.

 

Are you sure about that? Didn't they give the Marlins lousy support during both of their World Series runs?

 

IIRC, the fan loyalty really started dwindling when the Marlins ownership and players started griping about the fans lack of support.