OT - 4/4 Tigers vs. O's - Miggy homers for 2,000th career hit
O's put up 2 on Sanchez in the first.
With a 2-out single in the first, Miguel Cabrera is now 3 hits away from 2000 on his career.
EDIT: With two outs in the ninth, Cabrera homers for hit number 2000!!!
Love Castellanos' approach, I only saw him once in Toledo so I wasn't sure what to make of him live, but he's got an advanced approach at the plate for a 22 year old.
The baserunning will come in time.
Lol run with your head up Nick! Tigers base running looks like it's in mid-season form.
Baseball = the most flawed major sport, by far.
I honestly don't see how people still enjoy watching / going to games. It would be fun, I suppose, to go to a game once or twice in the summer just to get outside and have an excuse for some solid day drinking. But 162 games? 4+ hour long games? Sheeesh. No thanks.
I won't get into an argument about it because I love baseball, but I find it to be the most relaxing sporting experience you can have. Besides a Michigan home game honestly is there anything better than grabbing a beer, some peanuts, a scorecard and enjoying a nice summer evening with friends at the ballpark?
I really like baseball. Not as much as football or hoops, but I do enjoy it. Never understood why baseball haters feel the need to tell everyone how boring baseball is. People who don't like hockey don't seen to broadcast as much. We get it, just don't watch it.
people who feel the need to spew hatred of soccer on this board as well. If you don't like the sport, then STFU.
He was giving his opinion on the merits of a sport. It may be a little annoying, but it seems like fair game on a sports blog.
baseball existed for so long. If it's a boring game, it would have been done a long time ago.
As would soccer and golf. Yet strangely enough...
Hey, it's pretty exciting to watch dudes run around for hours and try kick a ball into a net maybe 1-2 times a game or match or whatever it's called.
There are only three known scores in Soccer.
How is playing a lot of games a "flaw"?
I'd argue that playing every day is one of it's strengths. Gives it an almost atmospheric quality where you don't have to literally watch everything but can check in whenever you want, especiallly while doing something else.
to really judge on how good of a player really is over the season. Bad luck evens out unless you're really, really unlucky (or you just plain suck). This is why player's greatness is often appreciated because it's much harder to sustain success over the season and the career.
For me I love the length of the baseball season; it is a marathon with ebbs and flows, ins and outs... plus it takes a team to win baseball precisely because of the length of the season...
Ironically, I don't like fantasy baseball for the same reasons. lol
jdon
Come on. We both know Yeezus would be so much more colorful in his opinion about baseball. As a novelty account, you have SO MUCH potential!
If it were solely about the entertainment of the sport itself, I would agree with you. But for a lot of people, baseball is much more than that.
Listen to it on the radio. I feel the same way that you do most of the time. With the exception of decisive play-off games, like a Game 5 or 6 of a big series, I simply cannot watch it on TV. Of course the ball park is fun, but on TV you are just stuck behind the pitcher all game and you really don't get a good feel for the game. On the radio it is more like reading a book. The announcers narrate quite well and you kind of follow the game based on the sounds of the crowd and the ballpark. A lot of times I will plan my lawnmowing/yard work around a 1:00 start on the weekend. I just have the radio on in the garage and come back and have a beer and listen to an inning every half an hour of so.
You're right in that I could take or leave any particular baseball game, but I do love baseball season.
isn't it? The most flawed of sports also enjoys the greatest revenue stream and compensates its players with guaranteed money at a level only dreamed about by less flawed sports. And it isn't even close.
that's the way to win the argument. Be a dick about it.
Srsly though, if you hate baseball so much, just leave the thread.
[All of us] - [You] = more fun.
MATH
This is an idiotic argument. THE SEASON IS 162 GAMES LONG. The stadiums are AT LEAST half the size of a NFL stadium.
No FREAKING wonder you can pay the players more when there are HALF of them per team, and nearly 5x the numbers of tickets sold per season.
MATH!
So it seems to me that other sports that are unable to play 162 games are the ones that are flawed.
Don't give Roger Goodell any ideas.
There's a difference between it being "the most flawed major sport" and it being a sport you dislike. The first statement comes across as a purported truth by someone who is uneducated on the topic, the other is an opinion that is absolutely fine to make. The fact is, you just don't understand the sport of baseball and thus have no respect for it. I wouldn't like any sport I didn't have an understanding of either. But to trounce out here and say it the most flawed sport is really no different than you just saying "Hey MGoBlog, I'm ignorant, and if there's something I don't understand, it must have nothing to do with me, but instead be because it in itself is terrible."
Don't get it twisted, it's a great and beautiful sport, and it just happens to not be your cup of tea. Sucks for you.
"Look man, you can listen to Jimi, but you can't hear him..."
For those watching or listening to the game, this is a minor heads up - it is raining quite hard in Belleville at the moment, which is where I am, so in about 20-30 minutes, the game might experience a minor delay if this band of weather holds up. The wind is picking up a bit too, but that shouldn't affect things too much right now.
Sucks cause I really hope they get this one in.
Nick C and Romine with back to back hits.
if baseball dropped thirty games so that post season play took place in September, it wouldn't hurt my feelings. That way the pennant race takes place during what is now the dead dog days of August and the post season ends as college football moves to conference play.
...agree with idea of dropping 30 reg season games but the postseason does seem to push too deep into October. I'm old fashioned so rather liked it when baseball had no playoffs and simply squared off the National and American League champs in the World Series. Also made for very tense pennant races.
see someone with a gun to their head making them fill out the scoresheet, then I'd say yes they enjoy it.
Wow. This post made me feel old and I'm in my mid-20s.
It's not really about having the information quickly available. It's about being the recorder of that information yourself. Back in the day - the 20's or somrthing - the box score was a magical invention - a way to take in a game through text that you were unable to watch in person or listen to it on the radio.
In today's era, it's something to do in between pitches... and that way you can stay the fuck off the grid for at least a couple hours.
Tigs playing long ball.
...that's a quick start after the delay. Now 7-2 Tigers!
Wtf do these guys look at? How do refs/umpires constantly get these calls wrong when they have the same views as us?
They already blew a call on the first day of games a few days ago and they just blew that one.
There's no point in having challenges if they blow easy calls like that!
The umps on the field don't get to see the replays anymore, they get the information on the play from a centralized station like Hockey does. That said that sure looked like an easy out...
Can only watch on gamecast, what happened?
Ball was dropped on a double play turn. Looked like it was dropped after the catch and during the transfer, but the ruling was that the shortstop never had control.
Possession of a ball is one of those things where slow motion replay doesn't really help. To the naked eye it can be fairly easy to assume that a player has caught a ball (either football or baseball) but when you start slowing the video down and reviewing it frame-by-frame then it becomes really difficult to say exactly when (and if) control of the ball has been achieved.
Looks like a catch, though I can understand the argument that the ball was loose in the webbing before the transfer started. Not saying I agree with that, but I can understand the argumen being made. Coupled with whatever "definitive evidence" is needed, I'm not totally shocked. Just surprised.
All that said, can we please stop with the whole "Manager X is 4/6 on challenges this year." It's not a stat - the manager is waiting for some other guy to see the replay and tell him whether to challenge or not anyway.