after my bold predictions last year that tampa would be awesome and the mariners would suck and that the detroit trade to get dontrelle and that fat guy whose name i can’t remember was a horrible trade (and i got made fun of for all three )
my prediction for this year
Yankees 162-0
ship it
first time posting in this board, mainly cuz I don’t watch baseball but when I was at the tattoo shop today getting more ink, there was this dude that played for the LA Dodgers getting some work done next to me. I didn’t get his name, he lives in Birmingham, AL during the off season and he was getting ready for spring training in a couple of weeks. Just thought I’d share that…
Even though they’re trying to buy all the talent out there, it doesnt mean their going to be a good ball team. Didnt everyone think last year they were going to dominate the AL (especially the red sox) and they ended up what like 7 or 8 games back ? I still have faith that Boston will do really well this year.
Manny is a fucking joke. If he doesnt go to the dodgers, hes not going anywhere. Theres no shot of him ever coming back here.
lulz A-Fraud
Yeah no surprise there, I figured he was on Roids anyway.
Let’s see if the Tigers can finish off what the Lions started!
…seriously.
don’t worry I still love you gay-roid
So regarding the steroids thing with A-Rod…
A complete dud of a news item, absolutely no real reason to care about it.
I finally downloaded MLB Front Office Manager and gave it a couple of hours this past week trying to resurrect the Pittsburg Pirate organization.
I think it may have been the worst game I have ever played.
And I need to vent about this, because I’m so fucking angry that I got tricked into even downloading it. I’m angry about the bandwidth I wasted - imagine if I paid like $40-60 for this piece of shit.
First off it’s obvious 2K barely gave a shit about this game, because the PC port is full of “Press A for this menu” prompts on the screen and the features available are actually less impressive than real baseball games that concentrate on playing real baseball and just managing on the side. This is a game that concentrates on managing 100% of the time.
It’s an entire game built on (1) navigating menus and (2) measuring/judging player attributes and potential. Absolutely nothing else.
And it absolutely sucks at all of those things.
It’s a game in which you spend 95% of your time going through menus and lists of players…and it has the most horrible navigation system. You’re in one menu to see the depth chart of your team, and if you want to send him down, you have to go back out a menu, choose the call up/send down menu, and go into that one. No scroll wheel or dragging scrollbars through lists because it’s a PC port, just lots of clicking.
And none of the lists of players can be sorted. By position or name or rationg or whatever. So in my 40 man roster, I have to scroll through all 40 guys until I find this one guy, hidden randomly in there.
If your major league roster and your AAA roster are both full, you can’t send down one guy and call-up another. There’s no way to do the move simultaneously like in real life…you have to send one guy down to like AA or something first and then call-up the other guy to the MLB team, and then bring up the first guy to AAA from AA. Like…what the fuck? No one play tested this for even 10 minutes?
Attributes of players are measured in some bizarre scale out of 85 or something only in intervals of 5, so 55 is considered good - counter to every other baseball game this company’s made. Pujols is like a 70 overall, Josh Hamilton is 50, Jon Lieber and Matt Capps are 75. Like…what the fuck?
And once a player turns 25, you can’t see his potential or his scouting report or anything. So 25+ year-old prospects on other teams (of which there are like THREE THOUSAND of them)…I have no idea if they’re actually good or if they’re just random dudes. And since minor leaguers can’t have their actual names in video games, there’s absolutely no way to recognize them.
Game’s buggy as hell. When I sim games, my shittest long relief right-handed pitcher gets 90% of the innings, and my other actual middle relievers (all right-handed) share the other 10% - my right-handed setup man’s pitched zero innings in sixteen games, absolutely no reason.
Some players don’t even show up in games when you manage yourself. Like they’re not on the list of selectable players once you’re in a game.
There’s bullshit stats like amount of times a player’s reached base due to catcher interference (CI - like who the fuck cares about that?) but if you want to figure out a guy’s ratings or check his splits against LHP so that you can set your line-up…fuck you buddy, you’re out of luck.
Free agents you try to sign sometimes just don’t even tell you they’ve rejected your offer until you check the news and find out they signed with another team like four days ago. You have no way of reviewing how many offers you’ve made to how many free agents or keeping track of them in any way. There’s no negotiation at all - either you meet their demands or they don’t sign. Ever.
Everything this game promises to do, it shits the bed in.
Fuck this bullshit game. Fuck it right up it’s stupid bullshit asshole.
A-Rod admitted to performance enhancers. It’s on ESPN right now.
Hmmm, so lemme start getting a list going of who’d join a keeper league on ESPN. Thinking 10 teams, 5 keepers. Standard ESPN roster size + 1 more DL slot & 5x5 rules. Definitely going to be using pitcher limits cause the biggest problem in srk basebrawl was people hoarding pitchers in the weekend to boost their wins/saves.
Edit:
Also thinking of continuing srk basebrawl with standard 5x5 & pitcher limits in place as a keeper league on ESPN with 8 of the teams (cause I don’t think it’d be realistic to expect all 12 to return). Not sure how many keepers would be good for that league, but if enough people from it were interested, we could discuss it.
Just to add another layer of challenge, thinking of making both 2 catcher leagues… though it’s probably not as bad in a 8 or 10 team league.
:wtf:
Unless you had to play against him. Unless his performance-enhanced stats were used to justify being paid $25 million per year and thus continue to tip the salary structure… :wtf:
There’s a reason it’s on ESPN.com’s front page. It’s called “cheating”. You cheat on your girlfriend and don’t get caught, it’s still cheating. You’re not the awesome Hall of Fame boyfriend people might’ve thought you were. Regardless of anything else, you lacked integrity. And he lied about it in 2007 too - “I wasn’t right in the head” or somesuch was his comment.
Cheating in sports is fascinating, don’t get me wrong, but – he’s a cheater. A-Roid fans will get to deal with that fact from now on. 
To even say that arod doesnt deserve to be in the HoF is flat out crazy.
But it’s not cheating if it’s not against the rules.
Awesome, then you’re saying point blank that he’s cheating:
“Steroids have been part of baseball’s banned substance list since 1991, however testing for major league players did not begin until 2003.” source
^-- That’s what you should have read.
The guy used roids, the guy is a cheater. How about the people that didn’t win the MVP in 2003?
You probably got confused by the fact that there was no penalty or punishment for a positive test. Again, the cheating-on-your-wife analogy. Maybe there’s no rule against, maybe there is, maybe you get punished, maybe you don’t. You’re still a cheater.
But there was a rule here, and he broke it, so definitionally: cheater.
edit: I have nothing against A-Rod: I was sad when he left Seattle because … Boras should die in a fire, but I think Alex has both paid his dues over time and made himself out to be enough of an idiot over time (such as the Arroyo play from the 2004 ALCS) that I’ve completely stopped caring (don’t hate him, don’t like him, he’s just another Damned Yankee). But with Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe not making the hall – I wouldn’t vote for A-Roid for HOF. But he should get in easily regardless. I’m not saying he’s not HOF material, just acknowledging the very sad fact that he cheated.
do you guys think pujols roided? there’s supposedly going to be a bigger list of names revealed this week. i think andruw jones probably did, maybe manny too.
so…is there ANYONE legit in baseball who can hit? Not to say I’m surprised that A-rod is roiding but I mean…it’s a reminder that this shit runs rampant and well…I dunno what to believe anymore.
I’ll be fascinated to see if Bret Boone is on that list.
If Delgado is NOT on that list, I would pay money to hear his reaction to the A-Roid story. If Carlos didn’t test positive, I think you have to strip that MVP award and give to Delgado. Poor guy. =\
Yeah, my mistake - this is really what I was reaching towards.
What I’m trying to say is that the onus should really be on MLB as a league for even letting this become an issue. The fact that a player took advantage of a blatantly flawed system is nothing special.
It’s gotten to the point where steroids were looked at in almost the same context as like pine tar back then, and that’s really sad on MLB’s part. In the same vein, the fact that I’m just assuming most people used some sort of performance enhancing drug speaks less to my paranoia and more to the fact that MLB has pissed away all the trust that its fans had in its product.
If a report came out tomorrow on Pujols taking steroids, who anyone really be that surprised? No, and that’s a sad thing, and that’s on the MLB for losing our trust.
That might make me even more sad - that the 2003 Jays would have had both a Cy Young winner and a MVP winner and still not make the playoffs, with only 86 wins.
Add me to this list.
EDIT: Also, LOL BLUE JAYS.
imo.
any spots left open for me?