FRIDAY ANGELS ROUNDUP: Brian Fuentes Ripped Off By Bud Selig
by WiHaloFan on Jul 17, 2009 8:16 AM PDT
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Ervin Santana still has some magic in his arm - Los Angeles Times
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Okay, maybe we should wait until Santana pitches against a major league team before getting too excited.
All-Star experience 'sours' Angels' Brian Fuentes - Los Angeles Times
He says he was promised he would pitch the sixth inning, until he was bumped by the commissioner.
Bud Selig. Enough said.
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Right-hander Renedin Mesa, 17, a native of the Dominican Republic, is pitching for the Angels' Dominican Summer League team.
His Urinator must have malfunctioned.
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It is unfortunate that Fuentes got bumped after he was told he would pitch, but I don’t think its out of line to want the starters to pitch two innings.
by Eric Stephen on Jul 17, 2009 9:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
maybe not, but shouldn't that be determined by the Manager
and not some bureaucrat who has already made the All-star game a complete joke?
by WanderingWanderer on Jul 17, 2009 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is where we are now
As if Selig hadn’t already screwed up baseball beyond repair…now he’s dictating who pitches and how long in the All-Star Game? Holy crap. What a meddler. He just doesn’t know when to leave things alone. Except for the steroid issue. That was left alone too long.
This guy is such a joke.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it's just laughable because its so absurd
I can hardly believe it, except I can
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
I agree with that part…it does seem weird that Selig would get involved. I was just thinking more about the thought of the starter going two innings.
by Eric Stephen on Jul 17, 2009 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
in that case, they should have let the Tim Lincecum pitch 3 innings...
so the NL didnt have Billingsley blow it for them. Nice Brooklyn Landgrabber beanie chump.
Do it for Nick '09
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Jul 17, 2009 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Way to stick to the issue at hand, and avoid the attacks. Very mature.
by Eric Stephen on Jul 17, 2009 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Please point out this alleged attack.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2009 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
although to be fair to Eric
Billingsley giving up a tying run in the 5th inning, did not “blow the game” for the NL. In all fairness, the AL won the game fair and square.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great catch by Crawford
one of three hundred Rays players in the game. Felt like I was watching Tampa Bay play the National League.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice Brooklyn Landgrabber beanie chump
by Eric Stephen on Jul 17, 2009 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Looks accurate to my biased eyes!
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think Eric thought it was directed at him.
But I could be wrong.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
by opiejeanne on Jul 17, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bud Selig
f*ck you.
Please get rid of Kendrick and Aybar. And Speier. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair
by JoseGuillenSux on Jul 17, 2009 9:16 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well
Thank goodness the ASG counts. What a crock.
In Remembrance of Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart, Henry Pearson. Heal soon Jon Wilhite.
I want Andrew Thomas Gallo to be a pinata, and the Angels supply the bats...
by Slasher52 on Jul 17, 2009 10:48 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Not to mention...
There’s a tremendous conflict of interest here, with Selig implementing a rule that is foolhardy enough; (that the ASG determines HF advantage) and then to dictate the pitchers and for how long they pitch? How is this not the biggest conflict of interest in sports?
We all agree that the ASG determining HF is a crock. Is Bud Selig THAT insecure in that he thinks there is a remote possibility of another ASG time, so he’s going to dictate the starters go two innings to alleviate that possibility? I’m incredulous. Apparently he is!
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
* tie not time
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did the fans really care that the game ended as a tie?
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
by opiejeanne on Jul 17, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
everyone who loves to whine
finally had an unimpeachable platform. I finally sided with Bud Selig out of sheer contrarian contempt for the mob mentality.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My point is so much about the ASG tie a few years ago
It’s about the conflict of interest with the Commissioner calling the shots in an exhibition game that determines home field in the World Series.
And I think people cared about the tie from the standpoint that it wasn’t a soccer game or a hockey game so it shouldn’t end in a tie. Baseball games don’t end in ties.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
*isn't so much
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We should do like soccer does. Settle things in the 13th inning with another Home Run Derby!
We don't have a Bullpen. We have a Cowpen. Before we get to call it a Bullpen these guys gotta grow a pair.
by Stirrups on Jul 17, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
or like the Israeli Baseball League
HR DERBY!
That'll only happen if that one prospect is the second coming of Christ and redemption for mankind can only be achieved by smacking many balls out of the yard.
-The Limey
by anaheim angels on Jul 17, 2009 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I understand that
but wasn’t the tie before the ASG determined home field in the WS? Didn’t that come later?
I have to admit that I didn’t usually bother to watch the ASG before then, because it was too much like watching the Yankees: an expensive group of players imitating a team.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
by opiejeanne on Jul 17, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
excellent point
What is to stop him from now telling the home plate umpire “Since this is only Game One of the 2004 ALDS, why not squeeze Bartolo Colon to make this game more interesting…”
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
exactly Rev, it's a huge conflict of interest like I say
And that’s why you can’t trust Selig. Most people think he’s a weasel. And that’s how baseball ended up where it is today.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Agree.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
by opiejeanne on Jul 18, 2009 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dang weasel.
Please get rid of Kendrick and Aybar. And Speier. R.I.P. Nick Adenhart, Marquis Cooper, Steve McNair
by JoseGuillenSux on Jul 18, 2009 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting commentary in the Halladay article
Re: the relative sparse condition of the Angels farm system. Hmm… don’t know what to think of that.
Although if all it takes is Wood (and I love Brandon) and a Sean O’Sullivan and S-Rod… or even substitute Saunders for O’Sullivan…if I’m LAA, I am all in with that offer.
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by hk47 on Jul 17, 2009 11:06 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wood vs. Glaus
I’m assuming this is Glaus without the ’roids?
by neochoa on Jul 17, 2009 11:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
and about 40 more iq points
based on my casual conversations with both of them.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MLB will never be quite right
until they get rid of Selig and install a real commissioner. For you young’uns out there, that would be a commissioner independent of the owners who strives to make decisions with the welfare of the game in mind, irrespective of the blowback.
by rspencer on Jul 17, 2009 2:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Not waiting around for that to happen.
Not in the contemporary legal climate. NFL gets away with that because they do not have an anti-trust exemption to protect, and they have a very weak players’ union. The NBA gets away with that because they also do not have an anti-trust exemption to protect, and they are a players league.
Baseball has an anti-trust exemption that they worry too much about, and they have a players’ union that might as well be The Fortress Of Solitude, AND they have an overly concrete legacy of the owners running the roost. Too many conflicting areas of interest for anyone sitting in the center to do what may be right for the enterprise, but come at the expense of one or more of the parties.
We don't have a Bullpen. We have a Cowpen. Before we get to call it a Bullpen these guys gotta grow a pair.
by Stirrups on Jul 17, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think you're right about that. All of it.
.... as sexy as socks on a rooster.
by opiejeanne on Jul 18, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think you're right about that. All of it.
on a hen i think lol
by greg09 on Jul 18, 2009 10:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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