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This inning would be over if Alexei knew how to play baseball.

Charlie Haeger is starting for the Dodgers tonight (8/17) against Cris Carpenter and the Redbirds on ESPN2.

Alexei threw home?????

This is just epicly terrible.

Alexei f***ing sucks at defense.

QUOTE (JohnStamos @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 09:41 PM) Watched it on DVR a couple times. I'm pretty sure that ball went straight over the top of the foul(fair) pole. Definitely warranted a review at the very least. I did that too. It was a home run.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 04:08 PM) And Carpenter back. Lugo's helped them too.

Tried that already.

No radar detects His wise, aggressive dealings. Stealth waiver master.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Aug 14, 2009 -> 07:57 AM) I think the worst thing I can remember seeing is Pittsburgh fans throwing alkaline batteries at Dave Parker (who was a Pirate at the time) because he wasn't playing well enough in their opinion. No one has thrown batteries at Soriano yet, so Pittsburgh still holds the all-time douche title. White Sox fans threw a bunch of coins at Reggie Jackson once - he picked them up and thanked the fans for the tip, IIRC. It depends upon whether you measure the "all-time douche" title by frequency or severity. I also remember batteries thrown in Philly at JD Drew, coins at Albert Belle in Cleveland, etc. There's no question that hard objects like that can be more dangerous when thrown with intent to injure, and that the few, individual jagoffs who did that in those cities are up at the very top of the douche-o-meter. But those events stand out in memory because they are in fact rare, isolated incidents (thank goodness). However, totally different sets of Cub fans are throwing objects on the field ALL THE TIME. Granted, the home run balls (every other home game) are not thrown maliciously, and the garbage (2 or 3 times a season) is usually not thrown at any body, but compared to the rest of the league, it sure seems like stuff gets thrown onto the field there more than any place else. The fact that some thrown objects are accepted and condoned as "tradition" cannot be mere coincidence. When you put yesterday's beer toss and the Randy Meyers, Chad Kreuter, and Bobby Howry attacks in a total context along with thrown home run balls, O-Henry bars, and random assorted garbage, I think a strong case can be made that the Wrigley spectators (I won't even say Cub fans) are the "douchiest" in all of sport. I, of course, am a just a jealous, White trash Sox fan who lives in the past. Just like Cincinnati's Marty Brennaman.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 06:35 PM) I'll crap myself if he goes to U of I and is some sort of business major. It'll almost be too perfect of a joke. I don't get the joke. I did that and I f***ing rule.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 08:22 PM) Reds/Cubs game where Cubs fans got the bright idea of throwing all the souvenier baseballs onto the field at the same time in disgust after a Reds HR. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9Kso9q_Ws I'd forgotten about this, but I think Marty's comments say a lot. When it comes to s*** like that, Cub fans are in a (low) class by themselves. I'm an old-school, biased, Cub-Hating, White Sox fan. I admit it. But Brennaman is a HOF'er. He has seen lots of baseball in lots of park over lots of years. He took a lot of flack for his comments here, but to his credit, he called it as he saw it and never backed down. I'm not as old as Marty, but I've watched a lot of sports. For a long time, places like Oakland, Philadelphia, and Cleveland were thought of as hostile, sometimes even dangerous places to play because of their fans' conduct. Over the last 10 years, however, the total s*** that's gone down at Wrigley has surpassed whatever happened to earn those places their reputations (combined). There are bad apples everywhere, and no stadium or team is immune. But they trash their field at least a couple times per season now. To the best of my knowledge, nobody else does that.

QUOTE (Soxpride724 @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 11:40 AM) Hi everyone, I am a long time Sox fan and first time poster here! Regarding the topic of the drunken idiot that threw the beer at Shane Victorino, I had called into the Danny Mac show on 670 this morning to discuss this. I don't know if anyone here was listening, but Dan McNeil was backing the rest of the Cubs fan base an treating this as an isolated incident. I was called "closed minded" for telling him that is this was typical of that sorry excuse of a fan base. The throwing of the homerun ball back, throwing trash on the field, etc. I know that there are idiots at baseball games, and yes I know it happens everywhere, but the whole section was applauding this asshole after he threw the beer. There was one caller, who said half of the stadium was cheering this idiot on. Welcome! That's the point I was making, too. At what point, does a collection of numerous "isolated" incidents become not just a pattern but a problem? I agree that this certainly doesn't prove that "all Cub fans are idiots," but you can only play the "isolated incident" card so many times, and I think they've passed that point at Wrigley.

As long as that organization turns a blind eye towards (and tactily encourages) the throwing of certain "acceptable" objects onto the field of play, they have no chance of ever stopping the throwing of unacceptable objects. Of course, no team can ever totally stop that anyway, but the hypocrisy surrounding that place is unbelievable. Wasn't it just last year that a woman hit an opposing outfielder with a ball, but totally escaped punishment because she "thought she could?" No wonder this s*** continues to happen. I can recall at least four times in the last 10 years that their field has been totally and completely trashed by fans. I don't remember that happening anyplace else more than once. Plus, I can recall at least twice as many "fan-attacks-player" incidents there than at the Cell, the Oakland Coliseum, Philly, or at any other supossedly "dangerous" stadium with notoriously "hostile" fans. I don't know how the reports of racial taunting there compares to other places around the league, but I always hear about a couple of those every Summer as well (i.e., Latroy Hawkins, Milton Bradley, etc.) Yet somehow, the s*** never seems to stink at the "Friendly Confines." I guess that what happens when you emphasize marketing over the enforcement of simple rules that apply to everybody else.

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:55 AM) Longest scoreless game in mlb history went 18 innings. and how many pages was the game thread?

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:50 AM) T-Pain is here. This should end quickly "I'm on a mound, Mother-f***er!!!"

QUOTE (son of a rude @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:48 AM) double penetration is better Depends on the perspective. A lot.

That at bat was over as soon as the catcher stood up to raise his target.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 13, 2009 -> 12:40 AM) You've blown my dog?

Kotsay. Right here.

Oh f***in A Christ

That was cool.

Good start. Let's not bunt.

Let's f*** this guy up!

Good gamble, good grab.