Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas!!
I just opened my Package from http://www.funnerhere.com/ as part of the Holiday Gift Exchange over at crackin' wax I want to thank you for your generosity and will be sending you a lil extra from my collection!!!
some of the booty I received included a Pedro Alvarez Patch Card from 2011 topps series 2, 2 clemente's from 2012 topps archives the deckle edge and the 3-d Kelloggs card, Jeff Locke topps chrome refractor. Some Jose Tabata, Neil Walker And Andrew McCutchen and a Johnny Ray Sportflic!!! also a Matty Alou... yes!!!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
HOKA HEY... WTF!!!
The Marlins and Pirates owners are frauds and scum. I will post this everywhere I can because I love baseball and they ruin it for their fans. F*ck Jeff Loria and Bob Nutting. F*ck Magic Johnson's dumb ass for giving Frank McCourt $2 billion for a bankrupt Dodgers franchise (F*ck McCourt for what he did) and then immediately destroying the Dodgers' franchise with millions in back-breaking shitty contracts to rotting corpses. And most of all, F*ck Bud Selig for allowing scumbags like them into the ownership ranks.
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Dust Settled...2012 part 1
When A.J. Burnett was approached in the Pirates' locker room and asked about his National League Player of the Week Award, he nodded a couple lockers to his left. "They should give it to Rod Barajas. He's the reason, he should get Player of the Week," Burnett said. "All I know," Barajas said, "is when I was catching Curt Schilling (with Arizona in 2000-03) and he was named Player of the Week, he gave me a watch." "He gave you a lousy watch because he didn't need it," Burnett came back. "He thought, 'What the heck am I gonna do with this $5 watch. I know what -- I'll give it to Barajas.'" "It's the thought that counts," Barajas said. "We need to quit this heckling," Burnett said. "People are going to think we like each other." Gee, how would anyone get that idea?
Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Summer of ZOLTAN!
Sunday, August 19, 2012
MARATHON in Missouri
Curse Of Jerry Meals Vanquished?
Thanks to Pedro Alvarez's clutch home run, the Pirates beat the Cardinals in 19 INNINGS. The two teams have played 2,186 times since 1901. Today's affair was the longest of them all. Karstens started the 19 inning game today and the one last year.
Andrew McCutchen tweeted: @TheCUTCH22
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Happy Birthday Roberto Clemente!!!
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican ball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder. Clemente was awarded the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1966. He was on the NL All-Star team 15 times, received 12 Gold Glove Awards, and led the NL in batting average four times. In 1972, Clemente got his 3,000th major league hit. Off the field, Clemente was involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to those in need. He died in an aviation accident on December 31, 1972, while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, becoming the first Latin American to be selected and one of only four current Hall of Fame members for whom the mandatory five-year waiting period has been waived.[1][2] Besides being the first Hispanic player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, Clemente is also the first Hispanic to win a World Series as a starter (1960), receive an MVP Award (1966), and receive a World Series MVP Award (1971).
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST
The top two Wild Card teams from each league make the postseason and play each other in a one-game playoff. It's August 15th can my Buccos survive???
| Wild Card Teams | W | L | PCT | WCGB | WCE # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 67 | 49 | .578 | - | - | ||||
| Pittsburgh | 64 | 52 | .552 | - | - | ||||
| LA Dodgers | 64 | 53 | .547 | 0.5 | 46 | ||||
| San Francisco | 64 | 53 | .547 | 0.5 | 46 | ||||
| St. Louis | 63 | 53 | .543 | 1.0 | 46 | ||||
| Arizona | 58 | 58 | .500 | 6.0 | 41 | ||||
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
My First EVER Baseball Game!!!
Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Atlanta Braves 2
Game Played on Tuesday, August 16, 1988 (N) at Three Rivers Stadium
This was the first ever ballgame I had ever attended. I saved up about $50 and my Mom got the tickets off of a family friend, Bruce Dal Canton who was with the Atlanta Braves at the time as a pitching coach. I went with my friend Brian Zahand and I had a blast that day!!
ATL N 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 2 9 0
PIT N 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 x - 4 8 1
BATTING
Atlanta Braves AB R H RBI BB SO PO A Gant 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 Oberkfell 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alvarez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Thomas ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 4 Murphy rf 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 Simmons 1b 3 0 1 1 1 0 8 2 James lf 4 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 Benedict c 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Royster ph,3b 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Blocker cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 P. Smith p 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Virgil ph,c 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 35 2 9 2 1 8 24 10
FIELDING - DP: 1. Royster.
BATTING - 2B: Murphy (29,off Drabek); Thomas (19,off Drabek); Simmons (5,off Drabek). GDP: Blocker (4,off Drabek); Murphy (19,off Robinson). Team LOB: 7.
Pittsburgh Pirates AB R H RBI BB SO PO A Bonds lf 3 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 Lind 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 4 Van Slyke cf 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 Bonilla 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Bream 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 Reynolds rf 4 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 LaValliere c 3 1 0 0 1 0 8 0 Belliard ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 Drabek p 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Cangelosi ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Robinson p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gott p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 4 8 4 3 5 27 10
FIELDING - DP: 2. Belliard-Lind-Bream, Bonilla-Lind-Bream. E: Drabek (3).
BATTING - HR: Reynolds (6,2nd inning off P. Smith 0 on 1 out); Van Slyke (21,8th inning off Alvarez 0 on 0 out). SH: Drabek (4,off P. Smith). Team LOB: 6.
PITCHING
Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO HR BFP P. Smith L(5-12) 6 5 3 3 2 5 1 25 Alvarez 2 3 1 1 1 0 1 9 Totals 8 8 4 4 3 5 2 34
Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO HR BFP Drabek W(12-5) 7 8 2 1 0 6 0 29 Robinson 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 Gott SV(21) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 Totals 9 9 2 1 1 8 0 36
WP: Robinson 2 (8).
Umpires: HP - Bruce Froemming, 1B - Terry Tata, 2B - Gerry Davis, 3B - Gary Darling
Time of Game: 2:35 Attendance: 13994
Starting Lineups: Atlanta Braves Pittsburgh Pirates 1. Gant 2b Bonds lf 2. Oberkfell 3b Lind 2b 3. Thomas ss Van Slyke cf 4. Murphy rf Bonilla 3b 5. Simmons 1b Bream 1b 6. James lf Reynolds rf 7. Benedict c LaValliere c 8. Blocker cf Belliard ss 9. P. Smith p Drabek p BRAVES 1ST: Gant struck out; Oberkfell grounded out (second to first); Thomas grounded out (shortstop to first); 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 0, Pirates 0. PIRATES 1ST: Bonds singled to left; Lind grounded out (shortstop to first) [Bonds to second]; Van Slyke struck out; Bonilla flied to center; 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 0, Pirates 0. BRAVES 2ND: Murphy singled to center; Simmons reached on an error by Drabek [Murphy to third, Simmons to first]; James singled to center [Murphy scored (unearned), Simmons to third]; Benedict struck out; Blocker grounded into a double play (shortstop to second to second to first) [James out at second]; 1 R (0 ER), 2 H, 1 E, 1 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 0. PIRATES 2ND: Bream was called out on strikes; Reynolds homered; LaValliere grounded out (shortstop to first); Belliard flied to right; 1 R, 1 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. BRAVES 3RD: P. Smith was called out on strikes; Gant struck out; Oberkfell flied to center; 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. PIRATES 3RD: Drabek struck out; Bonds flied to center; Lind flied to right; 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. BRAVES 4TH: Thomas flied to center; Murphy doubled; Simmons flied to left; James singled to left [Murphy to third, James to second (on throw to home)]; Benedict flied to left; 0 R, 2 H, 0 E, 2 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. PIRATES 4TH: Van Slyke flied to left; Bonilla popped to shortstop; Bream grounded out (second to first); 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. BRAVES 5TH: Blocker grounded out (shortstop to first); P. Smith was called out on strikes; Gant struck out; 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 1. PIRATES 5TH: Reynolds singled to center; LaValliere walked [Reynolds to second]; Belliard was called out on strikes; Drabek out on a sacrifice bunt (first to second) [Reynolds to third, LaValliere to second]; Bonds singled to center [Reynolds scored, LaValliere scored]; Lind singled to left [Bonds to second]; Van Slyke walked [Bonds to third, Lind to second]; Bonilla flied to left; 2 R, 3 H, 0 E, 3 LOB. Braves 1, Pirates 3. BRAVES 6TH: Oberkfell grounded out (second to first); Thomas doubled to center; Murphy popped to first; Simmons doubled to right [Thomas scored]; James lined to second; 1 R, 2 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 3. PIRATES 6TH: Bream struck out; Reynolds grounded out (second to first); LaValliere grounded out (second to first); 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 3. BRAVES 7TH: ROYSTER BATTED FOR BENEDICT; Royster grounded out (third to first); Blocker singled to center; VIRGIL BATTED FOR P. SMITH; Virgil singled to right [Blocker to third]; Gant popped to second; Oberkfell forced Virgil (shortstop to second); 0 R, 2 H, 0 E, 2 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 3. PIRATES 7TH: ALVAREZ REPLACED OBERKFELL (PITCHING); ROYSTER STAYED IN GAME (PLAYING 3B); VIRGIL STAYED IN GAME (PLAYING C ); Belliard grounded out (shortstop to first); CANGELOSI BATTED FOR DRABEK; Cangelosi grounded out (second to first); Bonds walked; Lind grounded out (shortstop to first); 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 3. BRAVES 8TH: ROBINSON REPLACED CANGELOSI (PITCHING); Thomas singled to left; Murphy grounded into a double play (third to second to second to first) [Thomas out at second]; Simmons walked; Robinson threw a wild pitch [Simmons to second]; Robinson threw a wild pitch [Simmons to third]; James struck out; 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 3. PIRATES 8TH: Van Slyke homered; Bonilla grounded out (first to pitcher); Bream singled to second; Reynolds singled to right [Bream to third]; On a bunt LaValliere hit into a double play (third unassisted) [Bream out at home]; 1 R, 3 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 4. BRAVES 9TH: GOTT REPLACED ROBINSON (PITCHING); Royster lined to first; Blocker grounded out (first unassisted); Virgil struck out; 0 R, 0 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Braves 2, Pirates 4. Final Totals R H E LOB Braves 2 9 0 7 Pirates 4 8 1 6
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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