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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 9:13:04 PM   
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No surprise which teams end up in scuffles most often.
Their managers demand respect, and take it if they don't get it.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 10:05:58 PM   
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Tie down your young sons right arms, people ... tie them down!

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 10:08:12 PM   
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I keep expecting him to go into that old knee-knocking dance that Martin Short used to do ....

and yeah ... I know it was Jackie Rodgers Jr ... but still.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 10:23:18 PM   
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He's 25 .... isn't that too young to play this game?

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 10:24:14 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/8/2014 10:34:09 PM   
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That makes what ... about a thousand now?

Arghhhhh.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 10:45:27 AM   
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And Bogaerts is 21 ..... isn't that abuse of a minor?


Bogaerts is a freaking stud. Going to be one of the best for a long, long time. The Sox' answer to Jetes.

As for Coke, yep man. Been kidding I'd break my nephew/niece right arms to help them develop for years now.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 4:18:28 PM   
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Bats are a no-no. The kid needs a shocking suspension. Talking 10+ games, IMO.
Won't happen probably, but should .... The kid needs to calm down a little.
I realize that's weird coming from me ... But there's a line. And he ignored the line.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 4:20:39 PM   
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I realize I'm always the first one to call for dust ups and scuffles, but Machados actions vs the As was embarrassing this weekend.
Bats are a no-no. The kid needs a shocking suspension. Talking 10+ games, IMO.
Won't happen probably, but should .... The kid needs to calm down a little.
I realize that's weird coming from me ... But there's a line. And he ignored the line.



His bat-throwing...after the 2nd pitch was a little inside? Whiny little boy. Get over it. Be a man and charge the pitcher instead.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 4:23:10 PM   
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If true ... Needed to be spanked. Publicly
See how this works?
I end up calling for someone to be smacked in the mouth anyway.

So im not really waffling.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 4:25:25 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/9/2014 7:44:37 PM   
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Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado apologized for his role in Sunday's dugout-clearing scrum with the Oakland Athletics in which a bat flew out of his hands and went down the third-base line.

"I want to apologize to all my teammates, my coaching staff, the entire Orioles organization, and Oakland and to my fans for the way I acted," he told the team-owned MASN network. "That's not the way we play baseball around here."

MLB is expected to hand down some kind of discipline for Machado.

Machado, who wasn't made available to the media other than his comments to MASN, also made a point to apologize to A's catcher Derek Norris. He said hitting Norris with his backswings was unintentional. Norris was taken out of the game after one of the backswings and replaced by John Jaso. Both catchers called out Machado after the game.

"What he's doing, it's a disgrace to baseball, and I think it's sad to see someone of his talent and national recognition have things like that stain your career," Norris said, according to MLB.com. "I think it's sad that a player needs to take things to a certain level. I don't really understand it. Somewhere inside of him, he's gotta know that he was in the wrong at some point. If you can't leave here today thinking that you didn't do anything wrong, something needs to happen, whether it happens internally over there or whatever."

On Sunday, Oakland left-hander Fernando Abad threw inside to Machado in the eighth and Machado's bat flew out of his hands and went down the third-base line. Both players exchanged words before the benches and bullpens emptied. Machado and Abad were ejected, with crew Chief Larry Vanover saying Machado was ejected for throwing the bat and Abad was tossed for throwing at him a second time.

Machado said Sunday the bat "slipped out of my hands."

Machado also had an incident with the Athletics on Friday, when he didn't like the force of the tag by Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson and the two had to be separated.

The Orioles open the second-half of the season with a series in Oakland. Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said he wasn't sure if there would be a carryover from this weekend's incidents when the two teams meet again.

"I don't know," he said, according to MLB.com. "We will deal with it. Trust me, we will deal with it."


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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:16:14 PM   
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Way too young.
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Seriously tho, had some great years with the Dodgers.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:20:04 PM   
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Bob Welch passes away today.
Way too young.
Loved ebony eyes.
Seriously tho, had some great years with the Dodgers.


Singer died 2 years ago. I don't remember that.

I wonder if some of Welch's wild days contributed to this. Sad.

Did you see the story about the Oly swimmer, Van Dyken, severing her spine in an ATV accident. Yikes.

Didn't know she hitched up w/NFL punter Tom Rouen.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:23:00 PM   
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She's got a tough road ahead

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:26:51 PM   
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Bob Welch passes away today.
Way too young.
Loved ebony eyes.
Seriously tho, had some great years with the Dodgers.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/bob-welch-dies-at-57--longtime-a-s-and-dodgers-pitcher-won-27-games-in-1990-191534152.html;_ylt=AwrBTzqMaJdTZ1cA6cRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MWoxNW52BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTM5OV8x


Welch's best full season came in '90 when he went 27-6 with a 2.95 ERA in 35 starts for the A's, and started for the American League in the All-Star game. No one has won more than 24 games since.

Nobody's career can be boiled down to one moment, but Welch sure started off with a bang in '78 when he faced the New York Yankees in the World Series with Mr. October at the plate with Game 2 on the line in the ninth inning. Their confrontation lasted seven minutes.

I have dozens of his baseball cards. His career ran parallel to my card collecting days and some of my first baseball memories. Sounds like it was a heart attack. Pretty shocking.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:28:08 PM   
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Bob Welch passes away today.
Way too young.
Loved ebony eyes.
Seriously tho, had some great years with the Dodgers.


Singer died 2 years ago. I don't remember that.

I wonder if some of Welch's wild days contributed to this. Sad.

Did you see the story about the Oly swimmer, Van Dyken, severing her spine in an ATV accident. Yikes.

Didn't know she hitched up w/NFL punter Tom Rouen.

I heard that about Van Dyken too. I didn't know who she was until a couple years ago when she won the Preposterous Statement Tourney.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 3:28:47 PM   
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Welch and Steve Howe both had musicians with the same name who were about equally as well-known.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 6:05:50 PM   
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Bob Welch passes away today.
Way too young.
Loved ebony eyes.
Seriously tho, had some great years with the Dodgers.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/bob-welch-dies-at-57--longtime-a-s-and-dodgers-pitcher-won-27-games-in-1990-191534152.html;_ylt=AwrBTzqMaJdTZ1cA6cRXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MWoxNW52BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTM5OV8x


Welch's best full season came in '90 when he went 27-6 with a 2.95 ERA in 35 starts for the A's, and started for the American League in the All-Star game. No one has won more than 24 games since.

Nobody's career can be boiled down to one moment, but Welch sure started off with a bang in '78 when he faced the New York Yankees in the World Series with Mr. October at the plate with Game 2 on the line in the ninth inning. Their confrontation lasted seven minutes.

I have dozens of his baseball cards. His career ran parallel to my card collecting days and some of my first baseball memories. Sounds like it was a heart attack. Pretty shocking.


R.I.P. Mr. Welch. You certainly made your mark in baseball.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:15:07 PM   
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Could have easily been more.
That's a huge no-no, what he did.
This aint ovah.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:18:59 PM   
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Machado gets 5 games
Could have easily been more.
That's a huge no-no, what he did.
This aint ovah.


Since I don't know the whole story, why do they presume it was on purpose? Was there a conflict earlier?

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:21:06 PM   
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Machado gets 5 games
Could have easily been more.
That's a huge no-no, what he did.
This aint ovah.


Since I don't know the whole story, why do they presume it was on purpose? Was there a conflict earlier?



Several
It was pretty blatant
He and the As third baseman dusted up earlier on a tag play
The As threw at Machado twice in that at-bat
He earlier hit the As catcher with backswings twice.
1+1+1+1+1+1 = someones gonna get smacked

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:23:07 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:25:11 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 6/10/2014 7:26:01 PM   
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Theres a way to get people angry, and then theres a way to GET PEOPLE ANGRY

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