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So here some cities that I can think off that the MLB could expand to.
Those are six cities that I MLB could expand to if did. I list two Candian cities becasue because I think that could really boost Canada's interest in baseball, eh.
Believe me, if Montreal got a team they would sell out tickets once the news was announced. They would have some thing to prove. They want to show that that they do care about baseball and want to show everyone that you will never again see Olympic Stadium so empty for a baseball game.
I also suggest Vancouver since if it can host the Olympics it certainley can host a baseball team. Plus I think Mariners vs. Team Vancouver could be a very good rivalry.
If all 6 six team where to be expasion teams the divison could look like this.
AL East- O's, Rays, Yankees, Reed Sox, Blue Jays, Team North Carolina
AL Central- Indians, Tigers, Twins, White Sox, Royals, Team Indy
AL West- Mariners, Angels, A's, Rangers, Team Vancouver,
NL East- Braves, Natinals, Marlins, Phillies, Mets, Team Montreal
NL Central- Pirates, Reds, Cubs, Cardinals, Astros, Breweres, Team Nawlins
NL West- Giants, Rockies, Padres, Dodgers, D'Backs, Team Vegas
More thoughts on expansion and realignment to come!
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And I say why not. I think he's much better then Brandon Inge or Nelson Cruz and right up there Joe Mauer. It 'd be a great chance for him to show off his skills on the national stage.
We know he can hit homers, but I think if he chose to be an "upper-cutter" like Prince Fielder he could put 30 or 40 homers a year, although the think he could do that this year.
I can't see why Major League Baseball wouldn't let him in, they're on their hands and knees begging for participants, why not let Adam Jones in?
What do you think?
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Lats night Ian was roobed of his rightful place an An All-Star, instead he part of the final vote. Just a week or so ago he was leading but now all the sudden he's not guranteed a spot on the roster.
MUTINY!
HOW CAN JOE MADDON NOT PUT HIM ON THE TEAM???? Instead he goes with Ben Zobrist???? Ian is much better then Ben Zorbist no doubt about it.
So please vote for Ian.
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Meet Brad Bergesen. Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles. 6' 2" 125 pounds. But theres so much more that most people don't know about him.
Right now Brad is the Orioles ace and among the most promising pitchers in all of the majors. Yesterday most of Red Sox Nation got aquainted to him. However because of the Sox's comeback no one was talking about him. And this makes me angry.
No one realized how good he was. He's going to be a kid people will be talking about. If he was playing for a big market team he'd be a household name. But since he plays for The O's no one is talking about him.
He is the pitching equvilant of
He won the Jim Palmer award for the best pitcher in the Orioles system. In fact I've heard him compared to
Jim Palmer compared him to Mark Fidrych, not a bad comparison!!!!!
He can handle the big boys he had a great outing yesterday against the Sox. He allowed one run against the Nats
and the Mariners
and two against Detriot
and three against the South Siders
He will be a name your going to be hearing for a long time.
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to this!
Now I will gives you one hint, Bob, Julia, and Elizabeth are all proud citizens!
That's right Red Sox Nation is what I need to rant about. And specifaly the fact that they overtake Camden Yards. I have NO PROBLEM WITH THE FANS BEING SUPPORTIVE but it just makes me haywire. This angers since he remebers when Memorial Stadium was never called Fenway South or Fenway Park at Camden Yards. It's despicable that there are more Sox fans then O's fans in our own park!
This needs to stop, andd here's how, we put a better team on the field. And right now we're doing that.
It's time make a Camden Yards a hostile enviroment like Memorial Stadium was, we need to show up and give our team support. I can't stand any more Fenway Park South and it needs to end now. We can't let red Sox Nation invade Birdland!
I've been ok with this the last couple years but now I'm getting sick of it!
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I had a fun time at Camden Yards Saturday!
#1- I got the Nick Markakis BP jersey. It not really authentic or anything close to that, it's kinda cheap. But still it's cool to get something like that!
#2- After the game was over the Jumbotron proceeded to play "Field of Dreams". It was very cool when they turned out almost all the lights. It was like the world's coolest outdoor theate!.
"You had "TOO" see it!"
I fell asleep right around the time Terrance Mann arrived in Iowa :(
Guess what??
"WHAT?"
Some of the players were actually watching the movie rather than going home!
"Man that's pretty cool"
#3- Matt Wieters Facts Night!
This was the best part of the night: getting to meet the left and right side of Matt Wieters facts brain!
"Who's who?
Ian is the right side, since he is a graphic designer! And Daniel is the left side he very big into stats.
We first swung by 5 or 10 minutes before the game. Funny story here I see some people wearing the sliced bread shirts.
And I ask if they know where more Matt Wieters Facts people are and someone points to a person and he says something like "Hi I'm Daniel" As in Daniel Moroz the left side of MWF brain. He was very friendly we talked for several minutes. However I wanted my picture taken by Ian for the MWF Facebook page.
And he wasn't currently there, he was gettting autographs. Daniel recommended that I come by later. And that's what we did! The second time we came up Ian was present, he shook our hands and invited us to sit down. So we began talking about various things, we got to the t-shirts and how I had created a shirt for Pittsburgh Penguins announcer MIke Lange with some of his well-known calls on it. And Ian replies "Who's MIke Lange?" The Penguins (grin comes to my face) announcer. "NO NOT THE PENGUINS!!" He blurts out. That's right the Penguins!
So then we got to talking about the game and I asked if I could interview him. And we was like "You, want to interview me???" And he of course excepted the invitation.
Now what exactly makes this game so fun?
There's actually four reasons!
#1- Free Nick Markakis jerseys!
That's right free Nick Markakis jerseys
Only the one they are giving out are the black BP ones! Awesome
#2- Field of Dreams on the "Tron!
That's right Field of Dreams is going to be played on the Jumbotron!
Some of my favorite quotes
"If you build it, he will come."
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"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Hey, is this heaven?
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Ray Kinsella: The voice is back.
Annie Kinsella: Oh, Lord... you don't have to build a football field now, do you?
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Annie Kinsella: What if the Voice calls while you're gone?
#3- Matt Wieters Facts Night!
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Matt Wieters Facts Day Is Finally Upon Us! - Hey Orioles Fans, please wear your Matt Wieters Facts T-Shirts for tonight's O's/Nationals Game and join us in the upper deck behind homeplate. Also, if you manage to be one of the first 10,000 fans in the ballpark, you could recieve a free Nick Markakis Batting Practice Jersey. Even more, the Orioles 2009 First Round Pick Matt Hobgood will be introduced to the crowd. So if you call yourself a fan, you'll be at tonight's game. If you would like to meet up with our group, we will be sitting in Section 334 Row K. We'd love to put some faces with names, so feel free to stop by and introduce yourself. Also, Ian Oland, Designer of the MattWietersFacts.com, will be photographing all fans wearing our Matt Wieters Facts shirts to put up on our facebook fan page and our website. So please come out to the yard, and root the Switch-Hitting Jesus on! See you tonight!!!
#4- Matt Hobgood!
Will be introduced tonight.
FUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN
THE FARM SYSTEM
Full Jordan: The O's have one of the best farm systems in all of the majors, Brandon Synder, Jake Arrieta, Brain Matsuz, and Chris Tillman, Baseball America says the O's have on the best farm systems in the majors.
Empty Jordan: They were saying that a couple years ago about Hayden Penn, Liz, and Daniel Cabrera and none of them are of any use in the bigs any more. How do we know that's not going to happend with Arrieta, Matsuz and Tillman?
FJ: We don't. However that was an Orioles team that didn't have Andy McPhail monitoring everything, this team does Andy McPhail watching and making sure that when the get called up they are fully prepared for the majors. Take Brad Bergesun. He was called up and has made an immediate impact on team.
EJ: Just because you have a better GM doesn't mean that your prospects will magically be better, some people just can't handle the pressure of being in bigs, they can't adjust players that are better, faster, and stronger.
FJ: The thing is the GM does in a way make the prospects better by hiring a good coaching staff and making sure that players seem to be ready to handle the guys that are better ,faster and stronger. Our previous GM's weren't hiring good coaches and were rushing the kids up to the majors.
EJ: The key word is seem to be ready, you can't judge how Minor Leaguers will do in the majors until you put them up there. You cant gurantee anything.
FJ: This completly true. You can't gurantee anything. But the compontents are there for a great ballplayers.
And that's the end of the first debate
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MLB 09 is an excellent game. One of the biggest improvments for me was they have all this Cooperstown stuff. For example for The White Sox you play in these
or these
From the Go-Go Sox of the 50's
if you choose the A's you can wear these!
One of my favorites would have to the Astros!
There's also retro stadiums
and
(Crosley)
and
(Griffith)
and
(Shibe)
and
(Sportsman's)
Last but not least, All-Star teams!
There are two the Golden Era team- Cy, walter, George Herman, Jackie, ect..
Silver- Reggie, Seaver, Ryan, Morgan, Ozzie Smith.
There really isn't anything worth mentioning about the game play, average, same with the graphics. BUT I LOVE THE NOSTALGIA FACTOR!!
8.4 out of 10
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NOLAN REIMOLD
Nolan atteneded
Where he tore up the MAC! In his final season he batted .360 with 20 jacks and 60 ribbies. He won the MAC player of the year. Did I mention he hold about every hitit ng record in Bowling Green history!
His stats of course caught the O's eyes, and he was drafted in the second round of '05.
He immedetily began tearing up the minors.
He was named the top prospect in New York-Penn league. He lead the
in Homers and doubles. And he didn't play the whole season! He then was transfered to the
He hit .357 in the Keys playoff run and was a key player on that team.
He stayed in Frederick and in a recurring theme tore up the leaue with 19 homers and a .379 OBP.
Then he got promoted to Bowie and in '07 where he batted .306 and had .565 slugging average! And he hit 11 homers in 50 games! Meanwhile he hit 19 in Frederick and he played a hundred games!
He remained en fuego
Last season with Bowie were he hit 25 big ones and had 84 RBI's in 139.
For a portion of this season he was on the
Were he was a teammate of MW15
He made his ML debut against KC on May 14th. he had a nimmediate test when in his first two games he had to face Gil Meche
and Zach Grienke
May 27th was when a lot more people knew his name. Bottom of the 12th, O's donw by one here comes Nolan Reimold, gues what he does.
Walk-off three run homerun!
Ztaknek told me that Nolan leads the league rookies in several catergories!
he looks to be a very promising left fielder who could be around for a long time!
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My petition's goal is 10,000 signatures! A lot I know, but I request that you e-mail this link to any baseball fan you know!
]]>That's right the school year is over! This calls for champagne!
"Non-alcoholic of course!"
To celebrate, TOO will encorporate some of my main subjects into this post.
Oh yeah did I mention the O's won in walk-off fashion babiiiiiieeeee!!!!
"Since when are you Dicky V?"
It starts by MW getting a double
"15 doubled is 30 and 30 doubled is 60!"
Then Reimold gets walked and now we have runners on first and second and here comes B-Rob and he hits a gronuder, and they try to get Pie (pinch running for MW) at third since he is the lead runner
"SSSSAAAAAFFFFFEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
Bases loaded AJ's batting, the Yard is up will he
A. get a base hit and tie the game
B. hit a walk-off ground slam
C. strikeout
D. get walked
"The answer is D!!!"
That's right he gets an RBI, via the walk! And the game is tied!
"YAY"
Now here comes The Greek God
And he gets struck out looking!
Now here comes Aubrey Huff, lThursday's hero, and guess what he does!
The picture says it all!
I know why the Orioles won last night, let me begin with a stat the O's going into last night's game were O-and-34 now why is the 34 so special? Wild Bill Hagy, the Roar form 34! Alos because I listened to some Orioles Magic before the game so that also helped, plus my MW shirt is lucky! The O's are 2-0 when I wear it!
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Kevin Jewukilis
Kevin Youklilis was born in Cincy in 1979. Kevin has had many important achivements including Macher of Day honors multiple times, all-star first baseman, and having his nickanme echoed in Fenway Park.
Jewuk was born to a Jewish jewelry salesman, he atteneded the Cincy where broke almost every school hitting record. When the red sox drafted him in the 8th round of the draft.
As a prospect he was mentioned in Moneyabll calling the Greek God of walks. THis was the first the mainstream had head of him. In fact Billy made manny trades t oget the macher but Theo turned all of them down!
In 2006 he was part of the starting line up, then in 2007 he got better. I nfact on one occasion in the ALDS he hit a homerun and I spontainusley (sp) blerted out "YOOOOUUUUUK."
In 2008 he was voted to his first all-star a very important achivment for any player.
This year he has been red hot and he looks like he has a chance to be Macher of the year!
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MATT WIETERS!!!!!!
He hit it! He hit it! Matt Wieters first home run was hit last night and I saw it and I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!
"YOU DID?!?!?!?"
Let me explain, my dad said something similar to "C'mon Matt get your first RBI tonight!" I replied "How about his first RBI and his first homerun in this at bat" And bam the
(Tim Kurkijan called him that!)
Clobbers one out of the park! His first Hr and his first two RBI's. After all
So I'm not surprised, since he does bat with
Y'know
Did you know that
He ate his
And no doubt that helped! He was probably checking his favorite website
"Were can you get these designs?"
http://mattwietersfacts.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop
"Thank you!"
Oh yeah did the mention Matt gave a curtain call!
And got he free pie!
and
"Y'know if I were Matt Wieters I would go after Adam!"'
It also just so happened that I was wearing MW shirt that I got on Sunday!
KOJI UEHARA
For the first time all season I got to see Koji pitch! he had a typical Koji outting: His pitch gets high quick and he comes out after 4 or 5 and then bullpen blows it!
"Does Dave hate Koji, it certainley seems like it!"
I don't like pitch counts!!!!!!!!! They mess up way to many outings!
ZEUS NICK MARKAKIS
Nick Markakis had a great game, going 4 for 4! Infact this I really liked, there's was a guy with a Greek flag!
He was in a slump but I don't think Nick got the memo!
I think the Greeks are so happy they're going to paint Zeus' temple orange!!!!
AUBREY HUFF
Aubrey gave us the lead on a two-run homer onto the flagcourt!
I GOT TO MEET THE METS
Well, I didn't get to litterally meet the Mets, how ever we did get to them stretch, and they were so close! I actually got to see K-Rod and he's short!! However I was surrond by Mets Fans!
"WOW, that's scary, mets fans all around you, almost as bad as Yankee fans!"
Overall an awesome night!
LET'S GO
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