2010 Season MLB Thread: September

[Party]

That Cantu trade finally paid a dividend.

Rangers in the postseason for the first time since 1999.

Rangers, Reds, Rays and possibly Padres in the playoffs. Who would have guessed!

[Valid]

The Rangers aren't really that big of a surprise, in my opinion.

[Swifty]

I think the Rangers are a huge surprise in that they ran away with the division.

[Bobbob1313]

The rest of that division tops out at mediocre, though. They aren't really running away with it based on their own merit. They'd be tied for third in the AL East, and would be 6 back in the central.

How terrible that division has been is a bigger surprise than how the Rangers have played.

[nny]

So if Boston holds on to win this game, and then they win 2 more games before their next series with the Yankees (Yankees have 3 v.s. Blue Jays, Boston 4 v.s. CHW)...they could then sweep the yanks again during the final series and force a 1 game playoff.

BP has the odds of that happening at 1%.

[DColts]

And the Yankees won.

[Party]

Amazing cover.

[Beef]

It's pretty

[jOOj]

That a handsome jinx.

[Fritz]

Rays wore hats with a plaid bill tonight. It was awesome.

[Party]

Too bad they can't draw dick.

[TealMonster08]

Seth from Superbad can draw dick.

Also, Lincecum is not the Lincecum he used to be.

[Fritz]

Too bad they can't draw dick.

Adjusted for population they're 7th in attendance. Not to mention the stadium is in a fucking awful location.

[Party]

Is this Tampa metro or just St. Pete?

And I agree wholeheartedly that long term attendance issues are because of the stadium. But the final week of the season, your team is in it and you draw 12K?

Atleast the Marlins drew in the mid 30s that final week.

[HUGG]

"Baseball works in funny ways," Latos told CBSSports.com. "The only way I could honestly put it is, we could be like the Giants and go and change our whole lineup, put guys with 'San Francisco Giants' across their jerseys. We didn't.

"We added two guys (Miguel Tejada and Ryan Ludwick). We've been the same team all year. We haven't just gone and grabbed guys from other teams."

Among the Giants' midseason acquisitions are outfielders Pat Burrell, Jose Guillen and Cody Ross along with infielder Mike Fontenot, all of whom were acquired either via post-July 31 trades (Guillen and Fontentot), straight waiver claims (Ross) or in free agency (Burrell).

Ross wasn't too pleased with Latos' shot at the Giants.

"It's asinine to say, 'We're a close-knit group and this is our team,'" Ross told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Every team goes out at the trading deadline and tries to make a deal. It's very rare for an organization to say, 'We don't need any improvements. We're as good as we're going to be.' Every team looks to improve, whether it's one, three or five guys."

Added Ross when asked if he was invested in the playoff run as longer-tenured Giants: "I'm just as excited as they are. I'm finally on a winning team and getting a chance to go to the playoffs."

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/09/30/c...s-are-asinine/