2011 MLB Season Game Thread: March-April

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

The Pirates seem to end up with all our former pitchers; Olsen, Thompson, Leroux, Veras and now Sinkbeil.

[Beef]

There are a lot more former Marlins

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Those are just the ones I could think of off the top of the head that are now in the Piraes system.

[Beef]

I just had to say something because it's one of those things people do that probably unnecessarily gets on my nerves. There's so much movement of players that fans of probably every team can say something similar about at least a handful of other teams around the league

[HUGG]

In Game 2, Colby Lewis is scheduled to start after missing his last regular turn in the rotation because -- I'm not making this up -- his wife, Jenny, was giving birth in California. To the couple's second child.

Don't have kids of my own but I raised a step-son for eight years. I know all about sacrifice and love and how great children are.

But a pitcher missing one of maybe 30 starts? And it's all kosher because of Major League Baseball's new paternity leave rule?

Follow me this way to some confusion.

Imagine if Jason Witten missed a game to attend the birth of a child. It's just, I dunno, weird. Wrong even.

Departures? Totally get it because at a funeral you're saying goodbye to someone for the last time. But an arrival is merely saying hello to someone you'll see the rest of your life.

Dave Bush filled in for Lewis last week in Detroit and threw three scoreless innings of a game that Mark Lowe and the bullpen eventually coughed up. But that's not the point. Baseball players are paid millions to play baseball. If that means "scheduling" births so they occur in the off-season, then so be it. Of the 365 days in a year, starting pitchers "work" maybe 40 of them, counting spring training and playoffs.

If it was a first child, maybe. But a second child causing a player to miss a game? Ludicrous.

Right, Shane Battier?

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/spor...h_texas_ra.php

This guy is Cowherd level douche.

[MiamiHomer]

That can't be real.

[Omar]

[MiamiHomer]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4BO26nqPmM[/ame]

I also lol'd when he got the sharpie for the cleats.

[Miamarlin21]

That guy is a total dick. Wow.

[Ramp]

over his last 2 starts, Luke Hochevar retired 31 straight batters (before falling apart in his final inning tonight)

[Omar]

The secret perfect game!

[FishFanInPA]

ugh fucking Kershaw. Mattingly should have pulled you for Broxton who probably would have blown it anyways.

[Beef]

:-(

[Ralph]

Beckett and Oswalt are pitching nicely.

[FishFF]

Weeeak hit on Josh