2012 MLB Season Game Thread: August

[Party]

Karma?

[Ramp]

obligatory Josh Willingham is awesome post:

2012 League Ranks:
• 5th in AL in HR (31)
• 3rd in AL in RBI (91)
• 8th in AL in BB (63)
• 7th in AL in SLG (.545)
• 6th in AL in OPS (.916)

[Namaste]

Beltre has 3 HR's in 3 AB's (2HR in 1 inning)

:mjpop

[Ramp]

[MiamiHomer]

[emkayseven]

Chris Volstad got a rain shortened win. /irony

[Chewford]

It's like rain on your Volstad's day.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

It was called after 8 full innings. Cubs only needed to get 3 outs for the game to be over anyway and they had a 5 run lead.

[Mainge]

: joker

[HUGG]

I mean, he pitched really well today. Some might even say it was a beautiful game.

Good for him.

[Beef]

It was called after 8 full innings. Cubs only needed to get 3 outs for the game to be over anyway and they had a 5 run lead.

Y'all did it. Congratulations?

[Namaste]

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb

Vin Scully back for 64th season with the Dodgers in 2013

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

The Astros were officially eliminated from the playoffs today.

[Namaste]

oh.

Impressed by the new ownership and the promises they made when buying the team, Scully was curious to see whether those promises would hold true.

"If you give a toy to a little child, especially a boy, he's going to start asking questions," he said in a very insightful metaphor. "How far will it go? How high will it go? How fast will it go? I think like Roy Campanella said, 'You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play this game.' I think you have to a have a lot of little boy to love this game. I still have that little boy.

"I wondered with the new ownership. How fast will they move? How high will they try to take the team?"

One day after the team completed the largest trade in Dodgers history, Scully wants to hold on with both hands and be a part of the future, unable to walk away just yet.

He plans to continue the same schedule and call all games in California and Arizona, but there is one road trip next year that might be too enticing to pass up.

"I really would like to see Yankee Stadium and the Dodgers and Yankees," Scully said referring to the Interleague Series between the two clubs next year. "That really gets my imagination stirring. First of all, I've never seen the new Yankee Stadium. But to just go back and play the Yankees."

And in classic Scully fashion, he went on to tell another story, the sort he has treated Dodgers and baseball fans to for 63 years.

"I can remember my first World Series in 1953, having a big breakfast and then immediately going upstairs to dress and then throw up everything," he said. "The nerves of playing and doing my first World Series. A lot of things will come back when and if I go to New York."

Scully went on to cover 24 more World Series and a total of three perfect games, 25 no-hitters and 12 All-Star Games among many other historic baseball moments in his long career. He has become a fan favorite and local legend over the years. He even became an overnight Twitter sensation this season when he got catcher A.J. Ellis to trend without any idea of what that even meant.

[Miamarlin21]

Marcus Stroman out of Duke University was popped for Performance Enhancing Drugs (Methylhexaneamine.) He was the 22nd-overall pick by Toronto this year.

Shi Davidi
@ShiDavidi
Jays first-rounder Marcus Stroman suspended 50 games for using a PED