2013 MLB Season Game Thread: July

[Beef]

The Yankees got Marlins training staff'd

[Bobbob1313]

Surprised nobody mentioned Aaron Hicks' ridiculous throw last night to get Vernon Wells out at third:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...103733621.html

[Miamarlin21]

Wow. That was good.

[Miamarlin21]

Alex Rodriguez may be in deep doo doo:

Next up: Possible plea agreements.
Lawyers for Alex Rodriguez, now aware of the extent of Major League Baseball’s case against the Yankee third baseman and in a possible attempt to cut their client’s potentially massive losses, are engaging in internal discussions about brokering a plea deal with MLB to reduce A-Rod’s looming drug suspension, three sources familiar with baseball’s investigation into Anthony Bosch and the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal have told the Daily News.
According to the sources, a 150-game suspension might be the best that could be expected for Rodriguez, who is rehabbing from hip surgery with high Single-A Tampa and was chastised by the Yankees Saturday for failing to report to the team’s complex for Friday night’s game following a four-and-a-half hour meeting with MLB officials who outlined their case against him. His 20-day rehab assignment ends on July 22, and it is unclear where A-Rod will go after that, but according to a source, Yankee officials sent him a notification Saturday telling him that he is obligated to inform them in advance of any absence. Rodriguez also declined to accept an assignment to Buffalo, where the Yankees wanted him to join their Triple-A team, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, saying he was having a problem with his quad muscle. Rodriguez played in Saturday night’s game in Tampa, however.
According to another source, Rodriguez’s meeting with MLB ended at about 4 p.m., and a clearly shaken Rodriguez then met with MLB Players Association reps for an hour and a half to discuss what had been outlined by MLB officials. When Rodriguez didn’t show up at the Yankee complex, GM Brian Cashman then tried to reach the three-time AL MVP, who told him that he “just couldn’t make it.”
Meanwhile, an A-Rod spokesman told The News Saturday night in reference to a possible plea deal that “nobody from Alex’s team has made any such comments, and as we have said before, we are respecting the process and following the procedures as outlined in the joint agreement."

As The News has reported, MLB is believed to have extensive evidence, including Bosch’s own testimony, that Rodriguez committed multiple violations of the joint drug agreement, including acquiring performance-enhancing drugs from Bosch for several years. The self-described “biochemist” has been cooperating with MLB for several weeks in exchange for being dropped from baseball’s lawsuit against him for tortious interference with its player contracts, indemnifying him for legal expenses and putting in a good word for him with law enforcement, and he is believed to have provided proof of his dealings with Rodriguez.

“I can see a scenario where if they’ve got multiple offenses (against A-Rod) that rather than going for his career with an arbitrator, baseball might settle on something like 150 games,” said one of the sources.
Among the drugs Rodriguez may have acquired, according to published accounts of Bosch’s records, are testosterone cream; IGF-1, a banned substance in baseball that stimulates insulin production and muscle growth; “troches,” a type of drug lozenge that includes 15% testosterone; pink cream, which Bosch wrote is a complex formula that also includes testosterone and growth hormone; and “Sub-Q,” referred to a mixture of HGH, IGF-1 and other drugs. Bosch is sure to have been discussing those records with MLB.
MLB has met with Rodriguez and several other players linked to Bosch and Biogenesis who are also expected to be suspended, including Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun, whose name appeared next to “moneys owed” in notes a Bosch associate turned over to the Miami New Times last year. Braun’s then-lawyer, David Cornwell, who now represents Rodriguez, has said Braun’s legal team enlisted Bosch as an expert witness during the former NL MVP’s successful appeal of a 50-game drug suspension in late 2011. Braun has steadfastly denied getting performance-enhancing drugs from Bosch.
According to one of the baseball sources, MLB is believed to have brought up the possibility of a settlement in its meeting with Braun, who might also consider a deal, as would other players involved.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-...#ixzz2YzTnjWZx

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Wow, Hunter Pence with an amazing diving catch.

[dim]

Big Time Timmy Jim.

[Beef]

Buster did it

[Namaste]

Cards/Cubs is fun.

Cubs are the best at coming back and quickly falling behind again.

[Miamarlin21]

Mr. Worldwide is the pre-game hype for the Homerun Derby. Me gusta.
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hahah Vasgersian "Pittull getting everybody fired up! I guess..."

[Beef]

ohmygosh, what is this?

He's lip syncing, no? I don't get it.

[Chewford]

I look forward to Pitbull shouting random things on stage while background music is playing.

[Fritz]

Man, Michael Cuddyer looks old.

[Beef]

I look forward to Pitbull shouting random things on stage while background music is playing.

That's what's happening, right?

[Miamarlin21]

I might have missed it but I don't think I heard a "dale"
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All the kids shagging in the outfield are always so horrible. I always wanted to be one and I'd probably be just as brutal.

[emkayseven]

I love when sports teams have a sense of humor

[Beef]

It's a sharknado