2008 Baseball Thread: You're not getting Seven!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance

While the Royals rank 28th in attendance this season (17,810), they are outdrawing the first-place Marlins (14,980) and rank right behind the first-place Rays (18,379). I guarantee you that if the Royals were in first place like those two, the Royals would be nowhere near the bottom, despite some of the bad weather they've had for games this spring.

 

He speaks the truth. The city is just itching, ITCHING for a winner... and if they take off, so will the attendance.

 

Rays, Kazmir sign a three-year extension. $28.5M guaranteed.

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080514&content_id=2700177&vkey=news_tb&fext=.jsp&c_id=tb

 

The last baseball thread started with a Brewers-related "fuck".

This is the opposite of fuck.

 

Put this on the last thread. BYH and Spnited will be along in a second to predict his upcoming Tommy John surgery.

As if I can touch on the last thread for a moment, Simon's list was cute. But apparently when they were trading away their talent, the Marlins got some great parts in return, hence their great start to this season.

Some teams are well run enough that they don't need to spend over $100 million to put together a good team.

 

KC's not a bad baseball town, and the Royals look to finally have some solid pieces in place to start making a bit of noise again. They're nowhere near an automatic win anymore -- just ask my Tigers.
Great looking youthful stuff in the rotation, and Soria is really about as good as it gets in the ninth.

 

Bizarre, the support that group of panzies gets on this board.

 

Bizarre is bizarre. And pansies is spelled with an 's'... unless you're coming up with a new term for German tanks or something.

 

Edmonds is batting sixth behind Fukudome today against the Padres. The only guy in the lineup with a batting average worse than Edmonds? Ryan Dempster.

 

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080515&content_id=2705204&vkey=news_mil&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil

The deal is eight years, $45 million, the largest ever for a player with his less than three full seasons of major league service. Does this make the Brewers fans on the board nervous or do you think it is a good deal? The guy doesn't even have a full season in the majors yet, but if he is anywhere near as good as he has looked so far, this could be a bargain by the end of the contract.

 

As I suspected, Edmonds still looks like the spawn on Satan in Cubbie Blue.

 

After a mixture of boos and cheers, Edmonds only got cheers after singling to right field in his first Cubs at bat.