The Whole World

Gotta go with the Cards. Mainly cause I want to be able to get reasonable tickets for opening day in Arlington next year. Oh, and I like my in-laws better.

Labor solidarity on the owner’s part?

Just to prolong it?

thankfully i decided Frank Thomas is a better hitter than Mark McGuire

his evil black soul would come out and kill everyone in a 1 mile radius

he picks texas.

Clearly.

The ball hit foul right off berkmans bat then went fair…i imagine if the ball hit off the dugout and went fair it would be foul…i dunno

Cox will become eligible for induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, the next induction class in which post-1972 managers can be considered.

(From Bobby Cox’ Wiki article.) So I guess in 2014 we see Cox, Torre, and LaRussa go in together.

Further changes to the Veterans Committee process were announced by the Hall on July 26, 2010, effective with the 2011 election.11

All individuals eligible for induction but not eligible for BBWAA consideration will now be considered on a single ballot, grouped by the following eras in which they made their greatest contributions:

    Pre-Integration Era (1871–1946)
    Golden Era (1947–1972)
    Expansion Era (1973 and later)

The Hall will use the BBWAA’s Historical Overview Committee to formulate the ballots for each era, consisting of 12 individuals for the Expansion Era and 10 for the other eras. The Hall’s board of directors will select a committee of 16 voters for each era, made up of Hall of Famers, executives, baseball historians, and media members. Each committee will meet and vote at the Baseball Winter Meetings once every three years. The Expansion Era committee held its first vote in 2010 for 2011 induction, with longtime general manager Pat Gillick becoming the first individual elected under the new procedure. The Golden Era committee will vote in 2011 for the induction class of 2012, and the Pre-Integration Era committee will vote in 2012 for induction in 2013. Subsequent elections will rotate among the three committees in that order.

(HOF on Wiki)

much better than AT&T Multiview.

with the second batter of the game. carpenter had thrown four pitches to that point and three of them were nowhere near the strike zone. he looked off to me. then the fifth pitch he throws is almost in the dirt but andrus was forced to swing at it.

Since 1979, when he first became a big-league manager with the Chicago White Sox, La Russa has been confounding and exasperating baseball fans with his frequent visits to the mound. La Russa is baseball’s pre-eminent practitioner of the art of the matchup: an approach in which the manager tries to tailor the strengths of the pitcher on the mound to the weaknesses of the hitter at the plate. If a batter has a woeful record against right-handers, for instance, La Russa will pull his southpaw and call in a righty. If the batter has never gotten a hit off one of his pitchers during his career, that pitcher gets the call.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576639210463909724.html?KEYWORDS=tony+la+russa