Yeah, soooo.....Sox have the best record in baseball? Dubs the fuck? I'm going to call it right now???2013 is The Impossible Dream Redux.
Aug 21 Sox @ Giants; I think I'm going.
NICE. Can't wait until I'm over the hump with this baby and get out and do stuff again. If the Sox make the WS though, I'm going to have to find a way to be there. Sorry, son. You'll understand one day.
LOS ANGELES ??? There was never supposed to be a video. Matt Kemp's uncommon act of kindness was never supposed to go farther than an ailing boy, his dad and the baseball star.
And yet when Kemp awakened Tuesday morning, 36 hours afterward, his phone told him otherwise. The video was everywhere.
No, there was never supposed to be evidence beyond the ailing boy's memory, and perhaps a shelf in his room. Maybe he's wearing Kemp's cap. Maybe he's still holding Kemp's gray road jersey and spikes.
"I didn't know that anybody was filming it," Kemp said Tuesday afternoon. "I wasn't aware."
A boy, Joshua Jones, and his father, Steve Jones, sat Sunday night in front-row seats at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The boy was in a wheelchair. Early in the game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, the father struck up a conversation with Dodgers third base coach Tim Wallach. He said his son was very sick, that he was a Dodgers fan, and that his favorite player was Kemp. The boy, who has cancer, is unable to speak.
"He just kind of looked at me," Kemp said.
Matt Kemp made an otherwise forgettable trip to San Francisco extraordinary for one Dodger fan. (USA Today Sports) ???
Wallach brought them a baseball. Later in the game, he told Kemp about Joshua. And when the game ended ??? Kemp had made the last out in a loss, the Dodgers' fourth in a row ??? Wallach returned to the dugout and found Kemp waiting for him. He wanted to go see the boy in the stands.
In the video that was recorded and uploaded by Tommy Schultz, a friend of Joshua, Kemp and Wallach walk together toward the ailing boy and his father. Kemp reaches out to shake the Joshua's hand, and instead he gets a baseball, which the boy had in his right hand.
Seated below field level, the boy looks with wide eyes as Kemp signs the baseball. The boy beams silently. Kemp returns the ball and then, in a ballpark full only a few minutes before, as onlookers laugh and cheer, Kemp removes his cap and hands it to the boy. He pulls his jersey ??? No. 27 ??? over his head and hands that, too, over the rail. And he unties his cleats, pulls off the right and then the left, and gives them to the boy so that his lap is piled with most of Matt Kemp's uniform.
Wallach stands to the side. He watches. Steve had told him his boy was dying.
"As a parent," Wallach said, "you can't even imagine what they're going through. You'd hate to have to imagine what they're going through."
Kemp reaches back over the rail to shake the father's hand. Then the boy's. He smiles and then he is gone, and the boy's eyes follow Kemp as he leaves, cap-less, jersey-less, shoeless.
And that was it. The video went dark. A minute or so that otherwise passed between the father and his ailing boy and the center fielder for the Dodgers, it would last a lifetime. And the world would witness it.
"It's just something I felt probably would have cheered him up a little bit," Kemp said. "Help him out a little bit. I just did it.
"Hopefully that made that kid's day."
He paused. Such a small gesture, then it was time to go. There have been others like him. There will be others like him.
"I don't even know the kid's name," Kemp said.
[Related: Brandon Crawford proving he's more than 'glove-first' shortstop]
By then, after another loss, in a season in which the talented Kemp is batting but .265 with a single home run and his Dodgers are in last place, Kemp had known there were smaller acts that meant bigger things. In that, a hello and a ball and an autograph weren't enough. The cap wouldn't be enough. The jersey wouldn't be enough. None of it would, perhaps, but it's what he had to give. That and an encouraging smile from an enemy Dodger in the land of Giants.
"I just saw a kid there that was a big fan," Kemp said. "Hopefully, God-willing, a miracle happens and he lives for a while."
Joshua smiled back best he could in a moment that was supposed to vanish, but wouldn't. On Tuesday morning, Kemp's phone was filled with messages.
"What'd I do now?" he thought.
It was the ailing boy, his father, and that minute Sunday night. Just that. All that.
"You have some good stories and some sad stories," Kemp said. "God puts them there to remind you."
"Thanks Matt. I will never forget that moment!!!" ???
Brett Lawrie is the biggest broseph on twitter right now, so unintentionally hilarious. i'm waiting for Vines of him opening up cans of 4Loko with his teeth.
But, c'mon... What's he really to do? It's not his call to make, it's the umpire you should be mad at. Sportsmanship you cry? Sure, but it happens ALL the time. Case in point, Derek Jeter.
I will however say that umpiring has been at an all time low as of late. These guys are really something else. In no other professional sport do you see as much ego and prideful driven calls.
But, c'mon... What's he really to do? It's not his call to make, it's the umpire you should be mad at. Sportsmanship you cry? Sure, but it happens ALL the time. Case in point, Derek Jeter.
I will however say that umpiring has been at an all time low as of late. These guys are really something else. In no other professional sport do you see as much ego and prideful driven calls.
so you're saying that the fans shouldn't have been mad at the guy breaking the rules but the guy who failed to catch the guy breaking the rules? astounding display of logic. or maybe you just enjoy using other people's articles to paint torontonians as alcoholic barbarians who don't "get" baseball. didn't you make a similarly formatted sensationalist post about the spanish being racist? is that going to be "your thing" on here? if so, save yourself the trouble.
First off, I'm not quite sure how you managed to pull these conclusions together - so this is how I'll answer your rant.
vintageinfants said:
so you're saying that the fans shouldn't have been mad at the guy breaking the rules but the guy who failed to catch the guy breaking the rules?
So then under your logic, you would have to condone the actions of the fans then? Look I get, it shit happens, umpires blow it, A LOT. Throwing shit on the field and getting all :beerbang: don't help your cause when you try ask for sympathy. Show some class, you're making Yankee fans look like saints.
vintageinfants said:
or maybe you just enjoy using other people's articles to paint torontonians as alcoholic barbarians who don't "get" baseball.
That was not my intention. The title of this thread is MLB2K13 YOU SUCKAZ. Not TORONTO BLUE JAYS POWERHAUS YOU SUCKAZ. You're the one that turned it into a Blue Jay themed thread. It could have been any fan base... It just so happen to be Toronto's, in a very short time span. Geeze us, chill out a bit. Have a beer! Okay, sorry, too soon?
I'm a Seattle Mariners fan to the day I die. I ride for them through the wins (very few) and losses (a lot). We've been in or around last place for the better part of a decade that they call another 'rebuilding process' so I have zero leverage to say my team is any better than yours. (They're actually tied for the same record right now, I think?) Say anything negative you want about my team and I'd probably be inclined to agree - they suck - and losing isn't fun. Ask a Cub's fan.
As far as the racist thread goes I don't know how that even relates to this unless maybe in some way you feel it took a shot at you.
man.. this is their year. its a lock, obvs they will trounce the Nationals in October in 4 games. and the All Star game will be a joke with 2/3 the AL starting squad in blue.
Let it rest... I'm not here to troll, belittle, or intentionally stir shit up. I simply post on random threads I find of interest when I happen find a spare minute of free time.
I don't understand what's really the issue with an umpire simply asking for another opinion on a questionable call? I'm not really a fan of replay but is replay really the best solution? The game of baseball is already long enough without interuptions. I'm sure the umpire's union is pretty strong, but what's keeping umpires with a history of poor decisions from being demoted? Players can be sent down to the minors, why not the umps?
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this had to have been angel hernandez?
is it just me and rootless going to the ballpark? any other strutters want to catch 9 (ayo) with some cool dudes?
I know huh; no one wants to catch a foul tip?!
Aug 21 Sox @ Giants; I think I'm going.
NICE. Can't wait until I'm over the hump with this baby and get out and do stuff again. If the Sox make the WS though, I'm going to have to find a way to be there. Sorry, son. You'll understand one day.
LOS ANGELES ??? There was never supposed to be a video. Matt Kemp's uncommon act of kindness was never supposed to go farther than an ailing boy, his dad and the baseball star.
And yet when Kemp awakened Tuesday morning, 36 hours afterward, his phone told him otherwise. The video was everywhere.
No, there was never supposed to be evidence beyond the ailing boy's memory, and perhaps a shelf in his room. Maybe he's wearing Kemp's cap. Maybe he's still holding Kemp's gray road jersey and spikes.
"I didn't know that anybody was filming it," Kemp said Tuesday afternoon. "I wasn't aware."
A boy, Joshua Jones, and his father, Steve Jones, sat Sunday night in front-row seats at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The boy was in a wheelchair. Early in the game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, the father struck up a conversation with Dodgers third base coach Tim Wallach. He said his son was very sick, that he was a Dodgers fan, and that his favorite player was Kemp. The boy, who has cancer, is unable to speak.
"He just kind of looked at me," Kemp said.
Matt Kemp made an otherwise forgettable trip to San Francisco extraordinary for one Dodger fan. (USA Today Sports) ???
Wallach brought them a baseball. Later in the game, he told Kemp about Joshua. And when the game ended ??? Kemp had made the last out in a loss, the Dodgers' fourth in a row ??? Wallach returned to the dugout and found Kemp waiting for him. He wanted to go see the boy in the stands.
In the video that was recorded and uploaded by Tommy Schultz, a friend of Joshua, Kemp and Wallach walk together toward the ailing boy and his father. Kemp reaches out to shake the Joshua's hand, and instead he gets a baseball, which the boy had in his right hand.
Seated below field level, the boy looks with wide eyes as Kemp signs the baseball. The boy beams silently. Kemp returns the ball and then, in a ballpark full only a few minutes before, as onlookers laugh and cheer, Kemp removes his cap and hands it to the boy. He pulls his jersey ??? No. 27 ??? over his head and hands that, too, over the rail. And he unties his cleats, pulls off the right and then the left, and gives them to the boy so that his lap is piled with most of Matt Kemp's uniform.
Wallach stands to the side. He watches. Steve had told him his boy was dying.
"As a parent," Wallach said, "you can't even imagine what they're going through. You'd hate to have to imagine what they're going through."
Kemp reaches back over the rail to shake the father's hand. Then the boy's. He smiles and then he is gone, and the boy's eyes follow Kemp as he leaves, cap-less, jersey-less, shoeless.
And that was it. The video went dark. A minute or so that otherwise passed between the father and his ailing boy and the center fielder for the Dodgers, it would last a lifetime. And the world would witness it.
"It's just something I felt probably would have cheered him up a little bit," Kemp said. "Help him out a little bit. I just did it.
"Hopefully that made that kid's day."
He paused. Such a small gesture, then it was time to go. There have been others like him. There will be others like him.
"I don't even know the kid's name," Kemp said.
[Related: Brandon Crawford proving he's more than 'glove-first' shortstop]
By then, after another loss, in a season in which the talented Kemp is batting but .265 with a single home run and his Dodgers are in last place, Kemp had known there were smaller acts that meant bigger things. In that, a hello and a ball and an autograph weren't enough. The cap wouldn't be enough. The jersey wouldn't be enough. None of it would, perhaps, but it's what he had to give. That and an encouraging smile from an enemy Dodger in the land of Giants.
"I just saw a kid there that was a big fan," Kemp said. "Hopefully, God-willing, a miracle happens and he lives for a while."
Joshua smiled back best he could in a moment that was supposed to vanish, but wouldn't. On Tuesday morning, Kemp's phone was filled with messages.
"What'd I do now?" he thought.
It was the ailing boy, his father, and that minute Sunday night. Just that. All that.
"You have some good stories and some sad stories," Kemp said. "God puts them there to remind you."
"Thanks Matt. I will never forget that moment!!!" ???
Brett Lawrie is the biggest broseph on twitter right now, so unintentionally hilarious. i'm waiting for Vines of him opening up cans of 4Loko with his teeth.
round one: blue jays
(http://deadspin.com/toronto-fan-hurls-full-can-of-beer-at-nate-mclouth-nea-509665329)
Similar beer related Blue Jay fans, all in the same season! And the season is only a quarter of the way through.
Exhibit A
Umpire Bill Miller Has Bad Night, Gets Hit First By Brett Lawrie's Helmet And Then A Blue Jays Fan's Beer
(http://deadspin.com/5910654/umpire-bill-miller-has-bad-night-gets-hit-first-by-brett-lawries-helmet-and-then-a-blue-jays-fans-beer)
Exhibit B
:beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang: :beer: :beerbang:
*idblap*
But, c'mon... What's he really to do? It's not his call to make, it's the umpire you should be mad at. Sportsmanship you cry? Sure, but it happens ALL the time. Case in point, Derek Jeter.
I will however say that umpiring has been at an all time low as of late. These guys are really something else. In no other professional sport do you see as much ego and prideful driven calls.
so you're saying that the fans shouldn't have been mad at the guy breaking the rules but the guy who failed to catch the guy breaking the rules? astounding display of logic. or maybe you just enjoy using other people's articles to paint torontonians as alcoholic barbarians who don't "get" baseball. didn't you make a similarly formatted sensationalist post about the spanish being racist? is that going to be "your thing" on here? if so, save yourself the trouble.
So then under your logic, you would have to condone the actions of the fans then? Look I get, it shit happens, umpires blow it, A LOT. Throwing shit on the field and getting all :beerbang: don't help your cause when you try ask for sympathy. Show some class, you're making Yankee fans look like saints.
That was not my intention. The title of this thread is MLB2K13 YOU SUCKAZ. Not TORONTO BLUE JAYS POWERHAUS YOU SUCKAZ. You're the one that turned it into a Blue Jay themed thread. It could have been any fan base... It just so happen to be Toronto's, in a very short time span. Geeze us, chill out a bit. Have a beer! Okay, sorry, too soon?
I'm a Seattle Mariners fan to the day I die. I ride for them through the wins (very few) and losses (a lot). We've been in or around last place for the better part of a decade that they call another 'rebuilding process' so I have zero leverage to say my team is any better than yours. (They're actually tied for the same record right now, I think?) Say anything negative you want about my team and I'd probably be inclined to agree - they suck - and losing isn't fun. Ask a Cub's fan.
As far as the racist thread goes I don't know how that even relates to this unless maybe in some way you feel it took a shot at you.
we need to start subjecting new members to reading comprehension tests.
man.. this is their year. its a lock, obvs they will trounce the Nationals in October in 4 games. and the All Star game will be a joke with 2/3 the AL starting squad in blue.
[/checks standings]
*sigh* ...... here goes.....
what? please cite reference.
you have still failed to establish one.
in one page you've managed to;
deflect an argument:
backpedal:
and capitulate:
it's a black day for baseball
**back to the MLB and the umps**
Here's one among many recent blown calls this year, this time against the Mariners.
http://deadspin.com/this-might-be-the-worst-double-play-call-youll-see-509850714
I don't understand what's really the issue with an umpire simply asking for another opinion on a questionable call? I'm not really a fan of replay but is replay really the best solution? The game of baseball is already long enough without interuptions. I'm sure the umpire's union is pretty strong, but what's keeping umpires with a history of poor decisions from being demoted? Players can be sent down to the minors, why not the umps?
after a game filled with miserable calls.
which is evidently a recurring theme around the league this year.
and the fictionalized backstory is pretty funny too.
two atrocious calls, each that would have put us ahead...the blown save...then THAT shit...wow...great game. fire the refs.
For the record I have also been known to "get loose" at ball games.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/husky-interrupts-ncaa-tournament-game-takes-full-lap-173057541.html
so much for the post vacation detox.