Gloat Free Baseball Scores (Friday, June 8)

[Jack Rabbit]

The JR Chess Report and Gloat Free Scores theme music: Merrick, The Look Sharp, Be Sharp March (From a broadcast of The Gillette Cavalcade of Spots).

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[center][font size="3"]Congratulations to the pitching staff of the Seattle Mariners[/font][/center]

Baseball Scores

Pirates 4, Royals 2
Reds6, Tigers 5
Rays 5, Miami 1
Atlanta 4, Blue Jays 3 (10 innings)
Brewers 9, Padres 5
Cleveland 6, Cardinals 2
Angels 7, Rockies 2
Diamondbacks 9, A's 8
Rangers 5, Giants 0

Other Scores

Phillies 9, Orioles 6
Yankees 9, Mets 1
Nats 7, Red Sox 4
Astros 8, White Sox 3
Twins 8, Cubs 7 (10 innings)
Seattle 1, Dodgers 0

[El Supremo]

1. First Rangers win at China Basin.

And first Gnats shutout since September 10th!

I bet they wished they had a DH.

[Auggie]

2. Let's see ... that makes them 3-5 on their West Coast road trip

Yeah, lost three of four to the lowly Athletics

[El Supremo]

3. Looks like you could use a dual avatar too!

Just for you:

[Auggie]

4. Hey, thanks ...

but where's the The Tribe?

On second now, but I'm sticking with Naomi Klein for now.

[El Supremo]

7. Sure.

You can use it as your signature line.

[madinmaryland]

8. Hey, thanks!

I had no idea who the woman in your avatar was.

I thought you just had a picture of her to make trumad and el supremo jealous of your wife!

[Auggie]

14. My crush for Naomi Klein

is almost as big as the one I have for Mrs. Auggie.

Smart women = big turn on.

[madinmaryland]

5. Hey El. Can you make me one that changes between the...

Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Celtics, Dallas Cowboys?

At least I have stayed consistent for 50 years with my teams!

:chucke:

Did I mention that all of them have won multiple championships in their various sports??

[El Supremo]

6. Different sports don't count.

And I wouldn't do anything for the Cowpies.

[madinmaryland]

9. Dude! Bill Clinton approves of this message...

[El Supremo]

10. The Clenis fits right in with...

The JJ's.

[madinmaryland]

11. You have a problem with balanced budgets and the Big Dawg? Ahh. The good old days!

When the Big Dawg could humiliate any repuke by just looking at them!

[El Supremo]

12. Now he humiliates Obama.

What a bubble the '90s were!

[madinmaryland]

13. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh!

[JonLP24]

15. Admittedly I'm a baseball novice

but aren't division rivals a different ball of wax? I'm not sure how it is in baseball (in regards to similarity - in general baseball seems more random but they play so many games the cream rises the top) but in other sports, the divisional opponents can be the toughest regardless of record. They know your tendencies & weaknesses better than other teams.

I remember a few years ago a poster here was asking something along the lines - how could Arizona possibly lose to San Francisco after defeating SF. Never mind that Arizona was at home vs Minnesota & on the road against SF (also SF nearly defeated Minnesota @ Minn) - it was the divisional factor that was the explanation to that question.

Truthfully, that example wasn't the first that came to mind. I was thinking of Miami because I was thinking there could be evidence of that even though they play in the weakest division in the NBA. However, my example quickly falls apart after Orlando(which makes sense as an in-state rival in addition to a divisional opponent). Here is what I was going to say on that.

Even though Orlando 10-21 against top 10 teams - 14-27 against top 16 (top 10 & 16 according to June 9th Sagarin Power Ratings which factors in playoff games. So while Philadelphia was either a 15 or 16 team according to standings, they are #7 due to their success in the post-season) they split w/ Miami.

Atlanta was worse against quality competition and Miami won 3/4.

They swept the Bobcats.

Interestingly they lost 2 out of 3 to the Wizards but there is 1 1/2 asterisks on that. The 1/2 - The Wizards defeated a Miami team w/o Wade but it was in Miami handing the Heat 1 of their 5 regular season home losses. The 1 - It was the last game of the regular season so Miami sat out James, Wade, & Bosh for the playoffs.