Showing posts with label astros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astros. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

MLB Now Hiring Scorekeepers.


Imagine this. You are a young and very talented baseball star. It has always been your dream to get the call from a Major League manager saying your talents have proven you are ready to move up and play with the big boys. In this case, for George Springer, his dream was finally becoming a reality. Walking up to the plate, I could only imagine the excitement he must of felt. Though after taking a quick look up at the scoreboard, he not only realized he was on the WORST team in baseball, but also that his name was misspelled...

Are you kidding me? How hard is it to read off a piece of paper and copy the correct spelling onto the computer for not only the people in the ballpark to see but also the world! If I were to take a shot at as to how much the person behind this horrific act makes it would be minimum wage. If it is more than that, I feel very sorry for the team that has to pay this man's salary. 

But hey, I am not just going off on this mysterious man behind the big screen. Earlier this month, someone made the same error on one of the top teams in baseball. The New York Yankees recently signed a familiar face, to their squad in Jacoby Ellsbury, who they have seen many times prior except in a Red Sox uniform. With that being said you'd think they would know how to spell the man's name, but I guess not. Maybe they should of saved a little bit of that 153 million dollar contract, when they signed Ellsbury, and put it toward hiring a more qualified individual for this simple job. After all baseball is America's pastime, and simple jobs such as these are our nations backbone. #welldone #nosoap




Monday, March 31, 2014

Merry Openingdaymas


Well folks it's here.  The beginning of another season.  You know what's great about Openingdaymas in baseball? Everyone has hope that their team will overachieve and have an incredible season.  Just kidding.  The Phillies, Astros, and Marlins all have no hope and unlike basketball you can't lose 26 games in a row so you can get a franchise changing draft pick.  Baseball just don't work like that people.  So here's to the Phillies becoming the worst team in baseball in two years and to the 2018 season if you're an Astros/Marlins fan.


There is cause for excitement though, don't let me kill your vibe entirely.  Bryce Harper added about 2,000 pounds of muscle in the offseason so watching him break Barry Bonds record this year should be fun.  Mike Trout is still only like 12 years old so despite the fact that he's been AL MVP runner-up in back to back years we still get to watch him develop.  The Tigers will lose in the playoffs again (shout out to Ben Rome) and the Yankees will probably disappoint.  We get to watch Ian Kinsler get mad when he finds out the Rangers won their Openingdaymas game (they're playing the Phillies) and have his 0-162 dreams get dashed.

Without further ado, I'll give you the final standings for this season.  No need to play any regular season games, just skip to the playoffs because I already know what's going to happen.

AL

East:
Rays
Red Sox
Yankees
Orioles
Blue Jays

Central:
Tigers
Royals
Indians
White Sox
Twinkies

West:
Athletics
Angels
Rangers
Mariners
Astros


NL

East:
Nationals
Braves
Mets
Phillies
Marlins

Central:
Cardinals
Pirates
Reds
Brewers
Cubs

West:
Dodgers
Giants
Diamondbacks
Rockies
Padres