MLB - NEWS & NOTES

I might not able about to hit a golf ball out of Dodger Stadium.

 

mut-my slice is so bad, i couldn't do it. hahaha.

 

Cubs win 6th straight...

CHICAGO (AP) Jon Lester pumped his fist and yelled as he walked off the mound at Wrigley Field. A season-high crowd of 38,883 roared its approval.

Not even Gerrit Cole can beat the Chicago Cubs right now.
Lester outpitched Cole with seven gutsy innings, and the Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 on Saturday for their sixth straight win.

"You have to better pitch better than good pitching to win, and we had the better pitching today," manager Joe Maddon said. "Jonny set that whole thing up. Man, he was outstanding."

Kris Bryant went 2 for 2 with two walks and scored twice as the Cubs moved six games over .500 for the first time since they were 83-77 on Oct. 3, 2009, according to STATS. It is the longest win streak for Chicago since a seven-game run in 2011.
Lester (4-2) allowed one run and nine hits in his fourth consecutive win. The left-hander struck out seven, running his career total to 1,504 Ks, and walked one.

"I was fortunate to get some quick outs, especially early in the game," Lester said, "and then kind of from there, just trying to maintain, trying to keep our guys in the dugout as best we could, get out of that warm air and you know get these guys up to bat against Cole."

 

it's the cubs and it's only may. just wait. haha.

 

I said the Cubs would be decent last year. Fish, you were the one that said the Cubs were overrated and didn't have a chance? Gots a loooong way to go yet Fish......The Cubs bullpen is not good and I doubt will hold up all season, imo......

 

Montreal on CBS....

When Montreal mayor Denis Coderre meets with Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on May 28 in New York City, the top item on the agenda is expected to be the potential return of an MLB franchise to the city, according to the Canadian Press.

"We will show Mr. Manfred our love for the sport," Coderre said. "I don't want to negotiate openly, but we'll clearly talk about Montreal."

Although there has yet to be an official plan or timeline for a new team, Coderre announced in January an $11 million investment plan for the city's baseball fields.

"We need a plan, we need a step-by-step approach," Coderre said. "You don't pull the flower to make it grow faster."

Montreal's Olympic Stadium, once the home of the Montreal Expos, has played host to Blue Jays exhibition games the past two years that drew large crowds.

The Expos, a 1969 expansion team that reached the postseason only once (1981), left Montreal after the 2004 season to become the Washington Nationals.

N.L.or A.L.? hmmmm........

 

EXACTLY IGLOO.

Montreal---You had a team and couldn't keep it or bring fans in despite a ton of top players. You'll get nothing and like it.

 

Montreal can't do worse than Tampa or Miami.

 

mut-i agree pal but they still have their franchises and miami already has a new stadium. montreal HAD a team and didn't support it. so why should they get a new team now ?

not buying it.

 

Where in America would you put a team? Most of the markets are already taken.....

 

igloo - im not for expansion in pro sports. same as hockey in seattle. i wish they - seattle had a team but only if one folds and moves there. i think the talent is watered down in all sports so i am not for expansion and montreal had a team with a ton of top talent and folded like a cheap lawnchair, so no, they get zilch.

 

I'm not enthused about expansion either (unless it creates 8-team divisions) but Montreal is a better option than some current markets. The Expo's attendance was really not that bad for most of their time there until Loria took over, who as I've said many places is the worst few owners in sports. The Rays (more the fault of the stadium location than anything else) haven't been within 500,000 seats sold of league average since their first year. I also blame ownership for this because there was a lot of damage Sternberg hasn't been able to fix. Marlins attendance is even worse, which could be because everyone hates Loria.

Then you look at a team like the Royals, Pirates, or Phillies. The Royals were consistently towards the top of attendance in the 80's but haven't broken 2 million since '91. The Pirates didn't break 2 millions '92-11 with the exception of the first year in PNC Park, but now the fans are back to see the winning. Then a more recent team, the Phillies have fallen off fast the last few years. The last 5 full season the Phillies finished 2nd, 1st, 1st, 8th, 16th in attendance. Now so far this season they are 20th.

What all this proves is that in most MLB towns fans will support a winner and not a loser. The Expo's made the playoffs once and had a horrible owner everyone thought was trying to leave (which he was). I can't really blame Montreal for losing the team.

 

well mut -is that enough of a reason to give them a team back? do they have a new stadium planned? do they have enough money to stake a franchise and successfully build upward and not downward? a ton of decisions go into this talk of expansion. i don't think they should expand at all. my 2 cents.

 

Stadium talks is part of what they're meeting about. If they get a stadium done they get the next team to move if I'm the one making the decision.

 

I think they are working on 2 stadiums now. What that means, I don't know. I do remember the Expo's used to trade many good players because they drafted so well and always had somebody coming up.....I remember that guy in right field they called Clark Bar because his last name was Clark. I think thats the way it went. His name that is?

 

igloo--they had some top talent for sure...


pedro
randy johnson
denny martinez
ramon martinez
larry walker
moises alou

and im sure 15-30 guys im missing but those 6 stick out in my fat head.

 

Yet they had a .484 all time record and won 5 post season games in 36 years. No one goes to see a good player on a terrible team.

 

true but they were headed to the ws in 1994 bf the strike....

to me they shouldn't get a new team. my 2 cents.