“This may be only his 13th big league start, but Matt Harvey is as good as anyone in MLB right now. Anyone.” - @KBurkhardtSNY
“I get the ball, I throw the ball, and then I take a shower.” — Mariano Rivera
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I am by no means a Yankee fan but Mr. Sandman will, no doubt, exit with class.
mets:
Congratulations to the 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner, R.A. Dickey!
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Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Met have a great reason to celebrate.
Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner of Major League Baseball Allan (Bud) H. Selig and New York Mets Chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon today announced that Citi Field will host the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Read more on nyc.gov.
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Angels’ Erivn Santana throws a No-Hitter today in Cleveland
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Fan dies following fall from stands
The Texas Rangers say a fan died after falling out of the stands while trying to catch a baseball tossed his way during the game. Rangers president Nolan Ryan said after Thursday night’s game that the team was “deeply saddened” to learn that the man “has passed away as a result of this tragic accident.”
The accident happened in the second inning after Oakland’s Conor Jackson hit a foul ball that ricocheted into left field. Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton retrieved the ball and tossed it into the stands.
Replays on Oakland’s television broadcast show the man reaching for the ball and apparently catching it before tumbling.
HERE WE GO YO!
CAN’T WAIT!
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SNL’s Seth Meyers, today at Wrigley Field, ends his rendition of “Take me out to the ballgame” with an emphatic, “LET’S BEAT THE YANKEES!”
LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!
“[T]here was Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, celebrating civil rights in the Georgia, and chortling excitedly about the 2011 All-Star game in Arizona. In the hands of Selig, irony becomes arsenic. Thank God that Commisioner Selig was stupid enough to choose the Civil Rights Game to honor, among others, the great musician Carlos Santana. Santana was supposed to be the Latino stand-in, a smiling symbol of baseball’s diversity. And maybe, he would even play a song!
But Bud picked the wrong Latino. Carlos Santana took the microphone and said that he was representing all immigrants. Then Santana added, “The people of Arizona, and the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.” In a perfect display of Gov. Nathan Deal’s Georgia, the cheers quickly turned to boos. Yes, Carlos Santana was booed on Civil Rights Day in Atlanta for talking about Civil Rights.”
Baseball 2011 has arrived
