2012 MLB Season

[Tom Iron]

R. A. Dickey won his 20th game today for the Mets.

Tom Iron...

 

[Matra2]

Cultural Marxism is the norm in all North American sports leagues:

Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar was greeted with a smattering of boos during his first home game since writing an anti-gay slur on his eye-black.
A few fans booed when Escobar's name was announced as the lineups were read for Toronto's game against the New York Yankees. There was a mix of boos and cheers as Escobar batted in the bottom of the first inning, and he lined out.
Escobar was suspended by the team for three games earlier this month after he wore the slur written in Spanish during a game against Boston. The 29-year-old Cuban infielder later apologized and said he meant it as a joke.
Escobar caught the ceremonial first pitch from David Testo, a former Major League Soccer player who is openly gay. Testo is now a board member for You Can Play, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender athletes.
Before the game, Escobar sat down with Jose Estevez, an openly gay distance runner from Boston College, and Patrick Burke, the founder of You Can Play.
Escobar's lost salary during his three-game ban -- about US$82,000 -- was to be directed to You Can Play and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/m...k-david-testo-patrick-burke-jose-estevez.html

Sounds like a nice little windfall for gay activists. No wonder they are always on the look-out for politically incorrect transgressions.

 

[Don Wassall]

Blacks and hispanics have been slow to get the message that homosexuals and Jews are at the top of the pecking order in the Cultural Marxist States of Amerika, above the favored racial minorities, but incidents like these are slowly getting through to them.

 

[white is right]

Blacks and hispanics have been slow to get the message that homosexuals and Jews are at the top of the pecking order in the Cultural Marxist States of Amerika, above the favored racial minorities, but incidents like these are slowly getting through to them.

Supposedly Escobar has been described as a Cuban Mulatto version of Jed Clampett. He even speaks a form of Spanish that is hard for a classically trained interpreter to understand. As for the "wonderful" ceremony where was Ellen Degenerate....:becky::thumbdown:

 

[Matra2]

Supposedly Escobar has been described as a Cuban Mulatto version of Jed Clampett. He even speaks a form of Spanish that is hard for a classically trained interpreter to understand. As for the "wonderful" ceremony where was Ellen Degenerate....:becky::thumbdown:

It's pretty clear that he doesn't understand why all the Anglos are upset. He said he doesn't hate gay people and as proof he pointed out that his home decorator is gay.

 

[Carolina Speed]

Triple Crown for Cabrera not a done deal just yet.

Cabrera 0-3 today is at .325

Mauer 3-4 today is at .323

Trout 2-4 today is at .322

Trout hit his 30th HR making him a 30/40 man in 135 games!

 

[Carolina Speed]

Triple Crown for Cabrera not a done deal just yet.

Cabrera 0-3 today is at .325

Mauer 3-4 today is at .323

Trout 2-4 today is at .322

Trout hit his 30th HR making him a 30/40 man in 135 games!

uggghh! Cabrera 3-4, HR #44 .328

Mauer 1-5 .322

Trout 2-2 .323

 

[jaxvid]

uggghh! Cabrera 3-4, HR #44 .328

Mauer 1-5 .322

Trout 2-2 .323

Cabrera likely wrapped up the triple crown Monday with another dinger and a 3 for 4 night. Trout had a good day 4-5 to go up to .325 but it's a longshot for him to catch Cabrera, officially at .329. I think it's likely that Cabrerra will sit at least one of the two remaining games or else just play a few innings. So h'e probably locked in at HR's and Hamilton will have to hit 2 to take that away. Texas is still competing so Hamilton will be having some quality at bats but two homers in two games is a lot to ask for. Especially if they pitch around him

Cabrera has RBI's sewed up so the only plausible scenario for him to not win is someone over taking him in batting average. Trout is the best bet as the Angels will be going all out the last two games. Mauer is playing in Toronto, a good park to hit in but his team has nothing to play for. Triple crown probably a done deal for Cabrera.

Some articles in the MSM have proclaimed Trout the unquestioned MVP but myself, knowing how the caste sports media works and not acting like it doesn't tell me that Cabrera wins. Trout plays in LA, is a new sensation and a great all around player. But Cabrera is non-white which trumps everything. Personally I think a good case can be made for him as the MVP anyway which doesn't make it that much of an "upset" however the MSM pimping for Trout seems a little odd.

 

[bigunreal]

Isn't it funny how, with all the great young white stars in baseball, yet another tubby affleto steals their thunder and grabs all the attention? Shocker that Hamilton didn't come through with a HR in the clutch, to help the choking Rangers and to help himself win a HR title he should have won easily.

I'm sure I have my Cabreras mixed up (and with the mere handful of hispanic surnames that dominate MLB, this is easy to do), but didn't this pudgy fellow do something really ridiculous a few years back?

I am glad the Nationals won their division. That makes up for the disappointment of seeing a chubby hispanic win the first triple crown since 1967. And there is no suspense about the AL MVP- every jock sniffer I've heard comment on it has unfailingly said it has to go to the non-white.

 

[jh4]

Isn't it funny how, with all the great young white stars in baseball, yet another tubby affleto steals their thunder and grabs all the attention? Shocker that Hamilton didn't come through with a HR in the clutch, to help the choking Rangers and to help himself win a HR title he should have won easily.

I'm sure I have my Cabreras mixed up (and with the mere handful of hispanic surnames that dominate MLB, this is easy to do), but didn't this pudgy fellow do something really ridiculous a few years back?

I am glad the Nationals won their division. That makes up for the disappointment of seeing a chubby hispanic win the first triple crown since 1967. And there is no suspense about the AL MVP- every jock sniffer I've heard comment on it has unfailingly said it has to go to the non-white.

I heard something interesting on BSPN yesterday. One of their baseball analysts, it might have been Buster Onley, but don't quote me on that, said: "Every 'SUIT' that I talked to in baseball thinks that Mike Trout is the MVP and every 'UNIFORM' that I talked to thinks Cabrera is the MVP." Baseball management wants Trout, baseball players want Caberra.

 

[Riddlewire]

Isn't it funny how, with all the great young white stars in baseball, yet another tubby affleto steals their thunder and grabs all the attention? Shocker that Hamilton didn't come through with a HR in the clutch, to help the choking Rangers and to help himself win a HR title he should have won easily.

I'm sure I have my Cabreras mixed up (and with the mere handful of hispanic surnames that dominate MLB, this is easy to do), but didn't this pudgy fellow do something really ridiculous a few years back?

I am glad the Nationals won their division. That makes up for the disappointment of seeing a chubby hispanic win the first triple crown since 1967. And there is no suspense about the AL MVP- every jock sniffer I've heard comment on it has unfailingly said it has to go to the non-white.

The "Triple Crown" isn't a real accomplishment. It's based on numerous factors, all of which have to align temporally, along with a solid year from a hitter in the right place. It's even less impressive when done in the American League, where power hitters are inundated with RBI opportunities (kinda like spread offenses in football where the quarterbacks get a larger share of the total offense).

Here are Cabrera's numbers for 2012:
44 HR 139 RBI 330 AVG

Each of those is a traditionally good number. But none of them are outstanding.

Take a look at these season performances:
49 HR 137 RBI 331 AVG
54 HR 156 RBI 314 AVG
73 HR 137 RBI 328 AVG
43 HR 137 RBI 333 AVG
45 HR 110 RBI 319 AVG
64 HR 160 RBI 328 AVG
45 HR 157 RBI 318 AVG
49 HR 130 RBI 366 AVG
44 HR 133 RBI 326 AVG
43 HR 143 RBI 328 AVG
48 HR 145 RBI 324 AVG

All of those are performances had by various major leaguers in the past thirty years. Yet none of them won the triple crown. Cabrera was just fortunate to have had his good year when the rest of the league didn't perform as well.

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Note: Nearly all of those are drug cheats. Since we're still in the era of PEDs (and smaller strike zones, and maple bats, and smaller ballparks), it's reasonable to assume that Cabrera is also a juicer (and being hispanic makes him infinitely more suspect in that regard).

 

[sport historian]

The "Triple Crown" isn't a real accomplishment. It's based on numerous factors, all of which have to align temporally, along with a solid year from a hitter in the right place. It's even less impressive when done in the American League, where power hitters are inundated with RBI opportunities (kinda like spread offenses in football where the quarterbacks get a larger share of the total offense).

Here are Cabrera's numbers for 2012:
44 HR 139 RBI 330 AVG

Each of those is a traditionally good number. But none of them are outstanding.

Take a look at these season performances:
49 HR 137 RBI 331 AVG
54 HR 156 RBI 314 AVG
73 HR 137 RBI 328 AVG
43 HR 137 RBI 333 AVG
45 HR 110 RBI 319 AVG
64 HR 160 RBI 328 AVG
45 HR 157 RBI 318 AVG
49 HR 130 RBI 366 AVG
44 HR 133 RBI 326 AVG
43 HR 143 RBI 328 AVG
48 HR 145 RBI 324 AVG

All of those are performances had by various major leaguers in the past thirty years. Yet none of them won the triple crown. Cabrera was just fortunate to have had his good year when the rest of the league didn't perform as well.

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Note: Nearly all of those are drug cheats. Since we're still in the era of PEDs (and smaller strike zones, and maple bats, and smaller ballparks), it's reasonable to assume that Cabrera is also a juicer (and being hispanic makes him infinitely more suspect in that regard).

"Cabrera was just fortunate to have had his good year when the rest of the league didn't perform as well."

You could say the same about Frank Robinson's triple crown year in 1966 and Carl Yaszstremski's in 1967.

 

[Tom Iron]

This was an interesting year for Clayton Kershaw. Very low ERA, but few wins (14). The Dodgers just didn't score many runs for him. He's one of the top guys coming on now. Twenty four years old now and probably has at least 7 excellent years ahead of him, barring injury.

Tom Iron...

 

[Don Wassall]

Hispanics are the Caste System's choice to push in MLB to make up for the reality that not many American blacks are good baseball players, but it's not like Cabrera has been showered with media love. I was reading an article the other day (don't remember the link now) that detailed how the media contingent around Cabrera during the final days of the season was basically the same one that covered the Tigers all year, in other words little to no national interest at all in the feat he was chasing down to the wire. It would have been a far different scene had it been an American black pursuing the Triple Crown.

And with so much media overload these days combined with the infantile attention span of the average DWF, Cabrera's Triple Crown accomplishment will quickly fade. I remember when Frank Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski won theirs back to back in '66 and '67 and there was a lot more interest and media coverage then. But even after a 45 year span without a Triple Crown winner, Cabrera is still relatively anonymous.

At any rate, overall this was another very good year for White baseball players. Mike Trout finished second in batting, first in runs, and best of all lead the AL in stolen bases with 49.

Josh Hamilton had a huge year and stayed relatively healthy for once.

Of the top 14 sluggers (7 in each league), 8 were White. Ryan Braun led the NL with 41 homers, followed by Mike Stanton, Jay Bruce, Adam LaRoche, and Ike Davis.

In the AL, Adam Dunn had a very nice bounce back year with 41 homers, and Josh Willingham had a big year for the Twins with 35/110. LaRoche and Davis were also big surprises.

The top pitchers, as usual, were predominantly White. As with quarterbacks in the NFL, great pitching remains a mostly White thing, to the chagrin of Caste System promoters.

 

[jaxvid]

"Cabrera was just fortunate to have had his good year when the rest of the league didn't perform as well."

You could say the same about Frank Robinson's triple crown year in 1966 and Carl Yaszstremski's in 1967.

I agree. The triple crown is a rare convergence of a hitter having a very good year and other guys not running away on one of the 3 titles. That happened this year, .331 or whatever is not that great an average just better then anybody else.
It's luck based so not that big a deal to a lot of people.

Lots of talk in Detroit over Cabrera's triple crown and the lack of national publicity. But truth is people in Detroit are not all that excited about it. Cabrera is an odd guy. He had a bad incident of drunk driving in spring training last year which gave him a bit of a bad rep but publicly he is pretty shy. He doesn't speak much English, or chooses not to and it is probably a good thing.

He has been a big time hitter for the Tigers, no doubt about it. Pretty clutch. There are steroid rumors around the league but nothing much in Detroit, he started out as a skinny kid and look at him now but that seems to be the norm. I personally suspect steroids because he outperforms everybody else but maybe he is just that good.

Funny how Trout is pushed as MVP by so many people in favor of Cabrera, maybe they know something the average fan doesn't. But realistically Cabrera deserves the MVP, best hitter on a team that is going to the playoffs. That's the usual measuring stick and I think that is what happens this time.

 

[Riddlewire]

"Cabrera was just fortunate to have had his good year when the rest of the league didn't perform as well."

You could say the same about Frank Robinson's triple crown year in 1966 and Carl Yaszstremski's in 1967.

I believe that's what I did say.
In theme, anyway. The whole point of my post was to show that winning the triple crown is a hollow achievement based on mere chance.

 

[white is right]

I believe that's what I did say.
In theme, anyway. The whole point of my post was to show that winning the triple crown is a hollow achievement based on mere chance.

I beg to differ on Mantle's 56' season. He hit .352., hit 56 home runs and knocked in 130 RBI. The first two are all time numbers and 130 is elite but many years in the juiced era wouldn't lead the league. But I agree with your points on luck being as much of factor as dominance.

 

[Don Wassall]

I don't think luck's involved at all. There's been a lot of great sluggers who won multiple home run and RBI crowns but never came close to challenging for a batting title. And there's been a lot of guys who won multiple batting titles but were not elite power hitters (many weren't power hitters at all). To be a top slugger and a top hitter takes a very rare set of skills, which is why winning a Triple Crown happens so rarely. I wish it had been a White player to end the 45 year drought, but Cabrera deserves credit for his feat.