Baseball, Basketball and Football

Rigo’s mom

diegokings — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:27:25 +0000

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Yankees, good? Yeah sure there are.(sarcastic)

diegokings — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:46:09 +0000

Everyone thinks that the New York Yankees are a good team. If they are right, is debatable. For me, I’m just going to make it really simple so I don’t have to explain so much. They suck. I think that way and does not matter whatever they do, win all the world series to come, lead the MLB in batting, pitching, fielding, whatever I don’t care for me, they are a team that is just lucky and sucks. They have not won a world series in 8 years and the ”bombers of Bronx” they are dead. Every single person I know says that the batting order of the Yankees in this time is the best batting order in the history of the MLB. I say, show me. What good batters. Well if there are any, I have not gotten a chance to see them. Alex Rodriguez is not playing as well as before if before he played well. The only good thing about him is that he has 7 homeruns, but homeruns does not win you games. Derek Jeter is playing well and bringing some runs, but what he is doing is not something a player as old and experienced as him does. He has to do better to help his team. Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera the two Yankees good rookies have a combine average of about .230. I’m just going to keep this simple and say that is not good. They took out the veteran Gary Sheffield for the sucky Melky Cabrera, and I bet the Yankees are already regretting it. The player who are kind of helping the Yankees are first of all Hideki Matsui who has a .330 average, but what the Yankees need is RBIs’ not just a good average. Both Johnny Damon and Bobby Abreu are doing pretty well doing a decent amount of RBIs’ and also having a nice average but still, they have to improve if they want to be the stars of their team. Jason Giambi has been playing really well the last 10 games with 4 homeruns and 14 hits. Although he gave the winning homerun against the Orioles, he has just 7 RBIs’ and gives the Yankees ONLY the winning runs. Let’s see if he can stay with this incredible roll and actually at least help the Yankees be 4th in their division. The team in general sucks. They are last in their division and are 6 games from the leader. I think and I know that the worst thing about the Yankees is their pitching. I don’t know how to describe it, it sucks, it is embarrassing and is a shame to the ex good pitchers of the Yankees. They don’t have any good starting pitchers, but they have a worse bullpen. There most stupid mistake of all was the fact that they actually gave up the Ace Randy Johnson for a bunch of rookies who are now screwing up everything for the Yankees. People all around the world like the Yankees and most of them do not know any other team. They just like the Yankees because they are the richest team in the MLB and have won more world series. When I ask them why do they like the team they don’t know and that is what makes me mad the most. I hope that after this blog, people in the world would start thinking why they wear caps and shirts of the Yankees and that the team is nothing but a bunch of publicity.

Red Sox

diegokings — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:41:42 +0000

In this blog I’m going to talk why the Red Sox are the best team in the MLB. First of all they have won more games than any other team in the MLB. Maybe they had lost more than the D-Backs, but it does not matter, they still dominate their division and the Al in games won. Last season they also were the team with most wins in the MLB with 96 wins at the end of the regular season, for me, that is complete power and dominance. They also were the team with less looses in the 2007 regular season with just 66 looses when other team were in the 70’s and 80’s. Red Sox have one of the best batters in the whole MLB. Manny Ramirez was the 2004 MVP and has 498 homeruns in his career, closing in 500. David Ortiz had a shaky start, but now leads the Red Sox in homeruns and RBI’s and is the fourth in the MLB with more RBI’s and the third in the AL. The 2007 MVP winner and also golden glove winner, Mike Lowell just came back from an injury, but had a hot start with the Red Sox with 5 homeruns and 15 RBI’s. Finally Kevin Youkilis, what can we say about him. There is nothing to say because his stats says it all. A .326 average, 9 homeruns and 34 RBI’s. He is a hitter that has every aspect of an all-star. Screw the curse of the Bambino, I think that curse never existed. What the Red Sox needed was a team that had the best of the best, and that is what they have right now. There batting is impeccable, and one of the best batting orders of the whole history of the MLB. There pitching is as good. The ace Josh Becket leads the Red Sox in strikeouts and is 12th in the MLB in strikeouts and 5th in the AL. He has a record of 5 wins and 3 looses. Dice-k Matsuzaka has a perfect record. 5 wins and no looses. He is 2nd in wins in the MLB and “numero uno” number one in the AL. Jonathan Papelbon, what can I say about this young pitcher. I think I can describe Jonathan in 4 words. “Future hall of famer”. Papelbon finish the 4th game of last year’s world series with a strikeout and now is 3rd in the MLB and AL in saves. When he gets in the game in the ninth inning, you can expect him to strikeout every single batter he will face. That has happened before and it had happened in this season also. Just flat out simple, the Boston Red Sox is the best team in the MLB and will be for many more years. They have the batters, the pitchers and the coach Terry Francona who lead the Red Sox to two World Series championships. I’m really sorry for your mother-in-law Mr. Francona, but know you have to think in sending this amazing Red Sox team to the World Series and getting yours and theirs 3rd World Series championship in 5 years. Go Boston Red Sox!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

All-Star players 2

diegokings — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:57:08 +0000

My last post was about, in my opinion the players who should go to the All-Star game in July. It talked about my 3 best choices of the nnominated players of the leading teams of the American League. Now, I’m going to do the same thing, just that I’m going to talk about the players of the National League. I’m going to start with the leading team of the east division which are the Florida Marlins. I’m going to start with the obvious player which is Hanley Ramirez. He has shown the same persistent and consistent throughout all the the years he has played with the Marlins. The most impressive thing about him is his average of ..338 and his 13 stolen bases. Then the two guys are so alike that I’m going to talk about them at the same time. They are Mike Jacobs and Dan Uggla. Their stats are so alike than it seems that it is the same person. They both have an average of .271, and two players having the same average in batting is really unusual. They both have 9 homeruns and finally they both have 1 stolen base. There is only two differences about them which are that Mike Jacobs has 24 RBI’s and Dan Uggla has 25. The other difference is that Mike Jacobs was injured a couple of days, but hopefully will come back in the next game against the Nationals. The second team is the the St. Louis Cardinals which lead the Central Division. My first pick is Albert Pujols and I don’t think I have to explain why would the National team want him. The only ting I have to say about him is hat he is a power swinger. My second pick is the ex-star for the Blue Jays, Troy Glaus. He is doing as well as he did last season with the Blue Jays, just that now he is in a team how are actually winning. He has 21 RBI’s and is i great shape with a some good at bats. My last pick was hard because the rest of the players were not good at all. He is Ryan Ludwick which has 23 RBI’s, 7 homeruns and a .351 average. Although that are some really good stats, I just think he is not ready for a All-Star game since he has only 6 seasons and is constantly changing teams. Finally are the Arizona Diamondbacks who are the leaders in the west division of the National League. I’m starting with one of the stars of this team who is Chris Young. He is an amazing player. which Arizona should feel lucky to have him for two seasons. He has .254 average with 9 homeruns leading his team in homeruns. With 24 RBI’s he is power hitter. Like his name says it, Young is a really young player which has just had 3 seasons including this one, playing baseball and all of them with the Diamondbacks. The second star of the Diamondbacks is Conor Jackson. He differ from Chris Young is a consistent hitter. He has 5 homeruns but has a .310 average which proves that he is a hitter that will always give you good results in each game. The last player is Justin Upton whit is a decent player which you can trust. He is not a power hitter or a consistent hitter but he is a little bit of both. .318 of average, 6 homeruns and 21 RBI’s. There is not much you can say about this player, but he is doing a great job for the D-back’s. That is all for this post and I hope you read the next one. Peace out.

All-star players

diegokings — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:52:17 +0000

The All-star game is in July 15 but the voting has already started. People all around the world are now able to vote for their favorite players in a team so that they can go to the All-star game. I’m going to give you my top three choices and why a picked them of, the leader team in every division in the American League. First off, the leading team of the East Division the Tampa Bay Rays. My first pick is of course the player with most homeruns in this team, Carlos Pena. Pena was at once the leader in homeruns and is also the 3rd player with most RBI’s in his team. The second is Dioner Navarro. Although Navarro has no homeruns and only 6 RBI’s he has an average of .400 and that’s a privilege for most batters. He has also 11 hits in his lasts 10 games, and that is not bad at all. I’m not sure who to pick for the last player because all of them are really good candidates. It is between Cliff Floyd, B.J. Upton and the two-time All-star Carl Crawford. Upton and Crawford have almost the same stat: average in the .290’s, 3 and 4 homeruns and 16 and 21 RBI’s. Although Upton is doing slightly better Crawford is a two-time All-star. Floyd is doing well, he has a .333 average and he would be my last pick, but he is in the disable list and I don’t know if he would be in shape for the All-star game. Next team and leader of the Central Division are the Chicago White sox. Jermaine Dye is not doing so well, with only 2 homeruns and a .286 average, but he is always a good man to have in the All-star game. Joe Crede is my second pick. He has the stats of a batter that deserves to be in the All-star game. A .258 average, 7 homeruns and 22 RBI’s, is some good piece of hitting. Finally Jim Thome is my last pick for this team. His stats are similar to Crede’s one but not so good. I think He is the best out of the ones left. 6 homeruns and 19 RBI’s is a good number and it is well enough for the All-star game. Finally the team with the best record with an 18-12 record the leader of the West Division the Los Angeles Angels. My first pick is Vladimir Guerrero. This guy is not going as he wish he could be when it comes to an All-star games he gives it all for the American team. He has a .266 average which is not appropriate for a man for his caliber, but it is just a matter of time until he gets better. My second pick is Casey Kotchman. He is an amazing player which has the two things a batter needs, power and consistent hitting. With .340 average and 6 homeruns it is obvious that he has both. You can also see it in his 19 RBI’s. Finally my last pick is Mike Napoli, now this guy is amazing. Not only because he gave the tying homerun against the Athletics on Thursday in the fourth inning, but because he has a .237 average with 13 RBI’s and 7 homeruns. He is one of the best catchers when it comes to batting, especially in homeruns in the American League. Those where my top three choices for the players in the leading teams in each division in the American league who are in the ballot of their teams and could go to the All-star game. In my next post I’m going to do the same thing just that now I’m going to talk about the players of the National League instead of the American league. Hope you liked it and hope you commented on it.

500, so close but so far for Manny Ramirez

diegokings — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:54:05 +0000

Manny Ramirez has 496 homeruns and he just needs four more to get to that exclusive club and be the 24th player in MLB history to have 500 homeruns or more. Something of topic, but ironically 24 is the number in Manny Ramirez’s Red Sox shirt, maybe that’s destiny. Four homeruns may seem like a small number but you know what they say, an inch close or an inch too far. Manny’s last homerun was 6 games ago; ironically it was the winning hit in the 8th inning. After that it seemed like Manny’s luck went from the best player of the MLB to being expulse next game in his first at bat. Yeah… after the winning homerun day in, Ramirez was ejected from the game in his first at bat because he argued a call. I could not believe it, Manny Ramirez one of the most patient batters in the plate I have ever seen in my life. When I saw the video, I don’t know why Manny even thought about arguing that call; it was a perfect pitch in the corner. After that game he started to have not so great games. The next two games he had only one hit each game. Then he got three hits, so he is starting to get back on track. I think Manny is playing like that because he is mentally not in shape. That game where he got ejected really got to him because he was doing so well and he got ejected and next day he was going to have a day off. He is really close to get to 500, so he has to stop worrying about the past and start thinking in the present because he is close to the leadership of every batting stat in the MLB so if he just concentrates on the upcoming games and not in the past games he is going to get to 500 homeruns really quick. I think also that he might get to be the leader in homeruns and I’m certain he is going to be leader in RBI’s; I have no doubt about that. Manny’s mental illness is over and now he just has to worry about getting to that magical number on his HR career stat…500.

Hot Performers

diegokings — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:42:18 +0000

As the season develops and the players start to get in real shape the real leaders are starting to show and protrude from the pack. What I mean is that the players, who for me are the best in the MLB, are starting or had already gotten where they should be. I’m going to talk about the pitchers, who I honestly don’t talk very much about. Brandon Webb a young boy which has 28 years is the sole leader in the whole MLB in games won with 4 games won. Is no surprise, since he was the starting pitcher with most games won last season, winning 18 games with the Diamondbacks? If he continues to pitch the games as he is pitching right now throughout the whole season, my prediction is that that he will end up with 17-19 wins and 7-11 looses. Barry Zito, the pitcher with most looses in the MLB with 4 games lost. Ironically the pitcher with most looses is in the team with the 2nd worst record which are the San Francisco Giants, with a record of 5 games won and 11 lost. Maybe is just a bad start for this veteran that in 2003 had 23 wins and just 5 looses or maybe he is being affected by not a useless offense but a offense that is asleep, an offense that has not found rhythm yet, but sooner or later they will find it and when that happens, San Francisco will be a team which would not be good to be taken lightly. First I’m going to tell you what the stat ERA means. ERA means earned runs average, which means you multiply the numbers of runs the batters made the pitcher by 9 and then divide the solution by the number of innings the pitcher played. A pitcher with an ERA of 0.00 means that he allowed no runs during the time he was in the mound and a pitcher with an ERA of maybe 10.00 means he allowed an average of 10 runs during the time he was in the mound. The player with worst ERA in the MLB is C.C. Sabathia from the Cleveland Indians. Is a little odd, since Sabathia was the pitcher which the Indians could rely on and was a key player for the Indians last year by helping them getting to the post season. C.C Sabthia is not old but he is pitching like he was old. I bet that when he plays more game and gets in shape, maybe he would not be an incredible pitcher, but a better one than he is right now.

League leaders

diegokings — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:59:38 +0000

I think that the leaders in batting of this season are a little odd. I mean the leader in homeruns this season is Mark Reynolds which in last season he was the 58th player with most homeruns in the National league. He just had 17 homeruns last season and he was not a star for the Diamondbacks either. Now, he is the only leader in homeruns with 5. He started with a good season, but as the season goes I think he is going to decay and stop doing so homeruns. That is what always happens and always stop doing homeruns and get forgotten. Also the player with the best average is Jason Kendall which last season had an average of .226. That is no t good for a player that has in this regular an average of .538. That average is amazing, but like a said, he started with a good season but I think he is not going to do very good in the future. The leader in RBI’s is obviously going to be the player with more homeruns which is Mark Reynolds. I think someone who is close to the leader who is Brandon Inge which had a really good season last year, is going to be the leader in RBI’s or also maybe Kevin Youkilis which has an average of .324 in this season with the Boston Red Sox. Another player who may get close to be the player with the best average I think it could be Ivan Rodriguez with the average of .235 who had a really good second game against the Royals. I think that the leader in Homeruns for a while could be Manny Ramirez from the Red Sox which has a triple in this season or Carlos Quentin from the White Sox which has 6 hits in the last 6 games with 8 RBIs. I think that the current leaders will not last long, and be replaced by better players.

Detroit Tigers, haunted by weak teams??

diegokings — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:55:24 +0000

It has been almost two weeks, since the regular season of baseball has started, and some teams have started breaking away from the weaker teams in their division. Although, the teams that are breaking away from the weaker ones are not the teams that someone who followed the last season would have thought. The team who has the biggest lead over the last team on its division is the Chicago White Sox which has three a three game lead over the Detroit Tigers. The Detroit Tigers who had a sixteen games advantage over the White Sox last season are now trailing by three games. The Tigers had not won a single game in this current season. It seems that the Tigers are suffering the revenge of last season’s weak teams. The creepy thing is that they started the regular season with a three game series against the Kansas City Royals which was the second worst team in the MLB last season. The even more amazing is that, they started the regular season at their own ballpark, the Comerica Park. The Tigers who had won eleven games and had lost eight game last season against the Royals, had a good chance of winning since their starting pitcher was Justin Verlander who was the third pitcher with most wins last season. The Tigers were put on some fight, by going to extra-innings, but enough since the Royals won in the eleventh inning with a hit right down the middle of John Buck to send Mark Teahen who was in second base to home. The final score was 4-5. The next night, maybe it was because they had lost the opening game or maybe it was because they lost it on their ballpark, whatever the reason was, the Tigers did a poor job at the second game and lost badly against the Royals 0-4. The offense did not help Kenny Rogers and the batter who did the only two hits for the Tigers Edgar Renteria, did not get any help from his teammates. It was a hit parade for the Royals that night. The third night was not so different than the second one, because the Tigers lost 1-4. Again the Tiger’s powerful pitching did not get any help from their offense, which the only danger they caused, was the solo-homerun of Brandon Inge. I think that the Royals thought they were at the batting cages and just swung powerful and incredible hits. With two homeruns, one of Alex Gordon in the 4th inning and another one of Mark Teahen in the 6th inning, and eleven hits by the Royals in total in the game, the Tigers had another loss and the Royals, another win. My opinion is that the Royals must had felt throughout these three games, that they were on batting practice, because although the Tiger’s pitching was not bad, they did not got help from their offense so that must had brought down the spirit of the pitchers throughout the games. After that series against the Royals the Tigers had to face the White Sox which were also almost in the last place of their division, last season. After using the best of the best of the Tiger’s starting pitchers, the team used Nate Robertson and then, the Tiger’s bats waked up. Ivan Rodriguez was the star for the Tiger in the first game by hitting a two doubles in the 2nd inning and 3rd inning and then hitting a single in the 5th inning. Having three RBI’s Rodriguez was not the only one who gave the team some hope, Clete Thomas got three single hits done and made one RBI for the team. Although the offense was doing a good job and the pitching was not so bad either, the White Sox got a sweet revenge. Carlos Quentin hit a homerun in the 2nd inning and then A.J. Pierzinsky with another homerun in the 7th inning. Also Jim Thome and Paul Konerko with a double each and then Jermaine Dye and A.J. Pierzinsky with two doubles each. The final score was 8-5. The second game against the White Sox had kind of the same story; the starting pitcher was Dontrelle Willis and did a very good job. Brandon Inge shined for the Tigers by making a two-out double and sending home three runs, and then a two-run homerun in the 4th inning. The Tiger’s performance was impeccable and outstanding with the exception of one error, but it was not enough. Luck, was on the White Sox’s side. With only making THREE hits in the WHOLE GAME the White Sox were able to get the win. The first hit is made by Jim Thome, after Willis walked two batters; Thome makes a double bringing in one run. Then Carlos Quentin makes another double bringing another run home. Finally Jermaine Dye with a solo Homerun to finish the game. The final score was 3-5 for the White Sox. I think that the second game, the Tigers should have won it because they gave everything they had in that game, but in the end; luck was on the White Sox’s side. On Sunday 6th the final game of the series between the Tigers and the White Sox is played. I personally think that the Tigers are going to desperately go for that win and I think that would be enough for them. The Tigers started off with shaky firsts games, but have been progressing and I think they would get the win on Sunday. The Tigers just needed to get their batters and pitchers warmed up for the real thing and that is what those five games did for them. I think the Tiger’s were not aware of how much damage the teams they faced off in the last five games could do to them, but know they are going to play with all they have. I think that the Tigers have the potential to win on Sunday because, as we can see, the batters are starting to show what they are made of, and the rookie of the year in 2006, Justin Verlander would give the same or even more effort than he gave at the start of the regular season. So, I personally believe that The Detroit Tigers deserved the win in Sunday, way more than the Chicago White Sox.

New season

diegokings — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:24:19 +0000

My blog is about American football but since the American football season is over, I’m going to talk about a little about the upcoming baseball season. The regular season was started at Tokyo when the powerful defending world champions the Boston Red Sox, which had an amazing 2007 season faced the Oakland Athletics, which did poorly on the last season by not even getting close to the play-offs, but doing real well in the spring training having finished second in the American league. The series ended with a tie with Boston having won in extra innings the first game and the Oakland A’s having totally beat the Boston 5 to 1. The big surprise was Brandon Moss who was in Boston’s minor league team, and in the first game of season scored a homerun. The other star that shined for Boston was the 2004 MVP winner, Manny Ramirez who made an amazing hit in the last inning that pushed two runs into home so that the Red Sox could go into extra innings and win the game. In the second game Manny Ramirez made a tremendous solo home run in the 4th inning, but was’nt enough to win the game. The Oakland team had also an incredible player named Emil Brown which made an incredible three-run homerun which determined the victory of Oakland A’s in the second game. The next game of the regular season is the opening game for the national league which is the Atlanta Braves against the Washington Nationals. After having finished third behind the powerfull Mets and the strong Phillies and not even getting close to the Wild Card, the Braves are trying to change and to win the National east division. The key player for the Atlanta Braves would be Tom Glavine which came back after being with the New York Mets for five seasons. Tom Glavine knows what to do, but the question is, would he be able to do it. Also there are many expectations in the bullpen especially with the participation of Rafael Soriano which has everything a pitcher needs, but the experience a coach would have want. As always they rely on there two veterans which is the pitcher John Smoltz and Chipper Jones,but would that be enough to face the great and renewed Nationals? The answer is maybe, since the Nationals had focused on offense by bringing strong batters. After not having the best season of all, and after finishing in bad position at the division and in the Wild Card they hope, that with the new players, they have a better season. They brought in the Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca, that with the experience he has, he could boost the National’s spirit. Paul Lo Duca also shows great leadership which will help the Nationals in though times. Another great batter is the prospect from the Mets Lastings Milledge, which is a center fielder which would many responsability specially offensively. He wants to make a difference at the Nationals, as he said in an interview at spring training ” I got to get the job done and ah, you know they have high expectations on me, which I have high expectations for my self so um, you know I’m, I’m going to do everything I can do to get the job done and to ah, and to be ah, you know everything they, they want me to be.” They always will be counting on there experienced veterans like Dmitri Young and Aaron Boone which was brought from the Cleveland Indians. I will bring you more information about the beginning of the MLB regular season and also some other things about American football, like the transactions happening, in my upcoming blog. I hope you enjoyed this blog, and got well informed about the opening games in the MLB and please, comment on it because I will love to hear some opinions from you.