Your favorite current baseball players

[Rickypt]

Who are they? Mine are below, and I swear it's not 'cuz they're hot.

Noah Lowry, starting pitcher for Giants



Rich Harden (some of us gay guys in our immature way intentionally mispronounce his last name, if you know what I mean), starting pitcher for A's

[estranged4life]

Chicago Cubs-
Carlos Zambrano P
Derrick Lee 1B
Todd Walker 2B/1B
Aramis Ramirez 3B
Kerry Wood P
Mark Prior P

Texas Rangers-
Michael Young SS
Hank Blalock 3B
Kevin Mench OF

[GODDESS6]

manny ramirez
curt schilling
david ortiz
coco crisp
tim wakefield

& i will ALWAYS LUV
roger clemens~

[DavidMn]

Greg Maddux-one step short of god for me.
Roy Oswalt
Tim Wakefield
Derek Lowe
Jim Thome-Maybe the nicest guy that's ever played
Kevin Millar
Craig Biggio-Any guy that's stays with one team for 20 years gets my vote.
Tom Glavine
Pedro Martinez
Jake Peavy

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Greg Maddux-one step short of god for me.
Roy Oswalt
Tim Wakefield
Derek Lowe
Jim Thome-Maybe the nicest guy that's ever played
Kevin Millar
Craig Biggio-Any guy that's stays with one team for 20 years gets my vote.
Tom Glavine
Pedro Martinez
Jake Peavy

just wished Maddux was more consistent the past few weeks as he was the beginning of the season...But it's hard to be consistent when your team cannot produce offensively for you when you are on the mound.

I like Jim Thome, However I still cant fathom him in a White Sux uniform.

Add Albert Pujols to my list, Best hitter in all the MLB.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

just wished Maddux was more consistent the past few weeks as he was the beginning of the season...But it's hard to be consistent when your team cannot produce offensively for you when you are on the mound.

I like Jim Thome, However I still cant fathom him in a White Sux uniform.

Add Albert Pujols to my list, Best hitter in all the MLB.

I kno3w about Maddux. The thing I'll remember most about him is that one wekend a friend and I were in Milwaukee back in 1995 to see the Twins play the Brewers, and on Saturday morning I lookd in the paper and saw Maddux was pitching for the Braves. My frined and I went down to Wrigley, and sure enough the game started at 1:20 p.m and was over by 3:45. We pulled back into the COunty stadium parking lot 15 min before the Twins/Brewers game.

[Rickypt]

Originally Posted by GODDESS6

coco crisp

Definitely the best name in baseball!

Add Omar Vizquel to my list, shortstop for the Giants.

I don't have a lot of non-Giants or A's favorites, but I like Jorge Posada and Shawn Green.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Jim Thome-Maybe the nicest guy that's ever played

That's what my ex always said. I had never heard that until him, and then again from you.

Anyway, my favorite player is Albert Pujols of my beloved Cards. I love Scott Rolen, too. I also think Vladimir Guerrero has been putting up great numbers for several years and has always been kind of lost in the shuffle of superstars.

Geez, it's much easier to list baseball players I don't like.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

That's what my ex always said. I had never heard that until him, and then again from you.

Anyway, my favorite player is Albert Pujols of my beloved Cards. I love Scott Rolen, too. I also think Vladimir Guerrero has been putting up great numbers for several years and has always been kind of lost in the shuffle of superstars.

Geez, it's much easier to list baseball players I don't like.

You know who else is one of the nicest guys? Terry Mulholland the pitcher. I met him about 10 years ago when he was with the Yankees, and he signed a newspaper article from when he pitched a no-hitter with the Phillies. We talked about the game for a good 10 min. He seemed genuinely happy that someone wanted to talk about that with him. Hell who wouldnt, afterall how many guys have pitched no-hitters?

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

Definitely the best name in baseball!

while Coco Crisp is a great name, I still give my vote to Milton Bradley.

[DavidMn]

Not to digress too far from the topic at hand, but I've been luck enough to have seen 2 no-hitters in person in the big leagues. Scott Erickson for the Twins on 4-27-94, and Eric Milton for the Twins on 9-11-99. I'll tell you fans this, I've seen alot of stuff in baseball, including game 7 of the 1991 world series, but there's nothing that compares with the drama of seeing a no-hitter in person. I have both of the scorecard and ticket stubs from those games framed on my wall.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

Not to digress too far from the topic at hand, but I've been luck enough to have seen 2 no-hitters in person in the big leagues. Scott Erickson for the Twins on 4-27-94, and Eric Milton for the Twins on 9-11-99. I'll tell you fans this, I've seen alot of stuff in baseball, including game 7 of the 1991 world series, but there's nothing that compares with the drama of seeing a no-hitter in person. I have both of the scorecard and ticket stubs from those games framed on my wall.

Scotty Erickson..... I always thought he was cute. I remember the no-hitter, too.

[estranged4life]

has ever happened at any of the pro games we have attended (Of course the games we attend are at the Triple A level-The Oklahoma Redhawks, affiliate for the Texas Rangers)

But I have seen plenty of weirdness on TV, The 2 that stick out:

Indians vs. Angels from 2000, the Indians were down 14-3 going into the 8th inning and created the best rally I have ever seen, Thus winning the game in the 9th inning 15-14

Cubs vs. Rockies, I want to say it was from 1995 or 1996, the game started as Deb went to work that night, And 8+ hours later after her shift ended it was still being played.

This game included two 2 hour+ rain delays, 2 two 8 run innings by the Cubs, the Cubs batting around 3 times in 9 innings and ended at about 1:30AM CST with the final score of 25-6.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Scotty Erickson..... I always thought he was cute. I remember the no-hitter, too.

The thing about that game that was funny was that outside here that day it was snowing and about 5 inches fell! I remember being all jacked up leaving after the game and seing snow fall. Now that was weird!

[GypsySorcerer]

I have only attended Cardinals games. I went to two games during 1998, the McGwire/Sosa HR chase year, one being a Cards/Cubs game in September. Neither hit a homer. I did see McGwire hit a walk-off HR against the Astros earlier that year.