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Discuss the 2010 Baseball season here... Philly was nice and let New York borrow the trophy for the year.

Is it too early to give the NL Cy Yung Award to Roy Halladay?

interesting way to end the week in the Double Play Contest... the top teams, Phillies and Dodgers, scored a combined 1 run in the final day of the week.

4 shutouts on the day and a no-hitter.

and a bizarre 20-inning game that went 0-0 into the 19th, then 1-1 into the 20th, then ended 2-1.

Nice game...

Milwaukee 20, Pittsburgh 0
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Senator calls for boycott of Arizona All Star game

Quote:Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players Association to boycott next year’s All Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.

The New Jersey Democrat says in a letter that 27 percent of Major League players are Latinos and they shouldn’t be subjected to a law Menendez says codifies racial profiling.

Rep. Jose Serrano, a New York Democrat, has similarly asked the players to boycott the 2011 event, noting that in 1993 the National Football League rescinded its offer to host the Super Bowl in Arizona because it didn’t then recognize Martin Luther King day.

Players Association Executive Director Michael Weiner has come out against the law, saying it could negatively impact hundreds of players.

I think this is going to be the subject of my next column. The governor of Arizona wrote a very interesting letter to all sports fans over the weekend addressing this issue, explaining her side of it.

It was quite compelling, hearing it for the first time and really hearing the other side for the first time.

Bottom line is 80% of the people in AZ want the law. 60% of the people in the country agree with it. You can't start boycotting other states because you don't like their politics.

What is next? Can the bible belt states boycott MA because they allow gay marriage? See how stupid this is. It went to the people for a vote, the people spoke with their votes. It can't get anymore fair. This is over.

Securb Wrote:You can't start boycotting other states because you don't like their politics.

Some states tried to do that in the 1860's.

Former MLB Pitcher Jose Lima is dead

Quote:LOS ANGELES (AP)—Authorities say paramedics found former major league pitcher Jose Lima(notes) in full cardiac arrest at his home in Pasadena early Sunday, and he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A statement from the Pasadena Police Department says a specific cause of death is unknown, and Los Angeles County coroner’s officials will perform an autopsy.
Jose Lima won 21 games and made the All-Star team in 1999.
(Associated Press)

Police detectives also responded to the scene because of the undetermined cause of death and will work with the coroner’s office, the statement said.

The All-Star right-hander spent 13 years in the major leagues with Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, and several other teams. He was 37.