Some things just aren’t meant to have their meaning extracted for fun, and one of those things is the homerun. When it naturally occurs during a game, a homerun has the potential to be many different things: a game changer, a walk-off win, a record breaking statistic, etc. The Homerun Derby is a different story altogether.
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So that All Star break is nearly here, and everywhere you look you get the same crap: Charlie Manuel is the worst manager ever, how could he pick Howard over Votto and Infante over the rest of the league, blah, blah, blah. It’s time to look past the one tired storyline so far and unveil the true All Stars of the first half.
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Given the circumstances and the way his name lends itself to nifty titles and phrases, it was difficult to steer clear of the “Halladay Weekend” headline that you have seen all over the Internet at this point. Dress it up however you like, but the simple fact is that Roy “Doc” Halladay added another notch in his belt last night when he sat down 27 Florida Marlins in a row. Just 20 days after the Oakland Athletics’ Dallas Braden accomplished the feat, Halladay becomes just the 20th player in the history of the game to become perfect.
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The quest for back-to-back World Series titles came up just short last year, as the Phillies were thwarted by a New York juggernaut. But in doing so, the Phillies solidified their role as the powerhouse and class of the National League, and made sure to let the AL know that there can be AL-power on an NL team.
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From the class of New York to…the Mets. The Yankees and the “Amazins” are about as different as night and day. The Yankees won the World Series last year and the Mets were a huge embarrassing failure on just about every level possible, and Mets fans themselves will tell you just that.
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There’s not much more you can say about the Yankees’ 2009 campaign other than that they had extremely high expectations and goals and managed to meet all of them.
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The Red Sox said goodbye to the curse over 5 years ago now and have not looked back. In fact, they went ahead and spent exorbitant amounts of money to reel in spectacular players to make sure they would never set another curse into motion.
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The Rays followed up a World Series appearance by missing the playoffs last season, and although they still had a successful season by Tampa Bay Rays standards, there’s a bit of a “window is closing” panic going on in Tampa.
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For the better part of two decades, the Braves were the gold standard in the NL East. In 2009, they fought their way to the finish line and beat out the pesky Marlins, but were unable to catch the Rockies for the Wild Card spot, solidifying a fourth straight season without a playoff berth. So what changed this offseason to silence critics who maintain that the Braves’ lineup is too left handed and needs some upgrading?
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Year after year, the Florida Marlins stay in the mix and are pesky enough to impact division standings right up until the end of the season. And, more impressively, they keep doing it on the cheap.
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