Fifth Avenue Forum

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:52 pm**

Lee Smith and Goose Gossage were the first of the hard throwing relief pitchers of that era.

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:35 pm**

I'd have a lot easier of a time rooting for the Blues if their fans weren't Cards fans

You could imagine they're just a small faction of Cards fans who aren't entirely insufferable.

Whereas, with Bruins fans...

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:44 pm**

Awful

Yes, it is.

And I still miss him terribly.

The local media coverage is like 2017 Letang's neck x 1,000.

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:44 pm**

Keuchel signs a 1 yr $13 million deal with the Braves

Kimbrel signs with the Cubs for 3 years /$43 million

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:31 am**

not sure what to make of the keuchel contract

Posted: **Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:42 am**

Looks like Keuchel overplayed his had all offseason.

I imagine every team would be willing to give him that contract, Keuchel likely chose to go to Atlanta.

Posted: **Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:04 pm**

Developing: Former Red Sox DH David Ortiz has been shot in Dominican Republic according to a friend. Nothing official yet. No the news to report.

https://twitter.com/MibeltRodriguez/sta ... 55168?s=19

Posted: **Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:44 pm**

In the leg.

Posted: **Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:44 pm**

There's a video on Twitter that I won't post here showing the alleged shooter getting the **** kicked out of him

Posted: **Sun Jun 09, 2019 11:13 pm**

I’ve never understood why MLBers go back to the DR.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:15 am**

With all of the tourist deaths there recently, I am thinking no one should go there.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:42 am**

I went there for my 40th, had a blast, won't go back again.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:44 am**

I’ve never understood why MLBers go back to the DR.

The allure of home is strong, but yeah, it's a crime-ridden shthole. Not ideal.

Posted: **Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:05 pm**

Deadspin recently had a 20 year anniversary look back to that time Bobby Valentine tried to sneak back in the dugout in disguise. TIL that Hugo Chavez threw out the first pitch at Shea that day.

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:49 am**

Three things were widely reported in the immediate aftermath of the incident Sunday night that turned out to be incorrect: that Ortiz was shot in the leg; that Ortiz was shot during a robbery attempt; and that the shooter was a man named Feliz Garcia, who was arrested Sunday night sometime after he was recorded on video being severely beaten by Ortiz fans. Turns out Ortiz was shot in the back by a man police have since identified as Rolfy Ferreyra, and police now depict the shooting as a botched assassination attempt coordinated by somewhere between six and ten co-conspirators. Surveillance video of the attack shows a man walking up behind a seated Ortiz, shooting him once in the back, and then freezing in place for a moment, before taking off on foot.

Police in the Dominican Republic say they’ve arrested Ferreyra, Garcia, and four other suspects, whose efforts were allegedly coordinated by an individual who was paid about the equivalent of $7,800 to mastermind the job, and who is among those in police custody. Cops say Garcia was driving the getaway motorcycle, which he apparently crashed or abandoned near enough to the scene for witnesses to circle him and brutally stomp him in the street. The hunt is reportedly still on for a group of people Ferreyra and Garcia were apparently seen on surveillance footage talking to immediately before the shooting.

https://deadspin.com/police-describe-so ... 1835465658

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:19 pm**

can someone cue up that what the f gif

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:25 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:26 pm**

yeah the video I saw looked more like a hit than a robbery. He was just sitting at a table and someone walks up behind him and shoots.

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:15 pm**

Makes you wonder if Big Papi got mixed up in something he shouldn't have.

Posted: **Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:47 pm**

Makes you wonder if Big Papi got mixed up in something he shouldn't have.

Rumors on the Twitter speculate he was messing around with some drug lord's wife

Posted: **Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:48 am**

Shohei Ohtani became the first Japanese player to hit for the cycle in MLB.

Posted: **Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:45 am**

Out of the loop, is he still pitching or have they moved him to position only since he was having elbow issues last year (I think)?

Posted: **Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:49 am**

he had TJ last fall, so no pitching for a while.

Posted: **Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:51 am**

Came back in in early May and has only been DHing. Should start throwing off a mound before the ASB but won't pitch this season. Started slow but is up to 281/350/512/863 on the season.

Posted: **Sat Jun 15, 2019 11:45 pm**

This was Nick Kingham's first pitch ever thrown as a Blue Jay.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PitcherList/ ... 5102291970