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Title: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Geowhizzer on March 30, 2018, 05:43:41 PM
Been thoroughly entertained by the Pittsburgh-Detroit game.  Pittsburgh scored four runs in the top of the 9th to go ahead 10-6.
Detroit scored four more to send it to extra innings.  And the game winning run by Detroit was overturned by a lengthy review in the 10th inning.  Ron Gardenhire was thrown out by both umps involved in the review.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on April 16, 2018, 07:18:08 PM
bryce harper just split his bat in half and hit a homer off degrom....unreal
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on April 18, 2018, 03:05:33 AM
Red Sox messed up the Halos.  Ohtani 2 IP 4 H 3 R
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on April 21, 2018, 11:01:50 PM
Sean Manaea has a no-hitter through 7 against Boston.  It includes the umpires gathering and ruling Andrew Benintendi out of the baseline on a close play at first to end the 6th.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbWveQ2UQAAenrD.jpg:large)

EDIT:  Got it.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on April 22, 2018, 03:56:53 AM
Oakland Alameda shteinhole was 90% Red Sox Nation tonight.  That abomination needs to be blown to smithereens.

Great to see those chowdah heads suck ass watching their beloved Sawxs get no hit.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on April 24, 2018, 09:44:40 AM
if you want to do something fun take a stroll through bartolo colon's batters faced list

https://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/batter_vs_pitcher.cgi?pitcher=colonba01

its basically every player from the late 90s to today. mariano duncan. socrates brito. tony gwynn. eddie murray. clay AND cody bellinger. charlie hayes. exhibit A of phillies killing mike mordecai. sandy alomar. gary gaetti. 5 appearances against brandon duckworth! 10 plate appearances against doug glanville. hes faced jose canseco 19 times and aaron altherr 18. 22 against delino deshields...and now hes on the same team as his son.

never retire, bartolo.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on May 01, 2018, 12:11:29 PM
so far this year 142 players have struck out more times than tony Gwynn did in any season from 1991 to 1996
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on May 01, 2018, 12:16:08 PM
STRIKEOUTS MEAN NOTHING!
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: hbionic on May 01, 2018, 02:40:08 PM
That is a disgusting stat.

I'm curious to know what is the league average for both leagues since that time Tony Gwynn played.

Is it up or down? Is the ball smaller, arms stronger? Are batters not as strong because of the purportedly less use of steroids? Is it that pitcher's aren't pitching as many innings so they're stronger?

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on May 01, 2018, 04:07:25 PM
way up

3 true outcomes (hr, bb, k) are valued the most now. so hitters are more patient, working deeper counts which leads to more k's and bb's. additionally, guys are stronger and more importantly swinging for the fences more. 2 strike approach is the same as 1 and 0 for a lot of hitters.

pitchers are throwing harder than ever before. average starters are being converted into relievers. 7th and 8th inning relievers are better than theyve ever been.

is this good for the game? im not sure. the fix is to shorten the strikezone a bit to make it more enticing for hitters to swing. ultimately, balls in play are what you want.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: hbionic on May 01, 2018, 07:28:48 PM
Interesing MDS.

Didn't realize batters were swinging at 1-0 before.

Guess they figured they had 3-4 pitches in the bank before they had to get serious?

Now, feels like a 2-0 to a 3-2 count cuts the strike zone into a 4-inch square that the pitcher has to touch. At least in the playoffs it does.

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on May 06, 2018, 12:39:18 PM
https://twitter.com/mariners/status/992929581295321089 21
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on May 18, 2018, 07:00:05 PM
QuoteThere's been 34 postponements in MLB this season, the most through May in the last 15 seasons.

There were 39 postponements all of last season and just 25 in 2016.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on June 08, 2018, 07:16:56 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfFmeRzVAAE69Q9.jpg)
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on June 21, 2018, 01:45:21 PM
this is pathetic...baseball in trouble

QuoteWe are on pace for more strikeouts than hits –  18,613 strikeouts compared to 18,136 hits entering Wednesday's non-action. The average time between balls put in play, according to "Sports Illustrated," is a staggering 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2018/06/20/mlb-bad-baseball-attendance-strikeouts/718162002/

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on June 21, 2018, 05:27:00 PM
they either have to lower the mound or limit the amount of pitchers per game

no other way around it
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: hbionic on June 21, 2018, 11:21:17 PM
Why are pitchers to blame here?

With no data to based this next opinion on, it feels that with the increase in salaries, batters seem to care less about putting the ball in play, and more about knocking the ball into outer space.

Every day, every game, for the past 20+ seasons, it seems like there's a situation where if the batter were patient or mindful of not going for the home run, there would have been more runs scored, more people on base, etc.

Seems like we had more professional hitters in previous eras (at the same time, that was the height of steroid-ball)...so...maybe batters were never as good as the pitching to begin with?


Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on June 22, 2018, 12:51:36 AM
Quote from: hbionic on June 21, 2018, 11:21:17 PM
With no data to based this next opinion on, it feels that with the increase in salaries, batters seem to care less about putting the ball in play, and more about knocking the ball into outer space.

I really doubt it has anything to do with care level. Teams are smarter with situational pitching and fielding than ever before, and on the hitting side they've realized that putting the ball in play isn't necessarily the most important thing for winning. That's why the team with the worst batting average is in first place. It matters less than people thought. This whole advanced stats revolution has been about finding things that are more highly correlated with winning than the traditional statistics.

It's the smart way to win but it's boring as farg. Like watching Floyd Mayweather.

Barring some hitting innovation that I can't even imagine, it'll only change if the rules change to encourage more hitting.

When you collect more information, you find new ways to win. It's happening in all sports. The result won't always be more boring (it seems to encourage more risk taking in football and basketball), but in the case of baseball, that's how it worked out.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on June 22, 2018, 06:43:53 AM
Talk radio here was on about banning the shift as a partial remedy.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on June 27, 2018, 09:21:09 AM
A progressive​ front-office man for a winning team​ is talking about pitching,​ the Tampa Bay Rays​ and​ the​ future of​ the​​ sport he loves. The more he talks, the more obvious it becomes.

The future scares the hell out of him.

He has "no problem" with the Rays per se, he says. He understands what has led them to trot relief pitchers out there to "open" (but not "start") the game three or four days a week. What he wonders, though, is this:

Has anyone in charge of this sport thought through the long-term reverberations of this otherwise creative and thoughtful innovation?

"I'm not a purist about much," this executive says. "But I think baseball is going down a bad road... because part of what baseball is about is the starting pitcher matchup. For as long as baseball has been played, you looked in the paper and asked, 'Who's pitching today?' It's part of the attraction of our game. If it's just going to become a collection of guys throwing 50 pitches, we've lost something as a sport."

When a Max Scherzer or Gerrit Cole spins off an epic 15-strikeout, 2-hit kind of evening, that's baseball theater at its greatest. But when it's seven pitchers combining for a three-hour, 36-minute, 15-strikeout, two-hit kind of evening, "that's mind-numbingly bad baseball," this same exec says.

"I don't think we're going down a road we should want to go down," he says. "But I don't think we have the courage to stop it."

The courage to stop it. I've been rolling those words around my brain since I first heard them. And when I do, I keep asking the same question: Is this really where baseball is heading?

Could there really be a time, five or 10 or 20 years down that road, when "Starting Pitcher" is no longer a description of an actual job? In 2038, is it possible that folks will think of a "starting pitcher" the way folks in 2018 think of jobs like "milkman" or "Blockbuster store manager?"

And if that's true, how dangerous an idea is that – not as baseball strategy but as entertainment strategy?

Let's say this again. For 100 years, the first question everyone asked on the way to a ballpark was always: "Who's pitching tonight?"

But suppose the answer in 2038 is: "Everybody," or "Who the heck knows?" Would some of those people then just change their minds and stay home and binge a little Netflix?

So I've spent the last week or so asking people around baseball – nearly a dozen managers, GMs and executives of generally successful, forward-thinking teams – one of baseball's most important questions:

What is the future of the Starting Pitcher?

Here is what they see in their crystal balls.

LONG LIVE THE ACE

It starts with The Ace. It always has. And if baseball is going to survive as a compelling form of entertainment, there is still a school of thought that it always will.

"I remember when I was in college, I went to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia," says Astros GM (and Penn grad) Jeff Luhnow. "And the reason I went to that game was to watch Steve Carlton and Dwight Gooden, two of the dominant pitchers in the National League. I know I paid a lot of money – for a college student. But if it was Reliever X pitching against Reliever Y, I'm guessing I wouldn't have been likely to do that."

Hey, good guess – because three decades later, the allure of that sort of match-up, Cy Young dueling Cy Young, is still one of the best things baseball has going for it.

The NBA has hitched its entire league to star players who hold the ball in their hands 100 times a game. So now ask yourself: What's the closest thing baseball has to Steph against LeBron?

It's Max Scherzer versus Clayton Kershaw. It's Corey Kluber versus Justin Verlander. It's Chris Sale versus Luis Severino. No other stars in this sport get to show off just how dominant they are 100 times a night. It's the essence of baseball – and always has been.

"Looking back when I pitched," says longtime Braves ace John Smoltz, "you couldn't help but notice who you were pitching against. I mean, if you know you're pitching against Pedro Martínez...you can't help but hyper-focus.

"I just don't think it's physically possible," Smoltz goes on, "to pitch 35 times in the regular season at the level you pitch in the postseason. But when you're up against Pedro and you know that all you can give up is maybe one run, it elevates you to the level of a playoff game."

Asked if everything felt different on the days he faced a guy like Pedro, Smoltz says it all in two words: "Oh yeah."

So is baseball really willing to lose that? That star power? That postseason aura in June? That one stage it can construct for its biggest stars to go toe to toe?

"To me," says Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations, "those types of guys – the Scherzers, the Klubers, the Kershaws, the Sales – will always be valuable. They were valuable looking back at baseball in the past. They're extremely valuable in the present day. And they'll be extremely valuable looking ahead."

Just look at what Luhnow and the Astros have constructed in Houston. Nothing else about the way the Astros operate could possibly be described as old-fashioned, or even conventional. But their starting rotation? It's such an old-school, made-for-October group, it's a rotation the '95 Braves or '66 Orioles would have been proud to roll out there.

Is that telling us something – that this team, the Houston Astros, built itself around that type of rotation in its quest to win another World Series?

"Yes," Luhnow says. "But it's almost impossible to pull off."

The Astros are as avant-garde a set of outside-the-box thinkers as you'll find in this sport. But their rotation is pure classic rock: Two former Cy Youngs (Verlander and Dallas Keuchel)....A former No. 1 pick in the country (Cole) "who will probably win (a Cy Young) soon himself," Luhnow says.... The young, dazzling, ever-improving Lance McCullers Jr....And, in Luhnow's words, "one of the great comeback stories in baseball" in Charlie Morton.

It's the kind of rotation, the GM admits, that his front office always aspired to build – and then they actually made it happen. These guys chew up innings. They pile up swings and misses. They take their turn every fifth day. They're living the dream, every franchise's dream.

But is this how his pitching staff will always be constructed? Jeff Luhnow is making no promises of that.

"The aim," he says, "is just to get outs. So if (in the future) you have two dominating starters and a lot of good relievers, maybe you do something different, like Tampa is trying to do right now."

Which brings us to the other end of this paradigm ...

OPEN ARMS IN TAMPA BAY

The Tampa Bay Rays don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the future looks like for 29 other franchises. They're doing what they have to do. And neither their franchise nor modern civilization has collapsed, just because they've basically dispensed with the idea that they even need a starting rotation, in the traditional sense.

"If we had five Chris Archers or Blake Snells, we wouldn't be doing this," says their club president, Matt Silverman.

But they don't. And they won't – not this year anyway. So two or three out of every five days, they send a relief pitcher to the mound to "open" the game for three to six outs. Then they basically match up for all the other outs, while trying their best to manage innings, protect young arms and still compete.

To the amazement of millions of humans whose brains are stuck in 1977, this has not been a disaster. In fact, it has mostly been a stroke of (gasp) genius.

Since May 19, when they first began using Sergio Romo – and later others – as their "opener," before turning the game over to a multi-inning arm, the Rays have racked up the best ERA (2.87), opponent batting average (.205) and opponent on-base percentage (.282) in the entire sport.

It isn't stunning that much of the rest of the baseball world has spent the last five weeks recoiling in shock and denial over how they've done that. But to the front office that devised this approach, it's just another logical step in modern baseball thinking.

"I don't see this as anything revolutionary at all," Silverman says. "It's almost a continuation of the evolution of roles in the bullpen. It's a potential next step of how you manage innings and manage a pitching staff."

So is this the wave of the future? We found a lot of resistance to that idea, on every level. And one of the biggest skeptics is a fellow who used to be pretty much the face of the Rays, Joe Maddon.

The Cubs manager sees the Rays as a team that is "doing this out of necessity – and they're doing a great job with it." But will their success push the rest of the sport in this direction? Maddon shakes his head forcefully.

"I don't think that will ever happen," he says. "I really don't, unless there's some kind of new training technique that permits relief pitchers to throw that often, that well. It's just not going to happen. The way the game is structured, you need this really reliable starter to go X number of innings to get you through the season and not absolutely obliterate arms. Either that or you have new rules that permit you to shuffle guys between triple-A and the major leagues. Those are the kind of things that you may have to do.

"But I don't ever see (rotations as we've always known them) going away. I don't. I think it's impossible, actually."

We've heard those same concerns from other corners. But the Rays don't see how the challenges of keeping their pitchers healthy change, just because the innings they're appearing in happen to change.

"It's the same challenge as managing your pitching staff if you're managing it conventionally," Silverman says. "I don't see a difference there. We have the same concerns and the same level of TLC with these pitchers, whether they're starting the game and throwing 100 pitches or closing the game. It's all the same.

"Let's say a reliever is used primarily as an 'opener.' He's going to pitch the same workload as if he's pitching the seventh or eighth inning of a game. It's the same workload management. It will be matched to historical levels and what we think he can accomplish."

Oh, they've had some games reel out of control on them – when they drag into extra innings or when their "opener" unravels in the first inning. But again, they don't see how that's different from the havoc other teams are forced to deal with in games like that.

Heck, they don't even accept our master premise, that a team without true "starters" is less interesting or entertaining.

"You have fans coming to the game saying, 'Really? Sergio Romo is starting a game? What is this?'" Silverman says. "I think it's kind of interesting. I think it actually adds some intrigue. And every opponent that we're playing – their TV and radio guys are spending [a lot of time] talking about it. It's something new that's part of the conversation of baseball."

Ah, but is it the centerpiece of the future of starting pitching? That's where this debate gets fiery.

WHERE ARE WE HEADING?

So let's haul those Ouija boards out of the closet. It's time to predict the future. Not surprisingly, it looks vastly different to baseball men with vastly different perspectives – some of whom prefer not to identify themselves. Here are the highlights of what they foresee:

TEAMS WILL STOP TRYING TO DEVELOP ACES – "What scares me," says one exec, "is, what's going to happen to our first-round picks in 15 years? If Max Scherzer was coming up with the Rays, maybe they turn him into a 50-pitch type of guy."

Another exec, and not one ever referred to as "old-school," could also see that happening – but still finds the whole thought preposterous.

"You're an idiot," he says, "if you have a Max Scherzer and you shorten him to two or three innings. I kind of hope teams do do that – because it's really dumb... It's dumb because you're giving up the other four-to-six innings you'd get at that quality, and because of what it means for your bullpen the next night and the night after that. So you're giving up a significant advantage, not only for winning that night's game but also the next night's game."

BAD NEWS FOR FREE AGENTS – Once upon a time – by which we mean like two years ago – the good old, league-average, inning-eating starting pitcher was an excellent, lucrative gig. And then last offseason happened.

So Lance Lynn sat around all winter without a job. Alex Cobb sat around all winter without a job. Aníbal Sánchez sat around all winter without a job. Etc., etc.

Well, it wasn't just Lynn, Cobb, Sánchez and 100 agents who were wondering what that was all about. It was pretty much everyone. But now that picture is beginning to clear up. Last winter was just providing one more window into how new-wave baseball front offices view the value of that sort of starting pitcher.

"Teams now value quality over quantity," says one of the execs quoted earlier. "They used to value quantity over quality. So two, three, four, five years ago, guys got paid a lot more money to take down those 190-210 innings a year."

THE "NON-ROTATION" IS CHEAPER, PERIOD – You don't need an MBA from Harvard Business to do this math. What costs a team more – paying five veteran starters to get the franchise through the season or paying, say, two veteran starters, and filling in the rest of the "starts" with the cast of "Meet the Bullpen?"

It's a simple equation. So let's spell it out for you in real-life 2018 payroll dollars.

Cubs rotation (Lester, Darvish, Quintana, Hendricks, Chatwood): $78 million

Rays "non-rotation" (Archer, Snell, Eovaldi, Romo, Stanek): $11 million

"I don't think you'd get one guy from the management side – who knows this is just financially cheaper – to admit it," Smoltz says. "But it is. It's financially cheaper."

A FUTURE WITH NO SUCH THING AS A TRUE STARTER? – An AL GM with an expensive starting rotation offers that startling prediction – of an entire sport looking at the Rays' success and embracing it, full-speed ahead.

"I do think we're getting a glimpse of the future of pitching," that GM says, "with some of the recent experimentation. While things will surely evolve, I suspect there's a future reality that includes a staff that's predominately built around pitchers who are expected to get nine to 15 outs."

So is he actually predicting we will see a time when "starting pitcher" becomes an almost obsolete job description?

"Yes," he says, simply.

But is that how most of his peers see it? Nope. Not the execs we've surveyed anyway. But here is what they do see....

A FUTURE WITH "THE HORSE" AND THEN FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS – Let's make this clear. A world with no true starters is not what most people in the game predict. But do they continue to see a world with 150 true starters (i.e., the traditional five starting pitchers per team)? Frankly, many of them see that long-time model crumbling – and sooner than you'd think.

"Personally," says Andrew Friedman, "I don't believe there are 150 starters on Planet Earth that can reach a certain threshold (of performance). The ones who do are very helpful to teams winning games. But what about the ones who fall short of that bar? Instead of crossing our fingers, I think there are more proactive ways to put your team in a better position to help win baseball games."

Brewers GM David Stearns envisions a similar blueprint.

"I think the `horse' starting pitcher will always be in demand," Stearns says, "and will always be a desirable and highly valued player in baseball. I do not see that changing. But I do think the industry is always looking for ways to supplement when you don't have that big starting pitcher. And I think that's what we've seen throughout the league.

"So we shorten up starters (and how many times they go through the lineup). We go with an `opener.' We rely on more multi-inning relievers. I actually give teams a lot of credit, for looking for outside-the-box solutions. All we're looking to do is get 27 outs the most effective way we can get them."

But is that all baseball has become now – a math equation? And if it is, should the sirens be wailing in Rob Manfred's office 24 hours a day?

"Look," says one exec, "we're going to continue to look for ways to find every ounce of value we can find within the rules we're playing under. That's what we get paid to do – to find every edge we can to help us win. But if they change the rules, we'll play by those rules – and look for other ways to win."

So is it time for baseball to address the rules that apply to starting pitchers, too? We've heard a lot of talk from the commissioner lately about the need to balance the analytics explosion in the name of making his sport a more entertaining product. But how could baseball possibly change its rules to prevent all 30 teams from using an "opener?"

The answer, says one exec, is roster limits.

"If they ever give us a 26th man," he says, "there had better be a requirement for how many hitters and pitchers you have to have...or you could see teams go to 15 pitchers. And that's just a recipe for terrible baseball."

So welcome to Rob Manfred's world – a world now overflowing with issues just like this one. Never before have baseball's front offices been populated by more innovative thinkers. And that's mostly a great thing. But is some of that thinking beginning to choke the entertainment out of the nightly show? If it is, that's a dangerous thing.

And what if the next great casualty of all that deep thinking is the disappearance of Scherzer versus Kershaw, Verlander versus Kluber and the eternal, must-see Battle of the Aces? Is that a threat to the sport that's so ominous, it might require the sport to act? Stay tuned.

"The one thing positive about the Rays," says the exec quoted at the beginning of this piece, "is, if they give Sergio Romo or somebody like him 50 starts, maybe it will open the door for rules to counteract that. I hope so – because nothing, to me, is not an answer."
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on July 06, 2018, 08:34:20 PM
Jenrry Mejia will be reinstated in 2019. (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2784836-jenrry-mejia-reinstated-by-mlb-after-lifetime-ban-for-peds?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial) 

He can do a minor league rehab assignment beginning in August, and will be allowed to attend spring training.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on July 13, 2018, 02:18:41 PM
QuoteChase Utley plans to hold a news conference Friday in Los Angeles and announce that he will retire at the end of the 2018 season, sources told ESPN.

Utley plans to play out the rest of this season, but will not return in 2019, when he is in the second year of a two-year, $2 million contract.

...

He joins former teammates Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino, both of whom recently announced that they were done playing. Utley's announcement comes 10 days before the Dodgers will make their only appearance in Philadelphia this season. The teams will play a three-game series at Citizens Bank Park from July 23-25.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: phattymatty on July 17, 2018, 11:55:05 PM
i'd watch much more baseball on tv if there were 10 homers every game.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on July 18, 2018, 08:30:44 AM
Quote from: phattymatty on July 17, 2018, 11:55:05 PM
i'd watch much more baseball on tv if there were 10 homers every game.

there almost are....this year will obliterate the all time home runs per game record
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on July 18, 2018, 08:49:37 AM
We're going to 10 homers a game out of 12 total hits.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on July 18, 2018, 02:13:08 PM
josh hader was MAGAing before it was cool
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on July 29, 2018, 02:04:07 PM
Apparently the Braves announcers didn't like Chase Utley's batting practice attire. (https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/phillies/atlanta-braves-broadcasters-call-chase-utley-los-angeles-dodgers-unprofessional-mlb)
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on August 06, 2018, 12:44:39 PM
The Mets asked Matt Harvey (returning to NY for first time with Reds) to make his press conference at 3:45 or 4:15 to avoid Mets manager Mickey Callaway's PR at 4.

He made it at 4. (https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/08/05/things-between-mets-and-matt-harvey-are-petty/)
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on August 09, 2018, 12:49:44 AM
Watching Dodgers/A's tonight.  Nice to see Oakland Colosseum packed as there are usually more tarps than fans.  Ton of Dodgers fans in the house.  Started a "Let's Go Lakers" chant and the Oakland crowd quickly shut them down. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on August 10, 2018, 05:08:42 PM
pos ex nat Brandon kintzller melting down against them in the 8th up 1

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on August 10, 2018, 05:16:50 PM
lol Soto somehow picked off first by the catcher....fly out...ground out inning over

thanks Carl
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on August 10, 2018, 05:35:04 PM
nite nite nats
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on August 11, 2018, 11:30:20 PM
lol at this throw in Oakland my god
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 13, 2018, 12:09:41 AM
I watched that a lot

So sweet

Reminded me of Vlad back in the day
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on August 13, 2018, 04:07:31 PM
the braves have a guy named sobotka
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on August 14, 2018, 09:46:16 AM
if you enjoy watching the nats lose and enjoy a salty bob carpenter, do i have something for you

https://twitter.com/VanHicklestein/status/1029210731789594624
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: phattymatty on August 15, 2018, 09:24:42 PM
this is pretty cool

QuoteRyan LaMarre's 1st MLB home run caught by his uncle: 'You couldn't dream it up'
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on August 26, 2018, 06:36:59 PM
one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in sports today

Steven matz putched 7 innings of one run ball and his team lost 15-0
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on September 27, 2018, 08:47:08 AM
this is amazing...

QuoteAaron Nola has had an incredible season, and is second in the NL in ERA. If he threw 90 consecutive scoreless innings, he would still not catch Jacob deGrom for the ERA title.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on September 27, 2018, 01:25:03 PM
Quoteif the mets had scored 4 runs in each of jacob degrom's starts, he would be 30-0

if they had scored 3, he'd be 25-1

if they had scored 2, he'd be 20-6
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on September 27, 2018, 01:27:45 PM
wins are such an important stat
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on September 27, 2018, 03:07:43 PM
cc sabathia was an inning away from getting a 500 thousand dollar IP bonus then he plunked someone and got thrown out
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on September 30, 2018, 05:17:53 PM
double elimination tourney coming up

monday
mil@chi
col@la
--
tuesday
losers play
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2018, 03:41:47 PM
unreal how many brewer fans are in wrigley 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on October 02, 2018, 09:16:32 PM
MacPhail was trying to temper free agency expectations today. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on October 02, 2018, 11:21:17 PM
Baseball trying the "pretending to be cool" marketing tactic.

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1047161791011332096
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: General_Failure on October 02, 2018, 11:49:32 PM
"Let the kids play," he said about a sport where the average age is 29.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 03, 2018, 05:58:59 AM
what a great game last night
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 03, 2018, 09:08:24 AM
im tired AF but well worth it to hang in until 1am

rockies/brewers will be a great series but an all time horrible ratings matchup
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on October 03, 2018, 07:09:55 PM
MLB needed Cubbies in a big way.  People are sick of the Dodgers.  Yankees stay in and BoSox will help the ratings but the thought of a Cubs/Sawx or Cubs/Evil Empire has MLB pounding the board room table.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 03, 2018, 11:12:58 PM
I'm sick of the Yanks and Sox

Too bad the A's do what they normally do in these games

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on October 04, 2018, 02:16:36 AM
Dear Gabe,

See Beane Ball.

Love,

Us

Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 04, 2018, 07:08:34 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 03, 2018, 11:12:58 PM
I'm sick of the Yanks and Sox

Too bad the A's do what they normally do in these games

they get overplayed in the regular season but in the playoffs there is no series id rather see other than phils mets

oakland boston would be horrid
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on October 04, 2018, 08:25:06 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 03, 2018, 11:12:58 PMI'm sick of the Yanks and Sox

You're sick of them?

Look at the O's.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 04, 2018, 09:17:34 AM
the yanks/sox were on sunday night baseball twice this year
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 04, 2018, 09:36:58 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 04, 2018, 09:17:34 AM
the yanks/sox were on sunday night baseball twice this year

lol they played three times on sunday this year

i would say minimum 80% of the yankee red sox games every year are on national tv somewhere
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 04, 2018, 10:23:15 AM
its actually 100% if you count mlb network taking the local team feed

i have no idea of its 2 or 3 im taking that from a busta rhymes tweet...but back 10 years ago they were on snb 5 or 6 times
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 04, 2018, 10:41:30 AM
i actually cant believe it wasnt all (3) but yeah they only played on a sunday three times this year
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: phattymatty on October 04, 2018, 12:55:53 PM
that cubs brewers game was the first game i watched in its entirely all year.  fun but i don't know how people find time to watch 3 hours of that shtein on the regular.

how farging stupid is it to play 162 games and then have a one game playoff? most ridiculous thing ever.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on October 04, 2018, 01:10:17 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on October 04, 2018, 12:55:53 PM
how farging stupid is it to play 162 games and then have a one game playoff? most ridiculous thing ever.

In terms of crowning the actual best team, they had it right in the old days. Huge number of season games; each league then sends the best record straight to the World Series.

That has not been baseball's priority for 50 years, for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 04, 2018, 02:08:24 PM
its not a perfect system the caveat is to win your division to avoid such a conundrum

my preference would be: add 2 teams to go 32, split up the teams by east/west, do 4 divisions of 8. division winners are IN. 2/3 place in each division do a best of 3 over 3 straight days (possible due to close proximity). then you start the best of 7s.

who says no?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 04, 2018, 04:06:23 PM
I'm fine with the wc  cause I don't look at the wild card as the playoffs...and this year showed how true that is...there really was zero difference btwn the tie breakers and the wild card

theres never been a wild card game to me it's just a one game extension of the regular season ...playoffs start tonight
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 04, 2018, 09:32:20 PM
doyer could barely half fill el los estadio de los doyer for the tiebreaker game and its maybe 75% tonight
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 18, 2018, 07:41:42 PM
Red Sox punting this game...if stros can't win tonight then they never had a chance 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 18, 2018, 10:20:15 PM
sox broke the astros
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on October 21, 2018, 09:40:20 AM
Boston vs LA

I'm not watching a second of this Series.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 21, 2018, 10:06:56 AM
ill watch close to all of it but yeah its sickening

maybe the only time ever ill be on the side of a boston team
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2018, 11:34:18 PM
Can we just go with 9 position players and 16 pitchers? Gotta give these managers MORE pitchers to change out.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 24, 2018, 03:17:37 PM
theyll never do it but the fix is to put a pitching changes per inning limit.

you get 1 mid inning pitching change per inning unless the pitcher throws like 25 pitches or something. taking him out for "injury" makes him inactive for the next 3 days.

who says no
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 24, 2018, 10:32:02 PM
I'm surprised you're against all these changes since you're balls deep into the analytics world.

On another note...the Sox and their two out hits and RBIs this post season are something else.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 25, 2018, 10:50:23 AM
there is no human being who likes making 100 pitching moves....its a simple exploitation of the rules that everyone does to try and win

if you legislate it out of the game nobody going be sad or anything
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: smeags on October 25, 2018, 11:35:37 AM
dodger hate > red sox hate

so I guess, yea !
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on October 25, 2018, 11:44:02 AM
Clearly LA winning their first WS in 30 years is completely unacceptable so we have to prefer something that would normally be loathsome.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 25, 2018, 12:22:57 PM
its 2 awful sports cities but the tiebreaker is manny needs to win his 1st back home
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on October 25, 2018, 12:23:18 PM
I've checked out.  Haven't made it past the 6th inning in any of these later starting games.  Getting too old to stay up past midnight and get up at 5am repeatedly.  If the Phils were in it, I'd tough it out.  But Boston-LA?  Beauty rest is too important.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 25, 2018, 04:45:01 PM
so one of my clients is jose reyes' wife...the one he beat the shtein out of, yes

she has a salon in ny

she is claiming she cant afford to pay for 1 month of service (~$900 for marketing)

her POS husband has made close to 100 mil in his worthless career
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on October 25, 2018, 08:15:28 PM
marketing

https://youtu.be/RbAAVLcMzr4
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on October 27, 2018, 09:19:01 AM
I hadn't watched a single pitch of that series until last night because I hate both teams, but especially Boston.  I then watched most of the game and wow... pretty damn compelling.

The walk-off was awesome.  Didn't feel one iota of compassion for the Sawx because farg them. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 27, 2018, 11:06:02 AM
turned it off in the 18th, not that i was even awake from the 16th or 17th

i know extra innings are awesome but logistically ending a world series game at 330am is just silly...suspended that shtein
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on October 27, 2018, 09:32:23 PM
Rome, remember when they played day games in the WS?  Great night for free baseball but this shtein ending after midnight EST repeatedly during the WS is a joke.

LMAO when I was watching Dodgers Recap show they scrolled "good seats still available for today's game".  Are you farging kidding me?  Seats still available for game 4 of the World Series?  City proper of a gazillion people can't sell out the WS? 

QuoteStill want to go to the World Series? Ticket prices have dropped to as little as $300
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: SD on October 27, 2018, 10:42:59 PM
Moreland just Stair'd Madson
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on October 28, 2018, 10:26:43 PM
Looks like it will be ovah tonight.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on October 30, 2018, 05:25:50 AM
From my friend:

QuoteMy sister works at LMU and said

"my project consultant went to the WS yesterday. He is a red Sox fan. Paid $40 for tickets on stub hub. Guess Dodger fans had given up. So LA!"

Disgrace
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on October 30, 2018, 02:44:30 PM
QuoteRed Sox-Dodgers 5-game set (14.12 million viewers) is fourth-lowest World Series viewership on record. Behind only Giants-Tigers sweep in 2012 (12.66 million), 5-game Phillies-Rays in 2008 (13.64 million) and 7-game Giants-Royals in 2014 (13.83 million).
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2018, 04:45:03 PM
Wonder what it would have been for a Houston/Milwaukee jawn
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on October 30, 2018, 09:22:18 PM
much worse
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on November 14, 2018, 03:10:05 PM
degrom starts - 32
giolito starts - 32
degrom wins - 10
giolito wins - 10
degrom team record - 14-18
giolito team record - 14-18

degrom era - 1.70
giolito era - 6.13

wins. are. important.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on November 24, 2018, 09:02:05 PM
QuoteOver the past week, seven major corporations have asked for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) to refund their contributions. Earlier this month, Hyde-Smith told a crowd at a campaign event that she would be willing to attend a "public hanging."

But one prominent American institution is going the other direction: Major League Baseball. According to an FEC report filed on November 24, the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball PAC donated $5000, the legal maximum, to Hyde-Smith's campaign. The contribution is dated November 23.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: SD on December 04, 2018, 03:54:51 PM
Nats are signing Corbin
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on December 10, 2018, 10:41:51 PM
How the farg is Harold Baines a HOFer
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on January 09, 2019, 05:02:30 PM
joey votto has seen a little more than 27,600 pitches  in his career

he has NEVER popped out to a first basemen catcher or pitcher
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on February 21, 2019, 07:32:09 AM
farg harper get these two...

https://thinkprogress.org/baseball-couple-union-campaign-003ec8963027/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c6e2cf34b73850001e2774f&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: phattymatty on February 21, 2019, 09:43:46 AM
creepy as farg.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6727481/Doppelganger-minor-league-baseball-pitchers-DNA-test-proves-NOT-secretly-related.html
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on March 18, 2019, 11:25:46 AM
https://twitter.com/dougherty_jesse/status/1107652252418871296
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on March 18, 2019, 10:34:26 PM
So is Ichiro gonna hang em up on Thursday or what?

It's time, and he can't ask for a better opportunity to say goodbye to the fans who care about him, but he's a stubborn old bastich.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on March 18, 2019, 10:38:38 PM
He should. It was cool to see him show off his arm again though.

Other than Vlad...prob the best RF arm I've seen.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Munson on March 21, 2019, 03:48:30 PM
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1108716757789958144

Quote"Ichiro hugged each teammate in turn, he eventually got to Yusei Kikuchi, the 27-year-old Japanese pitcher making his MLB debut this season. Kikuchi, you see, grew up idolizing Ichiro ever since he saw him play in the first NPB game he ever attended, at age 9.

'Since then I've read any book that there is about Mr. Ichiro, read any article about Mr. Ichiro, about his playing style, his work ethic,' Kikuchi said upon his introduction as a Mariner this winter.

'Mr. Ichiro is kind of a person in the sky, a legend. I don't know if he really exists,'

Yes, Yusei Kikuchi, there is an Ichiro."
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on March 21, 2019, 05:20:44 PM
I watched the first five innings last night/this morning.  Man does Ichiro look old.  Very cool sendoff for him.  Kikuchi looks like he'll be a decent pitcher. 

I remember when Ichiro first came to MLB and all the hype.  Rob Dibble was a co-host on Dan Patrick's ESPN radio show.  He wasn't buying it, said he'd have Ichiro's name tattooed on his ass if he won the batting title that year.  He did and I think he batted over .350, unreal.  Dibble came through and did it in Japanese characters. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on March 21, 2019, 08:03:53 PM
Ichiro singled to center in his tenth career at-bat, raising his lifetime batting average to .300. It never again fell below that mark.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on March 21, 2019, 08:14:13 PM
if he had played his entire career in mlb he passes POS pete and we never have to hear that rapists name again
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on April 04, 2019, 12:12:21 PM
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26437370/jones-fan-ejected-keep-banter-polite

So many lols in this "story."

My favorite is Jones suggesting no one would curse at him in the street.   Yeah, sure they wouldn't.  They wouldn't call you that naughty word either.  They would be so intimidated by you and your status as a pro jock.

My second favorite is his reasoning behind having the guy ejected.  It's ok that he got him tossed because he was using coarse language.  It evidently wasn't coarse enough for fellow fans to complain to an usher or even tell the guy themselves to chill out.

Thin-skinned entitled millennial bitches... god help us all.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: smeags on April 04, 2019, 01:22:10 PM
what a farging Hoyda
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on April 04, 2019, 01:34:19 PM
I couldn't disagree with you more.  I'm glad Jones had the guy bounced, would like to see it happen more often.  He's damn right the man wouldn't use that language on the street...he might have to be held accountable for it on the street.  He's also damn right that the language is entirely inappropriate for the setting, and warrants expulsion.  Jones is hardly a Hoyda, has been facing this and worse--remember the Boston fans dropping N-bombs on him two years ago??--and I fully support him getting this guy tossed.

Regarding the idea that other fans didn't complain....you gonna risk a fight asking a drunk icehole to stop dropping F bombs when your kid is there?  You gonna out yourself as "a farging Hoyda" by going to an usher?  For a lot of people, the answer is no, you have to just grin and bear it and try to explain to your 5 or 6 year old, etc.  farg that shtein. 

Jones was right.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on April 04, 2019, 02:06:47 PM
If the fan's language was that objectionable, why wasn't he thrown out by management?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Don Ho on April 04, 2019, 04:10:12 PM
Got the Nats/Mets on in the background in my office.  Damn, Rendon is a good baseball player. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on April 07, 2019, 04:17:25 PM
trevor rosenthal has the yips

hes faced 9 batters this season and has gotten none of them out
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: SD on April 07, 2019, 08:37:56 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 07, 2019, 04:17:25 PM
trevor rosenthal has the yips

hes faced 9 batters this season and has gotten none of them out

Chris Davis is 0-44 dating back to last season, only two ab away from the record. He's 0-23 this season with 13 strike outs.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on April 07, 2019, 08:50:49 PM
Oh and, he's being paid something like seven hundred millions dollars a year.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on April 10, 2019, 10:56:47 PM
Went down to Camden Yards tonight, saw Oakland cream the Orioles again.

Chris Davis was sent in as DH in the 9th inning, socked a deep fly to center, 8 ft. shy of the wall, OUT.

History right before my eyes.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on April 13, 2019, 02:39:24 PM
Igy's liver may not survive the day. (https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bs-md-ci-chris-davis-20190411-story.html)
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on April 13, 2019, 02:42:39 PM
unfortunately the only half decent bar on the list is for some reason offering farging corn dogs as their giveaway
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on April 13, 2019, 03:17:33 PM
Ziggy may be there having a shot and a beer
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on April 19, 2019, 05:31:42 PM
Are the Mets done?

https://twitter.com/SteveGelbs/status/1119345822838284288
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on April 19, 2019, 05:35:47 PM
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26561153/sources-anderson-ban-epithet-not-bat-flip

So a black guy calls a white guy a stillupfront, gets a game suspension, while the "victim" gets five (albeit as a pitcher).   

I'm trying to think what the penalty would have been if the roles were reversed.  Would whitey have received a lifetime ban?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on May 01, 2019, 08:58:32 PM
Corey Kluber took a liner flush off the pitching arm.

EDIT:  Arm's broken.

https://twitter.com/SportsTimeOhio/status/1123750380423327746
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on May 11, 2019, 03:15:51 PM
https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1127236417900490752
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 22, 2019, 08:57:45 PM
Gleyber Torres has TEN homers against Baltimore this season
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on May 23, 2019, 07:42:56 AM
I was at last night's game.  I might have lost count but I'm pretty sure NY hit five home runs, bringing the season total home runs allowed to 105 in what, 49 games?

It was a beautiful night though and I enjoyed some delicious pit beef.  Too bad about the team.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on May 29, 2019, 07:19:09 AM
juice or no juice this will always go down as one of the most amazing plays in sports history....

https://twitter.com/MLByahoosports/status/1133388377305309189
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on May 29, 2019, 02:38:17 PM
the marlins couldve had
realmuto, stanton, gordon, ozuna, yelich, dietrich in their lineup
paddack, castillo, german in the rotation

this is categorically insane
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 29, 2019, 09:34:54 PM
Which is why they should be sent packing to Montreal
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on May 29, 2019, 09:38:58 PM
portland and charlotte probably get the next 2 franchises whether tampa (or oakland) move or its expansion. monterrey is well ahead of montreal.

montreal is a tiny market with limited english speaking and no stadium. farg jose vidro and michael barrett.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 29, 2019, 09:40:41 PM
Montreal would eat baseball up if they got it back.

Portland too. Not sure about Charlotte because of the Braves being so close.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on May 29, 2019, 09:42:01 PM
cooperstown would eat up baseball too but thats not how they determine where franchises go

if montreal wants a team they need to have a stadium either built or all but built and then they need to wait for a french canadian miracle. farg mike mordecai with a rusty steak knife.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 29, 2019, 10:17:26 PM
I agree they need a stadium. I think they'd get one built if they were getting a team back.

But baseball needs to relocate Miami and Tampa. Both of them suck. No expansion. Don't water the talent pool down by expanding.

Take Tampa and Miami and send them to Portland, San Antonio, Charlotte, Montreal, Nashville or whatever
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on May 29, 2019, 10:29:46 PM
tampa looks gone when their lease is up. its like 5 years or something. the owner is basically running out the clock and not even trying to get a new one built. similar to kroenke in st louis. where they go i dont know.

portland is first on the list but tampa going there would require some serious realignment. so charlotte or nashville make more sense.

miami is always going to be a waste of space but its a top 10 market with a welfare stadium. you dont bail on that.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: QB Eagles on May 30, 2019, 09:29:42 AM
I think it'll be a long while before Portland has a stadium ready.

The site they are looking at now (not far from where I live) has enormous transportation issues. It's an area without a highway, choked off from the population centers by a minimum of three nasty traffic bottlenecks, and there's no rail infrastructure within a couple miles. Realistically it would take most of the people with money in the metro area over 2 hours to get to any game starting between 3 and 7:30 on a weekday unless significant new road capacity is added (something the city is adamantly opposed to doing).

There's also a big question about where the money will come from. There's no billionaire attached to this deal and I don't think public money is happening.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on June 04, 2019, 07:45:20 PM
Watching the Twins game and 44.5% of their hits are for extra bases

They're fun to watch. Cobbled together a nice squad. Must be nice to get players who actually hit and pitch well.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Rome on June 04, 2019, 08:22:43 PM
Miami isn't going anywhere.   The place in St Pete is a farging shteinhole but it wouldn't matter if it were on the beach... it still wouldn't sell.   Too much to do there and the fans are all from somewhere else.  That's a recipe for failure no matter where you are. 
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on June 05, 2019, 09:08:44 PM
Kimbrel to the Cubs
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: SD on June 05, 2019, 09:11:33 PM
Yeah that really blows
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: ice grillin you on June 05, 2019, 09:45:15 PM
pretty cheap to
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: MDS on June 05, 2019, 10:41:23 PM
who needs kimbrel when you have nico
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on June 10, 2019, 05:30:00 AM
Probably belongs in the "What is wrong with the world" thread:

David Ortiz shot in back in the DR; "Out of danger" following surgery. (https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/americas/mlb-david-ortiz-shot-dominican-republic/index.html)
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Geowhizzer on June 20, 2019, 01:44:39 PM
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1141761834434871297
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
Post by: Diomedes on June 20, 2019, 02:12:50 PM
What year is it Geo?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Geowhizzer on June 20, 2019, 03:14:03 PM
Just trying to keep it all in one place for you, Dio!

Maybe a change of title will placate the masses.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on June 20, 2019, 03:56:06 PM
speaking of years the Mets pitching coach was born in 1937

I'm not kidding
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: QB Eagles on June 20, 2019, 04:25:12 PM
He came into the world a couple weeks before Daffy Duck.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on June 20, 2019, 08:57:33 PM
so this zac gallen kid is as good as they say?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Munson on June 23, 2019, 12:09:04 PM
I just traded him away last week in fantasy so I hope not.

https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1142823499976925184

Imagine Trout's counting numbers in today's Yankees lineup.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Don Ho on June 23, 2019, 03:56:59 PM
Quote from: Munson on June 23, 2019, 12:09:04 PM
Imagine Trout's counting numbers in today's Yankees Phillies lineup.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on June 28, 2019, 07:31:24 PM
Havas come get your team bruh

https://twitter.com/pjlaird924/status/1144423608749559814 21
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Diomedes on June 29, 2019, 07:36:57 AM
If you remove everything after the question mark, your twitter post will display

If you don't, no one here is going to click on it just because you posted it.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on June 29, 2019, 07:11:13 PM
Sorry sir
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 01, 2019, 08:55:14 AM
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1145668842317701120
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 01, 2019, 09:59:10 AM
i think it should be renamed bruce sutter day...this is unreal


The Atlanta Braves who tried to make a big splash by signing Bruce Sutter before the 1985 season. He was a bust of course, but this is how he was paid. From a 1985 Los Angeles Times report:

Bruce Sutter is to receive payments totaling $44 million over the next 36 years from his new club, the Atlanta Braves . . . Sutter will receive a $750,000 salary for each of the next six years and a minimum of $1.12 million a year for the remaining 30 years of the contract. In addition, he will get the $9.1 million in so-called "principal" at the end.
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Post by: SD on July 01, 2019, 05:32:47 PM
QuoteAngels pitcher Tyler Skaggs dies at age 27; Monday's game against Rangers canceled
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Post by: Don Ho on July 01, 2019, 07:07:41 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 01, 2019, 09:59:10 AM
i think it should be renamed bruce sutter day...this is unreal


The Atlanta Braves who tried to make a big splash by signing Bruce Sutter before the 1985 season. He was a bust of course, but this is how he was paid. From a 1985 Los Angeles Times report:

Bruce Sutter is to receive payments totaling $44 million over the next 36 years from his new club, the Atlanta Braves . . . Sutter will receive a $750,000 salary for each of the next six years and a minimum of $1.12 million a year for the remaining 30 years of the contract. In addition, he will get the $9.1 million in so-called "principal" at the end.


OH MY F'ING GOD!  That is amazing.  He was an animal but he was on the downhill slide after '85.

QuoteWhen Sutter arrived in Atlanta, only two Braves pitchers had ever earned 25 or more saves in a season; the Braves in 1984 had recorded 49 saves as a team, just four more than Sutter's own total. In 1985, Sutter's ERA rose to 4.48 and his saves total decreased to 23. By the end of the season, he was bothered by nerve impingement in the right shoulder. He underwent surgery on the shoulder after the season, and recovered in time to appear in spring training in mid-March 1986.

Limited action after that, out of baseball two years later.  He had a bum knee too.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 07, 2019, 07:11:27 PM
Jonathan Lucroy got wasted.


https://twitter.com/Perroni247/status/1147991382000377858
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Post by: MDS on July 07, 2019, 08:47:04 PM
i watched this live...the MAGA dude on the astros broadcast was livid men giving each other head injuries has been legislated out of the game
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 07, 2019, 09:20:59 PM
Quote from: MDS on July 07, 2019, 08:47:04 PM
i watched this live...the MAGA dude on the astros broadcast was livid men giving each other head injuries has been legislated out of the game

I'm guessing Geoff Blum?  The play-by-play guy is Harry's son.

EDIT:  Watching the replay, I think the analyst was Blum.  Not sure if he was watching the same play I was.  Lucroy started inside the plate and stayed on that side of the line while moving up.  The lane outside the foul line was open the whole time.  He never blocked the plate.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 07, 2019, 09:51:50 PM
Yep it's Blum.

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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 17, 2019, 10:28:28 PM
I thought this was pretty cool.

https://twitter.com/TylerKepner/status/1151656722546778117
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 20, 2019, 12:14:10 AM
Perfect game alert from perfectly vanilla mike leave
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 20, 2019, 12:32:41 AM
here we go
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 20, 2019, 12:35:33 AM
Oh my
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 20, 2019, 10:41:50 AM
Can't believe the Yankees are playing a home game today at 100
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Post by: phattymatty on July 20, 2019, 06:35:08 PM
https://twitter.com/RealKentMurphy/status/1152281814016364546 20
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 30, 2019, 10:19:48 PM
Puig to CLE
Bauer to CIN
Red top prospect Taylor Trammell to SD
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Post by: ice grillin you on July 30, 2019, 10:42:30 PM
holy farg Amir Garrett...never seen that before
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Post by: phattymatty on July 30, 2019, 10:47:55 PM
if an nba player did that everyone would want to cancel the season.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 30, 2019, 10:49:00 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 30, 2019, 10:42:30 PM
holy farg Amir Garrett...never seen that before

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting...

https://twitter.com/FlyByKnite/status/1156390428796579840
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Post by: QB Eagles on July 30, 2019, 10:50:12 PM
Baseball needed some fun insanity like this. Was just watching some old Rob Dibble videos the other day. Same team too.
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Post by: MDS on July 30, 2019, 10:56:44 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on July 30, 2019, 10:47:55 PM
if an nba player did that everyone would want to cancel the season.

when nba players yell at each other white people get uncomfortable
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Post by: phattymatty on July 31, 2019, 01:22:40 PM
yes thank you that was the point.
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Post by: phattymatty on July 31, 2019, 01:28:14 PM
i couldn't figure out why I knew this guy's name and it's because I remember him playing basketball at st. johns.

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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 31, 2019, 03:18:31 PM
Havas' Nats got three relievers so far.

mds' bff Klentak...sitting with his bird in his hand
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 31, 2019, 03:20:42 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 31, 2019, 03:18:31 PM
Havas' Nats got three relievers so far.

mds' bff Klentak...sitting with his birdDickerson in his hand
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 31, 2019, 03:33:27 PM
Haha indeed

Oh and Braves got Greene from Detroit

GREAT JOB KLENTAK
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Post by: Geowhizzer on July 31, 2019, 04:17:19 PM
Astros loaded up:

Zach Grienke
Aaron Sanchez
Joe Biagini
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Post by: Geowhizzer on August 01, 2019, 10:10:27 AM
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c388/geowhizzer/0/795df12b-c9d4-427a-9de3-3f26944bf65a-original.jpg)
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 02, 2019, 07:50:26 AM
dont look now but the amazins are comin
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 02, 2019, 10:41:05 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 02, 2019, 07:50:26 AM
dont look now but the amazins are comin

*PG eyeroll*

Settle down.
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Post by: MDS on August 02, 2019, 10:42:47 AM
im not sure if 1 phillies pitcher would make their rotation
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Post by: Rome on August 02, 2019, 10:57:49 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 02, 2019, 10:41:05 AM

*PG eyeroll*


Who dat?
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 02, 2019, 10:59:03 AM
Nola would but yeah that's it

get excited for Vargas tonight!
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Post by: MDS on August 02, 2019, 12:24:07 PM
is nola really that much better than stroman or matz
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Post by: Geowhizzer on August 03, 2019, 08:07:01 PM
Turning on the Houston Game (if there is one on).  Phils driving me nuts.
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 08, 2019, 06:12:24 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 02, 2019, 10:41:05 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 02, 2019, 07:50:26 AM
dont look now but the amazins are comin

*PG eyeroll*

Settle down.

you were saying? 
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 08, 2019, 08:12:48 AM
farg the Mets
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 09, 2019, 10:25:58 PM
holy shtein Todd Frazier

that place is going bonkers
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 09, 2019, 10:46:06 PM
before tonight teams down three in the bottom of the 9th were 5-502 this year
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Post by: MDS on August 10, 2019, 03:22:10 PM
quickie ballpark reviews

pnc - amazing view but nothing more to it than that, but you really dont need much more. theres also a lot right next to the bridge for $5 which blew my mind.
the jake - cant beat the view standing in lf on top of the wall. gate to concourse to seat has to be the quickest in baseball.
wrigley - wouldnt loved to have seen it 20 years ago. felt like a modern park in every single way. dont feel the history the same way i did going to old yankee or even a dump like fenway.
cinci - i dont even remember what the park is called. total concrete dump. the vet was nicer. it goes: kentucky - river - stadiums - ugly highway - city. so youre sorrounded by the highway and a river. only one side of the park has anything going on. i got a beer for $3.50. that was the highlight.

oh yeah and the nats stink
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 15, 2019, 05:05:28 AM
curtis granderson has 343 home runs and 95 triples in his career.

players with more of both:

Andre Dawson
Henry Aaron
Willie Mays
Stan Musial
Joe DiMaggio
Jimmie Foxx
Lou Gehrig
Babe Ruth
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 15, 2019, 08:02:29 AM
He's also been playing forever
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 15, 2019, 08:13:04 AM
from that list only dimaggio has less AB than grandy and thats because he missed three years cause of the war

aaron has 5000 more AB
mays and musial almost 4000 more
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Post by: Rome on August 15, 2019, 08:17:20 AM
Babe Ruth being on that list is genuinely surprising.
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Post by: QB Eagles on August 15, 2019, 08:43:29 AM
Quote from: Rome on August 15, 2019, 08:17:20 AM
Babe Ruth being on that list is genuinely surprising.

Triples were enormously easier with some of those giant outfields and only slow white guys to track the ball down and fire it in to third.
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 04:35:18 PM
its absolutely ridiculous that there isnt a baseball game on national tv on a non football saturday
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Post by: Rome on August 17, 2019, 04:54:33 PM
Houston/Oakland is on FS1 right now. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 05:36:15 PM
lol it started at 4

there should be a 100 game every saturday in the summer
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Post by: MDS on August 17, 2019, 07:40:33 PM
it wouldnt even get 500k audience
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 07:43:03 PM
it would get more than 99% of everything else on at that time
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Post by: MDS on August 17, 2019, 07:46:31 PM
categorically untrue and thats not even a factor
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 07:50:10 PM
it was all infomercials for me and a world llws game on espn

no chance a mlb game doesnt beat that
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Post by: MDS on August 17, 2019, 07:53:36 PM
cable infotainment news would beat it...movie channels...tbs/tnt/fx jawns too

but thats not the point. the production costs alone would be more than they could ever make back on commercials. early afternoon in the summer is a dead spot for tv. HUT levels are insanely low. theres a reason there are so few summer 100 saturday games.
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 08:01:41 PM
if that were true there wouldnt be a astros a's game on at 4
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Post by: MDS on August 17, 2019, 08:23:51 PM
late afternoon is much better than early afternoon...do you have any idea how many white people go to the farmers market on saturday late morning
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 17, 2019, 08:31:50 PM
yeah everyone is rushing to the farmers market so they can get home in time to watch a's stros on fs1
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Post by: MDS on August 17, 2019, 08:34:23 PM
guarantee you it beats the super bowl
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 18, 2019, 12:14:36 AM
this nats game is farging lit
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 20, 2019, 06:54:37 AM
nats offense is so sick....first NL team to score more than 13 runs in three straight games in over 20 years
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Post by: MDS on August 20, 2019, 10:22:42 AM
its a shame their bullpen is an abomination otherwise theyd be unbeatable
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 20, 2019, 08:57:41 PM
Been pretty much unbeatable since May anyway
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Post by: MDS on August 20, 2019, 09:29:38 PM
they are 2 games better than the phillies in their last 30
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Post by: Don Ho on August 21, 2019, 04:19:46 AM
What?  Really?  Damn, seems as though they've been on a tear the past month.

Heard a Dodgers beat writer on FOX radio the other day say the one team that could give the Dodgers trouble is the Nats, pending Scherzer's health of course.
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 21, 2019, 03:11:42 PM
they have been on a tear since may

i think 4th best team in baseball
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 22, 2019, 02:33:05 AM
Astros were -550 and some dude laid $55k in Vegas to win 10 and lost

Lol

I was at the game tonight. 7:10 first pitch and 9:18 last out

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Post by: ice grillin you on August 26, 2019, 03:02:38 PM
nats have now led in the 8th inning or later in 19 consecutive games

been ahead or tied in the 7th inning or later in 57 of their last 61 games.

unreal
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 26, 2019, 05:12:29 PM
Bigger fap to that or to Pimp and AI?
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Post by: Geowhizzer on August 30, 2019, 07:36:34 PM
You'll all be sad to know that a few days ago Ty Kelly officially called it a career.

https://twitter.com/tykelly11/status/1166077478407819265
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Post by: QB Eagles on August 30, 2019, 10:06:36 PM
Quote from: AO1 on July 01, 2019, 05:32:47 PM
QuoteAngels pitcher Tyler Skaggs dies at age 27; Monday's game against Rangers canceled

Cause of death is what you would assume for a surprise 27 year-old death in a hotel room. Choking on opioid vomit.
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Post by: ice grillin you on August 30, 2019, 11:08:08 PM
27 year old white death
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Post by: Geowhizzer on August 30, 2019, 11:18:02 PM
Skaggs was a rock star?
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 01, 2019, 03:39:24 PM
Justin Verlander just showed what an ace does in the stretch.

No-hitter.  120 pitches.  Stronger the deeper he got into the game.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 07, 2019, 01:35:52 AM
Oakland's Kelly green jerseys are so sweet
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Post by: Don Ho on September 07, 2019, 03:16:41 AM
Yes they are.  To bad they play in that garbage dump.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 07, 2019, 02:36:49 PM
https://twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1170401891408388103
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 07, 2019, 04:02:07 PM
That's a big blow for Minny
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 08, 2019, 06:40:42 PM
https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/1170818931382259712
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 09, 2019, 11:26:41 PM
The home run Yordan Alvarez hit tonight...mother of gawd.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 11, 2019, 02:20:37 AM
45.1% of runs this year have come via home run

Up from 40.3% last season

Way up from 33.4% in 2014

That's not good.
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Post by: Don Ho on September 11, 2019, 02:30:26 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 09, 2019, 11:26:41 PM
The home run Yordan Alvarez hit tonight...mother of gawd.

My nephew was there and said half the crowd was still filing in to Coors Field when he launched that satellite.  Even for the thin air of Denver that was amazing.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 11, 2019, 12:46:30 PM
Bochy has managed from 1995-2019

His record as of last night? 1995-2019
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 14, 2019, 08:10:51 PM
Moron


https://twitter.com/brodienbcs/status/1173022964129751040 21
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 14, 2019, 08:24:28 PM
Did he lose a bet?
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 14, 2019, 08:25:43 PM
I sure hope so
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 17, 2019, 01:34:47 AM
Since I can't sleep any more and am bored I'm sitting here live betting late baseball

Could have a bad beat on the A's. Took them on the ML and coupled the RL in a parlay with Arizona's RL. Also they're the last leg of a five team parlay.

Leading 5-4 and Hendricks gives up the lead.

Hope to get some A's magic here.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 17, 2019, 01:48:55 AM
Blah.

That sucked. Up 5-4 and he gives up a homer to tie. Then a can of corn to CF pops out of Laureanos glove and runner ends up at second and is driven in by Raul Mondesi's kid.
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Post by: ice grillin you on September 17, 2019, 06:51:23 AM
list of players in ml history with at least 116 runs, 173 hits, 38 doubles, 7 triples, 30 home runs, 85 RBI, 78 walks and 10 stolen bases in a season:

babe ruth x 2
lou gehrig x 2
marcus semien
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 18, 2019, 04:05:54 AM
Twins and White Sox was a wild game.

Giants in Fenway was too. Cool to see Mike Yazstremski have a great game there. They went 15 innings and had 24 pitchers go. Bochy was about to murder the guys from his pen.
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Post by: Don Ho on September 18, 2019, 03:38:36 PM
Watched the last few innings  of that Twins game, didn't they set a mlb record last night?  5 or was it 6 guys with 30+ home runs on the same team?
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Post by: MDS on September 18, 2019, 03:59:02 PM
september extra inning games between teams 7 or more games out of the playoffs should become home run derbys
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 19, 2019, 12:12:16 AM
Quote from: Don Ho on September 18, 2019, 03:38:36 PM
Watched the last few innings  of that Twins game, didn't they set a mlb record last night?  5 or was it 6 guys with 30+ home runs on the same team?

Don't recall but they're fun to watch. Kinda Oakland like where they sign off the scrap heap and hope for resurgences in guys careers mixed in with some youngins. I'd love to see them and Oakland in the LCS.
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Post by: Don Ho on September 19, 2019, 02:47:04 AM
I've mentioned it before but it's so sad the A's play in that colossal piece of garbage in Oakland.  It's to bad the town can't agree on a better spot for a smaller ballpark in the East Bay, battle and bickering has been going on for decades.  A's are fun to watch.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Why-the-waterfront-site-is-ideal-for-new-Oakland-14440031.php (https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Why-the-waterfront-site-is-ideal-for-new-Oakland-14440031.php)
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 20, 2019, 02:27:40 AM
Albert Pujols flied out in the first inning at Yankee Stadium, bringing his career batting average to .29999.  Pujols's career batting average had not been below .300 at the end of any at-bat since he had a .286 mark (4-for-14) through his first four games in the majors.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 26, 2019, 12:19:05 AM
Grienke is about to no hit Seattle

Would be Houston's third no no and and also Seattle's third time getting no hit

On a side note the Phillies need to sign Gerrit Cole
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 26, 2019, 12:34:05 AM
Nola's brother broke it up
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 28, 2019, 08:27:48 PM
Molina getting pissy because Hamel's pitch grazed his elbow armor.

https://twitter.com/si_mlb/status/1178101193089994753
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 28, 2019, 10:14:48 PM
He's a ho
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 29, 2019, 01:26:50 PM
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1178353504525664257
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Post by: Geowhizzer on September 29, 2019, 11:24:25 PM
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1178501686685503489
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 29, 2019, 11:33:57 PM
That's where Maddon ends up. He was there a long time.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 06:15:10 PM
Rankings of who I'd like to see win it all

1. A's
2. Twins
3. Astros
4. Brewers
5. Rays
6. Dodgers
7. Cardinals
8. Yankees
9. Braves
10. Nats
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 08:25:04 PM
LOL Nats  :-D
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 08:52:35 PM
such a bs list, astros are 1
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 09:04:34 PM
I mean I'd get to go to the Series if they're in it. But I did that in 2017.

But Oakland or Minny would be more fun.

I'd love to see your TV posts if there was something like an Oakland Milwaukee Series
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 09:26:20 PM
die nats
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 09:42:53 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 09:04:34 PM
I mean I'd get to go to the Series if they're in it. But I did that in 2017.

But Oakland or Minny would be more fun.

I'd love to see your TV posts if there was something like an Oakland Milwaukee Series

baseball ratings are already a complete catastrophe and something like that would possibly destroy the sport

i dont know what that has to do with your love of all things h town and by extension all of east texas. wut up texarkana.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 09:47:25 PM
farging moose
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 10:32:02 PM
Quote from: MDS on October 01, 2019, 09:42:53 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 09:04:34 PM
I mean I'd get to go to the Series if they're in it. But I did that in 2017.

But Oakland or Minny would be more fun.

I'd love to see your TV posts if there was something like an Oakland Milwaukee Series

baseball ratings are already a complete catastrophe and something like that would possibly destroy the sport

i dont know what that has to do with your love of all things h town and by extension all of east texas. wut up texarkana.

Oakland or Minny

Dodgers or Brewers

Combo of those four and I'm happy
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 01, 2019, 10:35:13 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 06:15:10 PM
Rankings of who I'd like to see win it all

1. A's
2. Twins
3. Astros
4. Brewers
5. Rays
6. Dodgers
7. Cardinals
8. Yankees
9. Braves
10. Nats

My rankings:
1. Twins
2. Astros
3. Rays
4. Astros
5. A's
6-infinity:  A nuclear missile in Trump's pit of snakes
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 10:38:39 PM
greatest team in the history of baseball boutta play 1 more game than the orioles
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 10:56:27 PM
Quote from: MDS on October 01, 2019, 10:38:39 PM
greatest team in the history of baseball boutta play 1 more game than the orioles

you need to stop doing this
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 10:57:42 PM
gotta admit MAGA hader blowing up here is fun
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 10:57:58 PM
Way to jinx it, jerk!
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 10:58:25 PM
Trent Grisham —- bruh.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 10:58:38 PM
this is nats year
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 10:59:19 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 10:57:58 PM
Way to jinx it, jerk!

i know youre just farging around but people who believe in jinxes deserve to die

nats/doyers is a $$ series
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 10:59:51 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 10:58:38 PM
this is nats year

Put yer pants back on son
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 01, 2019, 11:07:50 PM
That was an all time choke job
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Post by: MDS on October 01, 2019, 11:09:49 PM
never forget this is josh hader...now he has more time to tweet about alligators and snakes in moats at the border

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiW6R4eU8AA7vM-?format=jpg&name=small)
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 01, 2019, 11:15:08 PM
Grisham instead of charging and fielding took a circle route kinda to field it glove side and get lined up for a throw farged himself
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Post by: QB Eagles on October 02, 2019, 12:45:27 AM
Nats-Yanks hellscape incoming.
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Post by: Don Ho on October 02, 2019, 12:48:05 AM
Basically, other than Harper, the Phils outfield approach.

I forgot what a despicable human Hader is.

Nats/Expos franchise first time "advancing" since 1981.  Who'd they beat in that NLDS (It was a strike year)?  Yep, Bums.  Phils went down 2-0, tied up the series and Lefty lost game 5 at The Vet.
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Post by: phattymatty on October 02, 2019, 12:22:07 PM
farg the nats so hard.
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Post by: MDS on October 02, 2019, 09:56:31 PM
can the phillies just give every member of the rays organization double their salary
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 02, 2019, 11:18:01 PM
A's completely no showed with the bats
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Post by: Don Ho on October 03, 2019, 03:26:18 AM
J, you and I have said it before but the Oakland Alameda Coloseum is a complete joke.  Not that the warehouse the Rays play in is any better but this POS needs to be imploded, like tomorrow.

A's have lost 3 of the last 6 AL Wild Card games.
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Post by: phattymatty on October 03, 2019, 09:07:03 AM
i'm not sure there's anything dumber in all of sports than to play 162 games for a 1 game playoff.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 03, 2019, 11:59:45 PM
Nice starts for the Braves and Nats tonight
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Post by: MDS on October 04, 2019, 12:06:02 AM
there is nothing more insufferable or racist than the entire city of st louis/cardinals organization going up against the tomahawk chop good old southern boys

maga convention. farg em both.
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Post by: Rome on October 04, 2019, 06:43:56 AM
LOLNATS?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 04, 2019, 09:14:18 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 04, 2019, 12:06:02 AM
the tomahawk chop good old southern boys

this is an amazing piece...

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/03/atlanta-braves-united-fanbases
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 04, 2019, 11:42:30 AM
Yeah it is - I read that yesterday.

Also; Acuña lollygagged out of the box again and turned a double into a single. His teammates called him out on it afterwards.

In the ninth when the Braves were tattooing Martinez he got whiny because he didn't feel like they ran the bases fast enough. Pffffft
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Post by: MDS on October 04, 2019, 11:50:37 AM
i see brian MAcann has made his mark. scream at your best player for a small miscue, who just happens to be a dark skinned latino. shocker.

surprised hes even allowed to play there since the stadium was built to keep them out
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 04, 2019, 02:25:10 PM
I loathe McCann.

People here would get pissed when I'd boo him at Astros games.
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Post by: Don Ho on October 04, 2019, 04:41:59 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 04, 2019, 09:14:18 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 04, 2019, 12:06:02 AM
the tomahawk chop good old southern boys

this is an amazing piece...

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/03/atlanta-braves-united-fanbases

Where's General Sherman when you need him?
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:02:30 AM
here we go
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:10:16 AM
wow what a finish

but only if the dodgers win
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:11:51 AM
damn
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:14:25 AM
the off speed dagger is coming
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:15:16 AM
and there it is
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 01:15:35 AM
6 straight fastballs

off speed
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 05, 2019, 09:08:01 AM
I fell asleep. I assume Dodgers were threatening and couldn't bring them in?

farging Twins, man. They've lost 15 playoff games in a row. 10 to the Yanks. And I think they scored first in half of them.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 09:47:44 AM
Baseball should just make a new rule

No matter how many games the twins win they can't make the playoffs
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: MDS on October 05, 2019, 06:36:03 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 05, 2019, 09:47:44 AM
Baseball should just make a new rule

No matter how many games the twins win they can't make the playoffs

confirmed
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 06, 2019, 07:33:57 PM
Chances that the Phils end up with Carlos Martinez in their bullpen next season?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: MDS on October 06, 2019, 10:12:44 PM
the nationals always find a way, dont they
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 06, 2019, 10:14:26 PM
They ain't the best team ever assembled for nothin, pal.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 07, 2019, 02:47:57 PM
this is so farging cool

https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1181268716056657925
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Post by: MDS on October 08, 2019, 09:01:11 PM
j what is wrong with your astros
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 08, 2019, 09:58:30 PM
Shiiiit I bet the Rays +205 tonight

Verlander in three days was a bad idea. Plus their bats have been icy.
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Post by: Don Ho on October 09, 2019, 04:42:38 AM
3 game 5's and the Yankees.  If the Doyers lose this one, holy shtein.

We get the Dodgers network here in Hawaii so I see a quite a few games.  You will never mock TMac or Murph or anyone on Phils broadcast crew after you've seen the Dodgers studio crew.  Hershiser is very good, but they have Jerry Hairston, Nomar Garciapara and Ned Colletti former GM.  Three of the biggest homers you've ever heard.  Nauseating.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 09, 2019, 07:44:57 AM
murph does a game here and there but he isnt an announcer and in general is awesome

tmac might have surpassed wheels in awfulness and is at least 1000 times worse than any dodger announcer

i know a lot of people that dont like ben but if the phillies would even get an average pbp guy they would automatically jump to at least a middle of the pack broadcast crew....getting rid of schmitty would help as well but he is on so infrequently he doesnt really matter
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 09, 2019, 08:36:29 AM
What's weird to me is TMac is actually half decent at football

I found myself listening to the radio broadcasts much more this past season
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 09, 2019, 10:55:05 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 09, 2019, 08:36:29 AM
What's weird to me is TMac is actually half decent at football

I found myself listening to the radio broadcasts much more this past season

When LA was doing the broadcast I used their audio.  I couldn't stand Frandsen.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 09, 2019, 04:01:44 PM
its a start but its just going to amplify the tomahawk chants...

QuoteAs fans arrive this afternoon at SunTrust Park, they'll notice something different about their seats, something missing, something subtle: The foam tomahawks placed on every seat before games 1 and 2 of NLDS won't be there.
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Post by: Rome on October 09, 2019, 04:11:31 PM
Yes, I'm sure that will stop it. 
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Post by: Rome on October 09, 2019, 04:26:29 PM
Lol at subtle too.  The racist redneck iceholes north of Atlanta will whine like beaten southern widows over the PC police stealing "their" heritage. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 09, 2019, 05:24:40 PM
Atlolololanta
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 09, 2019, 05:33:35 PM
Quote from: Rome on October 09, 2019, 04:11:31 PM
Yes, I'm sure that will stop it.

No but 10 in the first will lololol Braves
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 09, 2019, 05:37:19 PM
I would have made this a bullpen game if I'm the cards
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Post by: MDS on October 09, 2019, 06:52:09 PM
seeing the cardinals and their kkk convention of a fan base happy is not ideal, but this....this is fine
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Post by: MDS on October 09, 2019, 09:10:41 PM
stras blowing up in a big game, go figure
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 09, 2019, 10:20:12 PM
The player who recorded this probably wishes he hadn't

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1182102677020389376 21
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Post by: MDS on October 09, 2019, 11:46:45 PM
juan soto is beyond comprehension good

unfair
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 10, 2019, 12:24:51 AM
God damn motherfarging hell
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Post by: MDS on October 10, 2019, 12:25:08 AM
GREATEST TEAM EVER

your man was not lying

and lol their viewing party had like 10 people
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 10, 2019, 12:26:42 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 10, 2019, 12:25:08 AM
GREATEST TEAM EVER

your man was not lying

and lol their viewing party had like 10 people

Was Havas there?
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Post by: MDS on October 10, 2019, 12:30:29 AM
would the biggest nats fan in the universe miss that scene?
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 10, 2019, 12:56:12 AM
Good point. Prob was rocking the Lastings Milledge jawn
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 10, 2019, 04:45:44 AM
pretty amazing

started 19-31
down 3-1 in the 8th of the WC game
down 3-1 in the 8th of the nlds

they will smash the cards
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Post by: phattymatty on October 10, 2019, 10:25:13 AM
kill me now.

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Post by: Don Ho on October 11, 2019, 06:09:25 AM
So Houston might have the league MVP, the Cy Young winner for the AL, Rookie of the year, Manager of the year.  farg me.
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Post by: Rome on October 11, 2019, 06:38:01 AM
Gerrit Cole is a goddamn monster. 

The ALCS has the potential to be an all-time classic.  So much so I might actually watch an inning or two. 
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Post by: MDS on October 11, 2019, 11:39:16 AM
cole throwing his arm out just before signing a 10 year deal with the phillies
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 11, 2019, 09:41:27 PM
Junkballing bum Sanchez working the Cards over.

Come on St Louis.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 11, 2019, 11:13:13 PM
if you can't get a W verse a anibel then you are done

icc cc was thinking 4-1 4-2 but now it's a sweep
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Post by: MDS on October 11, 2019, 11:16:12 PM
racist kkk cards fans are a complete joke. $12 tickets and tons of empties.

nats in the world series with a trump first pitch appearance is the hellscape we deserve
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 11, 2019, 11:40:03 PM
I'd have to see Havas' Nats and Cheeto Dick in person then. Nah
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 12, 2019, 06:00:55 PM
what's truly amazing is nats will be one ws behind the Phils
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Post by: MDS on October 12, 2019, 10:13:58 PM
and one behind the florida marlins
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 14, 2019, 07:51:00 PM
stras is so nasty
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Post by: MDS on October 14, 2019, 09:56:16 PM
the nats could lose rendon and would still be 1000x better than the phillies
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 14, 2019, 10:01:14 PM
they are so good

its almost unfair
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 14, 2019, 10:12:44 PM
Happier for the Nats getting to the Series to get smoked by Houston or when the Phils won in 08?
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 14, 2019, 10:15:50 PM
Nice to lose an under 7.5 bet on that farging clown show sequence by Soto. Idiot.

Maybe the 8.5 will hold on.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 14, 2019, 10:19:28 PM
nats are a machine

never take their under
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Post by: MDS on October 14, 2019, 10:21:07 PM
at least when they play the yankees in the series itll be 50% ny fans in their stadium
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 14, 2019, 10:35:01 PM
Burned by another two out hit. Old Man Kendrick and Loser Zimmerman got me.

Oh well.

Can't wait to boo them here.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 14, 2019, 10:38:44 PM
Took a little chaser on u9.5

But I'm really farged if DET and the several unders don't hit in MNF

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Post by: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 06:59:27 PM
its absolutely nuts how baseball juiced the balls this season then when the playoffs started they went back to the regular ball like no one noticed
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 07:48:33 PM
People who know the game notice. That ball Didi hit was a blast

Cracks me up when Manfred swears they didn't juice the balls.

Nats finish it off tonight? I may lay the 170. Prob gonna play the over.

Need to finish off these unders and ML in the Houston game. Leggoooo
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 07:59:32 PM
farg it I'm up and going with my original thought this morning. Cards, over and team total over.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 08:17:41 PM
QuotePatrick Corbin had 5 swinging strikes in that 13-pitch first inning. Jake Arrieta failed to record more than 5 swinging strikes in 9 of his entire starts in 2019.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 08:20:07 PM
Yup. They're done.

Buying out of the Cards ML now.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 08:27:46 PM
The Nats closing it out tonight means they're gonna sit for awhile waiting on Houston.

Cards are embarrassing
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 08:31:21 PM
nothing can stop this train....certainly not sitting for a while

caps
mystics
nats

in an 18 month time frame

pretty impressive
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 08:44:19 PM
Astros are going to knock them hoes out
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 08:45:59 PM
they might not even beat the yanks....they have no shot against the nats
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 15, 2019, 09:53:35 PM
BET ME NOW
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 10:21:10 PM
I will bet you anything you want with series odds
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Post by: phattymatty on October 16, 2019, 12:31:02 AM
Kill me now.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: MDS on October 16, 2019, 09:59:09 AM
congrats to havas and matty
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2019, 10:14:26 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 10:21:10 PM
I will bet you anything you want with series odds

if the Astros and Nats are the match up - straight up
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Post by: Rome on October 16, 2019, 01:15:05 PM
Maddon to the O.C.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2019, 01:31:47 PM
Not a shocker.

gm4 killed tonight due to rain
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 16, 2019, 02:15:16 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2019, 10:14:26 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 15, 2019, 10:21:10 PM
I will bet you anything you want with series odds

if the Astros and Nats are the match up - straight up

why would I do that if the nats are underdogs which they will be...I could bet the same amount with my bookie and have better odds
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2019, 03:35:33 PM
"can't stop this train"
"no shot against the Nats"

Both imply supreme confidence that doesn't need the cushion of odds.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 16, 2019, 04:18:30 PM
I'm 100% sure they will win but that's even more reason to make a bet that will win me more money

you sound like you enjoy giving away money...I don't but maybe I'm the crazy one
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2019, 10:20:40 PM
I'm gonna have to lay on Houston. I don't love giving it away but I will pay bigger juice from time to time
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 16, 2019, 10:29:58 PM
my point is why would I bet you straight up when I can get nats +140 or whatever
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Rome on October 17, 2019, 10:38:51 AM
Dear Havas Old Buddy Old Pal O Mine,

When I said you bet like a Hoyda, this is what I'm talking about. 

If you want to make the best bet you can, go to a bookie or a sports book.  If you want to talk shtein with your internet buddies, be a man and bet straight up.  Bet a dollar if you can't bare to part with your hard-earned (lol) cash. 

If not then stop talking shtein and then qualifying your ridiculous boasting with Hoyda bets.

Hugs & kisses,

Your pal Rome. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 17, 2019, 12:37:02 PM
you can be a poor stupid tough guy

or a smart rich Hoyda

I'll take the second one
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Rome on October 17, 2019, 01:16:16 PM
Yeah, you're not really that rich.   And I wouldn't expect you to understand the concept of a gentleman's wager either. 

But hey... you keep on being you. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 17, 2019, 01:24:30 PM
I'm not in the business of making gentleman's wagers

I'm in the money making business
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 19, 2019, 09:43:47 PM
I'm at the game enjoying $18 beers watching a farging bullpen game

Stupid money ballers
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Post by: phattymatty on October 20, 2019, 12:01:13 AM
that yankees home run went right to a dude in a phillies jersey sitting front row in right field.  would have been great if he interfered.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 20, 2019, 12:57:49 AM
If it would e went extras I was gonna go buy him and the dude in the Flyers jersey next to him drinks

Crazy to witness that. I was convinced he was pitching around Altuve for Marisnick on deck and he left one outer half
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Post by: MDS on October 20, 2019, 07:33:49 PM
all time ws with havas/j blood war

not sure who wants their team to win more
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 20, 2019, 08:10:06 PM
Astros sweep

In my section last night there was a lady with a "real fans don't boo their own team" sign. And then security came and threw some old lady out for giving people the finger.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 02:31:28 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 20, 2019, 08:10:06 PM
Astros sweep

50 bucks on the series

nats win i get 85

thats well below the series ML

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Post by: Rome on October 22, 2019, 02:46:02 PM
Lol
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 02:51:38 PM
money line would pay 102 or at least when i bet it the other day it would so he making out like a bandit
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 04:38:03 PM
I will actually take that bet. Because the Astros are stupid heavy on the ML.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 04:52:25 PM
actually I'm gonna pass j and put another 100 on the real money line if you wanna do that i will but I can't give away this much money
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: Rome on October 22, 2019, 07:27:33 PM
He is in the business of making money, Jay.  I guess you'll just have to take advantage of some other poor dumb rube. 

😂🤣
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 07:46:29 PM
He's a business, man!

The Nats are going to crap themselves. They've been sitting around fiddling with their nuts for a week. Momentum lost. No amount of blue jerseys or a farging baby shark song are interrupting the runaway train Astros.
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: MDS on October 22, 2019, 08:30:43 PM
brandon taubman just became sd's favorite baseball exec
Title: Re: Rest of Baseball - For ALL TIME!
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 09:10:44 PM
That little farg needs to be fired.

Btw he was working for Ernst and Young and some other firm and his proficiency in farging fantasy baseball is one of the reasons he was hired.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 09:32:04 PM
I bet on Scherzer tonight as well...and a real bet not a reverse psychology bet...I don't give a farg who he's facing +177 is ludicrous
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 09:34:14 PM
I laid the thunder on Cole.

Scherzer is laboring.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 10:06:54 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 09:34:14 PM
I laid the thunder on Cole.

Scherzer is laboring.

whose laboring?
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Post by: MDS on October 22, 2019, 10:14:41 PM
once the nationals got past the ds it was game over

question is how many will they win now
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 10:28:47 PM
I still can't get over how scary good Soto is
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 10:51:10 PM
Put your bird away man ain't no one wanna see that.

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Post by: MDS on October 22, 2019, 11:18:17 PM
juan soto might be better than mike trout, at least offensively. trouty is the better overall player because of speed and defense, but damn.

no joke
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 22, 2019, 11:42:17 PM
I love Springer. Other than Trout he's prob my favorite non Phillie.

But can't pimp that shot there. He should've been on third and Altuve's fly out scores him.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 11:56:40 PM
sometimes Vegas is really bad and tonight was one of those times

you just don't ever make max Scherzer anything above +120

ever
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Post by: MDS on October 22, 2019, 11:56:42 PM
havas get your parade spot now
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 22, 2019, 11:58:54 PM
nats will have one less World Series title than the Phillies

chew on that for a second
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 12:00:43 AM
I did. Tastes like bullshtein.
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Post by: MDS on October 23, 2019, 10:01:17 AM
if you want the astros to win you like fake twitter fights more than organizations that harbor fans of DV
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 12:37:36 PM
wut
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Post by: MDS on October 23, 2019, 01:49:56 PM
the astros are a wretched team full of rancid white men that love domestic violence, harboring those who commit it and those who dont think its a big deal

the nationals are a team that play in the same division as a team everyone likes

you tell me which is the bigger transgression
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 23, 2019, 02:12:37 PM
im one million percent rooting for houston....they can hire harvey weinstein as their GM for all i care
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Post by: MDS on October 23, 2019, 02:16:56 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 23, 2019, 02:12:37 PM
im a bleeding heart liberal except when it comes to sports team i loathe
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 23, 2019, 02:21:10 PM
one million percent
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Post by: phattymatty on October 23, 2019, 05:11:10 PM
DC is a great place to live when their sports fans are miserable.  hockey doesn't matter because all those people live in virginia or southern maryland anyway.

right now it's unbearable.  everyone suddenly fighting about who's a bigger nats fan, the ones who started paying attention last week or last month.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 23, 2019, 05:28:40 PM
mike barnacle on morning joe yesterday said he has many dc friends that are so excited because they have been waiting for this since three weeks ago

i laughed
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 05:38:50 PM
I like to ask people like that if they remember random older players from the team they claim to be huge fans of. Usually I'll make up a name and says how great he was and people agree.

Saw it here when the Astros were losing an hundo a year and I could get tickets six rows off the field for $12.
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Post by: Don Ho on October 23, 2019, 06:03:55 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 23, 2019, 05:28:40 PM
mike barnacle on morning joe yesterday said he has many dc friends that are so excited because they have been waiting for this since three weeks ago

i laughed

:-D  Classic!

Seahawks fans right up there.  That SNL skit that featured the 12th Man Band when Seattle went to the Super Bowl and destroyed Denver was priceless.  The women in the band said "I've been a fan since, last week!"
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 23, 2019, 06:38:52 PM
Baseball... political circle jerk... whatever.

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1187132247217856512
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 07:28:18 PM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on October 23, 2019, 06:38:52 PM
Baseball... political circle jerk... whatever.

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1187132247217856512

Trumpire
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Post by: MDS on October 23, 2019, 08:22:12 PM
lol drake protected his tweets

his feed was insane. it had everything. even q stuff. 100% shot his strike zone is like this vs. white pitchers and THIS vs. non whites
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 08:34:19 PM
Welcome back Bregman.
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Post by: MDS on October 23, 2019, 11:05:45 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 08:34:19 PM
Welcome back Bregman.

(((bregman)))
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 11:29:13 PM
Brutal.
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Post by: QB Eagles on October 24, 2019, 12:00:44 AM
uh oh
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 24, 2019, 04:57:51 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 23, 2019, 05:38:50 PM
I like to ask people like that if they remember random older players from the team they claim to be huge fans of. Usually I'll make up a name and says how great he was and people agree.

Saw it here when the Astros were losing an hundo a year and I could get tickets six rows off the field for $12.

this doesn't work with teams whose first ever player is still playing for them
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Post by: phattymatty on October 24, 2019, 01:06:17 PM
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1184312387144441856
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 24, 2019, 07:55:57 PM
Somehow the Astros are making the mess with Taubman worse every minute.  They're making it damn near impossible to root against the Nats.

https://twitter.com/thehazelmae/status/1187505844591697920

https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/1187504951574126592

https://twitter.com/chelsea_janes/status/1187504272478560256
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 25, 2019, 09:37:54 PM
Greinkes stuff sucks tonight....so far it's all veteran guile
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 25, 2019, 09:44:22 PM
Yup. He's been inconsistent.

Cederstrom having a rough night. He's missing big pitches
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 25, 2019, 09:56:28 PM
nats sweep ML was 1650

I knew they would win but never thought a sweep...still should have sprinkled a quarter on it
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 25, 2019, 10:51:26 PM
lol how did anibel bat there
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Post by: MDS on October 26, 2019, 12:20:40 AM
feel so good for osuna
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Post by: SD on October 26, 2019, 09:54:51 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 26, 2019, 12:20:40 AM
feel so good for osuna

#METOO
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 27, 2019, 05:12:40 PM
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/1188554840076685322
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 27, 2019, 05:16:37 PM
TV ratings have sucked. All time lows.

Astros bats have awakened.
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Post by: MDS on October 27, 2019, 05:35:58 PM
the numbers are atrocious but the business of baseball is fine

its a pure volume game. both in terms of game amount for the regular season and game length in the postseason. still a valuable product. still a billion dollar business. just insanely regional. have no fear, theyre still making money.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 27, 2019, 09:12:03 PM
Great booing of Cheeto dick by the crowd at the game followed up with some loud ass lock him up chants
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Post by: MDS on October 27, 2019, 11:12:28 PM
happy for you bud
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 27, 2019, 11:37:11 PM
Greatest team ever since the 27 Yanks scored three runs at home in the Series
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Post by: Rome on October 28, 2019, 05:54:25 AM
Weird series.  Who would have ever thought the Astros would dominate the last three games like this?

Here's hoping they finish it off.
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Post by: SD on October 28, 2019, 06:30:11 AM
The Nats might have won this series with Harper
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Post by: phattymatty on October 28, 2019, 11:45:38 AM
that lock him up chant was perfect.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 29, 2019, 09:44:06 PM
I love baseball.  But it is nearly 10 pm and it is the fourth inning.

... and I'm getting too damn old to be up to midnight+ and get up at 5:15 am.
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Post by: SD on October 29, 2019, 09:56:09 PM
Holy Soto!
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Post by: MDS on October 29, 2019, 10:48:00 PM
gimme game 7
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2019, 01:23:41 AM
Watching Strasburg pitch in person tonight was something else. After the first he kept them off balance perfectly. Other than the first and then the stretch where he threw 10/11 pitches for balls he was pretty damn good. Change and curve were filthy.

The Turner play was such a joke. Baseball has to be happy Wash won bc that was bad.

Martinez going ham on the umps between innings was fun to see.

Houston sucks with getting in and out of the stadium area. For the Series with all the homeland security shtein and road closures it's ten times worse. It took me two hours from when I left my place at 4 to get there and get parked.
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Post by: Rome on October 30, 2019, 03:50:08 AM
The Super Bowl in Jacksonville was a joke security-wise.  I can't imagine how much worse it's gotten now, but two hours to get in sounds about right. 

Sad world we live in where sporting events are high priority targets. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 30, 2019, 07:53:08 AM
as long as juan soto doesnt get hurt or killed im good
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Post by: Don Ho on October 30, 2019, 07:57:29 AM
I  just can't see Scherzer losing tonight.  He was made for this, game 7 of a WS on the road. 

Kershaw needs to thank God that Verlander collapses in big games more than he does. 
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Post by: Don Ho on October 30, 2019, 08:01:39 AM
QuoteJustin Verlander has now lost his last 4 starts when his team had a chance to clinch a playoff series, the longest streak in MLB history.
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 03:46:59 PM
nats are 20 games under 500 on memorial day
down 3-1 in the 8th of a play in game
down 2 runs in the 8th of nlds g5
down early in ws g6

its only fitting that they gave their biggest fan -- who just happens to frequent this board -- one more come back win.
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Post by: phattymatty on October 30, 2019, 04:09:34 PM
every time i've turned on the WS over the last week the nats have started banging HRs within seconds so I will not be watching at all tonight.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 30, 2019, 08:08:39 PM
Apparently MLB is doing an actual White Sox-Yankees game at the "Field of Dreams" next season. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-white-sox-field-of-dreams-20190808-hbfgk3igrbd3rbmrtzusjjzqgi-story.html)
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2019, 08:16:28 PM
That's a good idea but I'm sure MLB will farg it up somehow
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 09:22:51 PM
j how are you not there to cheer on your squad
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 30, 2019, 09:26:54 PM
Houston's had their chances against Scherzer.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2019, 09:32:37 PM
Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2019, 09:22:51 PM
j how are you not there to cheer on your squad

Gave the tickets to two customers. One who is taking his dad. He teared up when I gave them to him.

I'm tearing up watching them get multiple runners on again but can't do shtein
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 09:34:23 PM
every single one of these game was 5 hours long...this is going to be over by 1030

congrats to old man geo and his beauty rest
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 30, 2019, 09:35:24 PM
Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2019, 09:34:23 PM
every single one of these game was 5 hours long...this is going to be over by 1030

congrats to old man geo and his beauty rest

Damn straight.
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Post by: Geowhizzer on October 30, 2019, 09:59:12 PM
Ten-minute replays don't help the cause.
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 10:31:16 PM
former phillie howie kendrick
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 30, 2019, 10:56:51 PM
that was the latest anyone has ever hit a come from behind home run in a ws game 7

the nats have had the most clutch post season in mlb history
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 30, 2019, 11:07:41 PM
rendon in the 7-9 innings of elimination games this post season

bb
2b
hr
2b
hr
2b
hr
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 30, 2019, 11:09:05 PM
they pitched to Soto why?
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 11:18:34 PM
so happy for you and matty

well maybe just matty
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2019, 11:43:27 PM
Hinch is a colossal dumbfarg. Just a complete idiot with his pitching decisions.
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Post by: MDS on October 30, 2019, 11:47:08 PM
his offense leaving 1000 people on base had nothing to do with it

im so farging glad roberto osuna doesnt get a ring
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Post by: phattymatty on October 31, 2019, 12:05:35 AM
i sat next to that old farg lerner at the barber last week.

going to riot now.

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Post by: SD on October 31, 2019, 12:15:19 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2019, 11:47:08 PM

im so farging glad roberto osuna doesnt get a ring

Dishes better be done when he comes home tonight
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 31, 2019, 12:38:41 AM
Quote from: MDS on October 30, 2019, 11:47:08 PM
his offense leaving 1000 people on base had nothing to do with it

im so farging glad roberto osuna doesnt get a ring

You realize that it can be both right? Unless you want to defend his pitching decisions? Go ahead I'm listening.

I lost $85 to Nats Super Fan but still least I'm not down millions like Mattress Mack! Minor victory.
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 31, 2019, 05:11:35 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 30, 2019, 11:43:27 PM
Hinch is a colossal dumbfarg. Just a complete idiot with his pitching decisions.

nothing was stopping the nats this year

cashed 405 tonight which unfortunately put me only 7 dollars in the black for cfb season...not a great year on that front so far
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Post by: MDS on October 31, 2019, 12:04:27 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 31, 2019, 12:38:41 AM
You realize that it can be both right? Unless you want to defend his pitching decisions? Go ahead I'm listening.

probably shouldve used cole at some point, maybe dont take greinke out? ultimately it didnt matter. the nats were the better team, they won. no matter what moves you make as a manager you aint winning with 2 runs on the board.

this wasnt buck leaving zach britton in the bullpen to use ubaldo jimenez
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 31, 2019, 10:31:50 PM
Cole was pissed afterwards and rightly so.

They didn't hit all post season. Hinch also farged the game up last night
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Post by: ice grillin you on October 31, 2019, 10:53:58 PM
also nats were better
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 31, 2019, 11:03:48 PM
Have you visited the ER for your days long boner?

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-washington-nats-fan-celebrates-with-ahole-in-the-fcking-white-house-on-live-tv/
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Post by: phattymatty on November 02, 2019, 02:08:02 PM
My god this parade is so civilized and weak as farg.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 04, 2019, 02:04:11 PM
I already didn't like him

https://twitter.com/abc/status/1191430272199397377 21
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 04, 2019, 02:04:49 PM
Havas do you have venmo?
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Post by: MDS on November 04, 2019, 02:17:11 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIjNtB3XYAENTE0?format=jpg&name=medium)

this is just about the grossest thing ive ever seen
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Post by: ice grillin you on November 04, 2019, 02:26:30 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on November 04, 2019, 02:04:49 PM
Havas do you have venmo?

yes

but why are you asking....we never bet
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 04, 2019, 03:03:27 PM
Oh. I was thinking we did. Ok.
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Post by: SD on November 04, 2019, 04:28:43 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on November 04, 2019, 03:03:27 PM
Oh. I was thinking we did. Ok.

No that was me. I'll pm you my Venmo info
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 12, 2019, 04:34:13 PM
Astros are about to be in serious shtein for the sign stealing controversy
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Post by: Geowhizzer on November 12, 2019, 06:28:20 PM
Our Phillies were involved in a similar controversy... in 1900 (https://calltothepen.com/2016/09/17/philadelphia-phillies-history-ingenious-sign-stealing-plot-discovered/). Involved opera glasses and a telegraph.

EDIT:  Here's the Inquirer article from Sept. 18, 1900:

(https://i.ibb.co/K94XgQp/Phillies-Stealing-Signs-Telegraph.jpg)
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 12, 2019, 07:12:32 PM
Haha that's awesome.
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Post by: MDS on November 12, 2019, 07:49:57 PM
the phillies were 10 games back of the brooklyn superbas when this happened. come on guys!

no box score from the game but the phils swept the DH and al orth got the w

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/orthal01.shtml
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 12, 2019, 10:20:59 PM
Kapler is the manager of the Giants
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 14, 2019, 05:18:59 PM
Big move by the Atlanta Braves, who sign the best reliever on the market, left-hander Will Smith, to a three-year, $40M deal. While Atlanta announced it at 3/39, there is a $1M buyout on a fourth-year club option.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 14, 2019, 10:13:30 PM
Astros are going to get their dicks nailed to the wall for this cheating scandal and deservedly so

Very unlikable organization
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on November 16, 2019, 09:36:32 PM
Morons.


https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1195873535681544192 21
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Post by: Geowhizzer on November 27, 2019, 04:52:41 PM
https://twitter.com/ByRobertMurray/status/1199778332432388096
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Post by: Geowhizzer on December 04, 2019, 05:53:54 PM
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1202276084273819649
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Post by: Geowhizzer on December 08, 2019, 07:12:22 PM
https://twitter.com/sabr/status/1203828855946956800
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Post by: hunt on December 09, 2019, 11:45:38 AM
Bob Klapisch of The New York Times reports that free agent starter Gerrit Cole has a seven-year, $245 million contract offer on the table from the Yankees. As Klapisch also notes, the deal would set a record for total value and average annual value for a pitcher, besting Zack Greinke's $34.4 million AAV and David Price's $217 million total.
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Post by: Rome on December 09, 2019, 02:20:36 PM
Greinke and Price.  Hmmmm... interesting group to be joining. 
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Post by: Rome on December 09, 2019, 03:12:11 PM
Strasburg for $245M.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28261102/sources-stephen-strasburg-stays-nats-245m-deal

What a coincidence. 
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Post by: Rome on December 11, 2019, 05:49:52 AM
The Yankees are doling out $649M to two players.  Two. 

Yikes. 
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Post by: ice grillin you on December 12, 2019, 07:18:27 AM
scott boras just livin the life....

QuoteMonday: Stephen Strasburg gets $245 million from the Nationals.

Tuesday: Gerrit Cole gets $324 million from the Yankees.

Wednesday: Anthony Rendon gets $245 million from the Angels.

Over three days, Scott Boras negotiated $814 million worth of deals.
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Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on December 15, 2019, 12:11:51 PM
Kluber is going to the Rangers
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Post by: MDS on December 15, 2019, 12:54:47 PM
2018 kluber was 3rd in the cy yoing voting

2019 hes traded for a reserve outfielder and a relief pitching prospect