Subject: Baseball
Date: Sat Oct 29 00:23:10 2022
User: joeygray
Message:Ya know, this here is a damn fine baseball game.
Date: Sat Oct 29 01:03:17 2022
User: MrFixit
Message:Yeah that was a good game. PHI clawed their way back from the 0-5 deficit to win it. I early on said Kyle Tucker had just sealed the deal but no wait, PHI wasn't done. Verlander pitched a great first 4 innings but then they got to him bigtime.
Date: Sat Oct 29 01:31:40 2022
User: joeygray
Message:He looked unhittable. Until all of a sudden he wasn’t and three runs crossed. Game for the ages.
Date: Sat Oct 29 13:38:14 2022
User: MrFixit
Message:What do you think about the "lean in"? It sure looked like a solid lean in to me. A baseball friend says "oh it happens all the time. Some hitters have built their careers around it."
I gotta say I don't understand exactly why he'd try to get hit with runners on 2nd and 3rd. He'd just load the bases yielding a force at any base. Unless they were counting on the pitcher walking one in. Theories?
Link: Diaz leaning in twice trying to get hit
Date: Sat Oct 29 19:36:10 2022
User: Klepp
Message:If the country were somewhat less firearm deadly, the Colt .45s could by now have upgraded their team name to the Mac-9s...
Date: Sat Oct 29 21:02:14 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Absolutely positively good call...I haven't seen a more blatant lean-in since Reggie Jackson used to do so, regularly...
Date: Sun Nov 6 20:08:56 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Wow. Such obsession. Possibly worse than billboards across St Louis decrying Din Denkinger’s blown call in the Royals/Cards series.
Sign stealing has been a part of baseball since the inception of signs. How many fastballs did Roger Clemens bury in the ribs of opponents because they were stealing signs? 100? 1000?
And the Red Sox using cellphones to relay signs from the scoreboard? Will we spend most of a decade howling at the moon when we find out (and we will) that some team is dialed into the frequency of the new electronic gizmos being used to send signs?
I was in the stands for an interminable extra innings World Series game pitting Houston vs Dodgers in the series in question. Two fantastic pitchers started and neither could put any bite in the curve ball. Both teams beat the pitchers like a cheap plastic garbage can with balls flying out of Minuute Maid all night long. Ends up the Series balls all had less prominent seams, implemented by MLB, supposedly to increase the amount of offense. And they told no one. But that HUGE fact is buried in the oh-so-unheard of signing stealing scandal.
Date: Mon Nov 7 03:19:43 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Astonishing that they changed the baseballs and told no one. Unbelievable. Are you sure that happened? I'm not saying it didn't - just hadn't heard that elsewhere.
Date: Mon Nov 7 08:56:43 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:From Sports Illustrated….
btw … I truly hope that Dusty Baker calls it a career now. It is time.
Link: SI 2017 Series Baseballs
Date: Mon Nov 7 09:36:06 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh, yeah. We discussed that in some detail, back at the time (2017) in the "crazy baseball occurrence" thread (see link). I got the impression you meant before *this* Series. But apparently that's standard practice for every one now?? Or is it? I haven't researched it, but also haven't heard any controversy since then - but that doesn't mean much, since I no longer follow baseball closely these years. Either way, still an absurdity.
As I've wailed multiple times........."baseball" (and of course other sports are not immune) has become "entertainment couched as baseball", or however one wants to label it. Ol' Dizz, as just a clever 🙃 example, must be getting even dizzier as the rpms of his grave turnings continue to increase. 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃.
Link: earlier discussion of 2017 Series
Date: Mon Nov 7 09:41:16 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:mega dittos
Date: Fri Nov 18 23:26:18 2022
User: Klepp
Message:To Rockies fans here:
You're going to love RP Brent Suter (recent waivers pick)...Ivy League grad, children's author, all around great (albeit quirky) fellow...a pretty decent left-handed middle reliever, as well.
One of the good guys...
Date: Wed Dec 7 12:06:31 2022
User: Klepp
Message:CHC get Taillon
CHC get Bellinger
NYY get Judge...
Date: Fri Dec 9 05:59:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SD get Bogaerts
Date: Fri Dec 9 06:02:03 2022
User: Klepp
Message:TEX get deGrom
PHI get Trea Turner
NYM get Nimmo
Date: Fri Dec 9 11:09:52 2022
User: Klepp
Message:NYM get Verlander
NYM get Quintana
STL get Contreras
Hou get Abreu
Date: Fri Dec 9 12:34:22 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wow. All that's some major shuffling of biggies - even mostly ones *I* recognize. LOL.
Date: Mon Dec 12 16:27:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:MIL get younger Contreras...
Date: Wed Dec 14 10:25:14 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SF get Correa (huge deal)
Date: Fri Dec 16 09:31:24 2022
User: Klepp
Message:NYY get Rodon
NYM get Narvaez
Date: Fri Dec 16 18:01:33 2022
User: Klepp
Message:CHW get Benintendi
Date: Sat Dec 17 09:12:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:MIN get Gallo
Date: Sat Dec 17 11:49:53 2022
User: Klepp
Message:There's a college bowl game being played in Fenway Park as I write this...sacrilege...accordingly, attendance skimpier than a Pawtucket Red Sox spring training exhibition versus Harvard's incoming freshman nine...
Date: Sat Dec 17 13:14:01 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SF get Manaea
Date: Sun Dec 18 09:40:53 2022
User: Klepp
Message:LAD get J.D. Martinez
Date: Mon Dec 19 11:19:34 2022
User: Klepp
Message:BOS get Justin Turner
Date: Tue Dec 20 14:43:18 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SD get Matt Carpenter
Date: Wed Dec 21 11:15:29 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SF mega-deal w/Correa falls through after physical, superstar signs with NYM!! Uh-oh, NL East...
Date: Wed Dec 21 18:48:24 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:The Mets now have the highest payroll in the history of the sport. To give it some perspective:
- The Mets spent more on Correa last night than the Pirates have spent in total since 2010.
- The Mets are spending more on luxury tax than 10 teams are spending on their entire payrolls.
Date: Wed Dec 21 21:15:17 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Incomprehensible.
Date: Fri Dec 23 12:03:39 2022
User: Klepp
Message:SF get Conforto
Date: Sat Dec 24 12:04:49 2022
User: Klepp
Message:PHI get Kimbrel
Date: Wed Jan 4 21:14:43 2023
User: Klepp
Message:MIL get Miley
Date: Tue Jan 10 22:35:26 2023
User: Klepp
Message:MIN get Correa.........................after all the other BS, he'll likely get 4/7 of what he initially thought he'd get........still, literally, tons of cold hard cash.
Date: Tue Jan 10 22:46:32 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Have they actually signed him? We were under the impression that the Mets had him ... and San Francisco...
On edit: No, not final. “Pending a physical”
Date: Wed Jan 11 15:11:12 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Now it is final. He passed the Twins' physical, and he is making a lot more money than last year.
Date: Wed Jan 11 16:53:15 2023
User: mrbuck
Message:Nats got Cristian Jimenez.
mrbuck
Date: Fri Jan 13 18:36:22 2023
User: Klepp
Message:PIT get Cutch (back)
Date: Sat Jan 14 17:24:39 2023
User: redberet
Message:Brock Purdy is a Buster Posey doppelganger.
edit: Their initials are the same and there are 5 letters in both first and last names. Coincidence, I think not.
Date: Sat Jan 14 19:38:02 2023
User: olblue
Message:Buster has six letters
Date: Sat Jan 14 19:44:45 2023
User: redberet
Message:Bustr
Date: Sat Jan 14 19:57:56 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Unlike MIL & STL's catchers (those fellows being brothers from very same mother (at least we hope)).
Date: Thu Jan 19 19:03:17 2023
User: Klepp
Message:KC get Chapman
Date: Sun Jan 22 03:01:34 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Some would say great loss for baseball...my personal recollection that trumps all others is that Salvatore was the very very worst GM the Brewers have ever ever had, and he along with Commissioner's daughter--then-acting Team President Wendy Selig-Prieb--set the organization back back back into the seventies, when wins were way way too scarce...
Link: 3-Time World Series Champion Dead At 78
Date: Sun Jan 22 09:13:27 2023
User: The_Interpreter
Message:I don't care if he's finally dead. Grudges never die. Besides, Wendy's still alive.
Date: Sun Jan 22 10:05:07 2023
User: BuzzClik
Message:Damn! Sigmund?
Date: Sun Jan 22 13:34:24 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:I understand - sorta - but he should be fondly thought of as part of those great, moderately-revolutionary multiple-time WS champs Oakland As.
Date: Mon Jan 23 02:45:06 2023
User: Klepp
Message:Yeah, he was decent at third for the Brewers (late 70s), and OF COURSE, ex-Athletic ROLLIE was HOF-caliber relief (early 80s)--three inning saves, MVP, Cy Young award...
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